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Answer the questions（根据以下内容回答问题）
There was a baby whale named Ella. She lived with other whales in a deep bay. One day, she noticed something large pass overhead. It was as big as a whale. but it wasn't.
Ella was frightened. She had never seen a boat before. Although Ella was scared, she was curious, too. She forced herself to swim to the surface. She saw several faces watching her. In fact, they looked very friendly. In the next few months, Ella lost her fear of boats. People in the boats always enjoyed seeing her.
As time went by, people and boats became a part of her life. Whenever a boat passed overhead, she swam to the top to say hello. One night, Ella saw a lot of fish swimming around the bottom of a ship. Suddenly, she ________________by a fishing net. She fought hard to get free. Finally, she escaped, but part of the net was tangled（缠住）in her mouth and around her tail. Ella was hurt and confused. Slowly and sadly she made her way towards the deep ocean.
Many weeks passed, and the net in her mouth made it hard for her to eat. And every time she struggled for air, the net cut into her tail, But if she didn't get air every half an hour, she would die. Winter was coming, she had to move to warmer waters with others. However, this time she had no choice but to stay in the bay and wait to die.
One morning, to her surprise, the water was filled with boats. When the boats came closer, a person reached into the water. Ella stared at the person's hand. The hand reminded her of something. She began to feel better. Soon many hands touched her. Ella felt them pulling the lines of the net. Moments later, she was free as before! The people were waving their starfish-shaped hands. Ella knew that the hands would always be there in her life.
1.Did Ella see a big whale swim over her head one day?
2.Why did Ella force herself to swim to the surface?
3.Complete the sentence"Suddenly, she ________________by a fishing net." in Paragraph 3.
4.According to the story, what do whales need to do before winter comes?
5.Why did Ella have no choice but to give up the journey?
6.What do you think Ella will do when she meets boats again? Please give your reason(s).
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Answer the questions（根据以下内容回答问题）
There was a baby whale named Ella. She lived with other whales in a deep bay. One day, she noticed something large pass overhead. It was as big as a whale. but it wasn't.
Ella was frightened. She had never seen a boat before. Although Ella was scared, she was curious, too. She forced herself to swim to the surface. She saw several faces watching her. In fact, they looked very friendly. In the next few months, Ella lost her fear of boats. People in the boats always enjoyed seeing her.
As time went by, people and boats became a part of her life. Whenever a boat passed overhead, she swam to the top to say hello. One night, Ella saw a lot of fish swimming around the bottom of a ship. Suddenly, she ________________by a fishing net. She fought hard to get free. Finally, she escaped, but part of the net was tangled（缠住）in her mouth and around her tail. Ella was hurt and confused. Slowly and sadly she made her way towards the deep ocean.
Many weeks passed, and the net in her mouth made it hard for her to eat. And every time she struggled for air, the net cut into her tail, But if she didn't get air every half an hour, she would die. Winter was coming, she had to move to warmer waters with others. However, this time she had no choice but to stay in the bay and wait to die.
One morning, to her surprise, the water was filled with boats. When the boats came closer, a person reached into the water. Ella stared at the person's hand. The hand reminded her of something. She began to feel better. Soon many hands touched her. Ella felt them pulling the lines of the net. Moments later, she was free as before! The people were waving their starfish-shaped hands. Ella knew that the hands would always be there in her life.
1.Did Ella see a big whale swim over her head one day?
2.Why did Ella force herself to swim to the surface?
3.Complete the sentence"Suddenly, she ________________by a fishing net." in Paragraph 3.
4.According to the story, what do whales need to do before winter comes?
5.Why did Ella have no choice but to give up the journey?
6.What do you think Ella will do when she meets boats again? Please give your reason(s).
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Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题)
Once there was a little girl named Mary Lennox and her two little friends, Dickon and Colin.
Both of Mary’s parents died when she was a little baby. She was sent to her uncle, Mr. Archilbald Crave, who had a son named Colin.
Mary was one a selfish (自私的. girl. She cared for nobody else except herself and she was always alone. She started to know the word “friend” after the met Dickon, the gardener’s son. The little boy was very kind to Mary. They went to the Secret Garden every day, planting and playing.
Mary never expected that making the garden beautiful would bring such a wonderful feeling to her.
She was so happy to be with Dickon that she almost forgot all the sad things around her. She came out of her small lonely world.
After she met Colin, Mary finally found the very person to take care of Colin, the sick boy who couldn’t even walk, had been in bed for about ten years. Before he met Mary, he was taken care of by the servants, but no one really cared how he was. He couldn’t find any reason to live.
So he cried and cried, thinking about death. But Mary came. Colin was completely attracted to Mary and to all those fresh thoughts and stories which came out of her mouth. Of course, the most exciting of all was the Secret Garden.
The feeling of having someone share your secret is wonderful, especially for the children.
Colin used to be too weak to change his life, but now he had Mary, Dickon and the Secret Garden.
All these gave him courage. Finally, with the help of his two little friends, he managed to stand up for the first time.
1.Did Mary care for anybody else except herself at first?
2.Why was Mary sent to her uncle’s?
3.What did Mary and Dickon do in the Secret Garden?
in it.
4.How was Colin before he met Mary?
5.Where did Colin’s courage come from?
6.Who do you think changed the most in the story? Give your reason (s）
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Answer the questions （根据以下内容回答问题）
There once was a king who wanted to find the answers to what he considered the three most important questions in life. The three questions are : when is the right time for every action, who are the most important people , and what is the most important thing to do? The king consulted learned men, promising he would richly reward anyone who could answer the questions, but their answers didn’t satisfy him. In the end, he decided to visit a wise hermit who lived in the woods. The hermit would speak only with common people, so the king put on simple clothes.
When he got close to the hermit’s hut, he ordered his bodyguards to wait behind. He approached the place and found the hermit digging. He asked the wise man his three questions, but the hermit didn’t respond. Seeing how old and weak the hermit was, the king began helping him dig. The king dug for hours, but the hermit never answered his questions. Just as the king was about to leave, a wounded man came running to the hut and fainted before them. Then the king carried the wounded man to Hermit’s hut and took care of him. The king was exhausted and fell asleep as well. When he awoke, he talked with the man, who said that he had wanted to kill the king but was wounded by his bodyguards. He asked for forgiveness and promised to serve the king faithfully.
Afterwards, the king went outside and repeated his questions to the hermit once more. The hermit replied, “If you had not helped me dig earlier, you would have left and been killed by the man. So, the most important man back then was me, and the most important time was when you were digging. The most important thing to do was to be kind to me. When the wounded man arrived, he was the most important person, and saving him was the most important thing. By doing so, you made peace with an enemy.”
The king finally had his three answers. The most important time is the present, as it’s the only time we have the power to act. The most important person is the one you are with, and the most important thing is always to 92
1.Was the king satisfied with the answers given by learned men?
2.Where did the hermit live?
3.Why did the king help the hermit dig?
He thought the hermit________.
4.Who was the wounded man?
5.What best fits the blank in the last sentence?
6.What were the king’s rewards after he helped the hermit and the wounded man?
He______ and________.
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Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）
There was once a boy who was afraid of the dark. He thought that his bedroom was filled up with monsters when it was dark. But there came a time when he was too old to be allowed to keep sleeping with the light on .
That first night he was filled with fear, his mind full of monsters. Therefore, he went over to his wardrobe to get a torch. But when he opened the wardrobe door, he saw a monster, face to face, and he let out the loudest scream in the world.
The monster took a step backwards, grabbed his colourful hair, stared at the boy with his single red eye, and …started crying！ The monster cried for so long that the boy’s shock and fear disappeared. He calmed the monster as much as he could, and started talking to him, asking him why he was crying, and what he was doing there.
The monster told him he lived in the wardrobe, but almost never went out, because he was afraid of the boy. When the boy asked him why, the monster told him the boy’s face seemed to him the most horrible thing he’d ever seen with eyes, ears and a nose. The boy felt the similar way about the monster with a huge head full of mouths and hair.
The two of them talked so much that they became quite friendly , and they came to know that both of them had been afraid of the thing :the unknown . To lose their fear, all they had to do was to get to know each other. Together they travelled around the world, seeing lions, tigers, crocodiles and dragons. It was the first time either of them had seen such creatures, but they made the effort to get to know them. In the end, they ___________and __________.
And, although his parents weren’t too happy, because they thought he was too old to still believe in monsters, the truth of it was that all kinds of creatures visited the boy’s bedroom each night. And , instead of fearing them, he had learned to get to know them and be friends with them.
1.What was the boy afraid of when he was sleeping at night?
2.Why did the boy go to the wardrobe that night?
3.How did the monster in the wardrobe feel at first when he saw the boy?
4.What did the monster look like?
5.How did the boy and the monster get to know each other? List at least two things they did.
6.What can be filled in the blanks in paragraph 5?
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Answer the questions （根据以下内容回答问题）
Kayla was excited. She was beginning a pottery（陶瓷）class. Kayla was interested in pottery. She had seen pictures of American Indian pottery at school. That was when she decided she loved it. So now she was going to learn how to make pottery herself.
During the first class, Kayla and the other kids leaned about safety. There were several sharp tools in the classroom. There was also a kiln, or over, that got very hot. So everyone had to learn what the safety rules were. Then, their teacher showed them how to work the clay（粘土）. For the next few classes,Kayla and the other kids practiced different styles of pottery.
Finally, it was time for the students to make their own pottery. Kayla decided to make a matching plate and cup. She got the clay she needed and used a tool called a potter’s wheel to fashion the clay into the shape of a plate and a cup. Then, Kayla used some tools to give the plate and cup their final shapes. She made a handle for the cup, too. When the cup and plate were shaped, they were left to dry.
When the plate and cup were dry, it was time to paint them. Kayla used paints for clay and created her picture. When Kayla was finished, the paint was allowed to dry. It was then time to fire, or bake, the plate and cup in the kiln. This would take some time, so the teacher said that they would see the pottery at the next class. And it was! Kayla’s cup and plate turned out beautifully, and she couldn’t wait to show it to her parents.
1.Kayla was interested in drawing pictures of American Indian pottery, wasn’t she?
2.According to the next, write one safety rule for the pottery class.
3.What tool did Kayla use to fashion the clay into the shape of plate and cup?
4.What did Kayla do after she painted and dried the plate and cup?
5.How did Kayla feel when her pottery was completely finished?
6.What does the writer try to tell the readers with Kayla’s story?
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Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）
The baby is taking photos with his parents, the Duke and Duchess (公爵和公爵夫人) of Cambridge. The pictures were taken by the duchess’ father, Michael Middleton, in the garden of their family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire. Taken earlier this month, they show the royal ,couple, Prince George and their black cocker spaniel (西班牙猎犬), Lupo. Tilly, a golden dog, belonging to the Middleton family, can be seen lying down behind them. The photographs of Prince George, who was born on 22 July, were published by Kensington Palace.
On Monday Prince William, giving his first interview since becoming a father, told CNN:
“He either reminds me of my brother or me when I was younger, I’m not sure, but he*s doing very well at the moment.”
BBC reporter Nicholas Witchell said the new family looks “unselfconscious (自然的), relaxed and happy - much like most couples might look with their first-born baby”. He added: “Of course they’re aware of what’s expected of them. There will be staff - a nanny (保姆) to help in
due course (适时地), but for the moment it’s all rather informal and many might think, refreshing.”
Famous photographer Terry O’Neill said he thought the pictures were “absolutely charming”.
“It reminded me when I first started photography for myself - I just went for the light, and it was really interesting lighting (打灯光). As a matter of fact when I heard about these pictures, I thought ‘Who have they got to do these pictures’ - and the thought crossed my mind they might have asked the Queen because she’s quite a good photographer.”
The cultural and education manager of Magnum Photos, Fiona Rogers, told Radio 4’s Today program the photograph of the couple and Prince George with the family’s dogs was “technically not the most accomplished (技艺高超的) photograph”.
“It’s a photograph that any one of us could have in our family albums,” she said.
1.Who is Tilly?
2.Where were the pictures taken?
3.When was Prince George born?
4.What did Terry O’Neill think of the pictures?
5.What did Fiona Rogers think of the picture?
6.What is this report mainly about?
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D. Answer the following questions (根据短文内容，回答下列问题）
In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo.
The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype.
Soon, other people began to use Daguerre’s way. Travellers brought back wonderful photos from all around the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains.
In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take pictures of people
and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of films and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked even harder.
Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were very lifelike.
Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed feelings, like other kinds of art.
1.Was the first photo a picture of a window of a house?
2.What was the Daguerreotype?
3.If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in 1840, what did he have to do?
4.Why were Mathew Brady’s pictures special?
5.What does this passage mainly tell us?
6.Can you name another kind of art that shows feeling?
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Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)
My name is Opal. Last summer my daddy sent me to the store for a box of cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog. This is what happened: I walked into the vegetable section of the grocery store to pick out my two tomatoes and I almost bumped (撞) right into the store manager. He was standing there all red-faced, screaming and waving his arms around. “Who let a dog in here?” he kept on shouting. “Who let a dog in here?”
At first, I didn’t see a dog. There were just a lot of vegetables on the floor, tomatoes and onions and green peppers. It seemed that all the employees were running around, waving their arms just the same way the store manager was waving his.
And then the dog came running around the corner. He was a big dog. And ugly. And he looked like he was having a real good time. His tongue was hanging out and he was wagging (摇摆) his tail. He suddenly stopped and smiled right at me. I had never before in my life seen a dog smile, but that is what he did. He pulled back his lips and showed me all his teeth. Then he wagged his tail so hard that he knocked some oranges off a shelf, and they went rolling everywhere, mixing in with the tomatoes and onions and green peppers.
The manager screamed, “Somebody get that dog!”
The dog went running over to the manager, wagging his tail and smiling. He stood up on his hind legs (后腿). You could tell that all he wanted to do was get face to face with the manager and thank him for the good time he was having in the store, but somehow he ended up knocking the manager over. And the manager must have been having a bad day, because lying there on the floor, right in front of everybody, he started to cry. The dog came to him, really concerned, and licked (舔) his face.
“Please,” said the manager. “Somebody call the pound (流浪狗收留所).”
“Wait a minute!” I shouted. “__________________________________.”
1.Opal walked into the store with a dog, didn’t she?
2.What was the dog like?
3.Why did the manager want to catch the dog?
4.How did the dog feel in the store?
5.What did Opal think of the dog? Why?
6.What did Opal probably say at the end of the story?
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Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）
There are some easy things you can do to protect the environment and the earth. Choose ideas from the list or come up with few of your own.
·Plant flowers, grass or trees.
·Whenever you visit a park or a beach, take away what you bring there — keep rubbish in a bag until you can put it in a dustbin.
·Turn off the lights, TV sets when you leave the room. This saves a lot of electricity.
·Turn off the tap when you brush your teeth. You can save some water by not letting it run. Also, use a glass cup instead of a paper cup because this saves paper.
·Keep the doors and windows closed in winter to keep warm air in.
·Give your old books and magazines to a library instead of throwing them away.
·Give your old clothes to poor children you know instead of throwing them away.
·Use both sides of paper.
·Stop pouring dirty water into the rivers or lakes nearby.
·Encourage all your friends to do the same things you do to help protect the earth. You don’t have to wait until Earth Day to do these things. Make every day Earth Day. If everyone protects the environment, the world will become much more beautiful.
1.Where can you keep rubbish before you put it in a dustbin whenever you visit a park or beach？
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2.How can you save water when you brush your teeth？
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3.In order to save paper, what kind of cup can you use instead of a paper cup？
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4.Why should everyone protect the environment？
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5.What can you do to protect the environment and the earth？
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6.How can we protect the rivers or lakes nearby from pollution？
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