Gardening(园艺) is popular in many parts of the world. It brings us sweet smelling flowers, fresh fruit and vegetables. But you can get more from your garden.

Gardening helps to keep healthy. Today’s people sit indoors for too long and don’t get much exercise. When you garden, you have to move around. It’s a good chance for you to exercise your body by watering flowers or doing some digging. Also, when you are in your garden, you can feel the warm sunshine. This means you are getting Vitamin D. It helps your bodies use calcium(钙), which is necessary to keep your bones(骨骼) strong.

Gardening is a great activity to do with children. It gets them off computers, televisions and phones. Gardening can be a great teacher to teach children about nature and healthy eating. It can also help them to understand the meaning of “No pains, no gains.”

Gardening is a great way to meet people and build relationships. When you are gardening, you are outdoors. So it is a perfect time to communicate with your neighbors. Most people love to talk about their hobbies, and so do gardeners. They usually enjoy showing people what they are growing. And most enjoy sharing advice and stories about their gardens.

1.When it’s ________, you can get Vitamin D in your garden.

A.sunny B.cloudy C.snowy D.rainy

2.According to the passage, ________ is one of the gardening activities.

A.watching TV B.watering flowers C.walking dogs D.playing with phones

3.The underlined phrase “No pains, no gains.” in Paragraph 3 means ________ in Chinese.

A.人非生而知之者 B.吃一堑,长一智 C.不劳则无获 D.乐中有悲

4.The structure(结构) of the passage should be ________. (P means paragraph)

A. B. C. D.

5.The best title of the passage may be “________”.

A.Healthy Eating Habits B.Relationships with Neighbors

C.Advantages(优点) of Outdoor Activities D.Advantages of Gardening

Sheep Learned to Read Faces

①Which animals are smart? Your answer may be dogs, or elephants. Now there is one more animal on the list: sheep.

②According to a new study, sheep learned to recognize four famous people after being shown their pictures, suggesting these animals have face-recognition abilities similar to humans.

③Before testing, scientists let the sheep take a look at pictures of four famous people like former US President Barack Obama and British actress Emma Watson. Then the sheep went into a room with two computer screens. Each screen showed a human face looking straight ahead. One screen showed a famous person and the other screen showed a common person. The sheep were more likely to walk toward the screen showing the famous person. On average, they chose correctly in 8 out of 10 tests.

④After learning the animals’ ability to recognize famous people, researchers gave them a new task. They wanted to see if the farm animals could correctly recognize the same people shown from the side. The animals were still able to identify (识别) them, though they were a bit slower to recognize the pictures than before and they were correct less than 70% of the time.

⑤Finally, the researchers wanted to know if the sleep could recognize their trainers from a photo. Pictures of their trainers were randomly (随机地) shown on screens along with other unfamiliar faces. Without any training, the sheep could recognize their trainers.

⑥The results show that the animals’ face-recognition abilities are similar to those of monkeys, and humans.

⑦Face recognition is a difficult process (过程). But sheep have big brains. When they see other sheep, they use this process to recognize one another, said Jenny Morton, the lead researcher.

⑧The researchers plan to further study the sheep and find out if they can recognize different facial expression made by humans.

⑨The researchers hope that the study could shed light on certain brain diseases (疾病) such as Huntington’s disease, which affects (影响) abilities like facial recognition.

⑩We can’t say for sure, but it might help us understand how the disease starts, said Morton.

1.Scientists found that sheep can .

A.become humans’ best friend B.be smarter than other animals

C.identify people by their names D.recognize familiar human faces

2.Which paragraphs describe how the scientists did the experiments?

A.①②③ B.③④⑤ C.⑥⑦⑧ D.⑧⑨⑩

3.What do the words “shed light on” in Paragraph 9 probably mean?

A.Make it easier to understand. B.Turn a very strong light on.

C.Find ways to solve problems. D.Keep trying new experiments.

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