Getting the chance to hold a butterfly is a truly magical experience. Butterflies are sky, so you should consider yourself lucky if you get one to stay on your hand. Holding butterflies requires great care.

Wash and dry your hands. Chemicals will do harm to butterflies’ scales (鳞片), wings, and bodies. So if you put on any sunscreen (防晒霜) before you go off to catch your butterfly, wash it off under the running water before touching them.

Use sugar water. Butterflies have a sweet tooth. You may be able to get a butterfly to land on you without a net by making butterfly nectar. You can make butterfly nectar by mixing 4 parts water and I part sugar together. While watching butterflies near flowers or plants, put a little bit of the sugar water on your hand. They may soon be attracted by the sweet smell and fly to your hand to feed.

Remain very still. Butterflies are very skittish and will get frightened (惊吓) easily. If you want one to land on your hand and stay there for a while, be still and avoid any sudden movements.

Be careful when holding a butterfly. While the butterfly is sitting on your hand, avoid petting it. Just try to watch its beauty without touching. Butterfly’s wings are covered in tiny scales. These scales give them their wing patterns (图案), and make them more aerodynamic (流线型的) when flying. When you touch their wings, they lose scales. If they lose these scales, they can still fly. However, the more scales they lose, the less aerodynamic they will be when flying.

1.How many suggestions does the writer give on holding a butterfly?

A.Three. B.Four. C.Five. D.Six.

2.What’s the reason for washing hands before holding a butterfly?

A.Because butterflies like clean hands.

B.Because it can stop people getting sick.

C.Because sunscreen keeps butterflies away.

D.Because sunscreen is harmful to butterflies.

3.Butterfly nectar is probably a kind of ________.

A.plant B.magic C.water D.Body.

4.What is important for a butterfly to fly aerodynamically according to the last passage?

A.Scales. B.Wings. C.Wing patterns. D.Body.

5.What can be the best title of this passage?

A.Magical Experience with Butterflies. B.Advice on Holding a Butterfly.

C.Fun of Playing with Butterflies. D.Ways of Holding a Butterfly.

Mrs. Brown lives in a small town in Australia. There is a big farm near the town.

On Saturday morning, she goes to her small shop. She opens the window of the shop and looks at the farm. It’s very beautiful. There are many cows, horses and small animals on the farm. Suddenly she sees a kangaroo with her baby. It’s interesting to see them! The mother kangaroo is wearing an old jacket. They stand there and look hungry. Mrs. Brown gives some bread to them. The kangaroos get it. Then they become happy and jump away. Suddenly a wallet drops on the floor from the jacket pocket. She picks it up. and finds $ 300 and a photo in it. That is a man’s photo with his name “John” on it. “John? I have a brother. His name is also John,” Mrs. Brown says. “Is this man my lost brother?” she thinks.

She takes the wallet with her and begins to look for the man. She asks many people in the town, and then she comes to the farm and asks the farmer. Hey! It is her lost brother, John. They are very happy to see each other.

1.What animals can Mrs. Brown see on the farm that morning?

A. Cows and small animals.

B. Cows, horses and a kangaroo with her baby.

C. Cows, horses, small animals and a kangaroo with a baby.

2.Why does Mrs. Brown give some bread to the kangaroos?

A. Because the mother kangaroo with her baby looks hungry.

B. Because the mother kangaroo is wearing an old jacket.

C. Because she likes kangaroos very much.

3.What does Mrs. Brown find after the kangaroos jump away?

A. A wallet. B. A photo. C. A jacket.

4.How does Mrs. Brown find her lost brother, John?

A. By the jacket. B. By the baby kangaroo. C. By the photo with his name.

5.Where does Mrs. Brown find her lost brother?

A. In a shop. B. On a farm. C. In a city.

Lightning is one of the most beautiful natural phenomena(现象).It is also one of the most deadly phenomena. A bolt of lightning is six times hotter than the surface(表面)of the Sun and gives out 30,000 amps of electricity(电).It can travel at 100, 000 kilometres per hour and has the ability to hit an object up to 40 kilometres away. About 1,000 people around the world are killed by lightning every day.

Only about ten percent of people struck by lightning will actually die, but the others are actually very badly injured, with burns, broken bones, blindness, deafness, paralysis, or memory loss. However, when the electricity passes through their brain, it can occasionally have unusual and even positive effects. Some blind people have got their sight back after being struck by lightning. One woman said a psychological(心理的)test showed her intelligence (智力)had greatly improved, and one man said he could no longer feel cold at all and could go out in temperature below freezing in just a T-shirt!

So what should you do to stay safe in a thunderstorm? The most important rule is to stay inside, but do not go near phones, electrical appliances, plumbing, or water. If you are stuck(困住)outside, do not take shelter under a tree. Instead, roll yourself up into a ball on the ground as small as possible. And do mot think it has to be raining in order for lightning to strike.

Strangely, lightning seems to prefer some people to others. If you are a man, you are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than a woman!

1.What does the phrase " positive effects”in Paragraph Two possibly mean?

A.something good B.something bad

C.something strange D.something useless

2.In order to stay safe in a thunderstorm, you should not .

A.stay inside B.roll up into a ball

C.take shelter under a tree D.stay away from water

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?

A.Lightning is a beautiful but dangerous phenomenon.

B.Most people struck by lightning will actually die.

C.Lightning can travel at 10,000 kilometers per hour.

D.A woman is more likely to be struck by lightning than a man.

4.The writer uses the examples of a man and a woman in Paragraph Two to .

A.show lightning is very dangerous to human beings

B.make the readers want to know more about lightning

C.help people know lightning will surely improve their intelligence

D.prove something interesting may happen because of lightning

5.You may read this passage in .

A.a story book B.a science magazine

C.a tour guide book D.an advertisement

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