根据短文内容回答问题。

  Which animals do we need most? Dogs? Cats? Horses? No! The answer to the question is cows!

  Why cows? Cows give us milk.And milk is one of our most important foods.Suppose(假设)that all the milk cows make in one year was put into bottles, and suppose these bottles were set side by side, the line of bottles would go all around the world 400 times!

  That is a lot of milk.Less than half of it is used for drinking and cooking.Most of it is used to make butter, cheese, ice-cream and many other things.

  It takes many cows to give us that much milk.But not as much as it used to.A cow used to give only about 1, 500 quarts(夸脱)of milk a year.Now a fine cow may give more than 3, 000 quarts in a year!

  Why do cows give more milk today? Farmers have better cows.The cows get better care and better food.For each two and a half pounds of grass that she eats, a fine cow makes about a pound of milk.But she may not give all the milk she makes.If she is unhappy, she may give only a small part of it.A cow is a friendly animal.If man is kind and speaks softly to her, she gives more milk.She also likes music.

  Cows give us more than just food.Their skin can be made into shoes.No animal does more for us than cows.

1.Why do we need cows most?

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2.How much of the milk is used for drinking and cooking?

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3.What is the most of the milk used to do?

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4.Why does a fine cow now give twice as much milk as a cow used to?

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5.What will happen if we make cows unhappy?

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“Are you happy?” The simple question usually makes people confused (迷惑的). Even Mo Yan, who won a Nobel Prize, replied to it by saying, “I don’t know.”
When a migrant worker (农民工) was asked, “Are you happy? (Ni Xing Fu Ma?)” by a CCTV reporter, he looked confused before replying, “My family name is Zeng. (Wo Xing Zeng.)” This has become a joke. But his answer showed migrant workers and TV reporters live in different worlds and they cannot even communicate with each other.
Similarly, when asked, “Are you happy?” a 73-year-old man, collecting used plastic bottles in a street in Zhejiang, said, “The bottles can be sold for 0.1 yuan each.” Asked again, he said, “The government is good.” The reporter went on, “My question is ‘Are you happy?’” The old man answered, “My hearing is not good.”
The reporter probably tried to reach the same answer that the interviewees(被采访者) including the migrant worker and the old man are “happy”.
In fact, when the question is asked, we should learn about people’s true situation and their true wishes and opinions but their “Yes” or “No”.
Luckily, the government has paid more attention to the importance. Now there are many TV programs giving common people the chance to give their opinions.
“Everything we do is aimed at letting people live more happily.” At last year’s National People’s Congress (人大), Wen Jiabao said and agreed that increasing happiness would be a top aim for the 12th five-year plan.
【小题1】Ten plastic bottles could be sold for ________ to the 73-year-old.

A.0.1 yuanB.1 yuanC.10 yuanD.20 yuan
【小题2】The government has paid more attention to the importance of ________.
A.learning about people’s true wishes and opinions
B.people’s different replies to “Are you happy?”
C.improving migrant workers’ education
D.keeping the old people’s health
【小题3】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A.The reporters wanted the people to say “Yes” when asked “Are you happy?”
B.Letting people live more happily is a top aim in the next five years.
C.The reporter asked the old man three different questions.
D.We can call the migrant worker Mr. Zeng.
【小题4】This passage is mainly about ________.
A.the questions B.the happiness
C.the popular songs D.the education

While watching movies, it’s getting hard to tell what is and isn’t real. Thanks to computers, movie makers can now use their full imaginations. There’s even a new type of character--made entirely by computers—which is getting more and more screen time.
Making the impossible look easy has always been a part of movie magic. As far back as 1895, filmmakers used special effects in movies. Over the years, many few techniques(技术) were developed. Then, starting in the 1970s, computers took their place at the center of the process.
One of the first movies to widely use 3D computer generated(生成的,产生的) imagery (CGI) was Tron(1982). In the following years, more CGI characters were brought to life, one by one. Then, Jurassic park (1993) brought us an island full of man-eating dinosaurs. Shortly afterwards, Toy Story (1995) became the first cartoon made entirely with 3D CGI effects. It was a big hit, and audiences loved the characters.
By using “motion capture” technology, filmmakers can make the movements of CGI humans even more lifelike. With this technique, a real actor wears sensors(感受器,传感器) on his face and body. The sensors record the actor’s movements and send the information to a computer. Then the movements are given to a CGI character. This technique was used to make the creature(生物,有生命的东西) Gollum in the second and third The Lord of the Rings movies (2002,2003). Other films, like Beowulf (2007), have also used motion capture to help create CGI humans.
It is still rather easy to tell that a CGI human is not real. But the technology is improving every year. Over time, many problems ( like the teeth and eyes looking fake) will be solved. We will certainly see more CGI animals, monsters, and people in movies and TV shows. The question is – in the future, how many real actors will be put out of work by computer actors?
【小题1】What is the main idea?

A.Tron was important in the history of CGI films.
B.Many people go to the movies to see incredible special effects.
C.More and more film characters are being made by computers.
D.All the humans in Beowulf were CGI characters.
【小题2】In what year was a film made with many CGI dinosaurs?
A.1895B.1982 C.1993D.2003
【小题3】What was special about Gollum?
A.Motion capture was used to help make the charater.
B.Gollum had an important role in a CGI cartoon.
C.He was the only CGI character in the Lord of the Rings.
D.Little money was spent to bring the creature to life.
【小题4】What does the world hit mean?
A.attackB.shotC.successD.try

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