When disaster (灾难) happens, you might find yourself without water, gas and electricity. You might even need to leave your home right away. So you are supposed to plan for the bad situations before the disaster comes. Here are some suggestions.

First, have a family meeting. Plan a way to get your family members together if they can’t find each other after the disaster. Choose two places for everyone to go to if it isn’t safe to return home. The first should be near your house. You can go there in an emergency (紧急情况) like a fire. The second meeting place should be outside your neighborhood.

Next, choose a person outside your area who can help your family get in touch with each other. After a disaster, it is often easier to communicate over a long-distance call than a local one. The person can pass messages between your family members.

Then, get a family disaster kit ready. It should include things your family needs. It can help you survive (生存) at least for three days like bread, water, medicine and things like that. Put them in a bag so you can carry it if you leave in a hurry. When doing it, remember that different people have different needs. Include special things necessary for elderly of young members of your family.

Finally, practice your emergency plan, and update (更新) it as necessary.

You may not be able to stop disasters, but with a little planting you can be helped.

1.There are ________ suggestions mentioned in the passage.

A.3 B.4 C.5 D.6

2.You can’t return home after the disaster because it’s _________.

A.far B.near C.safe D.dangerous

3.The writer suggests choosing a person outside your area to__________.

A.send food and water to your family

B.help your family move to a safe place

C.choose two places for your family to go to

D.help your family get in touch with each other

4.The underlined word “kit” probably means ___________.

A.应急用品 B.救护车 C.搜救犬 D.防毒面具

5.The best title of this passage may be ___________.

A.Practicing your Plan B.How Disasters Happen

C.Planning for Disasters D.Stay away from Disasters

Everyone has traits (特性) that make us who we are. We have physical traits, like red hair, long legs and funny-looking toes. We also have character traits including humor, warmth, creativity and so on.

Certain physical traits are fully inherited (遗传), such as blue eyes and knobby knees. About 25,000 to 35,000 genes (基因) are in a single cell in the human body. These genes carry the traits that are passed down genetically from parents to their children.

Many traits exist between inheritance and development — the interaction with environment. One example is body shape. It tends to be passed down from parents. But once diet becomes a factor, environment begins to play an important role in how the body develops. Body shape is a trait that is a mixture of inheritance from parents and influence of environment.

So lots of our most important traits have been learned, rather than inherited. For example, if you’re really great at video games, it’s not because your parents passed down the skills in genes. It’s because you have practiced a lot of video games and developed those skills yourself. If you have kids who turn out to be great at video games, it is because they put in the hours, learned the skills, and memorized the moves that are necessary to play the video games well.

Of course, some of us have brains that are more advantageous to video game playing. Say you were born with a large and powerful part of the brain that controls your hand-eye coordination. That is inherited. What you do with it, how you choose to develop that advantage, is up to you.

You can pierce your nose or get a tattoo (纹身) — it doesn’t matter how much you change your body during the lifetime. None of those things will turn into genetic material to be passed down to the next generation. However, if your children grow up in an environment with role models who are pierced and covered in tattoos, they are more likely to get piercings and tattoos!

1. is a physical trait that is fully inherited.

A.The eye color B.The special diet

C.The body shape D.The pierced nose

2.What does the underlined word “That ” refer to ?

A.Video game playing. B.Advantageous brains.

C.The shape of your brain. D.Your hand-eye coordination.

3.According to the passage, the writer believes that .

A.character traits can hardly change during the lifetime

B.the skills of video game playing are passed down to kids

C.a kid’s hand-eye coordination isn’t related to inheritance

D.environment plays an important role in traits development

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.Why are Traits Important? B.How does Inheritance Influence Traits?

C.Where do Traits Come from? D.What are Physical and Character Traits?

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