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The giant panda is one of the most popular animals in the world. A giant panda can grow up to 1.5 meters long and weigh up to 160kg. People think the giant panda is very lovely. ①So it is not surprising that the World Wide Fund for Nature chose the giant panda as its symbol. The WWF tells people about animals that they are in danger and raises money to save them.
The giant panda only lives in the wild in China. In the early 1980s, were only 1,000 left in the wild. The main reason why pandas are endangered is that the area where pandas can live has become smaller.
The WWF works to help giant pandas in the wild in many ways. One of the ways that helps them is to increase the size of panda reserves(自然保护区). Some reserves need to be joined together by planting bamboo between them to make “corridors”. These are paths that lead from one reserve to another. No one may harm the pandas in these areas. The corridors let pandas move from one habitat(栖息地) to another to look for food. ②People are working very hard to make sure the giant panda does not die out.
【小题1】How long and heavy can a giant panda grow to be?
【小题2】将文中划线的句子①改为被动句。
So it is not surprising that _____________________by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
【小题3】Why are the giant pandas endangered?
【小题4】Give a way to help the giant pandas in the wild, please.
【小题5】将文中划线的句子②翻译成中文。
【小题1】1.5 meters long and weigh up to 160kg.
【小题1】 the giant panda was chosen as its symbol
【小题1】The area where pandas can live has become smaller.
【小题1】To increase the size of panda reserves.
【小题1】人们为了保护大熊猫不灭绝而努力工作着。
解析
News one: As the pace of life in big cities is getting faster, people are looking for more ways to relax. Let’s take a look at one way people are reducing stress in Beijing. The game is “Room Escape”. “Room Escape” was originally a computer game. In recent years, it has been adapted to a real life game. There are more than 10 places in Beijing where people can play this game.
According to the rules, the players are first taken to a house with several iron doors. They then need to find a way out of the house in one hour. Different houses have different ways of escaping, all of which require players’ bold(大胆的), careful thought, and teamwork.
News two: The Chinese government has published a list of 24 guidelines(指南) on how to take better care of parents. They are a modern update to 24 old stories about respectful children from the Yuan Dynasty.
The guidelines list 24 things to do with parents, including giving them a call every week, teaching them to use the internet, and supporting single parents’ remarriage. The guidelines stem from a Yuan Dynasty book, about 24 filial-hearted children who treated their parents very well. It is a value younger generations should never forget.
【小题1】Why do people play “Room Escape”?
| A．They play it for fun | B．They want to know how clever they are. |
| C．They want to find out different ways of escaping. | D．To relax themselves. |
| A．in an hour | B．in two hours | C．in several hours | D．in at least an hour |
| A．a strong body | B．to act fearfully | C．to think carefully | D．to work together |
| A．Teach them to get online | B．Often talk with them |
| C．Ask them to marry again | D．Treat them carefully |
| A．It asks us to read books from Yuan Dynasty. |
| B．It asks us to give our parents money. |
| C．It asks us to respect our parents. |
| D．It asks us to give them a call. |
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The Aborigines (澳洲土著) have lived in Australia for about 60,000 years. They painted pictures inside caves, and these are the rock paintings that have given us so much information about Aboriginal life. For example, some of the paintings that are about 10,000 years old show men with boomerangs. From this we know that the Aborigines started using boomerangs for hunting at that time. Other pictures show kangaroos, so we know that there were kangaroos at that time.The Aborigines believed that spirits made people, animals and plants, and that these spirits still live in the earth. For Aborigines, no one can own the earth—the earth belongs to the spirits.
In 1700, there were many Aboriginal groups with a population of 750,000 all over Australia, and there were probably more than 240 different Aboriginal languages. The groups did not have a leader. Instead, things were decided by the older men in a group. People from different groups often travelled hundreds of miles to meet each other.
Aboriginal life changed when an English boat arrived in Australia in 1770. Many Aborigines were killed in the wars that they had with the English. More Europeans came, and they started taking land from the Aborigines. The Europeans also brought new illnesses that killed the Aborigines. The result is that today there are only about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia.
【小题1】The Aborigines painted pictures .
| A．on animals’ fur | B．on the land |
| C．on the tree | D．on the rock |
| A．To paint. | B．To hunt. | C．To fight. | D．To play. |
| A．people | B．animals | C．spirits | D．plants |
| A．the older men | B．the leader |
| C．the English | D．the Europeans |
| A．because their living condition was very bad |
| B．because the English killed a lot of them in the wars |
| C．because of the new illnesses the Europeans brought them |
| D．because of the wars and the new illnesses |
Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
【小题1】What did Nathan put on his desk at college?
| A．The Statue of Liberty. | B．Superman. |
| C．His serf-portrait. | D．A Greenwich Village modal. |
| A．Because he made little money out of a lawyer. |
| B．Because he wanted to make toys for the children. |
| C．Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks. |
| D．Because he was going to work in the museum instead. |
| A．Nathan's work. | B．Nathan's exhibition. |
| C．Nathan's art. | D．Nathan's self-portrait |
| A．The Brick Artist | B．The Brick Exhibition |
| C．Toy Bricks for Adults | D．The Artist's Childhood |
| The Flying Hat Shannon Blackman “The most sidesplitting story I’ve ever read. I couldn’t stop laughing after I finished it. Be ready to laugh your heart out.” Willy King, Best Book winner “It’s a story that makes you smile in your dreams. Blackman’s excellent writing cheers you up.” The tide, London “One of the best-selling books of the year. More than two million copies have been sold.” The Sunday Reader, New York “This book has become the talk of the country. The story is making its way into movie theaters. I can’t wait to see it!” Marian Miller, author of Ms. Lilly & comment 评论 【小题1】Which is said about The Flying Hat?
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Parents today also worry about their children’s diets. Some doctors give the following advice: 
【小题1】According to the doctors’ advice ,what does junk food include ?
| A．milk and vitamins. | B．Fruits and sugar. |
| C．Vegetables and salt. | D．Fat, oil, salt and sugar. |
| A．food with no vitamins. | B．fat and sugar | C．vegetables and fruits | D．salt and oil |
| A．Bad Habits | B．junk Food | C．unhealthy Food | D．advice on Healthy Eating |
BBC Radio World Service
Learning English Programs in China
| Days | Times | Dates | Programs |
| Monday | 06:45 | 8 Dec ~ 27 Mar | World news |
| 19:45 | 26 Jan ~ 24 Feb | Radio English Test | |
| 20:45 | 8 Dec ~ 31 Jan | Grammar Lesson | |
| Tuesday | 06:45&20:45 | 9 Dec ~ 3 Feb | Talk about Business |
| 19:30 | 9 Dec ~ 3 Feb | Grammar Lesson | |
| Wednesday | 19:45 | 10 Dec~ 31 Mar | Language Study |
| 20:45 | 10 Dec ~4 Feb | The Market 2 | |
| Thursday | 06:45&19:30 | 11 Dec ~ 5 Feb | The Market 2 |
| 19:45 | 11 Dec ~ 8 Jan | The Big Stories | |
| Friday | 06:45 | 12 Dec ~ 6 Feb | Grammar Lesson |
| 19:30 | 12 Dec ~ 6 Feb | Talk about Business | |
| 20:45 | 12 Dec ~ 2 Apr | World News | |
| Saturday | 06:45&19:30 | 6 Dec ~ 27 Mar | World News |
| 19:45 | 6 Dec ~ 10 Jan | The Food of Love | |
| Sunday | 06:45 | 7 Dec ~1 Feb | Talk about Business |
| 20:45 | 7 Dec ~1 Feb | The Market 2 | |
| 23:15 | 7 Dec ~ 28 Dec | Grammar Lesson |
| A．in the magazine | B．on TV | C．over the radio | D．in the book |
| A．Friday and Saturday | B．Tuesday and Wednesday |
| C．Tuesday and Friday | D．Saturday and Sunday |
| A．World News | B．The Market 2 |
| C．Talk about Business | D．The Food of Love |
“Teenager” means a person from 13 to 19 years old. Although they’re young, they have to make many important choices by themselves. Often teachers and parents cannot handle them because they don’t understand and know teenagers, especially their wishes, problems or different moods in a short time. They need to think about questions like these: Should we go to college? What kind of job do I want? However, other people also influence their choices. Who influences teenagers?
It depends on the kind of choice. When teenagers buy things, friends are the most important influence. This is especially true for clothes and music. TV shows, advertisements and parents also influence teenagers. In more serious things, parents are probably the most important influence. Some teenagers say it’s best to regard both parents and friends as influences. James, a seventeen-year-old boy says he’s “just a crazy man”. He also says, “Parents are really important because they can tell you what’s right and wrong.”
But teenagers also feel they need to make choices—to make their own mistakes. As one teenager girl said, “If our parents don’t let us make our own choices, maybe in the future we don’t know how to do it.” And they feel friends can often be a big help, especially because friends sometimes know more about their situation than their parents.
【小题1】 Why do teenagers sometimes have to make their own choices?
Because the teachers want them to do it.
Because their parents want them to do it.
Because teenagers like to make choices by themselves.
Because teachers and parents don’t understand them well.
【小题2】 Who influences most to the teenagers when they buy music?
| A．Their teachers. | B．Theirs parents. | C．Their friends. | D．Movie stars. |
Everybody needs to make choices.
Teenagers need to make choices by themselves.
Teenagers know more about TV shows and music.
Teachers and parents should help teenagers as much as possible.