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  Making mistakes is part of life.If you try to live a life without making mistakes, you’ll probably never be able to leave your own home.Then you won’t be leading a life at all.

  The same rule applies(遵循)when learning a language.The only way to learn English without making mistakes is not to talk.But if you don’t talk, you don’t practice and don’t learn.

  I’m not condoning ignoring(忽视)grammar and vocabulary.Those are all very important.And if you notice the mistakes inside of those, you should try to correct them.But don’t let fear(担心)of making a mistake keep you from talking.You have to break out of the fear.And you’ve to start making mistakes right now.Because not until you make mistakes can you correct them.And only when you correct them can you get better.

  Remember you’ve to crawl(爬)before you can walk, you’ve to walk before you can run.So I want everyone to open up their mouths and start talking as much as possible, so that you can find out what your mistakes are, and then help yourself to talk better.

(1)

The writer tells us ________.

[  ]

A.

not to make any mistakes

B.

not to leave home or we will make mistakes

C.

it is impossible to live a life without making mistakes

D.

there are too many mistakes in our life

(2)

The writer thinks in English study ________.

[  ]

A.

learning grammar and vocabulary is more important than speaking

B.

you should correct the mistakes inside of grammar and vocabulary

C.

you should learn right grammar and vocabulary

D.

you should ignore grammar and vocabulary

(3)

The writer thinks the process(过程)of learning to speak English is ________.

[  ]

A.

listening-speaking-reading

B.

speaking-listening-reading

C.

making mistakes-correcting mistakes-getting better

D.

finding mistakes-speaking-getting better

(4)

Usually a baby can ________.

[  ]

A.

walk after he can crawl

B.

run before he can walk

C.

walk before he can crawl

D.

run as soon as he can walk

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In our city, there is a big zoo. There are a lot of different animals in it. There are some scary(吓人的) tigers and lions. They like eating meat and they eat much meat every day.
There are also two big elephants and a baby(幼崽) one. Children like to ride one of them. The elephants are very kind and friendly. They eat much grass and bananas.
In the zoo, we can see different kinds of bears(熊): brown bears, black bears and white bears. They are all shy and clumsy(笨拙的). They stand on their back legs and lift their front legs to ask for food They like cakes very much.
Do you like pandas? There’s only one in the zoo. Her name is Lingling. She is very cute. She likes eating bamboos a lot. She is kind of shy, She’s very interesting and lovely.
【小题1】__What do tigers and lions like eating?
__They like eating ________.

A.fruitB.meatC.vegetablesD.rice
【小题2】 __How many elephants are there in the zoo?
__There are ________.
A.oneB.twoC.threeD.four
【小题3】__What color are the bears in the zoo?
__They are ________.
A.blackB.brownC.whiteD.A, B and C
【小题4】Bears stand on their ________ legs and lift their ________ legs to ask for food.
A.front; backB.back; backC.front; frontD.back; front
【小题5】Which one of the following is NOT right?
A.Children like to ride the elephants in the zoo.
B.The elephants are very friendly to people.
C.The bears always ask for food with their back legs.
D.Elephants like bananas very much.

Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life.

In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.

The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四脚朝天).

When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.

Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.

Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out to do .”

1.What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A.A happy thing.                          B.A difficult task.

C.A big dream.                           D.A beautiful scene.

2.Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?

A.This passage is a description of giraffes’ living habits.

B.Baby giraffes can’t stand up until three months old.

C.Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying and writing stories about great people.

D.The great people can’t stand up after they’re knocked down for years.

3.What would be the best title for the passage?

A.How to keep a baby giraffe.

B.Learning to Get Back Up.

C.Stories about the great people.

D.A mother giraffe and its baby giraffe.

 

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