Draw a giraffe in your mind. How did you draw your giraffe? Does it have a long neck? Does it have long legs? Is it really tall? When people think of giraffes, they think of their long necks. A long neck and four long legs make the giraffe the tallest land animal on earth. A giraffe is 1.8m tall when it is born, and some giraffes get up to 6m tall when they are all grown up.

But did you know that giraffes also have long tongues? Have you seen the tongue of a giraffe before? A giraffe has a very long tongue which can hold and wrap (包) around objects. The tongue is designed for feeding, but it can be used in many different ways. For example, a giraffe can close its nose with its long tongue completely to keep out sand and dust. Also, a giraffe’s tongue is long enough to clean its owner’s ears as well!The tongue is black in colour to protect it from getting sunburnt (晒伤). It is nearly 56cm long. Giraffe only eat plants, and a full grown giraffe can eat 33kg of leaves a day. When giraffes look for some tall trees to eat, they sometimes fight with elephants for food. Giraffes use their tongue to eat leaves from some tall trees. The giraffe’s tongue is a helpful tool for reaching leaves and breaking off branches.

1.What is this article mainly about?

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2.What does a giraffe feed on?

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3.What color is the tongue of a giraffe? Why?

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4.Give two examples of the use of the giraffe’s tongue.

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Plants are very important living things.Life could not go on if there were no plants.This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight.Animals and men can’t make food from air, water and sunlight.Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals.Therefore, animals and men need plants in order to live.This is the reason why we find so many plants around us.

If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are many kinds of plants.Some plants are large while others are small.Most plants are green.

Some plants have many small leaves.Others have only a few.There are many kinds of leaves.Leaves are of different shapes and colors.

Leaves are also different in other ways.Some leaves have long thin parts at the end, we call them leaf stalks, some have short leaf stalks, others even have no leaf stalks.The leaf edges are also different.Some leaves have smooth(平滑) edges.Some have a wave-shaped edges.Others have edges like the teeth of a saw(锯子).

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1.Which of the following shows the right relation(关系) according to the first paragraph?

A. air—water—sunlight plants food

B. air—water—sunlight men food

C. air—water—sunlight animals food

D. air—water—sunlight living things food

2.We know from the passage that _________.

A. all leaves have leaf stal

B. all leaves have smooth edges

C. plants are different in shapes but have the same color

D. leaves are different in shapes and colors

3.The underlined words “leaf stalks” in the last paragraph means______.

A. 叶边 B. 叶纹 C. 叶柄 D. 叶尖

4.The main idea of the passage is ________.

A. how plants help men and animals

B. plants are important and they are quite different

C. plants are more important than air, water and sunlight

D. why we find so many plants and around us

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