Honey(蜂蜜)from the African forest is not only a kind of natural sugar, it is also delicious. Most people, and many animals, like eating it. However, the only way for them to get that honey is to find a wild bees' nest(巢)and take the honey from it. Often, these nests are high up in trees, and it is difficult to find them. In parts of Africa, though, people and animals unexpected helper一a little bird called a honey guide.

The honey guide does not actually like honey, but it does like the wax (蜂蜡) in the beehives (蜂)finally arrive at the nest, the follower reaches in to get at the delicious honey as the bird patiently waits and watches. Some of the honey, and the wax, always falls to the ground, and this is when the honey guide takes its share.

Scientists do not know why the honey guide likes eating the wax, but it is very determined in its efforts to get it. The birds seem to be able to smell wax from a long distance away. They will quickly arrive whenever a beekeeper is taking honey from his beehives, and will even enter churches when beeswax candles are being lit.

1.Why is it difficult to find a wild bees' nest?

A. It's small in size.

B. It's hidden in trees.

C. It's covered with wax.

D. It's hard to recognize.

2.What do the words "the follower" in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. A bee. B. A bird.

C. A honey seeker. D. A beekeeper.

3.The honey guide is special in the way .

A. it gets its food

B. it goes to church

C. it sings in the forest

D. it reaches into bees' nests

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A. Wild Bees

B. Wax and Honey

C. Beekeeping in Africa

D. Honey-Lover's Helper

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Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to ________ in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don’t act in the ________ ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too ________ for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of ________.

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there ________ between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She ________ her head and continued to sew the quilt.

I was very worried because I thought I had ________ her. I was ________ and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words: “Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread.Sometimes it ________, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt ________ . If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen ________, but it’s really there. Love is ________ .”

I listened carefully but I ________ her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly ________ seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked ________ . It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father ________ on the country road.

“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

“Susan, don’t ________ me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.” ________ his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and ________ . But from this experience, I understand that love is just ________ in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

1.A. keep fit B. earn money C. rise early D. collect money

2.A. romantic B. magic C. fantastic D. attractive

3.A. simple B. easy C. relaxing D. luxurious(奢侈的)

4.A. question B. the question C. reach D. control

5.A. feeling B. quarrel C. love D. smile

6.A. raised B. shook C. nodded D. bowed

7.A. wounded B. injured C. hurt D. harmed

8.A. in great surprise B. in a great embarrassmentC. with deep depression D. at extreme sorrow

9.A. appears B. comes about C. happens D. occurs

10.A. warm and soft B. hot and hard C. thin and cool D. strong and durable

11.A. somewhere and sometime B. more or lessC. anywhere or anytime D. here and there

12.A. inside B. outside C. faraway D. nearby

13.A. could believe B. couldn’t understandC. wouldn’t recognize D. might know

14.A. got sick B. got stuck C. threw up D. became disabled

15.A. quite healthy B. fairly red C. very pale D. much surprised

16.A. jump high B. go hurriedly C. run fast D. walk slowly

17.A. think about B. talk with C. worry about D. laugh at

18.A. Reading B. Seeing C. Saying D. Writing

19.A. fresh roses B. sweet kisses C. gold ring D. beautiful jewelry

20.A. the cotton B. a needle C. the cloth D. a thread

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Beginning to learn gymnastics even before she could barely walk,Svetlana had always dreamed to enter the Olympics scene some day.

However,her _________ ended in the car on the winding road when a lorry appeared out of nowhere.The last thing she ________ was a blinding flash of light.In hospital,when told she would never ________ again,she couldn’t believe it.Three months later,she was _______ out of hospital on a wheelchair.Then a friend came to her house to visit her with an old child’s storybook.A bookmark in it made her ________ to page 117.The name of the ________ was‘The Day Clara Walked’.She was determined to return to stage whatever it might cost.

_________,after a year’s hard exercise,Svetlana recovered and was able to display her gymnastics.While she was sitting on the green bench ________ the Athens Stadium,memories ________:first,the pain and the tears,the book under her pillow,the words of relatives full of advice and comfort,and the pity in those eyes that had once held _________for her talent.Then followed the trips to the gym where everyone looked on________,their disbelief transforming slowly to wonder,______she could balance the hoop(健身圈)as well as her teammates.She registered for 2004 Olympic Games,and finally she received________from the Olympic Committee.

Her _________was interrupted by the attendant who said,“It’s time”,two words that she had been_______ to hear for so long.Smoothing her dress,she walked into the stadium,each_________firm and steady.Everything was_________,and the applause rang loud in her ears,her heart________violently against her chest.

Later that night,Svetlana pulled the gold medal out of her pocket and placed it on the old _________on the shelf,which opened to page 117,to the chapter‘The Day Clara Walked’,tears________her vision.

1.A. dream B. intension C. life D. career

2.A. forgot B. remembered C. experienced D. suffered

3.A. see B. dance C. walk D. sing

4.A. rushed B. rocked C. thrown D. wheeled

5.A. open B. relate C. point D. adapt

6.A. bookmark B. page C. chapter D. story

7.A. Suddenly B. Surprisingly C. Fortunately D. Certainly

8.A. opposite B. beneath C. inside D. outside

9.A. flooded in B. faded away C. mixed up D. squeezed out

10.A. fright B. regret C. sympathy D. admiration

11.A. doubtfully B. thankfully C. nervously D. cheerfully

12.A. until B. as C. while D. once

13.A. access B. praise C. sup port D. approval

14.A. plan B. attempt C. thought D. sight

15.A. content B. eager C. upset D. proud

16.A. breath B. wake C. step D. look

17.A. unexpected B. awful C. perfect D. finished

18.A. fighting B. striking C. kicking D. hammering

19.A. hoop B. book C. letter D. dress

20.A. clouding B. filling C. rolling D. rushing

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