With its special elegant body and spotted coat, the cheetah(猎豹)is the most unique member of the cat family. As the world's fastest land mammal, the chee?tah can reach speeds of 112km/h. A cheetah can go from 0 to 96 kilometres per hour in only three long steps. However, with a lean body and small teeth, the cheetah cannot fight larger animals. This gives the chee?tah a double risk as it is placed in direct conflict with hu?mans. Farmers that live nearby shoot, trap and poison cheetahs, because they think that cheetahs will kill their livestock (牲畜).

The cheetah is now endangered. It was once found across all of Africa, extending eastwards into Asia. However, hunting, habitat destruction and loss of prey (猎物)have meant that cheetahs are now only found in a few countries in Africa. The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently reported that only about 7 , 500 adult cheetahs remain in the wild. This makes the small population of cheetahs even more precious and worthy of protection.

The Wildlife Conservation Fund has teamed up with Central Kalahari Research Group to study and pro?tect the remaining cheetahs.

In order to find out more about these animals, two adult cheetahs were fitted with GPS satellite collars. These collars provide information about how cheetahs move through their environment. And they provide an excellent way to study cheetahs which have been re?leased back into the wild. Understanding cheetahs' be?haviour is an important step for their protection. Also, it is necessary to cooperate with local farmers and other land users to reduce the killing of cheetahs.

1.    What makes it difficult for the cheetah to fight larger animals?

A.    Its big head and small mouth.

B.    Its strong legs and fat feet.

C.    Its thin body and tiny teeth.

D.    Its short toes and long tail.

2.    Which is NOT the reason why cheetahs are endan?gered?

A.     Loss of food.

B.    An elegant body.

C.    Habitat destruction.

D.    Hunting and killing.

3.    What is the function of the collars in the last para?graph?

A.    To catch more cheetahs and kill them.

B.    To protect the habitat where cheetahs live.

C.    To protect cheetahs from being caught by other big animals.

D.    To get information about cheetahs and under?stand their behaviour.

4.    What can we learn from this passage?

A.    Cheetahs are disappearing slowly from the world.

B.    The protection of cheetahs is urgently needed.

C.    Cheetahs always catch farmers' livestock for food.

D.    Cheetahs are able to adapt to the environment well.

A blog can be a very effective way of spreading the word about yourself, and your other writing. It can unshroud your knowledge, and create an ongoing relationship with your readers. A good blog is more than just a marketing tool; it's also an expression of your personality.

An obvious starting point is to post samples of your work that not only show off your skills and writing abili?ty but also leave people wanting more. Post selections from the most exciting parts of your stories but end them just as the action reaches its peak. If you write nonfiction(写实文学),show people what they could achieve, and give them a few steps to get them started.

Give tips, information and advice about the subjects you cover. For example, something about struggling with difficulty and many other issues like this. Your writing tips can also be included, as well as interesting* strange or funny things you discovered during your re?search. Whenever you contact an expert, ask if he or she has any interesting stories you could use. You may also give background information about your stories and the locations.

Give details of coming posts on your blog, so people can watch out for you, or come and meet you. Personal news will help people feel better connected to you. In?clude photos of objects and locations in your writing, fa?mous people you meet, the views from your window, and your favourite things―with a note about where they came from and what they mean to you. Look out for things that will help your readers get to know you bet?ter, and know the subject better, or anything else you think they might find useful, inspiring or entertaining.

If you only occasionally post things on your blog, people have a tendency to forget you. As a writer you shouldn't ever run out of interesting material to fill your blog with―and your readers will love you for it.

1.    The underlined word "unshroud" in the first para?graph means " ,,,

A.  put on     B.  turn up

C.  show off  D.  write down

2.    Personal news on your blog .

A.    can make people watch out for you

B.    can make people easily get in touch with you

C.    helps to leave your privacy known

D.    helps you improve your writing

3.    What does the author suggest for keeping a blog?

A.    Posting things on your blog once in a while.

B.    Adding new stories to it every day.

C.    Filling it with attractive things frequently.

D.    Loving it as your life.

4.    Which is the best title for the text?

A.    What to blog about

B.    How to start a blog

C.    Why to launch a blog

D.    How to make a blog attractive

If you were walking around a supermarket and saw a woman with a shaved head, a ring through her nose, a tattoo(文身)design on her arm and she had a small child in her shopping trolley, what would your opinion be? Do you think this kind of body decoration is attractive or ugly? Different people have different ideas. The following are some examples of body decoration from around the world.

In many parts of Africa, it is thought that an attractive girl should have really shiny skin.

On Bali, a little island in Indonesia, they believe that a beautiful woman or handsome man must have perfectly straight, flat teeth. The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal. So when a girl or boy becomes a teenager, he or she is taken to a special person in their village who will file off teeth points to make them smooth and flat. There is no anesthetic (麻药)and this tooth filing is really painful. It is a kind of test. If you can stand it without screaming or crying too much, then you are thought ready to become an adult.

In Myanmar? there is a small group of people who are called the "PapaungThey believe that a woman can only be really beautiful if she has a long neck. I mean a VERY long neck. Now you might think that you are either born with a long or short neck and that there's nothing whatever you can do about it. But you would be wrong! At around the age of 5, a Papaung girl has heavy metal rings fitted around her neck, tightly between the chin and shoulders. Each year more rings are added and very, very slowly their weight pushes the shoulders down, in this way making the neck look longer. A Papaung woman will wear her neck rings all her life, never once taking them off.

So now I'm sure you will all agree that different people have different ideas about what is beautiful.

5.    What is mainly talked about in Paragraph 1? 

A.    Women's design,

B.    Beautiful body decoration.

C.    Body decoration.

D.    Attractive decoration.

6.    What does the underlined word "trolley" mean?

A. School bag.       B. Luggage.

C.  Basket.    D.  Shopping cart.

7.    On Bali, it is believed that . 

A.    a person with straight, flat teeth looks ugly

B.    a person with sharp teeth looks ugly

C.    a teenager's teeth points must be filed off with anesthetic

D.    no one will scream or cry when having his teeth points filed off

8.    Which of the following is NOT true? 

A.    Many people think that a woman with a ring through her nose is neither attractive nor ugly.

B.    Most African people think that a girl with shiny skin is beautiful.

C.    It is thought that a beautiful woman should have straight, flat teeth on Bali.

D.    Some people think it beautiful that a woman has a long neck in Myanmar.

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