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  Elephants that destroy crops and damage trees are a serious problem in many parts of Africa. But there could be a simple and relatively safe way to stop them in their tracks, by employing the talents of the tiny African honeybee. The number of elephants in Kenya has risen over the past decade, with some disastrous results. Not only do these huge animals attack local farms, but they trample someone to death an average of once every two weeks, fuelling calls for the beasts to be killed. Now a biologist has discovered a possible deterrent(威慑): the elephants are extremely careful of trees that house honeybee hives.

  “I am puzzled why nobody has thought of this before,” says Fritz Vollrath at the university of Oxford.“When an elephant knocks a beehive, they run and the bees will follow them for miles.” He says that placing hives of the honeybee strategically around local farms could be an effective way to deter the animals. Vollrath put 30 unoccupied and 6 occupied beehives in some of the trees growing a hectare of bush frequently damaged by elephants on Laikipia Plateau in Kenya. On average the elephants attacked 9 out of 10 trees that didn't have hives, severely damaging a quarter. But they steered clear of all six trees with empty hives, suggesting that some had learnt not to take the risk.

  The bees deter elephants by stinging vulnerable(易受攻击的) areas such as the eyes, belly, behind the ears and under the trunk. People could be at risk from the bees, admits Vollrath, but that may be outweighed by the risk of being killed by an elephant. Preliminary(初步的) experiments by Vollrath show that elephants also avoid the sound of angry bees played from loudspeakers.

1.What is NOT a disastrous result of the numerous elephants?

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A.Local farms are attacked and destroyed by the elephant.

B.The elephants often walk on persons and cause them to death.

C.The number of the bees is increasing rapidly.

D.About two dozen people were caused to death thanks to numerous elephants.

2.The underlined phrase “steered clear of” can be replaced by ________.

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A.attacked
B.kept away from
C.feared
D.cut down

3.We can infer that ________.

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A.African people are very afraid of elephants

B.bees can be used to drive away large elephants

C.bees don't sting people in Africa

D.sounds of bees played from loudspeaker can also frighten large elephants away

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

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A.Bees and elephants often attack each other.

B.The trunk of an elephant is seldom stung by the bees.

C.The elephant dare not go near the beehives.

D.We should deter elephants instead of killing them.

I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

     I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

     So here's what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion(提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

     Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure(空闲), it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

      It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

      I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion(热情) as it ought to be lived.

The best title of this passage probably is            

      A. Love your friends                        B. Live a real life

      C. Don't waste time                         D. Be a good mother and wife

The underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of to live" in the fifth paragraph probably has the same meaning as               

      A. it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life

      B. it is very hard to live a real life

      C. it is so easy to make a living

      D. it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life

What's the author's attitude toward work?

      A. Do it well to serve others.

      B. To earn enough money to make life better.

      C. Try your best to get higher position and pay.

      D. Don't let it affect your real life.

It can be inferred from the passage that          

     A. the author is a success in personal life

     B. the author didn't try her best to work well

     C. the author spent all her time caring for her children

     D. the author likes traveling very much

读写任务

阅读下面的短文,然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

A grand memorial service was held Wednesday ,October 28, 2009. in central Hubei Province to honor three college students who died rescuing two children from the Yangtze River on October 24.Thousands of people holding chrysanthemum flowers went to the Jingzhou Memorial House to see off the teenagers, all 19-year-old students from the Yangtze University based in Jingzhou City.

The trio were Chen Jishi, He Dongxu and Fang Zhao. More than 10 students from the Yangtze University formed a ladder with one student holding another's arms to rescue the two boys in the river on the afternoon of October 24. One of the students lost his grip on his classmates and all of them were in danger. Several members of a winter swimming team nearby came to help. Chen Jishi, He Dongxu and Fang Zhao were swept away in the torrent, but others were saved. People touched by their selfless act had donated more than 500,000 yuan ($73,206) to their relatives as of Wednesday, Zhang said. Millions of Internet users made online comments on major news portals to show their grief.

"I am also a college student. I feel sorrow for you," said "Liu Zhuoya," from northwestern Xi'an City. However, some questioned the sacrifice. "Sacrifice three and rescue two, is that worthwhile?" asked "Tiaozhantianya" on the forum of www.163.com. "Rescue can not be blind as they could not swim."

写作内容:

1.以约30个词概括短文的内容要点;

2.以约120个词就“救人是否要考虑自身安全?”的主题发表看法,内容包括:

(1)当别人有难时,你是否会马上伸出援手?为什么?

(2)救人时是否要考虑自身的安全?(可以举例说明) (3)假如你当时在场,你会怎样做?

[写作要求]

1. 可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得引用原文中的句子;

2. 文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,篇章连贯。

If you won $50000000 would you still go to college?

Lots of people go to college so they have a chance to get a better job, but if you won $50 million, would you still pursue a higher education?

Re: If you won $50000000 would u still go to college?

I would definitely still go to college if I had that much money, but I would not be competing for a scholarship on collegenet.com.I would probably still discuss things here and I would create other scholarships to help other people to go to college as well.

    With $50 million, I would not have to worry about getting a loan from Chase bank or finding scholarships to study abroad.I would have published several books by now as well, but I would still pursue my education.Going to undergraduate school is something that I really want to do because I want to become a Pediatrician.Money may buy a lot of things, but it does not necessarily give you knowledge and knowledge is what I am currently in pursuit of.

    I am not just going to school to get a better job; I am going to school to fulfill all of my dreams.$50 million is a lot of money, but no amount of money can deter me from my goals.

    Veggie-thought:"Money may make things easier, but it is not everything."

Re: If u won $50000000 would u still go to college?

Would I still go?

UMM YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!

    I still want to teach...I don't care if I have more money than Bill Gates...I still want to be in a classroom teaching!! And I need a degree to do that! Teaching is my dream job, and it would make me really happy.

    I would pay off my loans as well as my boyfriends loans and help out a couple of friends who are having trouble with financial aid.Of course some of that would get invested and dispersed for various reasons....but we'll not go into details.

Re: If you won $50000000 would you still go to college?

I would still go to college.The only difference is with that much money to go to college I probably would stay in college longer and pursue a few extra degrees while I am there.I am looking for knowledge not money.The only problem is I need money to pursue knowledge, well at least accredited knowledge.

   Also I could set up scholarship funds and I could save some more for additional dreams and goals that I have.

1.According to the answers, what do they have in common?

       A.They all prefer money to education.

      B.They all want to get a better job.

      C.They will continue to pursue knowledge.

      D.They will give up jobs.

2.From the first answer, we know the person is _____.

    A.greedy            B.ambitious         C.passive           D.selfish

3.In the following statements, which is not true according to the passage?

       A.They all have something they want to do.

       B.They think knowledge is more important than money.

       C.They all have their own dreams.

       D.The second person doesn’t want to get other scholarship.

4.The underlined phrase “pay off” means _____.

      A.give back        B.cost               C.apply for         D.get

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