【题目】Twelve years ago, a young traveler named Rhett Butler from San Francisco, California, visited the Sabah rain forest on Malaysian Borneo. In one area of the rain forest, he watched a bird flying through the trees. The beautiful sight left quite an impression on him. But weeks later, back home, Rhett Butler got the news that trees had been cut down in the area he visited.

That experience led Rhett Butler to begin writing a book about rainforests and the threats to their existence. But he did not publish the book. Instead, in 1999,he used his research for the book to create a website. The site is Mongabay, com. His purpose was to inform the public about tropical rain forests. But the subject quickly developed. As a former businessman , he became a respected writer of science and environmental stories.

The popularity of Mongabay. com attracted advertisers. Small ads on the site pay for its operations. Mongabay. com has grown and led to other sites. For example, there is a site for children which is called kids, Mongabay. com. Another one, Wild Madangascar. org, is also about the island nation that Rhett Butler calls his favorite place.

To keep his website going, he travels around the world on several major trips each year. His working tools are a laptop computer, cameras and sometimes diving equipment. He often calls on experts for information. For example, he interviewed Alison Jolly, a top experts on lemurs (狐猴). He interviewed Rodney Jackson, a biologist who established the Snow Leopard Conservancy.

Stories like these have made Mongabay a favorite place on the Internet for researchers, students and teachers. In April, Time, com named it one of the fifteen top climate and environment websites in the world.

【1】 What's the main idea of the passage?

A. Rhett Butler and his website.

B. Rainforest on Malaysian Borneo.

C. How Rhett Butler protected rare animals.

D. How Rhett Butler made his website popular.

【2】 Rhett Butler didn't publish his book about rain forests because __________

A. making websites earns more money than writing books

B. he didn't want to become a writer

C. the book was not about rain forest protection

D. he wanted to use the information to create a website

【3】 Which of the followings is NOT true about the Mongabay. com?

A. It was set up in 1999.

B. It attracted many advertisers.

C. At least two related websites grew from it.

D. Rhett Butler made a lot of money from it.

【4】 To keep his website going, Rhett Butler __________.

A. kept visiting the rain forest

B. traveled around and interviewed experts

C. raised rare snow leopards

D. made a great number of advertisements

【5】 We can learn from the passage that __________.

A. Mongabay. com was loved by researchers as well as students

B. kids. Mongabay. com has many stories written by kids

C. Wild Madagascar, org is better known than Mongabay. com

D. Rodney Jackson was once a businessman

【题目】You wake up in the morning,the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time.Then the telephone rings,you say hello,and the drama starts.The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to.You are still in a wonderful mood?Impossible!

Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness.It may not change what you think,but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.

Life brings ups and downs,but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer.They only feel glad when they make others feel bad.No wonder they can hardly win others' pity or respect.

When you communicate with positive people,your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted.When the dagger(匕首)of a negative person is put in you,you feel the heavy feeling that all in all,brings you down.

Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people.This could be a coworker,or a relative.In this case,say what needs to be said as little as possible.Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person,but all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they won't feel ashamed of themselves about that.

Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized.The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to(附着)you throughout the rest of your day,which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness.Life is too short to feel negative.Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible.

1The purpose of the first paragraph is to______.

A. make a comparison

B. offer an evidence

C. introduce a topic

D. describe a daily scene

2How can negative people have effect on us?

A. By influencing our emotion.

B. By telling us the nature of life.

C. By changing our way of thinking.

D. By comparing their attitude to life with ours.

3Some negative people base their happiness on________.

A. other people's pity for them

B. making other people unhappy

C. building up a positive attitude

D. other people's respect for them

4According to the passage,to reduce negative people's influence on us,we are advised______.

A. to change negative people's attitude to life

B. to show our dissatisfaction to negative people

C. to make negative people feel ashamed of themselves

D. to communicate with negative people as little as possible

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