【题目】根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。

The Human Camera

There is not anybody else quite like Stephen Wiltshire. Born in 1974, Stephen was always different. 【1】 In fact, he talked to nobody, showed no interest in school subjects and wasn’t able to sit still. Stephen was later told that he had autism(自闭症). He didn’t learn fully to talk until he was nine years old and he didn’t manage to pass his exams. 2 Art became his way to communicate.

He started by drawing funny pictures of his teachers, but soon began to draw buildings. His eye for detail was perfect. He could see a building just once and remember everything about it. 3 Hours later, in front of TV cameras, he managed to draw this building, with the time on the station clock saying 11:20, the exact time when he was there. The television programme made him famous overnight in the UK.

4 He has become a well-known artist, published four books of his drawings, taken helicopter(直升机) rides above the world’s great cities and drawn amazing pictures of them, and opened his own art gallery, where he now works, in London.

His drawings are correct and true in every detailhe always manages to draw everything in the right place. 5 In 2006, he was given an MBE(Member of the Order British Empire) by the Queen of England for services to art.

A. Floating Cities was his third book.

B. As a child, he couldn’t make friends.

C. Besides, they are also beautiful to look at.

D. Luckily he found one thing he liked doing: drawing.

E. After that, many great things have happened to Stephen.

F. In 1987, he saw a train station in London called St Pancras.

G. On 15 February 2008, ABC News named him Person of the Week.

【题目】What do you usually do when a flying insect lands on your arm? You may blow it away. But what if that insect is a ladybug (瓢虫)? It is possible that you would let it stay. What is it about ladybugs that we like?

Farmers once thought ladybugs were a good lucky sign. A ladybug in the field meant the crops would be successful and that the weather would be good. The farmers may have thought too highly of such a small bug, but in fact ladybugs do help out with the crops. They eat harmful insects.

Actually, it is not the adult ladybug that eats other insects. It’s the baby ladybug. When the baby ladybugs hatch (孵化), they are very hungry and will eat mites, aphids, mealy bugs, green flies, and other crop-destroyers. In the 1800s, ladybugs were brought all the way from Australia to California and set free among orange trees that were dying from being eaten by insects. They completely saved all the trees.

Ladybugs go about their daily business without worrying much about anything. Very few birds or insects will eat a ladybug because it gives off a dangerous fluid (液体). Ladybugs also protect themselves by playing dead. They fall off leaves and never move until their attacker goes away.

So the next time you see a ladybug, think about what it may be doing. Maybe it is off to save an orange tree. Maybe its next move will be to roll off a leaf and play dead orstand up toa bird about 100 times its size. Maybe it’s letting you know that the weather will be good tomorrow. Who knows? Ladybugs are special that way.

1Ladybugs were brought from Australia to California in the 1800s to .

A. add more ladybugs to area B. report the weather for farmers

C. act as a lucky sign of good crops D. save orange trees by eating insects

2From the passage we know that .

A. it’s the adult ladybug that eats most of the harmful insects

B. ladybugs often roll off a leaf and play dead to attack the birds

C. ladybugs can give off a dangerous fluid to protect themselves

D. the baby ladybug mainly eats mites, aphids, mealy bugs, and oranges

3The underlined phrase “stand up to” most probably means .

A. watch B. support C. save D. fight

4Which of the following may the author agree with?

A. Ladybugs do harm to nature. B. Ladybugs are unusual insects.

C. Ladybugs are dangerous insects. D. Ladybugs eat more than they should.

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