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　　Along with the Great Pyramid(金字塔) of Giza in Egypt, the Great Sphinx is one of the greatest and most studied monuments(纪念碑) of human history.

　　Carved(雕刻) from a single piece of stone of hundreds of tons, the Sphinx is the head of a man resting on the body of a lion.

　　The nose, eyes and ears have all been carved in the terrific proportions(比例). That's not easy for an object 180 metres long, 64 metres high and 35 metres wide.

　　No one knows what tools were used to carve the stone, when this was done, or by whom. The Egyptians wrote very little about the building of the Sphinx.

　　There are basically two schools of thought about how it was built.

　　No one knows what the Sphinx looked like when it was first finished because both natural erosion(侵蚀) and damage(破坏) done by man have changed its shape.

　　Many earlier pictures of the Sphinx show it with wings(翅膀), the body of a lion and ox(公牛), and the face of a man. Today only the man and the lion can be seen.

　　To this day, people can't agree with each other on the true role(作用) of the Sphinx.

1．The writer wrote this text to ________.

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A．tell us some information about the Sphinx

B．talk about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt

C．tell us what the Sphinx looks like today

D．tell us to visit the Sphinx

2．Which of the following about the Sphinx is known to people?

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A．The date of building it.

B．The size of it.

C．The way of building it.

D．The role of it.

3．We may learn from the text that ________.

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A．two schools now are studying the Sphinx

B．the Sphinx was made of a lot of very big stones

C．the Sphinx today looks different from what it used to be

D．the Sphinx is the greatest monument

4．Which of the following used to be a part of the Sphinx?

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A．Wings.

B．The head of an ox.

C．The face of a man.

D．The body of the lion.

We sometimes call the lion “the king of the jungle” Because it is stronger and more dangerous than other animals. 1.  It is the highest animal in the land food chain.

 In the sea, the shark is one of the animals at the top of the food chain. It can swim faster than most other sea2.

3. People are! We are not the biggest or fastest. but we are the cleverest. We could not run faster than cheetahs, so we invented cars and now we can move the fastest. We could not fight better than joins. so we invented puns. Now we ran hunt the best-People's inventions are clever, but they can be dangerous, too. For example, people invented lactones, and now they make the air and rivers dirty. 4.Dirty rivers kill fish. hen bears cannot eat the fish and die. If we kill one part of the food chain. other parts also die. Remember that we are a part of the food chain. so we are in danger, too! 5. We should and we could do something for the world!

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              Two famous cartoons

The Lion Kings

   Mufasa , the king of the lions , has a baby son called Simba .Mufasa has a brother , Scar , who hates Simba and his father because he wants to be king . With the help of some hyenas Simba（土狼）.Scar kills Mufasa , but very cleverly makes Simba believe that he killed his father .

   Simba leaves and goes far away and Scar becomes king . But as Simba becomes older , he understands what really happened , and returns home with his friends . He fights Scar and becomes king of the lions .

Shrek

   Farquaad , the ruler of a country called Duloc , decides that all the characters from fantasy stories must leave the country . There is a a very big , ugly monster called Shrek who lives in a forest and all the fantasy characters hide in his home , although Shrek doesn’t want them to .

  Shrek visits Farquaad . Farquaad agrees that the fantasy characters can come back if Shrek can find the beautiful princess (公主)that Farquad wants to marry .Shrek goes to look for the princess called Fiona . He finds her and discovers that at night she becomes as ugly as him .When Farquaad discovers that Fiona is ugly , he doesn’t want to marry her . The monster and the princess marry , and the princess（公主）decides to stay ugly all the time for love !

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1.Mufasa’s son is called ______________.

2.Scar ________ Simba and his father because he wants to be __________ of the lions.

3.Simba goes back home and fights Scar when he _______ _________.

4.Shrek ,a very big, ugly _______, visits Farquaad because he wants to help all the ________     _____.

5.Farquaad wants to ________ the beautiful princess called Fiona.

6.At last the princess and Shrek gets married for _______.

In the middle of a dark forest, there lives an owl(猫头鹰). All the animals know that he is the wisest(聪明的) among all of them. So they often go to him and tell him their troubles. Then the owl always teaches them what they should do.
One day, a little bird goes up to the owl. She is crying. “what’s wrong with you?” asks the owl.
“I’m not happy at all. I don’t want to be a bird,” the bird says.
“Why don’t you want to be a bird?” asks the owl.
“I am so small, weak and useless,” she cries. “I want to be big and strong like the lion. He is very important, but I am not”
Then the owl whispers(耳语) something in her ear. At once the bird dries her tears and goes away. One week later, the bird came back. “Oh, thank you very much. You are a very wise owl,” she says to the owl. “I am very happy now. Every day, I sit on top of the tallest tree and watch for(监视) lions and tigers. When they come near, I shout at the top of my voice. Then my friend all run and hide. They are very thankful to me. I am useful and important now”
The wise owl smiles and says, “No one in this world is useless.”
【小题1】The animals in the forest visit the owl because_____________