What kind of pets do people have in your country? Dogs? Cats? How about a duck, hippo(河马) or lion? Here are two cases of animal owners with unusual pets.

Barrie Hayman has a pet duck called Star. Barrie adopted(领养) him after his brothers and sisters stayed away from him at birth. Barrie, a duck breeder, realized the little duck needed special attention. So he began taking Star with him everywhere he went. “I would put him in my pocket while I did my shopping,” said Barrie. Now, at five months, Star is too big for Barrie’s pocket, but the two are still inseparable. They watch sports, together and even share a drink together. Barrie said, “He is a fantastic duck. I’ve never known any like him.” Star even has his own Facebook page, with more than 2,000 Face book friends.

Then there is the case of Tonie and Shirley Joubert in South Africa. They live with their hippo, Jessica. Tonie saved Jessica from floodwaters when she was only a day old. Jessica lives outside their riverside house, but she knows how to open the kitchen door, and often goes there for a snack. Tonie recently said, “I don’t know whether Jessica sees me as a hippo or whether she sees herself as a human.” Shirley is more certain, “Jessica sees herself as our child and I see Jessica as my daughter. I can’t imagine my life without Jessica.” Jessica is free to leave, and often visits wild hippos that live nearby. But she always returns home at night. Jessica’s website notes that she has three hippo boyfriends, but one in particular,Fred, is her favorite. They often go grazing(吃青草) together and Fred has recently moved onto the Joubert’s house as well.

1.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Some websites are set up to protect pets.

B. Some unusual pets are adopted by people

C. People should take good care of their pets

D. Pets sometimes can be very interesting

2.What does the underlined word “inseparable” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Always together  B. Always separated

C. Always friendly   D. Always healthy

3.Barrie took Star everywhere he went because______.

A. he had never seen a duck like Star

B. he set up a Facebook page for Star

C. he wanted care more about Star

D. he needed Star to drink with him

4.We can learn from the passage that Jessica ______

A.came to Joubert’s home when she was 5 months old

B.loves eating in the Joubert’s kitchen

C. doesn’t see herself as a human being

D.has more than three boyfriends

Number sense is not the ability to count. It is the ability to recognize a    1   in number. Human beings are born with this ability.   2   , experiments show that many animals are, too. For example, many birds have good number sense. If a nest has four eggs and you remove one, the bird will not    3  .However, if you remove two, the bird    4   leaves. This means that the bird knows the    5   between two and three.

Another interesting experiment showed a bird's    6   number sense. A man was trying to take a photo of a crow（乌鸦）that had a nest in a tower, but the crow always left when she saw him coming. The bird did not    7   until the man left the tower. The man had an    8  .He took another man with him to the tower. One man left and the other stayed, but they did not    9   the bird. The crow stayed away until the second man left, too. The experiment was    10   with three men and then with four men. But the crow did not return to the nest until all the men were    11  .It was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they were    12   able to fool the crow.

How good is a human's number sense? It's not very good. For example, babies about fourteen months old almost always notice if something is taken away from a    13   group. But when the number goes beyond three or four, the children are    14   fooled.

It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals in this world, and that our human    15   is not much better than a crow's.

1.                A．rise            B．pattern         C．change   D．trend

2.                A．Importantly      B．Surprisingly      C．Disappointedly D．Fortunately

3.                A．survive         B．care           C．hatch D．notice

4.                A．generally       B．sincerely        C．casually   D．deliberately

5.                A．distance        B．range          C．different  D．interval

6.                A．amazing        B．annoying        C．satisfying  D．disturbing

7.                A．relax           B．recover         C．react D．return

8.                A．appointment     B．excuse         C．idea D．explanation

9.                A．fool           B．hurt           C．catch D．kill

10.               A．reported       B．repeated       C．designed  D．approved

11.               A．confused       B．gone           C．tired  D．drunk

12.               A．gradually       B．luckily          C．strangely  D．finally

13.               A．single          B．small           C．local  D．new

14.               A．seldom         B．temporarily     C．merely    D．often

15.               A．sight           B．nature         C．ability D．belief

    Dad loved children. And he always wanted a __1__ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us off to visitors.

    Once, Dad __2__ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, "And this is our _3__ model, complete with all the improvements. And don't think that this is all; we are _4__ the 1953 model some time next month."

    But what he _5__ most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _6_ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not __7_ Mum and Dad. _8__, Dad called out over his shoulder, "You 9__ the second baby up from the front here, Mister."

    Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure then whether he was telling us the _10_. Mum, who was a psychologist (心理学家), once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the _11_. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was fine _12__ one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been _13_. When he pointed at the child that had been __14__, Mum looked at him calmly and said, "That's not one of ours, dear. He _15_ next door."

1.A. rich           B. lovely       C. close            D. large

2.A. surprisingly       B. nervously        C. kindly       D. proudly

3.A. dearest            B. smallest         C. latest           D. youngest

4.A. ordering       B. selling      C. expecting        D. improving

5. A. hated             B. enjoyed      C. cared            D. hoped

6.A. crazily            B. excitedly        C. curiously    D. directly

7. A. counting      B. naming       C. showing      D. reaching

8.A. Immediately    B. Carefully        C. Angrily      D. Easily

9.. A. saw          B. missed       C. forgot       D. left

10.. A. truth           B. story    C. adventure        D. accident

11. A. lecture          B. house        C. office           D. activity

12. A. even if  B. apart from       C. so that      D. except that

13. A. troublesome   B. careless        C. active         D. quiet

14.A. found             B. caught          C. punished         D. wounded

15. A. goes to       B. belongs to      C. works        D. plays

根据首字母或英文提示写单词：

1.To our d_________, our football team won.

2. The doctor spent much time c_________ the patient of his cough.

3.He went to London without having _______________ (achieve) any success.

4.One of the ____________ ( testing strength, skill or ability) tasks that all government are facing now is how to develop economy rapidly without doing great harm to the environment.

5.He hurt his legs. There is no p__________ that he will win the game.

6.His cheerful spirit is __________( infect) and so everywhere he goes, people around him feel joyful.

7.Many factories have been constructed in our city since last year, and a power station is under ____________ (construct).

8.Are you satisfied with his ______________ ( arrange) for the meeting?

9.They hurried back home only to find their houses __________ (break) into.

10.___________ (absorb) in his work, Newton boiled his watch when he wanted to boil an egg to eat.

I have a friend named Monty Roberts. He has let me use his horse ranch(养马场)to put on events to raise money for youth at risk programs.

Last time I was there he introduced me by saying, “I want to tell you why I let you use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant(流动的)horse trainer. When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be when he grew up.”

“That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of owning a horse ranch someday. He put all his heart into the project and wrote about his dream in great detail. He even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of the buildings, stables and the track, and even a detailed floor plan for a 4000-square-foot house on it.”

“The next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later ,he received a large red “F” on his paper with a note, ‘See me after class.’ The boy went to see the teacher and asked why. The teacher told him there was no way for a young boy like him to do that because owning a horse ranch required much money and resources, and then added ‘If you’ll rewrite his paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.’”

“The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what to do. His father said, ‘Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think it’s a very important decision for you.’”

“Finally, a week later, the boy turned in the same paper without any change and stated, ‘You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.’”

“I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace.”

Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.

1. The teacher gave him an “F” for his written paper because the

teacher thought 　　    .

2. Why did the boy turn in the same paper without any change?

3. From the story we can infer that the boy was actually 　　    .

4. According to the passage, the following statements are true EXCEPT

that 　　    .

5. The author wrote this passage mainly to