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January 16, 2014 –We know the saying“The early bird gets the worm”, but today you’re going to learn about the interesting saying “The early fish gets the bird.”
An African tigerfish(老虎鱼) was seen jumping out of the air and catching a flying bird. The African tigerfish has bright red fins and very sharp teeth. There have been rumors(传闻) this kind of fish preys on(捕食) birds since the 1940s, but no one was able to catch one.
"The whole action of jumping and catching happens so quickly that after we saw it, it took all of us a moment to really understand what we had just seen," said Nico Smit from Environmental Sciences and Management at North-West University.
Smit and his research team saw it at a lake in the Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa during summer. They found about 20 fish feeding on birds in the morning. Those birds may be out early to look for food, but we will never know for sure!
【小题1】The tigherfish ___________.
| A．is from the USA | B．has bright black fins |
| C．has very sharp teeth | D．was seen in a forest |
| A．a tiger | B．a fish | C．a bird | D．a person |
| A．Nobody has heard of the rumors about the tigerfish before. |
| B．It took Smit a moment to understand what he had seen about the fish. |
| C．The interesting findings happened in a lake in the afternoon. |
| D．The birds were caught by the tigerfish because they were out too early for food. |
| A．In a poster. | B．In a tour guide. |
| C．In a newspaper. | D．In a story book. |
| A．The early fish gets the bird. | B．Nico Smit and an African tigerfish. |
| C．Nico Smit and his research team. | D．The Mapungubwe National Park |
Food waste has become a big problem in China．According to Xinhua News Agency, the food waste by Chinese people equates to about 50 million tons of grain every year or 10 percent of the country’s total annual grain production．This food could feed another 200 million people．
Qi Haoran, a Junion9 student was quite busy over the past winter holiday, and not just with homework．Qi, together with 10 other classmates made a volunteer group to call on people to join the Clean Your Plate Campaign(“光盘行动)．
The 11 students went to many restaurants and told people the importance of saving food．“Excuse me, do you know that 950 million people around the world still haven’t got enough to eat．Please don’t waste food．” They would say this kind of thing hundreds of times every day．
The Clean Your Plant Campaign began on the Internet in January．It calls on people to reduce food waste．
Chinese people are well known for being hospitable(好客的)and generous．Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food．
Luckily, the campaign has got the support of many people．More than 750 restaurants in Beijing have begun to offer smaller dishes and encourage their guests to take leftovers(剩饭剩菜)home．In a restaurant in Xinjiang, the owner give the guests who have eaten all that they ordered a sticker．People can enjoy a free meal when they have 10 stickers．
To reduce food waste is a big task, and it needs time．It’s important that everyone does their bit ,just like Qi．Did you finish your meals today?
小题1:The the Clean Your Plate Campaign calls on people to________．
| A．do voluntary work | B．work part time in restaurants |
| C．cut down on food waste | D．wash your plates after dinner |
| A．wasting food isn’t a serious problem in China at present |
| B．Chinese people waste the most food in the world |
| C．Chinese people want to show off that they are rich |
| D．many Chinese people are afraid of losing face at the table． |
| A．The owner would have dinner with those who had eaten up their food． |
| B．It offered a free meal to the guests who had finished all their food ten times． |
| C．It gave stickers to the guests who ordered small dishes． |
| D．It encouraged customers to take leftovers home． |
| A．In a newspaper． | B．In a traffic report． |
| C．On a health website． | D．In a story book． |
Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse, which took days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is possible to send words and pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about news stories of their mother country and all over the world every day, either by watching TV or reading newspapers.
Newspaper have been an important part of everyday life since the 18th century. Many countries have hundreds of different newspapers. How do newspaper editors decide which news stories to print?
Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?
Firstly, it is important to report new stories. TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet, newspapers give more about the same story. They may also look at the story in another way, or they may, print completely different stories to those on TV.
Secondly, a news story has to be interesting and unusual. People don't want to read stories about everyday life. As a result, many stories are about China.
Another factor is also very important in many news stories. Many people are interested in news in foreign countries, but more prefer to read stories about people, places and events in their own country. So the stories on the front page in Chinese newspaper are usually very different from the ones in British, French and American newspapers.
(1) In old days it was hard to get news, because ________.
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A．people didn't care about news
B．the transportation was not as fast as now
C．nobody paid for news
D．there wasn't anything so interesting as today
(2) According to the passage, newspapers ________.
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A．report news faster than TV
B．give the same thing about the same story as TV
C．give the same ideas about the news as TV
D．sometimes choose different stories from TV
(3) According to the passage, which story will a newspaper editor choose to print on newspaper?
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A．A train arrived at the station on time
B．Students liked to go to school
C．The advertisement of a TV program.
D．A bus fell into the river
(4) If we are in French, what will see in the newspaper?
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A．A Chinese leader gave an important speech about
B．An Englishman was lost in the rain forest
C．The French team won the champion.
D．The American attacked the Iraq.
(5) A possible title for the passage would be.
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A．The News
B．How to Print News
C．News in the Past and Now
D．Newspapers
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Now some people are using a kind of telephone called the picture phone or a vision phone(视频电话). Two people 33 are talking can see each other with it.
Picture phones can be useful when you have 34 to show the person you are calling. They may have other uses in the future. One day you may be able to ring up a 35 and ask to see a book. Then you’ll be able to 36 the book over your picture phone. Also you may be able to do shopping through your picture phone. If you see something 37 the newspaper that you want to buy, you can 38 the shop. People at the shop will show you the thing you’re 29 in over the phone. You’ll be able to shop all over the town and never even leave your room.
The picture phone is really a 40 phone. More and more people will use it.
31. A. if B. when C. before
32. A. can’t B. must C. may
33. A. whom B. who C. which
34. A. something B. nothing C. everything
35. A. shop B. school C. library
36. A. read B. see C. watch
37. A. in B. about C. on
38. A. visit B. go C. call
39. A. interested B. bored C. interesting
40. A. useless B. helpless C. helpful
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people buy as many as two or three different papers.
Why do people read newspapers? Newspapers supply us with news about events in our hometowns,
in our country, and in other parts of the world. Today we can read about important things that took place
in foreign countries on the same day they happened, even in countries far away. But hundreds of years ago news took months or even years to travel from one country to another. In those times, news was often
passed from one person to another and never entirely true. Newspapers today supply us with more than
just what happened m our country or in other countries. If we want to know what the weather will be like, we can read the weather reports. If we want to find out what films are being shown, or what plays or
concerts we can go to, we can look in the newspapers.
B. all people read newspapers
C. almost every family in America or England reads newspapers
D. all families read newspapers
B. only world news
C. home news and world news
D. important things
B. that took place in far away countries soon after they happened
C. that will take place in foreign countries
D. that will take place in the world
B. requirements for a job or a house
C. information about a lost person
D. all of the above
B. Newspapers can not only supply us with news from all over the world but also give us a lot of useful
information.
C. Hundreds of years ago news was not entirely true because it was told in spoken words.
D. If you have no place to live in, you can put a notice m a newspaper and then you will certainly get a
room to live in.