阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项．

　　Plants need green leaves to make food. A plant needs sunlight and carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) from the air for making food and it also needs water and salts from the soil to make food too. There are certain cells(细胞) in the leaves which change carbon dioxide and water into sugar. To do this the cells need energy, which they get from the sunlight.

　　Green leaves make food for the whole plant. A red leaf can make food too because under the red coloring of the leaf there are food-making cells. There are no leaves which are completely yellow, for they can't make food.

　　The plant makes sugar for its food. In sunlight green leaves make a lot of sugar. The veins (叶脉) can't carry all this sugar away, so the leaves change the sugar into starch(淀粉), which is kept and so stored in the leaves. At night the starch change back to sugar. It is then carried away from the leaves. Some of the sugar is used as food by the plant while the rest is stored as starch. In some plants, food is stored in the roots. In others it is stored in the stem and in leaves, fruits and seeds.

1．Which of the following best gives the main idea of this passage?

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A．How green plants make food.

B．How green plants make sugar.

C．How green plants get their energy.

D．How green plants changes sugar into starch.

2．Sugar is made for its food by ________.

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3．Food is stored in roots or stems in the form of ________.

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　　Many insects disguise themselves to bamboozle their foes． They pretend to be stones, seeds, blades of grass, and even dewdrops． The prize for the best disguise must go to the walking-leaf beetles of India and the Philippines．

　　The eggs of these insects look like seeds． When the young hatch, they are glossy-red copies of the buds sprouting on the bushes they inhabit． The adult beetles' green bodies are shaped and veined to look exactly like the leaves they feed on． Their flat legs resemble small leaves with ragged yellow-stained edges． When it is windy, walking-leaf beetles often hang by two legs and turn their bodies to and fro like breeze-blown leaves． At every stage in life, the walking-leaf beetles can hoodwink their enemies．

1． According to the author, many insects disguise themselves for_______．

A． hunting B． safety C． warmth D． housing

2．Insects can look like________．

A． grass B． stones C． seeds D．Any of the above

3．Walking-leaf beetles are found in_______．

A． India B． the Philippines C． Both A and B D． Neither A nor B

4．The correct order of the walking-leaf beetles' disguises is_______．

A．leaves, flowers, seeds　　 B． branches, bark, buds

C．seeds, buds, leaves　　　　D． leaves, seeds, veins

5．The young walking-leaf beetle is different from the adult in that it is______．

A．a different color B． a lighter shade C． a darker shade D． many colors

6．The legs of the adult beetle are similar to_______．

A．sprouting buds B．small, ragged leaves C． green shoots D． twigs

7．Walking-leaf beetles are always well disguised because they______．

A．change color every few seconds

B．resemble their background throughout their lives

C．sit perfectly still

D． turn in the wind

Koalas are pictured everywhere in Australia-on cleaning products, on “boxes of chocolate, on sports team shirts. Yet the animals live only in pockets along the east coast.
They once inhabited the entire coastline. The koala population dropped after farmers cut down many of the forests where koalas lived, and hunters killed the animals for their fur.
By the early 1900s, “koalas were basically shot out of south Australia,” says ecologist Bill Ellis, who studies the relationships among living things and their environments.
I recently joined Ellis and his team in a forest on St Bees Is land, 19 miles off the northeastern coast of Australia, with eight other volunteers. The island is a natural laboratory, yielding findings that may help protect koalas elsewhere on the continent.
The volunteers searched the island for koalas in the blue gum trees. When we found a koala, we gathered information about the trees in the area.
Blue gum is a species of the eucalyptus tree in which the funny leaf eaters spend most of their time. Eucalyptus trees are native to Australia, and their leaves are the main food source for koalas. Although koalas can walk on the ground, they are better suited for life in the canopy, the high cover of branches and leaves in a forest.
What has Ellis’s research told him so far? The population of St Bees seems to be healthy. Yet Ellis wonders whether the koalas might be heading for hard times. The island is overrun with wild goats, and Ellis thinks the goats are eating the small blue gum trees.
Without those trees, the koalas will run out of food in the future. Ellis hopes more research will help him understand how to protect the blue gum trees-and the koalas that depend on them. “I think that’s what everyone is trying to do-to make a difference.” Ellis says.
59. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that     .
A. koalas’ pictures can be found everywhere in the world
B. koalas in Australia like to eat chocolate
C. only in the east coast of Australia can you find koalas
D. you can buy the pictures of koalas only in the east coast of Australia
60. Which of the following is TRUE about koalas?
A. They usually hide in a cave.     B. They feed on the leaves of blue gum trees.
C. They prefer to walk on the ground.  D. They don’t adapt to the high cover of branches.
61. What will Ellis most probably start to do next?
A. To keep the population of St Bees healthy.
B. To kill all the goats on the island.
C. To find some new foods for goats.
D. To protect blue gum trees for koalas.
62. The purpose of writing this passage is to      .
A. expect people to concern about the life of koalas
B. record trip to Australia for watching koalas
C. present some basic knowledge of koalas’ life
D. introduce the ecosystem of wildlife in Australia

第二节：读写任务（共1小题，满分20分）
阅读下面的短文，然后根据要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman，“How have you done so much in your lifetime?” He replied, “I have dreams. I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamed about my dreams. And when I awoke in the morning ,     I saw the way to make my dreams real. While other people were saying, ‘You can’t do that. It’s  impossible.’ I was well on my way to achieving what I wanted.” As Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the US, said, “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day, or in the red fire on a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nourish them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
So please, don’t let anyone steal your dreams, or try to tell you they are impossible.
“Sing your song, dream your dreams, hope your hope and pray your prayer.”
【写作内容】      
1）以约30词概括短文的主旨大意；
2）然后以约120个词就“梦想”这一主题发表看法，包括如下要点：
a) 请谈谈你是如何理解梦想在人生当中所起的作用的。
b) 列举一个正面或负面的实例支持你的观点，可以是你自己的亲身经历也可以是他人的例子。
【写作要求】
概括要点和使用阅读材料中的实例时，不得直接引用原文中的句子。
【评分标准】
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适，篇章连贯。