5、Mrs. Amatuli was my teacher in the fourth grade.

One day at lunch time, I was getting ready to eat my same old tuna fish(金枪鱼)sandwich and suddenly Mrs. Amatuli asked me if she could buy my sandwich from me. She explained that I could use the money to buy a hot lunch from the cafeteria.

I was thrilled. I never bought my lunch at the cafeteria. It was too expensive for my family, and we always carried our lunch and brought the bath back home to use again the next day. My sandwiches were either bologna(大腊肠)or tuna fish. It rarely varied beyond that.

You can understand my delight when I had the opportunity to buy a hot lunch.

When we finished lunch that day, Mrs. Amatuli took me aside and said she wanted to explain why she had bought my sandwich.

Oh, I couldn’t wait to get home and tell my Mama that form now on I wanted tuna fish on Fridays. After my Mama understood why, she gladly fixed tuna fish for me on Friday. She even fixed it on brown bread because she knew Mrs. Amatuli liked brown bread.

From then on every Friday I cold get in line with the rest of the kids for a hot lunch. I didn’t care how many of the ids complained about cafeteria food—it tasted divine to me!

I realize now that Mrs. Amatuli could have fixed herself a tuna sandwich of Friday. But she bought my sandwich because she saw a little girl who was thrilled over the simple act of having a hot lunch.

I will never forget her for her compassion and generosity.

1.Which of the following can best describe Mrs. Amatuli?

      A.Lovely.                B.Strict.                 C.Clever.                D.Kind.

2.The author didn’t buy her lunch at the cafeteria because    .

       A.her lunch was various                          B.her family was very poor

       C.her mother could prepare it at home       D.her teacher gave her a hot lunch

3.After lunch that day, Mrs. Amatuli explained         .

       A.she was Catholic                                 B.Catholic ate meat on Fridays

       C.Catholic ate fish on Fridays                   D.she liked brown bread

4.The underlined word “divine” in Paragraph 8 means      .

      A.delicious              B.bad                     C.typical                 D.hot

5.What might be the best title for the passage?

       A.My grateful mother                              B.My considerate teacher

       C.My boring lunch                                  D.A thrilled student

4、As dangerous as sharks may have seed to people after watching Jaws, which was released on

June 20,1975, the recent disastrous decrease in their numbers show that people have proven far

more dangerous to sharks.

    This disastrous decline is due in large part to commercial fishing of sharks. “The market for

shark fins(鱼翅)in East Asia opened up thanks to changes in their economy, increasing their

ability to spend money on things such as shark fin soup,” Burgess said.

However, the biggest worry for sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays, which are suffering a similar fate, “is how they are killed incidentally when fishermen try and take other fish—the problem of bycatch(渔业混获),” Burgess explained. “They may be thrown back afterward, but they’re still dead.”

The key of the problems behind bringing sharks back is that “they’re not the same as other fish,” Burgess said, “Sharks are slow growing and slow to reach maturity. Sharks are live bearers, which means females keep their young in their body just like us, but instead of nine months, it takes 12 to 18 months or more in sharks. Also, sharks generally can’t give birth again until a year after they’ve given birth—sometimes they’re on a three-year cycle. So once you get a shark population knocked down, this ‘life in the slow lane’ means that recovery is measured in decades rather than years.”

Burgess said, “I’m on the recovery team for it, but the recovery plan for that is over the course of 100 years. So I won’t see them recover, nor will you, nor will your children. That’s what it means when these animals go down—they’re down a long time.”

Any measures aimed at saving sharks must not only consider byeatch, “which is the real killer right now,” but also encourage interactional cooperation, Burgess said.

“Sharks are very migratory, and many species cross borders,” he said. “We can protect them only by getting many government to come aboard. That’s the hardest part about this.”

1.The text mainly tells us       .

       A.shark fins are valuable                          B.sharks are dangerous

       C.by catch brings bad effects                   D.sharks are in danger

2.The number of sharks is decreasing mostly because of      .

       A.the film Jaws                                      B.commercial interests

       C.changes in economy                            D.shark fin soup

3.Bringing sharks back is difficult because      .

       A.they’re like the other fish                      B.their reproductive rate is slow

       C.they can’t give birth again                     D.their life cycle is only 3 years

4.What can be concluded from the last paragraph?

       A.Sharks live the way human beings do.

       B.It’s time many governments cooperate.

       C.Sharks’ migration takes a very long time.

       D.By catch shouldn’t be forbidden by international laws.

5.The test is most probably a        .

       A.newspaper ad                                      B.book review

       C.science news report                             D.science fiction story

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