27、Years ago, many zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cages(笼子). Small cages made it easy for people to see the animals, but a small cage is not a good place for an animal to live in.

Today zoos keep animals in different kinds of cages. The cages are very big and open. They usually have plants and a little lake. The cages look like the animals' habitats

Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals. They protect animals in the zoo and they protect animals in the wild. How do they do this? Zoos teach people how animals live in the wild. Zoos want people to help protect the animals' wild habitats.

Many plants and animals are going extinct. Mammoths, which are related (有关联的) with Asia elephants, are now extinct. There are no mammoths in the world today, Scientists say that seventy- four different kinds of living things go extinct every day!

Zoos are working together to stop animals from going extinct.

1. Zoos kept animals in small cages so that people can              

A. protect them    B. see them better    C. feed them      D. save them

2. Today, zoos keep animals              

A. in bigger cages    B. in the wild    C. in smaller cages    D. in the field

3. To protect animals, zoos              

A. are trying to keep all kinds of animals   B. are trying to free the animals

C. teach people more about animals       D. want people to feed the animals

4. A mammoth is a kind of_   _ that has gone extinct.

A. plant              B. bird                C. animal           D. tree

5. An animal or a plant that is going extinct __            

A. no longer exists(存在) in the world  B. comes into this world soon

C. becomes very dangerous          D. has fewer and fewer living members

26、Do you know how many boys and girls are not getting education around the world? If you want to find out what’s happening, have a look at the education information in UNICEF’s report, The State of the World’s Children 2006.

Numbers of Primary—school—age Children

not in School(in millions)

1. The form shows us____________.

   A. girls have more chances to go to school than boys in the world

   B. the numbers of boys and girls who are not going to primary school

   C. the numbers of boys and girls in different countries

   D. there are more boys than girls in the world

2. In industrialized counties, ______________.

   A. there’re less children who are not going to primary school than in other countries

   B. every child has the chance to go to school

   C. the number of girls who go to primary school in smaller than that of boys

   D. most children do not get primary education at the right age

3. The total number of girls in the world who are not getting primary education is __________.

   A. 53.7 million   B. 61.7 million  C. 115.4 million    D. 45.4 million

4. ___________ has the largest number of girls who are not in primary school.

   A. Sub—Saharan Africa                B. South Asia

   C. East Asia and Pacific                D. Middle East and North Africa

5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

   A. Developing countries have more children who are not getting primary education.

   B. Children in industrialized countries may have more chances to go to primary school.

   C. The number of boys who are not getting primary education in every part of the world is smaller that that of girls.

   D. The total number of girls who are getting primary education is more than 60 million.

25、Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed . We couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience (耐力).

   Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing . I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing, but as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing. In fact, I hated it at that mountain, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top, can you see all of the nice things, just like in life.”

   At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got knew hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the top of the sky, which was as clear as crystal (水晶).

1. The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was _____for Father and Son.

   A. hard      B. enjoyable       C. painful      D. comfortable

2. The word “quit” in the passage means “______”.

   A. carry on    B. put off      C. give up      D. pick up

3. Which of the following is the closest (最接近的) in meaning to the father’s words in the second paragraph?

   A. You will get all you need at the top of the mountain.

   B. The sky is always as clear as crystal.

   C. You can find life is full of nice things.

   D. Never give up half-way.

4. We can infer (推断) from the last paragraph that ______.

   A. the writer was very successful in his life.

   B. the writer reached the top of the mountain.

   C. thought the writer was young, he could understand his father.

   D. the writer used to stop half-way when he climbed the mountain.

5. The best title (题目) for the passage is “______”.

   A. Reaching the Top of the Mountain      B. Standing at the Top of the Mountain

   C. Conversations between Father and Son  D. How to Get to the Top of the Mountain

24、Now satellites are helping to forecast（预报）the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere（大气）, because this is where the weather forms（形成）. They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists（气象学家）can see the weather of any part of the world. From the pictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change.

Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries receive satellite pictures. When they receive new pictures, the meteorologists compare（比较）them with earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, the meteorologists can say this.

So the weather satellites are a great help to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented, the scientists could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead（提前）.

1. Satellites travel _____________.

   A. in space                                             B. in the atmosphere

   C. above the ground                               D. above space

2. Why do we use the weather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere? Because __________.

   A. the weather satellites can do it easily

   B. clouds form there

   C. the weather forms there

   D. the pictures can forecast the weather

3. Meteorologists forecast the weather __________.

   A. when they have received satellite pictures

   B. after they have compared new satellite pictures with earlier ones

   C. before they received satellite pictures

   D. during they study satellite pictures

4. Maybe we’ll soon be able to forecast the weather for ________.

   A. one day                               B. two days

   C. five days                              D. seven days or even longer

5. The main（主要的）idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in _________.

   A. taking pictures of the atmosphere      B. receiving pictures of the atmosphere

   C. doing other work in many ways        D. weather forecasting

22、--What happened to you this morning?

-- The teacher asked me for my _____ when I was late again.

A. meaning            B. idea           C. excuse                   D. answer

21、The cake ___________ good. I can’t wait to eat it.

A. feels            B. sounds         C. becomes            D. smells

20、The boy ______ a white jacket is waiting at the bus stop.

A. on           B. in               C. of                    D. for