【题目】B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文):

Number sense is not the ability to count. It is the ability to recognize a change in number. Human beings are born with this ability. Surprisingly, ______ 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 notice. However, if you remove two, the bird generally leaves. This means that the bird ______ the difference between two and three.

Another interesting test showed a bird’s ______ number sense. A man was trying to take a photo of a crow that had a nest in a tower, but the crow always left when she saw him coming. The bird did not ______ until the man left the tower. The man had an idea. He took another man with him to the tower. One man left and the other stayed, but they weren’t successful in

fooling the bird. The crow stayed away until the second man left, too. The test was ______ with three men and then with four men. It was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they finally managed to take a photo.

How good is a human’s number sense? It’s not very good. For example, babies about fourteen months old ______ notice if something is taken away from a small group. But when the number goes beyond three or four, the children are often very confused.

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

1A.ideasB.plansC.experimentsD.proverbs

2A.went outB.found outC.looked outD.turned out

3A.forgetfulB.friendlyC.amazingD.silly

4A.escapeB.returnC.flyD.sing

5A.repeatedB.mentionedC.noticedD.produced

6A.neverB.rarelyC.properlyD.usually

【题目】

Every year, thousands of people’s lives are affected by disasters. This week, in News Magazine a disaster survivor, Fiona Jones, tell us her stories.

NW: Fiona, you were in a cyclone(飓风). _______ was that?

FJ: In north Australian, in Normanton. That’s where I live.

NW: What did you do when the cyclone arrived?

FJ: We all stayed inside, in the basement, because that’s the safest place. We could hear the _______ coming closer and closer. The noise was awful. At one point there was a really loud noise. I thought: ‘That’s it! It’s going to destroy the house!’ I was shaking.

NW: And what happened after the cyclone?

FJ: There were terrible floods. More than 360 millimetres of rain came down in just twenty-four hours. The army had to bring food and water to the whole area by plane and helicopter. The _______ thing was that waves from the coast and rivers flooded the land and carried three crocodiles(鳄鱼) to near my house! One of my neighbours hit a crocodile with his car – it was 1.6 metres long.

NW: Really? That’s unbelievable! So is everything back to normal again now?

FJ: Not really. The floods have gone, but they destroyed a lot of homes and farms. It’s going to cost at least 110 million dollars to_________this damage.

NW: So is the weather _______ this bad?

FJ: No, but this summer was very hot. If it stays hot , there will probably be another cyclone.

All the experts say that the extreme temperatures and heavy rain will only _______ because of climate change.

1A.WhatB.WhereC.WhyD.How

2A.planeB.soldiersC.stormD.animals

3A.strangestB.easiestC.most excitingD.most powerful

4A.causeB.sufferC.protectD.repair

5A.exactlyB.usuallyC.actuallyD.especially

6A.dropB.lastC.increaseD.pour

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