The panda is one of the animals most in danger. There are about 1,000 pandas living in nature reserves today. Zoos and research centers look after about 160 pandas. Scientists are studying how they live and more baby pandas are born in the zoos.
Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. They mainly live on bamboo, and each panda needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. Pandas don’t have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is becoming very serious.
Our government is working hard to save pandas. There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow better. Then the pandas will have enough food to eat and enough places to live in. Pandas born in the zoos may go back to live in the nature reserves.
Most people love pandas. The panda is one of the best-known animals in the world. It is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature. The WWF works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all animals in danger. There is still a long way to go to save the panda. Think of other animals in danger such as tigers ,whales, turtles and elephant—we need to save the panda, and we need to save them, too.
【小题1】Paragraph 2 is mainly about________.

A.why pandas are in danger
B.why baby pandas often die
C.how to protect all animals
D.how to plant more bamboo
【小题2】The government is trying ________to help the pandas.
A.to build more zoos
B.to send more scientists
C.to make bigger nature reserves
D.to ask the WWF to work in China.
【小题3】________is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature.
A.The tiger B.The pandaC.The elephantD.The whale

When I crossed a small road on my first day in Kolkata, I was surprised because I heard a bell-not a horn (喇叭),  It was a tiny man pulling a rickshaw, He stopped and picked up two children from the front door of their house and pulled them to school. For many people, the rickshaw in Kolkata has many advantages. When the traffic is bad, rickshaws find a way through the traffic. If your miss your bus and there aren't any taxis, you can always find a rickshaw in Kolkata. Rickshaws are from your house to the market and waits for you. Then he loads (装载)all your things, drops you off outside your home and helps you unload, No other type of public transport offers this kind of service.

From June to September, Kolkata gets heavy rain. Sometimes it rains for 48 hours without a break. In some parts of the city, the roads flood (水淹), and anything with an engine(发动机) is useless, But the rickshaw drivers never stop working, even with water all around them.

But not everyone thinks rickshaws are a good thing. The local government want to ban rickshaws. They believe it is wrong for one man to pull another person when there is modern transport in the city. However, there is a problem with this plan. Many of the rickshaw drivers come from the countryside. The only job they can find in Kolkata is pulling a rickshaw, If the city bans rickshaws, these men won't have a job. So for the moment, the people of Kolkata still go by rickshaw.

1.What is the main idea of Paragraph 1?

A.The rickshaw drivers carry things for local people in Kolkata.

B.Parents need rickshaws for taking children to school in Kolkata.

C.Rickshaws can find a way through the bad traffic in Kolkata.

D.Rickshaws are very useful for the people's daily life in Kolkata.

2.Which type of transport may you take when the roads flood in Kolkata?

A.A bus.            B.A taxi.            C.A car.             D.A rickshaw.

3.What does the underlined word "ban" mean?

A.make             B.increase          C.forbid            D.collect

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A.The rickshaws in Kolkata have loud horns.

B.The rickshaw is still a part of public transport in Kolkata.

C.The local government offer many other jobs to the rickshaw driven.

D.The people in Kolkata are supposed to take rickshaws instead of cars.

 

Basketball is still a young game. It's over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors. As they couldn't play outdoors, they were unhappy, and some even got into fights from time to time.

  Some of the teachers, at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play with. It was not easy to invent such a game because it had to be played indoors , and the court (球场) was not very large.

  Dr. Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make a score , the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet(英尺) above the floor on the wall . At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Dr. Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name.

1. How long is it since basketball was invented?

  A. 1000 years                                B. More than 100 years

  C. 1100 years                                 D. Less than 100 years

2. The students felt unhappy because _______.

  A. they had much homework to do

  B. they often got into fights

  C. they couldn't play outdoors 

  D. they had little time to study

3. Who asked Dr. Naismith to invent a game?

  A. Some students                            B. Some teachers

  C. Some students' parents               D. Some of his friends

4. When a student ______ , he makes a score.

  A. receives the ball.                     

  B. throws the ball to another student

  C. runs quickly with the ball in his hand  

  D. throws the ball into the basket

5. Which sentence is right?

  A. Dr. Naismith had to use fruit to throw the ball.

  B. It was easy to invent the game.

  C. The students could go outdoors when the weather was bad.

  D. The ball had to be thrown into the basket five feet above the floor.

 

 

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