In the USA, each year, students take part in a kind of competition called the Science Olympiad.

It has a lot of different events. Students go there to show how much they know about the science of music, biology, chemistry and others. My best event is forestry.

The big day had come at last! First,I went to watch the tower building competition. That’s when students build small towers and put heavy things on top of it. They hope they can hold them up. One of my schoolmates was putting things on her tower. She was nervous,and in the end it was too heavy for her tower to hold it—it broke! I felt bad for her.

After lunch, I helped some teammates with their events. One was geography,and the other was history. I don’t know much about those things, so I just watched my teammates do most of the work.

At last, it was time for my favorite event—forestry. The rules were easy. We had to look at more than 40 different kinds of leaves and find out which plants they were from. We also had to answer some questions about the uses of each leaf. I knew almost all of the leaves and could answer most of the questions. I had spent more than a month studying on the Internet to get ready. At the end, it was time for the awards (颁奖).I was nervous,because the forestry awards were last. We won second place in the whole state! A nice man gave me a medal and smiled at me.

根据短文内容,回答下列问题。

1.What is the Science Olympiad ?

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2.Is forestry the author’s (作者的)best event?

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3.Why did the author feel bad for the first event?

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4.Where did the author prepare for his event?

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5.Which prize did the author’s team win,the second or the last?

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When Leonardo DiCaprio stepped onto the stage to accept the Academy Award for Best Actor on February 28, he received a rare standing ovation(鼓掌欢呼).

After five acting nominations and 22 years of disappointed hopes since his first nomination(for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993), the 41-year-old actor finally won his first Oscar for his effort in the film The Revenant, which hit Chinese cinemas on March 18.

DiCaprio’s career took off when he played the romantic lead in Titanic(1997). However, the film also gave him the name “pretty boy”. People pay more attention to his face than his acting.

DiCaprio has been known as one of the pickiest actors in Hollywood. Instead of winning hearts in romantic films, he chose to work with more challenging productions.

For the role of Hugh Glass, an 1820s fur trapper in The Revenant, DiCaprio wore 47 different prosthetics(特效假体), slept in dead animals, and ate a bison liver. For over half the film, he crawled(爬) on the ground. An article in Life Week wrote, “Compared with DiCaprio’s terrible experience in The Revenant, Robinson Crusoe’s seems as easy and comfortable as a vacation.”

His effort was accepted by the Academy. After he has finally earned the US’ top acting award, DiCaprio is now working harder, turning to different challenges.

1.How many acting nominations did Leonardo DiCaprio win?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.

2.In which film did Leonardo DiCaprio win the Oscar for Best Actor?

A. Titanic. B. Robinson Crusoe.

C. The Revenant. D. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The film was first shown in China on February 28, 2016.

B. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the pickiest actors in Hollywood.

C. Leonardo DiCaprio wants to be a supermodel in the near future.

D. Robinson’s experience is more terrible than DiCaprio’s in The Revenant.

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