How does a young dog or cat get to know a new home? The animal uses its nose. Right away it smells its new places. Then it makes wider and wider circles, smelling all the time. Before long it can find its way home very well, even in the dark. It simply follows something it knows well.

Stories happen about animals who found their way across land they had never smelled before. Take the case of Smoky, a small white cat. Smoky had some funny red hair around its right ear. One day Smoky and his owner began a long journey. They were moving from Oklahoma to Tennessee. When they were just eighteen miles from their Oklahoma home, Smoky jumped out of the car. Then he found his way back to the old house. There he wandered around outside for many days. Finally he disappeared.

A year later Smoky meowed at the door of a house in Tennessee. A man opened the door. “Is that you, Smoky?” he said in surprise. At first he couldn’t believe it. Then he saw the red hair around its right ear. It was Smoky!

1.What is the first thing a pet does in a new place?

A. It travels a long way.

B. It smells the new place.

C. It finds its way in the dark

D. It follows something it knows.

2.Put these events in the right order that they happened.

①Smoky got to Tennessee.

②Smoky jumped out of the car.

③Smoky went to his old house.

A.③①② B.①③② C.②③① D.③②①

3.What does the underlined word "wandered" mean in the passage?

A. 游荡 B.思考 C. 搜寻 D. 围绕

4.What is the best title of the passage?

A. A Kind Owner B. A Humorours Cat

C. A Surprising Journey D. An Excellent Memory

Do you know that November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? You can find the NaNoWriMo

Young Writer’s programme at ywp.nanowrimo.org. It is a challenge to write a 50,000-word novel in one month.

The programmebagan in 1999 in San Francisco with only 21 members. Last year, more than 400,000 took up the challenge. The writers can choose what they want to write about. On November 1st, writers visit the website and start to update (更新) their word count. They can communicate with other writers there as well. All the writers have to stop writing on November 30th.

Itis okay if you have never written a book before. The website provides lesson plans and workbooks for beginners. You can use them to improve writing skills in your novel. Then you can start planning what your novel will be about.

Are there any books published from the NaNoWriMoprogramme? Here are a few:

? The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

? Water for Elephants by SaraGruen

? Entrychats by Cecile Duquenne

Are there any young readers who want to join in this programme? If you want, we hope you can write the best novel. If you have not heard of NaNoWriMo, but you have a good story in mind, join us!

1.What can you do in the writing month if you join in the programme?

① We can visit ywp.nanowrimo.org.

②We can update the word count.

③ We can publish the new novel.

④ We can choose what to write about.

A. ①②④ B. ①②③ C. ①③④ D. ②③④

2. According to the passage, Entrychats by Cecile Duquenne _______________.

A. will be published

B. has already come out

C. is the most attractive

D. gets the most attention

3. This passage is most probably written to _____________.

A. encourage more young people to join in the programme

B. invite more famous writers to visit ywp.nanowrimo.org.

C. publish more wonderful books written by young writers

D. encourage more people to communicate with other writers

完形填空

从A、B、C三个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。

One evening a young woman walked on the beach. She to see the footsteps(足迹) she had left in the sand, but they had already been washed away by the water. When she turned to continue her walk, She was surprised to see an old woman by a fire.

She walked up to the old woman and asked,”Where did you come from?I didn’t see you here a minute ago.

answering her question, the old woman said, ”Sit with me, my child. I have something to show you.”

As the young woman sat down beside the fire, the old woman handed her a book. She turned the pages of the book one by one and was to discover they told the story of her whole life, from the early days of to the present. But when she turned to the next page, she found it empty. and the rest of the pages in the book were all empty.

“Does this mean my life ends tonight?” she asked.

“No, my child. It means tonight your life .”

At that time the old woman took the book into her hands and began to tear(撕掉)each of the pages that had words out of the book. She then threw into the fire until all left were empty pages. She handed the book of empty pages to the young woman.

“You see,” she said, “just as the water washed away your footsteps in the sand, your past is forever gone. What you have is here and now. Each moment is the beginning of the rest of your life and you should live it to the fullest, because you won’t live that moment a(an) time. For your future, you are free to shape it as you wish, it has not yet been written.”

1.A. turns B. turned C. is turning

2.A. sitting B. to sit C. sat

3.A. Thanks to B. Instead of C. As for

4.A. tired B. sad C. amazed

5.A. childhood B. adulthood C. old age

6.A. ends B. lives C. begins

7.A. them B. it C. her

8.A. hardly B. lately C. truly

9.A. other B. another C. second

10.A. whether B. because C. then

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