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If you visit the animal shelter(收容所)in Saunas, California, you'll see huge signs that have a picture of a dog and a cat on them. These signs are put in front of the shelter to catch people's attention. The signs make people interested in the shelter and encourage them to visit it and maybe even take a cat or a dog into their homes.

Each year, the Salinas shelter accepts thousands of dogs and cats. The animals are either lost ones or are left by people who can't take care of them. Of all the animals, some of them are taken into new homes. Some others are moved to other shelters. And, unluckily, some cannot be saved because they are too sick or are thought to be dangerous.

Animal shelters provide food, medicine, and safe places for animals. But they are not the best homes. The animals stay in small cage(笼子). The people who work at shelters do their best to care for the animals, but the animals do not always get the attention or exercise they need.

To prevent animals from becoming homeless, pet owners should take good care of their pets. Most pet doctors also suggest people make sure their pets have a special surgery(外科手术). It prevents animals from having more babies. And that reduces the number of homeless animals.

1.How many dogs and cats does the Saunas shelter accept every year?

2.Why are the shelters not the best homes for the animals according to the passage?

3.If you find a homeless cat in the street, will you take it home? Why or why not?

Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The program works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are.

The eye-recognition (眼睛识别) program is already being tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Soon this technology will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are.

However, scientists are working on other systems. Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! We already have machines that can tell who you are from your voice or from the mark made by your finger.

Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don’t change as you get older, or get dirty like hands or fingers. And even twins have different eyes, so the program can be up to 94% correct, depending on how good the technology is. Some programs may only be 51%. In Britain, it was found that 91% of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition.

In the future your computer will recognize you in the eye. So smile!

1.What will the program for remembering eyes be used for?

A. Banks and computers. B. Banks and shops.

C. Schools and computers. D. Schools and shops.

2.How does the eye-recognition program work?

A. You look at the machine and type a number.

B. You need to speak and then look.

C. The machine looks at your face.

D. You look at the machine.

3.Which recognition program is already in use?

A. Remembering eyes and smell. B. Remembering fingers or voices.

C. Remembering faces and voices. D. Remembering hands and faces.

4.What problems could there be with the eye-recognition program?

A. Some eyes are the same. B. Eyes can change.

C. It is not always correct. D. Eyes can get dirty.

5.What’s the advantage of using recognition programs in this passage?

A. You needn’t remember a number.

B. You needn’t take money with you.

C. You don’t need to speak.

D. People think they are interesting.

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I was walking down the road one day when my phone rang. voice on the other end spoke to me, “Dad, please come back soon. I miss you so much!” I thought that it was a wrong number. A short while later, the call came once again, so I impolitely, “You’ve called the wrong number!” and then hung up.

During the days, I often got the call. But I didn’t care much about it. Then one day she kept calling me, I didn’t answer. Finally I answered the phone and heard a weak voice, “Dad, please come back. I miss you so much! Dad, I’m in so much ! Mom said you were too busy to take care of me. But, dad, please me again, OK?” It was to refuse(拒绝) the innocent(天真的, 无邪的) ask. I made a kiss on the phone and heard the weak voice say, “Thank you…Dad, I am so…happy, so…happy….”

Shortly after this, I became curious(好奇)about it was on the other end of my phone. So I called back, and a woman answered, “Sorry, sir. I am really sorry to you. My daughter has had bone cancer(骨癌) since she was born. And her father…died in a car two weeks ago. I didn’t want to tell her the news. Poor baby. When she couldn’t the painful chemotherapy(化疗), she would cry for her dad because her dad encouraged(鼓励) her. I really don’t know what to do, so I gave her a random(随意的) phone number…”

“How is your daughter now?” I couldn’t wait to ask.

“She has died. You must have(肯定) her on the phone, because she died with a smile, tightly (紧紧地) holding the cell phone….” Tears full of my eyes….

1. A. A boy’s B. A child’s C. My daughter’s D. My son’s

2.A. spoke B. told C. returned D. answered

3.A. other B. front C. following D. coming

4.A. different B. same C. wrong D. funny

5.A. though (尽管) B. and C. as if(似乎) D. so that

6.A. dangerous B. troubles C. pain D. different

7.A. look after B. kiss C. help D. support

8.A. easy B. sad C. difficult D. happy

9.A. softly B. sweet C. lower D. wisely

10.A. that B. what C. who D. how

11.A. trouble B. ask C. stop D. reach

12.A. Experiment(实验)B. event C. accident D. activity

13.A. receive B. stand (忍受) C. fighting D. faced

14.A. seldom B. sometimes C. never D. always

15.A. kissed B. taught C. shouted D. told

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