My favorite animals are elephants. Elephants are   1    living animals on land. There are two kinds of elephants--African elephants and    2    elephants. African elephants are larger than Indian elephants, and they have  3  ears.
Elephants have to eat    4     because they are so big. One elephant can eat between 100    5  1,000 pounds     6    grass in a day! They can live for 60--70 years. There are no bones in the back of    7  feet, only fat. Elephants walk on tiptoe. They can move quietly and walk in the mud   8.
Elephants grow tusks. The tusks are large teeth that stick out of ___9__ mouths. Sometimes, hunters kill elephants   10  the tusks. People use the tusks to make beautiful things and piano keys.

Many people like traveling for their holiday. They go to  1  , seaside or forests. Some people like  2  , so they like to visit some old interesting places. In many countries, the travel agency can help you  3  your holiday. You can tell the travel agency what kind of  4  you like, how much  5  you want to spend, and the travel agency will give you a lot of information about where to go, how  6  there, where to stay, and what kind of activities you can do there.  7  the holidays is  8  “Package” holiday.  9  is, you just pay the money, and the travel agency will plan  10  for you, the ticket for the train or plane, the hotel, the activities, and so on.

Stress is the feeling you get when you’re really worried about something. This is the kind of worry that troubles you for hours, or   1  days. It makes you feel blue, scared or angry. You may find it    2  to eat and sleep, or you might eat and sleep much more than usual.
Too much stress is bad for you. Stressing out can lead to serious   3  like heart illnesses. But a moderate (适度的) amount of stress keeps your body and   4  alert (警觉的) and can make your performance better, like when you are doing a presentation to your class or   5  to the finishing line.
But, if you are seriously stressed out, look at these quick and easy ways to   6 . Firstly, you can go for a run, play tennis or ride your bike for a while    7   exercise produces more beta-endorphin(B-内腓) that controls stress. Secondly, having a good   8  is very important. You should try to get at least eight hours of sleep every night. Thirdly, eating a healthy, balanced diet that   9  all the food groups will help. Also, you can talk to the people you trust . Keeping your feelings inside may make the situation 10 while talking to a person you trust may make you feel better. They may be able to give you advice and help you solve your problem.

A thousand years ago Hong Kong was covered by a thick forest. As more and more people came to 1 in Hong Kong, these trees were cut down and burnt. Now there is 2 forest left, though there are still some small areas covered in trees．We call these woods.
Elephants, tigers and many 3 animals were living in the thick forest. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the 4 began to die out. Early farmers grew rice and 5 pigs and chickens in the valleys. They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed 6 to keep themselves warm in winter, to cook their food and to keep away the dangerous animals. Elephants quickly disappeared because there was not enough food for them.  7 did most of the wolves and tigers. Monkeys and many other animals soon 8 in the same way.
You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong 9 in the zoos. But there are still about 36 different animals 10 there. One of the most interesting of Hong Kong's animals is the barking deer.

"Eyes are windows of the soul." Everyone knows the 1  of the eyes.   2  more and more students are becoming near-sighted(近视). So how to protect the eyes is still a serious problem. Here is some advice on 3  protect your eyesight(视力).
You should not keep your eyes 4  for a long time. When reading, you should keep the books about a foot away from you. After reading for an hour 5  two, you 'd better have a   6  by looking into the distance(远处).
You must remember not to read in dark light or in   7 , not to read on a moving bus or in bed. Doing eye exercises will help   8  to protect your eyesight.
In a   9 , to keep   10  eyesight, we must have good studying habits.
【小题1】A. importance  B. experience  C. difference
【小题2】A. So          B. Because     C. But
【小题3】A. what to     B. how to      C. when to
【小题4】A. working     B. walking     C. waking
【小题5】A. and         B. or          C. as
【小题6】A. talk        B. rest        C. by
【小题7】A. the earth   B. the star    C. the sun
【小题8】A. him         B. us          C. you
【小题9】A. word        B. sentence    C. letter
【小题10】A. bad         B. good        C. Weak

Today is fine. The sky is blue, Now it's nine o'clock in the morning. There's a sports meeting in the forest(森林)on the big mountain. Look，a horse, a panda and a cat are running. Over there a dog and two tigers are jumping. Two monkeys are climbing the trees. Four birds are flying around and singing. There are some other animals there, too. The elephants are standing. A monkey is sitting on an old elephant. The monkey has a flag(旗)in his hand. Polly is sitting in the tree. A fox, a baby panda and some small animals are sitting under the tree. They are all watching.
【小题1】—What color is the sky today?—It’s____________.

There are many ways for us to reduce (减少) waste. For example, we can reuse paper and plastic bags. We can also recycle newspapers, glass, and cans (易拉罐)      1    new things. Here are some useful      2     to reduce waste.
Write on both sides of paper
Many people write on only one side of their paper. Why not try using both sides? Some students only use half the pages of their      3    before getting new ones. Try to use up all the paper. People often give cards on birthdays or festivals. How about trying to     4      e-cards (电子贺卡) instead?
Don’t throw away your old batteries (电池)
Maybe you do not know that old batteries make the soil      5     . This is because they have poisonous (有毒的) parts in      6     . So, don’t throw away batteries.     7    them together. Try to use rechargeable (充电的) batteries for your games and CD players.
Give     8    all your unwanted clothes
There are many poor families in China. You may ask your mother to keep your unwanted clothes. Then you can pass them on to those poor children. You will feel happy that you are      9    someone else. Also, you can see       10    your friends or relatives (亲戚) want them before throwing them away.

Are the days  56 in summer or in winter? In China the days  57  longer in summer. There are  58 than sixteen  59 of daylight in the middle  60  summer. In  61 there are only about eight hours of  62.  When is the weather warmest in China? It is the  63 during the summer months. During the winter it is often very 64.  In spring and autumn the weather is usually neither very hot nor very cold. The south has a  65 summer. The north has a cold winter.
【小题1】A. longer   B. longest   C. long
【小题2】 A. is    B. am    C. are
【小题3】A. many   B. much    C. more
【小题4】 A.days   B. hours  C. years
【小题5】 A. of    B. on   C. at
【小题6】A. spring   B. winter   C. summer
【小题7】 A. day   B. light   C. daylight
【小题8】A. warm   B. warmest   C. warmer
【小题9】 A. wet   B. hot    C. cold
【小题10】 A. cold   B. rain    C. hot

The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not ___1__ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced___2___ long after he died.
　　A person riding a bicycle uses ___3___ energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed ____4___, most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel___5____ if they ride to work. It’s because __6___ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___7___ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work ___8___ their cars , and in this way, the situation is made more serious.___9___ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths (开设通道) only for bicycles, and to make ___10___ so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.

Dogs are very popular pets all over the world.  Some people keep dogs because the dogs help them.  These dogs may __21___someone’s house.  They can also help a __22___ man by leading him to places __23__ he needs to go.  Other people keep dogs as pets __24___ they like dogs.  Almost 33 percent of the homes in the USA and England have dogs, and these dogs come in __25____ kinds of shapes and sizes.
By all accounts, the largest dog in the world is a dog named Zorba.  This dog is a mastiff that lives in London, England.  When it was 7 years old in 1989, it was 92.5 centimeters tall.  In __26___ words, it was more than half as tall as an adult man.  Some Great Danes can grow taller than 98 centimeters, but they do not grow as large as Zorba.  At its __27___ ,Zorba weighed more than a heavyweight boxer at 156 kg.
However, the __28__ dog was a Yorkshire terrier from England.  This dog was only the __29__ of a matchbox measuring 5 centimeters tall and, at most, 8 centimeters from nose to __30__.