题目内容
C______ can lead us to learn more about the new things in the world.
Curiosity
Detectives often look for footprints when they try to solve crimes. Scientists use footprints, too—dinosaur footprints when they try to figure out how dinosaurs lived and moved.
Dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. Today scientists work to solve the mysteries of these ancient animals.
Footprints, or tracks(脚印), are an important way to learn about dinosaurs. Christian Meyer of the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland, calls dinosaur tracks “the closest thing to a movie” of dinosaurs.
“They tell us something about the size of the animal, the way they were walking…they tell us something about their speed,” Meyer said.
Tracks also show that dinosaurs sometimes traveled in groups. Traveling in groups probably helped dinosaurs protect themselves from enemies. Plus, some meat-eating dinosaurs may have hunted in groups, much like wolves do today. Being in a group could help dinosaurs work together to kill large animals.
Dinosaur footprints can be as small as a few inches across, but they can also be as big as a few feet across. Dinosaur footprints have been found throughout the world at over 1,500 sites, including a T. Rex footprint in New Mexico. “Trackways” are groups of footprints.
And scientists aren’t the only ones finding dinosaur tracks—kids can, too! Eleven-year-old Mark Turner and nine-year-old Daniel Helm discovered dinosaur tracks in British Columbia, anada. Soon scientists began studying the tracks.
Scientists and other people interested in studying dinosaurs are working to save the trackways from activities like construction and mining.
The passage mainly tells us that_______.
there were really dinosaurs on the earth millions of years ago
dinosaurs were the most frightening animals in the past
C. dinosaur footprints are important in learning about dinosaurs
why dinosaurs died out millions of years ago
By studying footprints scientists can know the following EXCEPT _______.
A. how big the dinosaur was B. what color the dinosaur was
C. how fast the dinosaur could run D. how the dinosaur walked
By working in groups, some meat-eating dinosaurs_______.
A. made the hunting of large animals easily
B. could travel a long way without being lost
C. could protect themselves from being hunted by wolves
D. could get to a place faster
From the last paragraph we can infer that some human activities like mining_______.
A. are helpful to the study of dinosaurs
B. can help scientists solve many mysteries
C. can lead to the discovery of the footprints
D. can destroy the footprints of the dinosaur
单词拼写（共12小题；每小题0.5分，满分6分）
根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题卷上按题号写出各单词的正确形式（每空限填一词）。
82. I will a______ it if you can come to help me tomorrow because there will be many guests in
my house.
83. After the loss of so many antelopes, the game keepers began to e______ new methods for catching the hunters.
84. The disease a______ millions of people in the world every year.
85. Do not r______ on him to give you a hand because he is just a empty talker.
86. The Monkees was so popular that its fans formed clubs in order to get more f______ with it.
87. The famous “ Oprah Winfrey Show” is b______ live every Friday on CNN.
88. The school informed us that we must g______ at the school gate at 6:30 am the next day for the field trip in the Tian Mu Mountains.
89. My mother would tell me that there were so many s______ people in Africa when I wanted to waste food.
90. There are so many religious b______ all over the world, while I choose to believe in myself.
91. I guess you need to prepare something about your weaknesses and s______ for the job interview next Friday.
92. C______ can lead us to learn more about the new things in the world.
93. She borrowed a lot of money when she was poor, but has been out of d______ since she got rich.
1.The passage mainly tells us that_______.
A. there were really dinosaurs on the earth millions of years ago
B. dinosaurs were the most frightening animals in the past
C. why dinosaurs died out millions of years ago
2.By studying footprints scientists can know the following EXCEPT _______.
3. By working in groups, some meat-eating dinosaurs_______.
4. From the last paragraph we can infer that some human activities like mining_______.
第四部分：写作（共三节，满分31分）
第一节：单词拼写（共12小题；每小题0.5分，满分6分）
