If you want to learn something about birds please read the book“1001 Questions Answered About Birds”. But which chapter or part of the book you’d better read depends on what you are interested in. If you are interested in how many kinds of birds there are, please read The Classification of Birds. If you want to know something about where some kinds exist, where other kinds exist and the spreading out of birds’ existing, do read The Distribution of Birds. Leaving one place for another is called migration. “Internal”refers to the inside while “external”refers to the outside. If you catch a bird and put a mark on it before setting it free, it is bird banding. People make and put boxes in trees for birds to stay in certain woods, which is bird attracting. To protect birds from being harmed is called bird conservation. Stories about unknown secrets are mythology while old and general accepted ways are called tradition. To study how birds get used to their surroundings is to study their adaptability.

  Now you can answer the following questions after reading the Table of Contents of the book “ 1001, Questions Answered About Birds.”

1001 Questions Answered About Birds

The Table Of Contents

Chapter I. The Classification of Birds

Chapter II. The Distribution of Birds

Chapter III. Birds Flight

Chapter IV. The Migration of Birds

Chapter V. The Internal Birds

Chapter VI The Exterior of Birds

Chapter VII. The Senses of Birds

Chapter VIII. The Life Cycle of Birds

Chapter IX. The Size of Birds

Chapter X.  Numbers of Birds

Chapter XI.  Birdbanding

Chapter XII. Birdwatching

Chapter XIII. Attracting Birds to the Garden

Chapter XIV. Bird Conservation

Chapter XV. Birds in Mythology, Tradition and History

Chapter XVI. Adaptability of Birds

Chapter XVII. Birds Books for a Home Library

1. Which chapter of the book is likely to have information on how far birds can fly?

A. Chapter V.  B. Chapter III. C. Chapter XIV. D. Chapter VIII.

2. You are curious about and want to know how far birds can see. Which chapter of the book would you read?

A. Chapter XI. B. Chapter V.  C. Chapter VI.   D. Chapter VII.

3. In which chapter would the author or writer be likely to give you information about the seasonal flight of birds like wild geese (大雁 )?

A. Chapter II. B. Chapter III.  C. Chapter IV.  D. Chapter VIII.

4. Which chapter would you read if you are to write about the courtship and mating or “marrying” of birds ?

A. Chapter XIII. B. Chapter VIII. C. Chapter VII. D. Chapter V

5. If you want to know how birds are endangered or in danger and how they should be protected, which chapter would you refer to ?

A. Chapter XIV. B. Chapter XIII. C. Chapter XV. D. Chapter X.

The run-up to the launch of China's first lunar orbiter at the end of this month has caught the country's imagination, with more than two thirds of the nation hoping to see the launch live on TV, according to a survey.                              

According to the survey by China Youth Daily and www.qq.com, almost the entire nation hopes to catch images of the event at some point, with 99 percent of the 10358 respondents saying they expected to witness the satellite launch and 68.9 percent said they were certain to watch the live broadcast of the launch. On www.qq.com and www.sina.com, two popular web portals in the country, internet users have contributed some 2,000 poems and 5000 drawings on the theme of Chang'e I.

"The satellite launch means much more than just saying 'hello' to the moon. Maybe in the future we could also send some people to accompany sister 'Chang'e'," said a college student in the survey.

Remarkably, many people expect to visit the moon one day, with 93.4 percent of respondents saying they expected to do so.

Chang'e I is named after Chang'e, a famous character from Chinese mythology. She ascended from earth to live on the moon as a celestial being after drinking an elixir.

There is also another connection between the moon and China. In the 1970s, a crater on the moon was named after a Chinese stargazer, Wan Hu, who is said to be the first astronaut in human history.

Legend says about 600 years ago, around the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Wan Hu, a local government official, tried to fly into space with the help of a chair, two big kites and 47 self-made gunpowder-filled rockets. According to the legend after the rockets were lit there was a huge bang and lots of smoke. When the smoke cleared Wan was nowhere to be found.

China's first astronaut flew into space in 2003 with the launch of the Chinese-made spaceship Shenzhou V. China became the third country, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to carry out manned space missions.

Which is true according to the passage?

 A. According to a survey, two thirds of the nation are hoping to see the launch live on TV,

 B. The internet users have drawn some 5000 pictures of ‘Chang’e’.

C. Wan Hu, a Chinese stargazer(n. 看星星的人,占星师,天文学家) , was dead after the huge bang and a lot of smoke.

 D. China’s first astronaut flew into space in 2003 in the spaceship Shenzhou VI.

What’s the meaning of the underlined word in paragraph 5?

A. a kind of medicine for long life. B. a kind of medicine to make you light enough to fly in the air.

C. a kind of wine               D. a kind of alcohol.

Why was Wan Hu said to be the first astronaut in human history?

 A. Because a crater on the moon was named after his name.

 B. Because he was the first to go to the moon in his own “spaceship”.

 C. Because of his courage for scientific experiment to the moon.

 D. Because he made the first rocket in human history. 

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