When a very young squirrel(松鼠)fell off a tree, he didn’t know that would start a most unusual friendship.

Linda found the squirrel and his sister lying on the ground. They had fallen about 40 feet out of their nest(窝). The sister was dead. The other survived because he landed on his sister. Linda thought their mother, who was found nearby, died from being poisoned. Many people put out mouse poison and squirrels ate it. Linda decided to care for the newly-born squirrel. She named him Finnegan.

But Linda worried that her dog Giselle might hurt Finnegan. “I didn’t know if she wanted the squirrel for breakfast, or if she wanted it as a toy.” However, to her surprise, Giselle liked Finnegan and she took care of Finnegan, too. And they played, ate, and slept together. After a short time, Giselle and Finnegan bonded.

Linda tried to teach Finnegan how to eat nuts, and taught him to find food himself. She said squirrels shouldn’t be kept as pets. When Finnegan was 8 weeks old, Linda started letting him outside. At first, he ran around but would stay in Linda’s yard. Every night, he would scratch(用指甲挠)at the back door or at one of Linda’s windows to be let in. Linda refused. Then one day, he didn’t come back. Two weeks later, he returned with four squirrels, and then disappeared again and returned one more time – on Thanksgiving Day. “He came close, but he wouldn’t let me touch him. He just wanted me to know he was OK. He’s wild, free and happy and doing exactly what he’s supposed to be doing. ”Linda smiled with tears.

1.What does the underlined word “bonded” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A.Met each other.                                    B.Became honest with each other.

                               C.Kept away from each other.                   D.Developed a friendly relationship.

2.According to this passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.Linda had kept Finnegan for about 3 months.

                               B.People didn’t like squirrels and wanted to kill them.

                               C.Finnegan once thought Linda’s house was his own home.

                               D.Finnegan returned to the wild and lived alone.

3.Which diagram can show the structure of the passage?

4.Linda probably felt         when she refused to let Finnegan in.

A.sad but hopeful   B.happy and interested C.afraid and helpless D.excited but lonely

5.Which book is the story most probably from?

A.Jokes and Fun  B.Animal Life      C.Science Weekly       D.Man and Nature

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Environment protection is a concept and also a life style. In September, a series of environmental protection events will be launched in Hangzhou to make the city more beautiful.

  Public Commuter Week

  From 16th to 22nd of Sept. will be the Public Commuter Week in Hangzhou. The government will encourage all citizens to take public commuter transit vehicles. In order to ensure the efficiency of the public buses, the section between Xihu Avenue and Qingchun Lu Road on Yan'an Lu Road will be purposely designated as priority(优先) section for buses and taxies. Meanwhile, other vehicles will be controlled by its plate numbers to run on different dates:

  Plate numbers ending with 1,3,5,7&9 (characterized plate numbers ending with English letters A-M) will be entitled(有…...的资格) to run on 17th, 19th and 21st Sept.

  Plate numbers ending with 2,4,6,8&0 (characterized plate numbers ending with English letters N-Z) will be entitled to run on 16th, 18th and 20th Sept.

The controlled period is from 7am to 7pm every day.

  Carfree Day

  As in France, the Carfree Day for Hangzhou is set on 22nd Sept. All citizens will be encouraged to travel by bicycle, by bus or on foot. The traffic policemen will divide the streets into two regions to ensure the smooth trial of the first Carfree Day in Hangzhou.

  In the controlled region, the traffic policemen and signboards will remind the citizens not to drive the car. In the forbidden regions, no car is allowed to drive by. The controlled period is from 7am to 7pm on 22nd Sept.

Seek for environment protectors around you. Life of environment protection can be a stylish life. In Paris, for example, it is a trend to travel by bicycle. Needless to say, it is a fashionable choice not to drive the car on Carefree Day. We also believe, there are various types for environment protectors as it is coming into our daily life in various ways.

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    Human uses a little less than half the water available worldwide.Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts(干旱)are causing starvation and misfortunes in some areas,and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.Since the world’s population is expected to double in the next 50 years,many experts think we are on the edge of a widespread water crisis(危机).

But              .Water shortages do not have to trouble the world——if we start valuing water more than we have in the past.Just as we began to appreciate oil more after the 1970s oil crises,today we must start looking at water in a fresh economic way.We can no longer afford to consider water an actually free resource of which we can use as much as we like in any way we want.Insteadfor all uses except the demand of the door, governments should price water to reflect its actual valueThis means charging a fee for the water itself as well as for the supply costs.

    Governments should also protect this resource by providing water in more economically and environmentally sound ways.For example,often the cheapest way to provide irrigation water in the dry areas is through small projects.such as gathering rainfall in depressions(凹地)and pumping it to nearby cropland.

    No matter what steps governments take to provide water more efficiently,they must change their institutional(制度上的)and legal approaches to water use.Rather than spread control among hundreds or even thousands of local,and national agencies that watch water use,countries should set up central authorities to carry out water policy.

1.Fill in the following chart with proper words or phrases according to the first paragraph (Please answer within 4 words in each blank.).

2.Fill in the blank in the second paragraph with a proper sentence.(Please answer within 10 words.)

                                                                                

3.Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.

                                                                                

4.Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

  In order to protect water, we should serve water supply in ways of spending little money and doing no harm to the environment.

                                                                              

5.What other effective way(s) can you think of to prevent water crisis?(Please answer within 30 words)

                                                                               

Alfred Korzybski believes that all human beings lead a kind of double life. First, people live in an internal (内在的) world of ideas, feelings, etc. The happenings in this world are patterns of events in the human nervous system . Secondly , people live in a world outside their skins, the external(外在的)world of “reality”. The happenings in this world are patterns of events best known to science.

The first world, the patterns of events inside our skins, Korzybski called the INTEN- SIONAL areA.The second, the patterns of events outside our skins, he called the EXTEN- SIONAL area . Think for a moment about the two worlds in which you live. Look , for example, at the following diagram:

INTENSIONAL PATTERNS           EXTENSIONAL PATTERNS

“cat”                             An object we call “cat”.

The word "cat ".                        A pattern of physical and

The image of this cat.                    chemical events best

Ideas about cats.                        known to science.

Feelings about cats.

Physical tensions aroused

by the cat: the urge to

pick it up, to kick it, etc.

Thinking along these lines , Alfred Korzybski began to see what was wrong with the great number of people: they confused intensional events with extensional “reality”. He believed that too many people mistake the events in their own nervous systems for events in the outside world . When they get lost in a strange city , more often than not they are angry at the map they use. In fact, it’s the maps of words in their heads that are to blame.

1.According to Alfred Korzybski, we human beings live in__________.

    A.the world of ideas

    B.the world of reality

    C.either the world of ideas or that of reality

    D.both the world of ideas and that of reality

2.The INTENSIONAL area in the passage refers to the patterns of events__________.

       A.outside our skins                                  B.best known to science

       C.in the human nervous system          D.in the external world of reality

3.Which of the following belongs to EXTENSIONAL pattern?

       A.A computer on the shelf.               B.A computer is useful.

C.I like the computer.                    D.I want to buy the computer.

4.According to what Alfred Korzybski states in the last paragraph, you get lost because of _  .   

    A.the map you bring with you             B.the maps of words in your head

       C.the reality world before you                  D.the strange city you visit

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