Monkeys are clever and lively, but they are naughty and greedy (贪婪的) as well. Whenver they find delicious food, they will eat enough.  What’s more, they will take it when they leave. They have suffered (吃亏) a lot because of this. But they never change this way.

In India, people use monkey’s greed to catch them. Do you know how they can catch monkeys? Here are some instructions.

◆               Make a hole in a big pumpkin (南瓜). The hole must be just right     ----neither too big nor too small.

◆               Put some jujubes (枣) in the hole.

◆               Leave the pumpkin under a tree. Make sure there are some monkeys in   the tree.

◆               Hide yourself and watch the monkeys.

As soon you leave, the monkeys can’t wait to come down to the pumpkin. When they find a hole in the pumpkin, they don’t know what’s in it and one of them can't help putting its hand into the hole to find what on earth there is. When it touches the jujubes, it will clench (攥紧) some of them in its hand. As a result, it isn’t able to take its fist (拳) out of the hole. You can’t come close until this time. Will the monkey drop off the pumpkin? Don’t worry. It prefers the pumpkin than its life. It will run with the pumpkin, clenching its fist more tightly. In the end, it is caught helplessly.

1.Monkeys haven’t changed their way of doing with nice food because they are

       .

   A. clever     B. lively     C. greedy    D.naughty

2.“The hole must be just right” means it is     .

   A. big enough for the monkey to put its hand in

   B. smaller than a monkey’s hand

   C. bigger than a monkey’s fist

   D. bigger than a monkey’s hand but smaller than its fist

3.Seeing the hole in the pumpkin, a monkey will     .

   A. be interested in    B. be afraid of   

C. run away at once   D. take the pumpkin away in arms

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

   A. Indians often catch the monkeys in this way.

   B. sometimes monkys are stupid.

   C. as soon as the monkeys comes to the pumpkin, you can rush to catch it.

   D. In India,monkeys like pumpkins every much.

5. What should we learn from the passage?

   A. weshould catch monkeys in this way.

   B. One mustn’t be greedy.

   C. We should protect monkeys.

   D. Come up with another way to catch monkeys.

      People live all around the world. They like to eat many kinds of food. In Japan, people like to eat a lot of fish. Sometimes they do not cook the fish. They eat it raw (生的) and put it in some seaweed. They eat rice, too. In Korea, people like to eat vegetables. They eat vegetables with rice.  In Vietnam, people like to eat beef, vegetables, rice and noodles. They like to put some lime (酸橙汁) on their food. In India, people like to eat fish. They eat their fish with rice. They like to put a lot of red sauce on it. In Morocco, people like to eat pasta. The pasta is so small that it looks like rice. They like to eat it with meat. In Ghana (加纳), people eat a kind of food that is like banana. People like to fry them when they eat them. In Russia, people like to eat pancakes. They like to drink tea, too. In Argentina, people like to eat beef. In Mexico, people like to eat beans. They eat beans in tortillas (玉米粉圆饼). They like to put hot peppers into their food. In the Arctic, people like to eat fish and some foods that they hunt and kill. In the USA, people like to eat pizza at home.

 (   ) 1. How many countries are mentioned (提到) in the passage?

           A. 9.                B. 10.             C. 11.

(   ) 2. In which countries do people like to eat fish?

           A. Japan and India.

           B. Korea and Russia.

           C. Mexico and the USA.

(   ) 3. Beef is popular in_________.

           A. Ghana and Mexico

           B. the Arctic

           C. Vietnam and Argentina

(   ) 4. People in ________ like to eat vegetable with rice.

           A. Korea         B. Vietnam          C. Japan

(   ) 5. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

           A. People in Japan do not like cooked fish.

           B. People in India and Mexico like to eat hot food.

           C. People in the USA like to eat pizza at home.