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Have you ever heard anyone say“It’s raining cats and dogs”? It means“It’s raining hard!”
But sometimes cats and dogs do drop from the sky! Here’s how it happens.
Not so long ago, a country far away had many large rats. The people there said,“We need cats!”So cats were sent to them by airplane. But the country had many mountains. It was hard for an airplane to land. So the cats came down by parachute(降落伞). Did the cats like the ride? They didn’t say they didn’t! And today they are still catching rats!
In another country far away, there is snow the year around. People sometimes got lost in it.
“We need big dogs!”the people said.“The dogs could find people lost in the snow. The dogs could help bring them home. Where can we get big dogs?”
A man across the sea had big dogs to sell.“I will send dogs to you.”He said.“I have some very big ones. They can find people lost in the snow.”
He sent the dogs by airplane.
But the airplane didn’t land in the snow. The dogs came down by parachute—you guessed it!
Did the dogs like the ride? They didn’t say they didn’t! And today they are well and happy. They find anyone who gets lost in the snow. Then they help him get home. Good dogs!
Remember it, so you can say,“Yes, it does rain cats and dogs sometimes. They came down by parachute!”
1．The underlined word“it”in Paragraph 2 refers to_________.
A. the weather
B. the saying“It’s raining cats and dogs.”
C. the saying“It’s raining hard.”
D. the fact that real cats and dogs drop from the sky
2．Cats and dogs drop from the sky because_________.
A. there are many mountains in the country
B. it snows the year around in the country
C. it was hard for a plane to land in the two countries
D. coming down by parachute could save money
3．The underlined sentence“They didn’t say they didn’t!”in Paragraph 3 means“_________”.
A. Poor animals B. Good animals
C. Have a nice trip D. Thank you
4．Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
A. Cats and dogs can help people quite a lot.
B.“It rains cats and dogs.”usually means a heavy rain.
C. When the people saw cats drop from the plane, they were pleased.
D. The man across the sea didn’t want his dogs dropped by air.
5．The main purpose of the passage is to_________.
A. tell the readers a famous British saying
B. tell the readers of a new meaning about an old saying
C. show cats and dogs are our good friends
D. show parachutes is an important invention
statesman. He was also the first man to discover electricity. Franklin liked to
study and to learn about new things. One day he heard from a friend that
something black in colour holds the heat better than something white in colour.
Franklin wanted to find out if this was true or not.
There was snow on the ground at the time. So he put two large pieces of
cloth over the snow. One piece of cloth was black in colour, the other piece was
white. Then he waited until the sun began to shine. After several hours he looked
under the pieces of cloth and saw that the snow under the black cloth melted
much faster than the snow under the white cloth. This proved to him that the black
cloth held the heat better than the white cloth.
Soon after this, people began to wear white hats and white clothes during
the summer because they were cooler.
( )1. Benjamin Franklin was only a scientist.
( )2. One day a friend of his told him something about the relation(关系)
between colour and heat.
( )3. Something black in colour holds heat better than something white in
colour.
( )4. This story happened in summer.
( )5. People wear white clothes in summer because they know it is cooler.
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely(模糊地) 1 the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see things again, 2 a disaster can do strange things to people. It happened to me the other day that I might not have come to love 3 as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not sure that I would believe in it so 4 . I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I 5 mean that the loss of 6 made me enjoy more of 7 I have now.
Life asks us to keep making 8 to reality. If a person is able to get ready for anything changeable his world will 9 more meaningful. I became blind, but I was 10 . My parents and my teachers saw 11 in me－a potential(潜力) to live, you might call it－which I didn’t see, and they make me fight it out with blindness.
The hardest 12 I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was what I had to do at least. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would become a chair rocker for the 13 of my life. When I say I believe in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase 14 . That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: A belief that I could deal with anything alone; that somewhere in the 15 there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
1. A. imagine B. find C. remember D. guess
2. A. but B. though C. so D. because
3. A. myself B. life C. eyes D. blindness
4. A. that B. therefore C. happily D. deeply
5. A. seldom B. just C. hardly D. always
6. A. them B. it C. blindness D. light
7. A. that B. what C. which D. where
8. A. moments B. encouragements C. improvements D. changes
9. A. become B. change C. look D. end
10. A. brave B. lucky C. sad D. wise
11. A. something B. everything C. nothing D. anything
12. A. problem B. experience C. difficulty D. lesson
13. A. rest B. whole C. need D. last
14. A. lonely B. alone C. self D. person
15. A. company B. group C. society (社会) D. family
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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely(模糊地) 1 the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see things again, 2 a disaster can do strange things to people. It happened to me the other day that I might not have come to love 3 as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not sure that I would believe in it so 4 . I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I 5 mean that the loss of 6 made me enjoy more of 7 I have now.
Life asks us to keep making 8 to reality. If a person is able to get ready for anything changeable his world will 9 more meaningful. I became blind, but I was 10 . My parents and my teachers saw 11 in me－a potential(潜力) to live, you might call it－which I didn’t see, and they make me fight it out with blindness.
The hardest 12 I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was what I had to do at least. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would become a chair rocker for the 13 of my life. When I say I believe in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase 14 . That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: A belief that I could deal with anything alone; that somewhere in the 15 there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
1. A. imagine B. find C. remember D. guess
2. A. but B. though C. so D. because
3. A. myself B. life C. eyes D. blindness
4. A. that B. therefore C. happily D. deeply
5. A. seldom B. just C. hardly D. always
6. A. them B. it C. blindness D. light
7. A. that B. what C. which D. where
8. A. moments B. encouragements C. improvements D. changes
9. A. become B. change C. look D. end
10. A. brave B. lucky C. sad D. wise
11. A. something B. everything C. nothing D. anything
12. A. problem B. experience C. difficulty D. lesson
13. A. rest B. whole C. need D. last
14. A. lonely B. alone C. self D. person
15. A. company B. group C. society (社会) D. family
With a hat by his feet，a blind boy sat on the steps of a building. He held up a sign which said，" I ' m blind, please help. "
Only a few people put 1 in the hat. A man was walking by. He 2 some coins into the hat. He then turned the sign 3 . wrote some words, put the sign back and left.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people 4 to give money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man came to see 5 things were. The boy recognized his footsteps (脚步声) and asked, "Were you the one who 6 my sign this morning? What did you write?"
The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a 7 way. "What he had written was," Today is a beautiful day, 8 I cannot see it. "
Both the 9 told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply 10 people to help by throwing some money into the 11 . The second one, however, told people that they were able to enjoy the 12 of the day, but the boy couldn't 13 he was blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn 14 this story. First, be thankful for what
you have. Someone else has less. Help them if you can. 15 , be creative. Think differently.
There is always a better way !
1. A．eggs B．coins C．toys D．pencils
2. A．got B．lost C．took D．dropped
3. A．on B．off C．back D．around
4. A．asked B．began C．hoped D．continued
5. A．how B．what C．whose D．which
6. A．put B．found C．changed D．cleaned
7. A．usual B．simple C．different D．dangerous
8. A．as B．so C．for D．but
9. A．signs B．men C．boys D．lessons
10. A．told B．took C．helped D．ordered
11. A．bag B．hat C．pocket D．basket
12. A．food B．songs C．beauty D．pictures
13. A．because B．unless C．before D．though
14. A．about B．with C．from D．except
15. A．First B．Second C．Third D．Fourth
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