Tourist Visiting Singapore

A group of 68 Australian tourists are staying at a hotel in Singapore.Today is Thursday.

Their leader put up this notice in the hotel.

Programme for Monday,21 July

morning

afternoon

8:30 a.m.

9:00 a.m.~11:00 a.m.

11:30 a.m.~12:30 p.m.

12:30 P.m.

buses leave hotel

National Museum or Aquarium

Tiger Balm Gardens or Mount Faber

Return to hotel by bus

1:00 p.m.~2:30 a.m.

3:00 p.m.~4:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m.~5:30 p.m.

6:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

1unch at hotel

Jurong Bird Park or Chinese Gardens

Crocodile Farm or East Coast

Park Lagoon return to hotel

dinner

Notes:a)To help us to arrange the buses.please sign up for the above places on the list by this notice.Sign(签名)by 10:00 p.m.on 20th July.

b)The buses will leave on time,so please make sure that you are punctual.

c)The tours are free.

1.Mrs. Johnson wants to go to the National Museum.Then we know that she will Not visit                  .

A.Mount Faber                                           B.the Aquarium

C.the Crocodile farm                                     D.Jurong Bird Park

2.On 21 July,they will leave the hotel room at about                   .

A.8:20 a.m.    B.8:40 a.m.         C.8:55 a.m.        D.9:10 a.m.

3.The last day for showing that a tourist wants to go on the tour is                     .

A.Wednesday          B.Thursday                C.Saturday                D.Sunday

4.Each tourist will pay                  for the tour.

A.$14.                  B.$12.20                 C.$8.80                     D.nothing

5.In note(b),‘punctual’ means                  .

A.happy                  B.very early             C.on time                  D.awake

When people visit Switzerland for the first time,they look with great interest,not only at the mountains but also at a type of clock—a Cuckoo-clock,on sale there.Cuckoo-clocks are very popular with tourists looking for a souvenir.A Cuckoo-clock has a small painted cuckoo that comes out near the top of the clock every half an hour and says,“Cuckoo”.Every hour it comes out and says “Cuckoo” the right number of times.It does not get a sore throat at midnight or mid-day! Children find these clocks wonderful.Adults gradually get annoyed because the cuckoo never misses an hour or a half hour,and this makes a short sleep in an armchair rather difficult.

In Europe,the cuckoo's call is a welcome sign that summer is on the way.This is the time when the mother cuckoo flies round,looking for a nest(巢)to lay one of her eggs.She chooses a nest belonging to another bird which already has eggs.When the nest is left unnoticed for a minute or two,the cuckoo rushes down,lays an egg and hurries off.In this way,she may lay her eggs in as many as four different nests.not one of which has been built by herself.

When a cuckoo egg hatches(孵化),the baby bird is bigger and stronger than the other nestlings.Step by step,it pushes other baby birds and any unhatched eggs out of the nest.In this way,it receives all the food from its foster-parents(养父母)and has a better chance of surviving.

1.When tourists first visit Switzerland,                  .

A.they are impressed by the mountains

B.they do not find the mountains interesting

C.the Cuckoo-clocks are more interesting to them than the mountains are

D.they find neither the mountains nor the clocks interesting

2.Which of the followings is NOT true?

A.Cuckoos often lay eggs in other birds' nests.

B.If it's exactly 12 o'clock now,the cuckoo will say “cuckoo” twelve times.

C.The cuckoo does not say “cuckoo” at midnight and mid-day.

D.The adults don't like the Cuckoo-clocks as much as the children.

3.Tourists like to buy Cuckoo-clocks                .

A.to remind them of a visit

B.because they can tell time exactly

C.to amuse their children

D.because they are cheaper than other clocks

4.Why are Europeans happy to hear the call of the cuckoo?

A.They like to catch and eat this large bird.

B.The bird has a beautiful way of singing.

C.This bird is used to tell the time in Switzerland.

D.It makes them think that warmer weather is coming.

5.What may other birds think when a cuckoo lays an egg in their nest?

A.They push it out of their nest.

B.It seems that they don't know what has happened.

C.They don't like it but cannot do anything about it.

D.They welcome the egg and the young cuckoo.

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Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs.They loved each other and played together so often that they had made a path(小路)through the grass of the field    1    their houses.

One evening Brownie's family noticed that Brownie didn't return home.They went looking for him    2  .Brownie didn't show up the next day,and the next week.

Spotty went to Brownie's house alone.He barked loudly.But Brownie's   3   were too busy to care about him.Finally,one morning Spotty   4    to take “no” for an answer.He followed Ted,Brownie's owner,everywhere he went.He barked,then rushed toward a nearby empty place and back,as if to say.“Follow me!”

Finally,Ted followed the dog across the empty place.The little dog   5   the man to a tree half a mile from the house.There Ted found Brownie alive.one of his legs was crushed(压住)in a trap(老鼠夹).Ted wished he had come   6  .Then Ted noticed that,in a circle around the injured dog,a lot of   7   was left over after lots of meals.

Spotty had been visiting Brownie every day.He had stayed with Brownie to protect him,snuggling(依偎)with him at night to keep him   8   and nuzzling(用鼻子爱抚)him to keep his spirits up.

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