阅读理解。 A desert is a very dry land where there is hardly any rain. In the day
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 A desert is a very dry land where there is hardly any rain. In the day, it can be so hot that you could fry an egg on the ground. But during the night it is sometimes so could that water would turn into ice. Many desserts are covered in sand. But some have mountains, rocks, or lakes that have dried up in the heat. The Great American Dessert has cliffs (悬崖) that have been made into amazing and beautiful shapes by the wind. The Sahara Desert in Africa is mostly sand. The Australian Desert has red sand. Sometimes it does not rain for a whole year in the desert. But there is water deep under the ground and some plants have roots that go very deep to find it. Other plants have roots that spread out (延伸) a long way so they can suck up the rain as soon as it falls. | ||||||||||||||
  One desert plant is the cactus, which has long, spreading roots. The cactus stores water inside its hard skin. This skin protects it from heat and cold. | ||||||||||||||
 Camels are a bit like cactus plants! They store water too-inside their bodies. They have special fur which protects them from the sun during the day and keeps them warm at night. Some other animals live in deserts, too. They have to be very good at seeing and hearing because most of them only come out at night. This is why many desert animals have extra big eyes or ears. | ||||||||||||||
 A desert fox has bigger ears than a normal for. A gerbil has huge eye, so that it can see at night. It stays cool in the day by staying underground, like most desert animals. | ||||||||||||||
 Some people live in the desert but they always make their homes near an oasis. An oasis is where water comes from an underground river. Near an oasis, people can grow lots of plants and keep animals. Life is hard in the desert, for people, animals and plants. But desert people like to live there. | ||||||||||||||
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 Do you think that French fries are really French? French fries are called "pommes frites" in France and they are not from France. French fries come from Belgium (比利时) originally. French fries are made of potatoes, and they are cut and fried. The fried potatoes are called French fries because they were fist seen by Americans in Belgium, but they were fried in the French way. The French way is to fry potatoes twice with a small pause in the middle. During World War I, there were a lot of hungry American soldiers in Northern France and Belgium. They ate French fries in Belgium. After the war was over, the soldiers went back home to America. However, they missed French fries so much that they made French fries at home. That"s how French fries were fist introduced to America. French fries were called Belgian fries once, but the name was finally changed to French fries. Sometimes French fries are just called fries. French fries are one of the most popular potato foods in America. American fast food restaurants such as McDonald"s and Burger King have French fries on their menus. French fries are freshly fried, and usually served with hamburgers. If you visit any fast food restaurant in America and order a hamburger, you will probably hear "You want fries with that?" Why don"t you think about the history of French fries a little while, and say "Yes, please. Thank you." | ||||||||||||||
| 1. What are French fries made of? ______________________________ 2. Where do French fries originally come from? ______________________________ 3. Why are the fried potatoes called French fries? ______________________________ 4. Who first introduced French fries to America? ______________________________ 5. What does the underlined "that" in the last paragraph refer to? ______________________________ | ||||||||||||||
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| A green life sometimes just needs a good idea like sharing cars. It"s a new way of thinking. You can use a car but you don"t need to own it. Now the idea of "car sharing" has become 1 in many countries. As we know, most cars 2 in garages for much time. In fact, we drive our own cars 3 one or two hours a day on average (平均). When we don"t use them, we have to pay for parking and 4 things. That costs too much money. To 5 money, some people come up with the idea of "car sharing". If we share a car, we"ll only 6 when we use it. Now many people are starting to do car sharing. In Switzerland, almost 40,000 people have 7 it. Japan is also trying to make 8 popular around the country. Car sharing is the beginning of a new idea in 9 . It is also very convenient for us to travel everywhere 10 buying a car. Do you love to share a car with others? | ||||||||||||||
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