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Peter always doesn’t know the way. His friends often laugh at him. They say he needs a map to find the bathroom in his own house. In his eyes, every street looks the same, and he doesn’t know which way to go. Sometimes he has to take a taxi home because he can’t remember the way to his house.
Peter watches a lot of films and reads a lot of books about animals. Each bird knows which way is south. Bats (蝙蝠) can fly at night and find their way with their ears. He feels embarrassed (困窘的) because all these animals have a good sense of direction. He tries to find his way with the help of stars in the sky. There is a star called the North Star, and he knows how to find it.
Of course, Peter’s friends are still laughing at him, because he can only see the North Star outside when it is sunny at night. He can’t tell the directions in the daytime or when he is inside or when it is cloudy.
小题1:Sometimes Peter has to take a taxi home because __________.

A．he is tired after shopping

B．he doesn’t know the way home

C．he likes taking the taxi

D．his friends want him to do that

小题2:Bats find the way with their __________.

A．ears

B．mouths

C．noses

D．eyes

小题3:What does the phrase “sense of direction” mean in Chinese?

A．幽默感

B．责任感

C．幸福感

D．方向感

小题4:Peter’s friends still laugh at him because he __________.
① can’t still find his way in the daytime
② can’t still find his way when he is inside
③ can’t still find his way when it is cloudy
④ can see the North Star outside

A．①③

B．①②

C．①②③

D．①②③④

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:C

解析

试题分析：本文叙述了皮特他因为方向感不强，他只能在晴朗的晚上借助北极星来分辨方向，

在白天或者在室内或者阴天的时候他就不能分辨方向了，所以有时他需要坐出租车回家，别人因此而嘲笑他。
小题1:细节理解题。根据Sometimes he has to take a taxi home because he can’t remember the way to his house. 因为他不知道回家的路，所以他就必须坐出租车回家，故选B。
小题2:细节理解题。根据Bats (蝙蝠) can fly at night and find their way with their ears. 蝙蝠在晚上会飞，它是用它的耳朵去听，故选A。
小题3:词义猜测题。根据He tries to find his way with the help of stars in the sky. 可知他没有方向感，故选D。
小题4:细节理解题。根据He can’t tell the directions in the daytime or when he is inside or when it is cloudy.可知他在白天或者在室内或者阴天的时候他就不能分辨方向了，故选C。

举一反三

Teaching English to your family members is a great way to improve your own English. Learning something new together can make you closer to your family members, too.
Here is some advice for you:
Film night: choose an English film with Chinese subtitles字幕. You can stop the film at any time and help your family learn new words and expressions according to subtitles on the screen.
Sports night: you can invite your family members to go skating or swimming. You can teach a few words when you play sports together. For example, “you fell down” or “your skates look cool”.
Novel night: choose a classical English story that your family members may know. You can read it to your family members and tell them about the novel in English
Make an English family tree together: you can teach your family members what each person is called in English, such as “father” and “cousin”. It is a good way to make your family members interested in English.
小题1:you can learn English by ___ according to the passage.

A．listen to the radio

B．teaching English to your family members

C．taking to your English teachers

D．having a party and talking in English

小题2:you can help your family members___ when you watch an English movie

A．listen to English songs

B．review some sentences

C．copy some conversation

D．learn some words

小题3:which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．you can only help your family members learn English at night

B．translating a classical English story can help your family members learn English

C．going skating can help your family members improve their speaking skills

D．an English family tree can your family members interested in English

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I love my Blackberry mobile phone – it’s my little connection to the larger world that can go anywhere with me. I also love my computer, as it holds all of my writing and thoughts. However, I know there are times when I need to move away from these things and truly communicate with others.
I teach a course called History Matters in college. My goals for the class include a deep discussion of historical subjects and ideas. Because I want students to fully study the material and discuss with each other in the classroom, I have a rule – no computers, iPads, phones, etc. When students were told my rule, some of them were not happy.
Most students think my reasons for this rule include negative experiences in the past when students made wrong use of technology. There’s a bit of truth to that. I’ve seldom had students make wrong use of technology in my classes; however, I have been e-mailed by students while they were in other teachers’ classrooms.
Some students think that I am anti-technology. There’s no truth in that at all. As I noted above, I love technology and try to keep up with it.
The real reason why I ask students to leave technology at the door is I think there are very few places in which we can have deep conversations. Interruptions (中断) by technology often break students’ thoughts and make them depend too much on outside information for ideas. I want students to dig deep in themselves for ideas. I want them to push each other to think differently and to make connections between the course material and the class discussion.
I have been teaching my history class in this way for many years and the evaluations (评价) show student satisfaction with the environment that I create. Students realize with deep conversation and difficult tasks, they learn at a deeper level – a level that helps them keep the course material beyond the classroom.
I am not saying that I won’t ever change my mind about technology use in my history class, but until I hear a really good reason for the change, I will continue my plan. A few hours of technology-free dialogue is just too sweet to give up.
小题1:The writer’s rule for his History Matters class is ____.

A．discussing historical ideas deeply

B．studying and discussing the materials

C．leaving technology out of the classroom

D．making right use of technology in class

小题2:The word “negative” in Paragraph 3 means ____.

A．similar

B．unforgettable

C．special

D．unpleasant

小题3:What can we infer from the passage?

A．Students make right use of technology in other teachers’ classes.

B．The classroom is one of the good places to have deep conversations.

C．The writer encourages students to agree with others after discussion.

D．Students are unhappy with the writer’s way of teaching history.

小题4:The writer wants to tell us that ____.

A．technology has different influences in different classes in college

B．technology makes it difficult to have true communication in class

C．history classes can help students to develop their deep thinking

D．it is time for him to give up his teaching method in history class

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Did you know that you can help the environment if you buy recyclable products instead of non-recyclable ones? Look for the recycle s 小题1: —— three arrows that make a circle – on the package. Recyclable products are usually made out of things that already have been u 小题2:. It usually takes less energy to make recycled products than to make new ones. The more energy we save, the b 小题3:.

Imagine that it"s a hot summer day. You put an ice cream on the sidewalk, and it melts. W小题4: does this happen? Well, you probably know that the sun causes the ice cream to melt. But you may not know that the sun produces solar energy. Solar energy is a 小题5: way of saying "energy that comes from the sun." Solar energy can be used to heat homes, buildings, water, a 小题6:__ make electricity. Today, more than 200,000 houses in the United States make use of the s 小题7:energy.
　　Cars are an important part of life for most people. But cars also cause pollution and give out a lot of greenhouse gases into the air. L 小题8:, there are some cars that are better for the environment. These cars can travel longer on a smaller amount of gasoline. They don"t p小题9: much, either. Using these kinds of cars can help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the air.
Many things, l 小题10: computers, TVs, stereos, and VCRs, have special labels on them. The label says "Energy" and has a picture of a star. Products with the ENERGY STAR® label are made to save energy. Buying products with ENERGY STAR® labels will help protect the environment.

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If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them .If you don’t, you may get lost. If you do get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends. Let them find you. You can help them to find you by stay in one place.
There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you. Give them a signal(信号)outing or whistling (吹口哨) three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help.
Keep on shouting or whistling, always three times together. When people hear you, they will give two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.
If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a small room with branches.（树枝）
What should you do if you get hungry or need drinking water? You would have to leave your little branch room to look for something to eat and drink. Don’t just walk far away. Pick up small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back.
The most important thing you need to do when you are lost ---stay in one place.
小题1:When you hear two shouts or whistles, what does that mean?

A．Some animals are coming.

B．Someone is calling for help.

C．People will come to help you

D．Someone is lost.

小题2:What shouldn’t you do, if you get lost in the forest?

A．Walk everywhere to find your friends.

B．Sit down and stay where you are.

C．Make a small room with branches.

D．Try to find something to eat and drink

小题3:Which of the following is wrong according to the passage?

A．You can leave your branch room to find some food.

B．You can’t go anywhere even when you feel thirsty or hungry.

C．You should leave some branches as you walk.

D．Don’t go far away from your room.

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Everyone likes living in a clean and comfortable environment. If the environment(环境) are bad, it will affect our body, and make us not feel well. Sometimes we may be terribly ill. At that time we don’t want to work, and we have to stay in bed and rest at home. So the environment is very important to us.
It’s germs(微生物) that makes us ill. There are germs everywhere, They are very small and you can’t find them with your own eyes, but you can see them with a microscope（显微镜）They are very small and there may be hundreds of them on a very small thing, Germs can always be found in dirty water. When we look at dirty water under the microscope, we shall see them in it. Germs can also be found in air and dust（灰尘）. If you cut your finger, some of the dust from the floor may go into it, and you will have much pain in it. Sometimes the germs will go into all of your bodies, and you will have pain everywhere.
To keep us healthy, we should try our best to make our environment cleaner and tidier. This needs us to work together.
小题1:Germs are________.

A．very small things that you can’t see with your eyes.

B．the things that don’t effect people.

C．the things that you can find with your eyes.

D．the things that are very big.

小题2:How will you feel if germs go into the finger that is cut?

A．I will feel nothing.	B．I won’t mind.
C．I will feel tense.	D．I will feel painful.

小题3:The writer tell us that________.
we like working when we are ill
B. germs can’t live in the water.
C. we can’t feel ill if the environment is bad.
D. we feel well when the environment is good.
小题4:From the passage we know that________.

A．Environment doesn’t affect our life

B．We don’t need to improve our environment

C．Germs may make us ill

D．If the environment is better, germs will be more.

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