In America, when people say “man’s best friend”, they don’t mean another person. Instead, they are talking about a lovely animal—a dog! These words show the friendship between people and animals. Dogs and other pets can give joy to people. Some people think of their pets as their children. Some people even leave all their money to their pets when they die.
Animals can help people, too. Dogs can be taught to be the “eyes” for a blind person or “ears” for a deaf person. Scientists have found that pets help people live longer! They make people happier, too. Because of that, they bring animals into hospitals for “visits”.
Americans hold “Be Kind to Animals Week” in the first week of May. Pet shows are held during the week. Even if you don’t live in America, you can do this too. How? First think about how animals make your life richer. If you have a pet, take more time this week to play with it. Remember to give it delicious food.
If you don’t have a pet, be kind to animals around you. For example, if you see a street dog, just leave it alone, or make friends with it. If others around you do bad things to animals, try to stop it. As animals’ best friends, we must protect them.
1.What do these words “man’s best friend” show according to the passage?
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2.Some people leave all their money to their pets, don’t they?
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3.Why do scientists bring animals to hospitals?
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4.When do Americans hold “Be Kind to Animals Week”?
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5.What will you do if others around you do bad things to animals?
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Armida Scarpa is an English teacher. She believes that stories can be used from the very beginning. She uses a real text of Goldilocks with her class. Her class are a g_1._ of seven-year-old pupils. They are in their second year at school. They are learning to r2.__ in Italian, and have English lessons three times a week. She doesn’t expect the children to learn the d_3._ grammar (语法). But she does want to show them that they can make sense of them. She only asks them to r_4.__ learn the words. This method is to give children an experience of real English and allows the teacher to use almost any story. If the children like the story and if the teacher uses it carefully, the children can u_5.it.
Children are used to living in a world where they do not understand a lot of things. Most children take what we find for them, but they can also notice all the other i_6.__ around them. If we deprive (剥夺) children of every experience except those we want them to master (掌握), then we take away the chance for them to experience this natural growth.
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London is a ______ city. Over six and a half ____ people live there. People call the oldest part of London the city centre. It’s also a financial (金融的) city. _____ half a million people work in the _____. They go to work every day by train or by underground.Of course, lots of people go by car, too.
London has two airports, Heathrow and Gatwick. Heathrow, the larger______, is one of the busiest airports in the world.
There are also many places of ______ in London. Buckingham (白金汉宫) and Westminster Abbey (威斯敏斯特教堂）are two of the favourite ones for tourists. But the most famous building in London is the Tower. All of them make London more beautiful.
1.A. small B. big C. new D. quiet
2.A. million B. thousand C. hundred D. ten
3.A. At last B. At the beginning of C. At least D. At the end of
4.A. banks B. factories C. farms D. offices
5.A. this B. those C. one D. ones
6.A. interesting B. interest C. interests D. interested
Being safe in your everyday life needs knowledge. If you remember the following information, your life will be much safer.
● Always notice the environment around you. You shouldn’t walk alone outside. Make sure where the public phones are. If anything dangerous happens, you can find them easily.
● Don’t use earphones (耳机) when running in the schoolyard (校园) or on the street. You will keep yourself from the outside world and can be surprised.
● Your bag should be carried in front of your body instead of putting it on your back. When a bus is full of people, it is easy enough for a thief to take away the things in the bag on your back.
● If you are followed by someone you don’t know, cross the street and go to the other way, let the person understand that you know he or she is after you. Next, don’t go home right away. You are safer in the street than you are alone in your home.
● If you have to take a bus to a place far away, try to get to the stop a few minutes earlier before the bus leaves. This stops other people from studying you. On the bus, don’t sit alone. Sit behind the driver or with other people. Don’t sleep.
1.You’d better put your bag _________ when there are too many people on a bus.
A. on your back B. on your right
C. in front of you D. behind the driver
2.When you are followed by someone on your way home, you should _________ to make yourself safe.
A. run home
B. find a supermarket and go in
C. turn back and walk to him or her right away
D. cross the street and go to the other way
3.When you take a bus alone, it’s safe for you to _________________.
A. sit behind the driver or with other people, but not to sleep
B. talk with the driver
C. call your friends
D. get off the bus right away
4.Which of the following is NOT safe when you are out?
A. Going home alone late at night.
B. Making sure where the public phones are.
C. Not getting to the bus stop too early.
D. Always noticing the environment around you.
5.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. How to notice the environment around you
B. How to be safe in your everyday life
C. How to cross the street
D. How to use the public phones
Rewrite the sentences as required.（按要求改写下列句子）
1.The manager drove a new car to his company yesterday.(改成否定句)
The manager____________________ a new car to his company yesterday.
2.Little Lucy has learnt to play the piano since she was five years old. (划线部分提问)
________________ has little Lucy learnt to play the piano?
3. Jack has never seen such a huge wild lion. (改为反意疑问句)
Jack has never seen such a huge wild lion, ___________________?
4.I spent thirty minutes cleaning my bedroom yesterday. (保持原句意思)
It me thirty minutes to my bedroom yesterday.
5.letter, to, Tina, already, sister, has, written, a, her (连词成句)
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Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用所给单词的适当形式填空）
1.They bought some fresh ________ at the supermarket yesterday. (potato)
2.There are seven days in a week, and the ________ day is Thursday.(five)
3. Thank you, but I can manage to do it by ______ (I).
4.Thousands of come to visit the famous town every day. (tour)
5.“Turn down the radio, Jim. It’s too _________.” said his grandfather. (noise)
6.Last month we received Peter’s ________ and went to his birthday party happily. (invite)
7.Li Bin looks at his mother ______ because he is going to live in a big flat. (happy)
8.Eating turkeys is a way to celebrate Thanksgiving in Western countries. (tradition)
