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DOGS DRIVE CAR
Auckland, New Zealand
After two months of learning, Monty, and Porter were able to drive an automobile around a racetrack. “We wanted to prove how smart rescue dogs are,” animal behaviorist Mark Vette says. Vette first used voice commands and treats to teach the dogs how to turn a steering wheel and how to change gear(换挡).
The dogs’ ride only accelerated up to 7.5 miles an hour, and trainers could stop the auto using a remote control.
GOLDEN ZEBRA
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Zoe the zebra’s markings are special. The animal has white and golden stripes. Zoe’s appearance resulted from a rare condition called amelanosis(黑色素缺失症). Her body doesn't make enough melanin, the substance in an animal’s skin and hair cells that produces color. “Only 25 other golden zebras are known to exist in the world,”says Ann Goody, who runs the wildlife refuge where Zoe lives. In the wild, life may be difficult for animals with amelanosis because predators(捕猎者) can easily spot them. But Zoe is protected at her refuge.
COCKATOO MAKES TOOLS
Vienna, Austria
When Figaro the cockatoo spots food lying just out of reach from his cage, he builds a tiny wooden tool to sweep the tasty prize in his way.
The bird first revealed his talent when a stone he was playing with rolled out of his cage. The cockatoo couldn’t reach the stone. So he flew away and returned with a small branch, slipping it through the fence to slide the stone toward him.
Wondering if he would do it again, scientists placed a nut exactly where the stone had been. This time, Figaro pulled out a small piece of wood in his cage and dragged the nut toward him.
1.If Zoe the zebra is set free in the wild, she will ________.
A. meet no natural predators
B. not get along with other zebras
C. manage to make enough melanin
D. be easily found for her appearance
2.What’ s special about Figaro the cockatoo?
A. He’ s particular about his food.
B. He’s extremely fond of stones.
C. He’s good at drawing support from outside forces.
D. He can tell the difference between stones and nuts.
3.What is the text mainly about?
A. Amazing animals.
B. Ways to help animals.
C. Animals’ unique talents.
D. Tips on training animals.
假定你是李华，与留学生朋友Bob约好一起去书店，因故不能赴约。请给他写封邮件。
内容包括：
1.表示歉意；
2.说明原因；
3.另约时间。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
The summer holiday is coming. My classmates and I are talking about how to do during the holiday. We can chose between staying at home and take a trip. If we stay at home, it is comfortable but there is no need to spend money. But in that case, we will learn little about world. If we go n a trip abroad, we can broaden you view and gain knowledges we cannot get from books. Some classmates suggest we can go to places of interest nearby. I thought that it is a good idea. It does not cost many, yet we can still learn a lot.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
How to people at your school punished for being late? It might not be as 1. (strictly) as one Sichuan teacher’s idea of making students write the complex character for biang 1,000 times.
Wang Sijun, 2. teaches at a university in Sichuan Province, 3. (inspire) by the biangbiang noodle dish from Shaanxi Province, according to the BBC.
The Chengdu Economic Daily newspaper reported that two unlucky students 4. (receive) the punishment so far.
The first student said she could not continue 5. (write) the word after the 200th time as it become “so tiring.” __6. second instead asked to draw 100 Shaanxi’s famous Terracotta Warriors (兵马俑), 7. (take) more than four hours to do so.
On social media, many Internet 8. (user) praised the professor’s “creative” punishment.
“This sounds 9. an interesting and refreshing punishment,” said Yang Luying, a teacher, on weibo.
Meiweizhu, another weibo user, agreed by saying that the punishment could have been worse: “Imagine if he had made them write out 10. (they) punishment with ink brushes.”
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
As usual, it was always cold during the days. Hibury was cut off from the rest of the world because of heavy snow.
It was a cold January in 1925 in North Alaska. The town was cut off on the 20th of that month, Dr. Welch ________ a sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious(传染的) disease mainly affecting children. The children of Hibury would be ________ if it struck the town. Dr. Welch needed medicine as soon as possible to stop other kids from getting sick. ________, the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage.
How could the medicine get to Hibury? The town’s ________ was already full of ice, so it couldn’t come by ship. Cars and horses couldn’t travel on the ________ roads. Jet airplanes and big trucks didn’t exist yet.
________ January 26, Billy and three other children had died. Twenty more were ________. Hibury’s town officials came up with a(n) ________. They would have the medicine sent by ________ from Anchorage to Nenana. From there, dogeled(狗拉雪橇)drivers—known as “mushers”—would ________ it to Hibury in a relay(接力).
The race began on January 27. The first musher, Shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at Nenana and rode all night. ________ he handed the medicine to the next musher, Shannon’s face was black from the extreme cold.
On January 31, a musher named Seppala had to ________ a frozen body of water called Norton Sound. It was the most ________ part of the journey. Norton Sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning. If that happened, Seppala might fall into the icy water below. He would ________, and so would the sick children of Hibury. But Seppala made it across.
A huge snowstorm hit on February 1. A musher named Kaasen had to brave this storm. At one point huge piles of snow blocked his ________. He had to leave the trail(雪橇痕迹) to get around them. Conditions were so bad that it was impossible for him to ________ the trail again. The only hope was Balto, Kaasen’s lead dog, Balto put his nose to the ground, ________ to find the smell of other dogs that had traveled on the trail. If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Hibury. The minutes passed by. Suddenly, Balto began to ________. He had found the trail.
At 5:30 a.m. on February 2, Kaasen and his dog ________ in Hibury. Within minutes, Dr. Welch had the medicine. He quickly gave it to the sick children. All of them recovered.
Hibury had been ________.
1.A. examinedB. warnedC. interviewedD. cured
2.A. harmlessB. helplessC. fearlessD. careless
3.A. MoreoverB. ThereforeC. OtherwiseD. However
4.A. AirportB. StationC. HarborD. border
5.A. narrowB. snowyC. busyD. dirty
6.A. FromB. OnC. ByD. After
7.A. tiredB. upsetC. paleD. sick
8.A. planB. excuseC. messageD. topic
9.A. airB. railC. seaD. road
10.A. carryB. returnC. mailD. give
11.A. ThoughB. SinceC. WhenD. If
12.A. enterB. moveC. visitD. cross
13.A. shamefulB. boringC. dangerousD. foolish
14.A. escapeB. bleedC. swimD. die
15.A. memoryB. exitC. wayD. destination
16.A. findB. fixC. passD. change
17.A. pretendingB. tryingC. askingD. learning
18.A. runB. leaveC. biteD. play
19.A. gatheredB. stayedC. campedD. arrived
20.A. controlledB. savedC. foundedD. developed
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
With the development of society, the life span of humans has stretched. Both men and women are living longer these days in industrialized countries. 1. In general, they can expect to live six or seven years more than men. One reason for this is biological.
One important biological factor that helps women live longer is the difference in hormones between men and women. 2. Between the ages of about 12 and 50, women produce hormones that are involved in fertility(生育能力). These hormones also have a positive effect on the heart and blood flow. In fact, women are less likely to have high blood pressure or to die from heart attacks.
___3. They help the boy defend itself against some kinds of infections. This means that women generally get sick less often and less seriously than men. The common cold is a good example: women, on average, get fewer colds than men. 4. Scientists are still not exactly sure how genes influence aging, but they believe that they do. Some think that a woman’s body cells have a tendency to age more slowly than a man’s. Others think that a man’s body cells have a tendency to age more quickly. 5.
A. However, women, on average, live longer.
B. The biological factor plays an important part.
C. Women are also helped by their female genes.
D. The female hormones also protect the body in another way.
E. Recent research seems to support both of these possibilities.
F. Therefore, women are more healthy than men and can live a better life.
G. Hormones are chemicals which are produced by the body to control various body functions.
