Today, many people use plants from other places to design their yards. Well, do they have any influence on animals living nearby? As we know, plants supply food for things like insects and plant-eating animals. In turn, birds and meat-eating animals feed on these insects and plant-eating animals. It is easy to see how important plants are.
Although foreign plants may look beautiful, they can cause problems when there are too many of them. I live in Virginia, USA, and sometimes see a plant—commonly known as Kudzu—that seems to cover everything in the area, even climbing over whole trees and houses.
Kudzu is an unbelievable plant since it grows very fast. It was first brought to the United States from south-east Asia around the 1870’s as a crop that farmers could grow. However, Kudzu quickly came to be considered harmful throughout the southern United States.
Since Kudzu grows fast in many different environments, it can completely cover areas of land quickly. The plant is also not eaten by any insects or birds in the United States so it can grow unchecked. Kudzu can cover trees, bushes, and even houses. It costs the United States 500 million dollars a year to just keep Kudzu from growing too fast. The plant is a perfect example of what scientists call an invasive (侵略性的) species, which grows more quickly than other native plants.
All foreign plants have the possibility to spread quickly. Not only are they costly, but planting them in gardens actually takes away food from insects. If everyone filled their garden with plants native to where they live, many lovely butterflies and other native creatures would be attracted to their backyards! So, take a look out of your window — how does your garden grow?
1.We can learn from the text that Kudzu in Virginia ________.
A. is very popular
B. is difficult to grow
C. can cause big trouble
D. can make air cleaner
2.Which of the following is TRUE of Kudzu?
A. It served as food at first in America.
B. It came to America in the early 19th century.
C. It grows fast in Asia, but slowly in America.
D. It is often eaten by insects or birds in America.
3.How does the author sound when telling of these foreign plants?
A. Sad.B. Worried.C. Proud.D. Excited.
4.What does the author mainly discuss in the text?
A. Everyone should learn to love nature.
B. It is a hard job to grow plants in yards.
C. Gardening has become a serious hobby.
D. It is important to say no to foreign plants.
Rick Garcia is going to play outside with his friends. He is taking out his reliever inhaler (缓解物吸入器) and taking two puffs (吸). Five minutes later, he’s on the field with his friends, running after a soccer ball. Rick has asthma (哮喘), but he knows how to control it.
Asthma is a lung disease. A person with asthma may cough or suffer from shortness of breath. Asthma can begin at any age. Childhood asthma, often beginning when a child is younger than 10 years old, is one of the most common childhood diseases. Doctors report that the number of young people with asthma is increasing. It is the number one cause of absence from school. If parents have asthma, their children are more likely to develop the disease. Children in homes where an adult smokes are more at risk.
It is important to find out the triggers for asthma. As we know, dust, pollen, or animals often make people suffer from asthma. Once a child learns the triggers, he can help prevent future attacks. About half of all children outgrow asthma and then asthma attacks stop when they are teenagers. However, many people live with the disease into adulthood.
Children often take control drugs once or twice a day to help prevent asthma attacks, if a child begins to have an asthma attack, a quick-relief drug is also necessary. This is often an inhaler. School-aged children usually carry their inhalers with them. This medication works quickly and children begin to breathe more easily in a few minutes. If a child has a serious asthma attack, he may need full-time care at a hospital or a doctor’s office.
1.The story of Rick Garcia is used to ________.
A. show the importance of exercise
B. introduce the topic of the text
C. show the popularity of soccer
D. tell us how to control asthma
2.The underlined word “triggers” in Paragraph 3 probably means ________.
A. risksB. levelsC. possibilitiesD. causes
3.The last paragraph mainly deals with ________.
A. the treatment of asthma
B. the influence of asthma
C. the prevention of asthma
D. some research on asthma
“I would say, no matter what people tell you, anything can happen.” That’s the message Internet singer Austin Mahone says at We Day, an event for young people in Canada.
When he was 14，Austin and a friend began uploading pop songs to musical websites.“I was just doing it because we had nothing to do, living in a small town.”
“I’d check different websites for the hottest songs, and I’d record my own videos,” he explains. “That’s how people began to find me online.”His videos got millions of hits and he signed with a record company. The result was the release of Austin’s first album, Junior Year. While it seems like a sudden rise for the teenager, Austin admits the early days were not always fun. He says a lot of people thought badly of him for posting his videos online. Yet this didn’t put him off.“I kept working hard. ”And the hits on his videos kept coming.
Austin’s achievement and spirit make him a perfect fit for the message of We Day. After all, Free the Children, the creator of the event, was founded to “enable youth to make changes.” Even Austin’s unusual rise by way of the Internet fits with the way Free The children works and raises money.
Because of Austin, his four million followers will learn about Free the Children. While Austin’s presence certainly helps We Day, it’s good for him, too. Austin gets to show himself as someone who volunteers his time and talent for a worthy cause and show that he cares about making the world a better place.
1.Why did Austin put pop songs on musical websites?
A. He was bored with his life there.
B. To attract people’s attention.
C. To help advertise the songs.
D. His friend asked him to do so.
2.What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Austin’s sudden rise.
B. People’s dissatisfaction.
C. The release of Junior Year.
D. Signing with a record company.
3.What Austin did at We Day ________.
A. was a win-win situation
B. set an example for all the singers
C. first made him become known to the public
D. led many young people to be volunteers
假定你是李华，你的美国笔友David来信说自己在学校常和同班同学发生冲突，自己不被别人理解，没有什么朋友，现在感到生活没意思，所以向你寻求建议。请你根据以下提示，用英语给David写一封电子邮件。内容主要包括：
1、表达对David所处现状的看法；
2、给David提供解决冲突的对策；
3、告诉David怎样才能交上朋友。
注意：1、词数100左右，（不包括给出的首尾句）；
2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3、邮件开头和结尾以为你写好。
Dear David，
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Looking forward to your reply!
Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错
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限一词。
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My father is middle school teacher. He is a middle-aged man, so he works like a young man, full of energies. Every evening he is busy correcting his students’ exercises, prepare his lessons and doing some reading. Sometime when I wake up at midnight, I find him still busy on his work. Father puts all his heart and soul into his work. He cares for his students very much. If only his students have any difficulty, he will try his best to help us. When Father is in hospital last year, all his students went to see him. I was deep moved. Such is my father, and I love him very much.
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。
Dogs are 1. very popular pet. Most of them just live with their families. But some dogs have special jobs 2. (do). A group of dogs 3. (know) as “Therapy Dogs.” These dogs are family pets with special training, 4. allows them to go into public buildings and comfort people 5. need. The dogs are trained to be calm and quiet. Loud noises and unfamiliar places don’t frighten them. They enjoy spending time with people.
Some therapy dogs go into places, such as hospitals and nursing homes. When the dogs visit the patients, the patients are cheered up. They have fun 6. (pet) the dogs and look forward to their visits. The dogs help to brighten their day. Therapy dogs can improve people’s health as well. Studies show that when people pet animals, their blood 7. (press) and heart rates go down. 8. (they) mood improves.
Other therapy dogs work in schools and libraries. They serve as 9. (friend) to children, but they also do 10. (much). In one town in California, therapy dogs have become children’s reading buddies. The dogs make a great audience. The children look forward to reading to the dogs, and the dogs love the attention.
