Question

In a land of forests, on top of the only mountain in the area lived the last ever group of large, wild dinosaurs.They were caught inside a crater (火山口 ). For thousands and thousands of years they had gone through all the changes on Earth, and now, led by the great Ferocitaurus, they were planning to come out of their hiding(躲藏)place and to rule the world once more.

Ferocitaurus was the leader of the dinosaurs who had decided they had been far from the rest of the world for too long. So, over the next few years, the dinosaurs worked together to damage the walls of the great crater. When the work was done,all the dinosaurs felt excited and were readyto rule the world.

 when they had been away from their home for thousand and thousands of years, they found evcrvlhin^ was new to them. However, for days, the dinosaurs went on. Finally, from the top of some mountains, they saw a small town.The houses arul people seemed so small.

However, as they wen I ticar thai little h?wn . llir houst^s were getting bigger and bigger.when the dinosaurs finally ar?rived ,they found the houses were much bigger than themselves。A boy who was passing by said , " daddy、 ! Daddy ！ I've found some tiny dinosaurs ！ Can I keep them?

And such is life.Ifs always changing.The dinosaurs en?ded up as pets for the village (，liildren.Thr dinosauis learned thai nothing lasts forever (永远).You musl always be ready to change.

41. The dinosaurs had lived in the crater for long because_•

liked living there B.they were very foolish (].lhey were caught inside it I).they didn'l like human beings

42. The dinosaurs left the crater to_•

A. look for food

B. rule the world

C. h'arn morr al)out the world

D.make friciuls with human beings

43-Perhaps the underlined word" damage means_.

A. build B • blow C. protect I). break

44. To I he dinosaurs" surpris,the world_.

A allowed then to rule the world

B.stayed the same

C. ordered them to leave

D. grew quite different

45. The passage mainly tells us that_.

A.dreams can surely come true B.everyone should know themselves well

C. life is always changing

D. one should never leave the things till tomorrow

Answer 1

41. C根据短文第二句，恐龙是被困在了火山口里。

42. B根据短文第一段最后一句可知恐龙从火山口出来是想

再次统治世界。

43. D恐龙要从火山口出来，它们就得先毁坏火山口的墙壁，  故可推知damage的意思为"毁坏"，break也有此意。

44. D 根据第三段第一句中的they  found everything was new to them可知，成千上万年后，世界发生了巨大的变化，这是恐  龙万万没有想到的，故它们对此感到惊讶。

45. C短文蹄一段点出了文章的福，即生活总是在不段的变化。.