The shock of the recent earthquake in Pakistan has brought another shock ： the rise of a small,mysterious island,coming out from the water.
In the aftershock (余震) of the earthquake,people living in Gawadar,near the southwest coast,began to see a strange sight. They looked out into the Arabian Sea and saw a mountain-like shape coming out of the water. ‘‘ I could see this gray,dome-shaped (穹顶形状的) body in the distance,like a giant whale,” Bahram Baloch,a local journalist,told the BB C. “Hundreds of people had gathered to watch it in surprise. ”
When the earthquake happened,the force was so strong that it moved the sea floor,releasing gas. This gas pushed the seabed,mostly rock and sand,upward and out of the water. This is how mud volcanoes (火山) are formed. The island that measures about 20 meters high,30 meters long and 90 meters wide is actually the tip of the mud volcano.
Is it safe? Although people have visited this new island,scientists have found dangerous gas coming from the newly formed island. “Our team found bubbles rising from the surface of the island,which caught fire when a match was lit,” said Mohammad Danish,a scientist,to Universe Today.
These mud volcanoes are not rare. But it's striking because this one has popped up in a populated area,and not far out in the sea. However,it's not expected to last very long. Most of these mud volcanoes are swept back under the sea within one year.
1. After the earthquake,what did people see in the sea?
A. A strange light.
B. A blue whale.
C. A mysterious island.
D. A mountain.
2. When people saw the new island, they felt very.
A. frightened
B. worried
C. surprised
D. interested
3. According to Mohammad Danish, .
A. it is safe to visit mud volcanoes
B. it is a bad time to do research
C. gas from the newly formed island was dangerous
D. some places on the island were on fire
4. From the last paragraph,we learn that mud volcanoes .
A. are good places to visit
B. often appear in the sea
C. exist for years
D. will not be swept away by waves
巴基斯坦西南部地区在发生7. 7级地震后，在瓜德达港 附近海域冒出一座小岛，引起当地居民围观。地震专家普遍 猜测，这座小岛很可能是海底泥火山喷发造成的，应该过一 段时间就会在海浪的冲击下消失。
1. C细节理解题。由第一段的内容可知，地震后人们在海上看见一座神秘的小岛，由此可知答案为C项。
2. C细节理解题。由第二段最后一句“Hundreds of people had gathered to watch it in surprise. ”可知，数百人都吃 惊地跑去看这座小岛，由此可知答案为C项。
3. C细节理解题。由倒数第二段的“…scientists have found dangerous gas coming from the newly formed island. ” 可 知，来自新形成的这个岛上的气体是有害的，由此可知 C项为正确答案。
4. B推理判断题。由最后一段第一句“These mud volcanoes are not rare. ”可知，泥火山并不罕见，由此可推断B项 为正确答案。由倒数第二段可知泥火山很危险，并不 是一个参观的好去处，故排除A项；由最后一段的 “However,it's not expected to last very long. ”可知，泥 火山并不会存在很长时间，故排除C项；由文章最后一 句可知，泥火山会在海浪的冲击下逐渐解体，故D项内 容与文章内容不符。
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Maybe many people in the world can not believe this,but the world's most expensive coffee is pretty terrible. Black Ivory coffee is made from beans which are often eaten and digested (消化) by Thai elephants,and the price of it is at $ 1,100 per kilogram. Isn’t it very funny?
As we all know elephants in Thailand are very good at painting,but we don't know they also make great coffee at all. People can enjoy the rare (稀有 的) Black Ivory at only four resorts (度假村) around the world,and there are three in the Maldives and only one in Thailand. However,people in the special Anantara Resorts come up with an unusual idea of making coffee from elephant-digested beans. Why do they use this way to make the great coffee?
It seems like a very terrible and boring idea,but in fact this idea is correctly right in theory (理论) . According to the research,enzymes (酶类) in the elephant's stomach are able to break down the proteins (蛋白质) in the coffee beans,and because proteins are one of the main ingredients of its bitterness (苦 味) ，less protein means less of the bitterness.
1. make the world's most expensive coffee.
A. The special beans
B. Elephant-digested beans
C. The large animals
D. The nice plants
2. The price of Black Ivory coffee is .
A. low
B. high
C. $1,011 per kilogram
D. $110 per kilogram
3. People can enjoy Black Ivory in resorts in the Maldives.
A. one B. two
C. three D. four
4. The way of making Black Ivory coffee is in theory.
A. right B. terrible
C. boring D. special
5. According to the passage, can break down the proteins in the coffee beans.
A. many modem machines
B. some bitterness
C. people in the special Anantara Resorts
D. enzymes in the elephant's stomach
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A short Chinese man seems to be the tallest in the world right now. Jack Ma ( Ma Yun) is executive chairman (董事局主席) of Alibaba Group,a business-to-business online platform. On Sept 19 ,Alibaba went public on the New York Stock Exchange (纽约证券交易所) ，raising $25 billion through an IPO,the biggest in US history. Ma,a former English teacher,has become the richest man on the Chinese mainland.
Bom in Hangzhou,Zhejiang,Ma grew up as a happy kid. At the age of 12 ,he wanted to learn English. Every morning,he awoke at 5 am,cycled 40 minutes to a hotel near the West Lake where he could chat to foreign tourists. He did it for nine years,rain or shine.
The experience made him a fluent English speaker and also opened his eyes to the wider world. In a 1995 trip to the US,Ma was showed the Internet for the first time. He searched Yahoo using the word “Beer”，and found that there was nothing in there about China. Seeing the chance,Ma returned to China and set up a website called China Pages without even knowing much about computers.
Four years later,18 people including Ma,his wife and his friends founded Alibaba in Hangzhou. He believed in the Internet business potential (潜力) when few other Chinese did. People called him “Crazy Jack Ma”. But 15 years later,Alibaba has developed into the world's largest e-commerce (电子商务) company,owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall. It makes more profit online than Amazon and e-Bay combined.
No one thinks he's mad now. Ma's favorite line has been printed on Alibaba's souvenir T-shirts. It reads： “Everybody should have a dream. What if that dream comes true?”
1. We can tell from the first paragraph that .
A. Alibaba Group is the biggest company in China
B. Alibaba's IPO has raised $25 billion
C. Jack Ma used to be a math teacher
D. Jack Ma is the richest man in the world
2. Why did Ma cycle to a hotel near the West Lake?
A. To do morning exercises.
B. To work as a guide.
C. To chat with foreigners.
D. To work part time.
3. When did Ma and his team found Alibaba?
A. In 1995. B. In 1998.
C. In 1999. D. In 2014.
4. Which is the right order?
a. Ma became the richest man on the Chinese mainland.
b. Ma became executive chairman of Alibaba Group.
c. Ma worked as an English teacher in Hangzhou.
d. Ma set up a website called China Pages.
A. c-b-a-d B. b-c-a-d
C. d-c-b-a D. c-d-b-a
5. The title of the passage can be “ ”.
A. Crazy Jack Ma
B. Alibaba's First IPO
C. The World's Largest E-commerce Company
D. The Internet Business Potential
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There is a fish called the angelfish (神仙鱼), which can change from female to male. No,it cannot do it by simply wishing to I become male. The change happens for a specific reason.
The angelfish live in groups. And each group has one male fish,which is blue in color,and four female fish,which are yellow in color.
The male angelfish is the strongest and largest member of the group. When the male dies,the largest female fish in the group begins to change its looks. She begins to grow larger in size. After a week,she starts changing colors,from yellow to blue. Slowly,she begins looking like a male. Two weeks later,black stripes (条纹) appear on her body. She is now really male.
The angelfish are among the most brightly colored fish of the sea. People prefer to keep them because of the interesting patterns (图案) on them. People like to keep them because of their good look. Often,the young ones are different in color from the old ones. At night their colors may change.
阅读短文，回答下列问题。
1. How many angelfish are there in a group?
2. What color are the female angelfish?
3. What do the angelfish first change when they change from female to male?
4. How long does it take the angelfish to change from female to male?
5. Why do people like to keep the anglefish at home?
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My grandfather had a small farm. He also worked in a factory.
One autumn,he promised to help his neighbor harvest their com,but after harvesting his own com,Grandpa's little com picker broke. In order to keep his job,he had to leave the farm before dawn and didn't get home until after sunset. It now seemed impossible to help out his neighbor.
One night,Grandpa decided that he wouldn’t let his neighbor's harvest rot (腐烂的) in the field. Without a machine,he’d harvest it by hand.
“When do you think you’d have time to do it?” asked my grandma. “Besides,it’d be too dark. ”
“I know of one night that I could do it!” he said. “There's still one more full moon in October. If the weather is clear,I think I can do it. ”
And so a few days later,after a long shift at the factory,my grandpa made his way to the field. The weather was cold but clear,and the moon was glowing. He worked through the night to keep his word.
Sometimes,when I want to put off responsibilities,Fd see my grandfather cutting com in the light of the harvest moon. Behind him,row after row of com stalks (秸秆) stand in respect for a man who keeps his word.
1. It was hard for the writer's grandfather to help his neighbor because .
A. he was too tired to carry on
B. he had too much work to do in his own field
C. his little com picker broke and he was very busy in his job
D. the weather was terrible
2. The underlined part “dawn” in the passage probably means“”.
A. 黎明 B. 正午
C. 傍晚 D. 深夜
3. The writer's grandpa worked in the field .
A. after the sunset
B. with a full moon in the sky
C. with his machine
D. by hand
4. What did the writer learn from the writer's Grandpa's story?
A. A man should keep his word.
B. Few words,many deeds.
C. Time and tide wait for no man.
D. Goals determine what you are going to be.
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Daniel often goes on to social networking websites like Facebook. He found that anonymity is very important for people in his age group. “When you go to post a picture on Facebook,there's a lot of pressure on what you’re talking about,so who you really are is lost,” he told CBS News. Daniel learned programming by himself by using the Internet and reading books. Based on his ideas,he created YouTell and Backchat.
Apart from protecting privacy (隐私) ，his products also brought ‘‘magic and fun ” into people's communication. Take Backchat as an example. The app shows some clues (线索) about who sends the messages. The person getting a message can work as a detective to find out who the sender is. The products are popular among teenagers. The website,which came out in 2012,has had over 3 million users and the app which came out in December has had 125,000 users. The success has helped Singer receive $200,000 of seed funding (种子资金) for his company,which is also named Backchat.
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1. Daniel Singer's dream is to be .
A. an entrepreneur
B. a scientist
C. a teacher
D. a newspaper reporter
2. From the passage,we learn that Backchat is.
A. a website where users can share their secrets
B. a program that allows users to read on the Internet
C. an anonymous mobile messaging app
D. a company that produces mobile phones
3. Which of the following is TRUE about Daniel?
A. He loves computer games.
B. He learned programming at school.C. He opened a company with the help of his family.
D. He created Backchat at an early age.
4. How many users did Backchat have in December?
A. 125,000. B. 200,000.
C. 3 million. D. 201,210.
5. According to the article,Daniel's products .
A. are not popular among teenagers
B. can protect users’ privacy
C. can't be used to post pictures
D. don't give clues about who sends the messages
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1. What does the writer think of starting to collect stamps?
A. Difficult.
B. Interesting.
C. Boring.
D. Expensive.
2. The first way of collecting stamps is .
A. buying stamps
B. cutting out the stamps from envelopes
C. asking your family and friends for stamps
D. making stamps by yourselves
3. The underlined word “catalogue” in the passage probably means“”.
A. 系列
B. 目录
C. 相册
D. 封面
4. According to the last paragraph,there are ways to keep stamps.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. several
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Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or 3 They paint,clean up,4 their houses or do their shopping.
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2. A. voices B. speeches C. songs D. problems
3. A. young B. happy C. old D. hungry
4. A. pollute B. repair C. build D. remove
5. A. brothers B. sisters C. fathers D. mothers
6. A. usually B. never C. only D. seldom
7. A. which B. who C. when D. where
8. A. nearby B. faraway C. abroad D. home
9. A. report B. forget C. remember D. choose
10. A. cause B. bring C. take D. lend
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-Yes,but looks newer.
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