科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年北京市延庆县九年级上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
It is easy for us to tell who our family members are, but do plants recognize(识别) their own family? Some do, scientists say, according to a report by Science News in early 2010.
Guillermo P. Murphy and Susan Dudley are two plant scientists from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. They did a few experiments with Jewelweeds, a kind of flower that grows in wet, shady spots. They found that the flowers seem to know their own flower family. In their experiments, Murphy and Dudley planted jewelweeds in pots with either siblings or strangers.
When jewelweeds were planted in pots with strangers, the plants started to grow more leaves than if they had been planted alone. This response(反应)suggests that plants are competing with strangers for sunlight, since a plant with more leaves can receive more light and make more food. Jewelweeds usually grow in the shade, where sunlight is not enough.
When jewelweed seedlings(幼苗)were planted with siblings, they grew a few more branches than they usually would if they were alone – but they did not start growing lots of extra leaves. This behavior suggests the plants are more likely to share resources, rather than compete.
According to the Science News report, Jewelweeds are not the first plants that plant scientists have studied for family recognition. In 2007, Dudley and her team studied the Great Lakes sea rocket, a plant that grows on the beach – where it may be hard to get fresh water. In that experiment, the scientists found that when sea rockets were planted with siblings, they tolerated each other. But when they were planted with strangers, the sea rockets reacted by working extra hard to grow lots of roots.
Dudley says this just because sea rockets, on the beach, get plenty of sun but struggle for water – so when they’re threatened, they compete for water. Jewelweeds have plenty of water but have to compete for sunshine, so they grow more leaves.
1. What does the underlined word siblings mean?
A．Flowers come from foreign countries.
B．Plants growing in different environments.
C．Flowers planted with lots of strangers.
D．Plants that are the same kind.
2. In the text, the writer mentioned the experiments of Jewelweeds to .
A．make a comparison B．introduce a topic
C．describe a pretty flower D．build a new theory
3. According to the passage, flowers planted alone will .
A．grow more leaves than those planted in groups
B．become taller than those with more branches
C．grow fewer leaves than those planted with strangers
D．become ill easily because they can’t get enough shade
4. What can be the best title for the passage?
A．New Discoveries about Plants
B．How Plants Compete with Each Other
C．Family Recognition among Plants
D．Jewelweeds and the Great Lakes Sea Rockets
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年浙江省桐乡市九年级文理联赛模拟考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Open today’s newspaper. What do you see? Ads! Look through a magazine. More Ads! Turn on TV, still more ads! Everywhere you look, someone has something to tell.Here are some ways ads get us to buy.
Some ads use famous people. Stars are paid to sell a product. Think about it. Do they really know about medicine? Do they know about soft drink? These people may be famous. But they may not know about what they are selling.
Some ads make you think you’re getting the word of an expert. They say, “Doctor said.” A man in a white coat comes on TV. He looks nice. “I use bright and white,” He says. This man looks like a doctor. But he is an actor. He has been paid to sell this product.
Does soap have anything to do with a pretty child? Not much. But ads may show their product with something nice such as the sun, the flowers and so on. Such an ad is about feelings rather than facts.
Ads are full of strong words, and words like “new” and “improved” have power. They can help a produce sell. The soap may be called “Spring Rain”. A car may be called “Tiger”. Strong words work on our feelings.
Some ads make promise. But can they keep them? No.
Some ads use our fear of being too late. “Buy now!” They say, “Selling ends soon.” Check to see if this is true. Don’t hurry. Take time to think.
All ads hope we will buy something, do something, or think in a certain way. Know what ads are doing. Ask questions to yourself. Don’t let their words and pictures fool you.
1.Some stars appear in the ads because_________.
A．they know every product well
B．they are famous
C．they are all experts
D．they all like white coats
2.According to the passage, we know that “Spring Rain” is the name of ______.
A．a kind of soap B．a kind of car
C．a kind of medicine D．a kind flower
3.The writer thinks the words and the pictures in the ads________.
A．tell us a story B．always make us strong
C．sometimes fool us D．keep promises
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012年河南中招考试说明解密预测英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完型填空
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For years I wanted a flower garden. I would spend hours_ _1___ of different things I could plant that would look nice together.
But then we had children, five children! I was too busy _2____ care of them to grow a garden.
Money was always_3____ . When my children were _4____, one of them would want something that cost too much, and I’d get annoyed and say, “ Do you see a money tree outside? Money doesn’t grow on__5___, you know.”
Finally, all five got through college and were off on their own. I started thinking again about having a __6_____.
I wasn’t sure, though. I mean, gardens do cost money.
Then, one spring morning, _7____ Mother’s Day, I was working in my kitchen. __8____, I heard a car come. I looked out of the window and there was a new tree, planted right _9____ the yard.
There was a money tree in my yard! There were dollar bills, one hundred of them, all over that tree.
That was three years ago. My garden is now very pretty, just the way I wanted. I __10___ what my children did for me, and then I get tears in my eyes every time.
1. A. to think B. think C. thought D. thinking
2. A. taking B. to take C. taken D. took
3. A. short B. long C. enough D. large
4. A. few B. a few C. little D. a little
5. A. houses B. trees C. lands D. fields
6. A. tree B. garden C. window D. kitchen
7. A. in B. for C. on D. at
8. A. Luckily B. Unluckily C. Certainly D. Suddenly
9. A. in B. in front of C. behind D. near
10. A. think of B. think about C. think up D. think over
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科目：初中英语 来源：2010年浙江省临海市初二上学期期中考试英语卷 题型：单项填空
I think I’m _____ unhealthy.
A. kind of B. a litter C. kinds of D. pretty very.
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科目：初中英语 来源：2009年北京市初一上学期期末考试英语卷 题型：单项填空
I think I’m _____ unhealthy.
A. kind of B. a litter C. kinds of D. pretty very.
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