The crow（乌鸦） is an ordinary bird. It is black all over. Crows are dirty birds because they live on bad food. Crows eat a lot of waste food. In this way they are more useful to us than any other bird. Crows are always hungry. They look for food all day long and in the evening you can see them in large numbers flying back to their homes in the trees.

Crows are much noisier than other birds. A lot of crows often get together on one house and talk. Sometimes they talk together, and sometimes they do it by turns. It is easy to know if they are happy or angry from crows’ sounds. Perhaps crow talk a lot because they are friendly birds. A couple（夫妇） of crows will live together all their lives, and if one of them dies, the other becomes very sad and quiet for the rest of its life and sometimes dies, too.

1.What colour are crows?

They __________________________________________________________________

2.Why are crows more useful to us than any other bird?

Because ________________________________________________________________

3.Do crows look for food all day and all night?

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4.How do we know crows are happy or not?

From __________________________________________________________________

5.What may happen if one of the couple dies?

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6.Do you like crows? Why or why not?

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Writing（写话）：

Write at least 40 words about the topic “__________ is/ are important”. （以“________很重要”为题，写一篇不少于40个词的短文。标点不占格。）

提示：你可以选择一个自然物（如水、树……）谈你认为它（它们）重要的原因（原因至少写两个）；表达时要注意名词的数。

—Some young people make so much noise by driving cars too fast at night. That drives me mad.

—Such behavior is really annoying and dangerous

A.makes … angry B.makes… sad C.makes … embarrassed

—What did you look for in the library just now?

—The latest works of Yu Hua. I am doing a research on his writing styles.

A.prepare for B.find out C.search for

—Have you watched the film My People, My Country?

—Yes. The touching stories remind us of special moments in history.

A.exciting B.interesting C.moving

—What an unusual gift the girl has!

—Yeah. Almost nobody can recite so many ancient poems at such a young age.

A.present B.talent C.skill

—The little boy drew some sweets from his pocket and gave them to the beggar.

—What a kind boy!

A.put out B.spread out C.took out

—It is my private opinion. You can ask more friends for help.

—Thank you

A.personal B.public C.secret

—Don’t just sit there in silence. Give us your ideas!

—Well, I just want to think carefully before saying something about it.

A.separately B.comfortably C.quietly

—The service of Moon Cinema is second to none in our city.

—I couldn’t agree more. It has the biggest screen and the most comfortable seats.

A.awful B.fantastic C.ordinary