Today more and more people understand the i________ of protecting wild animals.

Hundreds of natural d_______ happen every year, such as earthquakes, typhoons.

根据首字母或汉语提示，写出各单词的正确形式，每空一词。

The Chinese g_______ wants to protect these rare birds.

    The size and shape of your ears show your character more than any other parts of the face. Other parts of the face change shape as we get older, but ears do not change their shape. They only change in size.

    Reading people’s character from their ears is an old science. In very old times people thought that a person with big ears had a good and generous character. They thought that a person with pale (nearly white), small ears was dangerous. They also thought that the shape of the ear showed whether a person was musical or not. Today, too, many people believe that the size and the shape of the ear help you know if a person is musical.

    Ears are all different, and each characteristic has a meaning. Next time when you look at a person, see if his ears are large or small. Look at the lobes( the lowest part of the ear). Are they attached(连着) to the face? Ears that are always red mean a person may easily get angry, or he/she just has high blood pressure(高血压). Ears that are always cold and pale mean a person has a nervous character. And a big inside hole of the ear means a person is musical.

1 In the old times people might ask for help from a person with____________.

A. red ears              B. big ears            C. small ears            D. pale ears

2 The passage is mainly about ___________.

A. the size of our ears                          B. musical ears

C. ears which related to characters         D. our faces and ears

3 From the passage, we know ___________ change shape as we get older.

         A. ears           B. hair              C. eyes            D. teeth

4We can guess Beethoven may have __________________.                          A. pale ears       B. white ears  C. small ears       D. ears with a big inside hole

5 If you are often late for school, you may find the ears of your teacher _________.

    A. get bigger           B. get smaller       C. get colder            D. get redder

    Australia has a lot of lovely animals. You cannot find them anywhere else in the world. The most famous ones are kangaroos and koalas(树袋熊).

 The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia. They have large eyes and ears. They don’t walk, they jump. They use their strong back legs. They can jump at up to 74 kilometers per hour. They can go over nine meters in one jump!

 Kangaroo mothers have pouches(育儿袋) to carry their babies. The babies stay inside to get milk and keep warm.

 Kangaroos are everywhere in Australia. They are on TV, in books and in the shops. The government even wants to put them on passports(护照).

 But do you know that millions of kangaroos are killed every year? There are too many of them.

 There are about 20 to 25 million kangaroos in Australia. That’s more than the number of people in the country!

 Some kangaroos go hungry because there is not enough food to eat. They break into farms for food. Farmers are very angry with them.

 The koala is another famous Australian animal. They look like bears, and have small eyes and big noses. They eat leaves from eucalyptus, where they spend most of their time.

 Koalas have a special smell. They use it to mark their home—“This is my place, you can’t come in!”

Like kangaroos, a koala baby lives in its mother’s pouch.

 But koalas have fewer places to live in. There are about 100,000 koalas in Australia. There is a law to keep them safe.

1  Kangaroos and koalas are the most famous animals in Australia because _______.

A. there are not many of them           B. they can’t live in other countries

C. we can’t see them in any other country except Australia 

D. they are lovely animals

2 Which of the following is WRONG about kangaroos?

A. They can run at up to seventy-eight kilometers per hour.

B. They have large eyes and ears. 

C. Kangaroo mothers have pouches to carry their babies.

D. There are many of them in Australia.

3 Why does the Australian government kill some kangaroos each year?

A. They can make more money.       B. Kangaroos break into farms for food.

C. Kangaroos do not have enough food to eat.

D. There are more kangaroos than people.

4 What do koalas use to mark their home?

A Their footprint.              B. Their sound.

C. Their fur.                   D. Their smell.

5 What is the similarity(相同之处)between a kangaroo and a koala?

A. There are too many of them in Australia. 

B. They keep their babies in the mother’s pouch.

C. They have a special smell. 

D. They can jump very high

While Tom and Mary were on holidays at the seaside, they enjoyed ___1___ the seagulls. They ___2__ a lot about these lovely birds.

They will often come close to you on the beach when they are eating something. If you ____3___ a piece of bread to them, they will soon catch it.

Seagulls swim well, but they don’t often dive ___4___ fish. They are also good at flying ___5___ their large wings. When a seagull is flying, he puts his legs in his body.

Tom often watched them ____6___ close to the ground because he liked the way they ___7__ the air with their wings and brought down their feet before they ___8__ the ground.

Mary liked to see them sliding(滑行) over the ___9__ as they often did, without their ___10___ moving. But she said she didn’t like the noise they made.

1  A. watch          B. to watch        C. watching      D. watched

2  A. Understood      B. learned          C. found         D. thought

3  A. throw        B. take             C. send          D. pull

4  A. of           B. above            C. for           D. into

5  A. with         B. to               C. for           D. of

6  A. to come      B. came            C. come         D.to coming

7  A. help        B. beat               C. put          D. kept

8  A. hit           B. arrived             C. got        D. touched

9  A. Water        B. land               C. sky         D. ground

10 A. eyes         B. feet                C. legs          D. wings

交际英语。根据情景，将A .B C D E 填入文中的横线上

Me, too.

B. Excuse me.

C. And it is too difficult to find a bus or a taxi.

D. Will you please take my car?

E. That’s all right.

 A: ___1__ Why are you looking so worried? What’s wrong?

B: I’ll have to reach the airport before 10:30a.m. But you see, this is a small mountain village here. __2___I don’t know what to do now.

A: Don’t worry, let me help you.___3____.

B: It’s very kind of you. Thank you for your help.

A: _4___ By the way, what’s your name, please?

B: Jack Cooper.

A: Nice to meet you, Mr. Cooper!

B: ____5____.

A: Come on!

1_______2________3________4_______5_______

We found          to sleep.

A. difficult to get             B. it difficult getting

 C. it difficult to get           D. that difficult to get

Don’t worry! The train         at 3:30 pm. There is enough time left.

A. leave      B. leaving          C. leaves           D. Left

Our teacher let Simon        forget        the door.

A. not, to close                    B. not to, to close  

C. not, closing                    D. not to, closing