Goats are being hired to do the work of people near SanDiego. The fires that occurred in Hillborbough four years ago destroyed thirty homes, most of which have been rebuilt. While people were rebuilding the homes, the grasses and bushes were growing back. The area is now so overgrown in bushes that there is again a major danger of fire.

The city council asked for offers to remove the bushes. The lowest bid they received was $50,000-----and that was if the city provided breakfast and lunch for the workers for thr six weeks it would take to clear the overgrown area. The city only wanted to give unlimited coffee and a piece of bread a day for each person. When that offer was rejected, the city asked for help on its website.

A sheepherder（养绵羊的人） in Montanta and a goatherder（养山羊的人） in San Bernardino read about the city’s plight （困境）while surfing the Web on their laptops. They both offered to do the job for $25,000. The council chosed the goatherder because he lived closer. When he was told that the city dump（垃圾场） was overflowing , the gotherder said, “No problem. My goats will eat everything in your dump, except the car engines, of course.” So ,for another $5,000, the city killed two birds with one stone. If all goes well, they will invite the goatherder and his “family” back every three years. The goatherder said that he would probably visit San Diego while his goats were in the dump. “I want to go there by plane, I just hope we don’t crash. My goats will miss me a lot.” He said.

Why did the city council want to remove the bush?

 A. Because the fires in hillborbough destroyed 30 homes.

 B. Because people wanted to build their homes there.

 C. Because the overgrown bushes could cause fires again.

 D.Because two sheeherder offered to do the job.

The goatherder was chosen to do the job because       

 A. He offered to do it for the lower price

 B. It was easier to transport his goat

 C. Goats can do the job better than the job

 D. The city wanted to raise more goats

According to the passage,          

A. the sheepherder offered to do the job for $50.000

B. the lowest bid to remove the bushes was $50,000

C. the sheepherder and the goatherder were both addicted to surfing the Internet.

D. hiring goats to do the job saved the government lots of money.

we can infer from the passage that          

A. the city will remove the bushes in this area regularly

B. the goatherder asked for $50,000 to kill the birds with stones.

C. the goatherder was invited to San Diego to do some sightseeing.

D. the city council was not kind to the people who worked for it.

Goats are being hired to do the work of people near SanDiego. The fires that occurred in Hillborbough four years ago destroyed thirty homes, most of which have been rebuilt. While people were rebuilding the homes, the grasses and bushes were growing back. The area is now so overgrown in bushes that there is again a major danger of fire.
The city council asked for offers to remove the bushes. The lowest bid they received was $50,000-----and that was if the city provided breakfast and lunch for the workers for thr six weeks it would take to clear the overgrown area. The city only wanted to give unlimited coffee and a piece of bread a day for each person. When that offer was rejected, the city asked for help on its website.
A sheepherder（养绵羊的人） in Montanta and a goatherder（养山羊的人） in San Bernardino read about the city’s plight （困境）while surfing the Web on their laptops. They both offered to do the job for $25,000. The council chosed the goatherder because he lived closer. When he was told that the city dump（垃圾场） was overflowing , the gotherder said, “No problem. My goats will eat everything in your dump, except the car engines, of course.” So ,for another $5,000, the city killed two birds with one stone. If all goes well, they will invite the goatherder and his “family” back every three years. The goatherder said that he would probably visit San Diego while his goats were in the dump. “I want to go there by plane, I just hope we don’t crash. My goats will miss me a lot.” He said.
【小题1】Why did the city council want to remove the bush?

A．Because the fires in hillborbough destroyed 30 homes.

B．Because people wanted to build their homes there.

C．Because the overgrown bushes could cause fires again.

D．Because two sheeherder offered to do the job.

【小题2】The goatherder was chosen to do the job because       

A．He offered to do it for the lower price

B．It was easier to transport his goat

C．Goats can do the job better than the job

D．The city wanted to raise more goats

【小题3】According to the passage,          

A．the sheepherder offered to do the job for $50.000

B．the lowest bid to remove the bushes was $50,000

C．the sheepherder and the goatherder were both addicted to surfing the Internet.

D．hiring goats to do the job saved the government lots of money.

【小题4】 we can infer from the passage that          

A．the city will remove the bushes in this area regularly

B．the goatherder asked for $50,000 to kill the birds with stones.

C．the goatherder was invited to San Diego to do some sightseeing.

D．the city council was not kind to the people who worked for it.

“Indeed”George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly,or bug,had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug.When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the Enlish were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to be the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity.Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs and the like.
Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burlar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install(安装) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversations.Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant “to cheat”,and since the 1994s it has been annoying.
We also know the bug as a flaw n a computer program or other design.That meaning dates back to the time of Tomas Edison.In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of stdy and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering′a bug′ in his invented record player.”
【小题1】We learn from Paragraph 1 that         .

A．American had difficulty in learning to use the word “bug”.

B．George Washinton was the first person to call the insect a bug.

C．the word bug was still popularly used in England in the nineteenth century.

D．both the Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the gighteen century.

【小题2】What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph mean？

A．Explanation.

B．Finding.

C．Origin.

D．Fault.

【小题3】The passage is mainly concerned with         .

A．the misunderstanding of thr word bug

B．the deveopment of the word bug

C．the public views of the word bug

D．the special characteristics of the word bug

“Indeed”George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly,or bug,had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug.When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the Enlish were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to be the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity.Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs and the like.

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burlar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install(安装) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversations.Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant “to cheat”,and since the 1994s it has been annoying.

We also know the bug as a flaw n a computer program or other design.That meaning dates back to the time of Tomas Edison.In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of stdy and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering′a bug′ in his invented record player.”

1.We learn from Paragraph 1 that         .

A．American had difficulty in learning to use the word “bug”.

B．George Washinton was the first person to call the insect a bug.

C．the word bug was still popularly used in England in the nineteenth century.

D．both the Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the gighteen century.

2.What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph mean？

A．Explanation.

B．Finding.

C．Origin.

D．Fault.

3.The passage is mainly concerned with         .

A．the misunderstanding of thr word bug

B．the deveopment of the word bug

C．the public views of the word bug

D．the special characteristics of the word bug

 

Goats are being hired to do the work of people near SanDiego. The fires that occurred in Hillborbough four years ago destroyed thirty homes, most of which have been rebuilt. While people were rebuilding the homes, the grasses and bushes were growing back. The area is now so overgrown in bushes that there is again a major danger of fire.

The city council asked for offers to remove the bushes. The lowest bid they received was $50,000-----and that was if the city provided breakfast and lunch for the workers for thr six weeks it would take to clear the overgrown area. The city only wanted to give unlimited coffee and a piece of bread a day for each person. When that offer was rejected, the city asked for help on its website.

A sheepherder（养绵羊的人） in Montanta and a goatherder（养山羊的人） in San Bernardino read about the city’s plight （困境）while surfing the Web on their laptops. They both offered to do the job for $25,000. The council chosed the goatherder because he lived closer. When he was told that the city dump（垃圾场） was overflowing , the gotherder said, “No problem. My goats will eat everything in your dump, except the car engines, of course.” So ,for another $5,000, the city killed two birds with one stone. If all goes well, they will invite the goatherder and his “family” back every three years. The goatherder said that he would probably visit San Diego while his goats were in the dump. “I want to go there by plane, I just hope we don’t crash. My goats will miss me a lot.” He said.

1.Why did the city council want to remove the bush?

 A. Because the fires in hillborbough destroyed 30 homes.

 B. Because people wanted to build their homes there.

 C. Because the overgrown bushes could cause fires again.

 D.Because two sheeherder offered to do the job.

2.The goatherder was chosen to do the job because       

 A. He offered to do it for the lower price

 B. It was easier to transport his goat

 C. Goats can do the job better than the job

 D. The city wanted to raise more goats

3.According to the passage,          

A. the sheepherder offered to do the job for $50.000

B. the lowest bid to remove the bushes was $50,000

C. the sheepherder and the goatherder were both addicted to surfing the Internet.

D. hiring goats to do the job saved the government lots of money.

4. we can infer from the passage that          

A. the city will remove the bushes in this area regularly

B. the goatherder asked for $50,000 to kill the birds with stones.

C. the goatherder was invited to San Diego to do some sightseeing.

D. the city council was not kind to the people who worked for it.