5、    Sure, human dads can play catch and help with homework, but can they give birth? Daddy sea horses can! This Father’s Day, while you’re showing respect to your dad, remember some of the best dads in the world can also be found in the animal kingdom.

Sea Horses: The "Mr. Moms" of the marine world, male sea horses, carry up to 2,000 fertilized eggs in pouches in their stomachs until they hatch. Even after the babies are born, they stay inside the pouch until they are ready to venture out on their own.

Microhylid Frogs: Buy these dads a "Baby on Board" sign to put on their backs! These froggy fathers from New Guinea play piggyback once their babies hatch from their eggs. One by one, the dad lets as many as 24 froglets climb onto his back for a family road trip. He hops about 50 feet each night, and one by one, his kids jump off along the way to begin new lives of their own.

Darwin's Rheas: Thought your dad was overprotective? Darwin's rhea, also known as South American ostriches（鸵鸟）, are so protective of their children that they routinely rush cowboys on horseback and have even been known to attack small airplanes on the ground if they get too close to their brood!

Marmosets: These little monkeys do everything but Lamaze class（心理助产课）! Dedicated dads assist during labor by biting off the umbilical cord（脐带）and cleaning up the afterbirth. They also let Mom get some R&R（rest & recreation）by taking care of the kids when they're not nursing.

    Sand Grouse: Talk about sponging off Dad! These pigeon-like birds live in areas where water is sparse, so fathers fly as many as 50 miles to get water for their kids. After they soak up the water in their breast feathers, they fly home and let their chicks suckle the moisture from their bodies.

Fathers of the animal kingdom are not that different from our own beloved dads. This Father's Day, when you are honoring your dad, honor animal dads, too, by practicing kindness and compassion toward all animals.

1．The passage is mainly written to         .

      A．introduce to us some unusual animals

       B．distinguish between human and animal dads

       C．raise our awareness of animal protection

       D．praise animal dada for their sacrifices

2．Among these animal dads, which have the ability to fly?

       A．Microhylid Frogs.                                B．Sea Horses.

       C．Darwin’s Rheas.                                  D．Sand Grouses.

3．What these animals have in common is that      .

       A．they carry their young to wherever they please

       B．they’re all devoted to their children

       C．they’re overprotective of their children

       D．they help their wives clean up the afterbirth

4．When Microhylid Frogs play piggyback, they         .

       A．let their kids ride on their back              B．attack cowboys with their back

       C．carry their babies inside a pouch            D．help their wife during the labor

4、About 70 scientists were working on a very busy project. All of them felt really desperate due to the pressure of work and the demands of their boss but everyone was loyal to him and did not think of quitting their job.

One day, one scientist came to his boss and told him, “Sir, I’ve promised to take my children to the exhibition going on in our township so I want to leave at 5:30 p. m.” His boss replied, “OK. You’re permitted to leave the office early today.”

The scientist started working. He continued his work after lunch. As usual, he got involved to such an extent that he looked at his watch only when he \felt he was close to completion. The time was 8:30 p. m. suddenly he remembered his promise to the children. He looked for his boss but he was not there. Having told him in the morning himself, he closed everything and left for home. Deep within himself, hw was feeling guilty for having disappointed his children. He reached home. The children were not there. His wife alone was sitting in the hall and reading magazines. The situation was explosive; any talk would boomerang on him. His wife asked him, “Would you like to have coffee or shall I straight away serve dinner if you are hungry?” The man replied, “If you would like to have coffee, I too will have but what about the children?” His wife replied, “You don’t know? Your boss came here at 5:15 p. m. and has taken them to the exhibition.”

What had really happened was the boss who gave him permission was observing him working seriously at 5:00 p. m. He thought to himself: this person will not leave the work, but he’s promised to take his children to the exhibition. So he took the lead in taking them there. The boss does not have to do it every time. But once it’s done, loyalty is established.

That is why all the scientists at Thumba continued to work under their boss even though the stress was extraordinarily huge. By the way, can you boldly guess who the boss was? He was none other that the mastermind behind India’s successful nuclear weapons program, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former president of India.

1．The scientist asked for an early leave because         .

      A．he felt increasingly desperate about his work

       B．he meant to accompany his wife at dinner

       C．the task at hand was close to completion

       D．he’d promised to take his kids to a show

2．The underlined sentence implies that the scientist thought his wife was         .

       A．dissatisfied with his coming home late

       B．ready to serve dinner for him

       C．grateful to his kind-hearted boss

       D．delighted to see him back home

3．The boss took children to the exhibition       .

       A．when it was too late for the scientist to do so

       B．because the scientist was absorbed in his work

       C．because he also wanted to see what was on show

       D．when the man’s wife asked him to do so

4．All the scientists stayed loyal to their boss        .

       A．out of gratefulness for his thoughtfulness

       B．because he had power over them

       C．to learn how to live under pressure

       D．every time he took the children to the show

3、The amount of time children spend in institutional care（机构式照顾）may affect how their brains develop. That’s the conclusion of a new study carried out by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Medical School and the University of Minnesota. The study is published in Child Development in the journal’s January/ February 2010 issue.

To learn how the lack of care and material needs that institutionalized children often experience affect brain development, the researchers looked at 132 8- and 9-year-olds. Some of them were adopted into U.S. homes after spending at least a year and three quarters of their lives in institutions in Asia, Latin America, Russia and Eastern Europe, and Africa. Others were adopted by the time they were 8 months old into U.S. homes from foster care（寄养）in Asia and Latin America; most of these children had spent no time in institutional care, while some had spent a month or two in institutions prior to foster placement. On average, the internationally adopted children had been living with their families for more than 6 years. These children were compared to a group of American children raised in their birth families.

Children adopted early from foster care didn't differ from children raised in their birth families in the United States. Children adopted from institutional care performed worse than those raised in families on tests measuring visual memory and attention, learning visual information, and impulse （冲动）control. Yet these children performed at developmentally appropriate levels on tests involving sequencing and planning.

The take-home message: Children make tremendous advances in cognitive（认知的） functioning once they reach their adoptive families, but the early impact on their brains' development is difficult to change completely.

"We identified basic learning processes that are affected by early institutionalization," notes Seth Pollak, professor of psychology and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin, who was the study's lead author. "Policies that speed the time in which children can be removed from institutionalized care so they can develop within family contexts should be implemented to decrease the likelihood of learning problems later in children's lives."

1．The passage is mainly written to      .

       A．compare two childcare systems            B．criticize the institutional childcare

       C．present a new research finding              D．introduce the basic learning process

2．Children have their brain development affected in institutional care because       .

       A．they suffer form poor living conditions

       B．they spend too much time learning

       C．they don’t have freedom staying there

       D．they are neither physically nor mentally satisfied

3．Compared with home-raised children, institutionalized children didn’t do as well in tasks like    .

       A．thinking in pictures and self-control

       B．working in teams and self-expression

       C．putting things in order and self-defense

       D．adapting to the environment and self-panning.

4．It can be concluded form the passage that         .

       A．the United States is a good place for children’s all-round development

       B．a perfect family is beneficial to children’s all-round development

       C．children in institutional care can hardly achieve anything great

       D．nothing has been done to help children in institutional care

1、假设你是李华，你的美国朋友杰克在网上收看了今年的春节联欢晚会（Gala）。在给你的邮件中，杰克希望了解更多“春晚”的情况。请根据以下要点，回复一封电子邮件。

要点：

1．“春晚”从1983年开始举办，中国人视为精神大餐（big feast）；

2．节目包括歌舞、相声、小品（sketches）、杂技（acrobatics）……；

3．今年“春晚”你最喜欢的节目。

注意：

1．词数100左右，可根据要点进行适当发挥；

2．电子邮件的开头、结尾已为你写好（不计你所写词数，不得抄入答题卡）。

Dear Jack,

I’m glad to know you’ve watched the CCTV Spring Festival Gala this year and that you’ve

got a very good impression of it.

…

Looking forward to hearing from you again!

Sincerely yours,

Li Hua

28、—Tony, I really appreciate your wonderful performance in the concert．

—_________．

A．I've practiced for ages                             B．Well, it's just so-so

C．No, I don't think so                               D．Thank you very much

27、In       18-minute address to students across America on September 8, 2009, President Obama told American students to make          most of their education．

A．an; the          B．an; a           C．the; the          D．the; a

26、With the price of pork and eggs         quickly, CPI has become a hot phrase among Chinese．

A．climbing         B．climbed          C．to climb         D．climb

25、Without the contributions of Qian Xuesen, the father of Chinese missile, the achievements in space technology       unthinkable in China．

A．would be                                            B．would have been

C．might be                                         D．should have been