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Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with words, but they talk with sounds. They show their feelings with sounds.
Dolphins travel in a group. We call a group of fish a “school”. They don’t study, but they travel together.
Dolphins are mammals(哺乳动物), not fish, but they swim together in a school. Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information. They tell when they are happy or sad or afraid. They say“welcome”when a dolphin comes back to the school. They talk when they play.
They make a few sounds above water. They make many more sounds under water. People can’t hear these sounds because they are very, very high. Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them.
Sometimes people catch a dolphin for a large aquarium.(An aquarium is a zoo for fish.) People can watch the dolphins in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school in an aquarium. They are sad and lonely.
There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes they save somebody’s life. Dolphin meat is good, but people don’t like to kill them. They say that dolphins bring good luck. Many people believe this.
小题1:A school of dolphins means_____.
A.a zoo for dolphinsB.a show by dolphins
C.a group of dolphinsD.a library of dolphins
小题2: A dolphin feels _____in an aquarium.
A.afraid
B.happy with people watching them
C.lucky
D.sad and lonely
小题3:Which sentence is true?
A.Dolphins talk with words.
B.Dolphins always bring good luck.
C.Dolphins make more sounds above water.
D.Dolphins can’t breathe(呼吸) under the water.
小题4:People can’t hear the dolphins’ sounds because they are         .
A.lowB.highC.softD.quiet
小题5:From the passage we know_____.
A.Dolphins travel together.
B.Dolphins talk with words when they play.
C.Dolphins like to live in aquariums.
D.All people want to catch dolphins and eat them.

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:A
解析

试题分析:这篇短文重点介绍了海豚的生活习性及他们不同于其它动物的特点。它们一般集体活动,是哺乳动物,他们通过声音彼此交谈,也具有人类的情感,并且被人们认为是会带来幸运的动物。
小题1:根据Dolphins travel in a group. We call a group of fish a “school”.描述,可知选C。
小题2:根据倒数第二段Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school in an aquarium. They are sad and lonely.描述,可知选D。
小题3:根据最后一段They say that dolphins bring good luck. 描述,可知选B。
小题4:根据People can’t hear these sounds because they are very, very high. 描述,可知选B。
小题5:根据Dolphins travel in a group.描述,可知他们集体活动。故选A。
点评:本文浅显易懂,各个小题都能在文中找到适当依据。只要认真阅读短文,注意前后联系,就能顺利完成阅读。文章所设试题主要考察细节查找,做题关键是找出原文的根据,认真核查小题和原文的异同。
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试题【Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with words, but they talk with sounds. 】;主要考察你对社会现象类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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In the United States, people like going camping for vacation. They do everything for themselves to relax in the woods instead of staying at a modern hotel or a restaurant. They enjoy themselves far away from the noisy cities for a few days.
What should you prepare if you want to go camping like them? When you are camping, you make all of your own food. Barbeques(烤肉架) are very necessary while camping. You can bring bread, drinks, meat and vegetables to the camp. You’d better bring some wood and a lighter(打火机) to make a fire. Remember to put stones around the fire to make sure it won’t get too big and dangerous. When the fire is ready, you can cook food over it.
Children really like this activity at night. The whole family sit around the fire, eat their favorite food. Certainly they can sing songs and dance together. What a pleasant and exciting moment.
Camping is a fun activity for the family to do. Vacation does not have to mean going to visit a place far away. It could be as simple as setting up a tent in the nearby woods.
小题1:Where do people in the United States like to go camping according to the passage?
A.In big cities.B.In a place of interest.
C.In a modern hotel or a restaurant.D.In the woods.
小题2:What are NOT necessary if you are camping?
A.Sunglasses.B.Barbeques.C.Some wood.D.Tents.
小题3:What does the phrase “make a fire” mean in Chinese?
A.烧烤B.生火C.煮饭D.搭桥
小题4:What should you do while using fire?
A.Put stones around the fire.
B.Cover(盖) the fire with grass.
C.Cook food under the fire.
D.Keep far away from the fire.
小题5:What can we know from the passage?
A.Camping is popular in China.
B.You needn’t prepare the food for yourselves while camping.
C.Children like camping very much at night.
D.We shouldn’t go camping for it’s dangerous.

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If you travel in the city of Kunming, you can’t miss the Kingdom of Little People. It opened in the summer of 2009 in the mountains in Kunming.
There are tiny(微小的) animals, little beautiful cottages (小屋) and small furniture in the park. The big attraction of the park is the performances by little people. Many little people work in the park. Twice a day, they perform for visitors. They sing, dance and give a magic show. People who want to work in the park should be between eighteen and forty years old from any part of the country. And they should be under 130 cm in height.
The creator of the park is a rich businessman. He wants the park to be like a fairyland. And he wants to do something good for dwarfs in China. This theme park has brought together people of unusual stature (身高). They enjoy being part of the community and impressing tourists with (给……深刻印象) their courage and skills.
Are you interested in this fairyland? How about having a visit in the Kingdom of Little People?
小题1:What is the big attraction of the park?
A.It is very huge.B.It is in the mountains.
C.The performances by little people.D.It looks like a fairyland.
小题2:What can we find in the park?
①Some small animals
②Some big animals.
③Some big castles.
④Some giants.
⑤Some small cottages.
⑥. Some small furniture
A.①⑤⑥B.①②⑤C.②③④D.③④⑥
小题3:The underlined word “dwarfs” means “________” in Chinese.
A.残疾人B.智力障碍者C.盲人D.侏儒
小题4:Which of the following is TRUE?
A.You can watch the performance only once a day.
B.A dwarf think of an idea to create the park.
C.Dwarfs have a chance to show their talent in the park.
D.The Kingdom of Little People is a theme park for children.

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Some teenagers think that newspapers are boring and only for adults. But that’s not true. There are many interesting stories in the paper. You just need to make clear what you are looking at. “I spend about half an hour reading newspapers every day,” said 15-year-old Gao Ming from Beijing. “I’m interested in things happening at school. ” School news is just one kind of news story in newspapers. There’s also world news: from international problems to pop stars.
Read the newspaper carefully, we’ll find different types of articles on the pages:
News stories — these stories are about events. Reporters try to show all points of a story to help readers understand what happened. Reporters try to speak to as many people as possible. They also use pictures and numbers to show the readers that the stories are true. The newspaper Teenagers has lots of news stories on the news page and front page. When we read them, we learn more about the facts, not the writers’ ideas.
Opinion writing — opinion writing is usually about something happening right now. But it isn’t just facts. Here writers add their own opinions to the news. Writers pick only the facts that help back up their ideas. They make readers believe that they are telling the truth. This is usually the kind of story that gets people thinking. Go to “Speak Out” on Page Two for an example of opinion writing in Teenagers.
Advertisement — Don’t get happy too early when you read them. Those sweet words and lovely pictures are just ways to get us interested in their products! People have to pay to put advertisements in newspapers!
小题1:The underlined sentence means that the readers ___________.
A.should understand interesting news stories
B.ought to know which kind of things to read
C.need to look at the school news first
D.must know the contents of all the news
小题2:In the writer’s opinion, we’d better be ___________ advertisements in newspapers.
A.interested inB.againstC.worried aboutD.careful of
小题3:This passage mainly discusses how___________.
A.reporters write different kinds of news
B.teenagers get interested in newspapers
C.readers can read newspapers in better ways
D.readers can’t read different news in newspapers

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Many children use the Internet to get useful knowledge and information, and to relax in their free time. But some of them are not using it in a good way. Here are some rules to make sure you are safe and have fun on the Internet.
Make rules for Internet use with your parents. For example, when you can go online, for how long and what activities you can do online.
Don’t give your password to anyone else, and never give out the following information: your real name ,home address, age, school, phone number or other personal information.
Check with your parents before giving out a credit card number.
Never send a photo of yourself to someone in e-mail unless your parents say it’s OK.
Check with your parents before going into a chat room. Different chat rooms have different rules and attract different kinds of people. You and your parents will want to make sure it’s a right place for you.
Never agree to meet someone you met on the Internet without your parent’s permission. Never meet anyone you met online alone.
Always remember that people online may not be who they say they are. Treat everyone online as if they were strangers.
If something you see or read online makes you uncomfortable, leave the site. Tell a parent or a teacher right away.
Treat other people as you’d like to be treated. Never use bad language.
Remember that not everything you read on the Internet is true.
小题1:The writer tells children to_____________.
A.send their own photos to him.
B.make rules for Internet use with parents.
C.believe everything they read on the Internet
D.give out their personal information
小题2:It’s good for children to _______________.
A.give password to others
B.get useful knowledge and information
C.give out a credit card number
D.go into a chat room as they’d like to
小题3:What shouldn’t you do when you are on line?
A.Using bad language.
B.Sending messages and e-mails.
C.Leaving the site if you feel uncomfortable.
D.Treating everyone online as strangers.
小题4:If your parents don’t agree, never________________.
A.read anything on the Internet.
B.have a face-to-face meeting with anyone you met online.
C.relax in your free time
D.treat other people as you’d like to be treated.
小题5:The best title for this passage is “_________________”.
A.How to use computersB.Surfing on the Internet
C.Information on the InternetD.Internet safety rules

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Millvina Dean, Titanic’s last Survivor(幸存者), died on May 31,2009 at a nursing home(疗养院) in Southampton.. She was 97 and had been in poor health for several weeks.
Ms Dean was the youngest among the ship’s 705 survivors. She was only 9 weeks old when the Titanic sank on the night of April 14, 1912. She survived with her mother and her 2-year-old brother. Her father, Bertram Dean, died in the sinking.
Millvina Dean never married. For many years after the sinking,she never spoke of it to people around her. But that changed after September 1, 1985 when the wreck(残骸)of the Titanic was discovered. That set off a wave of interest in the ship, especially after the movie Titanic.“They found the wreck and after that, they found me,” she said.
In the last 20 years of her life, she went to the US, Canada and Europe to take part in events related to the sinking. She said all that she knew of what happened during the sinking was learned from her mother.
She moved to the nursing home because of her falling health. In order to pay the living costs there,she began to sell her Titanic souvenirs(纪念品).
Ms Dean had never seen the movie Titanic. She explains the movie would make her think of what had happened to her father, so she didn’t want to see it.
小题1:Millvina Dean was _______ when the Titanic sank.
A.nine weeks old
B.twelve weeks old
C.two years old
D.twenty years old
小题2:Why did the Deans take the Titanic ?
A.They were going on a holiday
B.They were going to a party in the US
C.We can’t find out the reason from this passage.
D.They were going to visit their grandparents in
小题3:The underlined words “set off” mean ______ in the passage.
A. leave   B. start     C. improve    D record
小题4:Millvina Dean didn’t say anything about the Titanic until _______.
A.she was ill.
B.she was dying
C.the wreck of the Titanic was discovered
D.20 years later
小题5:From the passage above, we can’t infer (猜测) that _________.
A.seven hundred and five people survived in the Titanic sinking
B.Millvina Dean’s father died in the sinking
C.The wreck of the Titanic was found in 1985
D.Ms Dean wanted to see the film Titanic very much

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