八年级英语时文阅读~week10动物世界~有答案
WEEK 10 动物世界（2）
一、完形填空（共20小题；共35分）
A
When Nigel the African parrot got lost four years ago from
his home in England, he spoke with a British accent(口音). Now, he has 1 but no one knows where he was. What they do know is that he 2 a
lot of time living around Spanish speaking people because now he speaks Spanish!
Nigel returned to his owner, Darren Chick, two weeks ago. Chick was 3 to hear he spoke a new language and often said the name "Larry".
Four years ago, Nigel was 4 by the owners of a pet shop in Torrance, Scotland. "I heard 5 saying, 'Hello Hello'" said Sperling, who owns the shop with her husband, Jonathan. "I opened the 6 and went out
and saw Nigel! She put him in a small cage and brought him to work with her. "We're from Panama and we 7 Spanish," Sperling said.
Sperling and her husband started to look for Nigel's owner. They found
that Nigel was bought from a 8 called Animal Lovers in Torrance. They contacted(联系) the shop and, thanks to old paper records, they were 9 to
find out Chick bought the bird back in 2006.
Sperling soon showed up at Chick's house with the 10 . When the
two were reunited(重聚), Chick could tell that it really was Nigel as soon as he saw him!
1. A. returned B. came C. went D. turned
2. A. took B. cost C. paid D. spent
3. A. surprising B. surprised C. worrying D. worried
4. A. looked B. bought C. found D. sold
5. A. anyone B. no one C. everyone D. someone
6. A. window B. box C. door D. book
7. A. say B. speak C. tell D. talk
8. A. library B. bank C. store D. restaurant
9. A. able B. ready C. sorry D. difficult
10. A. bird B. cat C. dog D. panda
B
Move over! Hit the ball, Fred! Fred, the soccer-playing sheep may be New Zealand's newest star! Fred loves to practice soccer and is good at hitting the ball with his head. He has been returning lost balls to his owners for most of his life. "When he was one year old, I and Sam were playing soccer and we kicked the ball into the paddock(羊圈) by accident. He headbutted the ball through the fence, and then dad threw the ball at him and he kept headbutting it back," said Kyle Mclellan, the son of Fred's owner.
Fred has become popular online since Kyle sent a video to the Internet. The video showed what Fred did best on Sunday.
But, Kyle's parents are worried about Fred because he has got kind of annoyed at people. Kids aren't allowed in his paddock because he attacks(攻击) them and he even tried to attack a reporter who was taking photos of him for a New Zealand news station!
"He's a bit dangerous. We've been saying we might send him off to the butcher(屠夫) but we might have to keep him now if he's going to be famous," said Kyle's mom, Kim.
11. What is Fred good at
A. Playing basketball.
B. Playing soccer ball.
C. Playing volleyball.
D. Playing pingpong.
12. What does the underlined word "headbutt" mean in Chinese
A. 用头顶
B. 用手击
C. 用脚踢
D. 越位
13. How does Mclellan make Fred popular
A. By taking part in a show.
B. By telling people about Fred.
C. By sending a video to the Internet.
D. By writing stories about Fred.
14. Where may the story happen
A. In China.
B. In England.
C. In America.
D. in New Zealand.
15. According to the last paragraph, we can believe that .
A. Fred has gone to the butcher
B. Fred is playing with children
C. Fred still lives in Kyle's family
D. Fred has joined a soccer club
C
Earthworms are very important animals. They help loosen the soil to air when they are digging underground. At the same time, earthworms make the soil rich with their wastes. Good soil can have as many as 1,000,000 worms per acre(英亩)! There are over 3,000 kinds of earthworms around the world. The largest earthworms live in South Africa and Australia.
The earthworm's body is made up of about 100 segments(节). Its mouth is on the first segment. But the worm doesn't breathe with its mouth. It breathes with its skin and the skin needs to be wet. In the front part of the worm, there are the brain and hearts. The earthworm has five pairs of hearts! In the middle of the animal, there are big segments. The worm has eggs and gives birth to baby worms with that part.
Earthworms eat soil and the organic material (有机物) in it. Live plants are never their food and the worms live friendly with their plant neighbours. Earthworms don't have eyes, then how can they "see" their food The animal's mouth is covered by a thin piece. This part helps the earthworm sense light and shakes as a guidance(向导). The worms have no legs, so how can they move and taste different soils There are many small hairs on their bodies. With the help of these hairs, the animals have a big meal.
16. How do the worms breathe
A. They breathe with their noses.
B. They breathe with their mouths.
C. They breathe with their skin.
D. They breathe with their segments.
17. How many hearts does the worm have
A. Only one.
B. Two.
C. Five.
D. Ten.
18. How do the worms move
A. With the help of their foot.
B. With the help of their hair.
C. With the help of their thin pieces.
D. With the help of their legs.
19. Which of the following is true
A. The worms live in South Africa more than they live in Australia.
B. There are about 100,000 worms per acre.
C. The earthworm's body is made up of many segments.
D. The worms can give birth to baby worms with their front segments.
20. Where could we read the passage
A. In a book on biology.
B. In a book on chemistry.
C. In a magazine on music.
D. In a magazine on story.
二、阅读理解（共5小题；共10分）
Pandas mostly eat bamboo and in fact it makes up 99% of their food! They live in the rainy mountains of southwestern China. Not only are they rare, but their living place is becoming smaller and smaller, so they are on the endangered list.
Pandas are lonely animals. They are certainly shy of humans and not surprisingly keep their lives to themselves. People don't know much about their social life, including how they live with other pandas in the wild.
Recently scientists made a special experiment by using GPS to study pandas' behavior in the wild. They fitted five pandas with GPS collars(项圈) and monitored(监控) them. The GPS showed each animal's position every twenty-four hours for two years.
Surprisingly, the scientists found that pandas hung around together in the same area for several weeks. They had not expected this of the pandas, especially outside the breeding(繁殖) season, but we usually think pandas live a lonely life. The researchers found something else that was really interesting about their eating habits. Pandas seemed to remember good meals and would return to the same bamboo forests only after six months, after they had given a chance for the bamboo to grow back!
21. The first paragraph mainly tells us that .
A. pandas mainly live on bamboo
B. pandas live in southwestern China
C. there aren't many pandas in the world
D. pandas are on the endangered list
22. Which of the following is true
A. In fact, pandas really live a lonely life.
B. People know much about pandas' social life.
C. Pandas seem to be shy of humans.
D. People know how pandas live with others.
23. How long did the GPS show each animal's position
A. Four hours.
B. Two years.
C. Some weeks.
D. Five years.
24. According to the fourth paragraph, the writer agrees that .
A. pandas don't hate living together
B. people knew much about pandas
C. pandas like to live a lonely life
D. people know nothing about pandas
25. How many times do pandas come to the same bamboo forests for bamboo in a year
A. Six times.
B. Five times.
C. Three times.
D. Two times.
三、阅读与表达(问答式(含翻译))（共5小题；共10分）
It's easy to forget something on an airplane, and the problems are that you'll never get it back. KLM Royal Airlines (荷兰皇家航空公司) is trying to deal with the problems a little better with help from their dog, Sherlock!
After a landed plane is empty, flight attendants (空乘人员) sweep the room in the plane and look for anything a passenger may have left behind like a cell phone, head phones, or toys. If they find something, they show it to Sherlock. It can take its smell and compare it with the person's smell. ①Then, they put it in a pocket on Sherlock's jacket and he sets off to find its owner!
"Our main goal is to return lost things to the owners as fast as possible," said Sandra List, a member of the airport's "Team Lost & Found" in a video. ②The company said they are able to return 80 percent of lost things they find on planes with help of Sherlock and social media.
Sherlock goes through regular training at times. It should get strong and learn something about how to get on with passengers.
When Sherlock isn't at work, he likes to stay with its keeper. "He is clever and friendly, so I love him very much," said the keeper.
任务一：根据短文内容回答问题。
26. Who helped KLM Royal Airlines deal with the problems
27. How did Sherlock find the owner of the lost thing
任务二：把划线句子译成中文。
28.
①
29.
②
任务三：用because把下面句子改为复合句。
30. He is clever and friendly, so I can't help kind of loving him.
答案
一、完形填空
1. A
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. D
6. C
7. B
8. C
9. A 10. A
11. B 12. A 13. C 14. D 15. C
16. C 17. D 18. B 19. C 20. A
二、阅读理解
21. D 22. C 23. B 24. A 25. D
三、阅读与表达(问答式(含翻译))
26. A dog. / Sherlock.
27. It can take its smell and compare it with the person's smell.
28. 然后他们把失物放在夏洛克的衣兜里，然后夏洛院就动身去找失主。
29. 公司说，在Sherlock和社会媒体的帮助下，他们能返还在飞机上找到的百分之八十的失物。
30. I can't help kind of loving him because he is clever and friendly.
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考研时文阅读（17A） (2009-04-04 21:21:15) 转载 标签： 分类：阅读篇 考研 时文阅读 黄涛 杂谈 篇章分析 本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了两位博士对午睡和健康关系的一项最新研究。第一段提出了有关午睡的话题，并以一些名人的午睡特点来加以例证，接着介绍了纳斯卡和特里克伯罗斯所进行的研究，说明午睡可以延长人的生命；第二段进一步详细地阐述其研究的结果；第三段作者驳斥了地中海饮食可能影响实验结果可信度的说法；在第四段里，特里克伯罗斯博士建议人们为了健康尽量午睡。Sloth(怠惰, 懒惰) may be seen as a sin, but some of history's most accomplished men were fond of lounging around. Leonardo da Vinci enjoyed napping. So did Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. Richard Buckminster Fuller advocated taking 30-minute naps every six hours. No one has yet proved a correlation between napping and artistic brilliance or professional success, but an intriguing study published this week claims to find a link between daytime siestas and good health. A team of researchers led by Androniki Naska and Dimitrios Trichopoulos of Harvard's School of Public Health followed over 23,000 Greek patients with no history of cancer or stroke, for an average of six years. Their conclusion: napping just might save your life. The study found that the group of adults who took 30-minute siestas at least three times a week had a third fewer deaths from heart disease than an equivalent group who did not sleep at all during the day. The benefit was greater for men than for women. It was also greater for working males than for those who had retired.
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考研英语最新时文精读精析——经济危机 “经济危机”是考研英语阅读中的常见话题，特为大家专门选取了一篇2015年6月13日《经济学人》的文章。内容正是谈及当前的“经济危机”话题，它提醒我们：The global economy still faces all mannerof hazards.（当前全球经济依然面临诸多风险）It is only a matter of time before the nextrecession strikes.The rich world is not ready.（下一次危机袭来是迟早的事。富裕世界还没有做好准备。）那么，Whatis best defence？应该如何防范这种风险？读完这篇文章，我们或许会得到答案。 【经济学人原文】THE strugglehas been long and arduous.But gazing across the battered economies of the richworld,it is time to declare that the fight against financial chaos anddeflation is won.In2015,the IMF says,for the first time since2007everyadvanced economy will expand. Rich-world growth should exceed2%for the firsttime since2010and America's central bank is likely to raise its rock-bottominterest rates. However,the global economy still faces all manner of hazards.... 挣扎是漫长而艰辛的。但纵观发达国家受损的经济，或许到了该宣布与金融混乱和通货紧缩的战斗已经获胜的时候了。国际货币基金组织称，发达经济体将一个不落地在2015年实现2007年以来的第一次扩张。富裕世界的增长应当超过2％，这是2010年以来的第一次；美国央行有可能提高其处于谷底的利率。然而全球经济依然面临诸多风险。 【经济学人原文】The logicalanswer is to get back to normal as fast as possible.The sooner interest ratesrise,the sooner central banks will regain the room to cut rates again whentrouble comes along.The faster debts are cut,the easier it will be for governmentsto borrow to ward off disaster.Logical,but wrong. 尽可能快地回归正常才是真确的出路。越早提高利率，在麻烦来到时央行就能越早重获再次降息的空间；债务削减得就会越快，政府也就越容易借到钱去抵御灾难。这虽然合乎逻辑，但却是错误的。 【经济学人原文】Governmentscan also do their bit.There has still been shamefully little growth-boostinginvestment in infrastructure.The OECD, a club of mostly rich countries,wasright to rap George Osborne,Britain's finance minister,on the knuckles forthe scale and pace of his proposed public-spending cuts.Growth is better thanausterity as a policy for bringing debts under https://www.360docs.net/doc/c415677553.html,ernments shouldinstead direct their energies towards overdue reforms to product and labourmarkets.Open product markets encourage enterprise.The freedom to hire workersunder flexible contracts is the best way to keep people out of unemployment.Both reforms make an economy better able to cope with the next shock. 政府也要尽到他的职责。促进增长的投资仍然少得可耻在基础设施方面。经合组织因为其拟议中的公共开支削减的范围和步伐而敲打英国财政大臣奥斯本是对的。作为一种将债务带至可控状态的政策，增长强于紧缩。政府应当把他们的能量用到对于产品和劳动力市场的迟到的改革上面。开放的产品市场能够鼓励企业。在灵活的合同下雇佣工人的自由是维持人们不失业的最佳方式。这两种改革都能让经济体更好地应对下一次冲击。