（二）

A

How Do Animals Catch Their ZZZ’s?

       Different creatures have developed some pretty creative ways to get their rest and stay safe. The lizard（蜥蝎）likes to sleep at the far end of small branches hanging out over a pond or lake in the rain forest. If a snake tries to slither up the branch to eat it ,it will shake the branch and knock the lizard off ,and the lizard will fall safely into the water. Chameleons can change color to match their surroundings in order to hide even while sleeping.

       Corillas（大猩猩）like to sleep high in the trees. They build a new bed every night, sometimes taking up to half an hour to pile branches ,twigs ,and leaves into a comfortable bed .Birds also find it safe to sleep in the trees, but unless they have eggs or young chicks ,they don’t use a nest .They just lock their feet around a branch and hang on .A special tendon（腱）in their legs in automatically tight when they are at rest ,so they won’t let go and fall.

       Dolphins live underwater ,but must come to the surface to breather .Scientists now believe that dolphins may sleep with only half their brain, while the other half stays awake to keep them safe and breathing. Seals also do this ,lying on their sides on the surface of the water with one flipper underwater paddling to keep their noses above the surface. Some ducks may also have this ability, and actually sleep with one eye closed and one eye open.  

56．How many animals are mentioned in this passage?

      A．6.     B．7.      C．8.      D．9.

57．How does a chameleon protect itself while sleeping?

       A．By changing its body colors.   B．By hinging out over a pond.

       C．By sleeping with half their brain.   D．By making beds with branches.

58．Why will not birds fall when they are at rest?

       A．They build nests and sleep in them.       B．They fall asleep automatically.

       C．They have a loose tendon in their legs.D．They lock their feet around a branch.

59．What does the writer intend to tell us?

      A．The cleverest animal is the gorilla because it can make beds.

       B．Differences in habitat could lead to different living habits.

       C．The ways animals catch their ZZZ’s are pretty much he same .

       D．In order to protect themselves most animals choose not to sleep.

B

       But I wonder about my Momma sometimes, and all the other Negro(blacks )mothers who got up at 6 a.m. to go to the white man’s house with sacks over their shoes because it was so wet and cold. I wonder how they made it .They worked very hard for the man, they made his breakfast and they scrubbed his floors and they took care of his babies. They didn’t have too much time for us.

       I wonder about my Momma ,who walked out of a white woman’s clean house at midnight and came back to her own where the lights had been out for three months ,and the pipes were frozen and the wind came in through the holes in the wall. She’d have to make deals with the rats: leave some food out for them so the wouldn’t bite the doors or the babies. The roaches（蟑螂）？Oh ,they were just like part of the family!

       I wonder how she felt telling those white kids she took care of to brush their teeth after they ate, to wash their hands after they finish bathroom. She could never tell her own kids because there wasn’t soap or water back home.

       I wonder how my Momma felt when we came home from school with a list of vitamins and pills the school nurse said we had to have .Momma would cry all night , and then go out and spend most of the rent money for pills. A week later ,the white man would come for his eighteen dollars’ rent and Momma would beg him to wait until tomorrow . She had to lie to him that she had lost her wallet or the relief check was coming soon or the white people had some money for her. Tomorrow I’d be hiding in the closet because there was only supposed to be two kids in the flat ,and I could hear the rent man shout at my Momma and call her a cheat. And when he finally went away, Momma put the sacks on her shoes and went off to the rich white man’s house to dress the rich white kids so their mother could take them to a special baby doctor.

60．Mother got up at 6 a.m. every day ,because     .

       A．she had to cook breakfast for her children

       B．she had to catch the first bus to the factory

       C．she had to work in the white man’s house

       D．she had to go to see a special baby doctor

61．Mother never told us to brush our teeth or to wash our hands because     .

       A．she though we didn’t need to  B．we didn’t like washing hands

       C．we had done everything very well  D．there was no soap or water in our home

62．Why did the writer hide in a closet when the landowner came for rent?

       A．The closet could only hold two kids.

       B．Only two kids were allowed to live in the house.

       C．They should pay more rent for two kids.

       D．There was only one bedroom for the two kids.

63．What does the writer mainly tell us?

      A．Black people lead a miserable life.

       B．Black people don’t have enough rent money.

       C．White people lead an expensive life.     

       D．White people have special baby doctors.

C

       Britain is facing a sharp rise in its rat population as growing numbers of people leave fast food scraps in the street ,an environment group warned .Keep Britain Tidy said the rodents（啮齿动物）were stopping their traditional hunts underground and were roaming the streets ,tempted by discarded burgers ,pizzas and crisps. “The rat population is on the rise and soon it’ll be as common to see a rodent on our street as it is to see a dog or a cat,” said group Director ,Sue Nelson. The practice of dumping fast food litter and scraps on the street rather than in the trash—with young men the worst offenders—was behind the rise. According to the National Rodent Survey in 2005, Britain’s rat population has grown by nearly one quarter since 2000 and is now estimated at 60 million ,two million more than the human population. On average a rat can give birth every 24—28 days and just a single pair of rats can produce a colony of 2,000 a year. Around 200 people a year get Weil’s Disease –an infection which can lead to liver or kidney（肝肾）failure and eventually death and which is arrived in rat’s waste. To highlight the issue ,Keep Britain Tidy launched a cinema ad entitled “How close do you want them to get?” The ad gave a shocking image of a young woman sleeping in a bed of rots –echoing the nightmare scene from James Herbert’s classic horror tale The Rats, in which mutant rodents begin to prey on（捕食）humans.

64．Where did the rodents use to search for food?

       A．In the Street .          B．Under the ground.

       C．From the trash cans. D．In burger shops. 

65．What is the human population now according to the writer?

       A．60 million.      B．58 million.       C．35 million.       D．2 million.

66．We may infer from the passage that      .

       A．Weil’s Disease will finally end the world

       B．pizzas and crisps will become poisonous

       C．rats will endanger human beings’ life    

       D．young people are blame for the rat population

67．By writing the passage, the author tries to       .

       A．close some of the burger and pizza restaurants

       B．draw the public attention to the problem of rats

       C．prevent the rats from growing up

       D．making advertisement for the classic horror film The Rats

D

We all know what it is like to be unable to turn your head because of a cold in the muscles of your neck, or because an unexpected twist has made your neck ache and stiff. Your whole body feels tight. The slightest move makes you jump with pain. Nothing could be worse than a pain in the neck.

That is why we use phrase to describe some people who give you the same feeling. We have all met such people.

One is the man who always seems to be clapping his hands—often at the wrong time—during a performance in the theater. He keeps you from hearing the actors.

Even worse are those who can never arrive before the curtain goes up and play begins. They come hurrying down to your row of seats. You are comfortably settled down, with your hat and heavy coat in your lap. You must stand up to ;et them pass. You are proud of your self—control after they have settled into their seats…Well, what now…Good God, one of them is up again. He forgot to go to the men’s room, and once more you have to stand up, hanging on to your hat and coat to let him pass. Now, that is “a pain in the neck.”

Another, well—known to us all, is the person sitting behind you in the movies. His mouth is full of popcorn;  he is chewing loudly, or talking between bites to friends next to him. None of them remain still. Up and down, back and forth, they go—for another bag of popcorn, or something to drink.

Then, there is the main sitting next to you at a lunch counter smoking a smelly cigar. He wants you to enjoy it too, and blows smoke across you food into your mouth.

We must not forget the man who comes into a bus or subway car and sits down next to you, just as close as you will let him. You are reading the newspaper and he leans over and stretches his rock so that he can read the paper with you. He may even turn the paper to the next page before you are ready for it.

We also call such a person a “rubber neck,” always stretching his neck to where it does not belong, like neighbors who watch all your visitors. They enjoy invading your privacy. People have a strong dislike for rubbernecks. They hate being spied upon.

68．Where can you find this passage?

       A．Medicine dictionaries.     B．Social science books,

       C．Kids’ comic books.  D．Science text books.

69．How do you feel when late comers walk back and forth in front of you in a cinema?

       A．Ignored.   B．Bored.      C．Disturbed  D．Relaxed.

70．A “rubber neck” often                  .

       A．says bad words behind people.

       B．quarrels face to face with neighbors.

       C．bargains the price with sales women

       D．asks about other people’s business

E

71．Which of the follow is a “pain on the neck”?

       A．Someone who helps you find your seat in a movie theatre.

       B．Someone who smokes in a smoking section on a train.

       C．Someone who throws trash out of his car window on the highway.

       D．Someone who goes to the doctor for his severe pain on the neck.

F

Babies are not just passing idle time when they stare goggle-eyed at the television—they are actually learning about the world, U.S. researchers said. Parents may want t limit what their babies see on television , based on the study, said Donna Mumme, assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University in Boston, who led the research. “Children as young as 12 months are making decisions based n the emotional(情感的)reactions of adults around them,” Mumme said in a statement. “It turns out they can also use emotional information they pick up from television. This means that adults might want to think twice before they speak in a loud and harsh voice or let a baby see television programs meant for information about the world. A mother urging her baby to eat some  “yummy” soup on a brother crying in fear when a dog approaches can influence a baby’s reaction. Mumme’s team tested babies to determine. If television has the same influence, showing actors reacting on a videotape to objects such as red spiral letter holder, a blue humpy ball, and a yellow garden hose attachment. Babies aged 10 months or 12 months were later given the same objects to play with. Ten-month-olds did not seem to e influenced by the video buy the 1-year-olds were. When the actors acted neutrally or positively to an object, the babies happily played with them. But if the actor had seemed afraid or disgusted, the babies would avoid the object.

72．Psychology is the study of              .

       A．human’s society and its growth

       B．human’s hopes had dreams

       C．human’s mind and behaviors

       D．human’s languages and cultures

73．Which of the following is Mumme’s conclusion?

       A．Small babies should not be allowed to watch television programs.

       B．Adults need to think twice before they act in front of small babies.

       C．TV programs provide small babies with all the information they need.

       D．One-year-olds can be emotionally influenced by TV programs.

74．Mumme reached his conclusion by            .

       A．measuring the time babies spent in front of TV.

       B．making TV programs and advertisements for kids.

       C．showing actors how to react to blue bumpy balls

       D．observing small babies’ reactions to TV programs

75．Which of the following may the study lead to according to the researchers?

       A．Parents may want to limit what their babies see on television.

       B．Actors may try to behave themselves well in front of babies.

       C．Babies may be allowed to choose what they see on TV.

       D．Scientists may stop ignoring babies’ emotional world.

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