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Tales From Animal Hospital

David Grant

David Grant has become a familiar face to millions of fans of Animal Hospital．Here Dr．Grant tells us the very best of his personal stories about the animals he has treated, including familiar patients such as the dogs Snowy and Duchess, the delightful cat Marigold Serendipity Diamond．He also takes the reader behind the scenes at Harmsworth Memorial Animal Hospital as he describes his day, from ordinary medical check-ups to surgery (外科手術(shù))．Tales From Animal Hospital will delight all fans of the programme and anyone who has a lively interest in their pet, whether it be cat, dog or snake!

$ 14．99 Hardback 272pp Simon Schuster

ISBN 0751304417

Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer

Michael White

From the author of Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science,

comes this colourful description of the life of the world's first modern scientist．Interesting yet based on fact, Michael White's learned yet readable new book offers a true picture of Newton completely different from what people commonly know about him．Newton is shown as a gifted scientist with very human weaknesses who stood at the point in history where magic ended and science began．

￡8.99 Hardback 320pp Fourth Estate

ISBN 1857024168

Fermat's Last Theorem

Simon Singh

In 1963 a schoolboy called Andrew Wiles reading in his school library came across the world's greatest mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem (定理)．First put forward by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in the seventeenth century, the theorem had baffled and beaten the finest mathematical minds, including a French woman scientist who made a major advance in working out the problem, and who had to dress like a man in order to be able to study at the Ecole Polytechnique ．Through unbelievable determination Andrew Wiles finally worked out the problem in 1995．An unusual story of human effort over three centuries, Fermat's Last Theorem will delight specialists and general readers alike．

￡12．99 Hardback 384 pp Fourth Estate

ISBN 1857025210

1．What is Animal Hospital?

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A．A news story．
B．A popular book．
C．A research report．
D．A TV programme．

2．In Michael White's book, Newton is described as ________．

[　　]

A．a(chǎn) person who did not look the same as in many pictures

B．a(chǎn) person who lived a colourful and meaningful life

C．a(chǎn) great but not perfect man

D．a(chǎn)n old-time magician

3．Which of the following best explains the meaning of the word baffle as it is used in the text?

[　　]

A．To encourage people to raise questions．

B．To cause difficulty in understanding．

C．To provide a person with an explanation．

D．To limit people's imagination．

4．The person who finally proved Fermat's Last Theorem is

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A．Simon Singh
B．Andrew Wiles
C．Pierre de Fermat
D．a(chǎn) French woman scientist

5．What is the purpose of writing these three texts?

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A．To make the books easier to read．

B．To show the importance of science．

C．To introduce new authors．

D．To sell the books．

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　　Allan goes everywhere with Birgitta Anderson, a 54-year-old secretary． He moves around her office at work and goes shopping with her． 'Most people don't seem to mind Allan, ' says Birgit-ta ,who thinks he is wonderful． 'he's my fourth child,' she says, She may think of him and treat him that way, buying his food, paying his health bills and his taxes, but in fact Allan is a dog．

　　Birgitta and Allan live in Sweden, a country where everyone is expected to lead an orderly life according to rules laid down by the government, which also provides（提供）a high level of care for its people． This level of care costs money．

　　People in Sweden pay taxes on everything, so aren't surprised to find that owning a dog means yet more taxes． Some people are paying as much as 500 Swedish kronor in taxes a year for the right to keep their dog, money that is spent by the government on dog hospitals and sometimes medical treatment for a dog that falls ill． However, most such treatment is expensive, so owners often decide to pay health and even life insurance（保險(xiǎn)）for their dog．

　　In Sweden dog owners must pay for any damage（損壞）their dog does． A Swedish Kennel Club official explains what this means: if your dog runs out on the road and gets hit by a passing car you, as the owner ,have to pay for any damage done to the car, even if your dog has been killed in the accident．

1．Birgitta pays taxes for Allan because ______．

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A．he is her dog　　　　　　　B．he is her child

C．he follows her everywhere　D．he often falls ill

2．The money paid as dog taxes is used to ______．

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A．keep a high level of care for the people

B．pay for damage done by dogs

C．provide medical care for dogs

D．buy insurance for dog owners

3．If a dog causes a car accident and gets killed, who should pay for the damage done to the car?

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A．The owner of the car．

B．The owner of the dog．

C．The insurance company（公司）．

D．The government．

4．From the text it can be inferred that in Sweden ______．

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A．dogs are welcome in public places

B．keeping dogs means asking for trouble

C．many car accidents are caused by dogs

D．people care much about dogs

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：單元雙測(cè)同步達(dá)標(biāo)活頁(yè)試卷　高二英語(yǔ)下 題型：050

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　　In Glacier National Park, which is in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, there once roamed a little deaf Indian boy. He loved to wander in the forest, and made friends with the animals who lived there. Since he loved animals, he would observe them intently and learn their habits. This little Indian boy's name was John Lewis Clarke.

　　John Lewis Clarke's grandfather was a graduate from West Point and a captain in the U. S. Army. He was married to the daughter of a Blackfoot Indian Chief and adopted by the tribe. His son, John Lewis Clarke's father, also married an Indian princess, the daughter of Chief Stands Alone. Sadly, John's grandfather was later killed by Indians of another tribe near Helena, Montana.

　　John Lewis Clarke was not born deaf. He became ill at a young age with scarlet fever. Though he survived, he could no longer hear the sounds that the forest animals made. He could not hear his Indian friends when they called to him. Scarlet fever had caused him to lose his hearing. His Indian friends gave him the name Cutapuis (Cu-ta-pu-ee) which means, “man who talks not.”

　　Because John could not talk, he could not tell his parents about his many animal friends in the forest and the exciting things that he saw, but he found another way to express himself. He made figures of them out of clay(粘土) from the river banks. Later, when he was older, he learned to carve things out of wood. He loved to carve animals. With an axe and a pocket knife, he carved a life-sized image of a bear from a cedar trunk. The bear looked so real, the only thing missing was its growl.

　　When John was old enough to go to school, his parents sent him to the Fort Shaw Indian School. However, since he needed special education, he was transferred to a school for the deaf at Boulder, Montana. He also attended the School for the Deaf at Devil's Lake, North Dakota. When he was older, he enrolled at St. Francis Academy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he studied wood carving. While he was still in his teens, John returned to Montana and opened a studio. He began to carve all the animals he had known very well in his childhood, and offer them for sale. He made models of animals out of wood, clay, and stone. He painted pictures using water colors and oils, and did excellent pen and ink drawings. He began to make a name for himself as an artist.

　　John spent most of his 89 years at his home studio in Glacier Park. Every year when the park season was over, he continued his work in Great Falls, Montana, his second home. Many important people bought John's work. John D． Rockefeller, Jr., the famous multimillionaire, was one of them. John's work was on exhibit in many places in this country. John died on November 20,1970. In his life-time, he literally carved his way to fame.

1．John probably started to use American Sign Language as soon as ________.

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A．he became deaf

B．he entered a school for the deaf

C．he could make figures out of clay

D．his Indian friends taught him

2．The subject of his artwork was mostly animals. This is most likely because ________.

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A．the environment he grew up has influenced him

B．he was an Indian

C．it was his way of expressing ideas

D．he did not like people

3．“The bear looked so real. The only thing missing was its growl.” This phrase means ________.

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A．John forgot to add one more thing

B．the bear was missing

C．the bear missed growling

D．the bear looked perfect except that it could not make any sound

4．During the course of his education, John attended ________.

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A．two schools

B．only a residential school for the deaf

C．four different schools

D．a(chǎn) school in Maine

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