Puppy Food
A puppy (young dog) is a precious addition to any family. The excitement of bringing home a little furry friend will always live in our memories. Like all of us, though, your puppy must have adequate nutrition（營養(yǎng)） right from the start to make certain that it’ll have a long and healthy life.
 小題1:  You might ask yourself what is the best for your new pet with all of the different varieties on the market in all of their attractive packaging. Some dry food produced specially for puppies is the best for the development of their teeth.   小題2: 
Contrary to the belief of many first-time puppy owners, it is not always the best idea to purchase food that is too high in calcium (鈣), protein, and vitamin levels.   小題3:  In addition, a high intake of calcium is associated with bone disease in large-breed dogs. If you have a “small-breed” puppy, you can buy that kind of food.
It is not a good idea to feed the food you eat to your puppy frequently, as your puppy may become selective about food.   小題4:  Some people think that dog biscuits and other treats are fine, but they should not be a main part of puppy’s diet.
Young puppies should be fed three times a day. Each puppy is unique, however, so feeding them twice a day is acceptable. After ten to twelve weeks of age, feed your puppy twice per day. Allow your puppy to eat as much as he would like in fifteen minutes.   小題5:  If you let your puppy eat too much or too often by keeping food accessible at all times, he may become overweight and have health problems as an adult. Like humans, your puppy will not enjoy the food any longer if it is there at all times.

A．Pick up the dish with the remaining food.

B．Proper food is a basic necessity for your puppies.

C．Remember to give your puppy the food he would like to have.

D．It can also cause an upset stomach due to an unbalanced diet.

E. A further benefit is that it is less expensive than the canned food.
F. One example is that extra helpings of nutrients do harm to digestive organs.
G. It’s good to provide the extra nutrients a puppy needs until he grows larger.

Mrs. Barrow, room 501, I repeated to myself as I was looking for the room number. It was my first day of        grade and I was really        .
Stepping into the room, I felt       . I tried to keep calm, but Mrs. Barrow saw through me. “Good morning, Courtni. You may pick your       .”
I glanced round the room and took a(n)        seat near a girl named Wendy. Soon, Wendy and I became good friends. I felt no closeness to Mrs. Barrow,       .
Mrs. Barrow had us write a paper        what we wanted to be when we grew up. She said that when her      students graduated, she liked them to come back and      their fifth-grade dreams together, as a memory of their childhood. I decided right then that I liked Mrs. Barrow.   
A month later, my grandmother died of cancer.      her was so painful for me that I __    some school.
At the funeral(葬禮), I was sitting feeling sorry for myself when I looked       and saw Mrs. Barrow standing there. She        my hand and comforted me by reminding me that Grandma had no more pain or      .        had never occurred to me that it was better for my grandma this way.
After the funeral, we went home to see the flowers that had been sent. My mom       me a pretty ivy(常春藤) plant. The attached card       :
Courtni,
I’m sorry about your grandma. Never forget, I love you.
With love,
Mrs. Barrow
I wanted to       . I took the plant home, watered it and put it in my grandma’s old room. I am in eighth grade now and I        have that plant. I never thought a teacher could        that much about her students: now I know. 

小題1:	A．first B．third C．fifth D．eighth

小題2:	A．nervous B．sad C．a(chǎn)ngry D．surprised

小題3:	A．out of order B．out of mind C．out of control D．out of place

小題4:	A．chair B．seat C．desk D．book

小題5:	A．good B．clean C．empty D．pretty

小題6:	A．though B．a(chǎn)lthough C．if D．while

小題7:	A．in B．with C．by D．on

小題8:	A．perfect B．former C．slow D．ordinary

小題9:	A．spare B．bring C．share D．handle

小題10:

A．Thinking B．Having C．Attending D．Losing

小題11:

A．missed B．forgot C．left D．lacked

小題12:

A．a(chǎn)round B．up C．down D．out

小題13:

A．shook B．waved C．gave D．held

小題14:

A．delight B．surprise C．suffering D．disappointment

小題15:

A．It B．She C．They D．He

小題16:

A．dropped B．handed C．presented D．provided

小題17:

A．read B．told C．wrote D．informed

小題18:

A．run B．smile C．cry D．wait

小題19:

A．even B．yet C．a(chǎn)lso D．still

小題20:

A．learn B．care C．serve D．offer

The young man arrived on the Massachusetts beach early carrying a radio, a shovel(鐵鍬), and a strange set of tools: a brick layer’s trowel, a palette knife, spatulas, spoons, and a spray bottle.
He walked down near the water — the tide(潮水) was out — and switched on the radio to listen to soft rock. Then he shoveled wet sand into a pile nearly four feet high and as many feet across. Then he created a square shape.
After that, he set to work with palette knife, spatulas, and spoons. He shaped a splendid tower, topped walls, fashioned beautiful bay windows, and carved (雕刻)out a big front gate.
The man knew his sand. He smoothly finished some surfaces and carved artistic designs on others. As the shapes began to dry, he gently kept them slightly wet with water from the spray bottle, in case they might break in the wind.
All this took hours. People gathered. At last he stood back, obviously satisfied with a castle worthy of the Austrian countryside or Disneyland.
Then he gathered his tools and radio and moved them up to drier sand. He had known for a while what many in the crowd still ignored: the tide was coming in. Not only had he practiced his art with confidence and style, he also had done so against a powerful, irresistible(不可抵抗的) deadline.
As the crowd looked on, water came at the base of the castle. In minutes it was surrounded. Then the rising flood began to eat into the base, walls fell, the tower fell, and finally the gate fell. More minutes passed, and small waves erased bay windows — soon no more than a small part was left.
Many in the crowd looked terribly sad; some voiced fear and discouragement. But the man remained calm. He had, after all, had a wonderful day, making beauty out of nothing, and watching it return to nothing as time and tide moved on.
小題1:In this passage, why did the young man start early in the day?

A．He needed the sun to help dry the sand.

B．It gave plenty of time for the crowd to gather.

C．He knew the tide was out on this particular morning.

D．It was easier to begin his work with only a few people around.

小題2:In this passage, what does the incoming tide signal?

A．It is time to begin working.

B．It is the end of a day’s work.

C．It is the busiest time of the day.

D．It is time for lookers-on to leave.

小題3:How did the lookers-on react when the tide began to come in?

A．They were disappointed to see the art ruined.

B．They tried their best to save the sand castle.

C．They were nervous about their own belongings.

D．They helped the artist finish the castle.

小題4:We can tell that the young man’s reward for his work is ___________.

A．payment for his work

B．personal satisfaction

C．popularity as an artist

D．a(chǎn)ttention from the crowd

Can you believe everything that you read? It seems as if every day, some new articles come out about a new discovery about this or that. For example, water is bad for you, or good for you. The answer depends on which scientific study has just come out. People cannot decide which food items are healthy, how pyramids were constructed, and why dinosaurs disappeared. When we look for answers we sometimes can believe persuasive researches and scientists. But how trustworthy are they really? Here are two examples of scientific hoaxes (騙局).
As far back as 1726, Johann Beringer was fooled by his fellow scientists into thinking he had made an amazing discovery. The fossils of spiders, lizards, and even birds with the name of God written on them in Hebrew were unlike anything that had been found before. He wrote several papers on them and was famous for those only to have it revealed that they were planted by jealous colleagues to ruin his reputation.
When an early human being was discovered in 1912, scientists at this time were wild with excitement over the meaning it had for the theory of evolution. There were hundreds of papers about this Piltdown man over the next fifty years until it was finally discovered to be a complex hoax. The skull (頭骨) of a man had been mixed with the jawbone of an orangutan (猩猩) to make the ape (猿) man.
The next time you read the exciting new findings of a study of the best scientist, do not automatically assume that it is true. Even qualified people can get it wrong. While we certainly should not ignore scientific research, we do need to take it with a grain of salt. Just because it is accepted as the truth today does not mean it will still be trustworthy tomorrow.
小題1:What does Paragraph 1 want to say?

A．Researchers and scientists are not perfect.

B．Something that we read may not be true.

C．Researchers and scientists know everything.

D．People don’t know whether water is good or bad.

小題2:What is the reason why Johann Beringer was fooled?

A．His fellow scientists wanted to make fun of him.

B．His workmates are eager to become famous too.

C．These scientists made a mistake because of carelessness.

D．His colleagues envied him and did so to destroy his fame.

小題3:The excited scientists thought that this Piltdown man ______.

A．was in fact a complex hoax

B．was a great scientific invention

C．contributed to the theory of evolution

D．had the skull like that of an ape

小題4:What does the underlined phrase “with a grain of salt” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Happily.

B．Generally.

C．Doubtfully.

D．Completely.

小題5:What can we learn from the passage?

A．Hebrew is probably a kind of language.

B．Truths of science will never be out of time.

C．People believe scientists because they are persuasive.

D．We are advised to believe famous scientists.

I am a person who doesn’t like waiting. I don’t like to wait in line, being put on hold when making a phone call, or arriving at an apartment to find that my companion will be         . And of course, I don’t like waiting rooms.
      , I realize that my agony(痛苦) will not be good for me, as an         crowded world can only mean one thing – more waiting.
       this, I have taken an action and decide to turn my frustration to productive ends. In short, I am looking for what I call “waiting-in-line”        .
These are volumes that contain materials         for being read in shortened words, so there is no extended story line to lose track of. Another          is that they be         enough to slip neatly into my back pocket.
The other day I went to the supermarket.         that the rain would keep most people away, I was         to see that the place was filled with        . Every checkout was open – and jammed! But I can         my pocket book and go to work.
The more the world demands that I        , the more I learn from my waiting library. Look at the followings: One Hundred Things Every American Should Know; The Poetry of Robert Frost; Living Thoughts of Leading Thinkers; Still More Toasts. I have learned interesting and enriching things and much         from these books.
On a recent visit to the general store, I placed my order at the         along with six or seven people. The old female employee seemed to have her hands full as she rushed        . “Young man, just be        ,” she said to me.
No problem. I quietly opened my dictionary prose(散文) and poetical quotations. Perhaps the other customers         me as a bookish, lonely soul. But         did they realize that I was enjoying the         of Shakespeare, Thoreau, Homer and Ben Johnson.

小題1:	A．dismissed B．delayed C．disappeared D．delighted

小題2:	A．Furthermore B．However C．Despite D．Besides

小題3:	A．a(chǎn)ctually B．importantly C．increasingly D．a(chǎn)ccurately

小題4:	A．Instead of B．Apart from C．Rather than D．Owing to

小題5:	A．rooms B．goods C．reasons D．books

小題6:	A．searched B．a(chǎn)fforded C．designed D．charged

小題7:	A．convenience B．requirement C．a(chǎn)greement D．distinction

小題8:	A．small B．pretty C．a(chǎn)ctive D．vivid

小題9:	A．Believed B．Determined C．Puzzled D．Convinced

小題10:

A．surprised B．worried C．excited D．satisfied

小題11:

A．shoppers B．readers C．employees D．volunteers

小題12:

A．put out B．set down C．send for D．take out

小題13:

A．suffer B．wait C．watch D．read

小題14:

A．a(chǎn)dvantage B．benefit C．knowledge D．patient

小題15:

A．counter B．pocket C．market D．service

小題16:

A．a(chǎn)bout B．a(chǎn)way C．over D．a(chǎn)cross

小題17:

A．polite B．patient C．careful D．helpful

小題18:

A．thought B．looked C．regarded D．treated

小題19:

A．certainly B．obviously C．secretly D．hardly

小題20:

A．relation B．moment C．company D．novel

A tent can be one of the more costly items on your camping equipment shopping list. It is definitely something that you need to consider carefully.
By seeing a tent for real you will be able to get a better impression of its size and construction in the traditional shop. However，the downside is that，unless you are experienced，you may miss out some of the details that the manufacturer’s promotional material makes clear. Cheap tents often look similar to the quality models they are mimicking(模仿)，but you can be sure that they use inferior(次的) materials and probably have lower design standards.
Shop staff are often campers themselves. That means they usually can give lots of advice. If a shop assistant agrees with your own conclusions，that will be great；if they try to change your decision with a clear and reasonable argument，then that will be worth considering；if they just try to bamboozle(欺騙)，or even bully，you then walk away.
The Internet is a wonderful tool，and so long as you know how to make the most of search engines and put in a little effort，you really have the perfect answer waiting to be found. That answer will be different for every camper as each of us has different needs. Don’t be surprised to see your favorite criticized somewhere，but if you see too much criticism，then you had better start thinking again. No problem. You won’t have spent anything yet，so think of it positively as a large expense saved.
Probably the best approach，if you have the time，is to research tents online and make a short list. Then try to inspect those tents at nearby shops. Then you can make a final decision on where to buy your chosen model based purely on total cost.
小題1:The underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 2 means “________”．

A．disadvantage

B．instruction

C．a(chǎn)rgument

D．principle

小題2:It can be concluded from the third paragraph that________.

A．shop assistants usually enjoy going camping

B．shop assistants usually have practical advice

C．you should consider your idea repeatedly

D．it is impolite for you to trouble shop assistants

小題3:You can make use of the Internet to________.

A．meet your different needs

B．find the answer for every camper

C．help you out of trouble

D．find your favorite tent

小題4:Which of the following would be the main idea of this passage?

A．It is good to buy your tent in the traditional shop.

B．You’d better buy a tent with the help of the Internet.

C．Better buy a tent combining seeing tents for real in shops and researching them online.

D．Going camping is really beneficial to your health.

A person has to be sixteen to drive, seventeen to see certain movies, and eighteen to vote. People can get terrific discounts on all sorts of stuff－provided they’re over sixty-five. Everywhere we look there are age limits that define what people can and can’t do. But creativity has no boundaries, no limitations. Anyone can invent. And they do. Inventors are popping up at the youngest ages.
Sitting in the car waiting for her mom to return from shopping, Becky decided she might as well try to finish her math homework. But it was growing dark and getting hard to see the paper.
“I didn’t have a flashlight, and I didn’t want to open the car door because then the whole car would light up.” recalled Becky. “So I thought it would be neat to have my paper light up somehow, and that’s when the idea came to me.”
It isn’t every day that a ten-year-old invents a product eagerly sought by several businesses, but that’s exactly what Becky Schroeder did when she created a tool that enabled people to write in the dark. Her invention? The Glo-sheet.
That night Becky went home, trying to imagine different ways of making her paper glow in the dark. She remembered all sorts of glow-in-the-dark toys－like balls and Frisbees－and wondered how they were made. She was determined to find a solution. So they very next day, Beck’s dad took her on an outing to the hardware store. They returned with a pail (桶) of phosphorescent paint. She took the paint and stacks of paper into the darkest room in the house－the bathroom. There, she experimented.
“I’d turn on the light, turn it off, turn it on,” said Becky. “My parents remember me running out the room saying ‘It works, it works! I’m writing in the dark!’ ”
She used an acrylic board and coated it with a specific amount of phosphorescent paint. She took a complicated idea and made it work rather simply. When the coated clipboard is exposed to light, it glows. The glowing board then illuminates or lights up the paper that has been placed on top. Two years after her initial inspiration, in 1974, Becky became the youngest female ever to receive a U.S. patent.
She didn’t actively market her Glo-sheet. She didn’t need to. The New York Times wrote an article about an incredible invention－patented by a twelve-year-old, and the inquiries and orders streamed in.
小題1:From Paragraph 1 , we can draw a conclusion that _________.

A．it is illegal for one to drive under sixteen

B．people enjoy privileges when over sixty-five

C．one is never too old or too young to invent

D．people hate the limitations that define our behavior

小題2:What caused Becky to invent Glo-sheet?

A．She was trying to do homework when it got dark.

B．She was having trouble with math problems.

C．She was trying to earn some money.

D．She was working on a school project.

小題3:What is the meaning of the underlined words “phosphorescent paint” in paragraph 5?

A．paint that acts as a glue

B．paint that covers a mark

C．paint that becomes hard

D．paint that glows in the dark

小題4:What does it mean that Beck “didn’t actively market her Glo-sheet” according to paragraph 8?

A．She kept the original one for her own use.

B．Other people came to her for the Glo-sheet.

C．Becky’s father tried to sell the Glo-sheet.

D．She gave away patent to the government.

小題5:With which statement would Becky most likely agree?

A．Experience is needed to be a good inventor.

B．Only by inventing things can you know what people need.

C．Always try to sell patent rights to large companies.

D．You never know what you can do unless you try.

Many people believe the glare from snow causes snow-blindness. Yet, dark glasses or not , they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snow-blindness, when exposed to several hours of “snow light”. The United States Army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snow-blindness in troops in a snow-covered country. Rather, a man's eyes frequently find nothing to focus on in a broad expanse of barren (少植被的) snow-covered terrain (地形). So his gaze continually shifts and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding nothing, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become sore and the eye muscles ache. Nature eases this irritation by producing more fluid which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until vision blurs (模糊), then is obscured (遮蔽), and the result is total, even though temporary, snow-blindness.
Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts ahead of a main body of troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow-covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark colored objects ahead on which they too can focus. The men following can then see something. Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop scouring the snow-blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time, the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snow-blind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a solid white terrain is overcome.
小題1:To prevent headaches, watering eyes and blindness caused by the glare from snow, dark
glasses are _________.

A．indispensable and essential

B．useful

C．ineffective

D．a(chǎn)vailable

小題2:When the eyes are sore tears are produced to _________.

A．balance the pain	B．treat snow-blindness
C．clear the vision	D．loosen the muscles

小題3:Snow-blindness may be avoided by _________.

A．concentrating on the solid white terrain

B．searching for something to look at in snow-covered terrain

C．providing the eyes with something to focus on

D．covering the eyeballs with more fluid

小題4:The scouts shake snow from evergreen bushes in order to _________.

A．prevent the men behind losing their way

B．beautify the landscape of the terrain

C．warm themselves in the severe cold

D．give the men behind something to see

小題5:A suitable title for this passage would be _________.

A．nature's cure for snow-blindness

B．snow-blindness and how to overcome it

C．soldiers marching in the snow

D．snow vision and its effect on eyesight

For my daughter's 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didn't really have the    ____   but we knew how much this band meant to her.
The night before she was like a  ____   at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to    ____   with us, because she couldn't   ___. On the night of the   ____   it was good to see her so    ____    and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off.
Needless to say when they   ____    after midnight, with T­shirts and lots of pictures of the band,    ____    her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well   ____. This will be a memory she would   ____   forget, and nor would we.
____   full of excitement from the night before, the following day they   ___   to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I   ____， loving the fact that she had not   ____ that quality as she grew up.
Later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a   ____    each. On each present were the words “Because you are the    ____   mum/dad in the world”. When we said our thank­yous and told her she didn't have to, we asked her   ____   she had bought us gifts. Her    ____   was simply “Just because I love you”．
This wasn't something   ____    from our daughter; she had always given us a gift when she wanted to express her  ____， and each gift was always a welcome surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldn't have mattered, and it was  the act itself and the feelings behind it.

小題1:	A．money B．time C．interest D．news

小題2:	A．worker B．baby C．kid D．parent

小題3:	A．dance B．learn C．walk D．sit

小題4:	A．speak B．sleep C．stand D．leave

小題5:	A．concert B．holiday C．party D．travel

小題6:	A．healthy B．happy C．pretty D．surprised

小題7:	A．stayed B．left C．returned D．turned

小題8:	A．worrying about B．caring for C．looking at D．listening to

小題9:	A．lent B．earned C．saved D．spent

小題10:

A．ever B．never C．often D．neither

小題11:

A．Still B．Only C．Just D．Also

小題12:

A．continued B．tried C．decided D．struggled

小題13:

A．refused B．cried C．shouted D．laughed

小題14:

A．kept B．lost C．realized D．discovered

小題15:

A．gift B．prize C．ticket D．picture

小題16:

A．richest B．oldest C．best D．cleverest

小題17:

A．where B．how C．when D．why

小題18:

A．way B．a(chǎn)nswer C．suggestion D．idea

小題19:

A．important B．ordinary C．new D．valuable

小題20:

A．feelings B．concerns C．understandings D．opinions

Most city parks are places where you can escape from big, ugly structures of metal and stone. The Manhattan High Line is different. Raised 25 feet above the ground, this massive metal structure once supported a rail line. The line opened in 1934 to bring trains directly into factories and warehouses. It was hardly used after the 1960s, and much of it was torn down. However, one section remained in an area of Manhattan called Chelsea. Chelsea was becoming more and more valuable as restaurants, art galleries and apartments were built, but the ugly railway structure remained as a dead weight. Everyone knew that at some time, it would have to be removed.
But the High Line was not destroyed. In fact, now the old rail line serves as one of the most peaceful places in the city. It holds an elevated park, with beautiful gardens, a sidewalk and great views of the city. The idea to change the rail line into a park came from Joshua David and Robert Hammond. In 1999, they attended a community meeting to decide the fate(命運) of the High Line. David and Hammond were the only people at the meeting interested in saving the structure for its historical significance. Later on, when they asked railway officials to take them up to look at the High Line, they saw a mile and a half of wild flowers growing in the middle of the city, and they realized that the High Line had potential to become a park. There was growing interest in improving urban centers, and so the project quickly won support and funds for construction were easily obtained.
The first section of the High Line opened in 2009 and immediately became popular with tourists and locals alike. Each part of the park has a different atmosphere. Some areas are like balconies (陽臺)with wonderful city views. Where the rail line goes between buildings, trees are thickly planted. Other sections have wide walkways planted with wild flowers. Only the final section remains the way it has been for the last fifty years – a railway line overgrown with weeds.
小題1:The underlined phrase “a dead weight” in Paragraph 1 means_____.

A．something with potential to be better.

B．something with historical interest.

C．something which is a danger to people.

D．something useless which slows progress.

小題2:According to Paragraph 2, David and Hammond wanted to save the High Line because they_____.

A．thought it had historical value

B．wanted to reopen the train line

C．thought it would bring them money

D．were interested in improving the city

小題3:From the last paragraph, we can learn that the park ______.

A．is different in its design

B．is covered with trees

C．didn’t change at all

D．became a natural countryside

小題4:Which of the following is NOT true about the High Line?

A．It is situated above ground level.

B．Only part of the line remains.

C．It is now a popular park.

D．Trains still use the line.