Farley worked for the Canadian government. One day. he was 1 to learn more about wolves(狼). Do wolves kill lots of caribou(北美驯鹿)? Do they kill people?

    They gave him lots of food and clothes and guns. Then they put him on a plane and took him to 2. The plane put him down and went away. There were no houses or people in this place, but there were lots of animals and lots of wolves.

    People tell terrible stories about wolves. They say wolves like to kill and eat people. Farley remembered these stories，and he was 3. He had his gun with him 4.

    Then one day, he saw a group of wolves. There was a mother wolf with four baby wolves. A father wolf and another young wolf lived with them.

    Farley watched these wolves every day. The mother was a very 5 mother. She gave milk to her babies. She gave them lessons about life. They learned how to 6 food. The father wolf got food for the mother. The young wolf 7 the children. They were a nice, happy family-a wolf family. Farley did not need his 8 anymore. In a short time, he got on well with the wolf family. Farley watched them for five months. He learned many new things about wolves. He learned that many stories about wolves were 9. Wolves do not eat people, and they do not eat many large animals. And he also learned bad things about men. It was men who killed many caribou and wolves.

    Later, Farley wrote a book about wolves. He wanted people to 10 them and not to kill them.

根据短文理解, 从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳答案填空。

    Have you ever taken a tour of a zoo? If so, it's likely that the person who led you through the zoo helped you to learn a lot about the   1.

    Amelia Rinas is a high school student who lives in Ohio. One day Amelia 2   the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. The moment she saw the gorillas there, she left 3  about them. She wondered if they were getting the right foods.

    Amelia read all she could about gorillas and learned what they like to 4 . Then she started a "gorilla garden". She grows the fruit and vegetables that gorillas love to eat. Some of those foods are tomatoes, carrots, and strawberries. Amelia works with other volunteers in her community who use their 5   time to help Amelia and the gorillas. When they take the food to the zoo, the gorillas are thrilled. They look so excited!

    Who is responsible for Amelia's interest in animals? Amelia is a member of Roots& Shoots. Its members are young people who   6   animals and the environment. They helped Amelia understand that animals need our care too. The slogan on the Roots &Shoots Website is "Inspire, take action, make a difference." These words tell  7 the group is all about. The group urges(力劝) kids and grown-ups, including parents and teachers, to do what they can to make a   8where they live.

    When interviewed about her project, Amelia said, "I joined Roots & Shoots  9    I wanted to make a difference in the world."

      There are many 10 to make a difference in the world. Amelia Rinas' gorilla garden has helped make gorillas happier and healthier.

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    We can get the weather report on the Internet. We can also know it by watching TV or listening to the radio. But how can we know it without TVs, radios or the Internet? Now let me tell you some other ways.

    One way is to study the clouds. In fact, the higher the clouds are, the better the weather will be; the lower the clouds are, the worse the weather will be. If the thick and fluffy(轻软状的) clouds get bigger early in the day, then it will rain. If a sudden, cool and dark thunder­cloud appears, then a storm is about to come.

    Colours in the sky tell us about the weather, too. A golden ring around the moon warns us that a storm is on the way.

The rainbow has a message, too. If the sun is in the west and the rainbow is in the east, the rain will be moving away from you.

    Water is very important in our life. We drink it every day and1it to cook and wash things. We cannot live2water. But how can we save water?

    There are several ways to save water. Firstly， take shorter showers and don't leave the tap3when we don't need to use water.4 ， try to reuse water. It's the most important way for us to save water. At last， we should not5water so that we will have6water for years and years.

    To protect water is to7our life. Some people think there's much water8the Earth. In fact， there is only9water for us to use now. If we don't save it， it will surely be used out some day.

    So we should save water in order to save10. Do you think so?

    Have you heard of STEM education? STEM 1 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. It means students can learn these 2subjects in one class. And they work on many projects to practice 3 they learn STEM education is very 4 in the US.

    Now more than 600 5 middle schools bring in STEM education, according to the paper, en. Beijing, Yuying School is one of them.

    The school 6 the course in May. It invited college teachers to teach more than 80 students programming, robotics and other interdisciplinary(跨学科}的) knowledge.

    The teaching style is quite 7, Once teachers finish teaching basie knowledge, studentes will practice it 8. For example, after learning about electrie circuits(电路),students are required to design one that could control three lights 9.They have many projects to improve their hands-on 10 as well. Once, they had a "smart home" model design project. All the students competed to design a 11 model and make it "smart" .Liu Tianyou, 12, with 12 teammates, used computer programs and sensors to finish it. "If you open the door of the house, the lights will 13 automatically, "he said. Their work won the third prize.

    The class, develops students' creativity as well. 14 Learning mechanies and programming in the class, Zhao Hngyi, 14, made a Lego robot himself in eight 15.From assembling(组装)to testing he finished it on his own. The robot can catch things and walk on certain tracks under orders. " It's cool to make my idea come to life," he said.

    In some parts of the world, there are large deserts. There are no trees and 1 water there. Travellers must take food and 2 with them.

    The 3 animal that can walk through the desert is the camel. 4 can go without food and water for a long time, and besides (此外) he can carry heavy loads (负荷). People call the 5 "the ship of the desert".

    The camel is very big. He has one or two humps (驼峰) on his back, short ears and a long 6.

    The camel's humps hold fat (脂肪), and his stomach holds water in twelve pockets. 7 pocket has a mouth. The mouth closes, so the food and the water don't mix. When the camel 8 some water, he can get it out of the 9. The camel's food is 10 and leaves of trees.