（2015•张家界）A thirsty crow (乌鸦)comes across(偶然遇到) a bottle of water, but the water level is out of its ...

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A thirsty crow (乌鸦)comes across(偶然遇到) a bottle of water, but the water level is out of its reach. The bird then drops some stones into it and gets the water.

“It's just a story,”you may think. But new research has found that crows' brains may sometimes be better than those of 6-year-old children.

In a recent experiment, American scientist Corina Logan and her team caught six crows to test them. The crows and children had to choose between two sets of tubes(试管). They had to drop stones in and get water.

With the red set, when they dropped a stone into a wide tube, the water level raised in a connected narrow tube. The blue set of tubes, however, had no connection between them.

Children aged 7 to 10 were able to learn the rule. Children aged 4-6, however, failed.Five of the six crows failed the test. But Kitty, a 6-month-old crow, passed it. She put most of the stones into the red tubes.

So, could a bird be more clever than a kindergartner? Don't be too quick to say no.

（1）、The first paragraph is ______ about crows.

A、a piece of news B、a story C、a truth

（2）、_____ failed the test?

A、Kitty B、Children aged 7 to 10 C、Children aged 4 to 6

（3）、From the text, we know crows' brains may ______ be better than those of 6-year-old children.

A、sometimes B、always C、never

（4）、How many crows did the team do the experiment on?

A、5 B、6 C、7

（5）、What does the underlined word kindergartner mean?

A、幼儿园小朋友 B、幼儿园教师 C、幼儿园

举一反三

One midnight, a little girl woke up to pass water. She by herself got up and down her bed, walked to the bedroom door and opened it. She looked outside and walked back, for it was so dark in the hall that she feared.
Her mother said, “Don't be afraid, honey. Take courage!”
“What's courage?” she asked, running to her mother'' bed.
“Courage is the brave breath,”her mother answered.
“Mum, do you have courage?”
“Certainly.”
The girl held out her little hands, saying, “Mum, blow some of your breath of courage to me.”
After her mother blew out two mouthfuls of breath into her little cold hands, the little girl clenched her fists(握拳) nervously, afraid that the “breath of courage” would run away. Then with her fists clenched, she walked out of the bedroom towards the bathroom with nothing to fear.
Her mother said to herself, “It will be nice if someone can blow some kind of ‘breath' to me. Then I can hold it in my hands too when I feel terrified or lost.”
In fact, mostly, what we are terrified of is nothing but the fear in our mind. Who we should defeat(战胜) is nobody but ourselves.

       There was once a farmer. He lived near a road. It was not a busy road, but from time to time, cars passed the farm.
       Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. This road was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was not deep.
       Then when they drove into the hole, they could not drive out because it was too deep.
The farmer did not spend much time working on his farm. He spent most of it watching the hole.
When a car drove into it, he pulled the car out with his tractor(拖拉机) and the driver gave him a lot of money for doing this.
One day, the driver of a car said to him, “You must make a lot of money by pulling cars out of this hole night and day.”
   “Oh, no,” the farmer said. “I don't pull cars out of the hole at night. At night I fill(填) the hole with water.”

根据短文内容的理解，选择正确答案。

Lin Dan is a famous badminton player. He didn't win the gold medal this year but many people know him because he won the gold medals in 2008 and 2012. He is from Fujian. He was born on October 14, 1983. He lives with his parents, grandmother and his wife now. Lin Dan's favorite player is Jordan. Jordan is a basketball player. Lin loves Coke. He likes pets, but dog is his favorite. Many young people love him very much. They think Lin Dan is their super star. They also call him Super Dan.

阅读理解

I have two good friends. They are Gina and Jenny, and they are twin (双胞胎之一的) sisters. They come from Singapore. They are 12 years old. They can speak English and Chinese.

Now the twins are in China. Their family are in China, too. They live in Shanghai. There are five people in their family. They are their parents, their brother and them. Their mother is a doctor. Their father is a teacher. Their brother Alan is very young. He is four years old. He can't go to school.

Gina, Jenny and I are in the same class. Every day, we walk to school and talk a lot. They say China is a very good place and they like China.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、c、D四个选项中选择可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

Gustavo's favourite sport is football, when he was only four, his older brother taught him how to play it. Now Gustavo is eight, and he has a lot of 1 Gustavo's brother likes to kick (踢) the ball with his right foot, 2 Gustavo doesn't. He likes to kick it with his left foot. Gustavo calls it his lucky left foot. All of Gustavo's friends love to play football when they get out of 3

Earlier this year, a new boy came to Gustavo' s school. His name is Felipe. One day, the boys asked Felipe to play football with them after school. Felipe said OK but looked very 4 .

As they walked to the football field, Gustavo asked Felipe, "Are you all right?" Felipe said, "I don't know 5 to play football. I tried once and everybody laughed at (嘲笑) me." "Don't worry," said Gustavo. "I was really bad too when I first started playing football. 6 just have to keep (保持) trying."

The game started, and Gustavo moved to the from of the field and was ready to kick the ball with his lucky left foot. Gustavo felt 7 every time he played football and today he was playing even better than usual.

After the game, Gustavo and Felipe stayed on the field to practise Felipe was a little bit 8 . Then Gustavo and Felipe practised on the football field every day after the other boys 9 Felipe .also practised before school.

Now Felipe loves playing football, and Gustavo has a new 10 Gustavo believes that Felipe will be able to score his first goal (进球) soon.

阅读理解

Tom is ten years old. He loves watching TV. But for one year, he didn't watch TV at all. What was the reason? Tom's parents said they would give him $600 if he didn't watch TV for a year. Tom's parents thought he watched TV too much.

One day his mother read a story in a newspaper about a boy who didn't watch TV for a year. She showed the story to Tom. Tom liked the idea. He turned off the TV right away, and said," It doesn't trouble me not to watch TV. I just want the money. "At first, Tom's parents were very happy. Tom read books and newspapers, played outside, and played computer games, but soon he got bored.

Every evening, he asked his parents." What are we doing tonight?" Sometimes his mother and father wished he would watch TV just for one evening. Tom always said," No, it would cost me money!" Finally the year was over, Then Tom started watching his favorite TV shows all day again. Tom got the money from his parents. What did he plan to do with the $600?"I want to buy myself a TV set!" he said.

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