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浙江省杭州市锦绣育才教育集团2015-2016学年八年级下学期英语期中考试试卷
A.You should let your cat inside.
B. Going outside is bad for cats, too.
C. Keeping a cat is good for you.
D. The birds are fewer and fewer in America.
E. Cats can bring illness.
F. Cats kill many birds and small animals every year.
Many kinds of birds live in the United States,but the number of the birds is becoming smaller every year. One of the leading reasons is the growing number of pet cats. By keeping your pet cats in your home,you can help give birds a better possible chance to live.
Of the 90 million pet cats in this country,about twothirds are allowed to go outside. It is said that these cats kill hundreds of millions of birds each year as well as billions of small animals such as rabbits and field mice.
They can also bring illness to the animals that live in people's yard(院子),and further weakening(变弱)the health of the natural populations.
Allowing pet cats to go outside is not just bad for birds and wildlife(野生动物). It is bad for the cats themselves, too. Outdoor cats can get sick very easily. They may be in danger from traffic and attacks(攻击)from other animals. In fact,outdoor cats usually don't pass the age of five, while indoor cats often live to be 17 or older.
Keep your pet cat inside!If you raise a young cat, it's your duty to let it play inside.
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Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. He was the oldest of five children in a worker's family. He enjoyed going to the sea when he was a young boy.
He heard that there was a lot of gold and other valuable things in East India. He wanted to find a short way to get to the Indies by ship. On August 3, 1492, he sailed toward the west from Palos, Spain with three ships. After many days, the sailors had covered a long distance on the sea and were ready to turn around for home when they saw land, an island Columbus named San Salvador. He thought he had found the Indies and called the people he saw there “Indians”. When they got to Cuba, he thought he was in Japan. The world was a lot larger than he thought.
In his life, he made four trips across the ocean. His 13-year-old son, Ferdinand, went with him during the last time. He returned to Spain in 1504. Columbus did not become rich as he had hoped. At the end of his life he only had a pension(退休金) the king and the queen had given him because he was the first to reach the New World. He died in 1506, still believing that he had found a new route to East India and that he had reached Asia.
Columbus didn't get to school very much, but he learned to read and write Spanish during his travels. He also taught himself Latin because all the geography books were written in Latin. He is remembered by all not only for the New World he discovered, but also for the way he led for other explorers.
Christopher Columbus and His Sailing | |
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