[单项选择]The author seems to think that animal sacrifices were ______.

[单项选择]The author seems to think that railways are reminders of the______.


A. growing dislike in England of the Victorian age
B. benefits that the machine age has brought to man
C. ugliness and oppression that modem society has overcome
D. personal concern and solid beauty of a past age

[单选题]There is a man at the reception desk who seems very angry and I think he means ( ) trouble.
A. making
B. to make
C. to have made
D. having made

[单项选择]Woman: I think the author was indicating that he was supporting the war.
Man: He said one thing, but he meant another. You have to read between the lines.
Question: What should the woman do to fully understand the author
A. Leaving out unimportant parts.
B. Reading again and again.
C. Looking for other references.
D. Finding the hidden meanin

[单项选择]According to the text. animal welfare groups have succeeded in ______.


A. stopping all animal abuse in schools
B. establishing guidelines that ban classroom experiments harming animals
C. protecting animals from being experimented with in extracurricular projects
D. persuading two national science teachers associations to adopt an animal protection policy

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The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world. It is also, perhaps, the gentlest; but not always!
Elephants are like us in some ways. They live for a long time --- fifty or sixty years. They can remember things very well. They never forget great sadness or great happiness. When a female elephants dies, her daughters and
grandmothers are sad for many months. They stay with the dead body. Then they carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a dead friend.
Elephants are like us, but they are also different. They live in families, families of females. There will be a few young males --- a few “baby boys”. But the females will soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers, grandmothers and its great-grandmothers. The females stay together for fifty, sixty … a hundred years. The older animals look after the younger ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example. And what happen
A. Sometimes the female elephants visit a bull elephant.
B. Sometimes the younger females stay with the family for a time.
C. When a female elephant is old, the males leave the family.
D. A bull elephant sometimes stays with females for a time.

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The elephant is the only animal in the world with a trunk (the very long nose of an elephant), It uses its trunk (21) many ways. It (22) leaves off trees with its trunk and then puts them into its (23) . It can even uses its trunk to pull up trees when it wants to make a path through a jungle (热带丛林). It also uses its trunk to get (24) . The trunk can hold a lot of it, (25) an elephant needs to drink more than three hundred pints(品脱) of water every day. It has been easy for men to train elephants. All the elephants are considered useful in India (26) for white elephants. They are used to carry things for long distance in Indian forests. Many people say that some ancient Indian kings used to give white elephants to people they did not like. These white elephants were regarded as (27) animals. They could not be gave (28) to work. A person who owned a white elephant had to (29) a lot of money to keep it properly. After a
A. up
B. in
C. away
D. off

[单项选择]If the space animal theory is true, the creatures go down to the lower regions in order to ______.


A. escape detection
B. arouse curiosity
C. search for man-made energy
D. make contact with man

[单项选择]The selection says that every animal is a living radiator because it ______.
A. produces heat in its body cells
B. burns fuel to produce heat
C. gives off heat through its skin
D. requires oxygen to produces heat

[单项选择]The second concern seems to be contradictory to the first one in that it argues

[单项选择]Animal mothers are devoted to their young and ______ them with love and discipline.
A. mind
B. watch
C. help
D. tend

[单项选择]The animal with the biggest head（）its body is the ant.
A. in connection to
B. in relation to
C. in the course of
D. in terms of

[单项选择]There are strict laws about exporting______ animals.
A. alive
B. living
C. lively
D. live

[单项选择]The author of this passage seems to imply that Victorian novels ______.

[单项选择]It seems a reasonable rule of thumb that any genuine offer of help and support from people or organizations will be accompanied by a name and address, and a willingness to be ______ as to their motive in making contact.
A. seen through
B. checked out
C. touched on
D. accounted to

[单项选择]At the very beginning, the author seems to suggest that ______.


A. America is still not an affluent county
B. America has not done enough for those underprivileged
C. some people do not uphold the stated principle
D. America has a wrong idea of welfare