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1、初三英语报刊阅读训练（一）How to save the sheep肯尼亚少年发明灯光系统驱逐狮子，保护家畜。RICHARD Turere hates African lions.However,this 14-year-old Kenyan hasbecome an unlikely hero in protecting the king of the jungle.Since the age of 9,Turere was responsible for his family9s livestock（家畜）.Butthe lions living in the nearby Nairobi
2、 National Park often attacked the livestock.“We are enemies/9 Turere told the magazine Africa Geographic.People usually kill lions to solve the problem.As a result,the number of lions inKenya has dropped quickly.It has also harmed the countrys tourism andeconomy.Turere thought of another way to prot
3、ect his livestock.He noticed that when hewalked around the stockade（栅栏）with a flashlight（手电筒）at night,lionsnever attacked.Lions are naturally afraid of people and probably connected theflashlight with humans.This observation led to Turere9s invention-Lion Lights.Turere set up a system of flashing（闪烁
4、的）LED bulbs（灯泡）around his familysstockade.It draws electricity from the solar panel（太阳能板）and batteries thatare used to power their TV At night,the system gives the impression thatsomeone is walking around with a flashlight.Since setting up the system,the lionattacks stopped altogether.Whafs more ama
5、zing is that Turere never evenlearned electronics at school or through books.The invention got attention from many wildlife protection organizations.WildlifeDirect said the invention is a great success because it is cheap and easy toset up,and it“saves both lions and livestock95.Now Lion Lights are
6、used acrossKenya.Turere has been invited to talk about his invention at the famous TED conferenceon Feb 26 in the US.Choose the best answer:1.Why did Turerer say that he and the lions were enemies?A.Because he wanted to be the king of the jungle.B.Because the lions attacked one of his family members
7、.C.Because the lions often killed the livestock.D.Because the lions often broke into peoples houses.2.How did Turerer solve the problem?A.He used flashing LED bulbs to drive away the lions.B.He killed the lions with electricity.C.He guarded the livestock every night.D.He moved the TV set to the stoc
8、kade.3.How did Turerer invent Lion Lights?A.By learning electronics at school.B.By collecting ideas from tourists.C.By thinking and observing.D.By asking old people for advice.4.Which of the following is TRUE,according to the article?A.Turerer9s invention is expensive and hard to make.B.Lion Lights
9、wont be used across Kenya.C.Turere gave a speech about his invention in the UK.D.Wildlife Direct thinks highly of Turere9s invention.Clean your plate拒绝浪费，加入“光盘行动”。A waitress holds a plate encouraging diners tofinish all their food.XINHUAQi Haoran,a Junior 1 student at High School Attached to Harbin
10、Institute ofTechnology,was quite busy over the past winter vacation-and not just withhomework.Qi,together with 10 other classmates made a volunteer group to callon people to join the Clean Your Plate Campaign（“光盘行动”）.The 11 students went to many restaurants and told people the importance ofsaving fo
11、od.Excuse me,do you know that 950 million people around the worldstill havent got enough to eat?Please dont waste food.They would say thiskind of thing hundreds of times every day.The Clean Your Plate Campaign began on the Internet in January.It calls onpeople to reduce food waste.China in recent ye
12、ars has experienced serious problems with wasted food.CCTVreported in January that the food Chinese people waste every year is enough tofeed 200 million people for a year.Chinese people are well known for being hospitable（好客的）and Many evenfeel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all theug
13、enerous.food.Luckily,the campaign has got the support of many.In a restaurant in Xinjiang,the owner give the guests who have eaten all that they ordered a sticker（贴花）.People can enjoy a free meal when they have 10 stickers.Move than 750restaurants in Beijing have begun to offer smaller dishes and en
14、courage theirguests to take leftovers（剩饭剩菜）home.To reduce food waste is a big task,and it needs time.Ifs important thateveryone does their bit,just like Qi.Did you finish your meals today?A worldwide problemWasting food is a serious problem around the world.According to The Guardian,up to 2 billion
15、tons（吨）of food end up as waste every year.This is as much ashalf of all the food in the world.The UN Environment Program and the Foodand Agriculture Organization held a“Think,Eat,Save“program on Jan 24 tohelp reduce food waste.How to reduce food waste1.Do not order too much in a restaurant.Only orde
16、r as much as you want to eat.If you cannot eat all the food you ordered,take the rest of it home.2.Dont be too picky（挑剔的）about food.Some food may not taste great,butyour body needs it.3.Keep an eye on what food you have at home.Dont buy too much,especiallyvegetables and fruitChoose the best answer:（
17、）1.What did the 11 students do in the winter vacation?A.The helped each other with homework.B.They opened a restaurant together.C.They volunteered for a campaign.D.They collected money from customers in restaurants.（）2.The Clean Your Plate Campaign calls on people to.A.do volunteer work B.work part
18、time in restaurantsC.cut down on food waste D.wash your plates after dinner（）3.From Paragraphs 4-5,we learn t hat.A.wasting food is a serious problem in ChinaB.Chinese people waste the most food in the worldC.Chinese people want to show off that they are richD.most Chinese people are afraid of losin
19、g face at the table（）4.What did the restaurant in Xinjiang do to support the campaign?A.The owner would have dinner with those who had eaten up their food.B.It offered a free meal to the guests who had finished all their food ten times.C.It gave stickers to the guests who ordered small dishes.D.It e
20、ncouraged customers to take leftovers home.初三英语报刊阅读训练（二）T a ste th e f r u i t o f h a r d w o r kJAMES shook his money box again.Nothing!He carefully counted the coins thatlay on the bed.All that he had was$24.52（about 153 yuan）.The bicycle hewanted was at least$90!How on earth（究竟）was he going to g
21、et the rest of themoney?He knew that his friends all had bicycles.It was hard to hang out with peoplewhen you were the only one without a bicycle.He thought about what he coulddo.There was no point asking his parents,for he knew they had no extra money.There was only one way to get money,and that wa
22、s to earn it.He would have tofind a job.He decided to ask Mr Clay for advice.“Well,you can start right here,“said Mr Clay.“You see,my uvvindows needcleaning and my car needs washing.”That was the beginning of James part-time job.For the next three months heworked every day after finishing his homewo
23、rk.He took dogs for walks,clearedout cupboards and mended books.The day finally came when James counted his money and found$94.32.Hewasted no time and went down to the shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted.Herode home proudly,looking fonvard to showing his new bicycle to his It hadbeen hard working
24、for the money,but James knew that he valuedmfriends.（珍惜）his bicycle far more because he had bought it with his own money.He hadachieved what he thought was impossible,and that was worth even more thanthe bicycle.Key wordshang out 闲逛 Over the weekend I hung out with my friends and had a goodtime.mend
25、 v.修补 Can you mend the hole in my shirt?achieve v.完成,达至（J He hopes to achieve all his goals soon.Choose the best answer:1.Why didnt James ask his parents for help?A.Because they didnt love him.B.Because they didnt have extra money.C.Because they lived far away from him.D.Because they didnt need a bi
26、ke.2.James did the following jobs E X C E P T.A.walking dogs B.clearing out cupboardsC.cooking meals D.mending books3.How much money did James earn?A.$24.52 B.$90C.$94.32 D.$69.804.What does the writer want to tell us?A.We should buy everything we want.B.We should get what we want through hard work.
27、C.Parents shouldnt give children any money.D.We shouldnt show off new things to poor children.Why do wet fingers g e t.（P5）手指长时间泡在水里为什么会起皱？EVERYONE knows the strange feeling of yourfingers wrinkling up（起皱）when wet.Sometimeswhen in water,it seems as though your hands haveaged 30 years in a second.But
28、 is this an accident?Oris it something that nature has built into our bodies?Scientists at the University of Newcastle in the UKrecently did a test.They asked people to pick upthings（some wet and some dry）,and take them fromone place to another.Some people did this with dryhands,while others had to
29、leave their hands in waterfor 30 minutes first so that their skin was wrinkled.The study found that the second group-with wethands-had an advantage when carrying things that were also wet.According to the Daily Mail,scientist Tom Smulders said that this wrinkling ofour fingers in wet conditions coul
30、d have helped with gathering food from wetvegetation（植被）or streams（溪流）Wrinkling happens when blood vesselscontract（血管收缩）and pull the skin back.A long time ago,human beings lived a very difficult life in a brutal world,wherethe smallest Having wrinkled skin might have helped advantage could make ahug
31、e difference,people catch fish.This would help them get through the winter.These humans would then have had an advantage.Their genes（基因）would befavored by natural selection.Choose the best answer:（）1.The test shows t hat.A.people can carry dry things more easily than wet onesB.people can carry wet t
32、hings more easily than dry onesC.people with dry hands can carry wet things easilyD.people with wet hands can carry wet things easily()2.Tom Smulders believed that the wrinkling of our f i n g e r sA.is something nature has built into our bodiesB.does great harm to our healthC.has great advantages f
33、or people in wet conditionsD.happens when there is something wrong with blood vessels()3.From the last paragraph,we learn t hat.A.having wrinkled skin helped people keep warm in winterB.human beings lived on fish a long time agoC.humans with wrinkled skin had an advantage over those withoutD.humans
34、with wrinkled skin lived longer than those without()4.The article mainly talks a b o u t.A.the advantages of the wrinkling of our fingersB.the reasons for wrinkling of our fingersC.some physical changes of people through historyD.problems of people with wrinkled skin初三英语报刊阅读(三)No tears in spaceSPACE
35、 is a lonely place.Hundreds of thousands of kilometers from home,astronauts have a hard life.It stands to reason that,once in a while,they need tohave a good cry.But this is a lot harder than it sounds.We still know very little about space,and about living in zero gravity(重力).Infact,we are discoveri
36、ng new things every time astronauts take to the skies(andbeyond).As The Atlantic reported in January,crying is not all that simple inspace.This is because when a person normally cries,gravity makes their tearsmove downwards.But in a spacecraft,this is not the case.Here,there is nogravity,which is wh
37、y we so often see pictures of astronauts floating around.Thismeans that,strangely,when you cry your tears have nowhere to go.As a result,they just stick to your eyes.In May 2011,astronaut Andrew Feustel experienced this.“Tears,”as he said,“dont fall off of your eye.they just kind of stay there/9 Thi
38、s can be quite painful.In space,your eyes get very dry,and the added moisture is irritating(气人的).Sometimes,things get even weirder(更怪异的).The astronaut Ron Parise toldThe Atlantic that when tears get big enough,they“break free of the eye and floataround.No one can be quite sure why vve cry.Why should
39、 water in our eyes haveanything to do with feeling sad?If you stop to think about it,crying is a verystrange thing indeed.And now,thanks to the wonders of space,it just got evenstranger.By Thomas Hale,21st Century Teens staffChoose the best answer:LThe first paragraph mainly wants to tell us t hat.A
40、.living in space is lonely B.its easy to teel sad in spaceC.its hard to cry in space D.nobody wants to live in space2.1 f astronauts cry in a spacecraft,their tears wi l l.A.move downwards B.move upwardsC.go out of the window D.stick to their eyes3.What can we learn from the passage?A.In space our e
41、yes are very wet.B.Tears will float around if they are big enough in space.C.People know everything about living in zero gravity.D.Gravity makes peoples tears move upwards in space.4.Astronauts feel if tears are always in their eyes.A.sad B.comfortableC.happy D.uncomfortableReturning a fathers love（
42、P6）HE was a single father,raising a5-year-old boy alone.He was oftenworried uabout his son growing upwithout a mother to care for him.One day he went away on business,leaving the child alone.He was worriedabout the child all the way,not knowingif he had eaten.But his child always toldhim not to worr
43、y.He went home quicklyafter finishing his work.When he got home,the child was deep asleep.He was tired out.When he wasabout to sleep himself,he was surprised to find an overturned（翻倒的）bowl ofnoodles under the quilt（被子）.He spanked（打屁股）his sleeping son angrily:Why are you so naughty（淘气的）,making the qu
44、ilt dirty?Who will wash it?”It was the first time that he had hithis boy after his wifes death（去世）.“I havent,the child explained with tears in his eyes.This is your supper,Daddy.In order to let his father eat dinner as soon as he got home,the childcooked two bowls of He was afraid histjnoodles:one f
45、or himself,the other onefor his father,fathers noodles would get cold,so he placed them under the quiltto keep them hot.Hearing this,the father hugged(拥抱)his boy tightly without saying a word.Key wordsraise v.养育；抚养It is difficult to raise a family in a large city.alone adv.独自地I dont like going out a
46、lone after dark.explain v.解释Will you please explain the third paragraph again for us?place v.晟 放 置She placed a book on the table.Sentence bank释义：因为儿子在成长过程中没了妈妈的照顾，他经常为儿子担心。u用法：be worried about 为.担心。He was worried about the test.释义：为了让爸爸一回家就能吃上晚饭，孩子煮了两碗面，一碗给自己，一碗给爸爸。B用法：soon a s 意为“一就%引导时间状语从句。若主句用一般
47、将来时，从句多用一般现在时表示将来的含义。ril call you as soon as I finish my homework.Share your thoughts单亲父亲倾尽全力照顾得不到母爱的儿子，正所谓“父爱如山”；而懂事的儿子也将世界上最单纯的爱回馈给了爸爸。有儿如此，夫复何求？Choose the best answer:()1.The father was often worried about his son,because the s on.A.was hard to get along with B.had no friends to play withC.didnt
48、listen to his fathers wordsD.didn9t have a mother from a young age()2.From Paragraph 2,we learn that the f a t h e r.A.didn9t like his work B.didnt believe in his sonC.paid a lot of attention to his sonD.couldn9t afford to pay for food()3.Why did the boy put a bowl of noodles under the quilt?A.Becau
49、se he didnt want his father to find them.B.Because he wanted to keep them hot for his father.C.Because he overturned them on the bed by mistake.D.Because he wanted to save them for the next day.()4.When the father heard the boys explanations,he went from beingtoA.angry;moved B.angry;calm C.calm;angr
50、y D.sorry;moved初三英语报刊阅读（四）Be brave when others w ontLONG,long ago,a king had a big rock placed in the middle of a very busyroad.Then he hid nearby to see if anyone would move the rock out of the way tomake it convenient for others.Some of the kings wealthiest supporters camepast and simply walked ar