1、English Assignment Unit one （1）Time:40mEditor: Miao WeiyanProofreader: Zhao Sulan Unit 2 The United Kingdom (2)阅读理解ADear Alfred,I want to tell you how important your help is to my life.Growing up, I had people telling me I was too slow, though, with an IQ of 150 at 17, Im anything but stupid. The fa
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9、ia condors are North Americas largest birds, with wind-length of up to 3 meters. In the 1980s, electrical lines an d lead poisoning(铅中毒) nearly drove them to dying out. Now, electric shock training and medical treatment are helping to rescue these big birds.In the late 1980s, the last few condors we
10、re taken from the wild, and there are now more than 150 flying over California and nearby Arizona, Utah and Baja in Mexico.Electrical lines have been killing them off. “As they go in to rest for the night, they just dont see the power lines,” says Bruce Rideout of San Diego Zoo. Their wings can brid
11、ge the gap between lines, resulting in electrocution(电死) if they touch two lines at once.So scientists have come up with a shocking idea. Tall poles, placed in large training areas, teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock. Before the tra
12、ining was introduced, 66% of set-freed condors died of electrocution. This has now dropped to 18%.Lead poisonous has proved more difficult to deal with. When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead. This affects their nervous systems and ability
13、 to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney(肾) failures and death. So condors with high levels of lead are sent to Los Angeles Zoo, where they are treated with calcium EDTA, a chemical that removes lead from the blood over several days. This work is starting to pay off. The annual death rate for
14、adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5.4% in 2011. Rideouts team thinks that the California condors average survival time in the wild is now just under eight years. “Although these measures are not effective forever, they are vital for now,” he says. “They are truly good birds that are wort
15、h every effort we put into recovering them. ”4. California condors attract researchers interest because they .A. are active at night B. had to be bred in the wildC. are found only in California D. almost died out in the 1980s5. Researchers have found electrical lines are .A. blocking condors journey
16、 home B. big killers of California condorsC. rest places for condors at night D. used to keep condors away6. According to Paragraph 5, lead poisoning .A. makes condors too nervous to fly B. has little effect on condors kidneysC. can hardly be gotten rid of form condors bloodD. makes it different for
17、 condors to produce baby birds7.The passage shows that .A. the average survival time of condors is satisfactoryB. Rideouts research interest lies in electric engineeringC. the efforts to protect condors have brought good resultsD. researchers have found the final answers to the problem语法填空Food is a
18、hot issue in China. Eating, 1 (consider) to be an important part of each day, is far beyond simply meeting a need; 2 now, people sometimes hardly have time to enjoy their food, because they are living in a fast-paced society. They need fast food. Thats 3 Chinas fast-food market expands.The first for
19、eign fast-food restaurant to arrive in China was called KFC, quickly followed by Pizza Hut, McDonalds and so on. With the 4 (develop) of China, foreign fast-food chains are realizing high-speed growth in China. However, being unable 5 (provide) balanced nutrition, these “junk foods” 6 (criticize) by
20、 health experts for a long time The experts also show that some foreign fast food consists 7 certain cancer-causing chemicals. 8 (actual), the Chinese diet contains many of its own 9 (tradition) fast-food dishes. Among them, dumplings, soybean milk and noodles are the most popular. Compared with for
21、eign fast food, those are healthier. But many Chinese still enjoy the special taste and the good environment in the foreign fast-food chains. Its high time that they 10 (wake) up to the fact of the potential risks with foreign fast-food. Happy moment My wife is a foodie and so is my son. The teacher
22、 gave him an assignment to make a sentence like the example sentence, “if a drop of water means a greeting message, I want to give you an ocean.” Heres his answer: if a piece of meat means a slice of happiness, I want to give you a pig.定时练(2)13 BAC 47 DBDC 语法填空1. considered 2. but / yet 3. why 4. development 5. to provide6. have been criticized 7.of 8.Actually 9. traditional 10. woke / should wake
