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Unit 3 It must belong to Carla.
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A
A few days ago,a strange thing happened in my life.Every night I heard a strange
sound outside the window.I was nervous and didn't know what to do.I thought there
might be a thief standing outside the window.I asked my parents to see what it was.But
they found nothing.That lasted for a few days.I couldn't sleep well.Sometimes I even
couldn't fall asleep.One day,I bought a flashlight()in a market.At midnight,as
soon as I heard the strange sound,I jumped out of my bed.With the help of the
flashlight,I found a black cat jumping up and down at the window fence.He wanted to
make friends with my cat,but couldn't get into our house.So he had to appear on the
window fence every night.Do you think it is strange?Have you ever seen such kind of
strange thing in your life?
1.What happened to the writer a few days ago?
Every night he heard
2.What did the writer do after he heard the strange sound constantly?
He bought
3.What made the strange sound?
4.What does the underlined word"they"refer to?
It refers to
5.What did the black cat want to do?
He wanted to
B
On the dark night of May 5 in the year 1110,the moon slowly disappeared.Though
the stars and the sky could be clearly seen,the moon couldn't be seen until nearly
daytime.People expressed their worries about it,but nobody knew what happened.For
over 900 years,scientists have been trying to figure out what caused the strange event.
However,hardly anybody was able to come up with any ideas.
Now scientists have finally found an answer-volcanoes()!The forgotten
eruptions()of Japan's Mount Asama happened around the beginning of September in
1108 and lasted nearly two months.A lot of ash()was produced.It moved slowly
towards the sky and finally covered the moon.
But how did scientists discover this?They had to look at the ice from Greenland and
Antarctica.The huge ice is useful to scientific study.It can show what the climate()
was like a long period of time ago and what was in the air at