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中考盟号学员
英语
第4课时
Units 4-6
一、阅读理解
B.It is just a habit for the beaver to spend time.
A
C.The dam keeps the water at the height
The beaver(河狸)is mainly found in North
they wish.
America.It is about three and a half feet long,
D.The beaver builds dams to show they can
including the tail,which is a foot in length.
do as well as a man.
Beavers build themselves the most lovely huts to
)4.Which might be the missing phrase in
live in,and quite often a great number of these huts are
paragraph 4?
placed close together,like the buildings in a town.They
A.The long time.
always build their huts on the banks of rivers or lakes,
B.The cold weather.
as they swim much more easily than they walk,and
C.Their hard work.
prefer moving about in the water.
D.Their daily repair.
When they build on the bank of a running stream,
(
they make a dam(堤坝)across the stream for the
)5.What does the writer possibly want to tell us
by telling the story in the last paragraph?
purpose of keeping the water at the height they wish.
A.The beaver is cute animals.
These dams are usually made of mud ()stones and
B.We should protect the beaver.
the branches of trees.They are sometimes six or seven
hundred feet in length and are built so well that they
C.The gentleman is not a good hunter.
look more like the work of man than of little animals.
D.The fur of the beaver is of great value.
Their huts are made of the same material as the
B
dams and are round in shape.They start building their
Sasha Winkler is a graduate student at the
houses late in the summer but do not get them finished
University of California,Los Angeles(UCLA).Winkler
before the early frost(霜冻),makes their huts
works with small monkeys.These monkeys would play
tighter and stronger,so they keep working when it's
together by running after each other.One day,Winkler
freezing.
noticed a sound the animals made during the play.
A long time ago,beavers were hunted for their
6 But it,reminded Winkler of quiet laughter.This
fur.A hunter once saw five yo