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八年级上册
第10课时
Unit 4
一、阅读理解
A
The beaver(河狸)is mainly found in North
America.It is about three and a half feet long,
C.
D.
including the tail,which is a foot in length.
Beavers build themselves the most lovely huts to
)3.What is the advantage of the dam?
live in,and quite often a great number of these huts are
A.The dam keeps their huts away from
water.
placed close together,like the buildings in a town.They
always build their huts on the banks of rivers or lakes,
B.It is just a habit for the beaver to spend time.
C.The dam keeps the water at the height
as they swim much more easily than they walk,and
they wish.
prefer moving about in the water.
When they build on the bank of a running stream,
D.The beaver builds dams to show they can
they make a dam(堤坝)across the stream for the
do as well as a man.
purpose of keeping the water at the height they wish.
)4.Which might be the missing phrase in
These dams are usually made of mud ()stones and
paragraph 4?
the branches of trees.They are sometimes six or seven
A.The long time.
hundred feet in length and are built so well that they
B.The cold weather.
look more like the work of man than of little animals.
C.Their hard work.
Their huts are made of the same material as the
D.Their daily repair.
dams and are round in shape.They start building their
(
)5.What does the writer possibly want to tell us
houses late in the summer but do not get them finished
by telling the story in the last paragraph?
before the early frost(霜冻)._makes their huts
A.The beaver is cute animals.
tighter and stronger,so they keep working when it's
B.We should protect the beaver.
freezing.
C.The gentleman is not a good hunter.
A long time ago,beavers were hunted for their
D.The fur of the beaver is of great value.
fur.A hunter once saw five young beavers playing.
B
They were jumping on the branches of a tree that lay
Sasha Winkler is a graduate student at the
near a beaver dam and pushing one another off into the
University of California,Los Angeles(UCLA)