Many people may think that animals in the zoo are happy, free and lucky, but most of them are sad. Do you know why? Animals like tigers, lions, and bears usually live in forests or mountains. They run, jump, play with their children and catch small animals for food. But now they have to stay in cages ,small rooms in the zoo. They don’t have to find food by themselves because the zoo keepers feed them. They do nothing but eat, walk and sleep every day. Their life in the zoo is quite different from that in the forest because they are not free. Maybe they miss their mothers and their friends, in fact, they feel lonely.
【小題1】Most of the animals in the zoo feel ______ according to the passage.

Read “The Curious Kiwi” and answer questions 1 to 6.

　　INTRODUCTION

　　The Kiwi lives only in New Zealand. It looks a bit like a long-beaked chicken, but it has no tail and it cannot fly.

　　Its tiny wings are completely hidden among the hair-like feathers. Kiwis are shy birds that live mainly in fern-filled forests. They sleep in burrows by day and come out to feed at night. They eat worms and insects that live in the soil or among dead leaves. They also enjoy fallen fruit.

　　Survival Watch

　　Kiwis are becoming rare, largely because so many have been killed by the cats, dogs and other animals that people have taken to New Zealand.

　　Kiwi Facts

　　The kiwi is up to 45 cm long, including its beak. It gets its name from its call of ki-wee.

　　The female weighs only 4 kg, but she can lay two eggs weighing about 500 grams each.

　　That's nearly ten times as heavy as a chicken's egg.

　　The kiwi is a very strange-looking bird. Its dark coat looks more like shaggy hair than feathers.

　　The nostrils at the tip of the beak can smell worms and other food several centimetres below the ground.

1．What do kiwis eat?

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A．worms and insects

B．ferns and fallen fruit

C．ferns and forest plants

D．dead leaves and fallen fruit

2．The female kiwi can lay an egg that weighs about ________.

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3．Which of the following words from the text describes the personality of kiwis?

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4．The kiwi has been given its name because it ________.

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A．feeds at night

B．has a call that sounds like “ki-wee”

C．is able to lay two eggs

D．sleeps during the day

5．The ward closest in meaning to “several”, as it is used in the passage is ________.

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6．Kiwis are becoming rare because ________.

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A．there are not many forests left

B．they don't lay enough eggs

C．they are being killed by other animals

D．their food is hard to catch

完形填空

　　Learning is natural. It begins as soon as we were 1 . Our 2 teachers are our families. At Home we learn to dress and feed ourselves.

　　Then we go to school. A teacher tells us what to learn and how to learn. Many teachers teach us and we pass many 3 . Then people say we are educated.

　　Are we really educated? Let's think about the real meaning of 4 . Knowing facts does not mean being able to 5 problems. Solving problems 6 creativity, not just a good 7 . Some people who don't know many facts are good at solving problems.

　　What does a good teacher do? Does he give students facts to 8 ? Well, yes, we must remember facts. But a person who only remembers facts hasn't really learned. A good teacher 9 how to find answers. He brings us to the stream (溪) of knowledge. So we can 10 for ourselves. When we are thirsty, we know where to go.