【正文】 water they need from the plants they eat. Kangaroo rats keep cool by ing out only at night to look for food. Ringtail cats also e out only at night. Ringtail cats hunt and eat kangaroo rats. Coyotes eat both the kangaroo rats and the ringtail cats. Nothing is wasted(浪費 ) in a food web. Vultures eat dead animals. Vultures are scavengers(食腐動物 ). Scavengers do not hunt and kill other animals to get food. They eat animals that are already dead. When a ringtail cat or a coyote dies, it makes a meal for the vultures. Scavengers do an important job in keeping the environment(環(huán)境 ) clean. 1. Where does the energy that living things need first e from? A. Animals. B. Plants. C. The sun. D. Plant eaters. 2. Why do ringtail cats e out only at night? A. Because they are afraid of coyotes. B. Because they are shy animals. C. Because it is very hot in the daytime. D. Because they can eat kangaroo rats. 3. What kind of animal can be placed(被放置 ) in the empty box(?) of the picture?(看圖回答 ) A. Kangaroo. B. Vulture. C. Cat. D. Zebra. 4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage? A. Lions eat different kinds of animals. B. Plants are on the top of the food chain. C. Scavengers can keep the environment clean. D. Some animals get water from the plants they eat. 5. What?s the best title of the passage? A. Web of life B. Things that we eat C. Food in the desert D. Source(來源 ) of the food B One Saturday afternoon, Kate went to buy something for her sister and herself. As Kate was ing out of a shop, a young lady walked towards her. She said she was Miss Green a good friend of Kate?s sister. Kate believed her. Then she called a taxi to send Kate home. She told the driver where he should go. Kate was surprised that it was not the in direction of her home. “Why?” Kate asked. The lady smiled. When they came to a quiet road, a big rough man appeared(出現(xiàn) ) on the road. He stopped the taxi driver, knocked him down, and threw him out of the taxi. At the same time, Miss Green took out of a knife and pointed it at Kate. She asked Kate to keep quiet. The man then started the taxi. “ Oh, my God! I?m being kidnapped(綁架 ),” Kate thought to herself. She tried to escape, but not succeeded(成功 ). Suddenly an idea came to her. She took out a lipstick(口紅 ) from her pocket, wrote ?SOS? on the window, and covered the word with her back. A few minutes later, a police car passed and the policemen saw the sign. When the kidnappers saw the policemen they stopped the taxi, jumped into the grass, and ran away. The policemen then picked Kate up and sent her home. When her parents knew what had happened, they were greatly surprised. But they were also happy because their daughter had finally e back safely. 6. Kate bought something for _________. A. herself B. her sister and herself C. Miss Green D. a big rough man 7. _________called a taxi. A. Kate B. Kate?s sister C. Miss Green D. a big rough man does the underlined word escape mean? A. 逃跑 B. 走遠 C. 跳躍 D. 打扮 9. Kate wrote “SOS” on the window because _________. A. she had nothing to do B. she liked the sign C. she wanted to decorate the window D. she wanted to get some help 10. Which statement is true according to the passage? A. Miss Green was a good friend of Kate?s sister. B. Kate wrote “SOS” with a lipstick. C. The police caught the kidnappers at last. D. Kate?s parents were very afraid when they knew what had happened. C Taking away a city?s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks e into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of (由 組成 )things we can?t eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soon have a mountain of rubbish. In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of city to a dump(垃圾堆 ). Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system(系統(tǒng) ). The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places. To keep mice and flies(蒼蠅 ) away, People use some earth to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbishfilled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you?d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump. In other cities people burn the rubbish in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal(除了金屬 ). Sometimes people use the metal again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles .They slowly change into something called humus there, which looks like black earth. It is rich with the kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow. ?s the main idea of the article? let us know taking away rubbish is a big job. explain(解釋 ) the need for rubbish collection. introduce di