What do Florida panthers eat?
Panthers only eat meat. Panthers eat deer, wild hogs, raccoons, armadillos, and rabbits. Sometimes they eat birds and even alligators. No panther has ever even killed a person.
What kinds of families do panthers have?
Panther females and kittens make up the panther family. The father does not help take care of the kittens. Panthers may have from 1 to 4 kittens. Panthers leave their mothers when they are about 2 years old. Growing up is harder for boy panthers than girl panthers. Girls often stay near their mother. Boys must try to find a home range of their own.
Where do Florida panthers live?
Panthers need lots of land. The area where a panther hunts is its home range. They prefer hardwood hammocks and pine forest with lots of palmettos for their range. Panthers usually rest during the day hidden in thickets of palmetto. At dusk they begin to travel and hunt. Unless you are very lucky, you will probably never see a panther in the wild. But you can help them by protecting the lands they need to keep alive. You can support efforts to recover the panther from being endangered.
53. Which of the following looks like the panther most?
A. B. C. D. 54. The underlined word “extinct” means “________”. A. dead B. brave C. bright D. natural 55. The panther was chosen as the state animal mainly because ______. A. No panther has ever even killed a person. B. The panther is beautiful and full of energy. C. People will never see a panther in the wild. D. Panthers leave their mothers at an early age. 56. How do people protect the panther in Florida? A. They take panthers to the zoo. B. They give panthers enough meat. C. They keep the land safe for panthers. D. They help to look after small panthers.
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When we found Tony, he was a sorry sight. His clothes were dirty. There was blood all over his arm. Before we reached him we saw him fall. He lay a moment. Then he pulled himself to his feet, walked a few yards with difficulty through the woods and fell again. When we lifted him off the ground, he tried to break away and run, like a wild animal.
After we got him out, we went back to find the gun that he had thrown down. His footprints showed that for two days he had circled in the forest, within 200 yards of the
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road. His senses were so weak by fear that he did not hear the cars going by or see the lights at night. He was very tired. We found him just in time. This man, like others before him, was full of fear when he knew he was lost.
Whatever sense of direction that a man may have, it’s still largely a question of watching out. An experienced woodsman always keeps an eye on the things around him. He notes the shape of a mountain, the direction that water flows through the mountain, and everything along with him when he travels—how a tree leans across it and how a rock stands. He sees the way and the general flows of water. With these in mind, he may be turned around many times, but his way is seldom lost.
There are exceptions, of course, and once in a while a man does get into some strange difficulty that puts him into the “lost” column. A rainstorm may catch him without a compass to show him the direction. Darkness may find him in a very hard situation, where travel is dangerous without a light. When this happens, the normal first reaction is the fear of difficulty as a result of this poor woodsmanship. He may also worry about the trouble that he will cause his friends when he doesn’t show up. If he is short of experience, he may keep on the move in an effort to find the camp against all bad happenings. And the result is that he might walk in circles or in the wrong direction and in the end beat himself out physically and mentally—he will be found mad and crazy.
57. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. Tony went to look for a wild animal. B. Tony found his gun in the circle he walked. C. A man will be full of fear when he gets lost. D. A man won’t get lost if he has a sense of direction. 58. The word “woodsmanship” refers to ______.
A. ways of protecting the forest B. the art of travelling in the forests C. the experience of finding a lost man D. skills of helping people in the woods 59. What can be the best title for the passage? A. Don’t Be Mad B. Fears in the Forest C. Easy to Get Lost D. What to Do in the Forest
七、阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳
选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。（共8分，每小题2分）
Have you ever wondered why toy bears are called Teddy Bears? Why not Harry or Joe or Jane? 60 .
The president was Teddy Roosevelt. He was the 26th president of the United States. In 1902 Roosevelt went bear hunting（狩猎）with some friends. 61 . He couldn’t seem to find anything. His friends found a black bear, and tied it to a tree. They thought that Roosevelt would want to shoot it with his gun. When Roosevelt saw the bear, he refused to kill it. Shooting a bear tied to a tree wasn’t fair! 62 . [来源学科网] 30
A newspaper artist heard the story of the bear hunt and drew a cartoon about it. 63 . He made a toy bear. Later he was allowed to use President Roosevelt’s name for the bears he made. The “Teddy Bear” was born! A. He let the bear go B. They had a good time in the forest C. However, his hunt was going poorly that day D. Morris Michtom, owner of a toy store, saw the cartoon E. The answer comes from a story about a U.S. president and a bear
八、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分） So if you’re too busy, maybe it’s time you slowed down and enjoyed a meal with a friend. There has been a new trend（趋势）in food recently — getting away from fast food and moving toward “slow food”. For years, the pace of life was increasing for most people. They were too busy to cook. The trouble including buying, preparing and cleaning up after a meal was becoming more bother than it was worth clearly. Luckily, there were smart business people who took the chance to provide a “fast” way to deal with the problem. Almost overnight, you could drop by the supermarket and buy complete meals in packages. All you had to do was to heat it and you could be eating a delicious meal in 5 minutes. Just add salt. Still too slow? OK, just drive your car up to the fast-food restaurant, order your meal and within 2 minutes it will be handed over to you with salt. The problem is health. Fast food has much more oil, salt and empty calories and far less vitamins than food freshly prepared at home. And so, since people have always wanted to live longer and healthier, a small but growing population is choosing not only fresh food, but also organically（有机）grown food — food that hasn’t been grown with chemical fertilizers（化肥）. Another reason for changes in eating habits is undoubtedly social. Over the centuries, meal times have been used to visit, laugh and learn. That doesn’t fit with today’s lifestyle and many people are looking for ways to return to that. Goodbye McDonald’s. Finally, there’s something unique about planning your meal, buying just the right ingredients and seeing something on your table that looks just like the picture in your recipe book. So if you’re too busy, maybe it’s time you slowed down and enjoyed a meal with a friend.
64. Do some people begin to eat “slow food”? 65. Why did people start eating fast food?
66. Where can people get a meal in two minutes? 67. What is meant by “Goodbye McDonald”?
68. What are the advantages of food prepared at home?
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九、完成句子（共10分，每小题2分）
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根据中文意思完成句子。 69. 莉莉，你怎么了？
Lily, you?
70. 我可以给他留个口信吗？
a message to him? 71. 杰瑞既学英语也学汉语。
Jerry .
72. 九点前完成作业是有可能的。
before 9 o’clock.
73. 为了赶上同学，他尽了最大的努力。
In . 十、文段表达 （15分）
根据中文和英文提示，写一封意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于60词的回信。信的开头和结尾已给出，其词数不计入所完成的回信内。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。
74. 成长中每个人都受到周围的人帮助。在你即将初中毕业之际，班里召开以
“Thank You” 为主题的英语班会，请你准备发言稿。描述你要感谢的一位同学（Wang Hong），简单陈述理由，并谈谈感受。
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