Unit 3 The earth 知识点题库

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News Review

Head on Train Crash   On May 18, two trains had a head on crash (相撞） near New York City. Over 250 people were on the trains then. About 60 people were hurt, but no deaths were reported.

Travel Time   Tourists came together to the Taishan Mountain, on May 1. Over 180,000 tourists visited the place of great interest from April 29 to May 1, during the three day holiday.

Brave Volunteer    Liao Zhi, a dance teacher from Chengdu who lost her 1 year old daughter and her legs in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, arrived in Ya'an 13 hours after the earthquake. The dancer said she had had a terrible time herself and knew what people needed most, so she decided to come and offer help.

Tomato Competition    A tomato competition was held in Huain an, Anhui Province, on April 16. The best tomatoes were chosen according to their shape, color and taste. The competition hoped to encourage the farmers to grow better tomatoes.

    Once there was a boy named Jimmy. He started drawing when he was three years old, and when he was five he was already very     1 at it. He drew many beautiful and interesting pictures, and many people 2 his pictures. They thought this boy was going to be 3 when he was a little older, and then they were going to 4 these pictures for a lot of money.

    Jimmy's pictures were quite different from other 5, because he never drew on all of the paper. He drew on 6 of it, and the other half was always 7.

    “That's very 8,” everybody said. “No other people have ever done that before”.

    One day, somebody asked him, “Please 9 me, Jimmy. Why do you draw on the bottom (底部) half of your pictures, but not on the top half.”

    “Because I'm small,” Jimmy said, “and my brushes can't 10 very high.”

    It's a good day to be a panda. Starting from September 11, the (panda) are not the world's "endangered (濒危的) animals".

    There are about 1, 850 pandas in the wild in (Chinese) now. In 2003, the number (be) 1, 600.

    China sets up reserves (保护区) and plants a lot of bamboo (forest). Now, about two thirds of pandas are living in the 67 panda reserves.

    Baby pandas are only 15cm long—it's as small as pencil! They are also born blind (盲的) and only open (they) eyes six to eight weeks after birth. So researchers need to take (real) good care of them in labs (实验室). there is still bad news.

    "Our planet is (get) warmer. It's going to get too hot for the bamboo to grow. More than a third of bamboo forests could go away within 80 years," scientists say. It's still dangerous pandas.

    The Earth moves round the Sun, and the Moon moves round the Earth. When the part of the Earth turns to the Sun, it is day. When the part of the Earth 1 away from the Sun, it is night. The Sun is much 2 than the Moon. But sometimes the Moon 3 bigger than the Sun, because it's much 4 to the 5. The Sun is very bright. It 6 very strong light. The Moon looks quite bright 7. But it 8 give any light at all. The light from the Moon comes 9 the Sun. The Moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But in fact the stars are much bigger and brighter than the Moon. They look 10 than the Moon because they're much farther away from us.

There near my home.

—We have to hand in our homework on time.

—Try not to buy or eat chicken that have not been checked.

—Oh, it' s a large; house.

—Oh, I plan to plant some vegetables in the__________ in front of our house.

Air pollution is one of the most serious problems for people nowadays. But some people in the US say that they have found a way to solve the problem. In many

cities, hundreds of people ride bikes instead of (代替) taking a bus or driving a car to work every day. In New York, some bike riders even make a group. Its name is "Bike for a Better City" They say if more people ride bikes to work, there will be fewer cars and less air pollution. They want to solve the problem of air pollution.

The members in the group always try to get help for the bike riders. They want to build roads for bikes only because it's not safe for bike riders to use the same roads with car drivers. Members of "Bike for a Better City" think that if there are bike roads, more people will ride bikes to work. They are working hard for this thought.

But there aren't any bike roads now. In the city, not everyone thinks it is a good idea to build bike roads because it costs much money and time. And car drivers don't like the idea, either. Because many people live too far away from their working places, they can't go to work by bike.

I am so hungry now. I would like milk.