美国小学四年级
春雨作文600字-卫生标语
美国小学四年级英语阅读理解题（1）
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Reading: Choose the best answer to each
question that follows the passage.
Dogs show their friendliness in many ways.
Read the selection below to learn the so called
man's best
friends.
Dogs Giving
a Hand
As traffic comes to a
halt at a busy intersection, a Labrador retriever
steps off the curb. The dog walks
confidently
to the other side of the street. His owner, a
blind college student, walks just behind him,
holding on to the handle of the dog’s leather
harness.
For the student, owning a well-
trained dog guide means freedom and independence.
The student can go
to and from class without
depending on anyone else for help. Working in
partnership with a dog guide, a
blind person
can go almost anywhere a sighted person can.
Together, dog and owner walk up and down
stairs. They board subways and buses. They go
to restaurants. The dog acts as the blind person’s
eyes,
guiding its owner safely wherever they
go.
Dog guides for the blind are probably
the most familiar of the service dogs. But did you
know that dogs
also act as ears for the deaf?
Hearing dogs learn to notice such important sounds
as those made by alarm
clocks, doorbells,
smoke detectors, sirens, and crying babies. They
alert their owners to a noise, and let
them know where the sound is coming
from. Dogs can be helpful partners for physically
disabled people,
too. At Canine Companions for
Independence, in Santa Rosa, California, dogs
learn to respond to 89
commands. These dogs
can push elevator buttons with their paws and pull
wheelchairs up steep
walkways. They carry
their owners’ belongings in special dogpacks, open
and close doors, turn on lights,
and even pay
for purchases. For some disabled children, having
a canine companion gives them the
chance to go
places they’ve never gone before. The dogs often
enable adults to take jobs and live on their
own for the first time.
At some
hospitals and nursing homes, dog visitors actually
help improve the physical as well as the mental
health of patients. Researchers have
discovered that stroking an animal lowers a
person’s blood pressure.
Because high blood
pressure can lead to many illnesses, including
heart disease, petting a dog can be
good
medicine. Some experts think that touching an
animal may release chemicals in the human brain
that make people relax and feel good. Some
nursing homes allow elderly residents to keep
their own pets.
In others, volunteers bring
trained “therapy dogs” to visit on a regular
basis. Some of these dogs have
worked wonders.
The elderly people look forward to the dogs’
visits. One 90-year-old woman had stopped
caring about life. She just stayed in bed. But
once dogs became frequent visitors, she was always
up and
dressed, eager to greet them.
1. The MAIN idea of this selection is that
dogs assist people with disabilities by helping
them
A. with noises.
B. cross the street.
C. be
more careful.
D. be more
independent.
2. In the sentence
“The dogs often enable adults to take jobs . . .
,” the BEST meaning for the word enable
is
A. stop B.
help C. follow D. like
3. According to this passage, the
dogs had helped a lot of people except _________.
A. healthy kids
B.
the blind person
C. the deaf
person
D. the elder residents in
nursing homes.
4. The purpose of
this selection is to
A. give you
information about dogs.
B.
convince you to like dogs.
C.
encourage you to buy a dog.
D.
warn you about dangerous dogs.
5.
According to this selection, petting dogs can help
people
A. feel better.
B. notice sounds.
C. cross the
street.
D. go many places.
6. Which of the following is not true
about dogs helping the elder people?
A. Some experts think that touching an animal
may release chemicals in the human brain that
make people relax and feel good.
B. Dogs even helped some elder residents in
nurse room to walk more.
C. Some
nursing homes allow elderly residents to keep
their own pets
D. In some nursing
homes, trained dogs visited the elders on a
regular basis.
Do you know how to
“tell time”? Read the poem below and answer the
questions that follow.
Lengths of
Time
Time is peculiar
And hardly exact
Though minutes are minutes,
You’ll find
for a fact
(As the older you get
And the
bigger you grow)
That time can
Hurrylikethis
Or plod, plod, slow.
Waiting for dinner when you’re hungry?
Down with the sniffles in your bed?
Notice
how an hour crawls along and crawls along
Like
a snail with his house upon his head.
But when you are starting
A game in
the park,
It’s morning,
It’s noon,
And
suddenly it’s dark.
And hours like seconds
Rush blurringly by,
Whoosh!
Like a
plane in the sky.
7. The words in
the last two lines of the first stanza show that
time
A. gets bigger as you grow.
B. can pass quickly or slowly.
C. can run out.
D.
sneaks up on you.
8. In the second
stanza, you’re is a contraction that means
A. you have. B. your. C.
you are. D. you had.
9. The purpose of the second stanza is to
describe
A. why time changes during
the day.
B. when time moves
slowly.
C. how time races when
you are hungry.
D. when time can
disappear.
10. In stanza
three, the author uses the word Whoosh to describe
A. time when you are having fun.
B. how snails move in their house.
C. the wind outside the house.
D. the sound of her sniffles.