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Why Do Chinese People Eat Snakes, Ants, and Worms for Medicine?
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | By:
In any traditional Chinese pharmacy, one of the first things to strike a foreigner is always the ingredients… Frankly, they’re a little strange: dried sea horses, geckos, snakes, worms, a stuffed deer and one lone owl gazing down from above.
Meanwhile, they’re hovered over by serious pharmacists in lab coats, consulting giant medical tomes. It all seems rather incongruous. But this is not “Macbeth.” This is as much a part of China’s history as anything else.
Take, for example, snakes. They’re used for “wind expulsion” and “channel clearance”—which means they’ll do wonders for sagging energy levels and weak immunity.
Back in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), an unnamed villager suffered from a terrible skin disease. Boils and lesions covered his entire body. After drinking from a vat of wine over a period of time, his skin unexpectedly started to clear up. Everyone was shocked—no one could quite work out what had cured his ailments. That is, until a large, rotten snake was discovered lying at the bottom of the barrel. The snake, it was hypothesized, could cure skin diseases!
Li Shizhen lived from 1518 to 1593, and was one of China’s most famous doctors. He researched snakes for his massive 52-volume medical textbook, “Compendium of Materia Medica (《本草纲目》 B0n C2o G`ng M&),” and found that snakes could be used to “treat stubborn dry scale-like skin diseases, skin eruptions and rashes.”
Today you’ll still find snakes, prized for their medicinal qualities, preserved in liquor barrels. Snake-infused liquor is sold by the glass or the bottle.
At Lao Zhuan Cun, a restaurant in Qingdao, for example, Manager Sui bottles his own liquor, adding a long-nosed pit viper, gutted, to a liter of rice wine. He throws in some ginseng and wolfberries and lets it all sit for a month before selling it at 18 RMB a liang (两,50g).
“Many people like it,” says Sui, “especially men.”
Farmer Zhang Changmeng is one of those men. As a child, he suffered from rheumatic arthritis—until he took to drinking snake liquor. Two years later, he was healed and was so impressed he took to TCM then he became a farmer. His crop? Snakes.
Farmer Zhang’s Red Plum Snake Farm, inSishui County,ShandongProvince, now sells 60 tons of snakes a year at 400 RMB a kilo.
“Snake powder not only helps with arthritis,” Farmer Zhang insists, “but also eliminates toxins, clears your skin, and keeps you young.”
To make the powder, first gut and skin the snake, then bake it at a low, steady heat. (You may have to experiment, as the precise time and temperature are closely-guarded trade secrets.) Finally, grind it in a mortar and pestle or a coffee grinder. But be warned, it’s a pungent treatment.
An easier way to take snake is to have it ground and packaged as a pill. There’s Vitiligo, for acne and other persistent skin problems, and Pure Zaocys, for lower back and leg pain.
For more specific problems, though, you shouldn’t miss the specifics of the snake.
The gallbladder of a Chinese rat snake, for example, is the size of a large soybean and is reported to be great for poor vision. “It is terrific for eyesight,” said Farmer Zhang. He sells fresh ones for about 5 RMB each. You can slice them into small thin pieces, or grind them up.
A snake’s male anatomy, meanwhile, is small, spiky, and apparently genius at warming the kidney and enriching the qi. But, priced at up to 20,000 RMB a kilo, it’s not cheap.
Ants, meanwhile, are a bargain at just 200 RMB a kilo.
Emperor Qianlong ate black ants and was apparently the happiest emperor in the history of China. He died in 1799 at the ripe old age of 89, and claimed his good looks and youthfulness to be entirely due to his diet.
He was inspired by Li Shizhen’s “Compendium of Materia Medica,” which was then 200 years old, and still the most popular medical book in China. (It remained that way until 1959.) In it, Li wrote that black ants “enrich the qi, beautify skin, delay ageing and restore kidney energy.”
The emperor’s preferred recipe, ants fried with pine nuts, remains an all-time classic. It’s the best way to ingest the insects, and can today be found in restaurants across China. Deep fry50gof black ants in vegetable oil until they become crisp, then do the same with300gof pine nuts. Now toss them in a pan with20gof vegetable oil and stir it all together. Add some salt and sugar, and dig in!
If you want to buy ants, know in advance that the bigger they are, the more expensive they’ll be. Organic, wild ants are also going to cost more than farmed ones. But the most expensive is the mountain-dwelling Wild Black Ant (300 RMB a kilo).
To catch this monster, professional hunters spread ground-up bones on plastic sheets, and sprinkle them with vinegar. After half an hour, huge ants will start to appear—the ant assassins will snatch them up and drown them in a bucket that’s half-filled with water. After a few days in the sun, they’re ready to be eaten.
Li Yanjun has farmed and sold ants for a decade, and talks like an entomologist businessman. “Ants are nutritional, medical and healthy,” he says. “They’re also one of the most valuable insects in China. The ant business has exploded in recent years. People realize that it’s a good medicine. Looks disgusting, but it tastes nice if you cook it in the right way.”
Which is, presumably, deep fried with pine nuts.
You can also soak ants in liquor, like a snake. After a week, the ant-guotou cocktail will be ready, but the longer you wait, the better. Drink 40ml a day for arthritis, or perhaps as an aphrodisiac.
A pre-bottled version of this recipe, Yilishen Tonic Wine, was a huge seller across China a few years ago. It advertised itself as a booster for men’s sex drive and fertility, with a discrete tag line of “Those who use, are those who know!” (谁用谁知道！Sheí yòng sheí zhīdào!) But the company has since disappeared.
“I didn’t see any effects,” said Mr. Yan, an older man who drank his own homemade ant cocktail. “Plus, it was disgusting.”
Granny Chen, meanwhile, eats ants for the same reason that Emperor Qianlong did: youthfulness. “Your hair will go from grey to black,” she says, citing a friend who ate ant powder for three years.
Unlike the emperor, though, Chen uses a microwave to heat her dried ants, and then blends them in a food processor. Two spoons a day, and she’s still waiting for her hair to turn black—but she has high hopes. The only problem? “It tastes horrible and smells like urine. It’s disgusting, really.”
Far more pleasant than the thought of eating ants is the thought of a deer. It’s one of the most common sights in a TCM pharmacy, and represents longevity, happiness, luck and benevolence.
And in the medicinal world, every single part of that deer is considered valuable.
The antlers are often for sale, presented in an elaborate gift box almost like moon cakes. They’re not eaten whole, but ground up and mixed with warm water, until it becomes gluey. Deer Antler Glue (鹿角胶, L&ji2o Ji`o, 70 RMB /250g), reputed to tone the kidney, remove obstructions in meridians, help produce breast milk, and—like many of these remedies, it seems—boost the libido. It balances the pairing of yin and yang, and even helps women with menstrual troubles.
One of the few authorized producers of Deer Antler Glue inChinais an ancient Beijing pharmacy called Tongrentang. It opened for business eight years after the start of the Qing Dynasty, in 1669, and has been operating at the same location in Beijing since 1702.
Like the “Compendium of Materia Medica,” it’s a TCM institution and its cabinets are filled with a world of strange TCM—sea cucumbers, sea horses, and snakes—but one thing we didn’t find there was deer embryo.
It’s an ancient remedy for women who have trouble getting pregnant, and according to Chen Shiduo’s “The New Materia Medica” (《本草新编》 B0n C2o X~n Bi`n), published in 1691, it will “invigorate the function of the spleen, reinforce kidney yang, tonify qi, and produce vital essence.”
It’s also extremely hard to find.
“All the embryos have already sold out this year,” Dr. Bai Xiaofeng told us. He’d spent months trying to find one for his daughter. It took many failed attempts, and some personal connections, to finally get his hands on one.
“I asked my daughter to take three spoonfuls of the ground-up powder a day,” he told us. “She didn’t like it—it smells so bad. But she was pregnant by the third week. I asked my wife to finish the rest. You see, deer embryo is expensive, and not a speck should be wasted.”
The owner of the Zhaofeng Deer Farm refused to give her name, but enthusiastically agreed with Dr. Bai. “Deer embryo is especially good for women,” she said. “Men can take it as well, as a tonic.”
But her favorite suggestion for a men’s tonic is actually made from the loin of a male deer.
Private parts appear frequently in TCM. The basic concept behind it all is that you can improve any organ in your body by eating that same organ of an animal. You are what you eat, or—literally in Chinese—”eat something, nourish something.” (吃什么补什么。 Ch~ sh9nme b^ sh9nme.)
Today, deer parts are priced for the gentry (400 RMB for a100gmember) and are recommended mostly for the older set. “Young men should leave it to their elders,” said Xie Chongyuan, a professor atGuangxiTCMUniversity. “They should focus on a healthy lifestyle, not on drinking tonics.”
But if you do want to prepare that tonic, slice the meat thinly, and soak the strips in a liter of strong alcohol for about two weeks. Twenty milliliters of liquor a day should be enough to help the adrenals, boost testosterone, and improve function.
In ancient times, this tonic was legendarily popular with the emperors. But when you remember the number of wives and concubines they often had, that’s not so entirely surprising.
Another legendarily royal remedy is the earthworm.
In China, though, it’s not actually known as a worm, but by a far more royal name: Earth Dragon (地龙，d#l5ng).
It all started with Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty. He ruled from 960 to 976, and apparently had a terrible case of shingles. His royal doctors were all baffled by this persistent and painful skin rash. No one could find a cure.
Finally, a folk doctor was brought in, and—where all else had failed—he simply pulled two earthworms from the ground. He moistened them with honey and sugar, and left them on a plate, where they eventually melted in the sun.
Using that wormy liquid as a balm, he wiped the shingles, and for the very first time, Emperor Taizu felt a cool relief.
But this wasn’t the end of the treatment. Next, the doctor fed the emperor a bowl of earthworm juice—a few days later, he was healed. As a tribute to the night crawlers, the emperor announced a new name for the worms: “Earth Dragons.”
Li Shizhen was also a firm believer in the earthworm’s merits, and noted the creature’s ability to clear internal heat, nourish the lungs and calm asthma, as well as heal aches in joints and skin problems.
Dai Wenjuan, a TCM scholar atShanxiTCMUniversity, explained that earthworms are still widely used. “They can be applied both externally and internally,” she said. “Eating earthworms can treat asthma, swollen joints and rheumatic arthritis. Externally, it will stop allergic skin reactions.”
Yu Fenghai started his first earth dragon farm, Guangxi Bohai Earthworm Cooperative Society, five years ago in a small village inSouthern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. “We churn out 500 kilos of earthworms every day,” he said, proudly. “Most of them are sold to TCM pharmacies and factories.”
At a pharmacy, one kilo of dried worms sells for about 90 RMB.
Guangxi is not just a hotspot for earthworm farming, but also for earthworm eating. Down there, they’re found in liquor, in pancakes, stir fried with veggies, everywhere.
Farmer Yu’s favorite earthworm recipe is Earth Dragon Soup. To make it, fry200gof earthworms with50gof smashed ginger in a pan with oil. Add one spoon of rice wine and 600ml of cold water and let it boil for half an hour. Add salt to taste.
“Earth Dragon Soup can improve circulation and calm down asthma,” said Yu. “And what’s more, it tastes nice—even better than pork soup!”
Pork soup does taste nice, and it’s a frequently-used mask for the salty taste of sea horse, which is one of the most popular, and most mysterious, TCM ingredients of all—one that even rivals ginseng.
Much like ginseng, sea horses are often used as an aphrodisiac, and to reinforce the kidneys’ yang. As the Guangxi saying goes:
“Eating sea horses
makes an 80-year-old
granddaddy young.”
“Cháng chī hǎimǎ,
“常吃海马，
bāshí gōnggōng lǎo lái shǎo.”
八十公公老来少。”
One legendary fan of the strange equine fish was Emperor Tangminghuang, one of the most popular emperors of China. He ruled from 712 to 756, and drank sea horse-infused liquor in his later years. This was hundreds of years ago, but the fish remains a bestselling tonic. Professor Lu Yannian, of the Chinese Old Age Research Group, suggests middle-aged couples use it regularly to enhance their private lives.
One contemporary enhancer is Neil Zhong, who buys his sea horses in Hong Kong to consume in theUK. He soaks them in 500ml of top-shelf whiskey, and drinks a small cup every night after dinner. While his passport reveals he’s 50 years old, he looks and acts much younger.
“Exercise and sea horse wine are my secrets,” he laughs.
Unwilling to waste even a bit, Zhong chews up the sea horse after emptying a bottle. It’s salty, and has the consistency of squid, but the fish also costs up to 5,000 RMB a kilo.
Others will cook it into a soup with pork and dates, or stew it with pig’s kidneys. You can also take it as a powder or in capsule form.
And yet, be forewarned that sea horses are a slow cure. Dr. Tang Shulan, who does recommend them as a remedy, says, “This isn’t Viagra. It’s a tonic. You have to take it regularly, and don’t expect to see effects in a short time.”
Dr. Bai Xiaofeng bought four, ate them, and saw no effect at all. “Rich people can afford more,” he said, “but I can’t.”
Sea horses are not only expensive, they’re also at risk: it’s reported that 20 million a year are sold for TCM purposes alone. They’re protected in China and only legal when farmed—not when caught in the wild. So before you go on a sea horse binge, stop and think about it.
Maybe you should try ants instead.
Special thanks to the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Museum.
qíguài 奇怪
mǎyǐ 蚂蚁
A: How can I improve my Chinese?
Zěnme tígāo wǒ de zhōngwén? 怎么提高我的中文？
B: Eat more tongue!
Duō chī diǎn shétou! 多吃点舌头！
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太原市学年高一第一次测评
第Ⅰ卷 听力测试（共20分）
第二部分 英语知识运用
第一节 单项填空
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，答案写在答题卡上。
I ask you a question, sir?
—Sure, _________.
A. go away
B. go ahead
C. you’ve got it
D. here you are
解析：考查情景交际：根据语义“—我能问你一个问题吗，先生？—好的，_________”。A. go away 走开B. go
ahead问吧C. you’ve got it你听懂了D. here you are给你。答案选B。
To my surprise, we have _______ number of girl students in our new school and
_____ number of them reaches 980.
解析：形近词组辨析：a number of 大量的，the number
of……的数量。答案选D。
If you need any help, don’t ______ to call us.
D. hesitate
解析：动词辨析：A讨厌 B 避免 C 麻烦 D 犹豫，不愿意句意：如果你需要任何帮助，你一定要毫不犹豫地给我们打电话。答案选D。
As a senior high school student, Li Kang ______ many clubs and _____ all kinds
of after-school activities.
A. took part in
C. took part
解析：同义词辨析：join多指参加某组织，成为其中的一个成员。而take part
in指参加活动。答案选A。
I think our hometown is about ______ theirs.
A. three times as large as
B. larger three times than
C. three times large than
D. as three times large
解析：倍数的表达：1. 倍数 + as + 形容词或副词的原级 + as + 其他。2. 倍数 + 形容词（或副词）的比较级 + than + 其他。3. 倍数 + the size / height / length / width.
etc. + of + 其他。如：答案选A。
_________you work, _________progress you’ll make.
A. H greater
B. H great
C. T the better
解析：固定句型：the+比较级…，the +比较级…。越…越…。句意：你工作越努力，你的进步就越大。答案选D。
T we have not met another car _____.
A. long ago
before long
解析：词组辨析：A很久以前B迄今为止C尤其，更D不久之后，句意：这是一条荒凉的路，迄今为止我们还没见到另一辆车。答案选B。
It has been three years ______ we last met at our primary school.
解析：连词辨析：“自...以来, 从...至今”的意思的时候，主句用完成时态，从句则用过去式。句意：自从我们上次在小学见面已经三年了。答案选B。
I’d rather ______ at home helping Mom cook than _______ out to play games.
解析：“would rather...than...”句式，意思是“宁愿……而不愿……”，表示主观愿望，即在两者之中选择其一。句意：我宁愿呆在家里帮妈妈做饭也不愿意出去玩。答案选A。
The mall is the tallest building in our city and it can be seen from a
_______of 60 miles.
C. distance
解析：名词辨析：A大小B路C距离D空间，句意：那个商场是我们城市最高的建筑并且它能从距离六十英里的地方看到。答案选C。
第二节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面的短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。答案写在答题卡上。
Run through the rain
She had been shopping with her
Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, a beautiful girl with blonde
hair. It was
26 outside and the kind of water fell to hit the
We all stood there under the
shelter, just outside the door. We waited, some
27 , but others angrily
28 the rain destroyed their hurried day.
"Mom, let's run through the
rain," she said. Her
29 was so sweet as it broke the boring
surroundings.
honey. We'll
30until it stops raining," Mom replied.
young child waited about another minute and
"Mom, let's run through the rain."
get soaked if we do,""No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said
this morning," the young girl said as she quickly
32at her Mom's arm."
morning33did I say we could run through the rain and
not get wet?"
you remember? When you were
Daddy about his cancer, you said, 'If God can get us through this, he can get
us through
entire crowd stopped talking and complaining. You couldn't hear anything
36the rain. No one came or left in the next few
minutes. The mother paused and thought for a moment .
Now some would laugh it off and
say that the girl may be
37 . Some might care little about what was
said, but this was really something in a young child's life.
"Honey, you are
38right. Surely we just need washing," Mom
said. Then off they ran.
We all stood watching and smiling
as they ran past the cars. They held their shopping bags over their heads. They
a few people who screamed and laughed like children all the way to their cars.
And yes, I did too . I ran. I got wet. I needed washing.
Many years have passed, and yet
the scene often flashes in my mind. Bad luck or people can take away your money
and health, but no one can ever take away your
40memories. I hope you still take the time to
run through the rain.
disappointedly
complaining
completely
unforgettable
26: 选B. it 指天气，通过并列句water fell to hit the earth,所以用raining.
27: 选A. patiently 与but后的hurried 形成对比.
28: 选B. because 表示angry 的原因.
29: 选D. sweet—甜美的voice.
30: 选C. wait 与上文的waited形成照应。
31: 选C. repeated 表示话语“let’s run through the rain”的重复，动作的重复.
32: 选D. pull one’s arm 表示拉某人的胳膊，表示质疑询问。
33: 选B. when与this morning 形成时间上的照应，同时表示时间上的反问？
34: 选A. 通过下午积极地生活态度，排除complaining, lying, reporting太正式，文章生活化，选择talking.
35: 选C. anything 表示任何困难。
36: 选D. not any =no, nothing but 表示只有，but可用except代替。
37: 选A. 根据语境silly 表示天真可笑。
38: 选C. surely照应completely。
39: 选B. by 和“I did too选出答案followed.
40: 选C. flash in one’s mind 照应选项unfogottable.
第三部分 阅读理解 （共两节， 满分30分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项。答案写在答题卡上。
Long long ago, a traveler once
visited a city where everyone wore blue. Puzzled, he went to a dyer and said,
“Please dye the handkerchief red.”
“I don’t know how to dye red.”
“Then dye it green.”
“I can’t dye it green. There are
forty master dyers in this city, and every one of us can dye only blue.” “I can
dye all colors.” said the traveler, “Hire me and I’ll teach you my art.”
“we never allow a stranger to
enter our field”, said the dyer.
The traveler made the same offer
to the other master dyers,but none would hire him. So he began his own dye
People soon crowded around asking, “What
are all these beautiful colors called?” He answered, “ This is red and that
yellow and ....” Everyone began bringing him cloth to dye. When the master
dyers saw this, they quickly apologized for their past words, begging him to
hire them and teach them his art.
The traveler made the same offer to the
other master dyers,but none would hire him. So he began his own dye shop.
People soon crowded around
asking, “What are all these beautiful colors called?” He answered, “ This is
red and that yellow and ....” Everyone began bringing him cloth to dye. When
the master dyers saw this, they quickly apologized for their past words,
begging him to hire them and teach them his art.
1.What was the strangest
thing about the city to the traveler?
A. It was a nice and old city.
B. Everyone wore the same color.
C. There were forty master dyers.
D. The dyers didn’t use machines.
1.Why did the traveler
visit the first dyers?
A.To have all his clothes dyed blue.
B. To have his handkerchief dyed yellow.
C. To see if the dyer could dye different
D. To sell the dyer some new material for
1.None of the dyers
could hire the traveler because he____.
A. made fun of them
B. wanted too much money
C. was a new-comer
D. knew nothing about dyeing
1.What can learn form
the story?
A. Do hire a stranger.
B. Do visit strange cities.
C. Don’t wear only blue clothes.
D. Don’t refuse to learn new things.
文章大意：一个traveler在一个只身着蓝色衣服的保守村庄的经历
1.B 细节题. 原文Long long ago, a traveler once visited a city where everyone
wore blue. Puzzled...
1.C. 细节题. 根据traveler和第一个dyer的对话原文“Please dye the
handkerchief red...Then dye it green.”
43. C. 细节题. 原文 “We never allow a stranger to enter our field”
44. D. 推理判断题. 原文 When the master dyers saw this,
they quickly
apologized for their past words, begging
him to hire them and teach them his art.
I’ll never forget my
first day at Senior High in London and I was half-excited and half-frightened.
On my way to school I wondered what kind of questions the other boys would
asked me and practiced all the answers: “I am six years old. I was born here but
I haven’t lived here since I was five. I was living in Farley. It’s about
thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago.” I was wondered if it
was the custom for boys to fight strangers like me, but I was tall for my age.
I hope they would decide not to risk it.
No one took any notice
of me in school. I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to
say “hello”, but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my name and told me
where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me, but that was all.
My teacher was called
Mr.Black. There were boys in the class, so I didn’t stand out there, either,
until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr Black was very fond of Charles
Dickens he dad decided to read loud to us from David Copperfield, but first he
asked several boys if they knew Dickens’ birthplace, but no one guessed right.
A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class, said: “Timbuktu” and Mr.Black
went red in the face. Then he asked me. I said:”Portsmouth” and everyone stared
at me because Mr. Black said I was right. This didn’t make me very popular, of
“He thinks he’s
clever” Brian said.
After that, we went
out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian’s team, and he obviously
had Dickens in mind because he told me to be the goalkeeper because no one ever
wanted to be the goalkeeper.
“He’s big enough and
useless enough.” Broan said when someone asked him why he had chosen me.
I suppose Mr. Jones,
who served as the judge, remembered Dickens, too, because when the game was
nearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and he gave
them a punishment. As the boy kicked the ball to my right, I threw myself down
instinctively(本能地) and saved it. All my team
crowded round me. My bare knees were injured and bleeding. Brian took out a
handkerchief and offered it to me.
The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT“_______”
How old are you?
Where are you from?
Would you like to join my gang?
When did you come back to London?
What can we know from the passage?
The writer was glad to be a goalkeeper.
The writer was not greeted as he expected.
Brian praised the writer for his cleverness.
Boys were usually friendly to new students.
Why was the writer offered a handkerchief?
Because he was no longer a clever boy.
Because he pushed a player on the other team.
Because he threw himself down and saved him.
Because he was beginning to be accepted.
文章大意：作者到新学校逐渐被接受的事情
45.C 事实细节题目，“I wondered what kind of questions the other boys would aske me and
practised all the answers: “I am six years old. I was born here but I haven’t
lived here since I was five. I was living in Farley. It’s about thirty miles
away. I came back to London two months ago.””可知答案应为C项。
46.B 推理判断题目，从文章第二段以及第四、五和六段判断得出，答案应为B项。
47.D 事实细节题目，从文章最后一段的描述“As the boy kicked the ball to my right, I threw myself down
instinctively(本能地) and saved it. All my
team crowded round me. My bare knees were injured and bleeding. Brian took out
a handkerchief and offered it to me.”
Do you want to get
your dog a special birthday present? If you live in Chicago, you can take him
or her to dinner at the Pet Café. It has tables for the humans and eating
stands for the dogs. A meal costs less than 4 dollars. For that price, your dog
gets a nice meal including a fortune dog cookie and a boil of flavored ice
cream. You, the owner, on the other hand, are only offered candy.
You may think a
restaurant for dogs is strange. However, the restaurant owner Vera Carter does
not. She says, “People want to return the loyalty and love their animals give
them. For a dog, the best way to do
that is to give them good food.”
Carl Gregory, a
pet-industry expert agrees. He says Americans are not just buying food, but
they spending millions of dollars on toys, beds, classes and even clothing for
their pets. In fact, today Americans spend twice as much on their pets as they
did in the twentieth century.
For these reasons,
many different types of businesses are offering services to pet owners. Some
hotels now rent pet-friendly rooms. Some even have room service for dogs.
Mail-orders companies offering steak for dogs have become more popular. There
are also many bakeries selling pets treats in addition to pies and cakes for
people. More and more restaurants are adding food for pets to their menus.
However, there are not many sit-down pet restaurants like the Pet Café.
Some people don’t like
the idea of a restaurant for dogs. One of them says, “Dog restaurants are amusing.”
Dog owner Sherry Evans doesn’t agree. She went to the Pet Café with her dog,
Lulu. “No, it’s not silly,” she says. “Everyone has to feel needed. Lulu is my
sweet, dear baby.”
What does the underlined part “do that” (Paragraph 2) mean?
return loyalty and love to their dogs.
think a restaurant for dogs isn’t strange
return the love to the owners who love dogs
think a restaurant for dogs can make a lot of money.
What do you know about “the Pet Café” according to the passage?
people have to keep standing while pets are fed.
a dog is served a good meal for less than 4 dollars.
a dog’s owner can enjoy a free meal with the dog.
this restaurant can be found everywhere in America.
Which of the following is TRUE?
the owner of the Pet Café doesn’t think a restaurant for dogs is strange.
Sherry Evans, who owns a dog, thinks that dog restaurants are very stupid.
many Americans spend a lot of money on toys or high-priced food for their dogs.
some hotels have become popular because they rent pets and offer steak for
文章大意：介绍宠物咖啡店、饭店和旅馆的流行，以及不同人们的观点看法。
48. A 词义猜测题,原文中前面一句话People want to return the loyalty and love their animals give them.
49. B 推理判断题,原文A meal costs less than 4 dollars.
50. A 推理判断,原文 You may think a restaurant for dogs is strange. However, the
restaurant owner Vera Carter does not.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。答案写在答题卡上。
Weather influences
health, intelligence and feelings.______51______.
In August, it is very
hot and wet in the southern part of the United States._____52_____ In the
Northeast and the Middle West, it is very hot at sometimes and very cold at
other times. People in these states have more heart trouble after the weather
changes in February or March.
______53______ For
example, in a recent report by scientists, IQ of a group of students was very
high when a very strong wind came, but after the wind, their IQ was 10% lower.
The wind can help people have more intelligence. Very hot weather, on the other
hand, can make it lower. Students in many schools of the United States often
get worse on exams in the hot months of the year.
Weather also has a
strong influence on people’s feelings. Winter may be a bad time for thin
people. They usually feel cold during these months. They might feel unhappy
during cold weather.______54______ Generally Speaking, at about 18℃, people
become stronger and better.
Low air temperature
may make people forgetful. People leave more bags on buses and in shops in cold
______55______
Sometimes, it may be the weather’s problem.
weather can also influence intelligence.
different weather makes people feel different.
fat people may have a hard time in hot summer.
you feeling sad, tired, forgetful, or unhappy today
there have heart trouble and other kinds of health problems during this month.
51：选B。D选项具有统领全文的作用，此处作为第一段符合文章逻辑。
52：选E。本文分别从health, intelligence和feelings三方面分三段描述了天气的影响，第二段讲到具体月份August，而E选项最后也提到了month这个词，因此选E。
53：选A。本段从IQ一词可以看出，讲的内容和intelligence智慧有关，因此选A。
54：选C。本段具体讲到了冬天对瘦人的影响，而C选项则用but一词，将其与夏天对胖人的影响做了一番对比。因此选C。
55：选D。此选项具有总结全文的作用。
第二卷 （满分30分）
第四部分 短文填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式（不多于3个单词）。答案写在答题卡上。
Hello, I am Li Kang. I’m a senior
high school student. Here I will tell you something about the first impression
of my new school. When I entered the classroom that day, I 56(see) a modern computer with a special screen.
Believe or not, there are 58 students in our class! 39 of them are girls, in
57words, there are twice
58many girls as boys! In the first class, we all
introduced ourselves
59each other. Almost all the teachers in my
class are enthusiastic and
60(friend). But sometimes they can be very
strict with
61(we)! Their
62 (teach)
method is nothing like
junior high school teachers. Anyway, I am looking forward to
64 (make) friends with my new teachers and
classmates! I’m sure, with them helping me, I can do well in all my
65 (subject) in this new term.
56. saw 根据前面的entered 可以判断出。
57. other 根据句义可知，考查固定搭配 in other
words, 意思为“换句话说”。
58. as 根据句义可知，考查倍数表达法 倍数+as +adj. +n (pl) +as 的结构。
59. to 根据句义可知，考查introduce
sb to sb 的用法。
60. friendly 位于系动词后面，且与形容词enthusiastic
并列，根据并列前后词性应该一致，所以应该填friend 的形容词。
61. us 所填词在句中作宾语，故应该填we的宾格形式。
62. teaching 根据句义可知所填词要修饰method, 而动名词可以作定语用来表示所修饰名词的用途。
63. that 根据语义可知要代指前面出现的method, 而that 可以代指前面出现的可数名词单数
64. making 考查固定搭配 look
forward to doing sth
65. subjects 根据前面的all 以及subject为可数名词。
第五部分&&& 写作（共两节，满分5分）
第一节&&& 单句改错（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
下列各句中都有一处错误，错误涉及一个单词的增加、删减或修改，请按要求修改下列各句。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删减：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
I used to eating outside but now I eat at home.
解析： eating 改成 eat.&&&& 考查固定搭配used to do sth.
We won’t go to the park if they will come tomorrow.
&解析：去掉will.&&&& 考查if引导条件状语从句的时态，即主将从现。
I think our English teacher’s class is very interested.
解析：interested改成interesting.&&&& 考查以-ed和-ing结尾的形容词的区别，-ed结尾的形容词意为 “感到……...”，-ing结尾的形容词意为“令人……...的”。
You’re supposed take your shoes off before you enter the lab.
&解析：supposed和take之间加词
“to”.&&&& 考察固定搭配be supposed to.
Kong is known for the Pearl of the Orient and Shopping Heaven.
解析：for改成as.&&&& 考查短语be known for（意为“因……...而著名”）和短语be
known as（意为“作为……...而著名”）的区别。
1.书面表达（满分15分）
假设你是李华，得知美国留学生John 想找一位懂英语的中国留学生教他学习中文。现在，请你用英文给John 写一段
80-100 词左右的回复，要点如下：
1.你从微信（WeChat）上得知John的愿望；
1.你的中、英文都很棒，且喜欢广交朋友；
1.你很乐意通过微信每天教他学习中文。
注意：1、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2、开头和结尾已给出，不计入总次数。
I am Li Hua.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dear John,
am Li Hua.Recently I have got the news from the WeChat that you hope to find a Chinese student, who not only knows about English,but also can teach you English.I’m confident that I’m the right person you’re
looking for since I have a good command of both Chinese and English.In addition,making a lot of friends is one of my
hobbies. Therefore, I’m so pleased to keep contact with you and assist you in learning Chinese through the WeChat
every day.
you have any question, don’t hesitate to let me know in time. I hope we will have
an enjoyable start.
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