Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big. And they can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap.

The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly(蚊子) touches one of the hairs, the leaf close quickly. The fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses(擠壓) the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly. Slowly, the plant eats the fly.

How can that happen? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air, and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn’t have all these important things, especially nitrogen(氮). Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen, so some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea!

1.What kind of plant is the Venus flytrap?

A．It is the plant that can be eaten as vegetables

B．It is the plant that can eat people

C．It is the plant that can eat meat.

D．It is the plant that is poisonous(有毒的)

2.What are inside its leaves?

A．some small leaves                       B．some pages of books

C．some flowers                          D．some hairs

3.The Venus flytrap eats flies because__________.

A．It grows in dry parts                     B．It hates flies

C．It’ll be eaten by flies                    D．It needs air and water

One Sunday morning Mr Green and his child , Bill ,are in a big shop . Mr Green wants to

buy a new blouse for Mrs Green . Bill likes oranges , so his father buys two kilos(公斤)of

oranges for him , too . Bill wants to buy some picture—books and colour pencils , too . There

are many people in the shop . They are men and women , old and young . They all want to buy

something there .

 1.Mr Green goes to the shop with ___.

    A．Mrs green　　　B．his son 　　C．his daughter　　D．his father

 2.Mr Green wants to buy a new blouse for ___.

　    A．Bill’s mother 　　B．Bill 　　C．his friend 　　D．other people

 3.Bill likes ___.

    A．a(chǎn)ll the things 　　B．the new blouse 　　C．oranges 　　D．orange

 4.Bill wants to buy ___.

    A．some picture—books  B．some colour pencils  C．clothes in the shop  D．A and B

 5.The shop is ___.

    A．empty 　　B．close 　　C．full of children 　　D．full of people

Is there something strange high up in the world’s tallest mountains? If so, is it a big bear? Is it a monkey? Or is it a kind of man?

No one knows this mystery（謎）has puzzled the world for years.

In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints（腳印）in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk without shoes in the snow!

In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. When he watched, it ran very quickly.

Fifteen years later, newspaper had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “Snowman” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.

From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly that the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey? Could it be an ape man? The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Somebody we may find out just what it is that makes the large footprints.

1.The passage is about _________.

2. Why were people interested in the footprints?

3. A mountain climber took the pictures of large footprints in_______.

4. Why did the mystery grow when a mountain climber brought back pictures of large footprints?

5. Since a mountain climber first found the large footprints in the snow, the mystery of the Snowman has puzzled the world for over _______years.