四年级英语阅读练习 8

Passage 15 Animals’ Homes

Everybody has a home. People have homes. Animals have homes. People live in many different kinds of houses. Animals have different kinds of homes, too.

Some animals live in holes under the ground. The woodchuck lives under the ground. His home has two doors. If any animal comes into one door, the woodchuck goes out through the other. Some animals live in holes in trees. Some squirrels build nests high in trees. Most of the birds live in nests in trees. But hawks build their nests high in the mountains. 小词典：woodchuck n. hole n. 洞

nest n. 窝hawk n. 鹰

根据短文内容判断正误，对的写“T”，错的写“F”。

（）1. Everybody has a home.

（）2. People live in many different kinds of houses.

（）3. The woodchuck lives on the ground.

（）4. Some animals live in holes in trees.

（）5. Hawks build their nests high in the mountains.

Passage 16 A Clever Monkey

A money likes mimicking men’s

action.

One day a man wants to play a

joke on the monkey.

First he gives the money a banana.

So when he peels the banana, the

monkey peels, too. He eats, the

monkey eats. He smiles, the monkey

smiles. He pretends to be angry, the

monkey shows an angry face.

At last , the man picks up a stone and pretends to hit his own head, but the monkey makes a face to him and does an action that is to say “How stupid you are!”

小词典：mimic v. 模仿peel v.剥皮

pretend v. 假装stupid adj. 愚蠢的

根据短文内容判断正误，对的写“T”，错的写“F”。

（）1.A monkey likes to mimic men’s action.

（）2.The man gives the money bananas.

（）3. He pretends to be angry, the monkey shows an angry face. （）4.The man picks up a stone and pretends to hit his own head. （）5.The monkey is very stupid.