(C)

　　   Round eyes, round head, round ears, round body! What is this lovely little animal?

　　   He looks like a bear. But he is not a bear. He' s a KOALA.

　　   People in Australia love koalas and take care of them. They have set up places for them to live safely.  No one can kill them for their pretty fur(毛皮)?.  When a koala is born, he has no fur. And he is not as big as your little toe(脚趾)! The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby goes into this warm pocket. There he stays for six months.

　　   The koala could not live without a special kind of tree. The tree gives him both his home and his food. For most of the day the koala sleeps in the tree.

　　   At night the koala looks for food. He may go miles to find it He likes only the bark (树皮) and the leaves of the tree. He eats nothing else. And he eats more than two pounds each night！     

　　How lovely the koalas really are!

　　51. People in Australia_________.  

       A. keep koalas in their homes          B. put koalas in the tree

　　   C. set up places for koalas to live safely  D. raise baby koalas in their pockets

　　52. After he is born, the baby koala lives in his mother' s pocket _________.

　　   A. for six days                     B. for six months

　　   C.  for a night                     D.  all his life

　　53. What does the mother koala usually do when her baby is bad?  

      A. She takes him in her pocket        B. She keeps him on her back.

　　  C. She makes him cry.                  D. She beats him.

　　54. Koalas cannot live without a special kind of tree because ____. 

       A. they have to keep cool under the tree

　　   B.  they eat the fruit on the tree

　 　  C. they stay in the tree all the time

　　   D. they live in the tree and get food from it

　　55. What is the text mainly about? 

       A. How people in Australia protect koalas.

　　   B. Lovely koalas in Australia.

　　   C.  Koalas cannot live without a special kind of tree.

　　   D. The way mother koalas take care of their babies.

　　IV.完成句子

　　A）用下列方框中的词或短语，完成下列英语句子，每项只能用一次。　　

　　1.  Don't worry.  I' ll call you    as soon as   I get the news.

　　2.  Last Sunday I   invited  some friends to my home for dinner.

　　3.  My uncle    has bought    a house with a beautiful garden in front of it.

　　4.  Everything is    lighter    on the moon than on the earth.

　　5.  ---what are you going to do this  weekend  ?

　　   ---I am going to visit my grandparents.

　　评分说明：单词或词组选错扣1.5分，单词拼写错误扣0.5分。