2012年盐城市中考英语试题及答案(4)

    Doing experiments can be interesting, and you may try the following experiments at home. Make sure that you’ll do them with an adult.

34. How many experiments are there in the pictures?

    A. Six.              B. Five.            C. Three.             D. Two.

35. The following are the instructions on how to do “Step 2” in these experiments. Which one is the right order?

    a. Pour 3/4 of the water away.                b. Put a balloon on the bottle.

    c. Put the bottle in a bucket of hot water. The air rises into the balloon.

    A. a, b, c            B. a, c, b            C. b, a, c             D. c, a, b

36. What can you see in the bottle at last in Experiment A?

A. Some ice.                            B. Some water.       

C. Some ice and water.                    D. A cloud and some water.

37. What will happen to the balloon in “Step 3” in Experiment C?

    A. It will be bigger.                       B. It will be broken.

    C. It won’t change.                       D. It will be in the bottle.

C

1. Where are the rainforests?

    Rainforests cover six per cent of the Earth’s surface. There are rainforests in many parts of the world but the biggest forests are in South America, Africa and South East Asia. There aren’t any rainforests in Europe or North America.

2. What’s in the rainforests?

    About 75% of all the types of animals that we know come from rainforests. Thousands and thousands of animals live in rainforests. There are many very beautiful birds, insects and reptiles.

    Many of them live in the trees, more than 30 metres from the ground. There are also thousands of different plants—and lots of tall trees! It is always hot in a rainforest and the ground is always wet. It is also dark