《2025年暑假作业及活动新疆文化出版社七年级英语》

Ⅳ.读写题
第一节 阅读短文,根据语篇内容,在方框内的缩写文章中,填入与短文意思最符合的单词,每空一词。
August 12 is World Elephant Day. It’s a day to“bring the world together to help elephants”. Let’s learn more about these amazing animals!
Elephants love to eat! Elephants spend nearly 12 to 16 hours a day eating. A large elephant can eat about 600 kg a day. They love eating apples, bananas, cabbage and sugarcane. They drink 200 L of water a day during the summer.
Females are the boss(首领). Elephant families have a female head. Their boss is a large old lady elephant. Usually there is a mother, her sisters, daughters and their babies in a family. They go from a group of 8 to nearly 100 elephants.
Elephants never forget. Elephants are good at remembering things, because they have the largest brains(大脑) of any land animal. They can remember places where food and water can be found. They can even tell the difference between the call of a friend and the call of an enemy(敌人).
1.____ 2.____ 3.____ 4.____ 5.____ 6.____
第二节 阅读短文,根据语篇内容,回答下列三个问题。
7. What do elephants love eating?
8. Are males the boss?
9. Why are the elephants good at remembering things?

答案： 1. takes 2. food 3. boss/head 4. forget 5. remember 6. different
7. They love eating apples, bananas, cabbage and sugarcane.
8. No, they aren't.
9. Because they have the largest animals brains of any land animals.