When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement(水泥)step and went inside to answer the phone.I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper.It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out.It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin.Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.

I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back.But it would not stay on him.

56.The author set the living butterfly free because_______.

A.he liked it very much

B.he had sympathy for the beautiful butterfly

C.he couldn’t bear a butterfly dying in his favorite bushes

D.its wing broke off

57.According to the passage，the author’s life in the orphanage was_____.

A.dull and full of strict rules B.simple and easy

C.happy and full of hope D.hard and busy

58.What is the author’s attitude towards the house parent’s pinning some butterflies on the cardboard?

A.tolerant B.unconcerned C.disgusted D.discouraged

59.We know from the passage that_________.

A.the author lived alone in the dormitory

B.there were one hundred butterflies living in the bushes

C.the cardboard paper was left on the step so as to be watched

D.the author failed to stick the worn wing onto the butterfly with his spit

60.Which of the following is right according to the passage?

A.I found beauty meant nothing special to me.

B.The house parent helped the children handle the quilt.

C.The house parent chased the butterfly in order to show it to the children.

D.I thought it cruel to catch the butterfly.

B

Do you want to see the effects of global warming?Then head north.Will Steger is going to take all of us there.

Steger,64，the first person to make a dogsled trip to the North Pole，is a very famous and admired polar explorer.He’s at home in frozen parts of the world where few humans ever step on.Steger is also a devoted environmentalist who was early to ring the alarm bell on global warming.He saw its effects firsthand in frequent polar expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica.

Now Steger is about to lead a team of six young adventurers on a 1,400-mile,60-day-long dogsled trip across Ellesmere Island，in the Canadian Arctic.The sea ice in that region should still be frozen.“We want to take our audience to the front lines of global warming，” says Steger.The team will be uploading videos，stories and photos to the website global warming 101.com as they march along，allowing armchair adventurers and kids in classrooms to follow their progress day to day.“We can actually bring the audience up there，” Steger says.

Steger’s team will include some already-famous young explorers.Sam Branson，the 22-year-old son of British airline tycoon (大亨) Richard Branson，is an experienced Arctic traveler.Also on the journey will be 27-year-old Norwegian Sigarid Ekran.Last year，Ekran became only the second woman in history to win Rookie (新秀) of the Year for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race.

What they will see may be very surprising.Even Steger doesn’t know exactly what to expect.Climate change has already reshaped the geography of the Arctic.“Within a decade or less，it’s going to be impossible to reach the North Pole by dog team without flotation (漂浮)，”says Steger.

Climate change is happening，but people can change too.Their willingness to change will determine the shape of the Earth’s future.

61.Why is Steger about to organize the adventure to the Arctic?

A.To collect evidence for his scientific research.

B.To develop the young people’s adventurous spirit.

C.To let more people enjoy its natural beauty.

D.To let people realize the bad effects of global warming.

62.How can people learn about the progress of Steger’s journey?

A.Through radio programs. B.By watching TV.

C.On the Internet. D.By reading their journals.