Winter is the best season of the year. During the winter months, the weather is usually cold and there are a few hours of daylight. 
Animals have special ways of preparing themselves for winter. Some animals, like birds and butterflies travel a long way to warm places during the winter months. Other animals such as bears go to sleep during the winter. But ants don’t go to warm places or go to sleep. They collect food during the autumn months, so they have a lot of food to eat during the winter. 
In some places, it snows in winter. People can make snowmen. And when the water in lakes and ponds freezes, people can go skating and do other activities on the ice. And some people make a hole in the ice and go ice fishing!

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1._______ spend their winter months in warm places.

A Fish

B Butterflies

C Bears

D Ants

解析：选B。细节理解题。根据文章第二段第二句Some animals, like birds and butterflies travel a long way to warm places during the winter months.可知，蝴蝶会到温暖的地方过冬，故选B。

2.Ants _______.

A go to warm places in winter

B always sleep in winter

C collect food to spend winter

D eat nothing during the winter months

解析：选C。细节理解题。根据文章第二段第四及五句But ants don’t go to warm places or go to sleep. They collect food during the fall months可知，蚂蚁在秋季的几个月里收集食物以备冬天时他们有很多食物可以吃，故选C。

3.What does the underlined(划线的) word “freezes” mean?

A 结冰.

B 融化.

C 充满.

D 蒸发.

解析：选A。词义猜测题。根据下文people can go skating人们可以去滑冰可知，湖水结冰的时候可以去滑冰，freeze的意思是“结冰”，故选A。

4.Which winter activity is NOT talked about in Paragraph 3?

A Making snowmen.

B Going skating.

C Going ice fishing.

D Playing football.

解析：选D。细节理解题。根据文章第三段内容可知，这一段主要讲了人们在冬天的一些日常活动，比如堆雪人、滑冰、垂钓，并没有提到踢足球，故选D。