In the past 300 years, more than 130 species of animals have become extinct. One of these extinct species is the passenger pigeon(旅鸽). At one time there were millions of these birds in North America, but now there are none. The last one died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Another extinct animal is the cape lion(西非狮). The animal has been extinct since 1860.
What cause animals to become extinct? Too much hunting is one cause; pollution is another.
Governments around the world have begun to protect wild animals in danger. In the United States, the US Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible for(承担义务)endangered animals. It has listed nearly 200 species of endangered animals in North America.
【小题1】The underlined word “extinct” in the first sentence probably means “         ”.

A.illB.dying out
C.becomingD.changing
【小题2】There were many cape lions in North America          .
A.last century
B.in the twentieth century
C.more than one hundred years ago
D.in 1914
【小题3】       isn’t the reason for the extinction of wild animals in North America.
A.The pollutionB.Too much killing
C.Too much huntingD.The war
【小题4】Three are        species of wild animals in danger listed by the US Fish and Wildlife.
A.less than 130B.about 200
C.over 300D.nearly 300
【小题5】The best title of this passage should be “       ”.
A.A sad story
B.Endangered animals in North America
C.Wild animals become extinct
D.The US Fish and Wildlife Service

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The giant panda is one of the most popular animals in the world. A giant panda can grow up to 1.5 meters long and weigh up to 160kg. People think the giant panda is very lovely. ①So it is not surprising that the World Wide Fund for Nature chose the giant panda as its symbol. The WWF tells people about animals that they are in danger and raises money to save them.
The giant panda only lives in the wild in China. In the early 1980s, were only 1,000 left in the wild. The main reason why pandas are endangered is that the area where pandas can live has become smaller.
The WWF works to help giant pandas in the wild in many ways. One of the ways that helps them is to increase the size of panda reserves(自然保护区). Some reserves need to be joined together by planting bamboo between them to make “corridors”. These are paths that lead from one reserve to another. No one may harm the pandas in these areas. The corridors let pandas move from one habitat(栖息地) to another to look for food. ②People are working very hard to make sure the giant panda does not die out.
【小题1】How long and heavy can a giant panda grow to be?
【小题2】将文中划线的句子①改为被动句。
So it is not surprising that _____________________by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
【小题3】Why are the giant pandas endangered?
【小题4】Give a way to help the giant pandas in the wild, please.
【小题5】将文中划线的句子②翻译成中文。

Indian boy Piscine Patel is troubled by his first name. It sounds like a rude word, and his classmates laughed at him. He decides to change his name to “Pi”.

But Pi’s name problems are nothing compared to what is waiting for him.

Pi’s father owns a zoo. He decides to move to Canada. The family, together with all the zoo animals, set sail across the Pacific. One day, a huge storm hits the ship. The next morning, Pi finds his family has sunk with the ship. He is the only person still alive.

He finds himself on a lifeboat with several animals, one of which is a tiger called Richard Parker. Soon, all the animals are killed and Pi is left alone with the tiger.

As the tiger becomes hungrier, Pi starts to fish to feed him. Otherwise, he himself will become the food.

The boy and the tiger develop an amazing relationship on the sea. Although he feels hopeless, Pi never gives up. After 227 days, the lifeboat finally lands on a beach in Mexico, but Richard Parker runs away into the forest.

The ship company finds Pi and asks what happened. Pi tells them about Richard Parker but the company doesn’t believe him. Pi then tells another story in which there is no tiger, but some other shocking details(细节).

Is there really another story? If so, which one is the truth? Maybe you will have your own answer after watching The Life of Pi(《少年派的奇幻漂流》), the latest 3D movie from American Chinese director Ang Lee.

1.What’s the first trouble of the Indian boy Piscine Patel?

A.His classmates laughed at his name.

B.His family set sail across the Pacific to Canada.

C.A huge storm hits the ship with his family.

D.The tiger nearly killed him on the lifeboat.

2.Why are all the other animals on the lifeboat killed? Because     .

A.they are hunted by others

B.they are eaten by the tiger

C.they are sunk under the sea

D.they are killed and cooked by Pi

3.The passage mainly tells us     .

A.how Pi’s lifeboat sank in the sea

B.how the tiger ran away from the sea to the forest

C.what happened to Pi on the lifeboat with a tiger

D.what happened to the animals in Pi’s father’s zoo

4.Which would be true according to the passage?

A.The tiger was killed at last.

B.Pi was saved by another ship.

C.The ship company believed Pi’s tiger story

D.Pi told two stories in the movie.

 

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