题目内容
Their fur is being used to make coats like you.you →yours
解析:coats与you不一致,应用yours表示your coat。
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Animals are natural resources that people have wasted all through our history.
Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers, for food, for sport, and simply because they were in the way. Thousands of kinds of animals have disappeared from the earth forever. Hundreds more are on the danger list today. About 170 kinds in the United States alone are considered in danger.
Why should people care? Because we need animals. And because once they are gone, there will never be any more.
Animals are more than beautiful or interesting or a source of food. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying one kind of animal can create many problems.
For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks(鹰), the farmers’ stores of corn and grain were destroyed by rats and mice. Why? Because hawks eat rats and mice. With no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied(繁殖) quickly.
Luckily, some people are working to help save the animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about the problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger.
Quite a few countries have passed laws. These laws forbid the killing of any animal or plant on the danger list. Slowly, the number of some animals in danger is growing.
【小题1】Why do people kill animals?
A.They kill animals for something they need. |
B.They kill animals to raise some money. |
C.Animals destroy their natural resources. |
D.Animals create many problems. |
A.they give us a source of food |
B.they are beautiful and lovely |
C.they keep the balance of nature |
D.they give us a lot of pleasure |
A.People care much about animals because they need them. |
B.Once a certain kind of animal is gone forever, there will never be any more. |
C.Killing all rats and mice may cause some new problems. |
D.People must not kill any animal or plant. |
Here in Alaska, the wolf almost disappeared a few years ago, because hunters were killing hundreds of them for sport. However, laws were passed to protect the wolves from sportsmen and people who catch the animals for their fur. So the wolf population has greatly increased. Now there are so many wolves that they are destroying their own food supply.
A wolf naturally lives on animals in the deer family. People there also hunt deer for food. Many of the animals have been destroyed by the very cold winters recently and by changes in the plant life there. When the deer can’t find enough food, they die.
If the wolves continue to kill large numbers of deer, the deer will disappear some day. And the wolves will, too. So we must change the life cycles there. If we killed more wolves, we would save them from starving. We also save deer and some farm animals.
In another northern state, wolves attack cows and chickens for food. Farmers want the United States government to send a team of scientists to study the problem. They believe it is necessary to kill wolves in some areas and to protect them in places where there is a small population.
【小题1】In Alaska, laws have been passed to ____.
A.protect people from wolves and deer |
B.protect wolves from becoming dangerous |
C.protect wolves from dying out |
D.keep wolves from killing large numbers of deer |
A.Because wolves will have no deer to kill. |
B.Because people will kill them for punishment. |
C.Because killing deer is dangerous. |
D.Because wolves mainly live on deer. |
A.pass a law | B.keep deer away from wolves |
C.kill more wolves | D.serve wolves more food |
A.Some wolves in some areas must be killed, which others should be protected. |
B.Wolves should be protected, for there’s a small population of it on earth. |
C.All wolves should be protected, for they eat deer, cows and chicken. |
D.It is necessary for scientists to protect wolves, or the cycle of life will be changed |
We human beings haven’t been good friends to animals. For thousands of years, we have been polluting the environment, making it hard for animals to live on the planet. We have been killing animals for their fur, feathers or meat, or simply because they are dangerous. As a result, many kinds of animals have disappeared forever. Hundreds more are on the endangered list today.
Should we care about animals? Of course we should. If animals of a certain kind all disappear, they will never come back again. Animals are more than just resources of things we need. Every kind of animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying any kind of animal can lead to many problems. For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks, the corn and grain that the farmers stored were destroyed by rats and mice. Why? Because hawks eat rats and mice. With less and less hawks to keep down their numbers, rats and mice multiplied quickly. And if people kill too many birds, more and more insects will eat the crops.
Luckily, we’ve realized that we shouldn’t kill animals any more. And people are working hard to save those animals that would disappear soon. The government also passed laws to protect the endangered animals. In fact, quite a few countries have passed such laws. These laws forbid the killing of any kind of animal on the endangered list. We should try our best to protect and save the endangered animals.
【小题1】The text calls on us to__________.
A.keep animals at home | B.protect the environment |
C.protect the endangered animals | D.know more about the balance of nature. |
A.Animals cause many serious problems. |
B.They kill animals for something they need. |
C.Animals destroy their natural resources. |
D.They kill animals to protect the environment |
A.there were too many rats and mice |
B.hawks are the most important in the nature |
C.animals are good food resources |
D.every kind of animal is important in nature |
-There is a very special wolf that lives in Africa. They are actually called, the African wild dog, or painted dogs.
These animals live in open woodlands. or in the plains of Africa. Today, however, most of the animals can be found in eastern or southern Africa. These animals are beautiful. They have rounded ears instead of pointed like most dogs, and they have four toes (脚趾) on each of their feet, also a unique characteristic because other dogs have five. Their fur is always different from each other. The fur is usually a combination of black, brown, red, and white, and sometimes even yellow. No wonder they’re called the painted wolf.
The African wild dog is a very social animal. They live in groups and have numbers from five to about twenty. The members of a group are always very close to one another. They communicate in their own language or body language. When someone is very old or sick, the others will help, and they are willing to share the food with elders and with those who are weak, which is what we should learn from.
The family does everything together, from raising young, to sleeping together, to hunting. When they hunt, they work together using team work to kill animals that are larger than them.
They sometimes hunt farm animals. This is unfortunate, because both poachers (偷猎者), and people who own farms shoot the painted dogs who are just trying to survive.
Before, there used to be many large groups throughout the land, but now the African wild dog is very rare. They are also losing their population because of their own loss of habitat thanks to human’s farming and forest cutting.
1.Why do African wild dogs get the name “painted dogs” ?
A.They all have colorful fur. |
B.The dogs in the same group are of different colors. |
C.Artists love to paint them in different colors. |
D.None of them has the same color. |
2.According to the author, what should we learn from African wild dogs?
A.They always do everything together. |
B.They are always very close to one another. |
C.They help the sick, the elderly and the weak. |
D.They communicate in their own language. |
3.Which of the following is NOT the reason why African wild dogs are becoming very rare?
A.Poachers kill some of them. |
B.They are short of food sometimes. |
C.They are losing their habitat. |
D.Farmers shoot some of them. |
4.Where could this passage probably be found?
A.The Travelers |
B.Fashion Weekly |
C.Animal World |
D.Star Magazine |