阅读理解

阅读短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

  One thing the tour books don’t tell you about London is that 2000 of its residents are foxes.They ran away from the city about two centuries ago after developers and pollution moved in.But now that the environment is clear, the foxes have come home.

  “ The number and variety of wild animals in urban areas is increasing,” says Comer Jones.A survey of the wildlife in New York’s Central Park last year counted 14 species of mammals.A similar survey conducted in the 1890s counted only five species.

  Several changes have brought wild animals to the cities.Foremost is that air and water quality in many cities has improved as a result of the 1970s pollution-control efforts.Meanwhile, rural areas have been built up, leaving many animals on the edges of suburbs.In addition, urban wildlife refuges(避难处)have been created.The Greater London Council last year spent £ 750,000 to buy land and build 10 permanent(永久的)wildlife refuges in the city.As a result, many birds are now living in the city.For peregrine falcons cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings(悬崖栖息地).y 1970 the birds had died out east of the Mississippi because of the DDT had made their eggs too thin to support life.That year, scientist Tom Cade of Cornell University began raising the birds for release in cities afforded plenty of food.

  Cities can attract wild animals without turning them harmful.The trick is to create habitats where they can be self-sufficient but still be seen and appreciated.Such habitats can even be functional.In San Francisco, the local government is testing different kinds of rainwater control basins to see not only whish ones retain(保持)the cleanest water but which will attract the most birds.

(1)

The passage is mainly concerned with ________.

[  ]

A.

wildlife returning to large cities

B.

foxes returning to London

C.

wild animals living in zoos

D.

a survey of wildlife in New York

(2)

It can be inferred from the passage that

[  ]

A.

Londoners are putting more and more wild animals into their zoos

B.

Londoners are happy to see wild animals return to their city

C.

Londoners file trying to move wild animals back to the countryside

D.

Londoners have welcomed the wild birds, but found foxes a problem

(3)

According to the passage, the number of species of wildlife in NewYork's Central Park ________.

[  ]

A.

is slowly decreasing

B.

competes favorably with other cities

C.

is on the same level as before

D.

has more than doubled in the last century

(4)

Which of the following is NOT a reason that wildlife returning to the cities?

[  ]

A.

Food is plentiful in the cities.

B.

Wildlife is appreciated in the cities.

C.

Wildlife refuges have been built in the cities.

D.

Air and water quality has improved in the cities.

阅读理解。
     To be a good teacher, you need some of the talents of a good actor: you must be able to hold attention and
interest of your students; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under
your control; you must be able to act what you are teaching,in order to make its meaning clear.  
     A good teacher does't sit still before his class;he stands all the time while he is teaching; he walks about,
using his arms,hands and fingers to help him in his explanations,and his face to express his feelings. Listen to
him,and you will hear the loudness, the quality and musical note of his voice always changing according to
what he is talking about. 
      The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't mean he will indeed be able to
act well on the stage, for the re are very important differences between the teacher's work and the actor's. the
actor has to speak words he has learnt by heart;he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays
a certain part,even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What
he has to do is to make all the se carefully learnt words seem natural on the stage.
     A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play-the y ask and
answer questions,the y obey orders,and if the y don't understand something,the y say no. the teacher the
refore has to meet the needs of his audience. He can't learn his part by heart,because the ir brains couldn't keep
discipline:the y couldn't keep strictly to what another has written.
1. If you want to be a good teacher, you should _____.  
A. act out what you have learnt strictly
B. be a good actor on the stage
C. sit all the time while teaching
D. suit the need of different students
2. the underlined word talents in the first paragraph means _____.
A. methods
B. girls
C. wishes
D interests
3. In what way is a teacher's work different from that of an actor's?
A. the teacher must learn everything by heart.
B. He has to deal with unexpected situations.  
C. He has to use more facial expressions.
D. He has to control his voice better than an actor.
4. the main difference between students and audience in the the atre is that students _____.
A. move around the class
B. keep silent all the time
C. take an active part in class
D. 1ike body language
5. If Tom Hanks,the famous actor, would like to be a good teacher, he may need training in _____. 
A. how to use body language
B. how to repeat his lines
C. how to be more quick-minded
D. how to be attractive

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