题目内容
Last spring, members of Alaska’s Troop 34, based in Fairbanks, trudged (跋涉) out into the snowy wilderness to take part in their state’s Take a Kid Trapping program. In many parts of the state, beavers （海狸）are pests and need to be controlled.
The 10－to－12－year－old girls found out where beavers lived, set traps, and skinned the two animals they caught. The girls hope to catch ten more beavers so that the entire troop can make mittens and hats with the fur. They also want to cook beaver meat.
Troop leaders and members say the Scouts are doing a good deed by helping control the state’s beaver population. But animal－rights activists say trapping is cruel. They want the Girl Scouts to stop in their tracks.
Beavers aren’t only causing a problem in Alaska. Residents in Sampson County, N.C., have turned to a local committee to help them battle the growing beaver population there.
County landowners are frustrated after the county spent more than $ 50,000 in eight years trying to reduce the beaver population through a government program. The joint state and federal program included paying money to trappers for every beaver carcass they trapped.
Many local residents say that the program didn’t work because there were too few trappers. That’s why the county set up its own committee to investigate other ways to control the area’s beaver population.
The county will rely on its own beaver－trapping program. It has hired a trapper to set traps in various areas. The county will pay $10 for every beaver carcass.
Why do many people say that beavers are a nuisance? For beavers to survive, they need lots of water. Water provides the large rodent （啮齿动物）with a place to hide from meat – eating animals. Beavers also store food underwater for the winter. When there’s not enough water in a particular area, beavers get busy building dams.
Beaver dams can cause major flooding and damage to the surrounding countryside as the animals cut down trees to use in their construction projects. Beavers build canals to transport heavy objects.
【小题1】What is Alaska’s Troop 34?
| A．A team of the Boy Scouts. | B．An army. |
| C．A team of the Girl Scouts. | D．A sports team. |
| A．To fulfill their task. |
| B．To sell them for money. |
| C．To get enough fur. |
| D．To exchange them for mittens and hats. |
| A．Sampson County has to find a new way to control the beaver population there. |
| B．The government program in Sampson County has proved to be a success. |
| C．The local government has controlled the number of beavers in the County. |
| D．More and more trappers now start to set traps in Sampson County. |
| A．cause damage to dams |
| B．block up canals with heavy objects. |
| C．do great harm to construction projects. |
| D．badly damage the environment and cause floods. |
【小题1】C
【小题2】C
【小题3】A
【小题4】D
解析试题分析：本文介绍了阿拉斯加的海狸被认为会破坏环境和造成洪水，而当成有害动物，人们要控制它们的数量，但这和动物主义者的观点相违背，Sampson 已经找到新的办法控制海狸的数量。
【小题1】细节题：从第二段的句子：The 10－to－12－year－old girls found out where beavers lived,可知这个Alaska’s Troop 34是由女童子军组成。选C
【小题2】细节题：从第二段的句子：The girls hope to catch ten more beavers so that the entire troop can make mittens and hats with the fur.可知这个队伍希望再抓住10个海狸为了它们的皮毛。选C
【小题3】细节题：从第六段的句子：That’s why the county set up its own committee to investigate other ways to control the area’s beaver population.
可知Sampson 已经找到新的办法控制海狸的数量。选A
【小题4】细节题：从文章的最后一段的句子：Beaver dams can cause major flooding and damage to the surrounding countryside as the animals cut down trees to use in their construction projects. Beavers build canals to transport heavy objects.可知当地人讨厌海狸是因为它们会破坏环境和造成洪水。选D。
考点：考查环保类短文
点评：本文介绍了阿拉斯加的海狸被认为会破坏环境和造成洪水，而当成有害动物，人们要控制它们的数量，但这和动物主义者的观点相违背，Sampson 已经找到新的办法控制海狸的数量。这篇阅读理解集中考查了细节题，要求考生仔细阅读全文，做好相应的标志，以提高阅读的效率和速度，做题时要审清题干，发觉和把握试题中有效的提示性信息，确认命题的角度、阅读范围和答题方式。
阅读快车系列答案Nearly 600,000 Americans lost their jobs this past month, pushing the nation’s unemployment rate (失业率) to 7.6 percent. But not all of those fired workers are sitting at home, reading the job advertisements and waiting for the phone to ring. Thousands of people are returning to school, making public colleges and universities among the few bright places in the disappointing US economy.
At a time when many Americans have had their work hours cut or have even lost their jobs, Sherian Huddleston is working overtime. She works at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) where she oversees (监督) the enrollment (注册) of new students. The university’s population grew by 800 students this term —an increase of 4 percent over last spring’s enrollment. Huddleston says seeing the enrollment rise in a failing economy is not unexpected. "When people are out of work," she points out, "they will ask 'What else can I do?’ or 'What other careers can I follow?’ They will often return to school if they have not completed a degree before."
Older returning students aren’t the only ones increasing the enrollment at MTSU. Huddleston says she’s also seeing an increase in student transfers (转移). "Students who went out of state, or even within the state, to more expensive schools are transferring to public schools to make use of the lower cost of going to school here," she explains.
【小题1】Which is the best title for the passage?
| A．The Falling American Economy |
| B．College Enrollment up in a Down Economy |
| C．Colleges Have More Students Than Before |
| D．Going to College Is No Longer Difficult |
| A．to make more money | B．to read job advertisements |
| C．to complete a degree | D．to ask their schoolmates for help |
| A．public schools provide better education |
| B．public schools offer better jobs to their students |
| C．they don’t want to be influenced by the falling economy |
| D．the cost of public schools is lower and they can save money |
| A．She is working more hours than before because of the worsening economy. |
| B．She is a student of Middle Tennessee State University. |
| C．She disagrees with those who are returning to school. |
| D．She is surprised to see the enrollment go up. |