题目内容
| I saw my first tiger in a national park in India. It was a young male and he was drinking at a waterhole. He raised his head slowly and stared at us for a full minute. Then he turned his back on us and disappeared quickly into the jungle(丛林). Twenty years ago, the tiger was in trouble. In India its numbers were around 1,800. Then the Indian government launched(发起) Project Tiger, which set up many national parks all over the country. |
In Africa, the most important species(种类) in danger is the elephant, the world’s largest living land mammal. In 1979 there were 1.3 million elephants there. Ten years later, numbers were down to 600,000. Conservationists(保护工作者) warned that the species could be extinct(灭绝的)by the end of the century. But slowly the situation has changed: the demand for ivory has fallen greatly, and now the number of elephants is increasing rapidly; there are many more than there were sixteen years ago.
On the other side of the world, the grey whales of Baja California nearly disappeared during the last century. Fortunately, the US Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972 saved them. The grey whales recovered quickly. Today there are perhaps 20,000 and these gentle giants are now worth far more alive than dead.
Today, wildlife is good for the tourist trade. And tourism, if it takes only pictures and leaves only footprints, is good for the national parks. If wildlife can always be treated in this way, animals can live and thrive(旺盛) in the world.
animals | numbers now | Main reasons for their survival |
tigers | | 1.______________________________ |
elephants | 2.__________________ | 3.______________________________ |
Grey whales | 4.__________________ | The US Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972 saved them. |
1. Project Tiger was launched.
2. More than 600,000.
3. The demand for ivory has fallen sharply.
4. About 20,000.

Our daughter Kerrin, a student at Boston University, had been home for a week-end visit, and I dropped her off at the bus station just in time for her back to college. After Kerrin’s bus had gone and I was driving away, I noticed that she had left her purse on the passenger seat. Worried that she would arrive in Boston without money or keys to her room, I called my wife, Bette Jean, on the car phone, explaining why I would be late. As I was following the bus, Bette Jean phoned me back to say she had phoned the bus dispatcher(调度员)on the other line and he, in return, had phoned the bus driver on yet another phone. The driver asked me to wave out of my window to show where I was. Then he pulled over at a rest stop, and I did the same. Kerrin jumped off the bus, and I handed her the purse and went on my way.
【小题1】The writer saw his daughter’s purse right after .
A.seeing her off at the bus station |
B.starting his car again |
C.she got off the car |
D.she got on the bus |
A.the bus started off |
B.her mother told her |
C.the bus stopped again |
D.she returned to the university |
A.driver—writer—Better Jean—Kerrin |
B.Kerrin—writer—Better Jean—driver |
C.writer—driver—Kerrin—Better Jean |
D.writer—Bette—Jean—driver—Kerrin |
A.The bus was too fast for the car to catch up with in no time. |
B.The writer had tried to phone the dispatcher but failed. |
C.The writer couldn’t get in touch with the driver by the phone. |
D.Both the writer and the bus driver could use the car phone. |
a. his car b. phone c. the bus driver
d. the dispatcher e. his wife f. his daughter
A.a, b, d and e | B.c, d, e and f |
C.a, b, c and d | D.b, c, d and e |