Tuy Sereivathana was born in 1970. In 1975 his family fled from the city to rural village where Tuy’s parents, both well-educated, taught school in the mornings to the local children and farmed in the afternoons to make ends meet.During his childhood, Tuy developed a deep respect for nature and elephants. ___1.____

After graduation from university, he returned to Cambodia to save his country’s natural resources. ____2.__ Its most famous building, the Angkor Wat temple, was built out of stone with the help of elephants.However, with their habitat decreasing, elephants were destroying farms as they looked for food.__3.__

As a ranger(国家公园管理员) in Cambodia’s national parks, Tuy worked throughout the country, connecting with rural communities and learning more about elephant migration and ecosystem.In Prey Proseth and Trang Troyeng, there lived 30,000 people on the forest’s edge, where he was aware of the lack of capacity within these communities to manage the human-elephant conflict._4.__ More importantly, he taught the farmers to work together, encouraging them to organize overnight guard groups to protect the fields.Tuy also informed the communities of the national and religious pride attached to the elephants.

___5.__ As a result of Tuy’s involvement with the project, there wasn’t a single confirmed elephant death due to human-elephant conflict since 2005.

A.The elephant there are in danger of dying out.

B.More and more farmers had to kill them to protect their crops.

C.Later, he majored in forestry in Belarus University.

D.Since his work began, Tuy has been a significant success.

E.Cambodia has a long history of peaceful coexistence between people and elephants.

F.Now the villagers have begun to realize the importance of protecting animals.

G.Tuy began to teach villagers how to use fences, fireworks and fog horns to keep off elephants.

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Recently I was invited to a friend’s house for supper. Ben, the ________, had also invited his girlfriend Marina, and another colleague called Alistair. We were all a little surprised by the ________. It’s not that Ben is ________, or a bad cook, but he never spends more than he has to. Money has been hard earned and so should be spent ________. So why was he inviting us round for a ________?

Ben greeted us at the door with a grin(露齿笑), and as we ________, a laid table was waiting for us. He was still smiling in a strange way. “Nothing but the best for my friends!” said Ben. We sat down and looked ________ at each other—what was he up to?

Ben returned with four bowls of soup. It was a mixture of carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. The next ________ was just another mixture of things. There was some bread too, but it was a little stale(不新鲜的).

“Did you follow a set of ________ that tells you how to cook this,” asked Marina, “or did you just make it up yourself?” Ben put his fork down. “What I cooked depended on what I could ________.” Marina was surprised. “________ you can find anything in British supermarkets these days.” “But there is less choice ________ supermarkets,” he replied.

We all ________ at him in amazement. “What do you mean by outside supermarkets?” asked Alistair.

Seeing that we had all ________ the food, Ben decided that it was time to tell the ________. He had read recently that a lot of ________ was thrown away by supermarkets every day, because they only want to sell ________ food. So Ben found those vegetables and bread inside his local supermarket bins.

We were all ________ . Ben said he can afford not to eat ________ food so he would not do this regularly. However, he also said, “There are many poor people who ________ the food, and the amount of food thrown away is enough to feed millions of people.”

1.A. cookB. bossC. waiterD. host

2.A. invitationB. introductionC. educationD. position

3.A. naughtyB. unsociableC. lonelyD. unhappy

4.A. quicklyB. foolishlyC. wiselyD. honestly

5.A. tripB. gameC. mealD. lesson

6.A. enteredB. leftC. movedD. started

7.A. excitedlyB. happilyC. nervouslyD. calmly

8.A. chanceB. courseC. secretD. present

9.A. rewardsB. instructionsC. regulationsD. promises

10.A. borrowB. buyC. produceD. find

11.A. ThoughB. UnlessC. ButD. And

12.A. alongB. throughC. insideD. outside

13.A. aimedB. laughedC. noddedD. stared

14.A. finishedB. enjoyedC. servedD. prepared

15.A. differenceB. truthC. decisionD. story

16.A. moneyB. waterC. foodD. time

17.A. freshB. cheapC. basicD. special

18.A. inspiredB. scaredC. worriedD. shocked

19.A. expensiveB. deliciousC. freeD. simple

20.A. needB. sellC. ignoreD. order

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