Question

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the

information given in the passage.

Kids and Ponds

Years ago there was a group of kids who would hang around at some local ponds in the woods near their houses in Warwick, Rhode Island. In summer they caught frogs and fish. When winter arrived they couldn’t wait to go skating. Time passed, and the ponds became the only open space for the kids to enjoy themselves in that neighborhood.

One day. a thirteen-year-old boy from this group of kids read in the local newspaper that a developer wanted to fill in the ponds and build over a hundred small houses called condominiums. So the boy went door to door and gathered more than two hundred signatures (签名）to stop the development A group of citizens met and decided to support him.

At the meeting of the town planning board (委员会)，the boy was quite nervous at first and spoke very softly. But when he saw the faces of his friends and neighbors in the crowd and thought about what was happening to their favorite ponds，his voice grew louder. He told the town officials that they should speak for the citizens. He also insisted that they should leave enough space for children. A few days later，the developer stopped his plan.

Nine years later, when that teen was a senior in college, he was informed that the developer was back with his proposal to build condominiums. Now twenty-two years old, he was studying wetlands ecology. He again appeared before the town planning board. This time as an expert witness, he used environmental protection laws to explain restrictions on development in and around wetlands and the knowledge of wetlands ecology to help improve the development. Finally some condominiums were built, but less than half the number the developer wanted. The ponds where those kids used to hang around were protected by a strip of natural land，and are still there today.

1.What did the kids like to do at the local ponds in winter?

(No more than 6 words) (2 marks)

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2.How did the boy win the citizens’ support?

(No more than 10 words) (2 marks)

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3.What did the boy tell the town officials?

(No more than 16 words) (3 marks)

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4.What helped the boy to protect the ponds successfully nine years later?

(No more than 12 words) (3 marks)

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Answer 1

1.They liked to go skating.

2.He went door to door and gathered their signatures.

3.He told them they should speak for the citizens and leave enough space for children.

4.Environment protection laws and knowledge of wetlands ecology helped him.

【解析】

试题分析：文章大意：讲述了一位男孩在小的时候以及上大学的时候为保护湿地和孩子们的游乐空间，采用不同的方法所做出的努力。

1.考查细节归纳。根据文章第一段When winter arrived they couldn’t wait to go skating.可以归纳出答案，注意词数的限制。

2.考查细节归纳。根据文章第二段So the boy went door to door and gathered more than two hundred signatures (签名）to stop the development可以归纳出答案。

3.考查细节归纳。根据文章三段中的He told the town officials that they should speak for the citizens. He also insisted that they should leave enough space for children.故可以归纳出答案，注意词数的限制。

4.考查细节归纳。根据文章第四段This time as an expert witness, he used environmental protection laws to explain restrictions on development in and around wetlands and the knowledge of wetlands ecology to help improve the development.可以归纳出答案，注意词数的限制。

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