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10．Hippos（河马）have always attracted people's interest．Modern hippos in Walt Disney movies can dance lightly．A stone hippo in a 13th-century church in France has wings．And in ancient Egyptian fairy tales，the hippo was a goddess that guided the dead to the afterworld．
Despite their popular appeal，hippos，as well as other animals，have difficulty when their needs conflict with those of humans．The early Egyptians liked to hunt hippos for their teeth and because they were dangerous animals．Amulets（护身符）to protect babies from demons（恶魔）were made from hippo bones．
About 4，000years ago，there were so many hippos in Egypt that they caused serious crop damage．Egyptian farmers killed them routinely，and by the beginning of the 19th century，all the hippos in Africa had been killed．
People used to see hippos fight in the arenas（角斗场）of ancient Rome．After the fall of the Roman Empire，hippos weren't seen in Europe again until a few zoos began to exhibit them in the mid 1800s．
All the various uses and abuses of hippos through the centuries have made their population fall greatly．Where they do occur，mostly in national parks，they live in such high density that they make the grasslands bare．This causes other grass-eating animals to go farther for food，and hippos，which can't live far from water，destroy their own feeding grounds．
32．In Africa，hippos became extinctD．
A．around the 1850s
B．in the 13th century
C．about 4，000years ago
D．in the early 19th century
33．Apart from protecting crops，what's the main reason for people to kill hippos？B
A．To save other animals．
B．To satisfy personal demands．
C．To look for guidance after death．
D．To follow the routine established by the Egyptians．
34．The underlined word in the last paragraph can be replaced byA？
A．concentration
B．altitude
C．level
D．temperature
35．What problems do hippos lead to？A
A．They eat up the grass in their habitats．
B．They always destroy other animals'food．
C．They stop other animals from drinking water．
D．They grow too quickly for the land to support．

9．Unless you bring your own thermos，paper cups are the real option for on-the-go coffee．But as we all know，producing these simple items cuts down forests of trees and contributes to mountains of waste．In fact，Starbucks alone uses 4billion paper cups a year globally and most of these plastic-lined cups are never recycled．
But a project from Reduce．Reuse．Grow．is handling the coffee industry's paper cup problem by giving these single-use coffee holders a further purpose：reforestation．
A company in California has developed the world's first plantable coffee cup，which has seeds in the paper-based material．That means after you're done with the cup，you can tear it，leave it in water for a few minutes，bury it and let nature take over．
To prevent the spread of invasive plants，the bottom of the cup details the seed variety and also includes instructions on how to plant it either in the northern or central coast of California．For those who don't want to get their hands dirty，the cup can be put into a Reduce．Reuse．Grow bin where it will eventually be taken to a reforestation location．The cup can biodegrade（生物降解） within 180days and offer nutrition to plants．
The company is trying to put the cup into commercial production and persuade coffee shops to buy the cups．
21．Starbucks is mentioned in Paragraph 1D．
A．because Starbucks provides recyclable cups
B．because Starbucks uses pretty plastic-lined cups
C．to show Starbucks is famous for its on-the-go coffee
D．to prove the coffee industry causes the paper cup problem
22．The plantable coffee cupB．
A．can be used many times
B．contains seeds in its material
C．can be used as a flowerpot
D．is made of waterproof material
23．The seed variety is shown on the cup mainly toC．
A．interest cup users
B．spread knowledge of plants
C．make sure it is planted properly
D．help users choose certain cups
24．What is a Reduce．Reuse．Grow．bin used for？C
A．Selling plantable coffee cups．
B．Making plantable coffee cups．
C．Collecting plantable coffee cups．
D．Recycling plantable coffee cups．

8．They didn't go to the music festival because they didn't buy tickets．
If theyhad bought tickets，they would have gone to the music festival．

7．Some decorators painted my parents'house last week．
My parents hadtheir house painted by some decorators last week．

6．I have to go to school so I can't come with you．If Ididn't go to school，I could come with you．

5．I didn't expect the exam to be so hard．
The exam wasmore than I could expected．

4．‘Did you meet your girlfriend at college？'Michael asked Ray．
Michael asked Raywhether/if he had met his girlfriend at college．

3．‘I'm not going out this evening，'said Jake to Ben．
Jake told Ben thathe wasn't going out that evening．

2．The discovery of new evidence led to ．（　　）

	A．	the thief having caught		B．	caught the thief
	C．	the thief's being caught		D．	the thief to be caught

1．"Have you all studied the passage‘Using the Mind against Disease'？"
"______．"（　　）

	A．	Nobody of us has		B．	Nobody of us have
	C．	None of us has		D．	None of us did

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