摘要: Before coming to America, Chan made his career in Hong Kong.

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Modern man has cleared the forests for farmland and for wood,and has also carelessly burned them. More than that,though,he has also interfered (干涉) with the invisible bonds between the living things in the forests. There are many examples of this kind of destruction. The harmfulness of man’s interference can be seen in what happened many years ago in the forest of the Kaibab plateau (凯亚巴布高原) of northern Arizona. Man tried to improve on the natural web of forest life and destroyed it instead.

The Kaibab had a storybook forest of largesized pine,Douglas fir,white fir,blue and Engelmann spruce. In 1882 a visitor noted,"We,who ... have wandered through its forests and parks,have come to regard it as the most enchanting region it has ever been our privilege (特权) to visit."This was also the living place of the Rocky Mountain mule deer. Indians hunted there every autumn to gather meat and skins. The forest also had mountain lions,timber wolves and bobcats that kept the deer from multiplying too rapidly.

Then,in 1906,President Theodore Roosevelt made the Kaibab a national game preserve. Deer hunting was forbidden. Government hunters started killing off the deer’s enemies. In 25 years’ time,6,250 mountain lions,wolves and bobcats were killed. Before the program,there were about 4,000 deer in the Kaibab,by 1924,there were about 100,000.

The deer ate every leaf and twig they could reach. But there was not nearly enough food. Hunting of deer was permitted again. This caused a slight decrease in the deer herd (鹿群),but a far greater loss resulted from starvation (饥饿) and disease. Some 60 percent of the deer herd died in two winters. By 1930 the herd had dropped to 20,000 animals. By 1942 it was down to 8,000.

The destruction of the environment of the Kaibab resulted from .

A.turning the forest into cultivated land

B.interfering with natural cycle of forest life

C.forest fires caused by man’s carelessness

D.cutting the trees for building materials

"Engelmann spruce"(Para. 2) is most likely the name of .

A.a tree    B.an animal    C.a mountain    D.a game

The number of the deer in the Kaibab had increased enormously in  years’ time.

A.25      B.6           C.18           D.12

Years later,large numbers of deer in the Kaibab died mainly because of .

A.the cold             B.the organized kill

C.the shortage of food   D.the poor management

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The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children.On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.

However, the idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington.A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon(布道)in 1909.Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her.It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a selfless and loving man.Sonora’s father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.

In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge declared the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day.Roses are the Father’s Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died.

When children can’t visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card.Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental(感伤的).Most greeting cards are too special so fathers laugh when they open them.Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.

64.The United States is special in Father’s Day because ______.

      A.many people celebrate the day           B.only America celebrates the day

      C.America makes it an official day  D.all men are honored in America

65.At first, Father’s Day was fixed on June 19th because ______.

      A.Sonora honored her father on her father’s birthday

      B.Sonora’s birthday was June 19

      C.it was decided by the president at that time

      D.her mother died on June 19

66.How many years had passed before Father’s Day became an official day since the father’s day was celebrated?

      A.4          B.10      C.14        D.24

67.According to the passage, on Father’s Day,  ______.

      A.people will wear the same flowers to honor their fathers

      B.only daughters wear red flowers to honor their fathers

      C.children must go home to honor their fathers

      D.fathers are often honored in different ways

68.According to the passage, we can infer that Henry Jackson Smart ______.

      A.was very kind to anyone       B.did a lot for his daughter

      C.was the first father honored in 1924     D.always help others by giving money

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