第二节:完型填空(共20题,每小题1分)
Protecting China’s Giant Pandas
China’s giant pandas shows the achievements of the international effort to save animals that are now in danger. In television programs we often see pandas __36____ funny games. Children have panda toys and beautiful cards with pictures of lovely __37_____in them. They often visit the giant pandas in the zoo on __38_____ holidays and have a good time there. However ,scientists are worried about the __39_____ of giant pandas. They know only about 1000 giant pandas remain ___40_____today. They think the giant pandas will die out in 30 years if the present conditions are not ___41____.
It is reported that the giant pandas have a very ___42____birthrate. About 115 pandas live in the zoo and research centers mainly in China, but during the past 10 years they __43_____only 34 ____44_____pandas that are still alive. Survival rate for giant pandas in the wild are probably the same or lower.
There are several reasons for the low ___45___. The main reason is ___46____male pandas can make love with females in a very ___47_____season ----- only a few days a year. When they do have babies, females often produce two pandas, but the mother is usually not able to care for ___48____of them. The newborn pandas ___49____only a few kilograms each. They are too weak to live without special care. In the zoo, scientists can help the mothers __50_____for the young pandas, but those living in the wild do not get enough ___51_____.It is very difficult for mother pandas to bring up their young pandas.
Conditions for the giant pandas have been worse in recent years. Pandas in China continue to ____52____ in number. We know pandas live on bamboos. But sometimes all the bamboos in one area die. The pandas there have ___53____to eat and die of hunger.
Giant pandas now live in 13 separate ___54____ areas in China. Several years ago the Chinese government and the International Wildlife Organization agreed __55_____a project of protecting giant pandas in the wild. We hope it could be useful.
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36. |
A. play |
B. playing |
C. do |
D. doing |
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37. |
A. pandas |
B. children |
C. bamboos |
D. zoos |
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38. |
A. our |
B. their |
C. your |
D. the |
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39. |
A. past |
B. now |
C. future |
D. present |
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40. |
A. live |
B. living |
C. lively |
D. alive |
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41. |
A. changed |
B. increased |
C. improved |
D. considered |
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42. |
A. low |
B. proper |
C. high |
D. right |
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43. |
A. cloned |
B. produced |
C. kept |
D. created |
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44. |
A. small |
B. young |
C. little |
D. adult |
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45. |
A. price |
B. speed |
C. birthrate |
D. limit |
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46. |
A. why |
B. how |
C. when |
D. that |
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47. |
A. short |
B. long |
C. suitable |
D. certain |
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48. |
A. all |
B. both |
C. none |
D. neither |
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49. |
A. weight |
B. heavy |
C. weigh |
D. heaviness |
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50. |
A. have |
B. raise |
C. observe |
D. care |
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51. |
A. help |
B. food |
C. water |
D. milk |
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52. |
A. reduce |
B. grow |
C. rise |
D. change |
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53. |
A. something |
B. nothing |
C. everything |
D. anything |
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54. |
A. protected |
B. protecting |
C. defending |
D. guarding |
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55. |
A. to |
B. with |
C. in |
D. on |
30. His uncle _____ until he was thirty-five.
A. married B.was married C. didn’t marry D.would marry