________ of giant pandas is getting _________ because their living areas are becoming farmland.

A. The number, larger and larger

B. A number, larger and larger

C. The number, smaller and smaller

D. A number, smaller and smaller

请认真阅读下列各句，在答题卡上标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处该动词的正确形式。

1.My mother always encourages me    (spend) more time on English.

2.I am sorry to keep you    (wait) so long.

3.Would you please    (not make) so much noise?

4.When something    (worry) me, I always go to my best friend Kitty.

5.Don't worry.1 will try my best    (solve) the problem.

6.I would like to recommend Daniel as the chairperson of the Students' Union because he is willing     (share) everything with others.

7.What a beautiful dress! It makes her     (look) more elegant.

8.We are all looking forward to      (have)a long holiday.

9.I hope you    (agree) with me that our teacher's advice is helpful.

10.It's a pity that people    (destroy)a large amount of farmland last year.

What do you like most when you can get one of such things: freedom, true friends, love, honesty and so on? Here are some choices of students:
Chen Cheng, 14, Jiangsu: I think I need a true friend. I had some friends before. However, it seemed that they didn’t treat(对待) me well. I told them my secrets but they didn’t share（分享） theirs with me. What’s worse, they told my secrets to others, which made me very unhappy. I hope to find a true lifelong（终身的） friend who can share happiness and sadness with me and keep my secrets.
Gan Xiaoning 14, Heilongjiang: Freedom is what I want most. I am a bird in two cages（笼子）. In school, I have to follow the school’s rules and listen to teachers. At home, my parents don’t allow me to do what I like, either. I have to do everything that they tell me to do: study, study and study some more. So, freedom is the only thing I really want!
Yuan Siyu, 15, Guangxi: I am a boy from a poor family. My father works very hard but only makes a little money every month to support(支撑) the family. I want to go to a key university （重点大学）so that I can find a good job in the future. Then, I can earn enough money to get my family out of poverty(贫困) and offer my parents a happy life.
Qu Yi, 15, Hebei: I want a complete family. My parents got divorced(离婚) three years ago. Since then, I have had no chance to be together with both of them any more. Now, I am living with my mom and get her love, but I also want my dad’s love. I am envious(羡慕) of my classmates who live with their parents. So, I would have a complete family if I could.
【小题1】What is not mentioned in the passage?

Look carefully at the back of a California state quarter. A man with a walking stick is pictured there. A bird called a California condor(大秃鹫)is flying overhead. Who is this man, and why is he so important that he is featured(处于显著地位)on the back of a coin?
The man on this quarter is John Muir. Even as a child, Muir loved watching nature. As a young man, he spent much of his life exploring the beauty of the wilderness. He walked more than a thousand miles across the country, through fields and woods. John Muir liked writing about the places he visited, describing their beauty.
Muir also wrote about problems. In order to create more farmland for sheep and cattle, many trees were being cut down. This made Muir unhappy and worried, because he knew that trees were important to forests and to the animals that lived in them．Muir believed that nature should be conserved(保护)instead of being changed by human beings. He wrote articles in magazines and newspapers to spread the word about conserving forests. Soon, others began to listen.
Muir wrote letters to important people, such as President Theodore Roosevelt. The president admired Muir’s love for nature. When Roosevelt came to visit Muir in California. Muir convinced(说服)the president to go camping with him for three nights under the trees so they could talk about conservation. Later, President Roosevelt set aside 148 million acres of land for national forests and established(建立)five national parks. National parks are large areas of land that are protected from development. This means that people cannot build homes or businesses there. One of these parks is Yosemite National Park, the area that is featured on the back of the California quarter.
Though it has been almost one hundred years since John Muir died, people continue his work today. His work as a conservationist helped us to see the beauty of our natural world. John Muir made us understand the importance of protecting our earth and our resources---then, now, and for the future.
【小题1】Why did President Theodore Roosevelt visit John Muir?