1 . Once there were many thousands of Gourma Desert elephants in Mali, a country in West Africa. Now, there are fewer     1     four hundred.

Why did the     2     of the elephants drop so quickly?     3     the one hand, the elephants’ main lake, their only water source （来源） dried up. On the other hand,     4     land which the elephants lived on was overused by humans.

To     5     the elephants’ living environment, the Mali Elephant Project （MEP） was started in 2007. MEP met with local people and helped them     6     rules of using land and water. As a result, the situation became     7     and there was more food, forest and grassland.

However, from 2012 to 2016, poaching （偷猎） and illegal（非法的） trade in the elephants increased rapidly. Eighty-three     8     were lost in 2015 alone, and another fifty-one elephants were killed in 2016. “    9     this situation goes on, all the Gourma elephants will be killed by 2020.”said a member of MEP.

    10    , the voice of MEP was heard. More organizations （组织） have joined together to educate the local people that trading elephants is against the law. Elephant poaching has dropped to a very low level. The local people have learned to live peacefully with the elephants, one of the wildlife treasures in the world.

3 . In July, little Helen always goes to see her grandfather. He lives on the farm. On the farm, there are many kinds of ______, such as cows, dogs, cats and sheep. She likes to play with them ______ they can make her happy.

On the farm, there is also ______ little elephant. It has no mother and it ______ plays with other animals. It often ______ around alone（独自）. This is why Helen likes it. Helen likes it so much that many times she ______ the elephant how sorry she feels for it and she loves it very much. Gradually （逐渐地）it became very ______ to Helen. When it sees Helen, it will ______ up to her like a dog. Sometimes Helen sits on the ground reading and the elephant stands by her. Her grandfather wonders why the elephant likes her so much. Helen’s answer is that she loves it.

Helen is ______. We should love and protect animals. They are our good ______.

1.

A．birds

B．animals

C．people

D．fishes

2.

A．because

B．so

C．unless

D．or

3.

A．a

B．an

C．the

D．不填

4.

A．often

B．never

C．sometimes

D．usually

5.

A．climbs

B．jumps

C．flies

D．walks

6.

A．asks

B．notices

C．tells

D．watches

7.

A．cold

B．quiet

C．friendly

D．rude

8.

A．look

B．run

C．get

D．cheer

9.

A．right

B．wrong

C．true

D．kind

10.

A．teachers

B．students

C．enemies

D．friends

5 . Last week, Chicago became the first city in the US to join the “Lights Out Plan”. People turned off the lights in the city’s tallest buildings so that thousands of birds could get to their winter homes. Every year in autumn, some birds fly over Chicago on their way to the south, and come back the next spring.

Lights mean danger to birds. Birds find their way by looking at the stars in the sky. Lights in tall buildings are so bright that birds may mistake them as stars. This means they can not find the right way to go back home.

This month, about 300 types of birds are flying over Chicago to go back to the south to live through the cold winter. Birds fly to warmer places for a few reasons. Many birds cannot live in the cold, so they fly to warmer places. But there are other reasons, too. Birds need to look for food in the south. Another reason is that they want to have baby birds. Many birds like to have their baby birds in the same “house” they lived in last year, so they fly back there.

There are about 9,000 kinds of birds in the world, and about 600 kinds of birds migrate. Some birds can fly a very long way. Sometimes they fly to other countries. We have fewer birds today because there are fewer places for birds.

1. People in Chicago turned off their lights last week because ________.

A．they wanted to save money

B．they liked the dark night

C．they were afraid that birds would make much noise

D．they were afraid that birds would lose their way

2. The underlined word “migrate” means ________ in Chinese.

A．迁徙

B．定居

C．冬眠

D．重生

3. Today we have fewer birds because ________.

A．lots of birds are often ill	B．people kill lots of birds
C．there are fewer places for birds	D．other animals eat them

4. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．All birds fly to warmer places every year.

B．Some birds have to fly to warmer places in autumn.

C．Some birds can fly a long way to other countries.

D．About 600 kinds of birds migrate in the world.

5. The best title for the passage is “________”.

A．Lights Out Plan	B．Turn off the Lights
C．Different Kinds of Birds	D．Migration of Birds

6 . Forests are the lungs of the earth. Without them, it cannot breathe. It needs its forests to remove carbon dioxide from the     1     and to make oxygen. In many     2     , such as New Zealand, Canada and Brazil, forests were cut     3     to provide wood to build houses. Many young volunteers around the world are     4     in the holidays to plant new trees to replace them.

These young men and women face many difficulties. When they     5     new trees, the     6     may be very hot and dry or it may be very cold. There are often many insects that bite these planters on     7     legs, arms and faces while they work. They carry heavy bags of small trees, and working in the mountains can be     8     . Tree planters are changing the world. They plant different types of trees so that birds and animals can     9     in the forests, even     10     tree planting is very difficult, they love their work. They believe that in 50 years their little trees will become beautiful forests.

7 . Water hyacinths(水葫芦) grow in many places. They have beautiful purple-blue flowers, but most people hate them.

Millions of these plants grow in rivers and lakes. Sometimes the plants become so thick that people walk on them. People cannot travel on boats on the water or fish on it. The plants also stop the water from moving. Then the water carries germs(病菌) and the farmers cannot use it to water the crops.

But now scientists think that water hyacinths can be useful. It is easy for the plants to grow. No one has to take care of them. They just grow and grow. So what can farmers use them to do?

Some fish like to eat water hyacinths. Farmers can grow them in the lakes and rivers. Workers can collect and cut them with machines. Then they can use water hyacinths as fertilizer to make their crops grow better. They can also feed their animals with them.

In addition, we know methane gas(沼气) can be made from plants. So it will be possible to make methane gas with water hyacinths. Then some poor countries will not have to buy so much expensive petrol. Maybe in the future, people will love water hyacinths instead of hating them.

1. We can read this passage from ________.

A．a storybook

B．a cartoon

C．a dictionary

D．a magazine

2. The flowers of water hyacinths are ________.

A．black and white	B．purple and blue
C．yellow	D．pink

3. The underlined word “fertilizer” in Paragraph 4 means ________ in Chinese.

A．食品

B．能量

C．肥料

D．废物

4. Which of the following shows the water hyacinths are useful?
①Their flowers look beautiful and smell good.
②They can grow so thick in rivers.
③Farmers can feed their fish with them.
④They can produce methane gas.

A．③④

B．②④

C．①③

D．②③

5. The passage mainly talks about ________.

A．what makes the water carry germs

B．who hate water hyacinths

C．how water hyacinths do good to people

D．where water hyacinths live

9 . Many of us think that all wild (野生的) animals are dangerous. In fact, very few of them will eat a man if he leaves them alone. If you meet a tiger. I’m sure you will run away, but even a tiger doesn’t like eating a man if it isn’t hungry. Tigers only kill and eat a man when they are too old to catch their food, such as sheep and other small animals. Some animals get frightened (害怕) when they only smell a man. Some of them stand and look at a man for a short time before they run away. Wild animals only eat a man when they are afraid that he will try to kill their young ones, or when people try to kill them.

1. __________ will eat a man if he is alone.

A．All of the wild animals	B．Most of the wild animals
C．Few of the wild animals	D．Some of the wild animals

2. Tigers are dangerous __________.

A．when they are very hungry	B．if they are too old to catch a sheep
C．when they smell a man	D．if they are young

3. When you meet a tiger, you __________.

A．will find a way to kill it	B．may be in danger
C．don’t have to run away	D．must be killed

4. Wild animals will eat a man when __________.

A．he tries to run away	B．they feel hungry
C．he tries to kill their young ones	D．they stand and look at him

5. Which of the following is right?

A．Most of the wild animals are not dangerous.

B．Some animals run away when they only smell a man.

C．If you leave them alone, wild animals won’t kill you.

D．Tigers never get frightened before a man.

10 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

There was once a king. He had a great palace ________ a wonderful garden. In the garden, there lived all kinds of animals. All of them enjoyed ________ there. There ________ only one thing that the king didn’t like in the garden: an old tree in the center of the garden. It was so ________ and dry. This made the king so angry that he finally asked some people ________ it down and turned the place into a swimming pool. However, the animals left the garden. Without the animals, the garden was not beautiful. The king was sad, but he ________ know what happened.

A young man went to the king, and said he ________ explain what happened. “This was because you cut the old tree down,” said ________ young man. “There were many moths (蛾) in the tree. Birds needed the moths to eat and then they produced (产生) waste for plants to grow. The plants then attracted (吸引) many other animals to your garden. ________ your garden became very beautiful. But when you cut the tree down, the animals had to leave.”

“I’m afraid ________ will take many years to finish it,” said the young man. The king was sad, but all he could do was just wait.

1.

A．with

B．of

C．about

D．through

2.

A．live

B．living

C．to live

D．lived

3.

A．is

B．was

C．has

D．had

4.

A．older

B．the oldest

C．old

D．oldest

5.

A．cuts

B．cutting

C．cut

D．to cut

6.

A．doesn’t

B．didn’t

C．isn’t

D．wasn’t

7.

A．can

B．should

C．could

D．must

8.

A．a

B．an

C．the

D．/

9.

A．Because

B．Though

C．But

D．So

10.

A．that

B．this

C．one

D．it