Elephant lover Sun Xiao wrote a children’s book Samburu, I’m Back, which is a way for Sun to explain knowledge about the elephants themselves. The book was published last year and became bestsellers.
Sun says he has loved animals since childhood.
Sun is a witness to the story told in his book Samburu, I'm Back. He was, at the time, in Kenya working for Save the Elephants, a UK-registered charity based in Nairobi. In Kenya, he and his peers found two baby elephants heading toward the dangerous area where their mother was killed.
Sun stayed in Kenya with the STE for three months to watch elephants closely for his research.
| A．Sun has devoted himself to help elephants. |
| B．Sun even created a blind elephant in the story. |
| C．They tried to change their course but failed many times. |
| D．Every day he would go to the wild to observe the elephants. |
| E．His connection with elephants started on a late night in 2011. |
| F．It’s a long-term project and a lifelong career he will never quit. |
| G．Sun has received a great deal of positive feedback from his readers. |
相似题推荐
【推荐1】
Elephant Conservation
Country:Thailand
This is a working vacation at a wildlife centre. Anyone can become a volunteer if he/she agrees to help the elephant keepers with tasks.
Daily tasks
Collect the elephants at 6:30 a.m. Take them to look for food in the forest. Clean the enclosure. Swim with the elephants in the lake in the afternoon. If volunteers want to relax after work, they can watch satellite television.
How this vacation helps
If these elephants hadn’t been rescued, they would still be living on the streets of Bangkok. A rural environment is much better for them than an urban environment where there is lots of pollution.
Gorilla Safari
Countries:Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
Departures:Aug.—Dec., 2—3 departures per month
Extras:gorilla permit ￡220
If you’re lucky, you’ll see lions, elephants and rhinos on safari. The highlight of the trip is the opportunity to see gorillas in the mountain forests. However, you must be in good health—if a gorilla caught a cold, it would be extremely harmful to its whole family.
How this vacation helps
There are only about 600 mountain gorillas left in the world as human activity has reduced the area where they can live. When you buy a permit, this will pay for the protection of the national park.
Polar Bear Watching
Country:Canada
Departures:sixty trips between Oct. 1—Nov. 19
Every October and November, groups of polar bears gather in Hudson Bay. As they are normally lonely creatures, this is unusual. The bears wait for the ocean to freeze so they can hunt seals, so this is the perfect opportunity to see them.
How this vacation helps
If the Arctic ice cap melts due to global warming, polar bears will be in danger. We give a share of our profits to the Polar Bears Alive Charity.
Your comment
These awesome bears get all the liquid they need from their food.
1. What will an elephant volunteer do?| A．Take food for elephants at 6:30 a.m. |
| B．Sweep the houses of elephants. |
| C．Wash elephants in the lake in the afternoon. |
| D．Watch satellite television on elephants. |
| A．You can find gorillas in Kenya and Canada. |
| B．You might get a cold in the mountain forests. |
| C．Visitors need to pay $220 to see 600 gorillas. |
| D．There are about 10 trips to visit gorillas. |
| A．Bears don’t need to drink water. |
| B．Bears store their liquid in their food. |
| C．Bears drink all kinds of liquid. |
| D．Bears eat mainly liquid food. |
| A．solve the problem of global warming |
| B．protect wild animals |
| C．deal with the pollution in cities |
| D．build more national parks |
【推荐2】Most animals on land are known to us, but many living things underwater are not. Now let’s get to know some of them.
Sea cucumber
Sea cucumber are strange animals living at the bottom of the sea. They wear brown or pale green coats with many sticks up. When summer comes, they stay deep to sleep because they are afraid of heat. And when it is autumn, they move to shallow (浅的) water and get their food.
Pike
The pike is a kind of freshwater fish. They are good swimmers and like swimming near boats, waiting to be fed. They have sharp teeth to catch fishes. When they are young, they live in groups. However, when they grow up, they prefer to live alone.
Cuttlefish
A cuttlefish can swim quite fast, so it is also called rocket (火箭) fish. It has eight arms and two feelers on its head, just around its mouth. It ejects ink (喷墨) when it is in danger. Its meat is delicious, and it is often the first choice for many people.
Octopus
An octopus has long arms, with which to catch food and protect itself. When it is sleeping, one or two of its arms are still on duty, keeping moving. Once it feels something dangerous, it can wake up at once to take action.
1. Sea cucumbers stay deep to sleep in summer because they ________.| A．are afraid of high temperature | B．want to get strong and fat |
| C．are afraid of their enemy | D．want to live alone |
| A．the sea cucumber | B．the pike |
| C．the cuttlefish | D．the octopus |
| A．It rushes at the enemy at once. | B．It cuts off one of its arms. |
| C．It bites with its sharp teeth. | D．It ejects ink to the enemy. |
【推荐3】My brother had, for years, a delightfully tame and lively blue-fronted Amazon parrot named Papagallo, which had an extraordinary talent for speech. Living with us in Altenberg, Papagallo flew just as freely around as most of my other birds. A talking parrot that flies from tree to tree and at the same time says human words, gives a much more comical effect than one that sits in a cage and does the same thing. When Papagallo, with loud cries of “Where’s the Doc?” flew about the district, sometimes in a real search for his master, it was funny.
Still funnier, but also remarkable from a scientific point of view, was the following performance of the bird. Papagallo feared nothing and nobody, with the exception of the chimney sweep. Birds are likely to fear things which are up above. And this tendency is associated with the natural fear of the bird of prey diving down from the heights. So everything that appears against the sky, has for them something of the meaning of “bird of prey”. As the chimney sweep in black stood up on the chimney and became outlined against the sky, Papagallo fell into a panic of fear and flew, loudly screaming, so far away that we feared he might not come back. Months later, when the chimney sweep came again, Papagallo was sitting on the weathercock, quarrelling with other birds who wanted to sit there too. All at once, I saw him stretch his neck and peer down anxiously into the village street; then he flew up and away, crying out in tough tones, “ The chimney sweep is- coming!” “The chimney sweep is coming! The next moment, the man in black walked through the doorway of the yard !
Unfortunately, I was unable to find out how often Papagallo had seen the chimney sweep before and how often he had heard the excited cry of our cook, which meant his approach. It was, without a doubt, the voice and intonation of this lady that the bird copied. But he had certainly not heard it more than three times at the most and, each time, only once and at an interval of months.
1. It can be inferred that the author_______.| A．might be a bird expert |
| B．must set a lot of parrots free |
| C．could talk with Papagallo |
| D．did have Papagallo look for his brother |
| A．Bird flying up high. |
| B．Bird hunting animals. |
| C．Bird having black feathers. |
| D．Bird diving down from the sky. |
| A．Why Papagallo feared the chimney sweep. |
| B．What the chimney sweep did to Papagallo. |
| C．How Papagallo had learnt to say the exact sentence. |
| D．How often Papagallo was seen by the chimney sweep. |
| A．Gifted | B．Caring. |
| C．Shy. | D．Talkative. |
【推荐1】We have been doing cultural and environmental studies to understand the area. We work with local people who live there, work there and know the land. Wherever we can, we avoid disturbing cultural heritage sites.
Consult with the natives
We will fully cooperate with the Inquiry by the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia. We are also continuing to support the government of Western Australia in the review of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA). We are committed to engaging with the rest of the industry, Traditional Owners, and federal and state governments across a number of areas relating to cultural heritage approvals and processes, and the broad contribution of the resources sector to Australia.
Avoid Disturbance
Site Conservation
| A．Work with Governments in Australia |
| B．What the government can do? |
| C．Where we have to disturb land |
| D．We work with native peoples to look after cultural places or objects |
| E．Cultural mapping is closely linked to ethnographic recording. |
| F．Where an area is identified as being of high cultural significance |
| G．This can include carefully securing and managing heritage sites |
When you throw something in the trash,soon a garbage truck will come to take it away.Then where does it go?That depends on where you live.Different towns deal with trash in different ways. | |
| Recycling A recycling truck picks up paper,cardboard,metal,plastic and glass.These go to the recycling plant to be sorted and made into new things. |  |
| Incinerator An incinerator is a huge stove that burns trash to make heat and electricity.The ash that’s left gets buried in a landfill.Trash ash can be poisonous,so it has to be stored carefully.But it takes up a lot less room than just plain trash. |  |
| Compost Food waste might go to a composter.In a compost heap(堆肥堆),bacteria and worms break down dead plants and old food. They turn it into good, rich oil. Some people keep compost heaps in their gardens.Big commercial composters handle waste from restaurants and farms. |  |
| Landfills Some trash gets buried in landfills.A landfill starts as a big hole.Trucks dump trash.Big earth movers push it into place and crush it down.They cover the trash with dirt to keep scavengers(食腐动物) away.The bottom of a landfill is lined with a barrier to keep bad things from leaking into the ground.Pipes drain away liquid.When the landfill is full,it’s covered with earth.It might become a park or lawn. |  |
1. What can we learn from the passage?
| A．Recycling helps to generate energy. |
| B．Bacteria and worms help handle food waste. |
| C．The landfill is used to drive scavengers away. |
| D．Trash ash is carefully handled to save room. |
| A．Dead plants. | B．Composers. |
| C．Bacteria and worms. | D．Food waste and soil. |
| A．To inform us of trash treatment. |
| B．To appeal for trash classification. |
| C．To discuss solutions to trash pollution. |
| D．To raise awareness of the harm of trash. |
【推荐3】As most people know, in the last few years, sandstorms have swept across many cities and areas of North China, polluting the air and disturbing daily lives of human beings. People look dirty and suffer many kinds of illnesses, such as breath difficulty. The sandstorm is such a serious problem that it has not only weakened the industrial and agricultural development of our country but also caused a lot of trouble to the living conditions of the Chinese people.
Therefore, effective measures should be taken as soon as possible to stop its happening. So how should we deal with the frightening sandstorms?
Some experts offer practical advice as follows: For one thing, more money ought to be put into tree planting and forest protection in order to keep more water on the Earth. For another, government of all countries should make laws on environment protection. For example, banning (禁止) the use of throw-away chopsticks and punishing illegal tree cutting. Scientists should also study and find ways to lower the grade of its destruction and to improve the environment. As for some schools, education about sandstorms should be spread properly and timely to make more and more people attach great importance to this problem.
How people look forward to sunny days with soft wind touching their faces now and forever! The golden days can come back so long as we try our best to protect the natural environment from today on. And the fact is that what I expect is not just a dream. There are some sweet fruits from the early efforts.
1. What’s the first paragraph mainly about?| A．Ways to protect the environment. | B．Bad influences sandstorms bring. |
| C．The biggest cause of sandstorms. | D．The fast development of China. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Four. | D．Six. |
| A．Successful examples of stopping sandstorms. |
| B．A bright world with no sandstorms anymore. |
| C．How to realize our dream to live a happy life. |
| D．Why people should always carry on with dreams. |
