One night, a bear came into the city of Vancouver in Canada. It walked through the streets, passing houses, shops and offices until it found some food in the bins outside a restaurant and started eating. In the morning, someone saw the bear and called the police. They came with a vet(兽医) from the city zoo, put the bear in a truck and took it back to the mountains. Luckily, the bear was safe, but what happens in other countries when big animals come into cities?
In Cape Town, South Africa, baboons (狒狒) enter the city when they are famished. They go into gardens and eat fruit from trees, or into houses and take food from cupboards and fridges. Baboons are strong animals and they can frighten people. But the city can be dangerous for baboons too.
Sometimes, they are killed in traffic accidents. Human food is also not a good choice for their teeth because it has a lot of sugar. Now, there are baboon monitors working in Cape Town to return the animals to the countryside.
In Berlin, Germany, wild pigs sometimes come into the city to look for food. They eat plants from parks and gardens, and cause accidents in the streets. Some people like the wild pigs and give them food and water to drink. Other people, however, think the wild pigs are influencing their lives.
In some cities, you can see birds, insects, mice and squirrels every day. But sometimes, it is dangerous when big animals come into cities to find food. We need some good ideas to help them solve the food problem without hurting both them and us.
1. What did the police do with the bear in Vancouver, Canada? (no more than 15 words)2. What does the underlined word “famished” in paragraph 2 probably mean? (no more than 2 words)
3. What different attitudes do people in Berlin hold towards wild pigs entering the city? (no more than 20 words)
4. What phenomenon(现象) is mainly discussed in the passage? (no more than 10 words)
5. What do you think people can do to solve the problem raised in the passage? Give your reasons. (no more than 25 words)
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During the wartime, military technologies developed quickly. Air raids (空袭) had an extremely destructive impact on wildlife populations as they contributed to the destruction of habitats. Apart from the bombs dropped during air raids, aircraft were also a significant source of air pollution. The most devastating environmental impact of the war was caused by the atomic bombs used by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bombs destroyed the natural wildlife in the area in seconds. A significant number of fish and land animals died.
·The Vietnam War
·The Rwandan Genocide
One of the major impacts of the Rwandan Genocide was the massive loss of life. It has been estimated that more than 800,000 people died.
·The Gulf War
During the Gulf War, one of the main participants, the Iraqi military, used the scorched earth policy that dramatically affected the land in Kuwait.
| A．Famous Wars in History |
| B．Environmental Impact of War |
| C．The wildlife in the region was also affected to a great extent |
| D．The activity also resulted in the terrible destruction of forests |
| E．Apart from this, they also poured vast quantities of oil into the sea |
| F．The Vietnamese army played a great role in destroying the forests |
| G．The US employed several strategies that greatly affected the environment |
【推荐2】A kind-hearted home-owner kept a baby elephant in her backyard for months during the Second World War because zoo-keepers feared the animal would be killed in a bombing attack, it has been reported.
Sheila lived at Belfast Zoo until she was moved to her unusual home in 1941 as the city experienced the so- called Belfast Blitz. She was one of the lucky ones at the zoo, in the north of the city. The Ministry of Public Security ordered 23 zoo animals to be killed in case they got free and attacked people, including a tiger, a black bear, two polar bears and six wolves. But instead of meeting the same disaster, Sheila was walked down the road by keepers to a red-brick house on the Whitewell Road where a woman gave her shelter in her backyard for several months until the bombing was over.
Now, as part of the zoo’s 75th anniversary, managers are trying to identify the woman who gave the elephant its wartime shelter, known only as “the elephant angel”. All it has to go on are a couple of black and white photographs of two women sitting on a garden seat watching Sheila drinking out of a tin bucket beside the back door of the house.
Zoo manager Mark Challis said, “The care provided by our mystery lady is unique to zoo history and we would like to make contact with her family and properly document this gap in our past.” Happily Sheila went on to survive the war, living another 25 years until her death at the zoo.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that Sheila is ______.| A．an elephant | B．a kind-hearted lady |
| C．a zoo manager | D．an animal keeper |
| A．In 1941. | B．In 1945. |
| C．In 1966. | D．In 1996. |
| A．To free them from disasters. |
| B．To protect them from being stolen. |
| C．To avoid their doing harm to people. |
| D．To prevent them from attacking each other. |
| A．The mystery lady is still alive. |
| B．The zoo hasn’t found the mystery lady. |
| C．Sheila was the only one surviving the war. |
| D．The helpful lady didn’t want to be famous. |
【推荐3】The hippo is a very important animal to the health of African rivers and lakes. However, researchers warm that the population of hippos is becoming less.
The hippo is a large animal. Hippos spend nearly 16 hours a day in the water. They come ashore to feed at night, and they eat more than 200 kilograms of grass every time they eat.
Professor Douglas McCauley and his team have studied the waste of hippos. He says, “We have looked carefully at hippos and found that the most useful thing is their waste. They eat lots of grass on land and then take that all back to the lakes and rivers where they rest. They basically get rid of that in the form of waste. And it turns out to be a huge amount of matter full of energy and Nutrients.”
Every year, hippos provide over 60,000 kilograms of waste for African lakes and rivers. Some fish need the waste in their diets. And some of the nutrients in the waste are the building materials of some small plants in the water.
Although researchers learn more about the importance of hippos, there are fewer of them. The number of hippos has dropped a lot in Africa. Douglas says humans are mainly responsible for it due to illegal hunting And animals, including hippos, often lose to humans in competition for water. Douglas explains, “Both of them need water.” He says when we’re harming wildlife, we should realize that our future is closely inked with wildlife's.
1. Where do hippos stay most of the time?| A．In the water. | B．In shade. | C．Near the rivers. | D．By the side of lakes. |
| A．Their meat. | B．Their fur. | C．Their horns. | D．Their waste. |
| A．Hippos sometimes eat some fish. | B．Hippos contribute much to river ecosystem. |
| C．Hippos like looking for food at night. | D．Hippos' waste causes pollution to rivers. |
| A．There are sill many hippos in Africa. | B．Humans have caused great effects on hippos. |
| C．People should not compete with hippos. | D．Hippos need to drink much water in a day. |
