The rhino census (犀牛普查) is out, bearing good news for the greater one-horned rhinos! In September, 2022, the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) documented in a report that there is a baby boom in this population, representing an increase of 167 percent.
According to the report, there are a total of 4,014 greater one-homed rhinos living m India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Although this is positive news, their IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) status still remains vulnerable.
In India alone, the home to 70 percent of the world’s greater one-homed rhinos, there was an increase of 274 rhinos since the last bi-annual census, according to the organization Rhino Review.
An important reason for this baby boom is the fact that Assam, India, has enlarged Kaziringo National Park, home to the world’s largest one-homed rhino population. The park went from 430 square kilometers to 1,040 square kilometers. This gives more breeding areas for the things, and they are closed to visitors during breeding season.
India and Nepal are also protecting the rhinos by enforcing wildlife crime laws. To reduce rhino death by poaching (偷猎), the IRF donates vehicles and equipment, plus education including guard training and crime investigation.
The IRF data for other rhino species is not as promising, although the greater one-horned rhino numbers are encouraging for future conservation. According to the report, there is a decline in Sumatran rhinos, Africa’s white rhinos, while the Javan rhino population is stable and threatened by loss of habitat.
The State of the Rhino report offers hope for these other species. Given that the greater one-horned things were once close to extinction, with fewer than 100 living in the world, their recovery is incredible. This demonstrates that there are solutions when organizations and people work together. It is hoped that this successful rhino baby boom will affect other endangered wildlife species around the globe.
1. What contributes to the baby boom of one-homed rhinos in Assam, India?A.Extending the protected areas for rhinos. |
B.Raising fund to set up more reserves for rhinos. |
C.Leaving the one-homed rhinos alone in the wild. |
D.Keeping visitors away from the Kaziringo National Park. |
A.Cooperating with other organizations. |
B.Enhancing anti-poaching efforts. |
C.Transferring the rhinos to other habitats. |
D.Guarding the rhinos with new equipment. |
A.Rhinos are no longer a vulnerable species. |
B.Rhinos will affect other wildlife in the world. |
C.Everyone can play a role in protecting nature. |
D.It is possible to protect other endangered species. |
A.To inform good news on the greater one-horned rhinos. |
B.To show the measures of the greater one-homed rhinos. |
C.To introduce an endangered species — the greater one-homed rhinos. |
D.To indicate the decline of other species of rhino population. |
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【推荐1】There is a myth that people can see glass, but birds can’t.
Many people are injured every year. They collide with unmarked doors and windows; embarrassment is the usual result.
Birds can learn to avoid glass. For example, birds in zoo exhibits learn to avoid exhibit walls if the glass is marked for the first few days of their residence.
Birds hit glass because it presents a triple threat. One is that reflections of vegetation or landscape attract birds to collide with glass.
As researchers have begun to understand collisions, they are creating better approaches to reduce impacts on birds. For example, some have documented mortality(死亡) patterns and how they are influenced by lighting, the amount of glass present, the distribution of nearby vegetation, and other variables.
This science has come along way, but many questions remain unanswered. Our efforts on the testing of bird-friendly materials are helping to expand understanding of how birds sec and respond to their environment, and will lead to more effective solutions.
A.In fact, neither birds nor people can see glass. |
B.Wild birds can learn about specific pieces of glass. |
C.Each year up to one billion birds hit glass in the U. S. alone. |
D.Therefore glass can be the invisible killer of birds in particular. |
E.So architects and other professionals can design innovative bird-watching buildings. |
F.Others have looked at the type of structure to identify which poses the most risk. |
G.Green habitat inside buildings with see-through glass can also trick birds to their death. |
【推荐2】Tree planting used to be regarded as an effective means of controlling climate change. Perhaps it's time for us to rethink this practice. Trees pull carbon dioxide or CO2 from the air. This effectively removes CO2 from the atmosphere, making trees an important part of the fight against climate change. But trees only hold onto carbon dioxide as long as they're alive. Once they die, trees decay (腐烂) and release that CO2 back into the atmosphere.
Recent studies have found that trees around the world are growing faster than ever. Rising atmosphere CO2 is probably driving that rapid growth, said Roel Brienen. High levels of this gas are boosting temperatures, which in turn speeds tree growth in those areas, he added. The faster tees grow, the faster they store carbon. It seems like good news. However, it is known that fast-growing tree species, in general, live shorter lives than their slow-growing relatives.
In order to see whether this is a universal phenomenon, Brienen and his colleagues analyzed over 210,000 individual tree ring records of 110 tree species from more than 70,000 sites worldwide.“By measuring tree rings' widths one can tell how fast trees grew, while counting rings provides information on tree ages and allows making inferences about trees' maximum lifespan (寿命).” Brienen explained.
The team also created a computer program that modeled a forest. Early on, it showed that “the forest could hold more carbon as the trees grew faster”, Brienen reported. But after 20 years, these trees stared dying and losing this extra carbon again. “We must understand that the only solution to bring down CO2 levels is to stop emitting (排放) it into the atmosphere,” said Brienen.
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?A.Where carbon dioxide or CO2 is. |
B.Whether trees will be planted or not. |
C.Why the atmosphere can remove carbon dioxide. |
D.Why trees against climate change should be rethought. |
A.They give off and store lots of CO2. |
B.They belong to fast-growing species. |
C.Rising atmospheric CO2 may help them. |
D.The surrounding trees may affect them. |
A.age | B.height |
C.growth speed | D.top lifespan |
A.Why the team founded the computer program. |
B.Why the faster trees grow, the longer they live. |
C.How to make the old trees live a little longer. |
D.How to deal with dying trees emitting their extra carbon. |
【推荐3】In some places, people collect honey from wild bees. This is common in many parts of the world, especially South Asia. Honey hunting is a local tradition in southern India but it is not an undemanding job. The bees in southern India can grow up to the size of the smallest adult human finger. And these giant honey bees build their hives(蜂窝)on the sides of mountains!
It takes many years for a honey hunter to learn to collect honey from these hives. From a young age the honey hunter learns everything about bees. He practices climbing hundreds of meters above the ground. Before the honey season, the honey hunter prepares for many days.
When the day of the honey hunt season arrives, the honey hunter goes to the edge of the mountain early in the morning. He climbs down with a rope and lights some dry branches on fire. The smoke makes the bees leave the hive. With the bees flying around the honey hunter, he uses a long sharp stick to gently get pieces of the wax(蜜蜡)filled with honey. He then takes them back to the village in a box made of bamboo.
Usually the hunter takes some honey and leaves some of the hive on the mountainside. He does not take the part of the hive with the baby bees in it since he does not want to destroy the home of the bees. When the honey hunter returns, the village celebrates!
“They have been hunting honey in this way for more than 2,000 years. Honey was and still is an important part of their diet, cooking and medicine,” Simone Gie from the organization Slow Food International, said.
1. The underlined word “undemanding” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “________”.A.regular | B.boring | C.easy | D.difficult |
A.has a short history | B.needs careful preparation |
C.makes some villages rich | D.is often done by a young man |
A.Bamboo. | B.Branches. | C.A rope. | D.A stick. |
A.how to protect baby bees | B.the importance of honey |
C.the new use for honey | D.how honey is hunted |
On 17 July , a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earth’s atmosphere (大气层) with a massive explosion . About half of the piece is destroyed, but the remaining part hits the South Atlantic at 200 times the speed of sound. The sea boils and a huge hole is made in the sea bed. Huge waves are created and spread outwards from the hole. The wall of water, a kilometer high, rushes towards southern Africa at 800 kilometers an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destroyed and millions of people are drowned.
Before the waves reach South America, the second piece of the comet lands in Argentina. Earthquakes and volcanoes are set off in the Andes Mountains. The shock waves move north into California and all around the Pacific Ocean. The cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo are completely destroyed by earthquakes. Millions of people in the southern half of the earth are already dead, but the north won’t escape for long. Because of the explosions, the sun is hidden by clouds of dust, temperatures around the world fall to almost zero .Crops are ruined. The sun won’t be seen again for many years. Wars break out as countries fight for food. A year later, no more than 10 million people remain alive.
Could it really happen? In fact, it has already happened more than once in the history of the Earth. The dinosaurs were on the Earth for over 160 million years. Then 65 million years ago they suddenly disappeared. Many scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a piece of object in space. The dinosaurs couldn’t live through the cold climate that followed and they died out. Will we meet the same and?
1. What is mainly described in the passage?
A.A historic discovery. | B.An event of imagination |
C.A research on space. | D.A scientific adventure. |
A.an earthquake | B.damages to cities |
C.an Earth explosion | D.huge waves |
A.Because the land is covered with water |
B.Because the light and heat from the sun can not reach the earth. |
C.Because people there can not live at the temperature of zero. |
D.Because wars break out among countries. |
A.animals could not live in the cold climate |
B.what happened 65 million years ago was an invented story |
C.the human beings will die out in 2094 |
D.the Earth could be hit by other objects in space |
【推荐2】Getting a solid night’s rest when you’re sick can seem like an unattainable goal for any number of reasons. It’s difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep when you’re troubled by a stuffy nose, a constant cough, or other unbearable symptoms(症状). Fevers can make quality sleep even harder, thanks in part to fever dreams: especially vivid, unbelievable, or downright disturbing dreams that occur when you have a fever.
As the Sleep Foundation explains, fever dreams sometimes involve spatial distortion, such as moving walls and melting objects; threats or danger, which can be anything from insects to terrorists; and illness. If you were to have a dream fitting this description when you weren’t sick, you might just regard it as a common nightmare(噩梦). But since people seem to experience such strange dreams more often during fevers, it’s given rise to the idea that the two things must be linked.
While there’s a lot about fever dreams we don’t know, there is at least a little evidence supporting the theory that some people’s fever dreams are different from their regular dreams. In one study from 2016, researchers asked 62 people to describe past fever dreams and found them to be more unbelievable, more emotionally intense, and often negatively toned than regular dreams from an age and gender matched sample. Of the 164 people who participated in a 2020 survey, 100 reported fever dreams. The researchers noted that these dreams included more references to health and temperature sensations(感觉)compared to normal most recent dreams.
As for why fevers beget strange nightmares, scientists have some ideas. “One theory is that the brain doesn’t process sensations normally when we have a fever,” Dr Beth Malow, director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s sleep division, told Health in 2020. So burning up in your bed might just clearly show itself in a dream full of melting objects and seemingly unrelated dangers.
1. What might not make you fail to attain quality sleep according to the text?A.Having a blocked nose. | B.Coughing constantly. |
C.Having dreams. | D.Catching a fever. |
A.People will certainly dream of some threats or dangers during fevers. |
B.Fever dreams might make people ill. |
C.Fever dreams are often viewed as common nightmares. |
D.People are more likely to have nightmares during fevers. |
A.Fever dreams are more incredible to young people. |
B.Fever dreams may bring stronger emotions. |
C.Fever dreams occur more frequently. |
D.Fever dreams may result in higher body temperature. |
A.Cause. | B.Get. | C.Reach. | D.Explain. |
【推荐3】The most hated day of the week is misunderstood. When the Boomtown Rats, an Irish band, released “I Don’t Like Mondays” in 1979, the song became an instant hit.
What many do recognise all too well is the difficulty of gathering the energy to get out of bed on Monday mornings in order to face the week ahead. Many bosses argue that starting off the week in person in the office creates good energy. However, plenty of employees beg to differ.
A paper published by the Journal of Applied Psychology, found that people tend to be more ill-mannered on Mondays, and grow more polite as the week unfolds. The authors have diagnosed a new condition, Mondayitis, which is defined. as “a systemic illness with collections of symptoms including tiredness, light-headedness, dry mouth and headache”. These symptoms typically appear on the first working day after a period off work, which could be a weekend or a longer holiday. They can lead sufferers to call in sick, decide to work from home or, if they do show up in the office, come across as detached (冷漠的) and unavailable. Mondayitis appears to be infecting other days of the week.
However, the covid-19 pandemic has led many people to re-evaluate their work-life balance. A lawyer in London who spends weekends working on cases likes to ease into the formal workweek with an elegant breakfast in a fancy restaurant. A broader movement is promoting the idea of a four-day work week, one arrangement of which would make Monday part of the weekend. Less ambitiously, and more realistically, asocial-media campaign for “bare-minimum Mondays” argues for a gentle start to the week.
You may have prepared or merely enjoyed a more elaborate meal than a sandwich. You may have gone for a walk in the park or simply lay in bed. Either way, you almost certainly cleared your head. When revived and spirited, you will have a fresh start.
1. What does the underlined part “beg to differ” in Paragraph 2 mean?A.Approve. | B.Object. | C.Submit. | D.Complain. |
A.They are ill-mannered but ready to help others. |
B.They may suffer from tiredness or light-headedness. |
C.They tend to infect others with their bad performance. |
D.They want to come to the office rather than work from home. |
A.Start to work early. | B.Grab a quick meal. |
C.Take a walk in the park. | D.Have a tight schedule. |
A.To tell us ways to tackle Mondayitis. | B.To explain how to gain work-life balance. |
C.To offer tips on how to keep fit on weekdays. | D.To persuade us not to work too hard on Mondays. |