A foreign student is studying at a university in Jiangxi Province. One day, she could not help singing a song when she saw thousands of Siberian white cranes (西伯利亚鹤) dancing on the Poyang Lake. Each year, these cranes start their long journey from Siberia to China.
The Siberian white cranes are also known as the snow cranes. They are in danger of dying out. Now there are only about 4,000 Siberian white cranes all over the world. Experts (专家) say the Siberian white cranes are special. If they are hurt in one place, they will never go there again. Chinese researchers first discovered the Siberian white cranes in the Poyang Lake in 1980. Now, about 98 per cent of such cranes spend their winter there. Their migrating route (迁徙路线) is well protected. In 2017, a photography lover, together with many bird lovers, built the Siberian crane protected area. It’s for scientific research, education and photography. It’s known as “human’s closest place to Siberian cranes”. Every year, these beautiful cranes fly to this area.
The birds know whether (是否) the natural environment is good or not. They are like “ecological (生态学的) test paper” for the environment. We should protect the beautiful birds.
1. What is Siberian white cranes’ migrating route every year?A.From China to Siberia. | B.From Siberia to the UK. | C.From Siberia to China. |
A.About 4,000. | B.About 40,000. | C.Only 40,000. |
A.研究 | B.发现 | C.观察 |
A.Because the natural environment is good there. |
B.Because there are many birds there. |
C.Because the cranes don’t like changing their migrating route. |
A.We should study the rare (稀有的) birds. |
B.The Siberian white cranes are not rare birds. |
C.We should protect our natural environment. |
2 . 假如你是李华,是野生动物俱乐部的一名成员,请根据下面表格的内容提示,以“Let’s protect wild animals”为题,用英语写一篇短文,发表在你的英文博客上,呼吁人们保护野生动物。
Let’s protect wild animals | |
Reasons | no place to live in or food to eat, people kill them for... |
Importance | We human being could not live without... |
Action | help them have more babies, build more reserves, make laws to... |
2. 词数80左右(文章的开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数);
3. 文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名称。
Let’s protect wild animals
Now more and more wild animals like tigers and pandas are in danger. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Let’s take action now to protect wild animals! Protecting them is just protecting ourselves.
3 . 假如你们学校正在开展“动物保护周”系列活动,请从图片中选择一种野生动物,并根据思维导图的提示,以校学生会名义写一封80词左右的英文倡议书,号召更多的人加入保护野生动物队伍。
写作要求:
1. 倡议书须包括思维导图中所提示内容,省略号部分作适当发挥;
2. 开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
Dear friends,
Wild animals play an important part on our planet earth. But they are facing many problems. I am writing to call on everyone to do something for them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Students’ Union
4 . Siberian tigers, also know as Amur tigers (东北虎), are now on China’s first-class protection list. Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Parks in Jilin and Heilongjiang Provinces use a high-tech system to provide real-time protection for the plants and animals. The system has taken more than 4,000 pictures of Siberian tigers and Amur leopards. Now, there are more than sixty Siberian tigers in our country. And the survival rate (存活率) of young Siberian tigers has increased from 33percent in 2016 to 50 percent now.
Over the past ten years, China has made great achievements in wildlife protection. One of the most successful examples is the giant panda. The number of the giant pandas has grown from 1, 114 in the 1970s to 1, 864 now.
China will go one with its protection for wildlife. It will build more protection areas for the wildlife and improve their living places. Special research will also be done on endangered animals.
1. How does the National Park protect tigers?A.By creating a high-tech system. | B.By providing real-time protection. |
C.By inviting protectors to work in the park. | D.By building comfortable living places for tigers. |
A.more than 33. | B.more than 50. | C.more than 60. | D.more than 4,000. |
A.33%. | B.50%. | C.60%. | D.70%. |
A.To tell readers they are out of danger. | B.To let readers care more about giant pandas. |
C.To show China’s success in protecting wildlife. | D.To make people know it’s hard to protect wildlife. |
A.China’s future protection plan. | B.What we can do to protect wildlife. |
C.Different endangered wild animals. | D.How wildlife has become endangered. |
B: Oh, I went to the cinema and saw a film.
A:
B: It’s about animals.
A:
B: It was wonderful. But it also made me very sad. Because there are really a number of animals that are in danger.
A:
B: Yes, I did. I learned a lot about the endangered animals. We can’t see most of them on the earth today.
A: Sorry to hear that.
B: I think we should do something to save them. Let’s join the Love Animal Club first.
A:
A.Where did you go? |
B.That’s a good idea. |
C.Did you learn a lot from the film? |
D.What is the film about? |
E.Where have you been? |
F.What do you think of the film? |
6 . A piece of interesting news got popular online recently. When some new students went to college in Yunnan, in Southwest China, they got an “elephant riding license”.
The students are from Yunnan Polytechnic college. The license has the driver’s information on the left page and the elephant’s information on the right. Each elephant has its own local name such as “Shaobaogu”, “Shaoerkuai” and “Xiaoyangyu”. Most of them are the names of food.
So, can the students really ride an elephant with the license? Of course not. In fact, the license is a gift from the college to its new students. The teachers of the college wanted to tell their students to protect the wildlife(野生动物)by doing this. They said that wild Asian elephants are under first-class protection in our country. The students should never actually ride them. They should try to learn to protect them, because they are in great danger.
A group of elephants traveled north and finally came back to their home in Yunnan this year. They are famous all over the world. Some people think people in Yunnan go to school or work by riding an elephant. The teachers of the college came up with a good idea to tell their students how to protect these animals.
根据语篇内容,选择最佳选项。
1. Where did people get the piece of news?
A.In the newspaper. | B.On the Internet. | C.On the radio. |
A.A postcard. | B.A driver’s license. | C.An “elephant riding license”. |
A.the college | B.the elephants | C.cities in Yunnan |
A.Popular food. | B.Famous places. | C.Great colleges. |
A.Drive a car. | B.Ride an elephant. | C.Learn to protect elephants. |
7 . Pandas live in Southwest China. They are
A.in | B.on | C.of |
A.easy | B.difficult | C.peaceful |
A.bigger | B.larger | C.smaller |
A.Because | B.So | C.So that |
A.to help | B.help | C.helps |
8 . The Search-for-Lost-Birds list has come to public attention not long ago. It lists ten kinds of birds that people have not seen in the wild for at least fifteen years. The list is calling on people to search for the rarest(最珍稀的) birds on Earth.
There could be several reasons (原因) for the long disappearances (消失) of the birds on the list. Maybe there have been no studies in areas where they live. Maybe people don’t know where or how to find them. Maybe there are changes to their natural homes because of human activities.
This year, four teams are planning to find eight more kinds of lost birds. If they can find any of these lost birds, people can find ways to protect them and help their populations grow.
This has happened with birds like the Madagascar pochard. The number of this once-lost kind of bird is now increasing.
根据语篇内容,判断下列句子正误,正确的在答题卡上将“T”涂黑,错误的在答题卡上将“F”涂黑。
1. Fifteen kinds of birds are on the Search-for-Lost-Birds list.
2. Human activities might cause the long disappearances of the birds.
3. This year, four teams are trying to find more lost birds.
4. We can do nothing to find and protect these kinds of birds.
5. The Madagascar pochard has a larger population than before.
9 . As autumn arrives in the United States and Canada, you could see the yearly migration of the monarch butterflies(帝王蝶).
No other butterfly in the world migrates like the monarch butterflies of North America. Every year, they fly to the south because they can’t live for long periods in cold weather.
So each autumn around October, the butterflies travel up to 3,000 kilometers south to spend winter in warmer locations. Some even fly to the mountains of Mexico. There are so many of them that they almost block out the sky. And you can hear their wings beating.
It usually takes the butterflies two months to reach Mexico. After five months of staying, they head back north in the spring.
But not one butterfly finishes the whole round—trip. They lay eggs along the way and die. Three generations(代) of butterflies will live and die during the spring journey alone. The fourth and final generation of the year is born in early autumn and will reach the north. But the butterflies hardly get to rest before starting the long journey south again to Mexico.
The most amazing thing about these butterflies is that they return to the very same trees in Mexico that their great—great—grandparents used to live on the winter before.
However, the population of this colorful butterfly has dropped in recent years. One of the main reasons, experts say, is that farmers have used herbicides(除草剂) on plants. The monarchs lay eggs along the route of their migration. Their larvae live and feed on the plants. But the herbicides can kill them.
根据语篇内容,选择最佳选项。
1. What does the underlined word “migration” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A.蜕变 | B.迁徙 | C.再生 |
A.Because they don’t like living in the north. |
B.Because winters in the south are more beautiful. |
C.Because they can’t live for long periods in cold weather. |
A.For one month. | B.For two months. | C.For five months. |
A.The butterflies that fly back to the north are not the same ones that flew to the south. |
B.When arriving in the south, the butterflies will all stay on one tree. |
C.The population of monarch butterflies is becoming greater in number. |
A.Why the number of this butterfly is becoming smaller. |
B.Why farmers have used herbicides. |
C.Why the monarchs lay eggs along the route of their migration. |
10 . In English, “as dead as a dodo” means somebody or something is no longer alive. But the dodo, a short fat bird that died out hundreds of years ago because of humans, may not be dead any more!
US company Colossal Bioscience said it would try to bring the dodo back to life. The bird used to live on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the 17th century.
“[The place] to bring back the dodo into the wild would be Mauritius,” Ben Lamm, one of the founder of the company told The Guardian. Bringing back dodos into the ecosystem (生态系统) of the island, is thought to bring advantages to the plants and animals that already live there.
The company has found the genetic code (基因序列) of the extinct animals from their dead bodies. It will change the DNA of present living animals to make them close to the animal of the past. The Nicobar pigeon, a kind of bird, will be used as the genetic base for the dodo, according to MIT Technology Review.
The company also has plans for other extinct animals, such as the mammoth (猛犸象). They believe that mammoths introduced to the Arctic could help with climate change as they turn the wet tundra (苔原) into dry grasslands by eating the grass, according to The New Yorker.
However, some people don’t like the idea. With a third of all bird species (物种) becoming fewer, protecting today’s species is needed more than giving attention to animal in the past, said that BBC Science Focus.
根据语篇内容,选择最佳选项。
1. How does the writer begin the passage?
A.By showing the old saying. | B.By comparing numbers. | C.By singing a song. |
A.Because the island is set as a research center for dodos. |
B.Because the island has the best ecosystem in the world. |
C.Because dodos lived there and maybe good to the ecosystem. |
A.By changing a pigeon’s DNA to create the dodo. |
B.By producing dodos with DNA from their dead bodies. |
C.By changing the dead dodos’ DNA to make them reborn. |
A.濒危的 | B.灭绝的 | C.珍稀的 |
A.Bringing extinct animals back to life is meaningful for today’s species. |
B.Animals in danger today is more important than extinct ones. |
C.It is impossible to bring extinct animals back to life as they were. |