1 . Every year, between 100 million and 1, 000 million birds die from crashing into buildings, especially windows. When hearing the news, you may feel sad. Scientists have come up with a simple idea that could help save birds: Turn off the lights.

In the fall, more than 8, 000 million birds migrate (迁徙) from North America to warmer places. During daylight hours, glass reflects (反射) the outside world. That makes the birds think what they see is the real world. At night, the bright lights in tall buildings look like stars. That makes the birds mistake them for stars that show them the way. These finally result in birds crashing into windows and losing their lives.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology (the study of birds) advises producing man-made lights as little as possible during the migration season. They advise turning off lights outside that are not important to your life and turning off or dimming lights inside.

In 1999, the National Audubon Society which protects birds, began the Lights Out Network. It is a national action to provide safe airspace for migrating birds. Now some big US cities, like Dallas, Philadelphia and New York, turn off the lights at night to protect birds. If we pull together to protect birds, they will have a better living environment.

3 . A harbor seal (斑海豹) was recently seen in the waters near Sanya, Hainan Province. Since it was first seen near Wuzhizhou Island, divers (潜水人员) have come across it several times and filmed it swimming in the sea or resting on the water surface.

Harbor seals mainly swim by using the back of their body. They love diving and can make more than 30 dives a day. They can dive as deep as 300 meters and stay underwater for over 20 minutes. When swimming on the surface, harbor seals can achieve speeds of up to 27 kilometers an hour. However, harbor seals look silly and cute on land because they can only use their upper body to move. They are loved by many people and are called “sea pandas”.

Wang Aimin, an expert in the Wuzhizhou Island Marine Ranch National Demonstration Zone, said, “The recent survey shows that the number of fish in this area has doubled over the past ten years. It shows the environment here is more suitable for living, which may draw the lovely guest.”

Someone said online, “Animals are the most important part of life on earth. If we humans destroy animals’ homes, we hurt animals, and we hurt ourselves.”

4 . Biff has a lovely dog ________ Floppy. The family went camping last weekend. Floppy went there, too. It ________ a long time to put up the tent. Floppy was waiting for a long time. He was so hungry ________ he ran off to look for food. A man was cooking. “That smells good,” thought Floppy. “Go away!” called the man. Floppy ran off. Floppy saw a dog’s ________. When he walked up to it, a big dog barked at him. “You can’t have my dinner.” shouted the dog. He was ________ and ran away quickly. He wanted to go back. He saw lots of tents but they all looked the same ________ him. Floppy was lost. He went inside one tent because he smelt ________ there. He saw three plates. There was a piece of cake on each one. He ate the biggest one first, then the smaller piece. But Floppy was ________ hungry, so he ate the last one. “I need a rest now,” he thought. There were three beds. Floppy ________ on the blue bed, but it was too hard. Then he compared the other two beds ________ the blue one. In the end, he chose the red one. It was not too hard or too soft. It was just right. So he went to sleep.

6 . 假如你是李华，请根据下列提示问题，用英语写一篇短文介绍自己最喜欢的动物   词数70~90，开头已给出，不计入总词数。

提示：

1. What’s your favorite animal? 2. What does it look like? 3. Why do you like it?

4. Where does it come from? 5. What food does it like?

My Favorite Animal

My name is Li Hua. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9 . Panda Bing Xing and Hua Zuiba, along with their three children, arrived in Chengdu on March 1. They are the first group to return in 2024. It’s funny that they are the largest family to return in recent years. Before returning, the Madrid Zoo _________ a goodbye party for them.

It’s well-known that the panda is considered national _________ in China. In 1978, the Spanish King _________ China. After his visit, two pandas were invited to Spain. In fact, from 1957 to 1982, China _________ 24 pandas to nine countries. They received _________ welcome there.

After they return, a young pair will head to the Madrid Zoo. They will continue acting the “panda _________” between the two countries. So in many people’s eyes, they are the communicating _________ between China and Spain.

Last month, the CWCA _________ an agreement with the Madrid Zoo. It’s mainly about how to call on everyone to _________ protect pandas. Since the 1990s, China has built up __________ panda protection relation with 26 organizations in 20 countries. This will make pandas live safely in the world. Everyone expects so. To everyone, it’s known that no trading, no killing.