Sea turtles (海龟) live in the sea most of the time. The beaches in Florida are home to sea turtles. Female sea turtles come here from the ocean to lay eggs. Then they return to the ocean. However, the number of some of these turtles is falling. They are in danger. So people in Florida work together as a community to protect them.
Some volunteers take direct action to help the turtles. They look closely at the sand to find out where the sea turtles lay their eggs. Then they help bury (埋藏) the eggs in order to save them from being killed. They also help people who are studying sea turtles.
Florida’s government has passed laws to save the turtles. One of these laws is “Florida’s Marine Turtle Protection Act”. This law stops anyone from killing sea turtles or taking away their eggs. It helps protect the turtles from dying out.
People also work together to save the turtles through organizations like the Sea Turtle Conservancy. For example, the bright light from buildings near the beach can influence sea turtles. The baby turtles may get lost. Many of them do not make it to the ocean and die. The Sea Turtle Conservancy works with house owners to make the lighting in their building’s sea turtle friendly. They also advise people to turn off their lights at night if they live close to a beach.
In a word, everyone can do their part to protect sea turtles and their living places. People in Florida can work as volunteers to clean up the beaches and pick up their own litter. Everyone in the community has the power to make a difference!
1. What is the Chinese meaning of the underlined word Female in Paragraph One?2. What does “It” refer to (指的是) in the third paragraph?
3. Which sentence in the passage has the similar meaning to the following one?
Besides, the volunteers ask the people whose home is near the beach not to turn on the lights during night.
4. Please list two other ways to protect sea turtles except the ways in the passage.
5. 请根据短文内容填空，每空不超过2个单词。
Most of the sea turtles can live in the sea or on land. They return to the sea when the eggs ①
2 . Asian elephants are getting more and more. In 2021, there were 300 of them. They need more food and they go to villages to find food. Their favorite food is corn and sugarcane. These are the villagers’ plants to sell. The elephants are happy to eat their favorite food, but this brings losses for the villagers. The elephants eat the villagers’ plants so the villagers can’t sell them for money. Sometimes, when the elephants meet people, they are afraid and then hurt (伤害) people. But we still need to be friends with elephants. They are important to the health of the environment (环境).
How can we get on with these Asian elephants? Our country is thinking of some smart ways.
※If the elephants eat the villagers’ plants, villagers can get some money from our country.
※People put fences (栅栏) outside villages and schools. Then the elephants can’t get in.
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根据上面短文，完成1至5小题。1. What bad things do Asian elephants do?
（请列举两件事，用完整的句子表述，每件事不超过6个单词。）
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2. 推测划线单词losses的汉语意思是
3. Why do we need to be friends with elephants?
4. 下面哪一句填在原文※_________ 空白处更合适?（只写字母代号）
| A．People must save the trees and not buy things made of ivory. |
| B．When people see some elephants, they must keep 300 meters away and leave quickly. |
3 . Ducks are social (群居的) animals that need time to be friendly with humans. If you have some pet ducks, I hope you will be able to spend enough time every day with them and of course,（A）this doesn’t include their feeding and cleaning time. If you（B）are not able to spend time with them,（C）you’d better make at least 2 or 3 ducks live together. In Virginia, buying only one duck is（D）________ the law (法律). Ducks usually live in groups. So to have a group of ducks is good for（E）their health because ducks may（F）________ from the sickness caused by not having companionship (陪伴). And remember that ducklings (幼鸭) are so delicate (纤弱的) that sometimes they are hurt by children. Because children are always not aware (意识到的) of the fragile (易碎的) bodies of ducks. To make the（G）cute friends alive and healthy, we must touch them gently and treat kindly. And if you have pet ducks,（H）记得和它们一起玩啊！
1. 文中画线部分（A）和（E）指代的是：2. 写出文中（B）和（G）的同义词：
3. 将文中画线部分（C）改写为：
4. 在文中（D）和（F）的空白处分别填入一个适当的单词：
5. 将文中画线部分（H）译成英语：
4 . A giant panda is a kind of bear. It has a white face with black patches around its eyes. It also has black ears, shoulders and legs. The（A）________ of its body is white.
Home
Pandas live high up in the mountains of Central and Western China. They live in the bamboo forests（B）there.
Food
Pandas in the wild usually eat bamboo. In zoos, their menu includes bamboo, apples and carrots. A giant panda can eat as（C）________ as 30 kilograms of bamboo a day.
Behaviour
Pandas like to live（D）on their own. They need to eat a lot to stay healthy, so they spend more than 12 hours a day eating. Although they are big and heavy, it is（E）not difficult for them to climb trees.（F）They are strong enough to protect themselves.
Life
Pandas live for about 20 years in the wild, but in zoos they can live for 35 years.
The future
People are cutting down forests, so the pandas are losing their homes. Some people are killing them for their fur.（G）他们这么做很残忍. There are not many pandas in the world now.（H）Protecting them is important.
1. 请在（A）和（C）处填入适当的单词：2. 请写出（B）和（F）分别指代的是：
3. 请写出（D）和（E）的同义词：
4. 请将（G）翻译成英语：
5. 请将（H）改成同义句：
5 . 阅读下面材料，并按要求完成1至5小题。
Helping Birds in a Changing World
Do you think birds are interesting? Do you like spending time outdoors? Do you care about wildlife and the environment? If you answered yes to these questions. you might think about becoming a bird biologist. Bird biologists are scientists who study birds.
Birds are interesting for many reasons. Birds have a lot in common, but at the same time, they can be very different from one another. All birds have feathers (羽毛), and most of them can fly. They are in different sizes from hummingbirds (蜂鸟) smaller than your fist (拳头) to ostriches (舵鸟) taller than the tallest person. Ostriches can’t fly, but they can run up to 70 kilometers an hour! Bird biologists work to understand more about birds, their habits, and their homes. Some kinds of birds are dying off because they travel a long way during migration (迁徙). In North America, birds travel to northern places in the summer and to more southern places for the winter. Bird biologists are studying how and where birds get hurt along the way and trying to help them. But that’s not all bird biologists do! Beth Flint is a bird biologist in a wildlife refuge (保护区) near Hawaii. She tracks (追踪) all the different kinds of seabirds in the refuge. She enjoys working outside, but she also works in an office. She reads research studies about all the animals in the wildlife refuge, and makes plans to help protect them, especially the birds. She talks to volunteers about the wildlife in the refuge, too.
To become a bird biologist, Dr. Flint studied many fields that all connect. She learned about wildlife, forestry, biology, zoology (the study of animals), botany (the study of plants) and ecology (生态学). Her interest in seabirds started when she was a student. She saw a photo of Atlantic Puffins on arock and wanted to learn more about them.
You never know where your interests may lead (引领) you. They may lead you to become a scientist who studies wildlife!
阅读短文，根据其内容完成以下任务。
任务一：回答问题。
1. How fast can ostriches run?任务二：列举出一条某些鸟类灭绝的原因。（用英语列举）
3.任务三：根据短文信息补全下面句子。
4. Beth Flint learned about5. 任务四：填写以下信息卡中所缺的内容（______上填写一词）
Species: Birds Feature: All birds have feathers. Most of them can fly. They have different sizes. Protection: Establishing wildlife refuge and prohibition (禁止) of |
Monkeys live all around the world. They love living in trees in warm rainforests. Monkeys are clever and lovely.
Sadly, the world of monkeys is in danger. They’re losing their homes because people are cutting down the trees in the forest where they live. The warmer and warmer weather also causes lots of trouble for them.
Another thing to note is that monkeys are used in scientific research. Monkeys share a lot of genes (基因) with humans and scientists study them to learn about our bodies and diseases. But this raises questions: Are they being taken care of well? What’s right or wrong in the name of science? Keeping a balance is really important.
Facing so many problems, there is still hope. Governments are working together to protect them by planting trees to create new homes, making rules to reduce carbon emissions (碳排放), and looking for other ways to do research without using animals.
You can help too! Saving monkeys means we’re making a better future for everyone!
| Monkeys are in 1 | |
| Monkey’s situation | They are 2 homes because of smaller forests and the rising temperature. |
| They are studied in science because they have many genes that are the 3 as those in people. | |
| Government’s actions | They are planting trees, producing 4 carbon emissions, and searching for new research ways. |
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5. What can you do to protect monkeys? (请用一个完整的句子作答)
7 . Dogs are the best pets of humans (人类). They are in all sizes. Some dogs are as small as a football, and others are as tall as a desk. Dogs’ fur is different, too. It can be long and soft, or smooth (光滑的) and hard. People don’t mind the kind of fur, because all dogs are good to hug.
We need to take care of our dogs. Short-haired dogs are the easiest to look after. But all dogs need a bath once in a while. Giving a dog a bath is a lot of fun. After you give a bath to your dog, it shakes the water off its body. Be careful, or you will get wet!
Dogs like to make their owners happy, so dogs are easy to train. They can follow simple orders. Dogs are really wonderful animals. Some dogs pull sleds (雪橇) across icy places. Some save people who fall into the river. Other dogs do tricks (表演绝技) in movies.
Why not keep a dog as a pet?
1. Some dogs are as small as a football, and others are2. When you finish
3. If you have a pet dog, you need to
4. Dogs are easy to train, because they can follow
5. Do you want to keep a dog as a pet? Why or why not?
Dogs like living with people. They are very friendly. They can do many things for people. Some dogs can help people find those lost children, some dogs can help people look after the sheep, others can help the blind.
There is a kind of dog. His name is Seeing Eye dog. He is strong and easy to train (训练). He helps the blind to move from place to place.
Before a dog becomes a Seeing Eye dog, he must go to a training school for about three months. First, the dog has to learn to sit or to stay when he hears the trainer’s call. In his next lesson, the dog learns to take his trainer on busy streets. When he passes the test, the Seeing Eye dog will do things by himself.
Now he can help the blind people. The new master may be a man, a woman or even a child. It takes the dog and his blind master about a month to learn to work and to live together. These Seeing Eye dogs bring much convenience (便利) to the blind.
1. Dogs can do many things for people according to (根据) the passage. List (列举) 3 of them.2. Where does a dog stay for about three months before it becomes a Seeing Eye dog?
3. When will the Seeing Eye dog do things by himself?
4. 请将文中画线的句子翻译成汉语。
5. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。
My name is Jenny. One day, I see a little dog in a park near my home. It looks like the dog is lost, so I take it with me and try to find its owner (主人). I ask many people, but no one is its owner. I feel very sad.
As the night comes, I take the dog home. But how can I find its owner? My parents tell me that I can make posters (海报) with a picture of the dog and my phone number on them. That’s a great idea!
I make some posters and put them up around the park. After two days, a man calls me and says that the dog is his. He comes to my home and takes the dog home. “Thanks for taking care of (照顾) my dog,” he says.
The dog looks happy to see the man. And I feel good to help a lost dog find the owner.
1. One day, Jenny finds the dog in the park2. As the night comes, Jenny
3. There is a picture of the dog and
4. The dog is
5. Do you like the girl? Why or why not?
As humans have a need to communicate, animals have it to send and receive messages as well. This communication may be to tell others where food is or to show feelings such as happiness, sadness, or anger.
But how do animals communicate? According to a study carried out in 1898 by a scientist called Char, there are usually three ways for them to communicate.
For example, if a monkey notices a snake, it will give an alarm call for the other monkeys to climb into the trees. If the monkey notices an eagle (鹰), it will send loud noise to tell other monkeys to get close to the ground. The second way seems quite different. Those with a pet dog will easily know how a happy dog happily moves its tail. A cat that feels it is in danger will stand with its back high. Another type of animal communication takes place among some certain animals. For example, elephants and giraffes will touch their friends if they like each other. Horses also touch their noses together as a sign that they are comfortable with one another.
It is truly amazing to discover the nature’s secret and exciting for us to take a step closer to the animal world. More and more countries have put much money and effort into further research on this. At the same time, plenty of different voices are appearing. Is it really necessary to waste so much money on something that may be meaningless to us humans?
All in all, every coin has its two sides. We shall wait and see what this change can bring us in the future.
1、2题完成句子；3~5题简略回答问题。
1. Like humans, animals also need to
2. Char finds that there are usually
3. What will a monkey do if it sees a snake?
4. What will horses do if they feel comfortable with one another?
5. What do you think of discovering the nature’s secret for us humans? Why?
