Animals are people’s friends. 3. But many of the wild animals are facing the danger of dying out. The Siberian tiger is one of them. 4. People can find the Siberian tigers in parts of Siberia (西伯利亚) and Northern China. The tigers are becoming extinct (灭绝) because people hurt many of them and are destroying their living places.
Another animal in danger is the Tibetan antelope (藏羚羊). In the early 1990s, there were millions of Tibetan antelopes in China, but by the 1990s, the number of them had fallen to about 50,000. People hunt the antelopes for their wool. The wool of the antelope is soft, light and warm, and it is very expensive all over the world. Hunters can make a lot of money by selling their wool. The Chinese people have begun to protect the animals and seem to be winning. Now the number of the Tibetan antelopes is rising.
It’s important to protect the wild animals. Now many wild zoos have been built in China. In the zoos we can see the animals we have heard of but have never seen. I think we can make friends with them by taking care of them.
A.根据短文内容简要回答问题。
1. Why do people hunt and kill antelopes?
2. How can we protect the wild animals?
B.将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
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请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。
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2 . Did you hear about Meilun and Meihuan? They are a pair of twin pandas. They were born in a zoo in Atlanta, US. They have lived there for three years. Earlier this month, they came back to their hometown—Sichuan
However, the two pandas are still not getting used to China. They don’t eat Chinese food like corn bread（窝窝头）. They like US food. They can’t understand Sichuan Chinese.
Pandas are lovely and they mainly live in mountains in Sichuan because there is enough food, bamboo. There are about 1, 000 pandas in China. About 140 pandas live in zoos. Scientists are not sure how long pandas live in the wild, but they are sure a panda’s lifespan (寿命）in the wild is shorter than that in zoos. Zoo pandas can live to as old as 35.
阅读短文，根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。
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3. 阅读短文, 同义句转换, 每空一词。
They have lived there for three years.
They have lived there
根据短文内容回答问题。
4. Where were Meilun and Meihuan born?
5. Why do pandas mainly live in Sichuan ?
6. Is a wild panda’s lifespan shorter than that in the zoo?
3 . Dinosaurs once lived on the earth for a long time. They suddenly disappeared millions of years ago. What happened to them? That’s still a mystery（迷）. People never stop searching for the answer.
Some US scientists say it is because there were not enough male（雄性的） dinosaurs. They got this idea after researching crocodiles（鳄鱼）. Mother crocodiles lay eggs and later baby crocodiles come out. The local temperature decides the sex（性别）, the babies are all girls; when the temperature is 30℃ to 34℃; when it is 34℃C to 36℃, only boys are born.
Dinosaurs’ babies also came from eggs. So scientists have given us a new picture: millions of years ago, it suddenly became very cold. Almost all dinosaur babies were girls. There were fewer and fewer male dinosaurs. Mother dinosaurs could not give birth to more babies. Finally, these powerful animals disappeared.
1. 阅读短文, 根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。e
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2. 阅读短文, 完成同义句转换, 每空一词。
People never stop searching for the answer.
People never
3-4小题根据短文内容回答问题。
3. When did dinosaurs suddenly disappear?
4. What decides the sex of the baby crocodile?
5. Are the baby crocodiles only boys when it’s 35℃?
4 . Dinosaurs（恐龙）once lived on the earth for a long time. They suddenly disappeared millions of years ago. What happened to them？That's still a mystery. People never stop searching for the answer.
Some US scientists say it is because there were not enough male（雄性的）dinosaurs. They got this idea after researching crocodiles（鳄鱼）.
Mother crocodiles lay eggs and later baby crocodiles come out. The local temperature decides the sex（性别）of the baby crocodile. When the eggs are at a temperature of 26 ℃ to 30 ℃，the babies are all girls；when the temperature is 30℃ to 34℃，there are both boys and girls；when it is 34Cto36℃，only boys are born.
Dinosaurs' babies also came from eggs. So scientists have given us a new picture: millions of years ago，it suddenly became very cold. Almost all dinosaur babies were girls. There were fewer and fewer male dinosaurs. Mother dinosaurs could not give birth to more babies. Finally，these powerful animals disappeared.
任务2：阅读短文（B），根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。
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2. l
任务3：阅读短文（B），完成同义句转换，每空一词。
3. Dinosaurs' babies also came from eggs.
Dinosaurs' babies came from eggs
任务4：根据短文（B）内容回答问题。
When did dinosaurs suddenly disappear？
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What decides the sex of the baby crocodile？
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Are the baby crocodiles only boys when it's 35℃？
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