1 . Lynda Doughty, a marine biologist, developed a passion for marine wildlife during her childhood. Growing up along the coast of Maine, she witnessed the impact of human activity on marine mammals and she made it her life’s work to protect them. “I feel this intense responsibility to help these animals,” Lynda said. “And, really, this is what I was put on this Earth to do.”
Harbor seals are among the most common mammals found along the East Coast, and they face various threats to their well-being, including fishing net s and illegal feeding, chemical pollutants, as well as boat and propeller (螺旋桨) injuries.
Earlier in her career, she worked for a marine mammal emergency response organization that eventually closed due to lack of funding. To fill the gap left by the group, Lynda started her own non-profit organization — Marine Mammals of Maine in 2011. It has since provided response and medical care for more than 3,000 marine mammals.
Lynda’s team operates a 24-hour hotline that responds to calls regarding marine mammals in danger. Their permit allows them to respond to mammals stranded (搁浅) within 2,500 miles of the coastline, and her team only offers help if the mammal is in critical condition. Critically ill mammals are transported to Lynda’s center and nursed back to health. Seals typically require three or more months of professional care treatment before they are released back into the ocean.
In addition to mammal rescues, Marine Mammals of Maine conducts important research to learn about marine mammal habitats and human impacts. Marine mammals can give us clues about the ocean’s health, which ultimately affects human well-being as well. The organization also helps promote marine conservation among youth and the local community. In addition, they instruct the public on what to do, and what not to do, when encountering wild species like harbor seals.
1. What do Lynda’s words mean?A.She was born along the coast of Maine. |
B.She ignored the impact of human activity. |
C.She did her work with a sense of mission. |
D.She protected marine wildlife at a young age. |
A.To earn more money. |
B.To replace the group. |
C.To make the group a non-profit organization. |
D.To restart marine mammal emergency response. |
A.It only treats critically ill seals. |
B.It rescues marine mammals in danger. |
C.It protects all endangered marine mammals. |
D.It stops people from fishing marine mammals. |
A.To state younger generations need to be instructed. |
B.To stress the severe situations that marine life faces. |
C.To mention other social contributions of Lynda’s team. |
D.To show humans have a great impact on marine mammals. |
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3 . We’ve all heard the stories of an actor’s struggles before a career breakthrough: living a hard life, working part-time, being a couch potato before getting that major role. Shelby, the star of “A Dog’s Way Home”, has an unfortunate tale that could top them all. Before her big break, she was living in a landfill, rooting through garbage for her next meal.
Shelby’s big break came in April 2017, when animal-control officer Megan Buhler was driving in Cheatham County, Tennessee. Out on an unrelated call, Buhler spotted and approached what she recalled was a noticeably scared puppy emerging from the dump. “I knelt down and just said, ‘Oh, come here, baby,’” said Buhler. “She was so scared, but she came right up to me, and I was able to put her in my truck.” They headed to the county animal shelter, where the staff began calling the new resident Baby Girl.
Buhler and others didn’t know that 3,200 kilometers away, Hollywood was looking for a dog to play Bella in a film written by Cathryn Michon. The find-a-Bella job went to freelance trainer Teresa Ann Miller. Her mission was to search shelters nationwide for a dog that could play Bella. One day, Miller spotted Baby Girl’s adoption photo. “Honestly, it was a really good picture, and she was flat-out smiling,” Miller said. Then she met Baby Girl, and assessed her on personality and the ability to respond to simple commands. After assessment, she adopted Baby Girl from the shelter, renamed her Shelby and took her to California for training. Miller and Shelby had trained for just over three months before filming began. Then they were together each day on the set.
Most of the film’s reviews have praised Shelby’s performance. Variety made the comments “an amazing dog, perfect performance!”
Shelby has come a long way from the garbage dump. But Buhler said when she saw Shelby recently she just needed only a second to compare the movie star with the dog she found from piles of trash. “She’s exactly the same,” Buhler said.
1. Why does the author mention an actor’s struggles before a career breakthrough at the very beginning?A.To clearly point out the main idea of the passage. |
B.To attract reader’s attention by giving dramatic examples. |
C.To introduce a dog’s similar but even more striking experiences. |
D.To make a sharp contrast between an actor’s struggle and a dog’s struggle. |
A.Her adoption picture. | B.Her personality and ability. |
C.Her flat-out smiling. | D.Her miserable experiences. |
A.The dog looked sad as before. |
B.The dog was really excited to live such a happy life. |
C.The dog returned to the piles of trash where she found it. |
D.The dramatic change of the dog’s life hasn’t changed her inner quality. |
A.The Trainer and Her Star Dog. | B.Shelby’s Unfortunate Story. |
C.From a Landfill Puppy to a Movie Star. | D.The Success of “A Dog’s Way Home”. |
When I was admitted to the University of Alabama, I decided to get a puppy. So I adopted an adorable Golden Retriever(金毛猎犬) puppy against my parents’ wishes.
Soon, I realized my parents were right. The dog was so naughty that it caused me a lot of trouble every day. In fact, she soon earned the nickname(绰号) Bella the Devil at school.
However, as time went by, she taught me how to be a better dog mom, and I taught her how to be a better dog. We became best friends and did everything together. Bella was there for me all the time: parties, restaurants, games, even dates! We loved spending time together. By the time I was a senior, Bella and I developed a stronger relationship. She was truly my best friend.
In the third year, I worked at the local college l bar not far from the house. One night, I was running late. Bella and I had been with friends down the street when I realized it was already 9:00 p.m. We had to rush home so I could make it to work by 9:30. I ran through the front door and jumped to the bathroom to have a shower. Bella followed me into the bathroom and lay in her usual place on the bathroom floor. Then I heard my front door open. It was so loud that I thought it was strange. It couldn’t be my roommate for she had flown to New York. I turned off the shower and yelled her name. No answer.
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Instantly(立刻), I knew something was seriously wrong.
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Then I went outside to find Bella with the policemen.
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5 . Hundreds of years ago, life was harder than it is today. People didn't have modern machines.
Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution to all living things in the world.
Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.
Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn't let dirty smoke go into the air.
We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground. We can go to work by bus or with our friends in the same car. If there are fewer people driving, there will be less pollution.
Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight against pollution.
1. Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because_________A.there were many problems | B.there were too many people |
C.there were wars now and then | D.there were no modern machines. |
A.noise pollution | B.water pollution | C.air pollution | D.waste things |
A.The air. | B.The city. | C.The quilt. | D.The smog. |
A.clean water after it is thrown away | B.throw waste things in the dustbin |
C.let dirty smoke go into the air | D.encourage more people to drive to work |
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Recently, a man named Zou Yi who has recorded Beijing’s blue sky in the past decade shared
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7 . Lionfish have been migrating (迁徙) south for years. They were first caught in the Gulf of Mexico, likely released from the aquarium trade, in 1985, and quickly expanded into the US East Coast and the Caribbean. They reached South American coastlines around 2010.
But the species stopped around Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago. For 10 years, freshwater flowing from the Amazon River into the Atlantic and a gathering of currents acted as geographic (地理的) barriers, stopping the fish from continuing south. But around 2020, lionfish began slip-ping under the barrier and heading south.
Now, dozens of lionfish have been spotted along 150 miles of Brazil’s coastline, according to a new study in Frontiers in Marine Science. Between March and May, when the water was clear enough to track the fish, researchers and fishers documented 72 individuals there, which suggests they have likely established new, successful populations.
Since March 2022, lionfish already managed to cover 700 kilometers of coastline, says Marcelo Soares, a marine ecologist and lead author of the new study. He also reported the number of individuals is now above 300.
For many scientists, the question wasn’t whether the fish species would continue moving south, but when. “We knew once they made it through the barrier at the Amazon, they would spread like fire,” says Osmar Luiz, an aquatic ecologist at Australia’s Charles Darwin University.
While efforts to fully get rid of lionfish may be useless, efforts to reduce their populations help limit damage to native species. Luiz says that the next important step is to track lionfish as they move and try to prevent them from establishing new populations. For the native species of Brazil, this fight is a matter of survival, Luiz says.
1. Why did lionfish appear in South American coastlines?A.They were sent there by currents. |
B.They were brought there by Americans. |
C.The aquarium staff released them in South American coastlines. |
D.They migrated there after being spotted in the Gulf of Mexico. |
A.Natural barriers. | B.Sea pollution. | C.Fishing activities. | D.The aquarium trade. |
A.It’s very difficult to track them. | B.Whether lionfish will continue moving. |
C.It’s impossible to reduce their populations. | D.The spread of lionfish will destroy local species. |
A.Health. | B.Nature. | C.Technology. | D.Business. |
8 . Habitat loss, pesticides (农药) and climate change are threatening insect populations worldwide. In 2019, Biological Conservation reported that 40% of all insects species are declining (减少) globally and that a third of them are endangered.
And while it may sound nice to live in a world with fewer bad insects, environmental writer Oliver Milman says that human beings would be in big trouble without insects. That’s because insects play important roles in pollinating (给……授粉) plants we eat, breaking down waste in forest soil and forming the base of a food chain that other larger animals including- humans-rely upon.
“It would be an extremely terrible place to live in—and certainly not something we should ever aim for,” Milman says of an insect free existence. “You would certainly have mass starvation and social unrest…It’d be a place where there would be smelly waste and dead bodies everywhere because insects that break down those materials would be gone. ”
Milman charts the troubling decline of insects in his new book, The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. He says that while it’s impossible to know exactly what’s happening with every insect species in the world, the overall trends are not good: The butterfly population in North America has declined quickly in the past 40 years, for example, and a U. N. assessment done in 2019 found that half a million insect species are under threat of extinction, some in the coming decades.
“The world, our surroundings, would be far quieter, far duller without insects,” he says. “When you start kind of digging down into these figures looking at the research, it’s clear that there’s something seriously wrong…There is a straight decline in most insect populations, and that spells major trouble for them but also for us.”
1. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about insects?A.Their classification. | B.Their importance. |
C.Their development. | D.Their future. |
A.It describes the worrying decline of insects. |
B.It tells what’s happening with all insect species. |
C.It shows half a million butterfly species will be in danger of extinction. |
D.It explains why the number of butterflies in South America has increased. |
A.Positive. | B.Worried. | C.Unconcerned | D.Doubtful. |
A.The introduction of the endangered insects. | B.The ways of increasing insects’ population. |
C.The effects of the declining insects’ population. | D.The reasons of threatening insects’ population. |
1. What type of animal does the woman like most?
A.Cats. | B.Birds. | C.Dogs. |
A.They can teach kids responsibility. |
B.They are not easy to care for. |
C.They are good friends. |
Three pandas at Japan’s Wakayama park return to China
SHIRAHAMA, Japan - Eimei, a giant panda
Later in the day, the three giant pandas were scheduled
Prior to their departure, a farewell ceremony
Eimei, or Yong Ming in Chinese, is a 30-year-old male panda and the