1 . “We received a call that there was a large dog running around a neighborhood, ” said Lauren Mann, director of the Chattanooga-based shelter.
Animal shelters are used to
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| A．taking in | B．making out | C．driving away | D．turning down |
| A．bonus | B．difficulty | C．note | D．requirement |
| A．found | B．read | C．told | D．wrote |
| A．dogs | B．dollars | C．houses | D．kids |
| A．alarmed | B．hit | C．encouraged | D．reminded |
| A．claim | B．deny | C．indicate | D．tell |
| A．cared | B．heard | C．complained | D．posted |
| A．donor | B．finder | C．owner | D．fan |
| A．performance | B．room | C．reunion | D．break |
| A．dry | B．watery | C．blind | D．wide |
| A．Because | B．If | C．While | D．After |
| A．carry | B．keep | C．rescue | D．test |
| A．shelter | B．hotel | C．restaurant | D．home |
| A．fund | B．goal | C．secret | D．location |
| A．beyond | B．out | C．around | D．on |
2 . Zoologists track animals using global-positioning-system(GPS)tags(标签) which then return their data via satellite. Marine(海洋的)biologists have a harder time of it, though, because radio signals can’t pass through seawater. This makes it impossible either to receive GPS signals or to send any data collected back to base.
That does not stop people tagging sea creatures. Data collected and stored in a tag can be sent to a satellite in bursts if the species in question is one that comes to the surface from time to time. A tag may also be recovered if the animal carrying it is caught by a fishing boat. Fisherfolk are typically paid a few hundred dollars per tag returned to its home laboratory.
None of these methods, though, keeps accurate track of where the animal carrying the tag has been. For these and other reasons, it would therefore be useful to have a marine equivalent of GPS. And one is now being employed. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts, hopes to fill the seas with sonic beacons(声波信标) that will play the role of GPS satellites.
The sea is divided into distinct layers that have different temperatures. During the Second World War, American scientists showed that some of these layers act as sonic waveguides. They called them “sound fixing and ranging” (sofar) channels. Sound sent out in one of these channels echoes(回响) between the layers above and below, thus staying in the channel. Thus constrained(被约束)，a sound wave can travel hundreds of kilometers before it becomes too weak to detect.
The sofar transmitters from Woods Hole are usually at an appropriate depth for the channel concerned. Every 12 hours they broadcast a 32-second-long location signal known as a pong. Pongs are so called because they are similar to sonar “pings”, but of lower frequency. In typical conditions a pong can be picked up 1,000 km away. By listening to the pongs from several beacons a receiver can calculate its location. Existing receivers for the two sofar transmitters are currently carried on free-floating instrument packs. But the plan is to have two more transmitters this year, and more in future years.
1. Which sea creatures can GPS tags be applied to?| A．Those feeding on other sea animals. |
| B．Those following fishing boats constantly. |
| C．Those coming out of the sea sometimes. |
| D．Those swimming deep under the water. |
| A．The echoes among them are weak. |
| B．The water has a high temperature over there. |
| C．The layers among them are quite similar. |
| D．The sound remains there and stays strong for a while. |
| A．Pings are of higher frequency. |
| B．Pings can travel faster than pongs. |
| C．Pings can be received 1,000 km away. |
| D．Pings are broadcasted every 32 seconds. |
| A．Tags for sea creatures |
| B．“GPS” for the oceans |
| C．Strange deep sea creatures |
| D．Data from distant satellites |
Jingshan Park is one of the only hills in the inner city, a small hill that was created by the loess (黄土) dug out
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4 . Le Le, the giant panda that died early this month at Memphis Zoo, may have suffered from heart disease, according to an autopsy (验尸) by zoologists from China and the United States.
The experts’ original judgment was that this was the cause of the death of the 25-year-old male panda, according to a media release from the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens on Sunday. “But that judgment still needs to be confirmed through further examinations, “ it said. The autopsy was conducted following the arrival of a Chinese team at the zoo recently. Experts from both countries studied the results from the autopsy and ruled out a number of common conditions.
Le Le died in his sleep on Feb 3 before he could be returned to China, according to the zoo.
“Over the last 20 years Le Le has delighted millions of visitors, served as an exemplary ambassador for his species and remains a shining symbol of conservation partnership with the People’s Republic of China,” the zoo said in a statement on Feb 3.
Le Le arrived in Memphis accompanied by a female giant panda, Ya Ya, in 2003. Last December, the zoo said that the famous pair would make the journey back to China within the next few months, as the current loan agreement with the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens was coming to an end.
The Chinese team also examined Ya Ya, and checked her medical and monthly health reports, according to the Chinese association. Despite hair loss resulting from a skin discase, the female panda was found to have a good appetite and was maintaining a stable weight, it said, adding that no abnormalities were observed in its feces. Aside from holding a discussion with Memphis Zoo about Ya Ya’s skin condition, the group gave advice on how to feed and nurse the female giant panda.
“China and the US are now coordinating the handling of procedures so that Ya Ya can be returned to China as soon as possible, ” it noted. China has completed all necessary preparations to receive the female panda. Import and quarantine permits have been issued and the quarantine location has been determined.
1. What can we infer from the paragraph 2?| A．Le Le was mistreated by some foreign people. |
| B．The autopsy was conducted only by Chinese experts. |
| C．The cause of Le Le’s death remained to be seen later. |
| D．Le Le died of poor medical care. |
| A．China is proud of Le Le as an exemplary ambassador. |
| B．A great number of visitors have gained happiness from Le Le. |
| C．Le Le is a striking symbol of Chinese protection for animals. |
| D．Le Le is referred to as the top species in China. |
| A．The break of partnership. |
| B．The bad health conditions. |
| C．The unsuitable living environment. |
| D．The end of a rental agreement. |
| A．A wildlife brochure. |
| B．A daily newspaper. |
| C．A popular magazine. |
| D．A tourist guidebook. |
It is not a new thing to be told to ‘adopt pets don’t shop’ since this concept is gradually becoming more well known. Yet, equally important is that owners should think thoroughly before they even adopt one.
I adopted a street cat a couple of months ago. It was a one-year-old cat in a cat shelter that really had my empathy. He was named SingCi — a ginger patched tabby cat. My mom and I almost fell in love with him at the first sight. He was a good looking, healthy boy who was found on the street along with his cage and all his toys in front of a flower shop. According to the flower shop owner, the poor cat was docile and calm for the first day of his abandonment. Random pedestrians who walked past were able to pet him. However, days after he realized his owner would never come and pick him up, he became so stressed that he turned super aggressive.
It was a tough period living with him. Nobody could approach him. Not even when it’s feeding time. He was constantly angry and would attack whoever opened his cage. I had to wear protective gloves even when I was just giving him his meals. He would rather wait until everyone distanced themselves before he began feasting. Even when he did, he growled and hissed while eating, watching out at the same time for anyone who might come close.
One day, I decided to open the cage and feed him outside. He growled again and without any warning, he scratched me on the back of my right hand and drew blood. Despaired and furious, I threw him back into the cage hard, screaming, “You, son of Devil! Get back to the street!” I picked up the cage and intended to head out.
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“Are you truly ready for him? You need some strategies.” Mom stopped me.
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Months later, SingCi eventually got used to having people around him.
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6 . People tend to loathe pigeons for the way they mess up parked cars or flock to food wastes on the sidewalk. But the truth is that more than 300 species of wild pigeons have been found on the earth, many of which are quite impressive.
“Pigeons are biological marvels,” says Rosemary Mosco, author of A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching. “They make milk for their young. They can take off almost vertically. They see colors we can’t, hear sounds we can’t, and find their way across hundreds of miles using mechanisms we don’t fully understand,” she says. “They’re the world’s most overlooked birds.”
Interestingly, both pigeons and doves are members of the Columbidae family, and while the term ‘pigeon’ tends to be applied to larger species and ‘dove’ to smaller ones, Mosco notes in her illustrated field guide that there is barely scientific or evolutionary distinction to either group.
There’s also evidence wild pigeons were a staple food source for Neanderthals, and later humans, beginning at least 67,000 years ago. What is more well known is the pigeon’s invaluable service of long-distance communication for many different civilizations, from the ancient Romans to Genghis Khan.
“For much of their history, they signified wealth and power,” says Mosco. “They were flying Ferraris.” In some parts of the world, the fastest pigeons still fetch mind-boggling sums. In 2020, a single racing pigeon named New Kim was sold for around $1.9 million in a Belgian auction (拍卖).
With pigeons everywhere we look in urban life, it may be difficult to imagine a world without pigeons. But even these adaptable birds are not immune to extinction.
1. Which word can replace “loathe” in paragraph 1?| A．Hate. | B．Chase. |
| C．Observe. | D．Analyze. |
| A．They can only take off in a vertical way. |
| B．They can make milk for young children. |
| C．They have abilities beyond human’s imagination. |
| D．They have a tendency to be overlooked by humans. |
| A．Pigeons and doves have distinct origins. |
| B．Pigeons are used to carry large sums of money. |
| C．Scientifically speaking, little difference exists between them. |
| D．Pigeon’s service of long-distance communication isn’t valuable. |
| A．Pigeons in urban areas around the world. |
| B．Examples of how adaptable pigeons can be. |
| C．Basic facts about pigeons’ immune system. |
| D．Pigeons becoming an endangered species. |
7 . The sky turned orange and the hospitals were in chaos. Thousands of Iraqis came to emergency rooms complaining that they could not breathe. Some had to be put on respirators. Schools closed and airports cancelled flights. Life came to a stop amid a cloud of dust.
Such scenes have occurred almost weekly in Iraq since April. In decades past, two or three big sandstorms were expected every year. This spring, Iraq has already recorded at least eight. Sandstorms have always been a fact of life in the Middle East, and are now growing more frequently and intensely.
Scientists say dust storms are complex and poorly understood, but their main causes are natural. In 2015, some people blamed a fierce summer storm in the Levant on Syria’s civil war thinking that military vehicles travelling through fields kicked up enough dust to blanket the region. Researchers at Princeton University later cited a more ordinary mix of unusual heat and strong winds as its reason, not gunners.
Still, people plainly contribute to the problem. Demand for water is making a dry region even drier. A World Bank study in 2019 found that human actions, such as over-exploiting rivers and lakes, produce a quarter of the Middle East’s dust. Iran has drained wetlands for farming. Turkish dams on the Tigris and Euphrates mean drier riverbeds downstream. All of this means more dust needs to be swept up by the wind. The decrease of the region’s forests because of fires and cutting down trees means there is less vegetation to hold it back. Syria, for example, has lost an estimated 25% of its woodland and since 2001, most of it to summer fires. Climate change will make the problem worse.
For those who work outside, sandstorms make life unbearable. Sandstorms bring tiny particles that travel deep into the lungs. The World Bank estimates that air pollution causes 30,000 premature deaths a year in the Middle East — and rising.
Economic costs will mount, too. Workers stay at home. Crops are buried under dust. The UN puts the direct economic cost in the Middle East at $13 bn a year, with indirect costs many times bigger.
1. What do the scenes described in Paragraph 1 show?| A．The seriousness of sandstorms in Iraq. | B．The high frequency of sandstorms in Iraq. |
| C．The steps taken to address Iraq’s sandstorms. | D．The Iraqis’ negative response to sandstorms. |
| A．By offering analyses. | B．By giving an example. |
| C．By providing research results. | D．By challenging a general view. |
| A．A drier climate. |
| B．Water shortage in the Middle East. |
| C．The impact of human activities on water resources. |
| D．Decrease of forest areas across the Middle East. |
| A．Puzzled. | B．Worried. | C．Doubtful | D．Optimistic. |
I was looking to buy a horse that could be a backyard buddy, a friend and new member of the family. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, s0 I went to the local mothly horse auction to see if I might rescue one of the horses from a potential death sentence. There are always horses there who have plenty of life left and just need someone to show up and recognize their value , see their heart, and offer them a space where they can just be a loved horse.
Toward the end of the auction, a young col (小马) was brought into the ring. It was clear he hadn’t been handled and was not in good shape. He had patches of bare skin where his hair had been whipped away. He had scars where his mouth had been tied shut with a wire. His legs were covered with cuts and sores. Nobody raised their arm to place a bid. Too small to interest the meat buyers.
The auctioneer launched the bidding at 8$00. The price came down, and down. 1 felt a mixture of disgust and anger that these people were s0 incapable of seeing the beauty and will to live in this horse. Finally, the auctioneer slowed down and said, “Okay folks, who will take this guy home for fifty bucks?”
ME, apparently! My arm shot up into the air, declaring to the entire crowd that my heart is the softest.
BANG! The gavel came down, and I now owned the colt who had no training and a terrible start in life. But in this particular moment, nothing was more important than helping set this horse on a new path in life.
I saw my new horse alone in a large paddock (围场). I walked over to the gate and sod there for a while. I just stood there, watching him. I didn’t want to own this horse, and I didn’t want to train him.
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I opened the gate and stepped into the paddock.
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Though frustrated, I didn’t give up and came up to him again.
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9 . For years, David James, who studies insects at Washington State University, had wanted to examine the migration (迁徙)patterns of West Coast monarch butterflies (黑脉金斑蝶). The route the butterflies travel has been hardly known because the populations are too small to follow. For every 200 monarchs tagged (打标签)by a researcher, only one is usually recovered at the end of its trip, James says, and finding even 200 in the wild to tag is unlikely. Knowing the route is vital to conservation efforts, but James had no way to figure it out- until he got a phone call from Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.
The prison was looking for new activities to improve the mental health of those serving long-term sentences. So James began working with prisoners to raise monarchs through the whole process of their transformation. The adult insects were then tagged and released from the prison. Over five years, nearly 10, 000 monarchs flew from the facility. Elsewhere in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, researchers released another few thousand.
The tags included email addresses, and soon after the first butterflies took off, James started receiving messages from people who had spotted them. The butterflies, the reports confirmed, wintered in coastal California. Twelve of them landed at Lighthouse Field State Beach in Santa Cruz. Several more headed to Bolinas and Morro Bay.
The work helps researchers identify ideal places to plant milkweed and other vegetation that are important to the life cycle of West Coast monarch butterflies. It also brought out the gentler side of some of the prisoners. “They were very worried that they were going to harm the butterflies, ”James says. Watching the monarch change their form also touched the men. “This butterfly changed, ” James recalls prisoners telling him, “and maybe we can too. ”
1. What was hard for David to do in his study?| A．Gain financial support. | B．Hire qualified workers. |
| C．Build a new laboratory. | D．Find enough monarchs. |
| A．To guarantee their safety. |
| B．To enable them to fly longer distances. |
| C．To track their travel routes. |
| D．To distinguish them from other species. |
| A．The patience the butterflies showed. |
| B．The hardship the butterflies underwent. |
| C．The transformation of the butterflies. |
| D．The devotion of James to the butterflies. |
| A．The impact of the research. |
| B．The findings of James’ study. |
| C．The release of the prisoners. |
| D．The life cycle of the butterflies. |
10 . A task called “Operation Noah’s Ark” was carried out to cage (装笼子) and ship hundreds of birds off Pine Island in Florida after it was hit hard by Hurricane (飓风) lan.
The government called on people of Pine Island to give up their homes because of damaged roads, including a broken bridge that prevented deliveries of food, gas and other life-supporting supplies.
But Will Peratino and Lauren Stepp did not want to leave and give up their 275 parrots at the Malama Manu Sanctuary. “We would not give them up. I would never leave them. Never,” Stepp told The Associated Press. “If they cannot be fed or watered, they will die. And I can’t live with that.”
The birds had been relying on food donated by wildlife officials since Hurricane lan hit, but the supply of fruit, peanuts and other foods would soon be hard to come by because of the broken bridge and the lack of gas on the island.
Bryan Stern, the founder and leader of Project Dynamo, said his team had saved at least six dogs and three cats before Tuesday’s massive rescue (救援). “Our saved animal numbers are small compared with the number of the 100 cages of parrots that we are about to save,” Stern said, before carrying out the rescue task. “Will and Lauren own the preserve, and their hearts and souls are in the birds. So they’re going through their own suffering from the hurricane and having to rebuild their lives. They lost all kinds of things.”
The volunteers were not about to let that happen. For several hours, the volunteers used nets and their hands to put the birds into cages. “To have every bird safe is a huge task,” Peratino said. “I mean, it’s almost impossible to do. So the help we’ve gotten has been priceless.”
1. Why did the officials ask people to leave the island?| A．The destroyed homes needed rebuilding. | B．The parrots no longer needed their help. |
| C．There were no roads to deliver goods. | D．A more powerful hurricane would come. |
| A．To repair their house. | B．To carry out their experiment. |
| C．To help with the rescue. | D．To take care of their parrots. |
| A．A new home will be built for Peratino and Stepp. |
| B．Many more animals need to be saved. |
| C．Parrots are more important than other animals. |
| D．All animals will be taken away in cages. |
| A．It was meaningful. | B．It was not worth the risk. |
| C．It encouraged more people to take part. | D．It turned out to be fruitless. |
