1 . Music is known to have a great deal of mental and physical benefits on humans. From helping to treat physical medical problems to relieving stress, music can be extremely beneficial in helping to improve health.     1    

Animals may have a great deal of stress.     2     Dogs and cats may be stressed when around men because they were badly treated by a man, and they may never forget that. A dog who was attacked by another dog while on a walk may be always afraid to go on walks, or even be afraid to leave the house.

    3     Cats, dogs and horses will not all have the exact same stressors (压力源), so you just have to pay close attention to your animal and what makes them unique, such as changes in eating habits, too much sleep and too little sleep, just to name a few.

Music can be extremely beneficial for animals in high stress situations.     4     In the atmosphere, they feel calm, safe and well protected. Music can be specifically helpful when played at veterinary (兽医的) clinics for animals who are afraid of the vet. This helps calm the owners of the animals and the staff at the office besides the animals.     5     That’s why it is being taken up at a variety of veterinary clinics around the world.

A．It can create a space for them.

B．The same goes for our furry friends, too.

C．They could be stressed for a variety of reasons.

D．It would be a beneficial practice for all parties.

E．Another place where music can be helpful is in car rides.

F．There are ways that you can identify stress in your animals.

G．It’s no wonder loud noises can cause dogs and cats so much stress.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Where is the speaker now?

A．In a hospital.

B．In a college.

C．In a pet school.

2. In which aspect is a visit from a dog helpful?

A．It cures the patients.

B．It makes patients feel better.

C．It helps do a lot of things.

3. What are the dogs first trained to do in the program?

A．Play with patients and their children.

B．Accompany patients to their hospital rooms.

C．Be familiar with the hospital and pick up things.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Which pet may an outgoing person prefer?

A．A bird.

B．A dog.

C．A cat.

2. What may a cat owner be like?

A．Clever.

B．Sociable.

C．Careful.

3. What does the speech mainly talk about?

A．Pet people’s personalities.

B．More outgoing dog people.

C．Less sociable cat people.

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Hunters used dogs to help track and kill pandas in China until the country     1    (declare) the species protected. But dogs are still threatening the     2    (safe) of this species, according to a new study.

Researchers started their investigation when two captive-born(圈养出生的) pandas, which had been released into Liziping Nature Reserve,     3    (attack) by dogs.

There are dogs in panda reserves because there are villages near the reserves and people have dogs. An adult panda is quite able to defend     4    (it) against one dog. However, it has a hard time     5    (beat) a pack of dogs.

In the study,     6    was published in Scientific Reports, the researchers found that dogs can wander more than 10 kilometers a night. Some dogs even live in the reserves. Earlier research found that pandas need a habitat of     7    least 114 square kilometers to thrive(茁壮成长). Although most of the nature reserves created for the pandas are large enough     8    (sustain)their populations, the panda’s territory could become smaller if dogs become part of it.

“The Chinese government has instituted a broad program to vaccinate(给……接种疫苗）the dogs and to help the villagers either remove the dogs     9    control them all the time. So things are getting much     10    (good),” study co-author James Spotila said.

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is mainly talked about in the programme?

A．How to purchase healthy goldfish.

B．How to keep goldfish scientifically.

C．How to choose goldfish containers.

2. What should we keep in mind when raising goldfish?

A．Feed them as much as possible.

B．Complete water changes are need.

C．Decorate the tank with smooth objects.

3. How many pieces of tips are given by the speakers?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

6 . In the late 1970s, archaeologists (考古学家) uncovered the remains of a woman and a young dog, her hand resting on the puppy’s chest in a 12,000-year-old village.

The find is some of the earliest evidence of the bond between humans and dogs. But even after years of study researchers are divided on how this bond began. Did it arise over thousands of years, as early dogs became tamer (驯服的) and more accustomed to human behaviors? Or was this fire already burning in the ancestors of dogs: the gray wolf?

Christina Hansen Wheat, a behavioral ecologist at Stockholm University, and workmates hand-raised 10 gray wolves from the time they were 10 days old. When the animals were 23 weeks old, a caregiver led them one at a time into a mostly empty room. Over the course of several minutes, the caregiver exited and entered the room, sometimes leaving the wolf alone, sometimes leaving it with a complete stranger. The team repeated the experiment with 12 23-week-old Alaskan huskies (哈士奇), which they’d raised similarly since puppyhood.

For the most part, the scientists saw few differences between the wolves and the dogs. When their caregiver entered the room, both species scored 4.6 on a five-point scale of “greeting behavior”—a desire to be around the human. When the stranger entered, dog greeting behavior dropped to 4.2 and wolf to 3.5, on average, suggesting both animals made a distinction between the person they knew and the one they didn’t. It’s this distinction that the team counts as a sign of attachment.

In addition, dogs barely paced—a sign of stress—during the test, while wolves paced at least part of the time. However, the wolves stopped pacing almost entirely when a stranger left the room and their caretaker returned. Hansen Wheat says that’s never been seen before in wolves. It could be a sign, she says, that the animals view the humans who raised them as a “social buffer”.

For her, that’s the most interesting part of the study. “If this is true, this sort of attachment is not what separates dogs from wolves,” she says. In other words, it didn’t have to be bred into them by humans, but could have been the seed we selected for, and then strengthened over thousands of years.

1. What’s the purpose of Hansen Wheat’s experiment?

A．To find out what makes gray wolves and dogs different.

B．To explain the reasons why humans raised dogs from ancient times.

C．To argue gray wolves after being tamed are easier to keep than dogs.

D．To prove whether gray wolves can make doglike attachment to people.

2. What do we know about Hansen Wheat’s experiment from paragraph 3 and 4?

A．Researchers began to raise gray wolves from their birth.

B．Researchers used equal numbers of gray wolves and dogs.

C．Gray wolves felt more stressful than dogs when a stranger came.

D．“Greeting behavior” of the two animals was significantly different.

3. What do the underlined words “social buffer” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．A reminder of feeding.	B．A sign of social attachment.
C．A source of comfort and support.	D．A warning of stopping pace.

4. What will Hansen Wheat probably agree with according to the last paragraph?

A．Dogs are more attached to humans than gray wolves.

B．It is the attachment to humans that sets gray wolves apart from dogs.

C．The attachment between dogs and humans is the result of being tamed.

D．The attachment to humans plays a role in the choice of dogs or gray wolves.

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Asian elephant is     1     largest land mammal on the Asian continent. They live in forest and grassland habitats in thirteen     2     (country) in Asia. While they have preferred forage plants, Asian elephants are used to     3     (survive) on resources that vary in different areas.

Asian elephants are     4     (extreme) sociable, forming groups of six to seven related females     5     are led by an old female. Like African elephants, these groups sometimes join others     6     (form) larger herds, but these associations are relatively short-lived. In Asia, elephant herd sizes are much     7     (small) than those of Savannah elephants in Africa. Although an elephant spends half a day on the grasses, it can also eat large amounts     8     tree bark, roots, leaves, and small stems. Cultivated crops such as bananas, rice and sugarcane are favorite foods. Elephants are always close to a source of fresh water     9     they need to drink at least once a day.

In some Asian areas, people     10     (have) close associations with elephants over many centuries, and elephants have become important cultural symbols.