1 . “Join our exciting wildlife watching tours and experience the holiday of a lifetime!” Eco-wildlife tours like this are becoming more and more popular with tourists. The opportunity to see whales and dolphins swimming in their natural habitat is so much better than seeing these great mammals in zoos and aquariums. As your boat edges out into the blue water, a group of dolphins come to greet you and swim around the boat, jumping playfully around you. In some places, tour companies even encourage tourists to go swimming with the dolphins. These intelligent mammals seem to enjoy our company and interact with us. But is it possible that this kind of human activity putting their survival at risk?
A recent study has shown that the behavior of whales and dolphins changes greatly when they are close to boats. Interpreting the boats as a possible danger, they start to breathe more to breathe more quickly. The boats drive them away from the places where they feed and interrupt their routine of resting and taking care of their young. All of these factors could have a very negative effect on their general health. Another factor that should be taken into account is the effect of human attention on the animals. As they become more used to interacting with humans, they become less afraid of them. There have been several cases of tour boats running into dolphins or whales and causing their deaths. As dolphins live within close communities, events like these cause a lot of stress.
Perhaps the best way to protect these animals is to reduce our interaction with them. We could do by keeping a minimum distance between the animals and the boats, and by limiting the number of boats out on the water at one time. Most importantly, instead of interrupting these animals’ routines, we should try to adapt to them. In this way, we could learn to exist in harmony with these wild animals and ensure our continued co-existence on the planet that we shall share.
1. Why are Eco-wildlife tours increasingly popular?| A．Because they are widely advertised. |
| B．Because tourists can visit wild animals in nature. |
| C．Because wild animals enjoy our company. |
| D．Because visitors do not disturb wild animals. |
| A．Interested. | B．Supportive. | C．Critical. | D．Confused. |
| A．The visiting boats excite whales and dolphins. |
| B．Boats drive young whales and dolphins away from their parents. |
| C．Human’s attention benefits whales and dolphins a lot. |
| D．Getting too close to wild animals may cause trouble to them. |
| A．Making less interaction with them. |
| B．Keeping a minimum distance between boats. |
| C．Banning boats entering their habitat. |
| D．Making them adapt to our daily routine. |
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Over the years，the story of the Yetis has
Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis.But the only things people have ever found were more footprints.Most believe the footprints are nothing more than ordinary animal tracks，
These days，only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman
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3 . It was about 10:15 p.m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport train station, New York, jumped into her Honda Odyssey, and began the 20-minute drive home. She’d just returned from visiting her mother. When she turned left on Montauk Highway, out of nowhere a car T-boned her minivan, forcing her backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She sat in the minivan, bruised (挫伤) but mostly shocked.
As it happened, Pete DiPinto, a volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, 64, was getting ready for bed. When he heard the noise of metal on metal and broken glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window, he grabbed a flashlight and, still dressed in his pajamas (睡衣), ran out of the door. “Any firefighter would have done that,” he later said. “We’re always on duty.”
The first car he came upon was the one that had hit Esposito. Once concluding the driver was OK, DiPinto looked around and spotted Esposito’s minivan straddling (横跨) the railroad tracks. And then he heard the bells signaling an oncoming train.
DiPinto dashed to the minivan and struck on the driver’s side window. She just looked at him, her eyes unfocused. “I don’t know where I am,” she said. “Honey, you’re on the railroad tracks,” DiPinto shouted. “We have to get you off right now!” He pulled on the handle, but the door was jammed shut. The heavy train, traveling at 65 miles per hour, was whistling toward them. DiPinto ran to the passenger side and threw open the door. He pushed aside the deflating (放气) airbags, grabbed Esposito’s arms, and pulled her across the seat and helped her out to safety behind a signal box a few feet away. Within six seconds, the train crashed into the minivan. “It was like a Hollywood movie,” DiPinto told reporters the next day.
The Ambulance chief told CBS New York, “The hero arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”
1. What can we learn from the text?| A．Esposito was driving to her mother’s. |
| B．The car hitting Esposito had left the scene. |
| C．Dipinto was called to help Esposito. |
| D．Esposito was rescued by a retired teacher. |
| A．Dipinto’s behaviour deserves respect. |
| B．Speeding and driving at night are not safe. |
| C．Carefulness is very significant while driving. |
| D．Every second counts in time of emergency. |
| A．He’d just got out of bed. | B．He was careless. |
| C．It was urgent. | D．No fire truck was available. |
| A．A Narrow Escape | B．A Brave Firefighter |
| C．A Terrible Accident | D．A Broken Minivan |
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