1 . If you think backyard and roof-top beehives (蜂箱) are helping save the bees, think again, experts say.

A recent study conducted in Montreal found that places with the largest increase in honeybees kept by humans had the fewest wild bee species—with small bees, which are only able to fly shorter distances to find food, appearing to be especially at risk.

“The honeybee has been promoted as the symbol of helping the environment and the variety of living species on the earth, and really it’s not that,” says Gail MacInnis, a researcher at Concordia University. “You would never start keeping chickens to help save wild bird species.”

“Honeybees are among the most common insects in the world, but they aren’t native to many of the places where they are found,” says Sheila Colla, a professor at York University. “Honeybees are very successful invaders (入侵者),” Colla says. These bees can fly long distances and are able to effectively communicate with one another through dance language. Introducing honeybee hives to an area can be a problem for local wild bees, which often end up competing for the same food sources.

Should we stop keeping bees in the cities then? Colla gives us an answer in some way. “There is room for it in cities. It’s just right now we’re not managing it very responsibly in certain places,” she says. It is suggested that cities and towns that allow beekeeping should have caps on the number of hives and require people to register their bee hives. Beekeepers also need to understand the responsibility they’re taking on.

1. Why does Gail MacInnis mention “keeping chickens”?

A．To introduce a new topic.	B．To show how to save wild birds.
C．To make her idea easily understood.	D．To share chicken-keeping knowledge.

2. What is the problem for the local wild bees when honeybee hives are introduced?

A．Competition for food.

B．Risk of being killed.

C．Less communication.

D．No habitat.

3. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．Saving the honeybees.	B．Building hives in cities.
C．Making room for honeybees.	D．Keeping honeybees responsibly.

2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Our Garfield became a mostly indoor cat. He used to wander outside but we discovered he had a terrible sense of direction, so now he has to stay inside. He does not enjoy being on the inside looking out, but it’s safer for him so that’s how it has to be.

When Garfield isn’t sleeping, he’s either sitting on a windowsill (窗台) or sitting with his wet nose pressed against our glass door overlooking the deck (木质平台), like a prisoner behind bars. As he ages, he earns back his outside rights an hour per day because he shows us that he will stay close to the back deck.

When we let him out last week, a thunderstorm arose out of nowhere. By the time we heard the crack of lightning and remembered Garfield was outside, we opened the door to see nothing but strong wind and heavy rain. My daughter Janette put on her rubber boots and raincoat to check around the house, but Garfield was nowhere to be found. The thunderstorm obviously had scared him into a run in the wrong direction. Who knew where he would end up?

It took me forever to fall asleep that night. I prayed (祈祷) someone would protect him and help him find his way home. As I continued praying, I realized that in my daily prayers for my family, I rarely included Garfield. Now that he was gone, maybe forever, I realized what an important part of our family he was. I prayed for his safe return.

My husband Peter was the first one up at 6: 00 a. m. He checked the doorstep, but no Garfield was in sight. I saw my neighbor Heidi taking her dog out for a walk, and I asked her to please keep her eyes open for our cat. Janette and her three brothers all walked around the house that day looking like they had lost their best friend. Peter decided to look for Garfield around the neighborhood.

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Peter and I drove around to search the neighborhood.

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I was saying to myself “Never say never” when I heard something scratching the door at 10: 00 p.m.

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3 . Just off the Florida Keys lies the world’s third-largest coral reef (珊瑚礁), which was once an energetic habitat for millions of plants and animals. But an outbreak of stony coral tissue loss disease threatens to destroy 20 of the 45 species found there, including larger reef-building corals.

“This disease that is burning through the Florida Keys is an unbelievable event that is happening,” said Andrew Stamper, conservation science manager at Disney’s Animals, Science and Environment. “It’s like a wildfire.” Stamper said that would endanger Florida’s fishing industry and food supply. “Unfortunately, we do not know exactly what is causing this,” he said.

In order to save the reef, scientists have moved some species hundreds of miles away to a lab in Orlando. Scientists work to simulate breeding (繁殖) conditions in the lab. The conditions are exactly the same as the living conditions of the coral. The work needs a lot of care, effort and attention to detail. LED lights exactly copy the sun and moon cycles. Volunteers feed the coral in water treated to mimic its real habitat.

“This essentially is a gene bank,” said Jim Kinsler, leader of SeaWorld Orlando. “We’re trying to protect the genetics of these corals so that their offspring(后代)can eventually be returned back to the Florida reef area.”

The task of relocating the lab-grown coral to the sea is also a detailed task. Kinsler, who is part of a team of private and public partners operating the Florida Coral Rescue Center, said, “It’s the first time that many of them have been involved in rescuing an entire ecosystem,”

“We think the real challenge is just growing them out to a size, so we can test them in those waters, test their disease resistance (抵抗力), and then breed the successful corals by the hundreds of thousands literally,” said Andrew Walker, president of the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida.

1. What do we know about the Florida Keys?

A．It owns the world’s largest coral reef.

B．A disease broke out among people there.

C．The world’s third-largest coral reef is close to it.

D．It is now the habitat of millions of plants and animals.

2. What do Andrew Stamper’s words mean?

A．The root of the disease is unclear.

B．A wildfire broke out in the Florida Keys.

C．The disease will spread across the Earth.

D．The disease has caused a great loss to the locals.

3. What does the underlined word “simulate” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Copy.

B．Contrast.

C．Escape.

D．Feature.

4. What is the purpose of the research according to Andrew Walker?

A．To restore the coral in the lab.

B．To sell the coral in the normal size.

C．To make more people involved in protecting the ecosystem.

D．To produce masses of disease-resistant coral back to the sea.

4 . Tina often discussed with her parents whether they should get a pet dog. However, they always ________ that training a dog would be too distracting for Tina, and they couldn’t ________ the vet (兽医) and food bills with their low income.

One day, when they were walking along a narrow path to look for mushroom, a painfilled howl (嗥叫) rang through the trees. Tina and her parents got ________.

“That’s a dog.” Tina headed off in the ________ of the wolf.

“Wait, Tina!” Her dad reached for her arm but ________. “It could be a wolf.”

“Even if it is, it’s still hurt,” Tina said as she headed deep into the forest. “We’ve got to help it.”

Tina’s parents ________ her, but Tina was soon out of ________. When they caught up with her, she was kneeing down beside a hunting dog. It was obvious that he was ________ in a trap. Tina’s dad bent forward to ________ the dog and found the trap closed over the dog’s paw (爪). Later, Tina’s dad took out his knife to ________ the trap. ________ the trap didn’t break any bones.

Tina’s mother had grown up in a family of hunters and was well ________ that the dog was well-trained.

They took the dog home, and Tina’s dad treated his ________. Although Tina’s parents initially intended to send the dog to a ________ where there would be kind people taking care of him, the family quickly grew to love him, so they ________ their idea. Tina named the dog Rocky and he became a family member.

1.

A．dreamed

B．concluded

C．guaranteed

D．regretted

2.

A．anticipate

B．investigate

C．distribute

D．afford

3.

A．disappointed

B．energetic

C．defensive

D．delighted

4.

A．core

B．direction

C．means

D．schedule

5.

A．missed

B．ignored

C．forgot

D．dropped

6.

A．conflicted with

B．interacted with

C．went after

D．called on

7.

A．balance

B．sight

C．danger

D．condition

8.

A．blamed

B．purchased

C．separated

D．caught

9.

A．examine

B．protect

C．emphasize

D．applaud

10.

A．explore

B．polish

C．connect

D．free

11.

A．Suddenly

B．Fortunately

C．Gradually

D．Secretly

12.

A．afraid

B．proud

C．aware

D．anxious

13.

A．wound

B．head

C．illness

D．tail

14.

A．shelter

B．forest

C．market

D．kitchen

15.

A．assessed

B．challenged

C．changed

D．invested

5 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

An injured bald eagle (秃鹰) that can’t fly is living out the rest of his days at a bird national park in Missouri.

Last month, one of his caretakers noticed something strange. Keeper Kerstin saw Murphy the eagle protecting a large low-lying land in the ground. The spot was carefully decorated with leaves and branches, and featured a smooth, round stone right in the center.

Later that day, Keeper Kerstin saw Murphy sitting on the stone as if it were an egg, and he continued to do so day after day. Male bald eagles take an equal part in raising young, so this is very natural behavior for a male.

“Every so often he rearranges the sticks in his nest, and cackles (咯咯叫) at any other eagle that come too close. We wish Murphy all the luck in the world, but we’re not telling him the reality of the situation,” the nonprofit wrote on Facebook. “We have vet to see a stone hatch (破壳)!”

Many viewers have guessed that Murphy is lonely and needs a mate, but the keepers insist he is choosing to do this on his own.

“Murphy is not lonely! He is housed with 4 other bald eagles — 2 males and 2 females,” a keeper said.

“He is not welcoming help with his nest, nor is he seeking it! He has not chosen a mate, so he very clearly wants to do this on his own. He does not want anything (real eggs) but his stone. Eventually he will get bored and give it up, but we love watching him care for it now. No need to feel bad for him! He is perfectly satisfied!”

Last week, an eagle nest containing two chicks (雏鸟) near Ste. Genevieve, Missouri was blown down by very high winds. One chick died in the fall, but the other was found and saved by a faithful nest watcher, who brought the chick to the center’s wildlife hospital.

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To save the chick, the staff decided to give Murphy a chance of raising a real baby.
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The wonder happened and Murphy fed the baby!
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6 . We had had the homeless dog since he was just a few days old. My husband, Phil, had brought him home from the street. He seemed weak. He rested his head on my ________ so I remained seated and didn’t ________ to raise my leg for fear of disturbing him. “Stop it,”I laughed as he drank from a bottle I held.

As the little dog looked up at me, his helpless eyes________ my heart. Do I have him as our________ or let him go? His eyes ________ my thought of driving him away. “I’m not ________ to leave him alone,”I said to Phil. “Well, just ________ him,” he responded. So we drove him to a pet hospital to have a ________. Luckily, he was healthy except for a little hunger.

Then the little dog ________ our family. I liked him even more as he ________. He was so friendly. He always greeted us by wagging his tails and played with our baby. We were ________ to him, so we called him Honey. We got so attached to Honey that it was hard for us to ________ ourselves from him.

When he was one year old, he was attacked by a terrible   ________ . I spent long nights nursing him, and ________, he recovered from the serious illness. I breathed a sign of ________. Honey turned into a big dog, and he was strong enough to overcome the illness.

1.

A．lap

B．face

C．arm

D．head

2.

A．refuse

B．hesitate

C．dare

D．hope

3.

A．represented

B．proved

C．damaged

D．touched

4.

A．food

B．pet

C．assistant

D．income

5.

A．shook

B．forgave

C．confirmed

D．caused

6.

A．proud

B．nervous

C．determined

D．disappointed

7.

A．buy

B．sell

C．throw

D．keep

8.

A．trouble-maker

B．check-up

C．break

D．bath

9.

A．looked into

B．set up

C．belonged to

D．pulled down

10.

A．fell

B．grew

C．quit

D．left

11.

A．devoted

B．opposed

C．senior

D．rude

12.

A．protect

B．track

C．feed

D．distance

13.

A．disease

B．earthquake

C．neighbor

D．animal

14.

A．previously

B．eventually

C．impossibly

D．unwillingly

15.

A．confusion

B．loss

C．relieflne

D．sadness

7 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Undoubtedly, Mother Nature is always attractive to kids. In our childhood, how often did we turn a deaf ear to our parents’ advice? Very often! Thus, we landed ourselves in a situation where we greatly regretted our act of not having listened to the advice of the wise.

Such an unforgettable experience I had at the age of 7 gave me an invaluable lesson, after which I deeply understood why my gentle mother was repeating the boring suggestions and I would try to take her suggestions seriously.

In my childhood, I was so crazy about nature that even playing among the colorful flowers in our garden could make my day. Our house was next to the woods which had always stirred up(激起) great curiosity in me in wanting to find out what was within. Every time I saw fascinating butterflies dancing from the woods, my curiosity grew.

But my mother didn’t like me wandering off on my own and always ensured that I was within her sight. Even if she allowed me to explore the surrounding area on my own, it was only to be somewhere near the house. Being as curious as the cat, I always desired to explore the woods. It seemed as if my mother had understood my desire, so she had warmed me on lots of occasions never to enter the woods alone.

“Mom, can I go out and play in the garden?” I asked.

“Sure,” she would reply each time. “Kate, you can play in the garden but you must promise me one thing—only when I’m with you can you go into the woods. There are no cases of animal attacks on humans, but it’s still dangerous for a little kid like you. It’s too easy to get lost in the woods.”

“Sure, you’ve said that many times!” I answered without patience at her repeated reminders.

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However, curiosity got the better of me one morning.

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“Kate?” Behind the trees covered by the rays of the setting sun came my mother’s voice.

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8 . A new study shows the singing noises made by humpback whales(座头鲸) might be a sign of being lonely. Scientists who recorded humpback whale behavior in Australia discovered that fewer whales made the singing noises as their population grew.

“Humpback whale song is loud and travels far in the ocean,” said marine biologist Dunlop of the University of Queensland in Brisbane. She has long studied humpback whales and helped lead the new study. Her work has centered on humpbacks that reproduce near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. She made an unexpected discovery as the number of whales sharply rose following the end of commercial whaling. “It was getting more difficult to actually find singers,” she said. “When there were fewer of them, there was a lot of singing. Now that there are lots of them there is no need to sing so much.”

Scientists first began to hear and study the songs of the humpback whales in the 1970s. They used underwater microphones to do so. Only male whales sing. Scientists think the whales sing to display their power.

Eastern Australia’s humpback whales came close to disappearing in the 1960s, when their number dropped to around 200. But over time the population began to regrow, climbing to about 27, 000 whales by 2015. That number is near pre-whaling levels. As the number of whales increase, their singing behaviors changed. Dunlop said while 2 in 10 males made wailing noises in 2004, 10 years later the number had dropped to 1 in 10.

It is said that humpback whales must have been singers long before whale fishing diminished their numbers. But the new study proves how necessary their beautiful songs were to their survival and recovery. Clearly singing became extremely valuable when their numbers were very low.

1. What is the probable reason why humpback whales sing according to the new study?

A．Danger.

B．Hunting.

C．Hopelessness.

D．Loneliness.

2. What is Dunlop’s surprising discovery in her research?

A．Humpback whales always keep silent.

B．The more humpback whales, the less singing.

C．The number of humpback whales increases sharply.

D．The farther humpback whales’ songs go, the better.

3. What is the purpose of male humpback whales’ singing based on the first discovery?

A．To show off their strength.	B．To sound a warning.
C．To leave for their home.	D．To shout for help.

4. What does the underlined word “diminished” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Counted.

B．Doubted.

C．Protected.

D．Reduced.

9 . Canadian Football League (CFL) player Brady Oliveira doesn’t get a lot of free time. When he does, he doesn’t spend it as you might imagine. Instead of ___________ at home, Oliveira can usually be found walking through dirty places ___________ homeless dogs and puppies(幼犬). As a long time animal rescue ___________, Oliveira has been on more rescue missions than he can ___________.

Recently, Oliveira went through a _________ rescue mission. He received an alarm about am other dog and her two pups being ___________ after dangerous flood store through the region. So he and a friend ___________ through deep, ice-cold water for over an hour to find them. When they located the terrified and starving animals, Oliveira was ___________ to see pups in the bathroom covered in their own waste. Mom was ___________ outside with nowhere to go! Though ____________, they carried the adult dog and her pups in their arms stepping all the way back to safety.

No matter how ____________ the conditions maybe, Oliveira is committed to ____________ as many dogs as he can. He said, “I love being a(n) ____________ for the voiceless, and that’s what keeps me going back to back, rescue after rescue. It’s just something that is a __________ of mine now.”

____________ as Brady Oliveira maybe as a CFL player, he will always be known as the MVP of animal rescue!

1.

A．waiting

B．practicing

C．relaxing

D．exercising

2.

A．in charge of

B．in place of

C．in memory of

D．in search of

3.

A．volunteer

B．announcer

C．professional

D．opponent

4.

A．miss

B．count

C．expect

D．bear

5.

A．casual

B．formal

C．joyful

D．tough

6.

A．abused

B．adopted

C．abandoned

D．affected

7.

A．rode

B．walked

C．drove

D．jumped

8.

A．regretful

B．upset

C．proud

D．awkward

9.

A．locked

B．fed

C．defended

D．watched

10.

A．exhausted

B．disappointed

C．amazed

D．depressed

11.

A．unfair

B．certain

C．comfortable

D．terrible

12.

A．purchasing

B．catching

C．examining

D．saving

13.

A．warning

B．message

C．voice

D．image

14.

A．reaction

B．passion

C．pressure

D．capacity

15.

A．Successful

B．Generous

C．Thoughtful

D．Grateful

10 . Paley arrived at Spring Grove Apartment 18 months ago. Jean Lewin, who lived there, fell in love with the stray (流浪的) cat and decided to _________ him. Although Lewin wanted to bring Paley into her home, Paley didn’t show _________ in being domesticated (驯化). _________, Lewin had to spare time to go out to _________ him. She placed blankets to keep him _________ in the cold winter nights and offered enough food. Lewin had _________ with cats as she had raised her own cats. Slowly, Paley started getting _________ with the kind woman. He would sometimes allow her to _________ him, and would even sit on her laps when she came. He became part of the building’s “family”.

One night, Lewin found Paley was crying and being a bit _________. Paley wasn’t being himself and refused to answer Lewin’s call, to which he usually made a quick __________.

Lewin thought the cat wanted to be followed, so she followed his __________. Paley led her out of the apartment’s yard until they __________ a large tree. That’s when Lewin saw a woman __________ on the snow, unconscious and unresponsive.

Lewin had worked on a __________ team for many years and knew exactly what to do. She __________ got a blanket for the woman and asked a neighbor to call 911 while she was tending to her.

Fortunately, the cat saved the day and the story had a happy ending.

1.

A．release

B．sell

C．feed

D．cure

2.

A．confidence

B．luck

C．trouble

D．interest

3.

A．However

B．Otherwise

C．Therefore

D．Besides

4.

A．stay away from

B．take care of

C．look up to

D．put up with

5.

A．clean

B．warm

C．still

D．full

6.

A．experience

B．conflicts

C．confusion

D．adventures

7.

A．comfortable

B．busy

C．unfamiliar

D．strict

8.

A．ignore

B．beat

C．copy

D．pet

9.

A．casual

B．abnormal

C．happy

D．calm

10.

A．promise

B．contribution

C．response

D．wish

11.

A．style

B．order

C．example

D．lead

12.

A．planted

B．reached

C．knocked

D．destroyed

13.

A．skating

B．playing

C．lying

D．crying

14.

A．research

B．rescue

C．sports

D．cooking

15.

A．quickly

B．randomly

C．curiously

D．hesitantly