1 . 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。

His name is Kevin, my     1     (amaze) new cat. He     2     (have) gray, black and white tiger lines on his body. Every day, he comes around     3     (regular). He will suddenly show up, stare     4     me with those big, yellow, serious eyes, and then touch his face against my leg again and again. He will also allow me     5     (touch) his head. I am very amazed by his     6     (react).

Last week, I went to a pet store and     7     (buy) him a toy mouse. Kevin kept playing with it when he was awake. It went like this until yesterday afternoon when Kevin jumped on my knees as I was sitting on a chair. He stayed there for about 20 minutes. It was     8     big step in our human-cat relationship.

Since then, we will bump(碰) our heads together. I will push my head lovingly against     9     (he) when I take breaks from work to play with him outside. After the game, he will jump onto my knees and rest his face against my chest.

I am so happy for this relationship,     10     is a huge joy and a great comfort for me.

2 . 假定你是李华，你在英国的笔友Jim想要向你了解中国野生动物的具体情况。请根据下面内容，给Jim写一封信。
(1).目前野生动物的生存状况堪忧；(2).请阐述状况所产生的原因(至少2个方面)；(3).解决办法(至少3种办法)。可适当调整内容的顺序和增加细节，使其连贯。词数100词左右。
Dear Jim,
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Li Hua

3 . Teaching Kids Pet Care

Growing up with a family pet can be a wonderful experience for children.     1     It teaches responsibility, reduce the risk of allergies and encourage exercise according to the recent research. But how to manage children and pets properly, Veterinarian Dr Warren shares her top tips.

Make some basic ground rules before bringing home a new pet.     2    Besides, ask your children to answer some basic questions about what will be involved in looking after the pet.

Always supervise young children and pets, and if you can’t supervise then be sure to separate them. Never leave a young child unsupervised with any pet, even when it’s your own well-loved and trusted dog.     3    

    4     Children should not be allowed to pick up their pet unless under supervision. When patting or playing with pets, be sure children are always sitting on the floor, not wandering around holding the pet. Letting go of a pet rather than forcing them to do something reluctantly is a must.

Teach kids how to help everyday pet care. Younger children can help fill the water bowl.     5    This is a great way to teach lessons in basic pet hygiene by reminding them to wash their hands after handling their pet.

Encourage trips to the vet, where children will learn more about animal health and the responsibility of caring for a pet. More interestingly, enroll a new puppy into puppy classes can help pets learn good manners.

A．Warn kids that pets are not toys.

B．Teach kids to make friends with pets.

C．While older ones can take care of feeding or changing the litter tray.

D．And also pet care can be beneficial for childhood development and health.

E．The experience will have a life-long influence on children’s mental health.

F．Meanwhile, read some age-appropriate books about the type of pet you are getting.

G．Dog bites to children are mostly caused by their own dog or the dog of a friend or neighbor.

4 . We have a Norwegian elkhound (柴犬) named Torgy. Elkhounds are beautiful. They are medium-sized, strong, square-looking dogs. Their thick, silver-gray fur (皮毛) has a pure white undercoat, making a kind of flag that moves up and down when they run. They run everywhere. In fact, they are good at roaming (闲逛), and Torgy is better than most of his breed.

In August, the heat wave started. For quite a few days, Torgy started disappearing in the afternoon, and he wouldn’t show up again until we were getting supper on the table. Every day, Torgy hung around during the cool of the morning, but as the sun rose to its full height, he got up from his favorite spot under the elm tree, stretched, shook himself all over, and ran out of the yard.

There was no water from the stream or mud from the fishing pond. No dust from the country roads or weeds from the woods. Why could Torgy come home remarkably clean as a dog on the move?

“Where have you been, Torgy?” I turned his head toward me and looked him in the eyes. He licked my nose.

A week later, Mom took us on a walk downtown. It is only four blocks from our house to the middle of the town, which is how small it is. We walked down Division Street, which brought us right by the Webb Fur Salon, the newest store in town and the only one with air conditioning.

In the middle of summer, it wasn’t easy to sell furs. It was said Mr. Webb, the store owner, was offering some discounts in order to attract customers. The air conditioning also provided a comfortable environment for this purpose.

“Let’s see which fur I’m going to pick out today,” Mom said as she approached the display window where the expensive, fur-hanging mannequins (人体模特) were on show. She looked in the window and stopped dead in shock.

Paragraph 1: Her mouth kept opening and closing but no sound came out.
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Paragraph 2: “Your dog has been making himself at home in our window for days,” Mr. Webb explained with a big smile.
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5 . A small group of paleontologists (古生物学家) recently discovered 10 species of ancient mammals previously unknown to science with the help of an enormous number of helpers at their dig site: ants.

The study of ancient mammals sheds new light on the diversity of mammals that existed in North America around 33 million to 35 million years ago, when the climate was changing drastically. It also pays attention to the harvester ants, with which researchers have long had a love-hate relationship. “The ants are not fantastic when they’re biting you,” said Samantha Hopkins, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oregon. “But I’ve got to appreciate them because they make my job a whole lot easier.”

Most species of harvester ants live in subterranean caves that sit beneath a small hill of dirt. They strengthen the dirt by covering it with bits of rock and other tough materials. The ants have been known to travel over a hundred feet from their caves and to dig six feet deep in pursuit of materials that help secure their caves. The materials include fossils. Harvester ants can carry materials 10 times to 50 times the weight of their body, although they do not weigh very much, so the heaviest fossil they can collect weighs less than the average pill.

Given the size, harvester ant hills are hot spots for what scientists call microvertebrate (微型脊椎动物) fossils, which are animal fossils too small to see without a microscope. For over a century, scientists like Dr. Hopkins have found sediment (沉积物) off the sides of harvester ant hills in search of these fossils, making it easier to find large numbers of fossilized mammal teeth without spending hours in the field sifting through sand and dirt.

1. What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To compare two different species.

B．To provide evidence for discoveries.

C．To introduce a kind of ant as a helper.

D．To promote awareness of mammal protection.

2. Which aspect may influence the diversity of mammals in the past?

A．Climate change.	B．Ant numbers.
C．Cave materials.	D．Dirt locations.

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

A．Coastal.

B．Suburban.

C．Mountainous.

D．Underground.

4. What can we learn about the harvester ants from the last two paragraphs?

A．Their caves are miles deep.	B．Materials with fossils are their food.
C．They can carry pills around.	D．Fossils may be found around their hills.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why did Tracy bring dogs to the Children?

A．To teach them to love animals.

B．To help them gain confidence.

C．To protect them from dangers.

2. What is Kevin’s concern about the dog?

A．They may misbehave.

B．They may get hurt.

C．They may carry diseases.

3. What will Helen do tomorrow morning?

A．Give a talk.

B．Meet the children.

C．Take some photos.

7 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Should Hand Feeding Dolphins Be Encouraged?

Some tourist centers train Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins to approach beachside public sighting areas or boats by hand-feeding them small amounts of fish every day. Because hand-fed males aggressively attack each other over the food, putting themselves and nearby humans in danger, tourist centers focus their hand feeding only on female dolphins, says Valerie Senigaglia at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia

But recent studies have shown that only 38% of the calves (崽) of hand-fed wild dolphins survive to three years of age, which is much lower than the average 77% survival rate for wild calves in general. To better understand why, Senigaglia and her colleagues evaluated the social behavior of dolphins around the Bunbury coast in Western Australia. In particular, they observed the individual behavior and movement of 35 dolphins, including 13 that had been hand-fed using a small boat. They regularly followed each dolphin for periods lasting from 20 minutes to 3 hours for two years in a row for a total of 180 hours.

They found that hand-fed dolphins swam in relatively large groups, but more readily broke away from them to join different ones. In general, they created weak ties with other group members. “You can feel lonely in a room full of people and it’s the same thing for dolphins,” says Senigaglia. Free-swimming dolphins that are fed by hand become less socially involved with their peers. As a result, their calves may grow up lacking vital social skills-which could explain, at least in part, why they are twice as likely to die before reaching adulthood as wild calves generally.

No wonder animal right activists are calling on the practice of hand-feeding dolphins to be stopped.

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8 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容或括号内所给词的恰当形式填空。

A research team led by Guo Songtao, professor at the Northwest University in China, is developing a system with facial recognition and other technologies     1    (identify) golden snub-nosed monkeys(川金丝猴),     2     are a protected species living in the Qinling Mountains in Northwest China. Called “Tri-AI”, the system can detect, track and recognize individual animals from videos and images,     3    (make) all-time monitoring and behavior analysis of animals possible.

“In the past few years, machine learning     4     (apply) to recognize species, but accurate individual recognition is the first step to do in animal behavior analysis and animal     5     (protect),” Guo told Global Times, noting the system enables researchers to achieve this goal.

    6     (previous), to monitor and track a particular animal, researchers usually used radio collars(无线电项圈) to mark     7    . But this method often injures the animal or is easy to be disturbed by bad weather, leaving the researchers faced     8     the challenge of finding out the one they want to track among a group of animals in the wild.

With the facial recognition technology     9     (adopt) on animals, it may be much     10     (easy) to protect rare animals than 10 years ago.

9 .     1    

During the wartime, military technologies developed quickly. Air raids (空袭) had an extremely destructive impact on wildlife populations as they contributed to the destruction of habitats. Apart from the bombs dropped during air raids, aircraft were also a significant source of air pollution. The most devastating environmental impact of the war was caused by the atomic bombs used by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bombs destroyed the natural wildlife in the area in seconds. A significant number of fish and land animals died.

·The Vietnam War

    2    . During the war, the Vietnamese hid in the forests which led to the Americans using chemical agents to clear them. The chemical agents quickly destroyed the trees’ leaves. One of the main chemicals was Agent Orange. Apart from affecting the environment it caused congenital (先天性的) disabilities among the Vietnamese.     3    . Years after the trees were sprayed, many animals and plants were unable to regenerate.

·The Rwandan Genocide

One of the major impacts of the Rwandan Genocide was the massive loss of life. It has been estimated that more than 800,000 people died.     4    . Large numbers of trees were cut down to provide wood used by the refugees (难民) as they fled from their homes. The war also reduced the population of wildlife within Rwanda’s borders.

·The Gulf War

During the Gulf War, one of the main participants, the Iraqi military, used the scorched earth policy that dramatically affected the land in Kuwait.     5    . This brought great disasters to sea animals.

A．Famous Wars in History

B．Environmental Impact of War

C．The wildlife in the region was also affected to a great extent

D．The activity also resulted in the terrible destruction of forests

E．Apart from this, they also poured vast quantities of oil into the sea

F．The Vietnamese army played a great role in destroying the forests

G．The US employed several strategies that greatly affected the environment

10 . 结合课文主题并使用本单元词汇与句型，根据提示写一篇80词左右的短文
1. 如果没有野生动植物与我们作伴，地球上的人类也延续不下去。（with复合结构）
2. 野生动植物提供了（offer) 很多益处(benefit）。正是野生动植物帮我们制造氧气、食物、提供各种资源。（强调句）
3. 目前野生动植物还没有（have yet to） 得到很好的保护。
4. 只有靠自己的聪明才智，我们才能保护好野生动植物。（倒装句）
5. 让野生动植物和人类和平相处很重要。（It is important that. . . ）
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