One thing the tour books don’t tell you about London is that 2,000 of its residents are foxes. They ran away from the city about centuries ago after developers and pollution moved in. But now that the environment is cleaner, the foxes have come home, one of the many wild animals that have moved into urban areas around the world.
“The number and variety of wild animals in urban areas is increasing,” says Gomer Jones, president of the National Institute for Urban Wildlife, in Columbia, Maryland. A survey of the wildlife in New York’s Central Park last year tallied the species of mammals, including muskrats, shrews and flying squirrels. A similar survey conducted in the 1890s counted only five species. One of the country’s largest populations of raccoons (浣熊) now lives in Washington D.C., and moose (驼鹿) are regularly seen wandering into Maine towns. Peregrine falcons(游隼) dive from the window ledges of buildings in the largest U.S. cities to prey on (捕食) pigeons.
Several changes have brought wild animals to the cities. Foremost(首要的) is that air and water quality in many cities has improved as a result of the 1970s pollution-control efforts. Meanwhile, rural areas have been built up, leaving many animals on the edges of suburbs. In addition, urban wildlife refuges (避难处)have been created. The Greater London Council last year spent￡750,000 to buy land and build 10 permanent wildlife refuges in the city. Over 1,000 volunteers have donated money and cleared rubble from deserted lots. One evening last year a fox was seen on Westminster Bridge looking up at Big Ben.
For peregrine falcons, cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings (悬崖栖息地). By 1970 the birds had died out east of the Mississippi because the DDT had made their eggs too thin to support life. That year, scientist Tom Cade of Cornell University began raising the birds for release in cities, for cities afforded abundant food.
Cities can attract wild animals without turning them harmful. The trick is to create habitats where they can be self-sufficient but still be seen and appreciated. Such habitats can even be functional. In San Francisco, the local government is testing different kinds of rainwater control basins to see not only which ones retain (保持) the cleanest water but which will attract the most birds.
1.The first paragraph suggests that ________.
A．environment is vital for wildlife
B．tour books are not always a reliable source of information
C．London is a city of fox
D．foxes are highly adaptable to environment
2.Which of the following is NOT a reason that wildlife is returning to the cities?
A．Food is plentiful in the cities.
B．Wildlife is appreciated in the cities.
C．Wildlife refuges have been built in the cities
D．Air and water quality has improved in the cities
3.It can be inferred from the passage that _________.
A．Londoners are putting more and more wild animals into their zoos.
B．Londoners are happy to see wild animals return to their city
C．Londoners are trying to move wild animals back to the countryside
D．Londoners have welcomed the wild birds, but found foxes a problem
我校与韩国某中学是友好学校，对方校刊来信想了解我校本学期选修课开设情况。请根据下表提供的学生问卷调查得到的信息，用英语写一篇报导。
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最受欢迎的课 |
对课程的看法 |
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二十余种 (学生可任选) |
每周三和周五 下午 3:30—4:50 |
计算机 英语口语 艺术等 |
1．十分感兴趣 2．学到许多课外 的知识 3．有大量的实践 机会 |
1．增加选修课 2．减少作业量 3．多组织参观， 了解社会 |
要求：1．报导需包括表内提供的所有内容。2．词数100--120左右。报导题目已给出。
词汇：optional course 选修课
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假定英语课上老师要求同学之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），并在该句下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Yesterday my aunt went shopping and asked me take care of my two little lovely cousins. I was busy for my homework, but I let them read picture books by themselves. Moments later, I found the pages of a book tearing and lying all over the floor. When I asked them whom did that, the elder sister slowly nodded and bent down her head. Saw that she was true sorry, I just smiled, gave her some biscuits and told her not to do that again. When his younger brother saw the biscuit, he asked why he wasn’t given any. She answered, “You don’t tear out the pages of the book, but I did.”
阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词或用括号中词的适当形式填空。
The skin is 1. essential part of your body and its largest organ. You have three
l 2. of skin which act as a barrier 3. disease , poisons and the sun’s harmful rays. The functions of your skin are also very 4. : it keeps you warm or cool; it5. your body from losing too much water; it is __6.__ you feel cold , heat or pain and it gives you your 7. of touch. So as you can imagine, if your skin gets _8.__ it can be very serious. First aid is a very important 9. step in the treatment of burns . You can get burned by a variety of things. There are three types of burns, 10. (depend) on which layers of the skin are burned.
根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母或中文，写出各单词的正确形式（每空限填一词）。
1.Health problems are closely connected with bad eating habits and a l of exercise.
2.Li Hui a a good knowledge of English during her stay in London Last year .
3.The boy has cut his finger and it is b heavily.
4.The bus came a of time , and Mary was not ready.
5.His mother still t him as a child though he is 25 years old .
6.We know this place well, so we can be your g .
7.If everybody helps a little , it really makes a d to our environment .
8.Our teacher was d that we were successful in our examination .
9.The doctor will see you again next week. M , you must rest as much as possible .
10.This coat is much too t_______. Please show me a bigger one.
阅读下列短文，根据短文内内容，从A、B、C、D、E中，选出最适合放入短文空缺处的选项。选项中有一项是多余的。
A. Make the important points
B. Understand the lessons
C. Study at the right time
D. Gather study materials
E. Study in advance
Tips on taking exams
The following are a few study tips for high school students and college students, which will help you answer your exam papers with confidence.
1._________
It is better to have all the study materials available to you before you start reading. This not only includes your texts and notes but also the previous years’ notes and things like a dictionary and reference books. This has two advantages. Firstly, you do not need to break your concentration (专心) by searching for books. It saves time. Secondly, it gives you a feeling of being prepared for the exams, as you have all the necessary things and the only thing left its to start studying .
2.__________
The most common mistake that students make is that they start studying a day or two before exams. You can’t revise (复习) all the notes if you study only two days before exams. Therefore, what most of the students do is study only the “so-called” important points. As a result , even if the test paper is easy , you get a low score only because you don’t know the entire syllabus （课程提纲）. So start studying at least a month before the exams.
3._________
If you have descriptive subjects, do not just remember the answers. Try to understand what you are reading, for this is the best methods for good recall at the time of exams. The major disadvantage of reciting is that if you forget one word of the answer during your exam, you tend to go completely blank. On the contrary (相反地), if you understand the subjects well, you can write the answer on your own at any time. For exams like math , practice at least five sums every day. Math cannot be learned in a day .
4.________
The last tips is to study when you are in your best mentally active state. Some people are comfortable studying in the early morning, while some like studying at night. Find out the time when you are fresh and relaxed and choose that time for your studies.
