Question

Every year in late spring at Wild Friends, the wildlife health center, workers receive baby animals, including songbirds and rabbits. This is the busiest time when workers care for and raise all the little ones before sending them back into the wild.

There are many reasons for these little animals’ coming to the center. First of all, street cats or dogs catch, injure or take away little birds from their nests. Sometimes people catch baby animals and keep them at home, giving them food that they are not used to. It would make them sick. Most people don’t realize that it’s against law to get live animals out of their nests.

As for songbirds, people often find them on the ground in their yards, thinking they have no other choice but to leave them on the ground to die. This is because many people wrongly believe that once a bird is touched by a person, its mother will not accept this child bird. But that’s not true.

If a little bird falls out of the nest, you should check whether it is injured. If not, you should put the bird back in the nest. If the bird is injured, call your local wildlife center quickly.

As for the progress of protecting wild animals, people at Wild Friends devote all their energy to this work. Over the last weeks, they have been able to send many of the birds and rabbits that came here earlier this spring back to nature.

1.Which is the busiest season for workers at Wild Friends?

A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Autumn. D. Winter.

2.The underlined word “nests” in Paragraph 2 probably means “______”.

A. the food that birds eat

B. the skills that birds learn

C. the places where birds live

D. the steps that cares for the birds

3.Which of the following will probably injure young birds?

A. Giving them food they don’t like.

B. Letting them play with children.

C. Leaving them on the ground.

D. Bringing them to the center.

4.If a young healthy bird is lying on the ground, you should ______.

A. wait for its mother

B. help it go back home

C. touch it with your hands

D. call workers at Wild Friends

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.A

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要解释了野生动物在春季大量涌入野生动物健康中心的原因，介绍了人们在对待野生动物过程中的一些问题，对如何正确照料野生动物给出了一些科学的方法，体现出人与动物和谐共处的主题。

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4.If a little bird falls out of the nest, you should check whether it is injured. If not, you should put the bird back in the nest.可以看出，当出巢的小动物经检查是健康的时候，我们应该将它放回巢穴之中，帮它回家，故选B。

考点：考查科普说明类阅读。