Question

After a confirmed rabies(狂犬病) case in Parke County, Indiana, experts are urging caution if you find a bat(蝙蝠) in your home or office.

“If you try to kill a bat, you are more likely to get bitten,” said Joy O’Keefe, assistant professor of biology and director of Indiana State University’s Centre for Bat Research, Outreach and Conservation. “Most bats people find in their houses are healthy and are not going to bite them and give them rabies.” But they could be a federally endangered species, such as the Indiana Bat, which is found in this area.

So if you spot a bat in your home or office, don’t kill it or touch it with bare hands, O’Keefe said. Instead, put on a pair of heavy gloves and gently move it into a box or bucket. Once contained, the bat can be removed outside.

“If it’s a healthy bat, it’ll fly away eventually,” O’Keefe said. “If it doesn’t move or seem to be healthy, you can take it to the health department to be tested.”

This is the time of year when bats move from their summer resting sites to their winter resting sites, O’Keefe said.

“We get calls every year during the first month of school year from people finding bats in the university’s buildings,” said O’Keefe.

Bats are a great help to people, as every night they can eat up to their entire body weight of insects. Bats, however, are facing great threats from epidemics(流行性疾病), habitat destruction and other things.

“The best way the average person can help bats is by understanding them and by telling other people how awesome bats are and what bats do for us,” O’ Keefe said. “Hopefully, it will make people think that if there’s a bat in their house, they should try to get it out but not kill it. That would be really positive for bats—to not have people be one of their major threats.”

1.According to the text, experts are giving the public a warning about _______.

A. the biting by bats 

B. the danger of keeping bats

C. the spreading of an infectious disease

D. the extinction of an endangered species

2.In O’Keefe’s opinion, when you find a bat in your house, you should _______.

A. put it on a tree                      B. send it to get tested

C. remove it with gloves                 D. report to the health department

3.We can infer that the text is probably written in _______.

A. spring        B. summer         C. autumn         D. winter

4.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph probably means _______.

A. what bats like to eat

B. people’s awareness of bats

C. the best way to protect bats 

D. the greatest threat bats are facing

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.C

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：蝙蝠对人类有益，但是被蝙蝠咬伤后会使人得狂犬病,所以O’Keefe建议我们在室内发现蝙蝠时，不要空手去捉它们或伤害它们，而是要戴上手套把它们移到户外。

1.A细节理解题。根据第一段中的“After a confirmed rabies case”及第二段中的“If you try to kill a bat, you’re more likely to get bitten”可知因为有了被蝙蝠咬后导致人得狂犬病的案例,所以专家向公众发出了小心被蝙蝠咬的警告。故选A.

2.C细节理解题。根据第三段中的“put on a pair of heavy gloves and gently move it into a box or bucket. Once contained, the bat can be removed outside”可知O’Keefe建议大家戴上手套把蝙蝠移到户外。故选C.

3.C推理判断题。根据第五段中的“This is the time of year when bats move from their summer resting sites to their winter resting sites”及第六段中的“during the first month of school year”可知蝙蝠在这个时期从它们夏天的窝迁徙到冬天的窝，再根据新学年的第一个月可推测这篇文章写于秋季。故选C.

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考点：考查动物保护类短文阅读。

【名师点睛】

做好细节理解题的几点建议：

细节理解题属直接解答性问题，是阅读理解题中最简单的一种，多数属中低难度的题。但高考所占的比例大，应特别引起注意。事实和细节题的命题特点是：对文章或某一段落中的一些特定细节或文章重要事实的理解，一般包括直接理解题和语义转化题。直接理解题能在原文直接找到答案，而语义转化题则需要将题目信息与原文信息加工或整理后才能得出结论。

做细节理解题具体方法与步骤如下：①略读材料，大概了解原文，掌握中心或主旨；24小题根据第一段中的“After a confirmed rabies case”及第二段中的“If you try to kill a bat, you’re more likely to get bitten”可知因为有了被蝙蝠咬后导致人得狂犬病的案例,所以专家向公众发出了小心被蝙蝠咬的警告。故选A.

②按文章的体裁，作者写作的组织模式及有关的信息词。如for example, first, second…等预测应该到何处寻找自己所需要的事实；

③将自己精力放在寻找你所需要的细节上。快速通篇跳读，全文扫视，找到细节出处，待找到含细节句子时，放慢速度，仔细核对比较内容，直至找到答案。如第25小题根据第三段中的“put on a pair of heavy gloves and gently move it into a box or bucket. Once contained, the bat can be removed outside”可知O’Keefe建议大家戴上手套把蝙蝠移到户外。故选C.