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、
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、
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和
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四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
(2019·
山西五地高三联考
)
Kirby Wildlife
Park
—
Keeper
Experience
Due to the large
number of inquiries from people interested in
working
with
animals,
Kirby
Wildlife
Park
has
set
up
the
unique
“
Keeper
Experience
”
package. The fantastic experience is
available to anyone over
the
age
of
18
who
is
reasonably
fit.
We
regret
that
for
health
and
safety
reasons, participants who are pregnant,
in a wheelchair or suffering from illnesses cannot
take part.
A typical day
9
：
15
Arrival
9
：
30
Health and Safety Briefing
10
：
00
Apes and Monkeys
While
cleaning out the
enclosure(
围场
), you will find
out about how enclosures are enriched
with novel items and new smells to
stimulate(
刺激
) the
animals
’
senses
and imitate their natural
environment.
12
：
00
Lunch
14
：
00
Big Cats
On
the
highlight
of
most
volunteers
’
day,
you
will
feed
the
cats
and
learn
about
their
nutritional needs. The
keeper will give you an introduction of how
cats
’
behavior
can be read to get
an idea of their
welfare and health.
16
：
30
Meet the Team
Meet more of
the staff and learn how you can get further
involved with work at the park. Learn
about
our
animal
adoption
plan,
what
it
takes
to
be
a
good
keeper
and
where
to
obtain
the
right
qualifications for a career in animal
welfare.
Booking and
cancellation
The Keeper
Experience is available on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays throughout the year,
and must
be booked at least two weeks in advance. Full
payment is needed when booking.
Cancellations must be made more than
fourteen days before the event, or you
won
’
t receive a
full refund.
1
．
What kind of
people can experience working with animals in
Kirby Wildlife Park?
A
．
A boy over 18
sitting in a wheelchair.
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B
．
A man who
is quite healthy.
C
．
A woman
carrying a baby in her arms.
D
．
A girl under
the age of 18.
2
．
When can you
know something about an animal adoption plan?
A
．
At
12
：
00.
C
．
At
10
：
00.
B
．
At
9
：
30.
D
．
At
16
：
30.
3
．
What is the
requirement of cancelling a booking of the Keeper
Experience?
A
．
The
cancelling is available on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays.
B
．
Anyone
can cancel a booking throughout the year.
C
．
A booking must
be cancelled over two weeks before the event.
D
．
You can cancel
a booking with a full refund at any time.
B
(2019·
昆明高三复习诊断
)The world can be a scary
place when you’re
young. It can be even
scarier when you
’
re a young
little blue penguin(
企
鹅
)
—
the
tiniest
of
the
penguin
species.
Luckily,
there
are
some
humans
willing to help. They stepped in to
protect Billy, a blue penguin that appeared
on a beach in Christchurch, New
Zealand.
Spotted on November 29 at the
slipway at Moncks Bay, near Sumner, in
Christchurch, the little
penguin
immediately attracted a small crowd. Jeff Mein
Smith saw the crowd while he was bicycling
that afternoon, and he biked home to
get his camera. When he returned to the scene, he
found that
the penguin had received a
little sign, one that read
“
Hi,
I
’
m waiting for my mum to
come back.
DOC(Department of
Conservation) knows I
’
m
here. Please leave me alone. Keep your dog away.
Thanks. Billy
—
the
baby blue penguin.
”
Billy
didn’t
move
away from the sign. The DOC arrived later that
afternoon to pick up Billy,
though they
were surprised to see it on the beach.
“
It
’
s
unusual for a blue penguin to be out in the
open on the beach during the
day
，
”
Anita Spencer, a DOC senior ranger,
told
Stuff
.
Billy
was
taken
to
the Christchurch Penguin
Rehabilitation
Center
after
being
retrieved
from
the beach. Volunteers believe the bird
may actually be a female penguin, and is around 2
months old.
The chick weighs a mere 550
grams, less than a standard basketball. A blue
penguin should weigh
around 900 grams
at this age. Most little penguins grow up to weigh
1 kilogram.
The center will help the
little penguin gain some weight by feeding it fish
juice, before it
’s set
free
into the ocean.
4
．
Why can the
world be frightening to a young penguin?
A
．
It is a rare
species.
B
．
It
faces potential danger.
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C
．
It is
surrounded by the crowd.
D
．
It is
threatened by dogs.
5
．
It can be
inferred from the text that
Billy________
．
A
．
is a female
penguin
B
．
has
expressed its thanks
C
．
weighs less for
its age
D
．
prefers
living on the beach
6
．
Which of the
following can replace the underlined word
< br>“
retrieved
”
in paragraph 4?
A
．
Ignored.
C
．
Given away.
7
．
What will
happen to Billy in the center?
A
．
It will be
reported to
Stuff
.
B
．
It will be
visited by the locals.
C
．
It will be
taken good care of.
D
．
It will be fed
with fruit juice.
C
(2019·
东北三省四市二模
)You can
’
t see your
sleeping pet
’
s brain waves,
but its behavior
can tell
you when
your cat might be
dreaming. If
you watch closely,
you
’
ll see that
as she falls
asleep, her breathing
becomes slow and regular with her body still. She
has entered the first stage of
sleep,
called slow
?
wave sleep.
After about 15 minutes
you
’
ll notice a change in
her breathing. Her
eyes move under her
closed lids, her paws
twitch(
抽动
) and she
flicks(
轻拂
) an ear. She has
entered
dreaming. Although she twitches
and makes little grunting noises, messages from
her brain to the
large muscles in her
legs are blocked, so she
can
’
t run about. She is in a
state of
“
sleep paralysis(
麻
痹
)
”．
Michel
Jouvet,
a
French
scientist,
interrupted
their
sleep
paralysis.
Even
though
they
were
completely asleep, the dreaming cats
began to run for balls that Jouvet
couldn
’
t see and arched
their
backs
at
unseen
enemies.
He
figured
he
was
watching
them
act
out
their
dreams!
Obviously,
the
dreaming cats seemed to
be practising important cat skills: following,
pouncing, and fighting.
In another
study, Matt Wilson recorded
rats
’
brain waves
while they learned mazes. One day,
her
left the brain
?
wave
?
recording machine on while the rats
fell asleep. The pattern of brain waves
in
the
sleeping
rats
matched
the
pattern
from
the
maze
so
closely
that
Wilson
could
figure
out
exactly which part of the maze each rat
was dreaming about!
Many
researchers
now
think
that
in
both
people
and
animals,
one
purpose
of
dreams
is
to
practise
important skills and figure out recent learning.
This may explain why so many people dream
about fighting and escaping, skills
that were probably important to our ancestors, and
why dreaming
B
．
Cured.
D
．
Brought back.
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affects
our ability to learn.
Do all animals
dream? From looking at the brain waves of sleeping
animals, how often animals
dream seems
to be tied to body size. Cats dream about every 15
minutes, mice every 9 minutes, and
elephants every 2 hours. And though
cows and horses usually sleep standing up, they
only dream
when lying down.
8
．
What does
Michel Jouvet find in his study?
A
．
The dreaming
cats are in a state of body paralysis.
B
．
The dreaming
cats often practise their important skills.
C
．
The eyes of
dreaming cats move while bodies are still.
D
．
The legs of the
dreaming cats can
’
t move.
9
．
What can you
know about dreaming from the passage?
A
．
Dreaming a lot
can help humans learn more.
B
．
Learning mazes
is the basic skill for cats to learn.
C
．
Rats often
dream to work out their recent learning.
D
．
Fighting and
escaping are not important skills for ancestors.
10
．
Which animal
may dream most frequently?
A
．
Rats.
C
．
Cows.
B
．
Dogs.
D
．
Elephants.
11
．
How does the
author develop his passage?
A
．
By making
comparisons.
C
．
By telling
stories.
B
．
By using
figures.
D
．
By
showing facts.
D
(2019·
福建泉州质量检测
)Sk
yscrapers
are
the
symbol
of
urban
life.
City people are used
to seeing tall buildings and apartments. Farms, on
the
other hand, are associated with
rural(
农村的
) life. However,
there are experts
who think skyscrapers
should become farms to meet the increasing food
needs.
By the middle of this century,
some scientists suggest, almost 80% of the
Earth
’
s population
could live in cities. In addition, the
population could increase to 9.1 billion during
that time yet the
amount of land
available for farming will be the same. If current
farming practices don
’
t
change, we
will need an area of new
land to produce enough food for the planet.
Vertical farms, where urban farmers
could grow crops in environmentally friendly
skyscrapers,
could be the solution. In
spite of concerns over high costs, experts want to
make it a reality and use
these
skyscrapers to grow crops.
Vertical
farms would have many advantages, supporters say.
Unlike traditional farming, vertical
farming could be free of chemicals and
diseases. Besides, crops would not suffer from
problems like
flooding. Finally,
vertical farms would reduce the cost and negative
effects of transporting food over
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