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When the sheep call, it is always bad news for farmer Erard Louw of the Cape Town suburbs, as the phones around their necks are only set to switch on when the sheep start running, a sign that thieves have cut through the fences.
"As they run it gives me a phone call and says "Sheep One" or "Sheep Two" and so on, so at least I know where to start looking because the farm is 750 hectares (1,850 acres)," Louw told the Cape Times daily.
Louw attached the phone-like security device to the collars of four sheep in separate flocks after thieves sneaked in and stole 27 sheep and 13 lambs a couple of weeks ago, driving Louw to rack his brains for ways to protect his animals.
He said there was no use calling nearby police, as they were stationed too far away and in his experience they either lacked an available car or the vehicle was out of fuel or missing tyres -- also the work of thieves.
According to Louw, the cell phones have already proved their worth, with one sheep-snatcher caught thanks to the device.
Still, with theft attempts currently at their peak, given long winter nights and early nightfall, a few sheep-robbers managed to get away in spite of the device.
"The phone did start ringing that night and I went out," he said, but added that he was too late.
小题1:Why did Erard Louw attach the phone-like device to the sheep he raises?
| A．Because he thought it was fun to do. |
| B．Because the police there didn’t care about animals. |
| C．Because he liked hi-tech very much. |
| D．Because he wanted to protect them against thieves. |
| A．Try very hard to remember or think of something. |
| B．Have a headache. |
| C．Make the brain bigger. |
| D．Shake the brain from side to side. |
| A．in a book |
| B．in a dictionary |
| C．in a newspaper |
| D．in a novel |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:C
解析
试题分析：文章介绍了农民Louw喂养的羊群总是被贼偷，在两个星期前几十只羊被偷走之后，他费尽心思在羊的身上装了一个小装置，只要晚上羊跑起来的时候，这个小装置就会发起报警，在一定程度上起到了震慑作用。冬天就要来临了，天很黑，夜幕将临得又早，贼偷养也达到了高峰，而Louw在很多时候并不想报警，因为警察的办事他并不是很满意。
小题1:D细节理解题。A South African farmer is receiving phone calls from his sheep after equipping them with cell phones to keep tabs on the flock amid recent livestock thefts意思是：南非的一个农民在羊的身上装了类似电话的设备去密切关注偷家禽的那些贼，不久，他收到了来自羊身上的电话。所以他在羊的身上装这么一个设备是为了防止小偷。故答案应为D。
小题2:A细节理解题。Louw attached the phone-like security device to the collars of four sheep in separate flocks after thieves sneaked in and stole 27 sheep and 13 lambs a couple of weeks ago, driving Louw to rack his brains for ways to protect his animals.大意为：在两个星期前贼偷走了他的27只羊和13只小羊，他就把这种装置安在了羊的身上。Louw动尽了脑子去想办法保护他的羊。故答案应为A，尽力的去记起或考虑一些事情。
小题3:C细节理解题。according to local press Wednesday.根据周三的当地报，陈述了这件事情。由此可知答案应为C，应该在报纸上读到这件事情。
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试题【A South African farmer is receiving phone calls from his sheep after equipping t】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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“The uniform makes us look like a bunch of clones, especially when we are doing morning exercises on the playground,” and Qing Pei, a Senior 2 students from Shanghai Qibao High School. “But boys wear different sports shoes and girls have different decorations(装饰品) in their hair. These are the areas where you can express yourself,” said Qing.
Although it might be strange for boys to talk about fashion, they do care about what they wear in school, especially shoes, according to Qing.
“Nike and Adidas basketball shoes, although they are still the must-have items for many of my friends, are becoming out-of-date,” Qing added. He explained, “Since Liu Xiang ran so fast in Athens, running shoes are becoming popular in this autumn.”
“Still in fashion are the various baseball caps and American-style T-shirts with some English words printed on them,” said Qing. Besides sports shoes and T-shirts, styles and colors of schoolbags are another chance for students to express their taste in fashion. Some bags are made more eye-catching by decorating them with small dolls.
Other fashionable items are colorful drink containers, which are now popular with girls this term.
“Some teachers are surprised to see a teenager sucking a bottle like this at school and criticize it as childish regression(退化). But some girls just love it,” said Yang Rui, a Senior 3 student.
小题1:What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?
| A．All the students are clones. |
| B．All the exercises are the same. |
| C．All the students look the same in uniform. |
| D．All the students have similar fashions. |
| A．They wear different spots shoes. |
| B．They wear school uniforms. |
| C．They have different decorations in their hair. |
| D．They drink coffee from colorful drink containers. |
| A．Nike and Adidas basketball shoes. |
| B．Baseball caps and Korean-style T-shirts. |
| C．Colorful drink containers. |
| D．Running shoes. |
| A．call for people to pay attention to students’ wear |
| B．report students’ great love for fashion |
| C．criticize childish regression on campus |
| D．discuss about school uniforms |
Affected by habitat (栖居地) loss and climate change, like many other uniquely Australian animals, koalas are being squeezed into smaller regions. But at present, it is a deadly disease, a somewhat silent killer that causes a further decline in the koala population, that is worrying many scientists about the fate of the koala.
The killer is Chlamydia, which has caused symptoms in up to 50 percent of the wild koalas, with probably even more infected (感染) but not showing symptoms. It has been particularly severe in Queensland, where nearly all koalas are infected. The disease causes many symptoms including eye infections, which can lead to blindness, making it difficult for them to find their primary food.
Treating Chlamydia in wild koalas is a challenge. There is no treatment available for it. Only a small percentage of the animals can be treated successfully and returned to the wild. Besides, there is no national plan in Australia to save the koala；it is up to each region to make management plans for its koala population.
The good news is that researchers are working to test a vaccine (疫苗) that would help prevent further spread. If all goes well, plans can be carried out to distribute the vaccil1e more widely. But it’s impossible to vaccinate all wild koalas.
Another possibility would be to make vaccine distribution a routi11e part of treatment for the thousands of koalas brought into care centers every year after they are injured by cars or dogs.
While it is a combination of problems that are affecting the wild koala population, many experts believe this vaccine would be an important step in helping koalas survive longer. It may buy enough time to give researchers a chance to solve some of the other problems facing Australia’s koalas.
小题1:Which isn’t considered the main cause of koala’s population decline?
| A．Habitat loss. | B．Injuries from cars and dogs. |
| C．Climate change. | D．A deadly disease. |
| A．the serious result Chlamydia has caused to the koala |
| B．Chlamydia affected the koala only in particular regions |
| C．the most serious symptom of Chlamydia is eye infections |
| D．Chla1nydia can seriously affect koala’s primary food |
| A．the koala | B．Chlamydia | C．national plan | D．eye infection |
| A．would cure the killer Chlamydia quite effectively |
| B．would only be distributed in koala care centers |
| C．has already been put into practical use in Australia |
| D．cannot be distributed to all the infected koalas |
| A．a national plan for saving koalas will be made soon in Australia |
| B．koala population is declining only in a few regions |
| C．researchers need enough time to so1ve the koala problems |
| D．experts have lost the best chance to save the infected koalas |
The government owed the improved figures to its growing economy. Despite the reduction, the UN Children"s Fund said Ethiopia needed to do much more to improve health facilities(设施) for pregnant women.
Ethiopia is one of Africa"s poorest states, although it has experienced rapid economic growth in recent years and is one of the continent"s leading coffee producers. Its economy centers around agriculture, which in turn relies on rainfall.
The BBC"s Emmanuel Igunza in the capital, Addis Ababa, says Ethiopia was once representative of poor nutrition in Africa. But the latest UNICEF(联合国儿童基金会) figures show Ethiopia is one of the few African countries on the path to realizing the development goal of reducing child death rates, he says.
Ethiopia"s Health Minister Kesetebirhan Admasu said increasing family incomes had helped improve people"s health. "This has also resulted in better nutrition for children and women; this has translated into better medical conditions —— all these have a direct or indirect influence on the survival of children," he told BBC Africa. He said the government has also been "aggressively expanding its primary health care network".
"We have now 93% coverage( 覆盖) of one health centre for 25,000 people, which basically means one health facility within a 7km area," he said.
小题1:How many in 1000 births would die in Ethiopia in 1990?
| A．about 680 | B．about 330 | C．about 68 | D．about 200 |
| A．Ethiopian children benefit from its fastest economy growing. |
| B．Ethiopia has a long way to go to improve health facilities. |
| C．Ethiopia is the economic center because of its rich rainfall. |
| D．Ethiopia has already become a rich state in Africa. |
| A．Many African countries have high child death rates now. |
| B．Ethiopia is the only country that has reduced child death rates. |
| C．Ethiopia is the most successful in reducing child death rates. |
| D．Ethiopia was once known for its poor nutrition in Africa. |
| A．agricultural incomes have helped improve all the people"s health in Africa |
| B．now the health care network is perfect in Ethiopia |
| C．93% of the 25,000 people enjoy health centers in Ethiopia |
| D．the government has been taking active measures to improve people"s health |
Today, the temple is the scene of a busy repair program. A team of 15 Indian experts are organizing a workforce of 400 Cambodians, most of them women, who are cleaning, repairing and rebuilding parts of this temple.
As I walked through the courtyards, I noticed the Cambodian women devote hours to cleaning carefully a tiny area of stone. Boards are laid down to protect the precious painted stones while the repair work is going on. There are very few machines and little heavy equipment. Workers carry building materials in buckets at the end of long poles. Piles of stones lie in a corner of the courtyard, waiting to be replaced.
The work of cleaning the stones is watched over by three Indian chemists. It is a very slow task. First they clean the stones with brushes using buckets of a weak chemical. Then gaps between the stones are filled in. Finally another material is painted onto the stones which will protect them from water forever.
Work starts every day at 7 a. m. and goes on until late afternoon six days a week, with a break at midday.
Evening is the best time to visit the temple, after the tour groups have left. As the sun sinks lower, shadows spread across the courtyard. After sunset, the sky turns pink. The grey stone towers take on a golden color before turning pink. Nowhere else in the world can there be such a quiet, beautiful place.
小题1:This passage mainly tells ________.
| A．the poor look of the temple Angkor Wat in 1980 |
| B．the history of the temple Angkor Wat |
| C．the repair work being done to the temple Angkor Wat |
| D．the difficulty in the repair work |
| A．The women workers. | B．The Indian workers |
| C．Machines | D．Skilled workers |
| A．there was no one in the temple and it was in a poor state |
| B．the temple was built on desert and nobody noticed it |
| C．the temple was very old with a long history |
| D．the temple was repaired by the Cambodians, most of whom women |
| A．Two | B．Three | C．Four | D．Five |
| A．To get rid of certain types of plants. |
| B．To carry the building materials. |
| C．To replace the stones. |
| D．To clean the stones. |
In addition to encouraging reading as a pursuit (追求) to be enjoyed by all, the program allows strangers to communicate by discussing the book on the bus, as well as promoting reading as an experience to be shared in families and schools. The idea came from Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl who launched (发起）the "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book " project in 1998. Her original program used author visits, study guides and book discussion groups to bring people together with a book, but the idea has since expanded to many other American cities, and even to Hong Kong.
In Chicago, the mayor appeared on television to announce the choice of To Kill a Mockingbird as the first book in the "One Book, One Chicago" program. As a result, reading clubs and neighborhood groups sprang up around the city. Across the US, stories emerged of parents and children reading to each other at night and strangers chatting away on the bus about plot and character.
The only problem arose in New York, where local readers could not decide on one book to represent the huge and diverse population. This may show that the idea works best in medium-sized cities or large towns, where a greater sense of unity(一致）can be achieved .Or it may show that New Yorkers rather missed the point, putting all their energy and passion into the choice of the book rather than discussion about a book itself.
As Nancy points out, the level of success is not measured by how many people read a book, but by how many people are enriched by the process or have enjoyed speaking to someone with whom they would not otherwise have shared a word.
小题1:What is the purpose of the project launched by Nancy?
| A．To invite authors to guide readers. |
| B．To encourage people to read and share. |
| C．To involve people in community service. |
| D．To promote the friendship between cities. |
| A．They had little interest in reading. |
| B．They were too busy to read a book. |
| C．They came from many different backgrounds. |
| D．They lacked support from the local government. |
| A．In large communities with little sense of unity |
| B．In large cities where libraries are far from home |
| C．In medium-sized cities with a large population |
| D．In large towns where agreement can be quickly reached |
| A．exchanged ideas with each other |
| B．discussed the meaning of a word |
| C．gained life experience |
| D．used the same language |
| A．the careful selection of a proper book |
| B．the growing popularity of the writers |
| C．the number of people who benefit from reading |
| D．the number of books that each person reads |
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