One thing the tour books don’t tell you about London is that 2,000 of its residents are foxes. As native as the royal family, they fled 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.
Several changes have brought wild animals to the cities. Foremost 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 (避難處) 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 abandoned spots. One evening last year a fox was seen on Westminster Bridge looking up at Big Ben.
　　For peregrine falcons (游隼), cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings (懸崖棲息地). 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.
小題1:The first paragraph suggests that ________.
A．environment is the key to 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
小題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.
小題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
小題4:What is the passage mainly about?
A．Wildlife returning to large cities.
B．Foxes returning to London.
C．Wild animals living in zoos.
D．A survey of wildlife in New York.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:B
小題4:A

試題分析：文章討論的是動(dòng)物重新出現(xiàn)在大城市了，并分析了原因
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題。通讀第一段可知現(xiàn)在的環(huán)境適合動(dòng)物的生活，很多以前消失的動(dòng)物都重新出現(xiàn)。選A
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。ACD三項(xiàng)在文章2,3段都已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)了，但是B項(xiàng)沒有出現(xiàn)。選B
小題3:推理題。根據(jù)文章第三段可知倫敦人做出了很多的努力讓這些動(dòng)物重新回來，故B正確。
小題4:主旨大意題。文章討論的是動(dòng)物重新出現(xiàn)在大城市了。選A。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文考查細(xì)節(jié)題為主，細(xì)節(jié)題可以在文章中直接找到與答案有關(guān)的信息?或是其變體。搜查信息在閱讀中非常重要它包括理解作者在敘述某事時(shí)使用的具體事實(shí)、數(shù)據(jù)、圖表等細(xì)節(jié)信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都屬于這類圍繞主體展開的細(xì)節(jié)。做這類題一般采用尋讀法?即先讀題，然后帶著問題快速閱讀短文，找出與問題有關(guān)的詞語或句子，再對(duì)相關(guān)部分進(jìn)行分析對(duì)比，找出答案。
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A．a(chǎn)bout some uneasy traveling experiences in foreign countries
B．a(chǎn)bout the three main ways to communicate with foreigners
C．a(chǎn)bout some typical characteristics in different cultural experiences
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C．Patience.D．The awareness of being unclear.
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B．not understanding the local language well enough
C．being aware that the situation is unclear
D．not knowing how some system or organization works
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B．Asians are good at catching fish
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小題2:What sparked a homework revolution among parents and schools all over the country according to Paragraph 3? (no more than 5 words)
                                                                              
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小題5:What does the underlined word (Line 3, Paragraph 1) probably refer to? (no more than 3 words)
                                                                            

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小題2:
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A．Our society is flooded with diet commercials.
B．The latest diet is necessarily better than all the previous ones.
C．People in North America become crazy over Dieting.
D．All diets are useless in fact
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A．Because teenagers are under a lot of pressure to be thin.
B．Because there are more and more fat teenagers.
C．Because the diets have no effect.
D．Because teenagers are fascinated by the newest and best diet.
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B．a(chǎn)ttending a self-esteem class will help you keep fit.
C．we shouldn’t pay attention to the size of our body.
D．what’s inside a person is much more important than his/her appearance.
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