With its tall buildings and crowded streets, Hong Kong is one of the last places you would expect to find a wild animal. But green sea turtles have become regular visitors to beaches found in more peaceful parts of the metropolis.
Over the last month, people living in Hong Kong and Hainan Province have been lucky enough to see the giant turtles lay their eggs on the beaches at night. Male turtles spend their entire lives in the sea. But every two to six years, the females swim thousands of miles from their feeding grounds to lay eggs in their own birthplaces
Unluckily, few of the baby turtles survive with only one in 1,000 living into adulthood. If they manage to grow big, which takes 20 to 30 years, they can live for more than a century.
Man is the main reason why turtles are dying out. The creatures’ habitats are destroyed by fishing and pollution, while the turtles themselves are killed for food and leather.
“Sea turtle eggs and meat saved us during Japan's occupation of Hong Kong in World War II,”
said 65-year-old resident Chan Kam-wan. But the days of eating turtle eggs have long since passed. Hong Kong banned the eating and sale of them in 1976, hoping to help save the endangered creatures.
In recent years, the government has closed beaches between June and October so the turtles can lay eggs in peace. Scientists also try and keep a count of the number of turtles, even following them using satellites. Through tracking the turtles, they hope to learn new ways of protecting them.
Officials in Hong Kong have recently finished a study on sea life in the area. They are considering setting up a sea park to protect the sea turtles from water pollution and illegal fishing.
1.We can learn from the passage EXCEPT_________.
A. Most of the baby turtles die before growing up
B. It is difficult to find wild animals in Hong Kong
C. Turtles can live for more than one hundred years
D. You can find some male turtles on the beaches if lucky enough
2.A large number of turtles were killed for food by Hong Kong residents in
A. 1976 B. 1978
C. 1944 D. 1898
3.What can we conclude from the passage?
A. The Problems that the turtles were facing have been settled.
B. The government has built walls on the beaches to protect turtles.
C. The government will plant many trees on the beaches to set up a park.
D. The government is using some advanced equipment to protect turtles
4.Where may you read this passage?
A. In a novel. B. In a tour guidance.
C. In a newspaper. D. In a history book
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With its tall buildings and crowded streets, Hong Kong is one of the last places you would expect to find a wild animal. But green sea turtles have become regular visitors to beaches found in more peaceful parts of the metropolis.
Over the last month, people living in Hong Kong and Hainan Province have been lucky enough to see the giant turtles lay their eggs on the beaches at night. Male turtles spend their entire lives in the sea. But every two to six years, the females swim thousands of miles from their feeding grounds to lay eggs in their own birthplaces
Unluckily, few of the baby turtles survive with only one in 1,000 living into adulthood. If they manage to grow big, which takes 20 to 30 years, they can live for more than a century.
Man is the main reason why turtles are dying out. The creatures’ habitats are destroyed by fishing and pollution, while the turtles themselves are killed for food and leather.
“Sea turtle eggs and meat saved us during Japan's occupation of Hong Kong in World War II,”
said 65-year-old resident Chan Kam-wan. But the days of eating turtle eggs have long since passed. Hong Kong banned the eating and sale of them in 1976, hoping to help save the endangered creatures.
In recent years, the government has closed beaches between June and October so the turtles can lay eggs in peace. Scientists also try and keep a count of the number of turtles, even following them using satellites. Through tracking the turtles, they hope to learn new ways of protecting them.
Officials in Hong Kong have recently finished a study on sea life in the area. They are considering setting up a sea park to protect the sea turtles from water pollution and illegal fishing.
1.We can learn from the passage EXCEPT_________.
A. Most of the baby turtles die before growing up
B. It is difficult to find wild animals in Hong Kong
C. Turtles can live for more than one hundred years
D. You can find some male turtles on the beaches if lucky enough
2.A large number of turtles were killed for food by Hong Kong residents in
A. 1976 B. 1978
C. 1944 D. 1898
3.What can we conclude from the passage?
A. The Problems that the turtles were facing have been settled.
B. The government has built walls on the beaches to protect turtles.
C. The government will plant many trees on the beaches to set up a park.
D. The government is using some advanced equipment to protect turtles
4.Where may you read this passage?
A. In a novel. B. In a tour guidance.
C. In a newspaper. D. In a history book
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83. It is said that Hong Kong will be joined _____ the mainland _____ a beautiful bridge on the sea in the near future.
| A．by; with | B．with; by | C．by; to | D．to; by |
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The Occupy protests(抗议) in Hong Kong are approaching an end. Traffic on Mong Kok’s Argyle Street resumed in the late afternoon after the clearance of the barriers and tents by protesters, who remained largely calm, only resisting the clearance at several points.
Some 3,000 police officers were deployed(部署) in the operation, a much higher number than were used to assist in the clearance of a protest site in Admiralty District on November 18.
The operation in Mong Kok comes a week after the partial clearance of another protest site next to the local government headquarters in Admiralty, bringing an end to the months-long protest movement.
Some 3,000 police officers also stood guard at the former protest site in Admiralty on Tuesday.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying expressed on Tuesday his hope that business could resume for shops in the area. He also restated that the protest was an unlawful gathering, and called for the protesters to respect and obey the law.
“The common call of Hong Kong people has finally been answered. Now the protest is coming to an end which is necessary and unavoidable. The public has suffered enough,” Leticia Lee See-yin told the Global Times.
“Many people are living in Mong Kok or operating their businesses in the area. They are all angry at the protest for affecting their business. Two shop owners even shut down their stores because they can no longer afford losses caused by the protest,” said Lee.
It is believed that the successful clearance of the Mong Kok site has proven that the protests are decreasing as they approach an end.
“The authorities met with much less resistance compared to a month ago when protesters reacted violently when police tried to remove barriers in the same area in Mong Kok. Now the public has expressed a stronger desire than ever for the protest to end,” Tang Ka-piu, a lawmaker, told the Global Times.
1.The underlined word “resumed” in the first paragraph most probably means “_______”.
A. came to a stop B. moved faster
C. returned to normal D. piled up
2.It can be learned from the passage that the occupy protests _______.
A. have made the public suffer a lot
B. have lasted for two months
C. are supported by common people
D. have caused no loss for the citizens
3.Which of the following is True according to the passage?
A. Police officers didn’t meet with any resistance in the late afternoon clearance.
B. Many more than 3000 police officers took part in the clearance in Admiralty District.
C. The authorities are not capable of dealing with the resistance from the protesters.
D. The occupy protests are announced illegal and harmful for the business.
4.How do the Hong Kong public feel about the occupy protests?
A. Approval. B. Annoyed. C. Scared. D. Desirable.
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My house is the one with a red roof on the street. It ____ and you can find it easily.
A. stands up B. looks out C. sticks out D. wipes out
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Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated (人口密集的)cities in the world, but with night skies around 1,000 times brighter than globally accepted levels, it gains a bad reputation for its light pollution.
A study by Hong Kong University found that brightness levels in the southern Chinese city's popular shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui were 1,200 times greater than the international dark sky standard.
The crowded city of 7 million residents(居民), full or residential high-rises, towering office blocks and neon(霓虹灯) advertisements, has no laws to control outdoor lightning.
The result is that light pollution is thought to be much worse than in other large cities, including London, Sydney, Tokyo and Shanghai.
“In Hong Kong , you can’t go anywhere outdoor in the evening without your eyes being blinded by this really disturbing outdoor lightning,” the light pollution survey’s head Jason Pum told AFP.
“The fact that we have all this light in the sky means energy is wasted,” he said, adding that too much artificial lightning also affects nightly wildlife.
Research has suggested that light pollution can cause a number of harmful health effects in humans, including sleeplessness and headaches and can also interrupt body clocks and hormones(荷尔蒙).
The university survey, the result of five million measurements taken from points across the city, was released just days before the start of the annual Earth Hour event, organized by the World Wildlife Fund.
People around the world will be encouraged to turn off the lights for an hour on Saturday night to raise awareness of climate change. Last year, a number of Hong Kong’s major buildings along Victoria Harbour went dark to mark Earth Hour.
“Anyway, we should do our best to reduce the amount of lightning and adjust it for the benefit of the environment.”
1.If you walk out at night in Hong Kong, you can see all those things except ______.
A. neon advertisements B. residential buildings
C. a dark sky with twinkling stars D. high office blocks
2..which of the following statements about too much lightning is NOT true?
A. Too much lightning means a waste of energy.
B. It can make the sky and the city more beautiful.
C. It may have a bad effect on nightly wildlife.
D. It can lead to some health problems.
3..We can know from the passage that__________
A. light pollution in Hong Kong is among world’s worst.
B. light pollution is the biggest problem in Hong Kong.
C. Earth Hour is simply organized to reduce pollution.
D. light pollution is the primary causes of sleeplessness.
4..what will the author probably discuss after the last paragraph?
A. Bad effects of light pollution
B. Causes of light pollution
C. Worries about light pollution
D. Ways to reduce light pollution
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1. One day, when I was perhaps six years old, I was walking with my father on a crowded street. All of a sudden, the normal flow of pedestrian traffic backed up as people tried to avoid a large object on the sidewalk. To my astonishment, the object turned out to be a human being, a man lying unconscious against a building. 2. Certainly no one made eye contact. As we walked by ,my father — the model of a loving, caring gentleman — pointed to a bottle in a paper bag and told me that the poor soul on the sidewalk just needed to sleep it off. Then the drunken man began to murmur senselessly. My father warned me not to go near, saying "You never know how he’ll react."
3. I had spent the previous 12 months traveling in poor Asian cities, but even by those standards this was a scene of misery. In addition to being desperately poor, the locals had to live in the extremely hot climate, ridiculously huge crowds and a fairly strong wind blowing dust everywhere. Suddenly a man carrying a huge bag of peanuts called out in pain and fell to the ground. 4. A half dozen sellers ran from their stands to help, leaving unattended what might have been the totality of their possessions. One put a blanket under the man's head; another opened his shirt; a third questioned him carefully about the pain; a fourth fetched water; a fifth kept onlookers from crowding around too closely; a sixth ran for help.5. The performance could have passed for a final exam at a paramedic (护理人员)school.
A.I then witnessed an astonishing scene.
B.Not one of the passers-by seemed to notice that it was a man.
C.This was totally different from the bitter experience I had in New York.
D.Within minutes, a doctor arrived, and two other locals joined in to assist.
E.I soon came to see that day's lesson as basic knowledge for a New Yorker.
F.I'll always remember a lesson that I learned as a boy growing up in New York City.
G.Yet many years later I had a very different experience while visiting a market in Rangoon.
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---It is so crowded. Where is Jack?
---He is very tall. We can easily _____ him in the crowd.
| A．discover | B．find | C．spot | D．locate |
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The government calls on us to avoid visiting crowded areas and medical institutions _______ it is necessary.
A.while B.because C.unless D.when
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Making a speech in front of a crowd of people is not his strength but he____ it with his passion and efforts．
A．takes advantage of B．makes up for
C．gets hold of D．1ives up to
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That Christmas Eve, the streets of Boston were crowded with people dressed in wool and flannel(法兰绒). “Jingle Bells” was playing in stores. Everyone, it seemed, was _____ by someone else smiling or ____ I was alone.
The eldest of a Puerto Rican family of 11 children growing up in one of New York’s _____ apartment. I’d spent much of my life _____ solitude(独处). Now, _____, at 27, was enduring the last break-up of a seven-year relationship. Every part of me wanted to be _____, but not at Christmas.
My family had returned to Puerto Rico, and my _____ were involved in their own lives. Dusk was falling, and the unavoidable return to my ____apartment brought tears to my eyes.
I stopped at the local market, feeling even more______ when I saw all the people there filling their baskets with gifts. I _____ my family, my friends and the noisy parties at home, filled with laughter and dancing. I wanted to cry for having wanted to be alone and for having _____ it.
In front of the church down the street, a manger(马槽) had been set up, with Mary, Joseph, and the barn animals in ______ the arrival of baby Jesus. As I walked home, I _____ that the story of Joseph and Mary wandering from door to door seeking shelter was much like my own. Leaving Puerto Rico was still a _____in my soul and I was struggling with whom I had become in my 15 years in the United States. I’d mourned my losses, _____for the first time, I recognized what I’d gained. I was _____, and educated and healthy. My life was still before me, full of ______.Sometimes the best ____ is the one you give yourself. That Christmas, I gave myself credit ____ I’d accomplished so far and permission to go ______ unafraid. It was the best gift I’ve ever received, the one that I most treasure.
1.A. chosen B. bothered C. allowed D. accompanied
2.A. working B. laughing C. studying D. thinking
3.A. crowded B. expensive C. cheerful D. large
4.A. looking forB. looking atC. looking throughD. looking over
5.A. finally B. easily C. quickly D. likely
6.A. patient B. strict C. alone D. private
7.A. friends B. dreams C. guests D. customers
8.A. beautifulB. interesting C. cleanD. empty
9.A. pleased B. upsetC. surprisedD. curious
10.A. hated B. lovedC. missed D. forgot
11.A. achievedB. refused C. preferredD. offered
12.A. search B. expectation C. position D. control
13.A. imaginedB. sighed C. realized D. expressed
14.A. effort B. belief C. wound D. wish
15.A. but B. so C. because D. though
16.A. excitedB. independentC. ordinary D. worthless
17.A. desiresB. possibilitiesC. idealsD. advantages
18.A. gift B. lesson C. purposeD. memory
19.A. on B. in C. at D. for
20.A. upward B. down C. aroundD. forward
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