According to a national study, in the summer of 2013, the long-term(長(zhǎng)期的) warm weather in the UK has made the number of butterflies increase.
Around 46,000 volunteers(志愿者) took part in the year’s Big Butterfly Count(統(tǒng)計(jì)), and they found 830,000 butterflies. Volunteers were asked to make a record. They would record how many times they found one of 21 different kinds of butterflies.
Later, the scientists used the records to find out how many butterflies of different kinds were found across the country. Then, they compared the results to the year before. They found that there was a rise in the number of 15 kinds of butterflies, and some of them went up by 50% compared to recent years. They said the increase in butterfly numbers was a result of warm weather.
However, scientists also said that the number of butterflies was in decline(下降) as a whole, and that we might not see the same result the next year.
Richard Fox, who works for Butterfly Conservation, said, “UK butterflies are in long-term decline. Studies have been done since the 1970s. They show that UK butterflies have declined in type and number.”
He added, “We must halt the long-term decline of these beautiful creatures(生物). The only way is by stopping the damage that has been done to the butterflies’ habitats(棲息地) across the UK.”
【小題1】 The volunteers were asked to ______.

A．study 830,000 butterflies
B．help scientists take notes
C．record the number of each kind of butterfly
D．find how many kinds of butterflies there are
【小題2】What can we learn from the study?
A．There were 20 kinds of UK butterflies.
B．50% more UK butterflies were found in 2013.
C．The number of 15 kinds of UK butterflies increased.
D．There was a long-term increase in UK butterfly number.
【小題3】What does the underlined part “the same result” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A．The weather is cold.B．The weather is warm.
C．UK butterfly numbers decline.D．UK butterfly numbers increase.
【小題4】 The underlined word “halt” in the last paragraph means “_________”.
A．stopB．studyC．makeD．plan
【小題5】 What would be the best headline of the passage?
A．Different kinds of butterflies in the UK.
B．Big Butterfly Count in the UK in 2013.
C．UK Scientists made butterfly numbers increase.
D．Warm weather made UK butterfly numbers increase.

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