We human beings haven’t been good friends to animals. For thousands of years, we have been polluting the environment, making it hard for animals to live on the planet. We have been killing animals for their fur, feathers or meat, or simply because they are dangerous. As a result, many kinds of animals have disappeared forever. Hundreds more are on the endangered list today.
Should we care about animals? Of course we should. If animals of a certain kind all disappear, they will never come back again. Animals are more than just resources of things we need. Every kind of animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying any kind of animal can lead to many problems. For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks, the corn and grain that the farmers stored were destroyed by rats and mice. Why?  Because hawks eat rats and mice. With less and less hawks to keep down their numbers, rats and mice multiplied quickly. And if people kill too many birds, more and more insects will eat the crops.
Luckily, we’ve realized that we shouldn’t kill animals any more. And people are working hard to save those animals that would disappear soon. The government also passed laws to protect the endangered animals. In fact, quite a few countries have passed such laws. These laws forbid the killing of any kind of animal on the endangered list. We should try our best to protect and save the endangered animals.
【小題1】The text calls on us to__________.

A．keep animals at homeB．protect the environment
C．protect the endangered animalsD．know more about the balance of nature.
【小題2】Why do people kill animals?
A．Animals cause many serious problems.
B．They kill animals for something they need.
C．Animals destroy their natural resources.
D．They kill animals to protect the environment
【小題3】The example that farmers killed hawks shows that__________.
A．there were too many rats and mice
B．hawks are the most important in the nature
C．a(chǎn)nimals are good food resources
D．every kind of animal is important in nature


【小題1】C
【小題2】B
【小題3】D

解析試題分析：本文告訴我們地球上的動(dòng)物已經(jīng)越來(lái)越少，號(hào)召大家一起來(lái)拯救動(dòng)物。
【小題1】寫(xiě)作意圖題：從最后一段的句子：We should try our best to protect and save the endangered animals.可知作者是想號(hào)召我們保護(hù)動(dòng)物。選C
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers(羽毛), for food, for sport, and simply because they were in the way.可知答案為B。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題：從第一段的句子： Every kind of animal has its place in the balance of nature. 可知每個(gè)動(dòng)物在自然中都是很重要的。選D
考點(diǎn)：考查環(huán)保類(lèi)短文
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文要求考生讀懂文章中的每個(gè)句子的意思還要推理它們之間的關(guān)系，結(jié)合自己的生活常識(shí)和經(jīng)驗(yàn)，再通過(guò)邏輯推理和判斷，理解文章的言外之意，從而揭示文章的深層涵義。任何一篇文章都有其特定的寫(xiě)作目的，讀者應(yīng)當(dāng)知道如何去做或按照某種方式傳遞思考問(wèn)題。推理判斷題的答案不可能在文章中直接找到，因此推理時(shí)我們務(wù)必要忠于原文，在文章中尋找并確定可推論的依據(jù)，即：已知部分－推論的前提，從中推測(cè)出未知部分－推理的結(jié)論，切忌妄加評(píng)論，把自己的觀點(diǎn)當(dāng)成作者的觀點(diǎn)。

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