Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the
information given in the passage.
Kids and Ponds
Years ago there was a group of kids who would hang around at some local ponds in the woods near their houses in Warwick, Rhode Island. In summer they caught frogs and fish. When winter arrived they couldn’t wait to go skating. Time passed, and the ponds became the only open space for the kids to enjoy themselves in that neighborhood.
One day. a thirteen-year-old boy from this group of kids read in the local newspaper that a developer wanted to fill in the ponds and build over a hundred small houses called condominiums. So the boy went door to door and gathered more than two hundred signatures (簽名）to stop the development A group of citizens met and decided to support him.
At the meeting of the town planning board (委員會(huì))，the boy was quite nervous at first and spoke very softly. But when he saw the faces of his friends and neighbors in the crowd and thought about what was happening to their favorite ponds，his voice grew louder. He told the town officials that they should speak for the citizens. He also insisted that they should leave enough space for children. A few days later，the developer stopped his plan.
Nine years later, when that teen was a senior in college, he was informed that the developer was back with his proposal to build condominiums. Now twenty-two years old, he was studying wetlands ecology. He again appeared before the town planning board. This time as an expert witness, he used environmental protection laws to explain restrictions on development in and around wetlands and the knowledge of wetlands ecology to help improve the development. Finally some condominiums were built, but less than half the number the developer wanted. The ponds where those kids used to hang around were protected by a strip of natural land，and are still there today.
【小題1】What did the kids like to do at the local ponds in winter?
(No more than 6 words)                                               (2 marks)
_______________________________________________________________________________
【小題2】How did the boy win the citizens’ support?
(No more than 10 words)                                              (2 marks)
_______________________________________________________________________________
【小題3】What did the boy tell the town officials?
(No more than 16 words)                                               (3 marks)
_______________________________________________________________________________
【小題4】What helped the boy to protect the ponds successfully nine years later?
(No more than 12 words)                                                (3 marks)
_______________________________________________________________________________


【小題1】They liked to go skating.
【小題2】He went door to door and gathered their signatures.
【小題3】He told them they should speak for the citizens and leave enough space for children.
【小題4】Environment protection laws and knowledge of wetlands ecology helped him.

解析試題分析：文章大意：講述了一位男孩在小的時(shí)候以及上大學(xué)的時(shí)候?yàn)楸Ｗo(hù)濕地和孩子們的游樂空間，采用不同的方法所做出的努力。
【小題1】考查細(xì)節(jié)歸納。根據(jù)文章第一段When winter arrived they couldn’t wait to go skating.可以歸納出答案，注意詞數(shù)的限制。
【小題2】考查細(xì)節(jié)歸納。根據(jù)文章第二段So the boy went door to door and gathered more than two hundred signatures (簽名）to stop the development可以歸納出答案。
【小題3】考查細(xì)節(jié)歸納。根據(jù)文章三段中的He told the town officials that they should speak for the citizens. He also insisted that they should leave enough space for children.故可以歸納出答案，注意詞數(shù)的限制。
【小題4】考查細(xì)節(jié)歸納。根據(jù)文章第四段This time as an expert witness, he used environmental protection laws to explain restrictions on development in and around wetlands and the knowledge of wetlands ecology to help improve the development.可以歸納出答案，注意詞數(shù)的限制。
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