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UNIT 2 WILDLIFE PROTECTION Listening and Talking, Reading for Writing,Assessing Your Progress & Video Time
第Ⅰ卷(满分25分)
Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共4小题;每小题2.5分,满分10分)
When MeBai the elephant was just 3 years old, she was taken from her mother, Mae Yui, and sold to give rides to tourists visiting Thailand. That was in 2013 and she hasn't seen her mother since.
She began losing weight and had to stop working due to her failing health, so her owner eventually decided to move her to the Elephant Nature Park.
“When she first arrived, she was quite nervous and we took care to feed her well until she was healthy again,” Elephant Nature Park founder Sangduen “Lek” Chailert wrote in a blog post about the rescue. “We also began to search what had become of her mother.”
Chailert soon discovered Mae Yui was working at another tourist camp more than 60 miles away, so she contacted that camp's owner about setting up a reunion. He agreed, and a team of caretakers took MeBai on a fourday hike to see her mother for the first time in years.
“When Mae Yui and MeBai met, it seemed both of them were shocked and they held quiet, silent for half an hour,” Chailert wrote. “We all stood there silent with them and wanted to see what would happen. And then they began to talk, MeBai and her mother joining trunks, hugging each other and talking nonstop, three and half years of catching up — there were a lot of things for them to share on their experiences.”
The owners of Mae Yui were so touched that they agreed to release her from captivity, too, so both elephant are being rehabilitated together at the new Karen Elephant Experience, and eventually will be returned to the wild.
【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。小象MeBai三岁时与母象分离,被卖至泰国吸引游客观光。后来在动物保护者的努力下,小象与妈妈团聚,展现在人们面前的是感人的一幕。
1. The owner sent MeBai to the Elephant Nature Park because .
A. he wanted to make some money
B. he was in favour of animal protection
C. MeBai was in poor health and couldn't work for him
D. he wanted MeBai to be with the moth