Question

8．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(chǎn) 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），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．

81．What did the kids like to do at the local ponds in winterThey liked to go skating？
（No more than 6words）（2marks）

82．How did the boy win the citizens'supportHe went door to door and gathered their signatures？
（No more than 10words）	（2marks）
83．What did the boy tell the town officialsHe told them they should speak for the citizens and leave enough space for children．？
（No more than 16words）	（3marks）
84．What helped the boy to protect the ponds successfully nine years laterEnvironmental protection laws and the knowledge of wetlands ecology helped him．？
（No more than 12words）	（3marks）

Answer 1

分析 本文是一篇記敘文．講述了一位男孩在小的時候以及上大學(xué)的時候為保護濕地和孩子們的游樂空間，采用不同的方法及所做出的努力．

解答 81．They liked to skating． 細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第一段的"In summer they caught frogs and fish．When winter arrived they couldn't wait to go skating．"可知：在夏天，他們抓魚和青蛙，在冬天他們就在結(jié)冰的池塘上滑冰．82．He went door to door and gathered their signatures． 細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第二段的"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．"可知：他得知開發(fā)商要填平那個池塘的時候，他挨家挨戶地求得別人的簽名來阻止開發(fā)商這樣做．
83．He told them they should speak for the citizens and leave enough space for children．細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第三段的"He told the town officials that they should speak for the citizens．He also insisted that they should leave enough space for children．"可知：他告訴他們，他們應(yīng)該為市民說話和為兒童留出足夠的空間．
84．Environmental protection laws and the knowledge of wetlands ecology helped him． 細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章最后一段的"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．"可知：他使用的是環(huán)境保護法以及濕地生態(tài)系統(tǒng)的知識來保護了池塘．

點評 健康環(huán)保類文章常是介紹科學(xué)知識、生活常識和環(huán)境保護方面的短文．體裁有記敘文、說明文、議論文和各種應(yīng)用文．閱讀此類短文要以現(xiàn)象或事物為中心進行思考，理解現(xiàn)象產(chǎn)生的原因、條件和客觀規(guī)律等．同時要抓住事物的特征、用途和相互關(guān)系等．