【中考冲刺】历年真题每日突击—中考英语阅读理解②(2020)

学科 | 中考英语

题型 | 阅读理解

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2020年广东卷·阅读理解

阅读短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

Once there were many thousands of Gourma Desert （沙漠）elephants in Mali, a country in West Africa. Now, there are fewer than four hundred.

Why did the number of the elephants drop so quickly? On the one hand, the elephants' main lake, their only water source （来源），dried up. On the other hand, the land which the elephants lived on was overused by humans.

To protect the elephants' living environment, the Mali Elephant Project （MEP） was started in 2007. MEP met with local people and helped them make rules of using land and water. As a result, the situation became better and there was more food, forest and grassland.

However, from 2012 to 2016, poaching （偷猎）and illegal trade in the elephants increased rapidly. Eighty-three elephants were lost in 2015 alone, and another fifty-one elephants were killed in 2016. "If this situation goes on, all the Gourma elephants will be killed by 2020," said a member of MEP.

Luckily, the voice of MEP was heard. More organizations （组织）have joined together to educate the local people that trading elephants is against the law. Elephant poaching has dropped to a very low level. The local people have learned to live peacefully with the elephants, one of the wildlife treasures in the world.

56. MEP was started to _____ .

A. raise more elephants in Mali 

B. stop the main lake from drying up

C. discover water source for elephants 

D. protect the elephants' living environment

57. What does the word "illegal” in Paragraph 4 mean in Chinese?

A.公平的 B.亏损的 C.非法的 D.合理的

58. Eighty-three elephants were lost  ____ .

A. in 2012 B. in 2015 C. in 2016 D. in 2020

59. We can learn from the last paragraph that  ___.

A. the number of organizations has dropped

B. there is much less elephant poaching now

C. the local people keep the elephants at home

D.the whole world live peacefully with elephants 

60. This passage is mainly about ____ .

A. the rules of using land and water

B. the education of the local people

C. the work of Mali Elephant Project

D. the situation of Gourma Desert elephants

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