Question

Liverpool city council (市政厅) want to clear the city of fat pigeons (鸽子). They say that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat. The pigeons get bigger because they normally eat seeds (种子) and insects (昆虫) for their main food, not high-fat junk food they are eating in the city centre.

The council want people to know that everyone who feeds the pigeons makes the streets crowded (拥挤)with these birds. They hope to encourage the birds to move away from the city centre and into parks and open spaces.

Ten robotic birds have been brought into the city centre to scare the pigeons away and visitors are asked not to give the pigeons any food. The mechanical birds—known as ‘robops’—will sit on the roofs of buildings. They can be moved around to different places. They look like a peregrine falcon, which is a bird that kills pigeons. They even make noises and flap their wings to scare the pigeons. They hope that the pigeons will go away before the city becomes the European Capital of Culture in two years.

1.Liverpool city council want to clear the city of fat pigeons because ______.

A．the pigeons are eating junk food

B．the pigeons might get killed

C．the pigeons make the city center crowded

D．the pigeons sit on the roofs of buildings

2.What do we know about a peregrine falcon?

A．It scares the robotic birds.                 B．It is an enemy of the pigeons.

C．It looks like a pigeon.                     D．It likes the food people give it.

3.Which of the following is probably true according to passage?

A．The robots will fly around the city center like real birds.

B．Pigeons get fat because they eat seeds and insects.

C．Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture.

D．The pigeons like the food that people give them.

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.D

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了利物浦市政厅要市民清楚，他们喂养的鸽子目前严重影响了市民的居住环境，建议把他们放到公园或者空旷的地方，并且目前政府已经采取了一些措施。他们希望在两年后这个城市成为欧洲文化之都。

1.细节理解题。根据The council want people to know that everyone who feeds the pigeons makes the streets crowded (拥挤)with these birds.鸽子使城市变得拥挤，故选C。

2.细节理解题。根据they look like a peregrine falcon, which is a bird that kills pigeons故选B。

3.细节理解题。根据They say that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat.鸽子吃了人们喂它们的食物而变得很肥，故选D。

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