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【題目】Liverpool city council want to clear the city of fat pigeons. They say that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat. The pigeons get bigger because their normal diet would consist of seeds and insects, not high-fat junk food they are eating in the city centre.

The council want people to know that everyone who feeds the pigeons is responsible for the streets being so crowded 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 locations. 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】Pigeons in Liverpool get fat because they eat ________ .

A．birds B．seeds

C．insects D．high-fat junk food

【2】What do Liverpool city council try to do?

A．They want the pigeons to move out of the city centre.

B．They want people to feed the pigeons with healthy food.

C．They want people to keep the pigeons at home.

D．They want to keep robotic birds instead of pigeons.

【3】The robotic birds are used to _________.

A．make the city colorful

B．drive away the pigeons

C．help feed the pigeons

D．show people directions

【4】This passage is most probably a(n) __________.

A．notice B．news report

C．short story D．advertisement

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】B

【4】B

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了利物浦市政廳要市民清楚，他們喂養(yǎng)的鴿子目前嚴(yán)重影響了市民的居住環(huán)境，建議把他們放到公園或者空曠的地方，并且目前政府已經(jīng)采取了一些措施。他們希望在兩年后這個城市成為歐洲文化之都。

【1】D推理判斷題。由第一段可知The pigeons get bigger because their normal diet would consist of seeds and insects, not high-fat junk food they are eating in the city centre.在市中心，人們給鴿子喂的是高脂肪的垃圾食品，使得鴿子變大�？梢酝茢嗳藗兎逝值脑�因也是喜食高熱量的垃圾食品，故選D。

【2】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段They hope to encourage the birds to move away from the city centre and into parks and open spaces他們希望鼓勵這些鳥飛離城市中心到公園和開發(fā)空間里去。故選A。

【3】B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段Ten robotic birds have been brought into the city centre to scare the pigeons away 十只機(jī)器鳥被帶到市中心去嚇跑鴿子。故選B。

【4】B題材判斷題。通讀全文可知，本文是一篇關(guān)于喂養(yǎng)鴿子對城市影響的文章，應(yīng)為新聞報道，故選B。