Liverpool city council (市政廳) want to clear the city of fat pigeons (鴿子). They say that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat. The pigeons get bigger because they normally eat seeds (種子) and insects (昆蟲(chóng)) 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 (擁擠)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.
小題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
小題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.
小題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.

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:D

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(gè)城市成為歐洲文化之都。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)The council want people to know that everyone who feeds the pigeons makes the streets crowded (擁擠)with these birds.鴿子使城市變得擁擠，故選C。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)they look like a peregrine falcon, which is a bird that kills pigeons故選B。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)They say that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat.鴿子吃了人們喂它們的食物而變得很肥，故選D。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：細(xì)節(jié)理解題可以分為集中型細(xì)節(jié)理解題和分散型細(xì)節(jié)理解題。集中型：就文章的單個(gè)細(xì)節(jié)提問(wèn)，答案在原文中出現(xiàn)的位置一般也位于單句話(huà)或幾句話(huà)中。因?yàn)榫唧w細(xì)節(jié)不同，出題形式千變?nèi)f化，因題而異。分散型：題目涉及到文章某一段或幾段，甚至貫穿全文的各個(gè)位置，需要考生尋找文章中的多個(gè)細(xì)節(jié)。請(qǐng)注意，分散型細(xì)節(jié)理解題并不意味著題目的正確答案出現(xiàn)在文章的不同位置，正確答案往往也是關(guān)于文章的某一個(gè)句子或細(xì)節(jié)。只是說(shuō)文章的干擾選項(xiàng)是關(guān)于不同的細(xì)節(jié)，需要我們?cè)诙ㄎ坏臅r(shí)候閱讀某一個(gè)區(qū)域。
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