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【题目】Where do the turtles go?

Every summer, thousands of endangered green sea turtles climb onto beaches around the world. Each mother sea turtle produces 100 or more eggs in a hole, and covers the hole with sand before she swims away.

Two months later, the eggs hatch(孵化), and the baby turtles climb out of the sand and swim into the ocean. They don’t reappear until they have grown as large as dinner plates. Until now, no one knows where the baby turtles go or what they do.

“if we don’t know where these little turtles are, we can’t protect them,” says Kim Reich, who helps solve part of the mystery.

Her teacher, Karen Bjorndal, has studied green sea turtles for more than 30 years. Every year, Bjorndal goes to the Bahamas Islands. Many young sea turtles come here to live and eat at the end of their childhood.

These turtles are the only sea turtles that live as plant eaters. In fact, their name may be a result of what they eat. The turtles don’t look green but they do have green fat. Scientists learned that the turtles eat green sea plants, which may turn their fat green.

Between 2002 and 2004, Bjorndal caught 44 green sea turtles in the Bahamas. After testing them, she found something to support the 20-year-old idea: baby green sea turtles eat meat before they turn to a diet of plants. In fact, they eat animals that live in the open ocean.

Scientists still need to find where exactly green sea turtles grow. We now know that baby green sea turtles are out in the open ocean, but the open ocean is a big place.

“It is really a problem,” says Bjorndal. The discovery may help us do a better job of protecting this sea animal.

【1】What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?

A. baby turtles go to the ocean when they are two months old.

B. Mother turtles leave the eggs alone after they produce them.

C. No one knows when turtles appear on the beach.

D. Mother turtles are as large as dinner plates.

【2】Kim Reich does research on where baby turtles go because she wants to _________.

A. help her teacher B. prove an idea

C. protect turtles D. become a scientist

【3】What does Karen Bjorndal’s research prove about green sea turtles?

A. the young live in the Bahamas Islands.

B. The young eat meat before turning to a diet of plants

C. They live in the open ocean for a lifelong time

D. They are the only sea turtles that live as plant eaters.

【4】What does the underlined word “It” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Finding out where young turtles grow.

B. Protecting this endangered sea animal.

C. Changing young turtles’ eating habits.

D. Living in the open ocean.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇说明文，每年夏天成千上万的濒临灭绝的绿海龟爬上沙滩，科学家在寻找它们到底去了哪里，以便可以保护它们。

【1】B 理解理解题 根据第一段最后一句话“Each mother sea turtle produces 100 or more eggs in a hole, and covers the hole with sand before she swims away.”可以知道，龟妈妈产蛋之后会离开蛋。所以答案选B。

【2】C 细节理解题 根据最后一段最后一句“The discovery may help us do a better job of protecting this sea animal.” 可以知道，这种发现可以更好地保护这种动物。

【3】B 细节理解题 根据第六段第二句话“After testing them, she found something to support the 20-year-old idea: baby green sea turtles eat meat before they turn to a diet of plants. 测试之后，她发现一些支持20年前的一个观点：幼儿绿色龟在吃植物之前是吃肉的。”所以答案是选B。

【4】A 词义猜测题 根据It前的一段意思“Scientists still need to find where exactly green sea turtles grow. We now know that baby green sea turtles are out in the open ocean, but the open ocean is a big place. 科学家们仍然需要找到绿海龟成长的地方。我们现在知道，婴儿绿海龟是大海里，但大海是一个很大的地方。” 这两句话“We now know that baby green sea turtles are out in the open ocean, but the open ocean is a big place.”是对前面的补充，也就是 It指代的是find where exactly green sea turtles grow，所以答案选A。