Going to the zoo is very popular. Every year over 134 million visitors go to zoos to enjoy watching and learning about the animals. Zoos are the only places that most people will ever meet an elephant, a tiger or other animals that are in danger. ___【小题1】___. They help us to enjoy different kinds of animals as well as make us think more about nature(自然).

Zoos are also important to animals. In order to make more space(空间), food, and other things for ourselves, we leave less and less room for animals. ___【小题2】__. If there were no zoos, more animals in the world would have gone extinct(濒临灭绝). ____【小题3】__. Some people think that animals should not be kept by people for any reason(原因). If they become extinct, then that’s the way it should be. ___【小题4】_. We should do everything we can to protect them(保护它们).
【小题5】What’s the best title of this passage?

A．The importance of the zoos.

B．Why do we keep animals?

C．Zoos or not?

D．How to protect animals.

用方框中所给的词语的适当形势填空，使短文正确、通顺、连贯（每词限用一次）

not support , zoo , care for , keep , good , hardly , surprise , for , much , be  suitable for

Yesterday I visited the Hong Shan Forest Zoo. I was  1  to find few people there.   2  are very important places. They provide homes  3  many endangered animals .They also help to educate the public about
 4 them . If we   5 our zoos, they won’t have enough money to take care of so  6  fine animals. Therefore, People should go and visit the zoos more often to learn about animals and help to protect them  7 .
However, some people don’t think so. They think zoos are terrible places for animals to live.“I’ve visited a lot of zoos in my life, and I have never seen one I like or one that  8 animals to live in .”Jenny said The animals 9 in small cages and can   10 move at all .What’s more, they are only given food once a week That’s terrible.

---It is said that a new zoo will be built in our town.---I’m ________it. Zoos are terrible for animals. 

A. through     B. besides   C. against        D. except

 

根据所给的首字母提示，完成短文。

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H  7.  , some people don’t think so．They think zoos are t  8.   places for animals to live．“I’ve visited a lot of zoos in my life, and I have never seen o  9.    I liked or one that was suitable for animals to live in．” Jenny said．‘The animals are k   10.    in small cages and can hardly move at all．What’s more, they are only given food once a week．That’s terrible．”

 

---It is said that a new zoo will be built in our town.
---I’m ___________it. Zoos are terrible for animals.

A．through

B．besides

C．against

D．except