【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 there are many more than there were sixteen years ago. On the other side of the world, the grey whales of Baja California nearly disappeared during the last century. Fortunately, the US Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972 saved them. The grey whales recovered quickly. Today there are perhaps 20,000 and these gentle giants are now worth far more alive than dead.Today, wildlife is good for the tourist trade. And tourism — provided it takes only pictures and leaves only footprints — is good for the national parks. If wildlife can always be treated in this way, animals can live and thrive in the world.C61. What39。s the effective TV mercial the writer told about in the passage?62. The word in the passage which means something given away at no charge is______.63. What is Mobotron?64. Where can Mobotron be stationed? Give three examples.65. The passage is mainly about ______.DCan a person make it rain? Many people believed that Charles Hatfield could. In the early 1910s, Mr Hatfield traveled to many places bringing rain to farms and cities that suffered from drought. For 30 years, people considered him the greatest rainmaker in North America.One of Mr Hatfield39。s most amazing rainmaking acplishments happened in southern California in 1916. Mr Hatfield offered to give the city of San Diego a hand with its water problem. He planned to create enough rain to fill the lake behind Morena Dam near the city. Since the time the dam was built, the lake had never been more than half full, but the lake could hold 15 billion gallons of water if it were full. Filling the lake would help the city of San Diego with its constant water problems. Mr Hatfield suggested that if he succeeded in filling the lake with rainwater, the city would pay him $10,000. If no rain fell, the city would pay nothing. The city agreed.On January 1, 1916, Mr Hatfield began his rainmaking procedure. It began to rain four days later. The rain continued for the next five days. On January 10, it began to rain more heavily, and the rain continued for the next 10 days!The city of San Diego was flooded. Fifty people died. More than 200 bridges were washed away, and many miles of train tracks were destroyed. However, Mr Hatfield did succeed in filling the lake. He thought that he had pleted his job, so he went to collect his money from the city. However, the city of San Diego backed out of the deal. They said that the rain was an act of God and not the work of the rainmaker.66. Who was Charles Hatfield?67. How much water did the lake have before Mr Hatfield made rain?68. What happened when it rained in San Diego in 1916?69. How long did it rain in San Diego?70. Did the city pay Mr Hatfield in the end? Why or why not?III. 完形填空(Cloze)(共15小題，計(jì)15分)閱讀下面短文，在空白處填上適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~，使短文語(yǔ)義完整。每空一詞。It appears that 90% of the world39。s languages are likely to disappear in the next half century, according to a research conducted recently. 71 such language is Tofa, which is spoken by only about 60 people who herd reindeer on empty lands in central Siberia. The language 72 also spoken by Manchester University39。s Gregory Anderson, who is fluent enough to be 73 to express what he wants to say. Academics from the university linguistics department are holding an endangered languages day tomorrow. 74 will play tapes and videos of native speakers and talk about 75 own research and field trips all round the globe to investigate languages ranging 76 Faroese (50,000 speakers) to Banawa, one of 300 languages spoken in the Amazon basin. There is no shortage 77 languages in the world: at the last count, 78 were about 6,000 in total —but 4% of them are spoken by 96% of the world39。s population. Ten 79 , like English, Arabic and Hindi, are 80 by more than 100 million people each, so there is little need to worry 81 their future. On the other 82 , the minority languages with a slim chance of survival need help. A language only survives if 83 can be transmitted from parents to children. Every language is the storehouse of the culture of the people 84 speak it. As 85 as the last speaker is lost, the people39。s cultural memory is gone forever.IV. 翻譯(Translation)(共10小題，計(jì)10分)A)閱讀下面短文，然后把劃線處的句子譯成漢語(yǔ)。From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I would be a writer. (86) Between the ages of about seventeen and