【題目】In many African cultures,the elephant is a 【1】 (象征) of strength, power and good luck. But will there be still good luck if there are no elephants in the world?

At the beginning of the 【2】 (第二十) century, there were about 10 【3】 (百萬)

African elephants, but now there are about 500,000. Last year about 20,000 elephants were killed.

So African elephants are in【4】 (危險(xiǎn)). In the next ten years, the elephant 【5】(數(shù)量)will reduce by more than a quarter.

Luckily, some countries’【6】 (政府) in Africa are taking steps to stop people killing

elephants.People kill elephants for their ivory(象牙). Female (雌性的) elephants are at a【7】 (較高的) risk because they have very large ivory.

The demand (需求) for elephant ivory in China is 【8】 (尤其) great. It has become even more valuable than gold. Although the international ivory trade has been banned (禁止) since 1989 in order to【9】 (保護(hù)) African elephants, many people are trying to kill elephants in some African countries.

At the end of the 1990s, the ivory ban was not so strict that it allowed some countries to sell ivory again. Some people say this is a great 【10】 (錯(cuò)誤).

【答案】

【1】symbol

【2】twentieth

【3】million

【4】danger

【5】population

【6】governments

【7】higher

【8】especially

【9】protect

【10】mistake

【解析】短文介紹了非洲的大象。在非洲文化中，大象是力量、權(quán)力和好運(yùn)的象征。但是現(xiàn)在非洲大象處于危險(xiǎn)之中，因?yàn)槿藗優(yōu)榱说玫较笱蓝烈獾夭稓⒋笙蟆Ｐ疫\(yùn)的是，非洲一些國(guó)家的政府正在采取措施阻止人們捕殺大象。在20世紀(jì)90年代末，象牙禁令沒有那么嚴(yán)格，允許一些國(guó)家再次出售象牙，有人說這是一個(gè)很大的錯(cuò)誤。因此保護(hù)大象任重而道遠(yuǎn)。

【1】句意：大象是力量、權(quán)力和好運(yùn)的象征。不定冠詞a后跟可數(shù)名詞的單數(shù)形式，根據(jù)漢語(yǔ)提示可知，答案為symbol。

【2】句意：在二十世紀(jì)初，大約有1000萬頭非洲大象。根據(jù)漢語(yǔ)提示可知，此處考查twenty的序數(shù)詞形式，故答案為twentieth。

【3】句意：在二十世紀(jì)初，大約有1000萬頭非洲大象。million前面有具體數(shù)字時(shí)要用單數(shù)形式，本句空格的前面有基數(shù)詞ten，故答案為million。

【4】句意：因此非洲大象處于危險(xiǎn)之中。be in danger處于危險(xiǎn)之中，故答案為danger。

【5】句意：在未來的十年里，大象的數(shù)量將減少超過四分之一。根據(jù)漢語(yǔ)提示可知，答案為population，注意population為集合名詞，無復(fù)數(shù)形式。

【6】句意：幸運(yùn)的是，非洲一些國(guó)家的政府正在采取措施阻止人們捕殺大象。some后跟可數(shù)名詞時(shí)要用復(fù)數(shù)形式，指多個(gè)國(guó)家政府，故答案為governments。

【7】句意：雌性大象之所以有更高的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)是因?yàn)樗鼈冇蟹浅４蟮南笱馈?/span>tall與high都有“高”的意思，但表示抽象意義的高，只能用high，此處是雌性大象與雄性大象相比較，要用比較級(jí)的形式，故答案為higher。

【8】句意：在中國(guó)對(duì)象牙的需求量特別大。副詞修飾形容詞，根據(jù)漢語(yǔ)提示可知，答案為especially。

【9】句意：盡管為了保護(hù)非洲大象，國(guó)際象牙貿(mào)易組織自1989起就被禁止使用象牙制品。動(dòng)詞不定式to后跟動(dòng)詞原形，根據(jù)漢語(yǔ)提示可知，答案為protect。

【10】句意：有人說這是一個(gè)很大的錯(cuò)誤。不定冠詞a后跟可數(shù)名詞的單數(shù)形式，根據(jù)漢語(yǔ)提示可知，答案為mistake。

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