I TURNED UP THE RADIO. I WANTED TO LISTEN TO THE NEWS. (SO THAT)...

13. I turned up the radio. I wanted to listen to the news. (so that)

Read the passage and choose the correct answer.

Once there were lots of pandas in the mountains of Western China. Today they are becoming

extinct. The reason is they can not find enough food. Pandas eat bamboo leaves. They do not like

another food . The bamboo grows very slowly. It can take ten years for a bamboo to grow from a

seed to a big plant. Some types of bamboo have seeds only once every 60 years. Pandas must wait

many years for their food to grow. While the bamboo is growing, pandas do not have enough

leaves to eat. Farmers are using more and more of the land on the mountain side to grow food for

man. The farmers cut down the bamboo. Bamboo leaves become less plentiful. Pandas can not

B. They put them in bamboo forest

C. They study about pandas’ habits .

D. They plant bamboo trees and set up parks for them

A. Read Passage 2 and choose the best word to fill in each gap. Circle the corresponding

letter (A, B, C, D) (1.5 points)

Passage 2

How clever are dolphins?

Dolphins do have fairy large brains. There are many stories, ancient and modern, about dolphins

saving sailors from (1)__________. Ever since the film Flipper, we have all seen how clever they

are at learning how to do (2)__________. However, the truth is that dolphins are no more

(3)__________than

rats, which can also be trained to do tricks. The stories about them (4)

__________ people are true, but they automatically rescue anything, which is about the same size

(5) __________ themselves. Sometimes they kill sharks and then immediately try to rescue them.