I’d like to introduce a special bird from Beijing—the Beijing swift. It is an amazing bird that spends almost all its life in the air. It eats, drinks and even sleeps while flying.
Many people wonder where this migratory bird travels every year. It doesn’t fly to India, Malaysia, Indonesia or Australia. Instead, it flies all the way to Southern Africa and then comes back to Beijing.
What is more surprising is that we are 99% sure it can finish the long round trip to Africa without landing at all. It stays in the sky for about nine months a year.
This amazing story has caught the attention of scientific and mainstream(主流的) media at home and abroad. I often share the story with students when giving talks in Beijing schools. After listening, students always ask what they can do to help swifts.
A little girl advised making nest boxes for swifts. She also suggested writing to building companies to design new buildings more friendly to them.
Later, four students worked together and wrote a letter to the CEO of one of China’s largest building companies. To their surprise, the CEO replied and invited them to a meeting. The students told him about the special lifestyle of the Beijing swift and asked for his help.
The CEO agreed right away. He said his company had built nice buildings for people for 20 years. From then on, they would design buildings not just for humans, but also for nature.
He made three clear promises. They would put 200 special nest boxes on old buildings, leave proper holes in new ones for swifts to nest, and call on the building industry to care more about nature and birds.
()27. What is special about the Beijing swift?
A. It can fly to foreign countries.
B. It spends most of a year flying.
C. It eats and drinks something special.
D. It can travel a round trip every year.
()28. What did the CEO promise to do?
A. To build more nice buildings for people.
B. To put 200 nest boxes on old buildings.
C. To ask all people to move close to nature.
D. To help students build more schools in Beijing.
()29. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Chinese government paid attention to the Beijing swift.
B. The students learnt about the swifts in the magazine.
C. The building company designed nest boxes with the students.
D. The Beijing swift hardly landed while flying to Africa and back.
()30. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. What kind of lifestyle the Beijing swift have.
B. How people make better places for the Beijing swift.
C. Why the Beijing swift attracted the mainstream media.
D. What students learnt about the Beijing swift at school.

27. B 28. B 29. D 30. B

【分析】解答此类英语阅读理解题，需先通读全文把握主旨，再针对各题的题干关键词，定位原文对应内容，逐一比对选项与原文信息，排除不符合的干扰项，从而选出正确答案。
【解析】
27. 题干询问北京雨燕的特别之处。原文第一段指出北京雨燕“spends almost all its life in the air”，第三段提到它“stays in the sky for about nine months a year”，对应选项B“它一年中大部分时间都在飞行”。A选项“飞到国外”并非其独有特点，其他候鸟也具备；C选项“吃特殊的东西”原文未提及；D选项“每年往返旅行”也不是它的特别之处，故答案为B。
28. 题干询问CEO承诺的内容。原文最后一段明确说明CEO的承诺：“put 200 special nest boxes on old buildings”，对应选项B。A选项是公司此前已做的事，并非承诺；C选项“让所有人搬到自然附近”原文未提及；D选项“帮学生在北京建更多学校”无依据，故答案为B。
29. 题干要求推断内容。原文第三段提到“we are 99% sure it can finish the long round trip to Africa without landing at all”，可推断出北京雨燕往返非洲时几乎不降落，对应选项D。A选项“中国政府关注”原文未涉及；B选项“学生从杂志了解雨燕”与原文“在学校讲座中听的”不符；C选项“公司和学生一起设计巢箱”原文是学生建议、公司实施，并非共同设计，故答案为D。
30. 题干询问文章主旨。文章先介绍北京雨燕的特性，再讲述学生提议帮助雨燕，CEO承诺采取措施为雨燕创造友好环境，整体围绕“如何为北京雨燕打造更好的生存环境”展开，对应选项B。A仅为细节，C、D均为片面内容，故答案为B。
【答案】27.B 28.B 29.D 30.B
【知识点】阅读理解细节理解、阅读理解主旨大意、阅读理解推理判断
【点评】本题考查英语阅读理解的核心能力，涵盖细节定位、推理判断与主旨归纳，需学生精准抓取原文信息，排除干扰项，难度适中，适合中等水平学生作答。
【难度系数】0.7