四、阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
主题群:环境保护
子主题:动物保护
语篇类型:应用文
难度:★★
Dear friends, we are 1. (wolf)—your friends living in the wild. Many people are afraid of us 2. they think we may harm them. They are wrong. They don't know everything about our qualities. They mistake us for fierce（凶残的） animals and think us 3. (danger) to humans. But in fact, we are friendly and never kill for fun.
However, people never stop 4. (bring) problems to us. We used to live 5. happy life in the forest. But sadly, we had to move. Some people came last month and destroyed（破坏） the forest. They wanted to build a road.
We lost the 6. (live) area. We had to walk a long way 7. (find) a new home. But when we had a new home, people followed us and 8. (cut) down more trees. This time, they wanted to get much money by 9. (sell) the trees.
People just cut down trees 10. stopping. Where can we move now? We are homeless. Please help us!

1. wolves 2. because 3. dangerous 4. bringing 5. a 6. living 7. to find 8. cut 9. selling 10. without

【分析】
本题为动物保护主题的英语语篇填空，需结合语境、语法规则及固定搭配逐一解题：1. 由主语we确定wolf用复数；2. 前后句为因果关系，需表原因的连词；3. 此处需形容词作宾补，转换danger的词性；4. 考查stop doing的固定搭配；5. 涉及live a...life的固定短语；6. 需形容词修饰名词area；7. 不定式作目的状语；8. 结合时态确定动词形式；9. by后接动名词；10. 结合语境选合适介词。
【解析】
1. 主语为we，wolf是可数名词，需用复数形式wolves；2. 前句“人们害怕狼”与后句“他们认为狼会伤人”为因果关系，后句表原因，填because；3. 固定结构think sb/sth + adj.，danger的形容词形式为dangerous；4. 固定搭配stop doing sth.（停止做某事），故填bringing；5. 固定短语live a happy life，happy以辅音音素开头，填不定冠词a；6. 此处需形容词修饰名词area，living area意为“生活区”，填living；7. 不定式作目的状语，表“走长路的目的是找新家”，填to find；8. 由前文had可知时态为一般过去时，cut的过去式仍为cut；9. 介词by后接动名词，故填selling；10. 结合语境“人们不停砍树”，without表示“没有”，填without。
【答案】
1. wolves 2. because 3. dangerous 4. bringing 5. a 6. living 7. to find 8. cut 9. selling 10. without
【知识点】
名词与冠词、连词与介词、非谓语动词
【点评】
本题围绕动物保护主题，考查初中英语基础语法（名词复数、连词、非谓语等）及固定搭配，难度适中，需结合语境分析语法规则完成填空。
【难度系数】
0.7

五、阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
主题群:自然生态 子主题:动物科普 语篇类型:说明文 难度:★★
Not all penguins(企鹅) live in cold places. 1. Like other penguins, African penguins spend most of the day feeding in the ocean, and that helps keep them cool. Their living place can get quite warm, but bare(裸露的) skin on their legs and around their eyes helps them stay cool.
2.
Most other penguins lay(产) their eggs in the open. However, African penguins do it in a different way. They dig holes to lay their eggs so that they are protected from the sun's heat.
3. After that, they start going out. They return to the hole to stay cool and stay away from dangerous animals. On land, some animals such as dogs and snakes eat penguins.
4.
The African penguin is in danger now. There are only about 52,000 left in the wild.
5. Other problems include humans' taking penguin eggs for sale, competition with humans for fish, and oil pollution in the ocean.
A. In the water, African penguins also have to keep away from other big sea life.
B. So we should try our best to protect them.
C. African penguins live in the south of Africa.
D. One problem is that they are losing their homes.
E. African penguins face a terrible situation now.
F. They also stay in some cool places when they can.
G. The baby penguins stay in the holes for about three weeks.

1～5. CFGAD

【分析】
做七选五题型时，首先通读全文，明确文章围绕非洲企鹅的分布、习性、生存现状展开的主旨；接着逐个分析每个空白处的前后文内容，寻找逻辑线索（如引出话题、时间顺序、并列关系、对应关系等）；再匹配选项，排除多余项，最终确定答案。
【解析】
1. 第1空：前句提到“并非所有企鹅都生活在寒冷地区”，后文聚焦非洲企鹅的习性，需引出非洲企鹅的分布，选项C“非洲企鹅生活在非洲南部”衔接自然，符合语境。
2. 第2空：前文提到非洲企鹅靠裸露皮肤保持凉爽，选项F“它们也会尽可能待在凉爽的地方”承接上文的降温习性，逻辑连贯。
3. 第3空：后文提到“之后它们开始外出，返回洞里保持凉爽和躲避危险”，选项G“小企鹅会在洞里待约三周”与后文的“after that”形成时间逻辑对应，说明小企鹅在洞里的时长，衔接合理。
4. 第4空：前文提到陆地动物会捕食企鹅，选项A“在水中，非洲企鹅也必须远离其他大型海洋生物”补充说明非洲企鹅面临的另一类生存威胁，与前文形成并列关系，符合语境。
5. 第5空：后文提到“其他问题包括人类取企鹅蛋、与人类抢鱼、海洋石油污染等”，选项D“一个问题是它们正在失去栖息地”引出第一个生存问题，与后文的“other problems”对应，逻辑顺畅。
【答案】
CFGAD
【知识点】
七选五阅读、说明文阅读
【点评】
本题为自然生态主题的说明文七选五，考查学生对语篇逻辑关系的理解能力，解题需结合上下文的衔接线索，找准对应关系，难度适中。
【难度系数】
0.5