Ⅵ. 任务型阅读
Have you ever been to Dongting Lake? It's famous as "800-li Dongting Lake". Dongting Lake is in the north of Hunan Province. It is about 2,625 square kilometres in size. It is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in China. Every year, thousands of tourists from all over the world come to Yueyang in order to enjoy the beautiful sights around Dongting Lake.
With the development of our society, protecting Dongting Lake has become a hot topic话题. In fact, people in Yueyang are trying to improve the environment of the lake. On the one hand, they set up the East Dongting Lake Nature Reserve in 1982. It provides a good place for birds and rare珍贵的 animals. If you go there, you can see birds flying and milu deer麋鹿 eating grass in the East Dongting Lake Nature Reserve. On the other hand, factories mustn't put waste water into the lake. Fish are living in the clean water. At the same time, they plant colourful flowers and green trees along Dongting Lake. It is nice for people to go there when flowers come out and leaves turn green.
Dongting Lake is the mother lake in Hunan Province. All of us should try our best to protect it.
1. Where is Dongting Lake?

2. Why do many tourists come to Yueyang every year?

3. What can you see if you go to the East Dongting Lake Nature Reserve?

4. What do people in Yueyang do to improve the environment of Dongting Lake? At least two points

5. What does the writer want to tell us?

Ⅵ.1. It is in the north of Hunan Province. 根据第一
段中的“Dongting Lake is in the north of Hunan
Province."可知,洞庭湖位于湖南省北部。
2. Because they want to enjoy the beautiful sights
around Dongting Lake. 根据第一段中的“Every
year, thousands of tourists... in order to enjoy the
beautiful sights around Dongting Lake."可知,每年
许多游客来岳阳是为了欣赏洞庭湖美丽的景色。
3. I can see birds flying and milu deer eating grass.
根据第二段中的“If you go there, you can see birds
flying and milu deer eating grass in the East
Dongting Lake Nature Reserve."可知,如果你去东
洞庭湖自然保护区,你可以看到飞翔的鸟和吃草
的麋鹿。
4. They set up the East Dongting Lake Nature
Reserve./Factories mustn't put waste water into
the lake./They plant colourful flowers and green
trees along Dongting Lake. 根据第二段中的“On
the one hand, they set up the East Dongting Lake
Nature Reserve in 1982." "On the other hand,
factories mustn't put waste water into the lake."及
"At the same time, they plant colourful flowers and
green trees along Dongting Lake."可知,人们为保
护洞庭湖采取的措施包括:建立东洞庭湖自然保
护区、禁止往湖里排放废水、沿洞庭湖种植树木
和花。(任意写两条即可。)
5. Everyone should try our best to protect nature.
本文主要通过介绍洞庭湖来号召大家保护大
自然。