Because of the politics and history of Africa, wild animals there, which are interested in finding food and water not in politics, are in trouble. In the past, there were no borders between African countries, and the animals could travel freely according to the season or the weather. However, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the continent was divided up into colonies and then into nations. Fences were put up along the borders, so the animals could no longer move about freely.
Some countries decided to protect their animals by creating national parks. Kruger National Park, created in South Africa in 1926, was one of the first. By the end of the twentieth century, it had become an important tourist attraction and a home for many kinds of animals. Among these, there were about 9,000 elephants, too many for the space in the park. It was not possible to let any elephants leave the park, however. They would be killed by hunters, or they might damage property or hurt people. South African park officials began to look for other solutions to the elephant problem.
As early as 1990, the governments of South Africa and Mozambique had begun talking about forming a new park together. In 1997, Zimbabwe agreed to add some of its land to the park. A new park would combine the Kruger National Park with parks in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. There would be no national border fences within the park, so that elephants and other animals from the crowded Kruger Park could move to areas of Mozambique and Zimbabwe. This new “transfrontier” park would cover 13,150 square miles (35,000 square kilometers). The idea of a transfrontier park interested several international agencies, which gave money and technical assistance to Mozambique to help build its part of the park.
In April 2001, the new park was opened, with new borders and a new name: The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. A border gate was opened between Kruger National Park and Mozambique, and seven elephants were allowed through. They were the first of 1,000 elephants that would be transferred to the world’s greatest animal park.
【小题1】The passage begins with________.| A．a common sense | B．a fact |
| C．a mysteries event | D．a theory |
| A．It was not big enough to hold all its elephants. |
| B．A lot of hunters slipped in to hunt animals. |
| C．As the first national park in Africa, it was not well designed. |
| D．Too much tourism did great damage to it. |
| A．It is divided into three parts by fences along borders. |
| B．It is built mainly for elephants rather than other animals. |
| C．It is located across the border of South Africa and Mozambique. |
| D．It is the result of a talk between Mozambique and some international agencies. |
| A．how international aid has functioned in Africa |
| B．how the Kruger National Park will save its elephants |
| C．how three African countries cooperated to make a new park |
| D．how many African animals have suffered because of natural disasters |
