“Last night, there were 20 elephants on my farm,” John from Kenya said. “They ate all my crop (庄稼). What can I do?”
Elephants are cute animals, but they brought serious problems for the farmers near Mount Kenya National Park. The elephants often left the park, went into the farms near the park, and ate their crops. So farmers slept in their fields (田地). If elephants came, they drove them away. However, the next day, the farmers were too tired to do their work.
Then, someone thought of a better way. They built electric fences (电栅栏) to keep the elephants out. The farmers had more time for their work. However, these fences were expensive to build. So they had to give up building electronic fences.
“The elephant problem started when more people came to Mount Kenya and started new farms,” a scientist said. “The elephants had lived here for a very long time before people came. At some times of the year, elephants go from one place to another. They remember their old routes (路线), and they walk through anything that’s there—like a farm or even a house.”
Now the government has a plan. It wants the people around the park to start tourism. People around the world love elephants. When more and more elephant-lovers come to visit Mount Kenya National Park, those farmers can make money by serving them. The government hopes that this way, people and elephants will live together happily.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。【小题1】Why did farmers sleep in their fields? ______
| A．To have fun. | B．To get good luck. |
| C．To save their crops. | D．To watch elephants. |
| A．they were not useful | B．they cost too much money |
| C．they were not good for elephants | D．they were dangerous for children |
| A．旅游业 | B．种植业 | C．制造业 | D．畜牧业 |
| A．Paragraph 2. | B．Paragraph 3. | C．Paragraph 4. | D．Paragraph 5. |
| A．A big park in Kenya | B．The elephant problem in Kenya |
| C．Elephants are in danger | D．The future of Kenyan farmers |
