四、阅读理解（本大题有15小题，每小题2分，共30分）阅读A、B两篇短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。
A
It is necessary for students to learn some team skills like developing relationships, communicating well with others and solving problems.Here are two fun team activities.
Activity 1：Water Relay（接力赛）
Tools
●Two large buckets（水桶）to hold water
●One small bucket for each team member
Instructions
Fill one large bucket with water.
Make holes in the bottom of the small buckets.
Have the team members line up between the two large buckets.
Pass the water from one large bucket to the other, using small buckets.Try to keep as mucth water as possible.
Why It's Fun
It's fun to work out a way to lose as little water as possible.
It's water.Isn't it fun to get you wet on a hot summer day？
Activity 2：Truth and Lie
This activity will allow team members to learn about each other.
Instructions
●Have each team member think of three pieces of information about themselves, and one of them is a lie.
●Each team member tells the group all the three pieces of information.Let the other team members guess which is the lie.
Why It's Fun
●Students love talking about themselves and this gives them the chance to do so.
●Members can learn about each other.
●Members will be surprised at what others think of them.
51.How many team skills does the writer mention（提及）in Paragraph 1？
A. One B. Two. C. Three D. Four.
52.What tools are needed for each team in Water Relay？
A. One large bucket for each member.
B. Two large buckets for each member.
C. One small bucket for each member and two large buckets.
D. Two small buckets for each member and one large bucket.
53.In order to win Water Relay the team members should_______.
A. get themselves wet B. lose as little water as possible
C. pass the water as slowly as possible D. pass the large bucket to the other team
54.It is fun to play Truth and Lie because team members can _____.
A. talk about themselves B. share love with each other
C. tell lies to surprise others D. leam all the information about others
55.This passage is most probably from_______
A. a science book B. a travel guide C. a news website D.a school magazine
B
Once there were many thousands of Gourma Desert（沙漠）elephans in Mali, a country in West Africa.Now, there are fewer than four hundred.
Why did the number of the elephants drop so quickly？On the one hand, the elephants'main lake, their only water source（来源）, dried up.On the other hand, the land which the elephants lived on was overused by humans.
To protect the elephants' living environment, the Mali Elephant Project（MEP）was started in 2007. MEP met with local people and helped them make rules of using land and water.As a result, the situation became better and there was more food, forest and grassland.
However.from 2012 to 2016, poaching（偷猎）and illegal trade in the elephants increased rapidly.Eighly-three elephants were lost in 2015 alone, and another fifty-one elephants were killed in 2016.“If this situation goes on, all the Gourma elephants will be killed by 2020.”said a member of MEP.
Luckily, the voice of MEP was heard.More organizations（组织）have joined together to educate the local people that trading elephants is against the law.Elephant poaching has dropped to a very low level.The local people have learned to live peacefully with the elephants, one of the wildlife treasures in the world.
56.MEP was started to ______.
A. raise more elephants in Mali
B. stop the main lake from drying up
C. discover water source for elephants
D. protect the elephants' living environment
57.What does the word “illegal” in Paragraph 4mean in Chinese？
A. 公平的 B. 亏损的 C. 非法的 D. 合理的
58.Eighty-three elephants were lost _______.
A. in 2012 B. in 2015 C. in 2016 D. in 2020
59.We can learn from the last paragraph that_______.
A. the number of organizations has dropped
B. there is much less elephant poaching now
C. the local people keep the elephants at home
D. the whole world live peacefully with elephants.
60.This passage is mainly about_______.
A. the rules of using land and water
B. the education of the local people
C. the work of Mali Elephant Projeet
D. the situation of Gourma Desert elephants