Ⅵ. 阅读与回答问题
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Wild koalas share their home with millions of people. That has created problems for the animals. Over the past 200 years, humans have cut down forests to build homes and start businesses. Koalas live in trees, and they also depend on them for food. As a result, the koala population has become smaller and smaller. Fewer than 200,000 koalas may be left in the wild today. In 1800, there were millions of them.
What’s worse, many koalas are hit by cars or attacked (攻击) by pet dogs every year. Luckily, there is a place for them—the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital. The hospital treats about 250 koalas each year. The hospital even has a special koala ambulance (救护车). Without the ambulance, people might try to pick up koalas themselves. That’s a bad idea. Koalas may look cute, but they’re still wild animals. They might hurt a person.
The hospital’s most important goal is to return the animals to the wild after they are healthy. That includes baby koalas. But baby koalas can become dependent on the humans who care for them. That makes it hard for them to live in the wild later on. So when baby koalas are almost grown, they enter a special yard. People aren’t allowed in. The baby koalas learn to live together without humans.
As soon as they can live on their own, young koalas are taken to a wildlife sanctuary (野生动物保护区). “We don’t leave them near towns,” explained Cheyne Flanagan, the director of the koala hospital. “That’s because they might go into someone’s house and want to be picked up.”
1. Where do koalas live?
In trees.
2. How many koalas are saved by the koala hospital every year?
About 250.
3. Why is it a bad idea for humans to pick up koalas?
Because they may hurt people.
4. What do baby koalas do in the special yard?
They learn to live together without humans.
5. What do you think you can do to help protect koalas?
I can plant the trees that they need.
