All the Lortons’ farm animals – the cows and the goats, the ducks and the chickens, got along well with Roger—a llama(美洲駝). But since llamas are used to thinking of animals like coyotes(土狼) and dogs as threats, it took Roger a few weeks to accept the family dog.
Roger protects the sheep and lambs in two ways. First, he keeps the sheep together. A hungry coyote will try to scatter(分散) the flock and then pick off a weak or small animal that has become separated from the rest. But when a coyote threatens the Lorton’s sheep, they all run to Roger, depending on him to defend them.
And he does, with his second defense: confronting(對(duì)抗) the coyote. Llamas are very curious and will run at top speed to investigate anything that looks interesting. When a coyote sees a three-hundred-pound llama rushing toward it, the coyote will not usually wait around to see what the llama wants.
And once a llama realizes that a coyote is threatening the flock, the llama will stand between the coyote and the sheep to defend them. Often, the llama will charge toward the coyote with its head down. As it runs, it will sometimes call out an alarm to the flock in a high-pitched voice. Since Roger’s arrival, coyotes haven’t gotten any sheep from the Lortons.
小題1:The purpose of the passage is to tell us that ________________.
  1. a llama helps guard sheep
  2. coyotes are sheep’s main enemy
  3. llamas are much smarter than coyotes
  4. some types of dogs can’t protect sheep
小題2:The following words can be used to describe Roger Except_____________.
A．protectiveB．curiousC．braveD．patient
小題3:It can be inferred that the Lortons are __________________.
  1. scientists studying llamas’ behavior
  2. farmers using a llama to guard sheep
  3. citizens keeping a llama as a pet
  4. businessmen selling llamas to farmers

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B
文章講述了美洲駝對(duì)抗土狼保護(hù)羊群。
小題1:主旨大意題。通讀全文可知文章講述Roge如何幫助主人對(duì)抗coyote，保護(hù)羊群。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。第二段說明它protective；第三段說明它c(diǎn)urious；最后一段說明它brave；文章沒有提及patient.
小題3:推斷題。通讀全文可知，主人是用llama來對(duì)抗土狼，保護(hù)羊群。
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