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The world’s oldest known wild bird, an albatross（信天翁）named Wisdom, has returned to her nesting place in the Midway Atoll. The 68-year-old bird has just laid another egg.
The Midway Atoll is made of two small islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is an important place for albatross, and an important place for scientist who want to study them. One of the ways scientists can study birds is by banding them. Putting a small numbered band on the leg of a bird, helps scientists tell which bird is which. This makes it easier to keep track of what happens among the birds. Over 250000 albatrosses have been banded on Midway Since 1936.
Wisdom was first banded by scientist Chandler Robbins in 1956, along with thousands of other albatrosses. At the time, she was at least 5 year old. Wisdom Robbins’ band around the world for many years. Then, surprisingly, the scientist and the bird were reunited in 2002.when Robbins returned to Midway to research albatrosses again. He rebanded Wisdow and, checking the band records, discovered he had been the first one to put a band on her-46 years before.
Wisdom was using the same nesting place. Adult albatrosses spend a lot of their lives flying over the sea, resting from time to time on the water to eat. But they return to the same nesting place every year. When albatrosses choose a partner they remain partners for life. But Wisdom has been alive so long that she has had a few partners.
Wisdom is not just old, she is also active. Because it takes so much time and energy for albatrosses to raise a chick——it takes about seven months until it can fly——many albatrosses lay eggs every other year. But Wisdom has laid an egg every single year since 2006.Because Wisdom has been laying eggs for so long, she could have her chicks and the chicks of her chicks all around her. There may soon be one more to add to the list.
33.What does the author want to do in Paragraph 2?
A. Use an example to support the topic
B. Offer some background information
C. Give an explanation for what happened
D. Attract the readers’ interest in the topic
34.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. How albatrosses are banded.
B. How biologists study albatrosses.
C. The life of Wisdom since she was banded.
D. The connection between Wisdom and a scientist
35.What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. Wisdom
B. Wisdom’s partner
C.A baby albatross
D.A parent albatross
36.How is Wisdom different from ordinary albatrosses?
A. She lays an egg every year
B. She uses different nesting spots
C. She changes partners very often
D. She has been banded several times
33.答案：B
解析：推断题。第一段交代了全球年龄最大的信天翁回到了出生地中途岛。第二段开始介绍了中途岛的地理位置，重要性等，因此第二段介绍了中途岛的背景知识。故选择B。
34.答案：D
解析：主旨大意题。第三段讲述了1956年科学家罗宾为智慧绑上脚环，2002年，他们相遇，罗宾为智慧脚环记录得知这是第一只他绑脚环的信天翁。由此可知整段讲了智慧和科学家之间的关系。因此可以概况为D选项。故选D。
35.答案：C
解析：词义推断题。定位到第5段。句意：智慧不只是老，她也很活跃。因为信天翁养幼仔要花很多时间和精力，大约7个月才能飞起来，所以很多信天翁每隔一年就下一次蛋。根据前半段，信天翁养幼仔花费时间，后半句第一个It指代的是智慧，第二个it则指代其幼仔。故选C
36.答案：A
解析：细节理解题。定位在最后一段。many albatrosses lay eggs every other year. But Wisdom has laid an egg every single year since 2006. 其他的信天翁每隔几年下蛋，而智慧自2006年开始每年都下一个蛋，故选择A。
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