The dingo is a kind of Australia's wild dog. No one is certain to tell us where it comes from, but scientists now believe that it is related to Asian and Middle Eastern wolves.  They probably arrived in Australia between 3,500 and 4,000 years ago, and were brought there by Asian sailors. Dingos generally communicate over long distances with howls  (嚎叫) like wolves.

The dingos have short hair. Their color looks a little red, yellow to brown, and seldom to black with white points on the feet and the end of the tail. The dingo has a bushy(濃密) tail, strong paws, an alert (機(jī)警) head and upright ears.

Dingos are more active at night, sunrise and sunset than in the middle of the day. This is similar to the animals they hunt and eat. Dingos eat a wide variety of animals, but the most of their diet (more than 50 per cent) comes from kangaroos. A dingo's diet also includes rabbits, rats and mice. Domestic (馴養(yǎng))animals is not an important source of food for dingos----it is said that domestic stock only makes up between 1% and 7% of their diet.

Dingos are social animals, living in family groups, which defend their land and sometimes hunt together. They have a home range (范圍)of up to 8,000 hectares(公頃), but their daily movements take in only a small part of that range. They spend a few days in one place and then move to another, then traveling around their whole range in the end.

People usually control the dingo by trapping, shooting, poisoning(毒) and fencing. The dingo fence (籬笆)which runs through South Australia, along the South Australia and Queens land borders(界), and through central Queens land, is the word's longest fence.

1. According to the passage dingos mainly eat________.

A. kangaroos         B. domestic animals         C. rats and mice        D. rabbits

2. The second paragraph is mainly about____.

A. the size of dingos                             B. the description of dingos

C. the life of dingos                                 D. the color of dingos

3. Which method is NOT mentioned to control the dingos?

A. Limiting the birth of them                      B. Poisoning.

C.  Shooting.                                 D. Fencing.

4. Which of the following statements about dingos is TRUE?

A. Dingos come from ancient domestic dogs.

B. Dingos are one of the dangerous animals.

C. Dingos come to hunt mainly in the middle of the day.

D. Dingos usually live in groups and hunt together.

5. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. How to control the dingo                  B. The dingos---a dangerous animal

C. The dingo--Australia's wild dog                   D. Protect the wild animals

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 The Australian government(政府)has built the longest fence(籬笆)in the world. It is 9, 500 kilometres long, and two hundred men look after it. They drive along it and repair it every day. Sand blows against it and covers it. Sand blows away from it and leaves holes under it. Rabbits make holes through it. These holes are dangerous. The men have to repair them immediately. If they do not, the dingoes will get in. Dingoes are wild dogs. They are the fiercest (最兇猛) killers in Australia. Wild animals usually kill for food--but dingoes kill for pleasure, too. One dingo can easily kill 100 sheep in a night. Dingoes killed 600,000 sheep in Queensland in eleven years. Those sheep were worth $2,000,000. The farmers were angry, but they could not stop the dingoes. The problem was too big for the farmers to solve. So the government agreed to build the fence. Why? Because Australia depends on her sheep. She exports (出口) 45 percent of all the wool (羊毛) in the world. She mustwin the fight against the dingoes.

1. Why did the Australian government build the world's longest fence? 

[     ]

A To match the Great Wall in China.

BTo protect sheep from being killed by dingoes.

CTo hold wind and sand.

2Why are the holes in the fence dangerous and should be repaired immediately?

[  ]

A The fence will fall.

BThe fence might appear ugly with those holes.

CDingoes will get through these holes to kill sheep.

3 What are dingoes?   

[  ]

A The passage doesn't explain.

BThey are wild dogs that are the fiercest killers in Australia.

C They are Australian sheep.

4 Why are dingoes known as the fiercest killers in Australia?   

[  ]

A Dingoes are big-eaters, they kill a lot of sheep for food.

BEven the farmers can't defeat them and get them killed.

CThey kill not only for food but also for pleasure.

5What is Australia famous for?   

[  ]

AThe world's longest fence.

B The fiercest killer--dingoes.

CHer sheep and wool.

6The fence is     long.   

[  ]

A 9,500 kilometres

B 100 kilometres

C600,000 kilometres

D2,000,000 kilometres

7     dingo can easily kill     sheep in a night.   

[  ]

A 1; 100

B 11; 600,000

C200; 2,000,000

8 Of all the wool in the world,     comes from Australia.   

[  ]

A 50%

B55%

C45%

9The problem was too big for the farmers to solve. It means that    

[  ]

A.When the farmers tried to solve the problem, they found it very difficult.

B.the problem was important but difficult. To solve such a problem is beyond(超出)the farmers' ability(能力).

C. the problem was very important and the farmers solved it (with the help of the government).

10. In the last sentence, what does "she" refer to(指)?   

[  ]

A.The farmer

B.The sheep

C. Australia

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The first wild animals taoled(馴服)by humans were dogs.This (A)________in Europe about 10,000 years ago.

    The first “dogs” were like the ones we have now.Maybe they were small wolves(狼)or a type of dog like the Australian dingo(澳洲野狗).

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  (G)It is said that世界上有400多種犬.Today.dogs depend on human more than any other animals.

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