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A special girl named Xu Xiujuan came from Heilongjiang Province. The Zhalong Nature Reserve is in
Northeast China. It is the summer home of many red-crowned cranes. The cranes start their families there.
Xu Xiujuan's family cared for cranes in the Zhalong Nature Reserve for a long time.
The workers tried to increase the number of red-crowned cranes because these birds are very rare. In
the reserve Xu Xiujuan helped the workers care for the cranes when had babies.
Xu Xiujuan, a twenty-two-year-old girl, came to work in the Yancheng Reserve in Jiangsu in 1986.
She enjoyed her work very much. She loved cranes and she loved nature. When she walked in the
countryside, she always forgot the unhappiness in her life.
On 16th September, 1987, two little cranes from the Yancheng Reserve flew into the wild and did not
come back. Xu Xiujuan was worried and went to look for them in the evening. Someone told her that a
farmer caught the birds. She tried to get to the farmer's home as quickly as possible. So she decided to
take a short cut, but she had to cross a river. Sadly, the river was much deeper than she thought. While
crossing the river, the girl downed and never came out.
Xu Xiujuan donated her young life to the lovely red-crowned cranes.
1. What did Xu Xiujuan do at the Zhalong Nature Reserve?
A. She cared for her parents there. B. She went birdwatching there.
C. She looked after the mother cranes there.
D. She went to look for the lost cranes there.
2. What did the workers want to do?
A. They wanted Xu Xiujuan to help them count the birds.
B. They wanted to start their families there.
C. They wanted to have more baby cranes.
D. They wanted Xu Xiujuan to look after the two little cranes.
3. How long did Xu Xiujuan work in the Yancheng Reserve?
A.For a long time.
B. For twenty-three years.
C.For more than a year.
D. The passage doesn't tell us.
4. What does "take a short cut" mean in Chinese?
A. 带一把短刀
B. 抄近路
C. 乘短途车
D. 作短暂休息
5. Which of the following sentences is right?
A. Xu Xiujuan is twenty-three years old now.
B. Xu Xiujuan lost her life in the deep river.
C. Xu Xiujuan died twenty-three years ago.
D. Xu Xiujuan died in a flood.
