to share emotions that the poor people feel and live because they can't earn enough money to buy food and to spend easily. At the same time, Ramadan means to support poor people with money because the religion of Islam orders us to give poor people some money or gifts that are 1/40 of our wealth, like a tax. The money and gifts are given to poor people in a polite way when they are visited by their relatives and other rich people.

　　The Ramadan festival continues for three days. Old sick people are visited by their young relatives. All people make preparations for the festival. They do the cleaning in their homes and yards before the festival date comes, and they wear the cleanest or the newest clothes. All of the children are given some gifts by their parents and relatives.

　　The other religious festival, the Kurban festival, is celebrated almost the same as the Ramadan festival. This time, most of the gifts are food.

5. According to the passage, Ramadan and Kurban are ________.

　　A. celebrated by the Christian era

　　B. well accepted in Turkey

　　C. celebrated in the same way

　　D. celebrated at the same time

6. During Ramadan, as a rich person in Turkey, he or she ________.

　　A. should give 1/40 of the money earned in this month to the poor

　　B. should pay some tax to the government to support the poor

　　C. can lose weight effectively in a public way

　　D. can sense the hard life the poor people live

7. During Ramadan people will do the following EXCEPT ________.

　　A. cleaning the house and yards

　　B. being visited or visiting other people

　　C. dress up to frighten other people

　　D. wearing the cleanest or newest clothes

8. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A. The Kurban festival is celebrated after the fasting days.

　　B. The Kurban festival is celebrated every 365 days.

　　C. The Ramadan festival is good for the poor people.

　　D. The Ramadan festival is celebrated for 30 days.

　　At the present time, many kinds of animals are endangered as a result of many different reasons. For example, although tigers are recognized throughout the world for their cruelty and unmistakable beauty, they face an uncertain future. Because of increases in both natural and human threats, the wild tiger population suffered major losses during the 20th century and has become one of our most endangered species. By the 1950s, tigers living around the Caspian Sea were extinct (灭绝的); between 1937 and 1972 the population of tigers that once lived on the islands of Bali and Java disappeared; the South China tiger, with at best 20 to 30 individuals, is nearly extinct in the wild.

India today has the largest number of tigers, numbering somewhere between 3,030 and 4,735 and it is estimated that only 5,100 to 7,500 individual tigers now remain in the entire world. These remaining tigers are threatened by many factors, including growing human populations, loss of living environment, hunting of tigers against the law and the species they hunt, and expanded