Module 2 The Renaissance

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

When I was little, I'd see tons of bats flying around streetlights at night in my neighborhood in upstate New York.

By the time I turned 7, I noticed something strange: All the bats in my neighborhood had vanished, and I wondered why. Later I learned what had happened to my town's bats. A disease called "white nose syndrome (白鼻综合征)" had killed 93 percent of New York State's bats (and about 6 million bats across the country)! I was shocked. I asked the bat biologist what I could do to help, and she said, "Tell others what's been happening. Help people understand that bats are important to our environment and need to be protected."

I thought I must teach people about bats. My first stop? The library, where I eventually checked out every book on bats they had. Next, I started a Facebook page called Buddies for Bats and posted any photos, facts, and videos that I could find. Then I wrote a letter to the host of an environmental program on my local radio station, asking if they'd do a show on bats. (They did!)

But I still wanted to find a way to educate people face to face. I managed to make a presentation (展示) to a school. I also used tools to describe how bats help farmers (and protect our food supply) by eating crop-damaging insects.

I practiced my presentation until it shone like a polished stone. It went over so well that other teachers started requesting me. Over the past three years, I've talked