A new action plan has been open to protect Central Africa’s gorillas and chimpanzees. It outlines threats to the great apes（猿） across six countries.

The regional action plan is a joint effort by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Wildlife Conservation Society, and World Wildlife Fund among others.

Dr. Fiona Maisels, a conservation scientist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, said the plan aims to protect the large number of great apes not in protected areas.

Maisels said the chimpanzees are eating better than the gorillas in Central Africa. But both are threatened by hunting, habitat loss and disease. The nearly 80 percent of great apes outside protected zones, are in areas where private extractive industries （天然生产业）operate. Maisels said African nations need private industry’s help in saving the great apes.  

The Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of Western Lowland Gorillas and Central Chimpanzees also highlights another big threat – Ebola（埃博拉病毒）.

“We lost thousands and thousands of great apes along the Gabon-Congo border about 10 years ago with a massive Ebola epidemic（流行病）," Maisels said. "Nothing like as big as the one we’ve seen in West Africa. And it wiped out huge areas of gorillas and chimps in the forest before it got into the villages. The only reason we knew about it was because people started getting sick. And that’s because they were finding dead animals in the forest – picking them up – taking them home and eating them. And then of course it went through villages just it’s done in West Africa.”

Maisels added that current Ebola vaccine （疫苗）research could lead to protection for humans and apes alike.

The previous action plan was released in 2005 and is successful in slowing the decline in ape populations.

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1.The main content of the new action plan is_____.

A threats to the apes

B a regional action plan

C how to protect the apes

D to threat the great apes across six countries

解析：选A。A。细节理解题。由第1段 It outlines threats to the great apes（猿） across six countries可知答案。

2.2.How many organizations have worked on this regional plan?

A Two.

B Three.

C One.

D More than three.

解析：选D。 D。细节理解题。由第2段提到的组织the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Wildlife Conservation Society, and World Wildlife Fund和之后用了among others.可知，这表明前面提到的只是其中的三个。

3.It is inferred that the great apes outside protected zones are threatened by_____ .

A private industries

B hunting

C habitat loss

D diseases

解析：选A。A。 推理判断题。由第4段The nearly 80 percent of great apes outside protected zones, are in areas where private extractive industries （天然生产业）operate. 可知，保护区以外的地方，80%的猩猩都在私人企业所在区，所以A为正确答案。

4.What did Ebola do ten years ago?

A Highlighted the Western Lowland Gorillas.

B Wiped out all the gorillas and chimps in the forest.

C Killed thousands of great apes.

D Made people who got into the forest get sick.

解析：选C。C。细节理解题。由第6段提到We lost thousands and thousands of great apes along the Gabon-Congo border about 10 years ago with a massive Ebola epidemic（流行病）可知答案。

5.How did Ebola infect people?

A Gorillas and chimps went into the villages.

B People ate the dead animals from the forest.

C Someone purposely brought dead animals into the villages.

D Doctors injected the apes with Ebola vaccine.

解析：选B。B。细节理解题。人们开始并不知道埃博拉病毒，他们只知道很多的动物死亡，当他们把死亡动物带回家，吃了以后，很多人由此染上疾病死亡，人们才注意到此病毒的存在。