2022屆高考英語閱讀備考(一)

2022

屆高考英語閱讀備考（一）

Threats that tigers face

號稱“森林之王”的老虎如今也生存不易，面臨種種威脅是什么導致這種情 況？

難詞探意

1. degrade / /v.（使）退化

2. shrink /v.（使）縮小;收縮;減少

3. retaliation / n.報復；還擊

4. mangrove /n.紅樹林植物

5. mitigation / n.減輕;緩解

In some areas, tigers are still in crisis and declining in number. Here are some threats

that tigers are faced with.

Habitat loss

Tigers have lost an estimated 95% of their historical range. Their habitat has been

destroyed, degraded, and broken apart by human activities. The clearing of forests for

agriculture and woods, as well as the building of road networks and other development

activities, po rious threats to tiger habitats. Tigers need wide swathes （——長條） of

habitat for their survival since they have large home ranges and are very territorial. Fewer

tigers can survive in small, scattered islands of habitat, which leads to a higher risk of

inbreeding and makes tigers more vulnerable to poaching as they venture beyond protected

areas to establish their territories.

Human? Wildlife conflict

People and tigers increasingly compete for space. As forests shrink and prey becomes

scarce, tigers are forced to leave protected areas in arch of food and to establish

territories. This takes them into human? Dominated areas that lie between habitat

fragments, where they can hunt domestic livestock that many local communities depend on

for their livelihood. In retaliation, tigers are sometimes killed or captured. Conflicf tigers can

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end up for sale in black markets. Local community dependence on forests for fuel wood,

food, and timber heightens the risk of tiger attacks on people.

Effects of climate change

One of the world's largest, and most uniquely? Adapted, tiger populations are found in

the Sundarbans-a large mangrove forest area shared by India and Bangladesh on the coast

of the Indian Ocean. It is also the only coastal mangrove tiger habitat in the world. The

mangrove forests harbor a variety of species, including tigers, and protect coastal regions

from storm surges and wind damage. However, rising a levels caud by climate change

threaten to wipe out the forests and the last remaining habitat of this tiger population.

According to a WWF study, without mitigation efforts, projected a? Level ri-about a foot

by 2070一could destroy nearly the entire Sundarbans tiger habitat.

Tiger “farms” and captive tigers

C. territories and breeding

D. food and territories

3. What can we know about the Sundarbans?

A. It belongs to Bangladesh.

B. It is one of the coastal mangrove tiger habitats in the world.

C. It can protect coastal regions from storm and wind damage.

D. It will soon disappear becau of over cutting from humans.

答案B 2. D 3. C

What WWF is doing

世界自儂金會的殿翔

保護瀕臨滅絕的野生動物是世界自然基金會的一項重要工作。那么它的拯救行動有哪 些

呢？

難詞探意

1. conrve / v.保護

2. restore / v.恢復

3. maintain / v.維持

4. sustain / v.支持;承受;維持

5. steward /v.管理

6. fundamental / /adj.基本的;根本的

7. drone / n.無人駕駛飛機

Conrving wildlife is at heart of our mission. We focus on protecting populations of some

of the world's most ecologically, economically, and culturally important species—the survival

of which are threatened by poaching, illegal trade and habitat loss. We u the best science

available to link on the ground work with high? Level policy action to create lasting solutions

that benefit wild animals as well as the people that live alongside them.

Double the number of tigers

WWF aims to double the worlds wild tiger population by 2022. We're working with world

leaders to take action, focusing conrvation efforts in key sites, raising funds to

permanently protect landscapes, and supporting community? Bad conrvation. Saving

tigers is about more than restoring a single species. As a large predator, tigers play an

important role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Every time we protect a tiger, we protect

around 25, 000 acres of forest-forests that sustain wildlife and local communities and supply

people around the world with clean air, water, food, and products.

Empower people to protect wildlife

Over the last few decades, conrvationists have come to understand just how central

community involvement is to wildlife conrvation success—and how important it is for

communities to actively steward the natural resources around them to improve economic

and social well? Being. WWFs community? Bad conrvation work today reflects this

fundamental reality. We work across a variety of communities and customize our work

bad on the specific needs and interests of a given place, taking into consideration each

regions particular t of conrvation asts and challenges.

Clo Asia's ivory markets

Illegal killing of elephants for ivory decimates （大批殺死） global populations. Este?

mates indicate that each year poachers kill clo to 20, 000 elephants, mostly for their ivories.

Overall, we e demand increasing in East Asian and Southeast Asian markets. WWF is

working to shut down the illegal markets in the area.

Stop wildlife crime

WWF us our experti in policy, wildlife trade, advocacy, and communications in an

effort to stop wildlife crime in the US and around the world. At home, we ensure the US

enacts tight ivory commerce restrictions. Partnerships with technology companies help us

develop innovative ways to stop wildlife crime using everything from drones to infrared

1. They kill elephants for their ivories.

2. To detect poachers in the dead of night and stop wildlife crime.

The "strangest parrots on earth" are being saved

目蜩鵡正在

它們白天睡覺，晚上出來活動，能攀爬卻不能飛行。它們被稱為“世界上最 蠢萌的鸚

鵡”。

難詞探意

1. plump / adj.微胖的;飽滿的

2. triple / adj.三倍的

3. breed / v.繁殖;飼養

4. snugly / adv.緊貼地

5. pellet /n.小球；小彈丸

6. poach / v.（侵入他人地界）偷獵

Ifs as plump as a goo, has the face of an owl and waddles like a duck. It sleeps in the

day and is active at night. And it can climb just about anything but cant fly anywhere. No

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wonder people call the kakapos the strangest parrots on earth.

Once found in large numbers all over New Zealand, kakapos have been on the edge of

disappearing for more than a century. In 1 977, trackers counted just 18 kakapos left in the

entire country and all of them were males. Then something amazing happened. A previously

unknown kakapo population was found. It included the first females en in more than 60

years. This exciting discovery made the local government help the parrots by moving them to

three small, predator? Free is lands.

New Zealand is an isolated island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Many of its

plants and animals, like the kakapo, are found nowhere el. Protecting them is a matter of

national pride as well as urgency. As the largest type of parrot on earth, they are quite the

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sight in person, said Wes Securest of Global Wildlife Conrvation, which is helping the

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kakapo recovery program. They have a teddy? Bear quality with their soft feathers, wide

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eyes and owl like the recovery program counts 147 adult birds, nearly

triple the number since its start in 1995. And that number will soon grow, as the current

breeding ason is expected to t a record and add 30 to 50 healthy chicks.

To improve kakapo breeding, recovery team members watch and track the parrots

using nest cameras, infrared beams （紅外光束） microchips and radio transmitters in

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small "backpacks" fitted snugly under the birdswings. Individual feeding stations supply

extra pellet food and clean water.

The stations have electronic scales to check weight and are programmed to open only for

the target bird, automatically locking if a parrot wearing the wrong transmitter tries to

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poach from another parrots station.

Eggs are often removed from the nest and put in incubators (孵化器)， machines that

help them develop. In their place, team members leave 3D?Printed “smart eggs” that make

noi and get the moms ready to rai their chicks once they hatch and are brought back.

Recovery team caretakers are very dedicated. They hike the forest all day with

()4. Modern technologies are ud to improve kakapo breeding.

()5. Taking care of kakapos is a tough but wonderful job for the recovery team workers.

答案1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. T