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1、高三英语限时训练一、 阅读理解ARainforests are disappearing at a surprisingly fast speed, largely due to human development over the past few centuries. Once covering 14% of land on Earth, rainforests now make up only 6%. Since 1947, the total area of rainforests has probably been reduced by more than half, to abou
2、t 6.2 to 7.8 million square kilometers.Many biologists expect rainforests will lose 5-10% of their species every ten years. Rapid deforestation could cause many important rainforest habitats to disappear completely in the next hundred years.Such rapid habitat loss is due to the fact that 100 acres o
3、f rainforest are cleared every minute for agricultural and industrial development. In the Pacific Northwests rainforests, logging companies cut down trees for wood used in building while paper industries use the wood for pulp. In the Amazon rainforest, large agricultural industries clear large parts
4、 of forests for growing crops. In the Congo rainforest, roads and other infrastructure (基础建设) development have reduced habitat and cut off living areas for many rainforest species. Throughout both the Amazon and Congo, logging operations clear-cut to build roads or for other purposes. Some rainfores
5、ts are threatened by large hydroelectric power projects. Development is encroaching on rainforest habitats from all sides.Economic inequalities increase this rapid deforestation. Many rainforests are located in developing countries with economies based on natural resources. Wealthy nations drive nee
6、d for products, and economic development increases energy use. These needs encourage local governments to develop rainforest at a slow speed. Poor people who live on or near these lands are also motivated to improve their lives by changing forests into farmland.1. What feeling does the author want t
7、o convey by listing figures?AFrustrated.BDisgusted.CInspired.DConcerned.2. What caused the reduction of habitat for many rainforest species in Congo?AThe demand for numerous products.BThe motivation from local governments.CThe construction of fundamental facilities.DThe cooperation with developing c
8、ountries.3. What does the underlined part “encroaching on” in paragraph 3 mean?ATearing up.BRelying on.CHolding back.DBenefiting from.4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?AChanges of RainforestsBThreats to RainforestsCComments on RainforestsDProjects in RainforestsBAlexis, 17
9、, sat quietly in the passenger seat of her dads car, looking out of the window. Then a deer came into view about 200 yards in front of them. “Dad, theres a deer there!” Alexis said.As the car moved closer, Alexis heard a scream and saw an arm fly up near the deers head. Alexis realized the deer was
10、attacking a woman. Sue, a 44-year-old mother, had been out for her morning run. The deer followed her and edged closer. “I knew I was in trouble,” Sue says. She went to pick up a stick for self-defense, and the deer charged. It lifted her with its antlers (鹿角) and threw her into the air. Sue could f
11、eel blood flowing down her leg.When Alexis and her father pulled up, the deer was throwing Sue like a doll. Alexis looked into the womans terrified eyes, and before her father had even stopped the car, the teenager jumped quickly out of the car and ran toward the deer. “I was kicking it to get its a
12、ttention,” she says. Then her father, who had followed his daughter, tried to push the deer away from the women.Alexis helped Sue into the car, and then applied a piece of cloth to Sues injured leg. “Were going to get you to a hospital,” Alexis said. Then she heard her father shout loudly. He had be
13、en knocked to the ground. Alexis took hold of a hammer from the car and ran to where her father lay on his back. She beat the deers head and neck, but the blows didnt scare it away. “I was losing faith,” she says. “A couple more strikes, Alexis,” said her father. “You can do it.” Turning the hammer
14、around, Alexis closed her eyes and beat the deers neck with all her strength. When she opened her eyes, the deer was running away. Alexis got in the drivers seat and sped toward the nearest hospital.5. What was Sue doing when she was attacked by the deer?AShe was going to school.BShe was taking exer
15、cise.CShe was resting by the road.DShe was watering plants.6. What does the underlined word “edged” in paragraph 2 mean?AChanged.BCut.CMoved.DAttacked.7. What did Alexis do to save her father and Sue?AShe pushed the deer away.BShe hit the deer with her feet.CShe drove the car to hit the deer.DShe be
16、at the deer with a hammer.8. Which of the following words can best describe Alexis?ABrave.BCruel.CEnergetic.DStrong.CThis new packaging material looks like conventional plastic, but its actually made from fish waste and algae(海藻)unlike plastic, if it escapes into the ocean, a fish could eat it safel
17、y. The material, called MarinaTex, is the winner of this years James Dyson Award.“It began with my desire to work with waste,” says Lucy Hughes, a recent graduate from University of Sussex, who once visited a fish processing factory to see the massive quantity of waste generated by the industry and
18、found new ways to use it. She focused on fish skins and scales(鳞片). “When I had it in my hands, I realized this has got potential,” she says. “It s super strong and flexible.” Hughes spent months experimenting with fish waste in her kitchen, running more than 100 experiments to find a binder(粘合剂) an
19、d a process that could hold together the proteins in the fish skins and scales.“I had a lot of failed attempts. A lot of things either were too easily broken or too soft or easily went bad,” she says. She finally found a type of algae that can be locally got.The material can be used to replace oil-b
20、ased plastic in packaging such as bags or the half-transparent windows used to show products in boxes. As her research continues, Hughes says that shell be studying how MarinaTex works and how long it could be used to store food.Unlike some “composable” plastics, which need to be processed in an ind
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