【试题分析】This doesn’t mean you stop taking risks or being open to new experiences.可以推测出A、C错误。
【高考考点】细节题
【错误选项】B项文中未提到。
66. What is the best title for the passage? A. Discover the Brain Function B. Crying Over the Spilt Milk C. Push the Pause Button D. Impulsivity Works
【标准答案】C
【试题分析】整篇文章都围绕pausing 进行。 【高考考点】主旨题
【错误选项】抓住核心词汇pausing
D
Fencing or Not
Wildlife fences are constructed for a variety of reasons including to prevent the spread of diseases, to protect wildlife from poachers（偷猎者）, and to help manage small populations of
threatened species. Human-wildlife conflict is another common reason for building fences. Wildlife can damage valuable farm animals and crops. Some species carry diseases of agricultural concern, and a few threaten human lives. At the same time, people kill wild animals for food, trade, or to defend lives or property, and human activities destroy wildlife habitat（栖息地）. Separating people and wildlife by fencing can appear to be a mutually beneficial way to avoid such harmful effects. But in a paper in the journal Science, published recently, some scientists argue that fencing should only be used if worse comes to worst.
According to the scientists, although fencing can have conservation benefits, it also has costs. When areas of wildlife habitat are changed into islands, the resulting small and isolated populations tend towards extinction, and the resulting loss of larger-bodied species can affect interactions between species in ways that cause further local extinctions. Therefore, scientists are asking that conservationists carefully weigh up the biodiversity costs and benefits of new and existing fences.
In addition to fences’ ecosystem-wide impact, the scientists don’t think they always achieve their specific aims. Construction of fences to reduce human-wildlife conflict has been successful in some places but the challenges of appropriate fence design,
location, construction, and protection mean that fences often fail to deliver the anticipated benefits. In some places, fences also provide poachers with a ready supply of wire for making traps.
A variety of alternative approaches, including better caring for farm animals, community-based crop-guarding, insurance and wildlife-sensitive land-use planning are suggested to reduce conflicts between people and wildlife without the need for fencing. Some projects working with local people and government agencies in Indonesia have shown that human-elephant conflict can be dramatically reduced without using fences.
The scientists conclude that as climate change increases the importance of facilitating wildlife mobility and conserving landscape connectivity, fence removal may become an important form of climate change preparation, and so fencing of wildlife should be avoided whenever possible.
67. What does the underlined word ―mutually‖ in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. Indeed. B. Outdoors. C. Straight. D. Both.
68. According to the scientists, what will fencing influence? A. Land building. B. Species diversity. C. Human population.
D. Wildlife’s body size.
69. What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 4? A. Replacements for fences. B. Wildlife-protection methods. C. Effective land-use approaches. D. Conflicts between human and wildlife
70. The main purpose of the passage is to __________. A. argue and prove B. inform and explain C. appeal and discuss D. compare and assess
【词汇扫描】
defend v.辩护，保卫，防守 mutually adv.互相地 conservation n.保护
extinction n.熄灭，消灭，灭绝 anticipate v.预料，预见，预测 removal n.免职，除去，移走
【长难句分析】
The scientists conclude that as climate change increases the importance of facilitating wildlife mobility and conserving landscape connectivity, fence removal may become an important form of
climate change preparation, and so fencing of wildlife should be avoided whenever possible.
解析：that引导宾语从句，as引导让步状语从句
翻译：科学家得出结论气候变化能促进生物多样性，保护地形连通性，而移除隔离带是气候变化的一个主要前提，所以要尽可能避免野生动物隔离带
【重点段落大意归纳】
Paragragh1：将人和野生动物隔离开有利于避免有害的影响 Paragragh2:科学家认为隔离有保护作用，也是要付出代价的 Paragragh3:建隔离带有助于缓解任何动物的矛盾，但也要面临一些挑战
Paragragh4:缓解人畜矛盾有多种方法，并不一定非要建隔离带 Paragragh5:尽量避免建野生动物隔离带
【选项分析】
67. What does the underlined word ―mutually‖ in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. Indeed. B. Outdoors. C. Straight. D. Both. 【标准答案】D
【试题分析】文章一直在讨论people and wildlife，所以应该是双方的
【高考考点】细节题