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1、 雅思阅读练习题及答案 You should spend about 20 minutes on questions 1 - 15, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. National Parks and Climate Change A National parks, nature reserves, protected areas and sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) are an important part of the natural landscape in most

2、countries. Their habitat and terrains vary massively, from tundra and glacier parks in the north to wetlands in Europe, steppes in central and eastern Europe, and prairie grasslands and deserts in other areas. Virtually all kinds of landscape are protected somewhere. And these protected areas are im

3、portant for the variety of plant and animal life they harbour: caribou, bears, wolves, rare types of fish and birds. B But these areas are under threat from a recent peril - global climate change. No amount of legislation in any one country can protect against a worldwide problem. What exactly are t

4、he problems caused by climate change? David Woodward, head of the British Council for Nature Conservation, spoke to Science Now about some of these areas, and his first point highlighted the enormous variation in nature reserves. C Each park or reserve is an ecosystem, he says, and the larger reserv

5、es, such as those in Canada, may have several types of ecological subsystems within it. There are reserves which are half the size of Western Europe, so it doesnt make sense to talk about them as if they were all the same, or as if the microclimates within them were uniform. Woodward outlines some o

6、f the dangers posed by climatic change to parks in the northern Americas, for example. D If climatic change is severe, and in particular if the change is happening as quickly as it is at the moment, then the boundaries of the park no longer make much sense. A park that was designated as a protected

7、area 90 years ago may suffer such change in its climate that the nature of it changes too. It will no longer contain the animal and plant life that it did. So the area which once protected, say, a species of reindeer or a type of scenery, will have changed. In effect, you lose the thing you were try

8、ing to protect. This effect has already been seen in Canada, where parks which once contained glaciers have seen the glaciers melted by global warming. E Jennie Lindstrom, Chief Executive Officer of H2O, the charity which campaigns on an international level on behalf of mainland Europes protected we

9、tland and wilderness areas, is even more pessimistic. In a letter to Science Now, she has asserted that up to 70% of such areas are already experiencing such significant change . in climate that the distribution patterns. of flora and fauna are changing, and that all areas will eventually be affecte

10、d. She estimates that the most profound change is occurring in the northernmost parks in areas such as Finland, Greenland, Iceland and northern Russia, but adds that there is no place which will not suffer the effects of global warming. What we are seeing is a massive change in the environment - and

11、 that means the extinction of whole species, as well as visual and structural changes which means that areas like the Camargue may literally look totally different in 50 or 60 years time. F The problems are manifold. First, it is difficult or impossible to predict which areas are most in need of hel

12、p - that is, which areas are in most danger. Predicting climate change is even more unreliable than predicting the weather. Secondly, there is a sense that governments in most areas are apathetic towards a problem which may not manifest itself until long after that governments term of office has com

13、e to an end. In poor areas, of course, nature conservation is low on the list of priorities compared to, say, employment or health. Third, and perhaps most important, even in areas where there is both the political will and the financial muscle to do something about the problem, it is hard to know j

14、ust what to do. Maria Colehill of Forestlife, an American conservation body, thinks that in the case of climate change, the most we can realistically do is monitor the situation and allow for the changes that we cannot prevent, while lobbying governments internationally to make the changes to the po

15、llution laws, for example, that will enable us to deal with the causes of the problem. I am despondent, she admits. I have no doubt that a lot of the work we are doing on behalf of the North American lynx, for example, will be wasted. The animal itself can live in virtually any environment where the

16、re are few humans, but of course its numbers are small. If climate change affects the other animal life in the areas where it now lives, if the food chain changes, then the lynx will be affected too. Less food for the lynx means fewer lynxes, or lynxes with nowhere to go. G Certainly, climate change

17、 is not going to go away overnight. It is estimated that fossil fuels burnt in the 1950s will still be affecting our climate in another 30 years, so the changes will continue for some time after that. If we want to protect the remnants of our wild landscapes for future generations, the impetus for c

18、hange must come from the governments of the world. Questions 1 - 7 Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? In boxes 1 - 7 on your answer sheet, write Yes if the statement agrees with the information, No if the statement contradicts the information, Not Give

19、n if there is no information on this in the passage. 1 Every country has protected areas or national parks. 2 Countries can protect their parks by changing their laws. 3 A protected area or park can contain many different ecosystems. 4 David Woodward thinks that Canadian parks will all be different

20、in 90 years. 5 Canada, more than any other country, has felt the effects of global warming. 6 H2O works to protect wetlands all over the world. 7 Some parts of the world will feel the results of global warming more than others. Questions 8 - 13 Complete the summary below. Choose your answers from th

21、e box below the summary and write them in boxes 8 - 13 on the answer sheet. There are more words than spaces, so you will not use all the given words. There are _ (8) encountered in attempting to stop the effects of _ (9). One is the difficulty of predicting change. Another is a lack of _ (10) to ch

22、ange the situation; most governments interest in the matter is limited because it will not become very serious _ (11). Finally, there is the quandary of what action we should actually take. One solution is both to keep an eye on the situation as it develops, and to push for changes _ (12). Even if w

23、e do this, the problem is not going to _ (13), since it takes a considerable time for global warming to happen. willingness of the authorities lots of ways global warming internationally for many years locally disappear straight away many problems after all Questions 14 and 15 Reading Passage 1 has

24、seven paragraphs A - G. Which paragraphs state the following information? Write the appropriate letters A - G in boxes 14 and 15 on your answer sheet. 14 All areas of the world are likely to be affected by global climate changes. _ 15 Remedies for global warming will not reverse these trends immediately. _ 参考答案: 1. No 2. No 3. Yes 4. Not Given 5. Not Given 6. No 7.Yes 8. many problems 9. global warming 10. willingness of the authorities 11. for many years 12. internationally 13. disappear straight away 14. E 15.G 【雅思阅读练习题及答案】

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