05 人与自然篇-备战2023年高考英语时文阅读原创语法填空

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第五部分“人与自然”之环境保护篇

Passage 1 太空垃圾应该如何清理？

Passage 2 保护生物多样性，中国“Z世代”在行

Passage 3 中国的“诺亚方舟”

Passage 4 太空种菜

Passage 5 印度青年用塑料制作运动鞋

Passage 6 新版《牛津英语词典》关注气候变化

Passage 1

主题语境——人与自然——太空垃圾应该如何清理？]

China deployed a satellite to carry out technological tests for space junk 1.______ (manage). The

spacecraft aims to demonstrate technologies to alleviate space debris.

Since the dawn of the space age in the 1950s, humans 2. ______ (launch) thousands of rockets and

sent even more satellites into orbit. Many are still there, and we are now facing 3. ______ ever-increasing

risk of space junk.

More than 27,000 pieces of, or “space junk”, are tracked in space. Much more debris is too small to be

tracked 4. ______ large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions. Since a piece of debris

can move 5. ______ (fast) than a speeding bullet, collisions with these tiny pieces often leave pits in many

satellites, telescopes and other objects orbiting our planet.

In 2006, for example, a tiny piece of space junk collided with the International Space Station, 6.

______ (take) a chip out of the heavily reinforced window.

Space junk is a huge threat to space missions that involve human life. This is particularly important

since careful consideration needs to be made about the orbital path of space junk before spacewalk

exercises 7. ______ (conduct).

In 2018, the UK’s Surrey Space Center used a net to catch space junk in an experiment. It was the first

8. ______ (success) demonstration of space cleanup technology.

Another solution is to use robotic arms. ClearSpace 1, the European Space Agency’s mission 9.

______ (remove) space junk from orbit, is expected to launch in 2025, which will adopt robotic arms to

catch the debris. The mission plans to locate, capture and throw debris into the atmosphere, 10. ______ it

will burn up in the intense pressure and friction of reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere.

【参考答案】

1. management 2. have launched 3.an 4. but 5. faster

6. taking 7. are conducted 8. successful 9. to remove 10. where

Passage 2

主题语境——人与自然——保护生物多样性，中国“Z世代”在行动

In their spare time, most young people like to enjoy 1. ______ (they) and play on their smartphones.

But Li Ruxue is different. He often walks around a forest and isolates himself from the outside world.

“Though the lifestyle is a little bit tiring, it’s 2. ______ (meaning),” he often said.

In college, Li actively took part in field research. After 3. ______ (graduate), he joined a gibbon

protection organization, 4. ______ one of his major responsibilities was picking up gibbon waste. The

gibbon is a top-level state-protected animal whose population is smaller than that of wild giant pandas.

So over the past four and a half years, Li 5. ______ (follow) gibbons and collected their waste for

researchers. Li said the job relies heavily on luck and perseverance. But he has never regretted his choice or

felt alone, as he has found more young people 6. ______ (engage) in nature conservation.

Like Li, Chu Wenwen, 27, has also worked to protect animals. As her father is engaged in wildlife

research, Chu has long been surrounded by wild animals. She followed in her father’s footsteps.

Listed 7. ______ a first-class State-protected animal in China, the Mengxin beaver is found only along

the Ulungur River in Xinjiang’s Altay prefecture. To protect them, Chu initiated the “beaver canteen”

program, which 8. ______ (eventual) attracted over 1 million internet users to donate snack money.

According to Fan Pengfei, ecological protection as an industry can provide only a few jobs, most of 9.

______ are in research institutes and nongovernmental organizations. He has seen more and more young

people take part-time jobs as journalists, photographers and so on 10. ______ (raise) awareness of wildlife

protection. “Young people are the future of the world and the future of global biodiversity conservation,”

said Fan.

【参考答案】

1. themselves 2. Meaningful 3. graduation 4. Where 5. has followed

6. engaged 7. as 8. eventually 9. which 10. to raise

Passage 3

主题语境——人与自然——中国的“诺亚方舟”

“If the world 1. ______ (end) one day, these collections will bring hope of a new beginning to life on

Earth,” said Li Pei, a staff member at the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, or GBOWS, in Yunnan

province.

2. ______ (found) in 2007, GBOWS is a research and preservation facility for rare and endangered

plants and animals. It is 3. ______ (large) in Asia in terms of species.

4. ______ number of seed accessions is close to that of the world’s biggest seed bank – the

Millennium Seed Bank in the United Kingdom.

With two in five plant species at risk of extinction, she said it is a race 5. ______ time to protect the

nation’s incredible plant life.

So how does the bank work? Scientists collect endangered and useful wild species and send them to

the seed bank. For future study, 6. ______ (collect) have to record details of the plant, including 7. ______

it was found, its size and the number of individual plants in the habitat.

Once the seeds arrive at GBOWS, they’re dried, preserved in a room and cleaned. After that, X-rays

confirm 8. ______ the seeds are undamaged and no insects are hidden inside. The seeds are then frozen,

stored in glass bottles and placed in huge freezers at -20 C for long-term storage. Each container has a

barcode that can be scanned to enable scientists 9. ______ (view) information about the seeds inside.

The bank in Yunnan works with international partners on collecting backup specimens, exchanges and

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