首页
登录
职称英语
The now extinct passenger pigeon has the dubious honor of being the last spe
The now extinct passenger pigeon has the dubious honor of being the last spe
游客
2023-08-04
18
管理
问题
The now extinct passenger pigeon has the dubious honor of being the last species anyone ever expected to disappear. At one point, there were more passenger pigeons than any other species of bird. Rough【C1】________of their population went as high as five billion and they accounted for around 40 percent of the total indigenous bird population of North America in the early 19th century.
Despite their huge population, passenger pigeons were【C2】________to human intrusion into their nesting territory. Their nests were shabby things and two weeks after the eggs【C3】________. the parent pigeons would abandon their offspring, leaving them to take care of themselves. People discovered that these baby pigeons were really tasty, and the adult birds were also quite【C4】________. First the Native Americans and then the transplanted Europeans came to consider the birds a great【C5】________.
By the 1850s, commercial trapping of passenger pigeons was proceeding at an【C6】________pace. Hundreds of thousands of the birds were being harvested every day to be made into popular pigeon pies. In addition, large【C7】________of the pigeons’ nesting territory were being cleared away for planting crops and creating pasture land. As numerous as the passenger pigeons were, they were not an【C8】________resource. By the 1880s, it was noticed that the bird population had become seriously【C9】________. The last passenger pigeons killed in the wild were shot in 1899.
Eventually those billions and billions of birds shrank to a single remaining【C10】________. a passenger pigeon named Martha, who died on September 1, 1914, in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. In addition to being the end of an era, it was also the first time humans were able to exactly time the extinction of a species.
A) vulnerable F) refuge K) excerpts
B) unprecedented G) plazas L) estimates
C) tracts H) infinite M) edible
D) specimen I) hatched N) depleted
E) robust J) expired O) delicacy [br] 【C10】
选项
答案
D
解析
空格前为shrank to a single remaining,空格后为逗号,由此可知,空格处应填入一个名词,被不定冠词a、形容词single和remaining所修饰。由下文a passenger pigeon named Martha, who died on September 1, 1914, in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo (一只名叫玛莎的旅鸽,于1914年9月1日在辛辛那提动物园的圈养中去世) 可知,旅鸽只剩下动物园里唯一的一只,故specimen符合语境。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2895843.html
相关试题推荐
A、Whyspeciesdon’tavoidextinctionbyadapting.B、Whyhumanswon’tbecomeexti
Inthemidstofaperiodofrapidlanguageextinction,withalanguageestim
Robabankandyouriskalongstretchinjail.Runabankwhosedubiousbeh
Robabankandyouriskalongstretchinjail.Runabankwhosedubiousbeh
Robabankandyouriskalongstretchinjail.Runabankwhosedubiousbeh
Robabankandyouriskalongstretchinjail.Runabankwhosedubiousbeh
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
随机试题
Thoseworld-famousoilpaintings(exhibit)______attheMuseumofNewYorknoware
WelcometoLondon!Withover80stops.3mainsightseeingroutesandcountles
Manufacturersofproductsthatclaimtobeenvironmentallyfriendlywillfac
Topuniversitieshavebeencalledontopublishlistsof"banned"A-levels
100Base-FX采用的传输介质是()。A.双绞线 B.光纤 C.无线电波
计算机采用分级存储体系的主要目的是为了解决(4)的问题。A.主存容量不足 B.
下面谱例属于哪个地区的音乐风格?() A.法国 B.意大利 C.西班牙
关于深圳证券交易所的收盘价,下列说法错误的是( )。A.收盘价通过集合竞价的方
某现浇钢筋混凝土楼板,板上有作用面为400mm×500mm的局部荷载,并开有55
(2016年真题)某工程按月编制的成本计划如下图,若6月、8月实际成本为1000
最新回复
(
0
)