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
2024-03-07
34
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] 【C4】
选项
答案
M
解析
空格前为were also quite,空格后为句点,由此可知,空格处应填入一个形容词,充当系动词were的表语,同时被副词quite所修饰。由前面的并列分词these baby pigeons were really tasty(这些幼鸽很美味) 可知,and后接的并列句the adult birds were also quite________说的是成年鸽的味道,前后为并列关系,故空格处应填入与tasty(美味的) 意思相近的形容词,备选项中edible符合语境。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3512040.html
相关试题推荐
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
Thenowextinctpassengerpigeonhasthedubioushonorofbeingthelastspe
随机试题
Shakespeare______inhisearlylife.[br]"Intime,ashebecameafamiliarfig
维生素D缺乏性佝偻病手足搐搦症的治疗原则是A、维生素D-止惊-补钙 B、止惊-
麻黄善于治疗的病证是()A.风寒有汗表虚证 B.风寒挟湿表证 C.风热
三段不可伸长的细绳OA、OB、OC能承受的最大拉力相同,它们共同悬挂一重物,如图
从所给四个选项中,选择最合适的一个填入问号处,使之呈现一定的规律性: A.如图
人在每一瞬间,将心理活动选择了某些对象而忽略了另一些对象。这一特点指的是注意的(
芒种是二十四节气中第九个节气,其字面意思是说“有芒的麦子快收,有芒的稻子可种”,
关于财务分析取价原则的说法,正确的是()A:折现现金流量分析原则上应采用时价体系
在建筑结构中,从基础到上部结构全部断开的变形缝是()。A.伸缩缝 B.沉
患者女,3岁。被牵拉前臂后,出现肘部疼痛,不愿用手取物,桡骨近端压痛。X线片检查
最新回复
(
0
)