2020年高考英语外刊时事命题七选五：当人类的活动受到限制，野生动物正在悄悄回到曾经属于它们的世界Back to the City

Back to the City 当人类的活动受到限制，野生动物正在悄悄回到曾经属于它们的世界 With a growing number of countries going under coronavirus lockdowns (封锁), humans have been retreating to their homes. ____1____ Wild pigs have descended from the hills around Barcelona, Spain. Sika deer (梅花鹿) are nosing their way around the metro stations of Nara, Japan. Gangs of wild turkeys have been walking proudly on the streets of Oakland, California. A puma (美洲狮) turned up in the center of Santiago, Chile. “This is the habitat it once had and that we’ve taken away from it,” said Marcelo Giagnoni, the head of Chile’s agricultural and livestock service that later helped the police capture the curious big cat. Birds that normally live in urban parks, such as sparrows (麻雀) and pigeons, are likely to venture beyond their usual territories (地盘). Their dawn and dusk choruses (合唱) have been bringing comfort to many quarantined (被隔离的) city dwellers, though Jerome Sueur at the French Natural History Museum said that doesn’t mean there are mo