2022届高考英语阅读理解专项训练（四）

2022届高考英语阅读理解专项训练（四） 2022届高考英语阅读理解专项训练 （四） A 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案. Instead of heading home or dining at a restaurant to celebrate the end of the work week, electrical engineer Chu Qing was ready to begin his “second job” as a citizen scientist (公民科学家). Armed with telemeters (遥测仪), Chu and his friends locate (确定......的准确地点) frogs in Shanghai’s Century Park every weekend. This citizen science project, which lasts until Sept 30, is one of many that the Shanghai Natural History Museum started in August. The museum invited volunteers to look for frogs around the city and record how these creatures move. With only six species (种类) of the animal left in Shanghai, urban (城市的) planners can use this information to protect the frogs by providing enough space when designing new parks in the city. The concept (概念) of citizen science, in which members of the public help experts gather data for scientific research, dates back to at least 1900 in the US, and it has recently grown in popularity in China. “Previously (在之前), field work, such as wildlife monitoring, was performed only by experts in universities or institutions (机构). But, with limited human resources, only a few places in the city could be monitored,” Yuan Xiao, deputy head of the Shanghai Wildlife Protection and Management Administration, told China Daily. “The data gathered by citizens covers the whole city, and this provides valuable information for us.” One typical example, according to Yuan, is a project of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden. It once took five years to finish a citywide investigation of plants. But if they had received help from the public, it could have been shortened to one year. To help scientists further study the biodiversity and encourage the public to embrace (拥抱) nature, the Shanghai Natural History Museum released an app called Find Nature (《听见万物》) on Aug 15. Users can upload photos and sounds of insects, birds and other wild animals. “There are also societies for insects and