专题 11 拯救美洲狮--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (11) Save the Mountain Lion 拯救美洲狮 主题语境：人与自然 主题语境内容：野生动植物保护 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） Los Angeles, as everyone knows, is a noodle bowl of highways. As everyone may not know, it is also one of only two cities in the world where big cats wander wild inside the city boundaries (the other is Mumbai). One even live near the Hollywood sign. But big cats and highways do not mix, which is why Los Angeles will soon be home to one of the world’s biggest wildlife corridors（走廊）. The cats are mountain lions. They live in the Santa Monica Mountains. Their numbers are stable. Their habitat is mostly  wilderness（荒野）, full of deer, the lions’ food. The ecology of their range, the largest urban national park in the world, is healthy, thanks in part to their presence . Yet animals can come under threat without habitat loss. Genetic degradation（退化） can be just as deadly. Cutting through the mountains is Route 101, carrying up to 10,000 vehicles an hour. It cuts the S