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Unit 2单元话题完形填空专项练习
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(2022·重庆八中高二月考)Trackers on Ice
Just because a scientist puts a GPS tracking collar on a wild polar bear does not mean the animal will willingly keep it on. ___1___, these huge collars are purposefully loose so that if one becomes annoying, a bear can ___2___it. But scientists have now found a way to use signals from the discarded(丢弃的)devices.
“These dropped collars___3___would have been considered garbage data,” says Natasha Klappstein, a polar bear researcher at the University of Alberta. She and her colleagues instead used___4___from such collars, left on sea ice in Canada's Hudson Bay, to track the ice itself. For their study, published in June in The Cryosphere, the researchers ___5___twenty collars that sent movement data consistent(与······一致的)with ice drift rather than polar bear ___6___between 2005 and 2015. The resulting records of how melting ice typically drifts in Hudson Bay are unique; there are no easily ___7___on-the-ground sensors, and satel