备战2023年高考必备——优秀试题大搜索，优中选优之语法填空（8）--自然环境

备战2023年高考必备——优秀试题大搜索，优中选优之语法填空 （8）--自然环境 1.【山东省曲阜市第一中学2022-2023学年高三上学期开学考试】语法填空 词数：183 话题：北极熊的生存环境 Polar bears are undergoing hunger in a world ____36____ (warm) than ever before. Polar bears live in the environment too cold for most animals. For most of the year, they live and hunt on Arctic sea ice. Nature has prepared ____37____ (they) for the cold conditions. But nothing has prepared the bears for the danger ____38____ threatens their only home. Polar bears’ world is melting. Studies show that polar ice ____39____ (reduce) by 9.8% every 10 years since 1978. Now about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears live in the Arctic. Polar bears depend ____40____ sea ice for their ____41____ (survive). “Sea ice is more than just the platform that the bears walk over,” says Andrew Derocher, ____42____ scientist who studies North American polar bear populations. “Without it, they can’t exist.” ____43____ (melt) and refreezing of polar ice is natural. But in a warmer world, the cycle speeds up, and polar bears have less time ____44____ (hunt). Normally, they have three months in the spring when they gain more weight. The extra fat will be used, when the bears are not _____45_____ (active) hunting. 2.【2023届江苏省南京市第一中学高三第一次模拟】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 词数：250 话题：拯救黑脉金斑蝶 Monarchs (黑脉金斑蝶) are the only butterflies known to make two-way migrations, as birds do. In the late summer and early fall, the butterflies typically leave southern Canada and northern and central ____56____ (region) of the United States. They make a dangerous trip to Florida and Mexico, ____57____ the weather is warmer. In recent years, monarch populations have been dropping dramatically. To help save the monarchy butterfly population, teens in the North Carolina community formed a club. The Monarch Butterfly Club at East Chapel Hill High School ____58____ (success) applied for land from the town council for the monarchs’ ____59____ (protect). Club members hope that the garden they ____60____ (create) will be a