【名校好题】专题03：.完形填空-2023届上海市名校高三最新英语试题精选速递（第三期）

【名校好题】专题 03：.完形填空 -2023届上海市名校高三最新 英语试题精选速递（第三期） 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ （2022·上海市复兴高级中学校考模拟预测）Human beings have somehow managed to engineer the night to receive us by filling it with light. This kind of control is no different from the feat ( 壮 举 ) of damming a river. Its benefits come with____1____ — called light pollution — whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design. ____2____ lighting washes out the darkness of night, altering light levels and light rhythms to which many forms of life, including ourselves, have____3____. Wherever man-made light spills into the natural world, some aspects of life-migration, reproduction, feeding-is affected. For most human history, the phrase “light pollution” would have____4____. Imagine walking towards London on a moonlit night around 1800, when it was Earth’s most populous city. Nearly a million people lived there, ____5____ candles, torches and lanterns, as they always had. Only a few houses were lit by gas, and there would be no public gaslights in the streets or squares for another seven years. From a few miles away, you would have been more likely to____6____ London than to see its dim collective glow. We’ve lit up the night as if it were a(n) ____7____ country. As a matter of fact, among mammals (哺乳动物) alone, the number of species active at night is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as a magnet attracting them to it. The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being____8____ by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms, circling and circling in the thousands until they drop. It was once thought that light pollution only affected astronomers, who need to see the night sky in all its glorious clarity. Unlike astronomers, most of us may not need a____9____ view of the night sky for our work. _____10_____, like