07 人与自然篇-备战2023年高考英语时文阅读原创语法填空

第二部分 “人与自然”篇 目录： Passage 1 《冰冻星球II》 Passage 2 光合作用能让人“返老还童” Passage 3 天降“火球” Passage 4 啄木鸟为何不会得脑震荡？ Passage 5人类是从鱼演化来的？ Passage 6 湿地城市风采重现 Passage 7 “精灵闪电”是如何拍摄的 Passage 8 没有亚马逊雨林世界会怎样？ Passage 1 Survival at the poles 主题语境——人与自然——《冰冻星球II》，揭露人类面临的最大危机 In this follow-up to 2011’s Frozen Planet, the new six-part series 1. _______ (call) Frozen Planet II revisits the Arctic and Antarctic. It also 2. _______ (give) a view into the secret wildlife dramas that play out in all the world’s coldest areas, such as high mountains and frozen desserts. It took the team over three years to make 3. _______ (video) of Siberian tigers in Russia walking over great distances to hunt for black bears. In China’s Wolong National Nature Reserve, the team brought to light giant pandas doing handstands to mark their scent. While there are lighter moments, the ever-changing frozen planet is a central theme of the documentary. Mark Brownlow points out that Frozen Planet II is not only about capturing nice footage, 4. _______ “drawing attention to changes going on now”. The series shows the great challenges caused by climate change that many polar animals now face. For example, pups of harp seals in the Arctic Ocean rely 5. _______ sea ice for the first six weeks of life. However, the sea ice of today melts and breaks up sooner in spring. As a result, groups of seal pups fall off the ice into the ocean before they have learned how to swim. Meanwhile, chinstrap penguin chicks use their fur 6. _______ (stay) warm. Due to a warming Antarctica, however, more rainy days have led to them 7. _______ (suffer) from hypothermia (体温过低). Despite this, Frozen Planet II tells us that there is still hope. Professor Alun Hubbard is 8. _______ glaciologist from Norway. He has spent over 30 years studying the movement of ice along Greenland’s coastline. Although there 9. _______ (be) much more ice melting there over the last 20 years, he believes that all these processes can still be turned back. “Consu