题型组合提升练二-【高考一线】2024高考英语基础必刷题（强基版）

题型组合提升练二 班级: 姓名: 得分: Ⅰ.阅读理解 Our planet is losing species at an alarming rate. As the world has become increasingly industrialized, natural habitats have been destroyed to build cities that are unlivable for wildlife. However, a pair of European designers, architect Rene Hougaard and product designer Alexander Qual, believe there are ways to encourage cities to coexist with nature. Inspired by everyday people who build “insect hotels“in their backyards, they􀆳ve created outdoor furniture that would be beautiful to look at, but also alow bugs, birds and wildflowers to thrive (繁殖). The natural world tends to appear messy and chaotic to the human eye, but there is often method in the madness. Qual and Hougaard kept this in mind as in al the structures, they played with the concepts of order and messiness. Qual created a large, yelow, leaf-shaped insect hotel, that􀆳s designed to be placed on a flower bed in a park. The structure contains wooden blocks with holes that are 6, 7 and 8 milimeters in diameter (直径), since diferent insect species prefer holes of diferent sizes. Hougaard created a metal log bench with an empty space in the middle specificaly designed to hold a decaying (腐烂的) log that can provide a habitat for insects and plants, along with birds and bats. While humans often shun decay, Hougaard imagines a place where people can sit down and observe the slow process in which bacteria break down the wood, creating food for insects, birds and other animals. As for the question of whet