必修第一册 Unit 5 Languages Around The World 题组训练2-【导与练】2024高考英语一轮复习高中总复习第1轮能力提升题组训练（新教材，人教版）

题组训练2 Ⅰ.阅读 A (2022·山东济宁三模) In the rainforest,thousands of species sing and call,forming sound layers so rich that the human mind can be overwhelmed.Drop a hydrophone(水听器) into an ocean and you will hear similar richness,but it is foreign to our air-adapted ears.Hundreds of thousands of other vocal(发声的) wonders ring out across the world.Every vocal species has a distinctive sound and every place on the globe has a singular vocal character.We live in a world of vocal wonders,yet this richness is being damaged worldwide. In some places,vocal loss is caused by the destruction of habitats,from felled forests to overfished oceans.However,in habitats such as thick rainforests or oceans,sound is the only way for most animals to communicate even over short distances.This communication mating songs,cooperative signals about food,cries that indicate social status and alarm calls allow complex animal life to boom. Elsewhere,noise is also the problem.Machines pump so much sound into water and air that other species can’t hear one another.The problem of noise is most serious in the oceans,where quake exploration,shipping and sonar create a deafening sound that is uninhabitable,or nearly so,for many species. Mankind is also affected by environmental noise,with complaints about noise pollution dating to the very first cities,recorded on clay walls from Babylonia.This noise is no mere inconvenience:it creates physiological burdens that sicken and kill.The European Environment Agency estimates that environmental noise in Europe causes 12,000 untimely deaths and 48,000 new cases of heart disease per year. What can be done to address these problems? Perhaps among the scientific studies of trends in vocal loss,activism to advocate for justice and policy-making to reduce noise pollution and habitat destruction,we’d better also find space to listen.Just as we go out with friends to hear a concert,might we do the same for the birds in a city park? In this simple act,we might find inspirat