语篇类事实与观点信息转换专题 练习 2024届高考英语一轮复习

( ) 新高考英语语篇事实与观点信息转换专题 Fact&Opinion Research;Study;Analyses;Project;Program;Report statistics/data/number/percentage/figures attitude/thinkof/feelabout/sayabout/describe/opinion FACT：statistics/data/number/percentage/show/found （一） Passenger pigeons（旅鸽）once flew overmuch of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks（群）so large that they darkened the sky for hours. 24. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, passenger pigeons . A. were the biggest bird in the world B. lived mainly in the south of America C. did great harm to the natural environment D. were the largest bird population in the US （二） According to a study grandparents com. 83 percent of the people said Mrs. Robinson ‘ s decision will influence the grandparents in the American family. Two-thirds believe more families will follow the example of Obama’ sfamily. 26. What was thereactionof the public to Mrs. Robinson’ sdecision? A. 17% expressed their support for it. B. Few people responded sympathetically. C. 83% believed it had a bad influence. D. The majority thought it was a trend. （三） When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers, small, tightly knit ( 联系) groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them. 28. What can we inferabout languages in hunter-gatherer times? A. They developed very fast. B. They were large in number. C. They had similar patterns. D. They were closely connected. （四） Now a team of researchers led by Damián Blasiat the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has found how and why this trend arose.