2024届上海市部分区高三上学期期末考试（一模）英语试题分类汇编：语法填空

上海市部分区 2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试（一模）英语试题分类汇编 语法填空 2024届上海市闵行区高三上学期学业质量调研一模英语试卷 Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. The rainforests are alive with the sound of animals. Besides the pleasure of the noise, it is useful to ecologists. Listening out for animal calls is considered a method of measuring the biodiversity of a piece of land. (21)______ ______ it is much easier than digging under the bushes looking for tracks, such analysis is time-consuming. It also requires (22)______ expert pair of ears. In a paper published in Nature Communications, a group of researchers led by Jörg Müller, an ecologist at the University of Würzburg, describe a better way: have a computer do the job. Smartphone apps already exist through (23)______ the sounds of birds or mammals (哺乳动物) can be identified. The researchers took recordings from across 43 sites in the Ecuadorean Rainforest(厄瓜多尔雨林). Some sites were relatively primitive, old-growth forests. Others were areas that (24)_____ (clear)for pasture (牧场) already. Sound recordings were taken four times every hour, over two weeks. The various calls were identified manually by an expert, and then used to construct a list of the species present. As expected, the longer the land had been free from agricultural activity, the more significant the biodiversity it hosted. Then it was the computer’s turn. The researchers fed their recordings to (25)______(train)AI models, using sound samples from elsewhere in Ecuador, to identify 75 bird species from their calls. They found the AI tools could identify the sounds as well as the experts. Not everything in a rainforest makes a noise. Having used light-traps to capture night-flying insects and DNA analysis (26)______ (identify) them, Dr Müller and his c