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：选词填空

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 完形填空 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 B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. mine B. criteria C. cataloged D. candidate E. delay F. anticipating G. comprised H. perceiving I. initiative J. compounds K. unfavorable What Lies Beneath “Earth” has always been an odd choice of name for the third planet from the Sun. After all, an alien (外星人) examining it through a telescope would note that two-thirds of its surface is 31 not of land but of oceans of water. Marine biologists think the oceans might host more than 2, 000, 000 species of marine animals, of which they have so far 32 perhaps a tenth. A new  33  hopes to change this. Smoothly launched in London on April 27th, Ocean Census (海洋普查)aims to discover 100, 000 new species of marine animal over the coming decade. The attempt is happening now for two reasons. One is that, the longer scientists 34 , the fewer there will be to document. Climate change is heating the oceans, as well as making them more acidic as carbon dioxide is absorbed into the water. The second one is technological. Marine biologists discover about 2, 000 new species a year, a rate hardly changed since Darwin’s day. Ocean Census is  35  it can go faster. “Cyber taxonomy(网络分类学)”, for instance, involves feeding animal DNA information into computers, which can quickly decide whether it meets the 36 for a new species. Exactly what the new effort might turn up, of course, is impossible to forecast. But history suggests it will be fruitful. Half a century ago scientists detected hot openings on the sea bed that were home to organisms living happily in conditions that, until then, had been thought 37 to life. These days, such openings are one credible  38  for the origin of all life on Earth. More practical benefits can’t be ignored. Many drugs, for example, com