寒假轻松衔接Unit 2 Wildlife Protection复习巩固 2023-2024学年高一英语人教版（2019）必修第二册

复习巩固:(8)Unit 2 Wildlife Protection——2023-2024学年高一英语人教版(2019)寒假轻松衔接 一、单词填空 用适当的词填空。 1.Apples _ (grow)in this farm. 2.Russian _ (learn) as a second language by some students in China. 3.The book _ (print) now and will come out soon. 4.Russian _ (learn) as a second language by some students in China. 5.The PLA _ (found)on August 1st, 1927. 二、翻译句子 6.这个城镇以前有一家电影院。(used to be) _ 7.只有用这种方式我们才能学好英语。(only引导的倒装句) _ 8.她错过了公交车,那就是她上课迟到的原因。(That’s why...) _ 9.环境污染正在受到密切关注。 _ 10.由于正在维修屋顶,外面动静很大。 _ 三、阅读理解 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A team of biologists(生物学家) recently studied wildlife in the forests of northern Ecuador. While doing so, they made a surprising discovery: a Mindo harlequin toad(明多斑足蟾). The creature hadn’t been seen alive in 30 years. The scientists couldn’t believe their eyes. “It took our brains a while to believe it was a Mindo harlequin toad,” says Melissa Costales, a conservation biologist from University of New Brunswick. The Mindo harlequin is the latest harlequin toad species “to come back from the dead,” says Costales. Since 2003, eight others have been found, three of them in Ecuador. Until recently, 13 of the 25 species of harlequin toads in Ecuador had gone unseen since the 1980s or early 1990s. Scientists thought most of them had been killed by a disease called chytrid(壶菌). This illness is especially harmful to the harlequin toad. Costales says the Mindo harlequin toad may have developed a resistance(抵抗力) to the disease. That would explain the toad’s reappearance. And it could spell good news for other harlequins. Since discovering the first one, Costales’s team has found five more. They were all tested for chytrid. None had the disease. But that doesn’t mean the survival of the species is guaranteed(保证), Costales says. The harlequin toad is still endangered. Costales is developing a conservation plan with a zoology museum in Ecuador. She wants to make sure the Mindo harlequin toad doesn’t fall back into extinction. “Each rediscovery gives us a seco