2023-2024学年高一英语人教版必修第二册寒假练习3

高一必修二寒假语篇练习3 一 完形填空 In recent weeks, a group of 15 wild elephants on a long, strange trip out of the jungles of far southwestern China have attracted millions of people across the country. Since the elephants left a wildlife reserve near China’s border with Laos and Myanmar last year, they have （1） _____ steadily northward and have been wandering the suburbs of Kunming, a city of 8. 5 million residents. Millions have （2） _____ to watch the elephants’ 300-mile journey on television and on internet live streams, or tracked their movements on social media. While （3） _____ with the creatures, some increasingly see the elephants and their journey as a lesson on the risks of nature and a rapidly urbanizing China crashing into one another, especially as development （4） _____. Videos of the （5） _____ elephants, wandering down empty streets, breaking into a car dealership and in the case of one mother elephant using her trunk to lift her baby out of danger, have gone （6） _____. Along the way, the elephants have broken into villagers’ homes, eaten their food, drank their water and destroyed their crops. All told, the group has now caused more than 400 separate incidents of damage, worth some $1. 1 million. （7） _____, authorities have formed a government task force. They mobilized hundreds of people, and distributed drones with infrared （红外线的） capabilities to （8） _____ them as they wander through China’s Yunnan province. To keep the elephants away from more densely populated villages, authorities have blocked roads with trucks. Local authorities have been experimenting with snacks to （9） _____ the elephants, laying out corn, bananas and pineapples. The （10） _____ so far: The elephants like corn, while the pineapples have been largely ignored. The elephants have shown a continued interest in wooden buckets of alcohol. Some specialists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have assumed that a recent solar storm may have （11） _____ the creatures’ inner compass （指南针） and trigg