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周测卷(六)(范围:必修第二册Unit1)
(时间:40分钟满分:100分)
I.阅读理解(共8小题,每小题5分,满分40分)》
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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。
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The Power of“Seeing"
A spoon-billed sandpiper()steps into the frame,heading straight for a small bug placed
there.It swallows its food with its spoon-shaped beak.
The performance is for Joel Sartore,founder of Photo Ark,a personal effort to document animals
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around the world.
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The critically endangered bird,of which there are fewer than 1,000 individuals in the wild,is
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the 13,000th species Sartore has photographed in 16 years.His goal is 20,000.
Before he started Photo Ark,Sartore spent more than a decade working as a photographer for
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National Geographic,mainly covering conservation stories in the field.He had seen wildlife
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decreasing firsthand,but felt like the public wasn't interested.
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Sartore thought of a new way to inspire people.He picked up his camera and set about taking
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shots of wildlife-but rather than recording animals in the wild,he wanted to photograph them outside
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their natural habitat.He visited zoos,aquariums and rehabilitation()centers and photographed
portraits of individual animals against a white or black backdrop().
"This allows you to look them in the eye and see that there's great beauty there and that they are
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worth saving,"he said."We are primates and we respond to eye contact above all else."
The response has indeed been huge.Sartore has more than 1.6 million followers on Instagram and
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a best-selling series of Photo Ark books.Part of the proceeds()from his books goes to fund on-
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the-ground conservation efforts.
Gary Ward who works at London Zoo where Sartore has shot before,said,"Seeing is the first
step to caring,and caring is the first step to conservation action.
By choosing animals outside their natural habitat,Sartore admits he will only show a small part
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of the world's wildlife.According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature,there are
more than 2 million described species on the planet,and