小练(8) Unit 2 阅读完形提分练2-【赢在微点】轻松课堂2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册（外研版）

小练(八)　阅读完形提分练2 阅读理解　A　体裁:议论文　主题语境:幸福感　难度:★★★☆☆ 　　I spent most my twenties working for the National Park Service, and I lived a wide variety of government housing, including several shabby but appealing old houses where the wild creatures outnumbered humans. Sometimes I wondered, lying awake at night, how many hearts beat inside those walls. With all that lovely national park habitat protected for their use, why did the animals need to live in my house? My latest essay “The indoor wilds at outdoor parks,” revisits my experiences with wild (non⁃human!) roommates and officemates in Rocky Mountain National Park. At first, they were considered annoying but not dangerous. Attitudes changed dramatically when hantavirus (汉他病毒) came on the scene, and suddenly those cute, non⁃housebroken deer mice became a threat. When I moved on to Canyonlands National Park, I found that every effort had been made to seal off my house from four⁃footed intruders. These efforts mostly worked and later employees moved into new housing. But somehow a rat still managed to chew its way through the floor and drown itself in my toilet. I􀆳m not even going to get started about my coworkers, experiences with other much scarier animals. The Beaver Meadows Vistor Center in the story was designed by Tailiesin Associated Architects, Frank Lloyed Wright􀆳s firm, after Wright􀆳s death. Working there, I always thought the building was strange. I recently revisited the building while researching a children􀆳s book I am writing about the park. I think I get it now, at least a little. 　　【语篇解读】　本文是一篇记叙文。作者之前一直在自然保护区里和野生动物生活在一起,一些动物感染病毒,人们对它们的态度就发生了变化。 1.What does the underlined word “their” in Paragraph 1 refer to? A. Some park visitors􀆳. B. Endangered animals􀆳. C. The author􀆳s coworkers􀆳. D. The author􀆳s wild roommates􀆳. 答案与解析　D　猜测词意题。根据本句“With all that lovely national park habitat protected for their use, ...”可知,人们保护自然公园的栖息地,是为了保护野生动物,而这些野生动物和作者经常生活在一起。所以句中的“their”就是指作者的那些野生动物室友。故D项正确。 2.Why did peo