高考英语大二轮总复习测试 阅读理解专题专题四　顺藤摸瓜” 明辨词义猜测.docVIP

【创新设计】（江苏专用）2015高考英语大二轮总复习测试 阅读理解专题专题四　顺藤摸瓜” 明辨词义猜测 Ⅰ.体验高考 (2014·课标Ⅰ)Passenger pigeons(旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers.Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks(群)so large that they darkened the sky for hours. It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point，there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons－a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States，making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world.Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller，a flo