海口朗阁雅思培训--2014.11.8雅思考试阅读考题回顾.docVIP

朗阁海外考试研究中心 Research Academy for Foreign Language Examinations 雅思考试阅读考题回顾 朗阁海外考试研究中心 张晓予 考试日期 2014年11 月8 日 Reading Passage 1 Title Back to life（野马的保护和重归自然） Question types 是非无判断题 TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN 3 题 简答题 Short Answer Questions 5 题 填空题 5 题 文章内容回顾 此篇文章为动物类题材，内容是关于野马的保护和野化回归自然，蒙 古马与另一种马的介绍。 相关英文原文阅读 Equine advocates are taking a new approach to get wild horses much-needed protection by petitioning the Department of the Interior to have horses who roam on federal public lands listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The petition was filed by Friends of Animals (FoA) and the Cloud Foundation over concerns that if the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) doesn’t change the course it’s on soon, the agency will mismanage these American icons into extinction. In 1971, Congress recognized the value of wild horses as “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West” who “contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people.” It enacted the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, which was intended to protect wild horses from “capture, branding, harassment, or death.” Sadly, the BLM has failed, and continues to fail, to uphold its duties and continues to remove and warehouse thousands upon thousands of wild horses. According to FoA, more than 200,000 horses have been driven off of public land since the Act was passed, while thousands more still face the threat of removal. Wild horses have already disappeared from Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, and things are getting ugly in other states, including Utah and Nevada. Now there are believed to be fewer than 33,000 horses live on 26 million acres of BLM lands, while almost twice as many are in BLM holding facilities as the government continues to pointlessly spend millions of dollars every year on more gathers and holding costs. 朗阁海外考试研究中心 Research Academy for Foreign Language Examinations Yet the agency still wants to red