高考英语 2014 全国卷1 阅读理 完形填空 解翻译 (共21张PPT).pptx

2014-I阅读A;剑桥科学节好奇挑战赛 敢于接受好奇心挑战！ 剑桥科学节（CSF）高兴地通知您第六届年度好奇心挑战。这个挑战甚至邀请了5到14岁的在校学生去创作艺术作品或是一篇展示他们好奇心的作品，以及如何激发他们去探索他们的世界。 学生们敢于画一幅画，写一篇文章，拍一张照片或写一首诗来表达他们好奇的东西。要进入这一挑战，所有的艺术品或文字作品都应发送到剑桥科学节，麻省理工学院博物馆，265大道。剑桥02139 2月8日星期五。 进入好奇心挑战并被选为优胜者的学生将在4月21日星期日的CSF特别仪式上受到尊敬，客座演讲人还将向学生颁奖。获奖作品将在一本书中出版。学生参赛作品将展出，奖品将给予。;参加活动的家庭将参加庆祝活动，并将供应早午餐。 在3月10日至3月15日期间，每位获奖者将获得闭幕式和好奇心挑战庆祝活动的具体内容。节目指南等相关的信息都可以在： 。 谁能接受好奇心的挑战？ A. 学生 B. 剑桥本地人 C. CSF获得者 D. 麻省理工学院艺术家 ;阅读B; 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 so large that they darkened the sky for hours. It was calculated that when its population reach 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 birds in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati. Sadly, the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. ;The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants. By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans’ need for wood, which scattered the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again. In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, but by then, no sizable floc