2019-2020学年高中英语阶段综合测评4(含解析)9.pdfVIP

学必求其心得，业必贵于专精 阶段综合测评 ( 四） （时间：100分钟；满分： 120分) Ⅰ. 阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分) A Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted（预测）in reaction to climate change, which could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems。 Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world，changing some living patterns，scientists say. Increased carbon dioxide （CO )in the air from burning coal and oil 2 can have an effect on how plants produce oxygen， while higher temperatures and changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth. “Predicting species reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology,”said the researchers of several U．S。 universities。 They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services. The study，published on theNature website，uses the findings from 1 学必求其心得，业必贵于专精 plant life cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1，634 species.It found that some experimentshad underestimated（低估) the speed of flowering by 8。5 times and leafing by 4 times. “Across all species， the experiments under。predicted the speed of the advance－ for both leafing and flowering － that results from temperature increases， the study said。 The design of future experiments may need to be improved to better predict how plants will react to climate change, it said。 Plants are necessaryfor life on the Earth. They are the baseof the food chain， using photosynthesis （光合作用）to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water。 They let out oxygen which