2023年上海十六区高三英语一模汇编 —02.词汇填空（答案解析版）.docx

专题0 专题02：词汇填空-2023年上海十六区高三英语一模汇编 1.宝山区 Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need. A. disturbing B. resources C. altered D. effective E. recorded F. permanently G. specially H. machines I. signified J. accurately K. impossible When an endangered seabird hits a power line, it makes a sound “very much like the laser sound from Star Wars,” says conservation biologist Marc Travers. He should know, as his team from the Endangered Seabird Recovery Project ___11___ thousands of hours of audio to determine if power lines affected local seabirds. Travers was trying to help establish how frequently birds are killed by power lines on the island of Kauai in Hawaii in 2011. His team recorded 600 hours of audio and sent the recordings to Conservation Metrics, a company that assists conservation efforts with AI ___12___. Conservation Metrics used a program to “listen” to the recordings and count the sounds that ___13___ bird electrocutions(电击). The result was ___14___, as the number of bird electrocutions was in the thousands. Armed with proof that power lines were killing a significant number of birds, the team worked with the local utility (公共事业) service to reduce bird deaths. In science fiction stories such as The Matrix, AI-powered ___15___ take over the world and end life on the planet as we know it. But in reality, programs that use AI to sort through mountains of data might just save some species from disappearing ___16___. By many measures, humans have been poor managers of the planet. Humans have ___17___ as much as 97 percent of land ecosystems. Key populations of monitored animals have declined as much as 68 percent since 1970. The decline in biodiversity around the world has created a hopeless situation. Conservation efforts lack key resources they need to be ___18___. Fortunately, humans now have AI-based tools that can h