外研版（2019）高中英语选择性必修第三册 Unit6_Using_language_能力提升练.docxVIP

PAGE \* Arabic 2 / NUMPAGES \* Arabic 2 Unit6 Using language 能力提升练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 （2019辽宁沈阳东北育才学校高二下期中） While elephants born without tusks（长牙）are not unheard of，they normally form just 2 to 6 percent of the population. However，that is not the case at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park，where an astonishing 33 percent of female elephants born after the country’s civil war ended in 1992 are tuskless. While that may appear to be just a coincidence，Joyce Poole，an elephant behavior expert，has another theory. She thinks we may be witnessing the unnatural evolution of the species due to the constant hunting of elephants for valuable ivory. Poole says before the country’s 15-year-lon civil war，the 100，000-acre park was home to over 4，000 elephants. However，by the time the conflict ended in 1992，about 90 percent of them had been killed for ivory to help finance weapons（武器）and meat to feed the soldiers. Of the less than 200 survivors., over 50 percent of adult females had no tusks. Therefore，it is not surprising that the parks tuskless elephant population has grown greatly. This is not the first time researchers have observed a great change in the population of elephants. At Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park and Lupande game Management Area, areas whose s were heavily hunted in the 1970s and 1980s, 35% of elephants 25 years old or above and13% of those younger than 25 are now without tusks. A study published in 2008 found that the number of tuskless females at the Ruaha National Park in Tanzania went from 10.5 percent in 1969 to almost 40 percent in 1989, largely due to illegal hunting for Ivory. The recent ban on ivory in both the US and China should help get rid of, or at least reduce elephant hunting. However, scientists are not sure how long it will take the elephants with a higher rate of tuskless females to change the trend. 1. What is the probable cause of the phenomenon mentioned in Paragraph 1? A. Illegal hunting. B. Constant farming C. A pure coincidence. D. Nat