2024届高考英语一轮总复习选择性必修第四册Unit1ScienceFiction单元主题训练.docVIP

UNIT 1 单元主题训练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A eq \a\vs4\al(?2023·茂名模拟?)Catching nearly 4,000 wild butterflies with handheld nets and taking the temperature of each tiny insect must rank among the harder of scientific efforts. However, researchers have discovered significant differences in the ability of British butterflies to maintain a suitable temperature, raising fears that global heating will threaten the populations of some species. Butterflies are ectotherms-unable to generate their own body heat and require warm temperatures to fly.However, extreme temperatures can pose problems, particularly for those butterflies that must find shady habitats to regulate(调节) their body temperature. The study shows that larger, paler butterflies are best able to protect themselves from extreme temperatures, changing the angles of their reflective wings in relation to the sun to direct heat away from or on to their bodies.The surrounding temperature of the butterflys perch (栖息处), or air temperature, was also taken, which indicated the degree to which butterflies were seeking specific locations to regulate their body temperature.Darker, large species have greater difficulty controlling their body temperature, but even they are better than “thermal specialists”， which rely on finding a spot at a specific temperature in a landscape—a “microclimate”—to control their body temperature. “After being caught in butterfly nets on British nature reserves, the 29 different species of butterflies temperatures were taken with a fine probe.As we plan conservation measures to address the effects of climate change, it will be important to understand not only the habitat requirements of different butterfly species, but also their temperature requirements，” said Dr Ed Turner, of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, who led the work.“With this new understanding of butterflies, we should be able to better manage habitats and landscapes to protect them, and in doing so were probably also protecting other insects