2024年高考英语二轮复习阅读理解增分练Part 2主题语境限时练人与自然.pptxVIP

阅读理解增分练

Part2主题语境限时练人与自然

A（2024·原创）OH1toucheddownjustofftheMarylandcoastonApril18，2023，

completinga4，800-kilometermigrationfromArgentina.Soon，moreterns

（燕鸥）joinedOH1，andthenestingseasonwasofficiallyunderway.Thiswasn’tjustaterncolony：commonternsarelistedasendangered

inMaryland，andthiswasoneofthebirds’lasttoeholdsinthestate.This

particularcolonyalsohappenstobeonanartificialwoodenraft（筏子）.

Everyspringforthelastthreeyears，thestaffattheMCBP，Audubon

Mid-AtlanticandtheMarylandDepartmentofNaturalResources（DNR）

havetowedthenestingraftintothewaterofChincoteagueBay.Thebaywas

oncerichwiththekindofnestinghabitatcolonialseabirdsneed：small

sandyislandswherepredatorsarerareandbushesprovideshadeforflightless

chicksonhotsummerdays.Butoverthelastcentury，thankstocoastal

developmentandsealevelrises，thoseislandshavedisappeared.Sohave

theterns.By2020，therewereonly60nestingpairsleft.

Initiallyintendedasatemporarysolution，theraftshavenotonly

stoppedthecommontern’spopulationdecline—they’vereversedit.In

2021，23pairsofternsnestedontheplatform.In2022，155setsofparents

hatched140chicks.Figuringouttheformulaforthebirds’successhasbeenanongoing

process.TheMarylandDNRregionalecologistDaveBrinkersaysthat

observingthebirdseachyear“helpsusgetintotheirmind，whichhelpsus

getmoreternsontherafts”.

Forexample，duringthefirstyear—inadditiontosomethingthatacted

asbaittowould-benesters—theraftcontainedonlysometinywoodenlean-

tos（披屋）intendedtoprovideshadeforthebabybirds.Buttheadultterns

usedthechicksheltersasfencelines，outliningtheirterritory.“Anatural

colonywillhavegrasstoprovidethatnaturalgeographicseparation，”

Brinkersays.“Sothenextyearweaddedplasticgrasstobreakupthevisual

landscape.”Whilethenestingplat