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上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2022-2023学年高二下学

期期末考试英语试题

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学校姓名：班级：考号：

一、用单词的适当形式完成短文

Directions:Afterreadingthepassagebelow,fillintheblankstomakethepassage,coherent

andgrammaticallycorrect.Fortheblankswithagivenword,fillineachblankwiththe

properformofthegivenword;fortheotherblanks,useonewordthatbestfitseachblank.

Scientistsweredeeplyconcernedaboutwhatwashappening.Avianvacuolar

myelinopathy(AVM)wasfirstdiscoveredinthewinterof1994129baldeagle

carcasseswerefoundnearDeGrayLake,aman-madereservoirinArkansas.Twoyearslater,

atleast70eagleshaddiedacrossseveralArkansasreservoirs.By1998,conditionscontinued

todeteriorateasdeadbirdsofdifferentspeciesincludingAmericancoots,mallardsand

ring-neckedduckswereconfirmedattensitesacrosssixstates.Allofthedocumentedcases

ofthis2(emerge)diseaseoccurredonornearmanmadewaterreservoirswith

abundantaquaticvegetation.

Butwhatparticularlypuzzledscientistswas3thesebirdsbehavedbeforethey

died.Thebirdswereobservedsuddenlyflyingstraight4stationaryobjects(rock

wallsandtrees),swimmingincircles,andwiththeirwingsdrooped.Formanyyears,

testingofsedimentanddeadbirdsataffectedwaterreservoirsforxenobioticcompoundsthat

causeAVM5(reveal)nothing.Necropsiesofthebirds’brainsshowedwidespread

vacuolationofwhitematterofthecentralnervoussystemandspinalcordwhichexplained

theiruncoordinatedbehaviour.

Earlystudiessuggestedthatanunknown,seasonalandenvironmentalneurotoxin6

beresponsible.Recently,apaperpublishedinthejournalSciencehaspinpointedtheexact

neurotoxinresponsibleforthedeathofthosebaldeaglesinArkansas.Theresearchdescribes

theser