人教版专题 18 阅读理解 说明文 --英语复习讲练测--测 （解析版）.docx

专题 18 阅读理解 说明文
备考2023年高考英语二轮复****讲练测--测
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时间 50分钟 共 30小题 （每小题2分, 共60分）
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名校最新测试卷 阅读理解（说明文）（共八篇）
(湖北省重点高中智学联盟2022-2023学年高三上学期10月联考)
If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise: for the first time in thousands of years there will be wild bison roaming in the UK.
Early today three European bison are to be released into West Blean and Thornden Woods in Kent in an attempt to address the climate crisis and boost biodiversity.
Donovan Wright, a bison ranger with the Wilder Blean Project — a joint endeavour between Kent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Trust — told the Guardian the first animals to be released will be a 14-year-old matriarch (母野牛) and two young females who come from herds in Scotland and Ireland, respectively. A male from Germany is set to arrive in a month.
The hope is that the huge beasts will act as natural engineers, with behaviours such as the felling of certain trees — a result of the bison stripping the bark off to eat or rubbing their fur off against them — giving a range of plant and animal species a chance to prosper.
“It opens up the canopy (树冠), allowing the light to go through to the woodland floor,” Wright said, noting that as the bison move through the undergrowth they create paths about half a metre wide, while they also love to dust bathe, often reusing the same sites.
“Those become home for sand lizards and your pioneering plants,” said Wright, adding bison themselves are like giant seed banks. “As they move they collect seeds, and then they are also spreading seeds along the route,” he said, noting as wildflowers spring up, they attract insects and other pollinators, with their seeds a source of food for birds.
The project will also help with conservation of the European bison. “In 1927 they were classified as extinct in the wild,” said Wright, adding the team have gained inspiration from projects in other countries, i