人教版2023届高考英语二轮复习：完形填空议论类、说明类专练（含答案）.docx

专题五 完形填空议论类、说明类专练
考点01：冠词
考点02：代词
考点03：介词和介词短语
考点04：名词
考点05：形容词和副词
考点06：非谓语动词
考点07：动词的时态和语态
考点08：定语从句
考点09：名词性从句
考点10：并列连词
考点11：状语从句
考点12：完形填空议论文、说明文
1. 阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the word "culture"? Do you think of different groups of people across the world with various     1     and clothing? What about animals?
Sam Williams, executive director of the Macaw(金刚鹦鹉) Recovery Network in Costa Rica, helps to     2     the impact of the decline of macaw populations by taking birds that were born     3     and releasing them into the wild. But this process is very     4    .
"In a cage, you can't     5     them to know where, when and how to find that food, or about trees with good nest sites," Williams told ecologist and writer Carl Safina for the Guardian. In the wild, the parents would be the ones to teach them this important     6    .
This type of knowledge is known as cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge can be     7     from the older generation to the newer one. For many species, cultural knowledge is necessary for     8    .
Culture helps animals to     9     different habitats. For example, some crows(乌鸦)have learned to put nuts in the middle of the road for cars to drive over. And in other areas, they have learned to do this at intersections so they can     10     get the food when the cars stop at red lights.
Other important parts of cultural knowledge include things like group identity, using different tools, taking different     11     routes and using different socializing methods.
These traditions can especially be seen in chimpanzee communities. Cat Hobaiter, who studies chimpanzees in Uganda, said: "It's not just the     12     of populations of chimps that worries me. I find     13     the possibility of losing each population's unique culture. That's permanent."
Culture isn't just for     14    . Culture is also an important part of life in the wild