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12月四級閱讀理解模擬：泰國大象的生存危機(jī)

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2021-12-01 09:05:56|已瀏覽：84次

12月英語四級閱讀理解：泰國大象的生存危機(jī)

       For centuries, in the countries of south and Southeast Asia the elephant has been an intimate part of the culture, economy and religion, and nowhere more so than in Thailand. Unlike its African cousin, the Asian elephant is easily domesticated (馴化). The rare so-called white elephants have actually lent the authority of kingship to its rulers and until the 1920s the national flag was a white elephant on a red background.To the early Western visitors the country's romantic name was “Land of the White Elephant”.

        Today, however, the story is very different. Out of work and out of land, the Thai elephant struggles for survival in a nation that no longer needs it. The elephant has found itself more or less abandoned by previous owners who have moved on to a different economic world and a westernized society. And while the elephant's problems began many years ago, now it rates a very low national priority.
        How this reversal from national icon (圣像) to neglected animal came about is a tale of worsening environmental and the changing lives of the Thais themselves. According to Richard Lair, Thailand’s experts on the Asian elephant and author of the report Gone Astray, at the turn of the century there may well have been as many as 100,000 domestic elephants in the country. In the north of Thailand alone it was estimated that more than 20,000 elephants were employed in transport, 1,000 of them alone on the road between the cities of Chiang Mai and Chiang Saen. This was at a time when 90 per cent of Thailand was still forest—a habitat (棲息地) that not only supported the animals but also made them necessary to carry goods and people. Nothing ploughs through dense forest better than a massive but sure-footed elephant.
       By 1950 the elephant population had dropped to a still substantial 13,397, but today there are probably no more than 3,800, with another 1,350 roaming free in the national parks. But now, Thailand’s forest coversonly 20 per cent of the land. This deforestation (采伐森林) is the central point of the elephant's difficult situation, for it has effectively put the animals out of work. This century, as the road network grew, so the elephant's role as a beast of burden declined.
練習(xí)題：
       Choose correct answers to the question:
1. What can we know about African elephants from the passage?
A. It is easy to tame them.
 B. It is hard to tame them.
 C. They are living a better life than Asian elephants.
 D. Their fate is quite similar to that of Asian elephants.
2. Thailand was once called “Land of the White Elephant” because_______.
A. white elephant is rarely seen and thus very special
 B. white elephant was a national symbol until the 1920s
 C. white elephant has helped kings to gain the ruling authority
 D. this name was so romantic that it was popular among visitors
3. Why is the Thai elephant “out of work”, according to the author?
A. Because the elephants are no longer useful to their owners.
 B. Because their owners are westernized and neglect them.
 C. Because the government pays little attention to the problem.
 D. Because there are too many elephants and too few jobs.
4. Which of the following statements is true about the elephant population at various times?
A. There were 100,000 tamed elephants at the turn of the century.
 B. 20,000 elephants were employed in transport in Thailand at the turn of the century.
 C. By 1950 the elephant population in Thailand has been quite small.
 D. Today the elephant population is estimated at 5,150.
5. The passage is most probably from_______.
A. a travel magazine
 B. a history book
 C. a research report
 D. an official announcement
      1.[B] 事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。本題考查對比處。根據(jù)文章第l段第3句：和非洲象不同，亞洲象容易馴養(yǎng)，言下之意就是：非洲象不易馴養(yǎng)。答案中用tame替代原文的domesticate，意思相同。選項(xiàng)A與原文意思正好相反;選項(xiàng)C，D原文根本未提到。
      2.[B] 推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第l段第4句中的“until the 1920s the national flag was a white elephant on a red background.”可知當(dāng)時(shí)白象是泰國的國家象征，因此B為正確選項(xiàng)。本題最具干擾性的是選項(xiàng)D，在形式上，選項(xiàng)D與第1段最后一句極為相似，但是，游客這樣稱呼泰國，原因也是因?yàn)榘紫笫翘﹪南笳鳎恢皇且驗(yàn)檫@個(gè)名字浪漫，因此，選項(xiàng)D是對原文的曲解;選項(xiàng)A和選項(xiàng)C雖然也來自文章，但不是原因，不能回答所提問題。
      3.[A] 推理判斷題。文章有幾處解釋了大象失業(yè)的原因，如第2段的第2句“a nation that no longer needs it (Thai elephant)”及最后一段的最后一句“the elephant’s role as a beast of burden declined”等。選項(xiàng)A是對這些解釋的一個(gè)基本概括。選項(xiàng)B中westernized和neglect雖在文章中出現(xiàn)，但選項(xiàng)B只是對想像的描述，不能解釋大象“失業(yè)”的原因。選項(xiàng)C來自第2段最后一句話，但這句話只能說明大象不再受重視，不能作為大象“失業(yè)”的理由。選項(xiàng)D原文未提及，而且，從第3、4段可以看出：大象的數(shù)量急劇下降，談不上“太多”。
      4.[D] 事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。此題考查的是大象數(shù)量變化的情況。四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中的數(shù)字惟有選項(xiàng)D沒有直接出現(xiàn)，但根據(jù)第4段第l句很容易推算出來。選項(xiàng)A和B雖用了原文的數(shù)據(jù)，但選項(xiàng)A忽略了may這個(gè)詞，而且未點(diǎn)明泰國，故不妥。B則忽略了in the north of Thailand及more than這兩處。選項(xiàng)C中的small與原文substantial(大量的)沖突，也不對。

      5.[C] 主旨大意題。從本文所用的大量客觀的數(shù)據(jù)和數(shù)字可以推斷這是一篇研究報(bào)告。本文趣味性不足，因此不能選A。選項(xiàng)B不能選，是因?yàn)闅v史書不可能如此大篇幅的描述大象的問題。選項(xiàng)D也不是正確答案，因?yàn)檎嫱ǔＪ且恍┮?guī)定，而不是客觀的陳述。

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