河南省南阳市宛城区南阳市第一中学校2023-2024学年高一下学期5月月考英语试题（PDF版，无答案，无听力原文，无音频）

26.Why did the writer give the sweets and the Smile Card to the neighbour
A.To please the neighbour's children.
B.To thank the neighbour for the help last week
C.To receive a welcome treat from the neighbour.
D.To try to trouble the neighbour to take in his parcel.
27.What message does the writer convey
A.A friend in need is a friend indeed.
B.Any act of kindness matters.
C.Shyness makes it difficult to succeed.
D.Believe in yourself first,then others will believe you.
C
The African continent has seen its average monthly temperatures rise by 0.5-2 degrees
Celsius over the past century,with up to another two degrees of warming projected for the
next 100 years.The changing climate will break historical rainfall patterns,but which of
these,temperature or rainfall,will have the most impact on a species,like rhinos()
"Generally speaking,most,if not all,species will.in one way or another.be affected by
the changing climate,"says lead author Hlelowenkhosi S.Mamba,who completed this
research.It is therefore important to catch tendency()and model futures for some of the
world's weakest species.It can help prepare to reduce climate change's effects,hence reducing
global biodiversity losses.
To understand how our changing climate will affect rhino populations,Mamba and
Timothy Randhir.professor of environmental protection.focused their efforts on the five
large national parks that are home to most of the rhinos.
Mamba and Randhir then modeled two scenes for each of the parks:the IPCC's high-
emissions(排放)scenes and a more moderate(适度的)emissions scenes.They projected
temperature and rainfall for each of the scenes out to 2055 and 2085 to arrive at a possibility
that each park would remain suitable for the rhinos.
Nearly every park will become increasingly drier as emissions increase.This is all very bad
news for the rhinos,because the team also found that,though the change in rainfall will not
be most suitable for the rhinos,the changes in temperature are greater than what the species
can bear.
"The temperature conditions in all study parks will become increasingly unsuitable for the
species.And under the high-emissions scenes,the possibility of occurrence of the species falls
to zero by 2085,"the authors write.
But to be forewarned is to be prepared in advance."We propose that park managers think
now about increasing water supplies,tree cover,watching for stress and planning to allow
rhinos to move from one place to another place as the world warms,"says Randhir.
28.Why does the author ask a question in Paragraph 1
A.To show an evidence.
B.To stress the main idea.
C.To lead in the topic.
D.To offer some background.
29.What does the second paragraph mainly focus on
A.The means of the research.
B.The content of the research.
C.The process of the research.
D.The significance of the research.
30.What can we know about the research from the text
A.Changes in rainfall have a greater effect on rhinos.
B.Each park will have no rhinos in 2055.
C.Changes in temperature affect rhinos more.
D.Each park will be warmer by 4.5C in 2085.
24645A
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