雅思阅读练习题及答案

雅思阅读练习题及答案

雅思阅读练习题及答案

National Parks and Climate Change

A

National parks, nature reserves, protected areas

and sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) are

an important part of the natural landscape in most

countries. Their habitat and terrains vary massively,

from tundra and glacier parks in the north to wetlands

in Europe, steppes in central and eastern Europe, and

prairie grasslands and deserts in other areas.

Virtually all kinds of landscape are protected

somewhere. And these protected areas are important for

the variety of plant and animal life they harbour:

caribou, bears, wolves, rare types of fish and birds.

B

But these areas are under threat from a recent

peril - global climate change. No amount of

legislation in any one country can protect against a

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worldwide problem. What exactly are the problems

caused by climate change? David Woodward, head of the

British Council for Nature Conservation, spoke to

Science Now about some of these areas, and his first

point highlighted the enormous variation in nature

reserves.

C

“Each park or reserve is an ecosystem,” he says,

“and the larger reserves, such as those in Canada,

may have several types of ecological subsystems within

it. There are reserves which are half the size of

Western Europe, so it doesn't make sense to talk about

them as if they were all the same, or as if the

microclimates within them were uniform.” Woodward

outlines some of the dangers posed by climatic change

to parks in the northern Americas, for exle.

D

“If climatic change is severe, and in particular

if the change is happening as quickly as it is at the

moment, then the boundaries of the park no longer make

much sense. A park that was designated as a protected

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area 90 years ago may suffer such change in its

climate that the nature of it changes too. It will no

longer contain the animal and plant life that it did.

So the area which once protected, say, a species of

reindeer or a type of scenery, will have changed. In

effect, you lose the thing you were trying to

protect.” This effect has already been seen in Canada,

where parks which once contained glaciers have seen

the glaciers melted by global warming.

E

Jennie Lindstrom, Chief Executive Officer of H2O,

the charity which caigns on an international level on

behalf of mainland Europe's protected wetland and

wilderness areas, is even more pessimistic. In a

letter to Science Now, she has asserted that up to 70%

of such areas are already experiencing such

“significant change ... in climate” that the

distribution patterns. of flora and fauna are changing,

and that all areas will eventually be affected. She

estimates that the most profound change is occurring

in the norther____ost parks in areas such as Finland,

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Greenland, Iceland and northern Russia, but adds that

“there is no place which will not suffer the effects

of global warming. What we are seeing is a massive

change in the enviro____ent - and that means the

extinction of whole species, as well as visual and

structural changes which means that areas like the

Camargue may literally look totally different in 50 or

60 years' time.”

F

G

Certainly, climate change is not going to go away

overnight. It is estimated that fossil fuels burnt in

the 1950s will still be affecting our climate in

another 30 years, so the changes will continue for

some time after that. If we want to protect the

remnants of our wild landscapes for future generations,

the impetus for change must e from the gover____ents

of the world.

Questions 1 - 7

Do the following statements agree with the

information given in Reading Passage 1?

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In boxes 1 - 7 on your answer sheet, write Yes if

the statement agrees with the information, No if the

statement contradicts the information, Not Given if

there is no information on this in the passage.

1 Every country has protected areas or national

parks.

2 Countries can protect their parks by changing

their laws.

3 A protected area or park can contain many

different ecosystems.

4 David Woodward thinks that Canadian parks will

all be different in 90 years.

5 Canada, more than any other country, has felt

the effects of global warming.

6 H2O works to protect wetlands all over the world.

7 Some parts of the world will feel the results of

global warming more than others.

Questions 8 - 13

plete the summary below. Choose your answers from

the box below the summary and write them in boxes 8 -

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13 on the answer sheet. There are more words than

spaces, so you will not use all the given words.

There are ________ (8) encountered in attempting

to stop the effects of ________ (9). One is the

difficulty of predicting change. Another is a lack of

________ (10) to change the situation; most

gover____ents' interest in the matter is limited

because it will not bee very serious ________ (11).

Finally, there is the quandary of what action we

should actually take. One solution is both to keep an

eye on the situation as it develops, and to push for

changes ________ (12). Even if we do this, the problem

is not going to ________ (13), since it takes a

considerable time for global warming to happen.

willingness of the authorities

lots of ways

global warming

internationally

for many years

locally

disappear straight away

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many problems

after all

Questions 14 and 15

Reading Passage 1 has seven paragraphs A - G.

Which paragraphs state the following information?

Write the appropriate letters A - G in boxes 14 and 15

on your answer sheet.

14 All areas of the world are likely to be

affected by global climate changes.

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

参考答案：

1. No 2. No 3. Yes 4. Not Given 5. Not Given 6. No

8. many problems 9. global warming 10. willingness

of the authorities

11. for many years 12. internationally 13.

disappear straight away

14. E 15.G

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