The return of monkey life

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题目与答案

1. a reason why newer forests provide howlers with better feeding opportunities than older forests.
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   答案：C

   原文定位：In younger forests, trees put most of their limited energy into growing wood, leaves, and fruit, so they produce much lower levels of toxin than do well-established, old-growth trees

2. a reference to a change in farmers’ attitudes towards wildlife.
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   • D
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   答案：G

   原文定位：We’re moving away from that vision and beginning to consider ways in which commercial activities may become a tool for the conservation of primates in human-modified landscapes

3. a description of the means by which howlers select the best available diet for themselves.
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   • B
   • C
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   • E
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   答案：E

   原文定位：Watching generations of howlers at La Pacifica has shown Glander that the monkeys keep their systems primed by sampling a variety of plants and then focusing on a small number of the most nutritious food items

4. figures relating to the reduction of natural wildlife habitat over a period of time.
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   答案：B

   原文定位：In the 18th century, tropical dry forests once covered most of Central America, but by the 1980s less than two percent remained undisturbed, and less than one percent was protected

5. Why do howlers have an advantage over other Central American monkeys?

   ·18 Howler monkeys have a more rapid rate of _____ than either capuchin of spider monkeys.

   答案：reproduction

   原文定位：Howler reproduction is faster than that of other native monkey species

6. ·19 Unlike the other local monkey species, howlers can survive without eating _____ .

   答案：fruit

   原文定位：They eat fruit when it is available but, unlike capuchin and spider monkeys, do not depend on large areas of fruiting trees

7. ·20 and so can live inside a relatively small habitat area. Their diet is more flexible, and they are able to tolerate leaves with high levels of _____ .

   答案：toxins

   原文定位：Glander is particularly interested in howlers’ ability to thrive on leaves loaded with toxins- poisonous substances designed to protect the plants

8. ·21 Howlers can also survive periods of _____ better than the other monkey species can.

   答案：drought

   原文定位：This ability gives them a real advantage over capuchin and spider monkeys, which have suffered during the long, ongoing drought in the area

9. It has seen the return of native tree species.
   • Hacienda La Pacifica
   • Santa Rosa National Park
   • Cholula Cacao Farm

   答案：Santa Rosa National Park

   原文定位：But in 1971 the government protected the area by designating it a National Park, and species of Indigenous trees which had been absent for decades began to invade the abandoned pastures

10. It supports only one species of native monkey.
    • Hacienda La Pacifica
    • Santa Rosa National Park
    • Cholula Cacao Farm

    答案：Cholula Cacao Farm

    原文定位：This strange habitat seems to support about as many monkeys as would a same-sized patch of wild forest. The howlers eat the leaves and fruit of the shade trees, leaving the valuable cacao pods alone

11. Its monkey population helps the agriculture of the area.
    • Hacienda La Pacifica
    • Santa Rosa National Park
    • Cholula Cacao Farm

    答案：Cholula Cacao Farm

    原文定位：Estrada believes the monkeys bring underappreciated benefits to such plantations, dispersing the seeds of fruits such as fig and other shade trees, and fertilizing the soil

12. It is home to populations of all three local monkey species.
    • Hacienda La Pacifica
    • Santa Rosa National Park
    • Cholula Cacao Farm

    答案：Hacienda La Pacifica

    原文定位：Hacienda La Pacifica, a remote working cattle ranch in Guanacaste province of northern Costa Rica, has for decades been home to a community of mantled howler monkeys. Other native primates- white-faced capuchin monkeys and spider monkeys were once common in this area, too... At Hacienda La Pacifica, however, an enlightened ranch owner chose to leave some strips of native trees growing

13. Its landscape was altered by the construction of a transport link.
    • Hacienda La Pacifica
    • Santa Rosa National Park
    • Cholula Cacao Farm

    答案：Hacienda La Pacifica

    原文定位：Other native primates- white-faced capuchin monkeys and spider monkeys were once common in this area, too, but vanished after the Pan-American Highway was built nearby in the 1950s and most of the surrounding land was cleared for cattle-raising