雅思阅读真题（Part 2）

Tasmanian tiger

Part 2 · 考频：超高频 · 最近考试：2023.5.24/2018.5.24

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Although it was called tiger, it looked like a dog with black stripes on its back and it was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. Yet, despite its fame for being one of the most fabled animals in the world, it is one of the least understood of Tasmania’s native animals. The scientific name for the Tasmanian tiger is Thylacine and it is believed that they have become extinct in the 20th century.

 

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题目与答案

  1. 14 The Tasmanian tiger, also called thylacine, resembles the look of a dog and has _____ on its fur coat.

    答案：black strips

    原文定位：Although it was called tiger, it looked like a dog with black stripes on its back and it was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times

  2. 15 Many fossils have been found, showing that thylacines had existed as early as _____ years ago.

    答案：12 million

    原文定位：Fossils of thylacines dating from about almost 12 million years ago have been dug up at various places in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia

  3. 16 They lived throughout _____ before disappearing from the mainland.

    答案：Australia

    原文定位：They were widespread in Australia 7,000 years ago, but have probably been extinct on the continent for 2,000 years

  4. 17 And soon after the _____ settlers arrived the size of thylacine population in Tasmania shrunk at a higher speed.

    答案：European

    原文定位：Because of disease, thylacine numbers may have been declining in Tasmania at the time of European settlement 200 years ago, but the decline was certainly accelerated by the new arrivals

  5. His report of seeing a live thylacine in the wild attracted international interest.
    • A Hans Naarding
    • B Randolph Rose
    • C David Pemberton
    • D Nick Mooney

    答案：A Hans Naarding

    原文定位：When the news finally broke, it was accompanied by pandemonium. “I was besieged by television crews, including four to live from Japan, and others from the United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand and South America,” said Naarding

  6. Many eye-witnesses ’ reports are not trustworthy.
    • A Hans Naarding
    • B Randolph Rose
    • C David Pemberton
    • D Nick Mooney

    答案：D Nick Mooney

    原文定位：And Mooney has seen it all - the mistakes, the hoaxes, the illusions and the plausible accounts of sightings

  7. It doesn’t require a certain number of animals to ensure the survival of a species.
    • A Hans Naarding
    • B Randolph Rose
    • C David Pemberton
    • D Nick Mooney

    答案：C David Pemberton

    原文定位：Dr. David Pemberton;says that despite scientific thinking that 500 animals are required to sustain a population, the Florida panther is down to a dozen or so animals and, while it does have some inbreeding problems, is still ticking along

  8. There is no hope of finding a surviving Tasmanian tiger.
    • A Hans Naarding
    • B Randolph Rose
    • C David Pemberton
    • D Nick Mooney

    答案：B Randolph Rose

    原文定位：But Rose, who in his 35 years in Tasmanian academia has fielded countless reports of thylacine sightings, is now convinced that his dream will go unfulfilled

  9. Do not disturb them if there are any Tasmanian tigers still living today.
    • A Hans Naarding
    • B Randolph Rose
    • C David Pemberton
    • D Nick Mooney

    答案：A Hans Naarding

    原文定位：If there are thylacines out there, they are better off right where they are

  10. The interpretation of evidence can be affected by people’s beliefs.
    • A Hans Naarding
    • B Randolph Rose
    • C David Pemberton
    • D Nick Mooney

    答案：D Nick Mooney

    原文定位：If something crosses the road, it’s not a case of ‘I wonder what that was?’ Rather, it is a case of ‘that’s a thylacine!’ It is a bit like a gold prospector’s blind faith, ‘it has got to be there

  11. 24 Hans Naarding’s sighting has resulted in
    • A government and organisations’ cooperative efforts to protect thylacine.
    • B extensive interests to find a living thylacine.
    • C increase of the number of reports of thylacine worldwide.
    • D growth of popularity of thylacine in literature.

    答案：B extensive interests to find a living thylacine.

    原文定位：When the news finally broke, it was accompanied by pandemonium. “I was besieged by television crews, including four to live from Japan, and others from the United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand and South America,” said Naarding;Government and private search parties combed the region, but no further sightings were made

  12. 25 The example of coelacanth is to illustrate
    • A it lived in the same period with dinosaurs.
    • B how dinosaurs evolved legs.
    • C some animals are difficult to catch in the wild.
    • D extinction of certain species can be mistaken.

    答案：D extinction of certain species can be mistaken.

    原文定位：The strange fish known as the coelacanth, with its “proto-legs”, was thought to have died out along with the dinosaurs 700 million years ago until a specimen was dragged to the surface in a shark net off the south-east coast of South Africa in 1938

  13. 26 Mooney believes that all sighting reports should be
    • A given some credit as they claim even if they are untrue.
    • B acted upon immediately.
    • C viewed as equally untrustworthy.
    • D questioned and carefully investigated.

    答案：A given some credit as they claim even if they are untrue.

    原文定位：However, Mooney treats all reports on face value. “I never try to embarrass people, or make fools of them;Hoaxers aside, most people who report sightings end up believing they have seen a thylacine, and are themselves believable to the point they could pass a lie-detector test

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