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第3节雅思阅读段落标题对应题（Reading Passage37-48）
◆Reading Passage37
Questions1-5
The following READING PASSAGE has six paragraphs A-F.
Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-F from the list of headings below.
List of Headings
i Not only birds suffer
ii Vanishing of habitats gives rise to the drop in bird species
iii Cultivating farm fields is profitable for farmers
iv A niche and minor problem
v Who should be blamed?
vi Woodlark and other birds are on the brink
vii Hedges and bushes are blamed for the reduction
viii The rapid disappearance of bird species in Britain
ix The countryside is the farmland
x A major change in local landscape-more land is cultivated
xi Farmland is taking a insignificant share
Example Answer
Paragraph A viii
1Paragraph B
2Paragraph C
3Paragraph D
4Paragraph E
5Paragraph F
Where have all our birds gone?
People have been listening to skylarks singing in Britain for10,000years.But now they,and many other much-loved species,are vanishing fast.David Adam finds out why.
A family of Starlings has chosen a post box for the third year running in an Essex seaside town to raise their young brood.
A The B1042that winds from the Bedfordshire town of Sandy towards the village
of Potton is a difficult road to cross.Fast and twisty,there are several blind bends where pedestrians must take their lives into their hands.That is trickier than it sounds,for most pedestrians who cross the B1042already have a pair
of binoculars in their hands.
The road separates the grand headquarters of the RSPB,home to hundreds of birdwatchers,from some unkept fields,home to hundreds of watchable birds-hence the regular skips across the tarmac.
The skips,though,are now less regular for many RSPB staff,for the star attraction of the neighboring fields has flown.Until a year ago,a clutch of woodlark nested there,one of Britain’s rarest birds with just1,000or so thought to remain.Then their home was ploughed up and replaced with a giant field of swaying hemp plants.The woodlark has not been seen since.
B It is not just the professional birdwatchers of the RSPB who have seen their local
landscape transformed.Across Britain,and with little fanfare,the face of the countryside has subtly changed in recent years.Farm fields that stood idle for years under EU schemes to prevent overproduction,such as the one across the road from the RSPB,have been conscripted back into active service.The uncultivated land,previously a haven for wildlife,has been ploughed,and farmers have planted crops such as wheat and barley,with occasional hemp for use in paper and textiles.
C As a result,the amount of land available for birds such as the woodlark has
halved in the last two years.Without efforts to stem this loss of habitat, conservation experts warn that the countryside of the future could look and sound very different.Starved of insects in the spring and seeds through the winter,the metallic-sounding corn bunting and plump grey partridge,formerly one of the most common birds on UK shores,are on the brink.And the skylark, whose twittering has provided the soundtrack to millions of countryside walks and inspired Percy Bysshe Shelley,in Ode to a Skylark,to praise its“profuse strains of unpremeditated art”,is struggling and could soon vanish from many areas.Numbers fell53%from1970to2006.“This is not just about birdwatchers.These birds are part of our common heritage,”says Gareth Morgan,head of agriculture policy at the RSPB.
D Government figures show that populations of19bird species that rely on
farmland have halved since serious counting started in the1970s—a decline conservationists blame on intensive farming methods,with insecticide and herbicide sprayed on to monoculture fields short of vibrant hedges.The unmistakable yellowhammer,which likes to sing while perched as a dash of colour on hedges and bushes,has steadily disappeared with the hedges and bushes.And a startling80%drop across England in40years has diluted the shifting Rorschach blots painted on the dusk sky by massed flocks of starling-though urban changes are blamed for this too.
E Farmland birds may sound a niche problem,and you may think that the rest of
the countryside is doing OK,but for most people,farmland is the British countryside.About75%of Britain is farmed,and about half of that are arable fields.Take a train between two UK towns,particularly in eastern counties,and almost all of the countryside you see is farmland.
F As Simon Gillings of the British Trust for Ornithology(BTO)puts it:“For most
people,farmland is the countryside and farmland birds are the birds they see.”
If birds are struggling,then it is a fair bet that other wildlife is too.“Birds are indicative of other things,”Gillings says.“If birds are declining then what does that say about the plants and insects they rely on?It’s all linked together.”
『长难句分析』
·Farm fields that stood idle for years under EU schemes to prevent overproduction, such as the one across the road from the RSPB,have been conscripted back into active service.
分析：句子的主干是Farm fields have been conscripted back into active service，其中that引导的是fields的定语从句，such as是举例说明。

·The uncultivated land,previously a haven for wildlife,has been ploughed,and farmers have planted crops such as wheat and barley,with occasional hemp for use
in paper and textiles.
分析：句子的主干是The uncultivated land has been ploughed,and farmers have planted crops,是由and连接的两个简单句，其中previously a haven for wildlife 是同位语，with是伴随状语。

『答案解析』
1.x
本段的主题句是第一句“It is not just the professional birdwatchers of the RSPB who have seen their local landscape transformed”，再结合本段的其他内容可知本段主要讲的是当地土地面貌发生了变化。

由此可知，只有选项x的表述与此相符。

故答案为x。

2.ii
根据本段第一句“the amount of land available for birds such as the woodlark has halved in the last two years.”，可知鸟类生存的土地在过去两年间减少了一半。

本段后半部分则侧重讲由于鸟类栖息地的减少导致鸟类数量的锐减。

因此可知，本段的主旨大意就是鸟类生存土地的减少致使鸟类数量的大幅减少。

结合选项，不难看出选项ii的表述是符合原文的。

故答案是ii。

3.v
本段内容和上段内容衔接很紧密。

上一段中提到了鸟类栖息地的减少导致鸟类数量的锐减。

这一段则侧重讲是什么原因导致了数量的下降。

从“conservationists blame on intensive farming methods”，“urban changes are blamed for this too.”等句子中可以看出本段的主旨大意就是“谁应该为鸟类栖息地的减少负责”。

因此，可以确定本题的。