(名师整理)最新英语冲刺中考“抗击新冠疫情”热点专题《选词填空题》精讲精练(含答案)

【2020抗击疫情热点】中考英语选词填空：

疫情使地球环境和空气质量大为改善

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阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。

Part1

Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. American Gaylord Nelson launched the first Earth Day in 1970. His aim was to urge local action and increase people's____1_____ of our planet and its environment.

The creation of Earth Day is ____2_____ considered the beginning of the modern environmental movement.

As climate activists marked the event this year, an unplanned experiment is ____3_____ the planet.

Many people continue to stay at home to stop the ____4_____ of the new coronavirus. As a ____5_____, people are making____6_____ pollution, and the air has become cleaner.

Smog stopped covering New Delhi, one of the world's most polluted____7_____. Nitrogen dioxide pollution in the northeastern United States has _____8_____ 30 percent. Air pollution levels in Rome have dropped 49 percent compared to a year ago. Stars seem more visible at night.

People also report seeing wild animals in unusual places. Coyotes have been observed walking in downtown Chicago and near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. A puma was ____9____ in the streets of Santiago, Chile. Goats entered a town in Wales and showed no ____10_____in leaving.

When people stay home, the Earth becomes cleaner and wilder.

Part2

Cleaner air

Stuart Pimm is a____1_____ at Duke University in the United States. He says the stay-at-home orders worldwide are "giving us this quite extraordinary insight into just how much of a mess we humans are making of our ____2_____ planet."

Pimm told The Associated Press that the situation is providing a chance to "see how much better it can be."

Scientists, stuck at home like the rest of us, say they are interested in ____3_____ unexpected changes in plants, insects, weather, noise and light pollution.

____4_____ have been observing sharp drops in traditional air pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide, smog and tiny particles. These ____5_____ of pollutants kill up to 7 million people a year worldwide, says Dan Greenbaum, president of the Health Effects Institute.

Cleaner air has been most noticeable in India and China. On April 3, people living in Jalandhar, a city in north India's Punjab, ____6_____ up to a sight not seen for many years: snow-covered Himalayan mountains more than 160 kilometers ____7_____.

Cleaner air means ____8_____ lungs for asthmatics, ____9_____ children, said Mary Prunicki. She is a doctor and director of air pollution and health research at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California. She noted early studies have linked coronavirus severity to people ____10_____ weak lungs and those living in more polluted areas.

Part3

Animals take over

In Australia, police ____1_____ a video of a kangaroo on social media. It ____2_____ the animal jumping around a mostly empty neighborhood in downtown Adelaide. Several wild jackals recently occupied a city park in Tel Aviv, Israel.

We are not being invaded, Duke's Stuart Pimm noted. The wildlife has always ____3_____ there, but many animals only come out when people are not around.