剑桥雅思阅读答案解析 Great Migrations

剑桥雅思阅读答案解析 Great Migrations

Animal migration, however it is defined, is far more than just the movement of animals. It can loosely be described as travel that takes place at regular intervals – often in an annual cycle – that may involve many members of a species, and is rewarded only after a long journey. It suggests inherited instinct. The biologist Hugh Dingle has identified five characteristics that apply, in varying degrees and combinations, to all migrations. They are prolonged movements that carry animals outside familiar habitats; they tend to be linear, not zigzaggy; they involve special behaviours concerning preparation (such as overfeeding) and arrival; they demand special allocations of energy. And one more: migrating animals maintain an intense attentiveness to the greater mission, which keeps them undistracted by temptations and undeterred by challenges that would turn other animals aside.

无论如何定义动物迁徙，它都不仅仅是动物的移动而已。它可以大致被描述为按照规律的间隔（通常以一年为周期）所进行的旅行。这通常涉及某一种群中的大部分成员，并且只有在漫长的旅程之后才能得到奖励。这种行为显示出它们的遗传本能。生物学家Hugh Dingle总结出5个在不同程度上或者按照不同组合适用于所有迁徙的特点。它们是漫长的移动，将动物带出熟悉的栖息地；它们通常是线性的，而非蜿蜒曲折的；它们涉及到与准备（如过量饮食）和到达相关的特殊行为；它们需要独特的能量分配。此外还有一点，迁徙中的动物对这一伟大的任务高度专注。这让它们不会被诱惑所干扰，面对让其他动物止步不前的挑战不屈不挠。

第2段

An arctic tern, on its 20,000 km flight from the extreme south of South America to the Arctic circle, will take no notice of a nice smelly herring offered from a bird-watcher’s boat along the way. While local gulls will dive voraciously for such handouts, the tern flies on. Why? The arctic tern resists distraction because it is driven at that moment by an instinctive sense of something we humans find admirable: larger purpose. In other words, it is determined to reach its destination. The bird senses that it can eat, rest and mate later. Right now it is totally focused on the journey; its undivided intent is arrival. Reaching some gravelly coastline in the Arctic, upon which other arctic terns have converged, will serve its larger purpose as shaped by evolution: finding a place, a time, and a set of circumstances in which it can successfully hatch and rear offspring.

一只北极燕鸥在它从南美最南端到北极圈长达20000公里的飞行中，不会注意到路途上鸟类观察者的小船所提供的美味鲱鱼。尽管当地海鸥文章来自老烤鸭雅思会为这些馈赠而贪婪地俯冲下来，燕鸥却继续向前飞行。这是为什么呢？北极燕鸥之所以拒绝这一诱惑是因为那时它被一种我们人类十分钦佩的本能所驱动着，即更大的目标。换句话说，它下定决心要到达自己的目的地。这只鸟感觉自己可以稍后进食、休息和交配。现在，它全神贯注于这一旅程，全部的心思都是抵达。到达北极沙砾遍布、其他北极燕鸥聚集的海岸便能达成由进化所塑造出来的更大的目标：找到某个地方，某个时间，以及一系列的环境条件。在其中，它可以成功地孵化和养育后代。

第3段

But migration is a complex issue, and biologists define it differently, depending in part on what sorts of animals they study. Joel Berger, of the University of Montana, who works on the American pronghorn and other large terrestrial mammals, prefers what he calls a simple, practical definition suited to his beasts: ‘movements from a seasonal home area away to another home area and back again’. Generally the reason for such seasonal back-and-forth movement is to seek resources that aren’t available within a single area year-round.

但是，迁徙是一个复杂的问题，根据生物学家所研究的动物种类不同，他们对它的定义也各有不同。蒙大拿大学、研究美国叉角羚和其他大型陆生哺乳动物的Joel Berger，倾向于使用一个适用于他所研究的动物类型的，简单实用的定义：“从一个季节性的栖息地离开，到另外一个栖息地去，并再次返回的过程”。大体来说，这种季节性往返移动的原因是为了寻找在某个单一区域并非全年存在的资源。

第4段

But daily vertical movements by zooplankton in the ocean – upward by night to seek food, downward by day to escape predators – can also be considered migration. So can the movement of aphids when, having depleted the young leaves on one food plant, their offspring then fly onward to a different host plant, with no one aphid ever returning to where it started.

但是，海洋中浮游生物每天的垂直移动-夜里向上寻找食物，白天向下躲避捕食者-也可以被认为是迁徙。蚜虫的活动同样如此，在吃光了一株植物上的嫩叶之后，它们的后代会飞到一株不同的宿主植物上。没有一个蚜虫会返回到出发的地方。

第5段

Dingle is an evolutionary biologist who studies insects. His definition is more intricate than Berger’s, citing those five features that distinguish migration from other forms of movement. They allow for the fact that, for example, aphids will become sensitive to blue light (from the sky) when it’s time for takeoff on their big journey, and sensitive to yellow light (reflected from tender young leaves) when it’s appropriate to land. Birds will fatten themselves with heavy feeding in advance of a long migrational flight. The value of his definition, Dingle argues, is that it focuses attention on what the phenomenon of wildebeest migration shares with the phenomenon of the aphids, and therefore helps guide researchers towards understanding how evolution has produced them all.

Dingle是一名研究昆虫的进化生物学家。他的定义与Berger相比要更加精致一些，列举出迁徙区别于其他形式移动的5个特征。它们考虑到以下事实：例如蚜虫在开启自己宏大旅程的时候会变得对来自天空的蓝色光线更为敏感，而在适合降落的时候会对反射自嫩叶的黄色光线更为敏感。鸟类会在漫长迁徙飞行之前会大量饮食来让自身变得肥胖。Dingle认为，其定义的价值在于，它将注意力放在角马迁徙与蚜虫迁徙现象的共性上，并由此来帮助引导研究者理解进化是如何产生所有这些共性的。

第6段

Human behaviour, however, is having a detrimental impact on animal migration. The pronghorn, which resembles an antelope, though they are unrelated, is the fastest land mammal of the New World. One population, which spends the summer in the mountainous Grand Teton National Park of the western USA, follows a narrow route from its summer range in the mountains, across a river, and down onto the plains. Here they wait out the frozen months, feeding mainly on sagebrush blown clear of snow. These pronghorn are notable for the invariance of their migration route and the severity of its constriction at three bottlenecks. If they can’t pass through each of the three during their spring migration, they can’t reach their bounty of summer grazing; if they can’t pass through again in autumn, escaping south onto those windblown plains, they are likely to die trying to overwinter in the deep snow. Pronghorn, dependent on distance vision and speed to keep safe from predators, traverse high, open shoulders of land, where they can see and run. At one of the bottlenecks, forested hills rise to form a V, leaving a corridor of open ground only about 150 metres wide, filled with private homes. Increasing development is leading toward a crisis for the pronghorn, threatening to choke off their passageway.

然而，人类行为对动物迁徙有着负面影响。叉角羚虽然与羚羊无关，但看起来很像。它是新世界速度最快的陆生哺乳动物。其中一个族群会在美国西部大提顿国家公园的山脉之间度过夏天，然后从其山间的夏季牧场沿一条狭窄的路径南下，穿过河流，到达平原。在这里，他们等待寒冷月份结束，主要以被风吹过露出雪面的灌木为生。这些叉羚羊之所以引人注目是因为其迁徙路线的不变性，以及三个瓶颈的严重限制。如果它们在春季迁徙中无法通过三个中的任何一个，它们就不能到达食物充足的夏季草场。如果他们在秋季时不能再次通过，就无法向南逃到被风吹拂的平原上，并很有可能在试图度过厚厚冰雪的冬季中死亡。叉羚羊依赖其远视能力和速度来躲避捕食者。他们穿行于陆地高耸开阔的地带，便于四处观察和奔跑。在其中一个瓶颈中，遍布森林的山峰耸立，形成V字形状，只留下一条大约150米宽的走廊。其间充满私人住宅。不断的发展正在引发一场叉羚羊的生存危机，有堵塞它们通道的风险。

第7段

Conservation scientists, along with some biologists and land managers within the USA’s National Park Service and other agencies, are now working to preserve migrational behaviours, not just species and habitats. A National Forest has recognised the path of the pronghorn, much of which passes across its land, as a protected migration corridor. But neither the Forest Service nor the Park Service can control what happens on private land at a bottleneck. And with certain other migrating species, the challenge is complicated further – by vastly greater distances traversed, more jurisdictions, more borders, more dangers along the way. We will require wisdom and resoluteness to ensure that migrating species can continue their journeying a while longer.

物种保护科学家，以及来自美国国家公园管理局和其他机构的一些生物学家和土地管理者，现在正努力保护动物的迁徙行为，而不仅仅是它们的种群和栖息地。一片国家森林将叉角羚的迁徙路线（很大一部分路径要穿行其中）列为受保护的迁徙走廊。但无论是森林服务局还是公园服务局都无法控制瓶颈地带私人土地上所发生的事情。对于其他一些迁徙物种来说，挑战要更加复杂一些。它们一路上穿越更长的距离，更多的管辖区，更多的边境，面对更多的危险。我们需要智慧和决心来确保迁徙中的物种能够将他们的旅途进行的更长久一些。

第14题答案：FALSE

对应原文：第2段：While local gulls will dive voraciously for such handouts, the tern flies on.

答案解析：第2段中间提到，当地海鸥看到食物会贪婪地俯冲下来，而北极燕鸥则会继续飞行。可见它们对食物的反应并不相同。题干描述与此相反，由此判断答案为FALSE。

第15题答案：TRUE

对应原文：第3段：biologists define it differently, depending in part on what sorts of animals they study.

答案解析：第3段开头提到，生物学家根据他们所研究的动物种类不同，对迁徙的定义文章来自老烤鸭雅思也各不相同。题目只是采用同义替换的手法更改了几个词汇而已。由此判断答案为TRUE。

第16题答案：NOT GIVEN

对应原文：第4段：… can also be considered migration. So can the movement of aphids

答案解析：第4段只是提到蚜虫的移动也可以被看做是迁徙。至于有多少生物学家同意这一观点则完全没有提及。题目属于无中生有，由此判断答案为NOT GIVEN。

第17题答案：TRUE

对应原文：第5段：aphids will become sensitive to blue light (from the sky) when it’s time for takeoff on their big journey, and sensitive to yellow light (reflected from tender young leaves) when it’s appropriate to land.

答案解析：第5段中部提到，蚜虫在准备出发时对蓝色光线十分敏感，在着陆时会对黄色光线十分敏感。即蚜虫的旅行受到所接受的光线变化的影响，由此确定答案为TRUE。

第18题答案：FALSE

对应原文：第5段：Dingle argues, is that it focuses attention on what the phenomenon of wildebeest migration shares with the phenomenon of the aphids

答案解析：第5段最后一句提到，Dingle定义的优势在于，它将注意力放在不同物种迁徙的共性上。题干中的distinguish与原文不符，由此判断答案为FALSE。

第19题答案：G

对应原文：第1段：The biologist Hugh Dingle has identified five characteristics … they tend to be linear, not zigzaggy

答案解析：根据Dingle定位到第1段和第5段，其中第1段提到了迁徙路线的问题，指出他们大多数是线性的，而非蜿蜒曲折的。由此确定G为答案。

第20题答案：C

对应原文：第1段：they involve special behaviours concerning preparation (such as overfeeding) and arrival

答案解析：根据prepare和preparation的对应定位到第1段，原文提到他们会过度饮食，对应C选项的eat more than they need，由此确定答案。

第21题答案：A

对应原文：第1段：And one more: migrating animals maintain an intense attentiveness to the greater mission, which keeps them undistracted by temptations and undeterred by challenges that would turn other animals aside.

答案解析：顺着上一题往下，根据否定含义定位到第1段的最后一句话，进而锁定A和E。原文中说的是迁徙中的动物不会被诱惑所打扰，E选项变成无法无视诱惑，与原文描述相反，由此排除。确定A为答案。

第22题答案：E

对应原文：第2段：An arctic tern … will take no notice of a nice smelly herring offered from a bird-watcher’s boat along the way.

答案解析：第2段开头提到，北极燕鸥无视人们提供的食物。即忽略干扰的能力，由此确定E为答案。

第23题答案：speed

对应原文：第6段： Pronghorn, dependent on distance vision and speed to keep safe from predators

答案解析：根据标题定位到第6段，再根据predators定位到这句话。题干中eyesight与vision同义替换，根据并列关系确定speed为答案。

第24题答案：plains

对应原文：第6段：One population, which spends the summer in the mountainous Grand Teton National Park … down onto the plains. Here they wait out the frozen months, feeding mainly on sagebrush blown clear of snow.

答案解析：根据summer定位这句话，题干问的是冬天待在哪里。原文中虽然没有直接提到冬天，但有frozen months和snow这样的描述，由此确定plains为答案。

第25题答案：bottlenecks

对应原文： 第6段：These pronghorn are notable for the invariance of their migration route and the severity of its constriction at three bottlenecks.

答案解析：这道题相对比较简单一些，根据three可以很轻易的确定答案为bottlenecks。

第26题答案：corridor/passageway

对应原文：第6段：At one of the bottlenecks, forested hills rise to form a V, leaving a corridor of open ground only about 150 metres wide, filled with private homes.

答案解析：根据homes定位到第6段的这句话，题干将原文中only about 150 meters wide替换成了narrow，根据修饰关系确定corridor为答案。

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