2016年12月英语四级阅读段落信息匹配练习(八)

　　K)So why not do everything we can, at whatever cost, to bring jaguars back into the United States? To begin with, the American Southwest is, at best, marginal habitat for the animals. More important, there are better ways to help jaguars. South of our border, from Mexico to Argentina, thousands of jaguars live and breed in their true critical habitat. Governments and conservation groups (including the one I head) are already working hard to conserve jaguar populations and connect them to one another through an initiative called the Jaguar Corridor.

　　L).The jaguars that now and then cross into the United States most likely come from the northernmost population of jaguars, in Sonora, Mexico. Rather than demand jaguars return to our country, we should help Mexico and other jaguar-range countries conserve the animals' true habitat it

　　M )The recent move by the Fish and Wildlife Service means that the rare federal funds devoted to protecting wild animals will be wasted on efforts that cannot help save jaguars. It also stands to weaken the Endangered Species Act, because if critical habitat is redefined as any place where a species might ever have existed, and where you or I might want it to exist again, then the door is open for many other sense less efforts to bring back long-lost creatures.

　　N)The Fish and Wildlife officials whose job is to protect the country's wild animals need to grow a stronger backbone--stick with their original, correct decision and save their money for more useful preservation work. Otherwise, when funds are needed to preserve all those small, ugly, non-charismatic endangered species at the back of the line, there may be no money left.

　　1. It is still a fact that there is no suitable place for jaguars to live safely in the United States.

　　2. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service should be more determined and saving for the conservation work.

　　3. Jaguars were regarded as endangered species because of their rare appearance at the United States-Mexico border.

　　4. Money was not spent effectively in helping save jaguars in the recent move by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

　　5. It can be inferred that the United States is not the best choice for jaguars to live from the evidence that they don't settle anywhere here.

　　6. South of the United States' border, from Mexico to Argentina, is the true critical habitat for jaguars.

　　7. The number of jaguars breeding populations in significant areas of the western United States has deceased in the past century.

　　8. It is necessary for the government to invest lots of funds in order to help jaguars to reestablish.

　　9. It didn't indicate that jaguars had settled down in the United States even though they were seen within 40 miles of the Mexican border at times.

　　10. Fish and Wildlife officials were sure enough to appoint critical habitat for the jaguar in the United States.

　　答案：

　　1.I)。【题干译文】这仍然是一个事实：在美国没有合适的地方让美洲虎安全地 生存。

　　【定位】由题干中的still a fact和no suitable place定位到原文I)段第一句：11lefacts haven’t changed：there is still no area in the United States essential to the conservation of the jaguar.

　　【精解】原文中的the facts haven’t changed对应题干中的it is still a fact，原文中的no area in the United States essential to the conservation of the jaguar对应题干中的no suitable place for jaguars to live safely in the United States，因此原文定位句和题干是同义转述，故选I)。

　　2.N)。【题干译文】美国鱼类和野生动物服务中心应该更加坚定并且为保护工作节约开支。

　　【定位】由题干中的determined and saving for the conservation work定位到原文N)段第一句：The Fish and Wild Life officials whose job is to protect the country's wild animals need to grow a stronger backbone——stick with their original.correct decision and save their money for more useful preservation work.

　　【精解】定位句表明美国鱼类和野生动物服务中心需要坚持他们最初的正确的决定并且为更为重要的美洲虎保护工作节省资金。题于中的be more determined对应原文中的9row a stronger backbone，故选N)。