（英语试卷）江苏省连云港市七校联考2024-2025学年高一下学期期中试题（解析版）.docx

江苏省连云港市七校联考2024-2025学年高一下学期期中英语试题 第一部分 听力（ 略 ） 第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分 50 分） 第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2. 5 分，满分 37. 5 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A 、 B 、 C 、 D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Deciduous forests ( 落叶林 ) are home to many wild animals. The development and expansion of human in the forests has caused many of their native species to become endangered. Giant Panda The giant panda, one of the most recognizable endangered species, is a large, docile species of bear native to the deciduous forest of eastern China, Myanmar and Vietnam, Because of its limited diet — the panda’s main source of food is bamboo — the species is limited in its habitat to areas where bamboo is available. Now the species only can be found today in 20 small patches of forest at the western edge of its historic range. Gray and Red Wolves The gray wolf, which once ranged from the East Coast of America to the West, and south to Mexico, now has a population of only 5,000 in the lower 48 states, mostly in the Rocky Mountains. The smaller red wolf, native to the southeastern United States, was declare extinct in the wild in 1980, though conservation efforts have reintroduced small captive populations to the wild in California. Red-Crowned Crane The red-crowned crane is native to Japan, Korea an eastern China, Agricultural expansion and deforestation ( 森林砍伐 ) in these areas have removed a great deal of the marshes and forests that are the crane ’ s primary habitats For a time, the crane was thought to have complete disappeared from Japan, but the recent discovery of cranes in Japanese marshlands has restarted conservation efforts. Today, around 2,500 cranes live in the wild, including 1,000 in Japan. European Mink Native to Europe, the European mink ranges from France in the west to Finland in the north, Russia in the east and the Balkans in the south, Destruction of the mink ’ s aquatic ( 水的 ) habitat and use of the species for fur h