2011年职称英语理工类补全短文实战演练(10)

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考查应试者把握文章结构、掌握作者思路的能力。本部分为1篇300～450词的短文，文中有5处空白，文章后面有6组文字，其中5组取自文章本身。要求应试者根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其放回相应位置，以恢复文章原貌。

　　Conservation or Wasted Effort?
　　The black robin (旅鸫) is one of the worlds rarest birds. It is a small, wild bird, and it lives only on the island of Little Mangere, off the coast of New Zealand. In 1967 there were about fifty black robins there. in 1977 there were fewer than ten.__________(46)
　　Energetic steps are being taken to preserve the black robin.__________(47) The idea is to buy another island nearby as a special home, a "reserve", for threatened wild life, including black robins. The organizers say that Little Mangere should then be restocked (重新准备) with the robins food. Thousands of the required plants are at present being cultivated in New Zealand.
　　Is all this concern a waste of human effort?__________(48) Are we losing our sense of what is reasonable and what is unreasonable?
　　In the earths long, long past hundreds of kinds of creatures have evolved, risen to a degree of success and died out. In the long, long future there will be many new and different forms of life. Those creatures that adapt themselves successfully to what the earth offers will survive for a long time.__________(49) This is natures proven method of operation.采集者退散
　　The rule of 0selection--"the survival of the fittest"--is the one by which human beings have themselves arrived on the scene. We, being one of the most adaptable creatures the earth has yet produced, may last longer than most.__________ (50) You may take it as another rule that when, at last, human beings show signs of dying out, no other creature will extend a paw (爪) to postpone our departure. On the contrary, we will be hurried out.
　　Life seems to have grown too tough for black robins. I leave you to judge whether we should try to do anything about it.
　　A Some creatures, certain small animals, insects and birds, will almost certainly outlast (比…长久) man, for they seem even more adaptable.
　　B Those that fail to meet the challenges will disappear early.
　　C Detailed studies are going on, and a public appeal for money has been made.
　　D Both represent orders in the classification of life.
　　E Is it any business of ours whether the black robin survives or dies out?
　　F These are the only black robins left in the world.
　　答案：F C E B A