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一、阅读理解
Stargazers can visit famous dark-sky parks in the world and enjoy unpolluted views of night skies. Let's take a deeper dive into what you'll see at the dark-sky parks.
Joshua Tree National Park, California
Joshua Tree National Park is a popular attraction for stargazers living on the west coast. Despite being influenced by light pollution on its western borders from Coachella Valley cities, its relative isolation from major cities in the east(with Phoenix being the closest city area some 300 miles away), provides it with some of the darkest skies in California.
Elqui Valley, Chile
A popular wine region centered on the Elqui River in northern Chile, the Elqui Valley also off
ers ideal conditions(high-altitude, low-population, limited cloud cover) for uncorking a bottle and toasting the heavens above. Spanning some 90,000 acres, the region has the distinction of being named the first-ever Dark Sky Sanctuary by the International Astronomical Union in 2015.
It's also home to nearly a dozen observatories, boutique stargazing hotels and a large variety of tours that cover both cosmic and daytime spectacles.
Wadi Rum, Jordan
One of Jordan's most valuable tourist destinations, Wadi Rum is an otherworldly mountain desert featuring dramatic rock formations and wind-swept rust-colored dunes. Wadi Rum is an incredible landscape too (used for a lot of sci-fi movies like Rogue One, Prometheus and The Martian) and it's one of the dark places where you can just sit and look up at the wonder of the night sky with very little interruption.
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, America
It's no surprise that Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve has been building a reputation for good night sky viewing. The dry air, high elevation, and lack of light pollution all make the park an ideal dark-sky destination.
The Sangre de Cristo Mountains block much of the sky glow coming from nearby cities, shrouding(遮蔽，笼罩)the park-with its 149,164 acres of dunes, wetlands, grasslands, forests and alpine tundra-in darkness.
1．What do we know about Joshua Tree National Park?
A．It is relatively separated from major cities.
B．It is the first dark sky park in the world.
C．It is affected by no light pollution.
D．It is named as the darkest sky in the world.
2．What helps prevent Great Sand Dunes from light?
A．The wetlands.    B．The sand dune.
C．The forests.    D．The mountains.
3．Who are the intended readers of the text?
A．Park goers.    B．Space explorers.
C．Star observers.    D．Adventurous campers.
【答案】1．A
2．D
3．C
【解析】
【分析】
这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了几个适合观星爱好者的景点。
1．
细节理解题。根据Joshua Tree National Park, California部分第二句“Despite being influenced by light pollution on its western borders from Coachella Valley cities, its relative isolation from major cities in the east(with Phoenix being the closest city area some                    300 miles away), provides it with some of the darkest skies in California.”（尽管它的西部边界受到科切拉山谷城市的光污染的影响，但它与东部主要城市的相对隔绝(凤凰城是最近的城市地区，约300英里外)，使它拥有加州最黑暗的天空。）可知，Joshua Tree National Park与主要城市相对隔离。故选A。
2．
细节理解题。根据Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, America部分第二段第一句“The Sangre de Cristo Mountains block much of the sky glow coming from nearby cities, shrouding(遮蔽，笼罩)the park-with its 149,164 acres of dunes, wetlands, grasslands, forests and                    alpine tundra-in darkness.”（Sangre de Cristo山阻挡了来自附近城市的大部分天空辉光，将公园笼罩在黑暗中，公园里有149,164英亩的沙丘、
湿地、草原、森林和高山苔原。）可知，山让Great Sand Dunes免受阳光照射。故选D。
3．
推理判断题。根据第一段“Stargazers can visit famous dark-sky parks in the world and enjoy unpolluted views of night skies. Let's take a deeper dive into what you'll see at the dark-sky parks.”（观星者可以参观世界上著名的暗天公园，欣赏未受污染的夜空美景。让我们来深入了解一下在黑暗天空的公园里你会看到什么。）可知，这篇文章的目标读者是观星爱好者。故选C。
Tommy, a 26-year-old chimp(猩猩),lives in a small cage in a used truck sales lot in New York. Retired from movie work and whatever else once occupied him, he has no chimp friends to keep him company — just a TV. He is worlds away from the rainforest of Western Africa, where chimps spend most of their lives in trees, hunting, and socializing together.
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His owner hasn't broken any laws, but an animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is trying to change the view. The group says chimps have such a humanlike intelligence that they should be recognized as “legal persons" and be placed in an animal shelter and wander free.
You've probably heard the term “animal rights”, but animals don't actually have rights in many countries. Animal-welfare laws punish people who mistreat animals, but that's not the same as chimps having a right to liberty or anything else.
NhRP's first step is to ask a judge to end people's unjust arrest on behalf of Tommy and other privately owned chimps. If the court decides to recognize chimps as legal persons, NhRP's next step will be arguing for what rights the chimps should be granted. "The right that we believe they should have most of all is the right to bodily liberty," says Wise, a NhRP group member. "They should be able to choose how to live their lives.”

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