高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (11)世上只有歌词
Save the Mountain Lion
拯救美洲狮
主题语境：人与自然 主题语境内容：野生动植物保护
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【驴子图片外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。）
Los Angeles, as everyone knows, is a noodle bowl of highways. As everyone may not know, it is also one of only two cities in the world where big cats wander wild inside the city boundaries (the other is Mumbai). One even live near the Hollywood sign. But big cats and highways do not mix, which is why Los Angeles will soon be home to one of the world’s biggest wildlife corridors（走廊）.
The cats are mountain lions. They live in the Santa Monica Mountains. Their numbers are stable. Their habitat is mostly wilderness（荒野）, full of deer, the lions’ food. The ecology of their range, the largest urban national park in the world, is healthy, thanks in part to their prence . Yet animals can come under threat without habitat loss. Genetic d
egradation（退化） can be just as deadly.
输赢的赢怎么写Cutting through the mountains is Route 101, carrying up to 10,000 vehicles an hour. It cuts the Santa Monica range off from a larger wilderness to the north. The southern area is not big enough for all the lions, which each require hunting grounds of 60-150 square miles. The result is a population trapped on an environmental island, with inbreeding(近亲繁殖) and genetic degradation. A study in 2016 found that, given their environment, the Santa Monica mountain lions’ chances of extinction in 50 years would be 15-22%; becau of their genetic deterioration, the chance of extinction was more like 99.7%.
Four years after that study came the first evidence that the big cats were suffering physical damage: a young male was found with a 90-degree kink(扭结) in his tail . Rearchers had en that before. In the early 1990s biologists studying the Florida panther, a cloly related animal, found that many of the males had the same genetic flaws(缺陷). The Florida panther escaped extinction only thanks to the introduction of females brought from Texas to refresh the gene pool.
California does not need to go that far. There are healthy mountain-lion populations north of the Santa Monica range, 祝你早日康复parated by the ribbon of road. Hidden cameras show the animals crouched (蹲)at the side of the highway, not daring to cross. The solution is a 165-foot-wide dirt bridge which would allow them to travel high over the traffic.
Such corridors have worked elwhere, from large spans for elk（麋鹿） over the Trans-Canada highway to a small clawbridge for migrating red crabs（红蟹） on Christmas Island. Last month the governor, Gavin Newsom, launched construction.
The animals become xually mature at 2½ to 3 years and have babies every other year. So within ten years of the corridor’s completion the great-grandchildren of the first mating beyond the mountains could have cubs. Genetically, even a few matings would make a difference. “We’ll definitely save the mountain lion,” thinks Paul Edelman of the Mountains Recreation and Conrvation Authority. “It’s just a matter of how long it takes.”
【课标词汇精讲】
1.boundary n.分界线；边界
National boundaries are becoming increasingly meaningless in the global economy. 在全球化的经济中，国界已经变得越来越没有意义了。
2.mix传神 v. (使)混合,掺和,融合
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl. 把所有的配料放在碗里,搅和一下。
I don't like to mix business with pleasure 我不喜欢将社交活动和做生意混在一块。
3. stable adj.稳定的；稳固的；牢固的
If the foundations of the hou aren't stable, collap is possible.如果房子的地基不稳，就有可能倒塌。
The hospital said she was in a stable condition following the operation.院方说她手术之后情况稳定。
4.habitat推广普通话的手抄报 adj.（动植物的）生长地，栖息地
With so many areas of woodland being cut down, a lot of wildlife is losing its natural habitat.大片林地被砍伐，很多野生动物在失去它们的天然栖息地。
5.urban城市的；城镇的；都市的
Most of the population is an urban population.绝大多数人口都是城镇居民。
6.prence出席，在场；（事物的）存在，出现
母亲节的礼物
She was scared by the prence of so many people.这么多人在场，把她吓坏了。
The document was signed in the prence of two witness.这项文件签署时有两个证人在场。
7.deadly致命的;
a deadly poison 致命的毒药隐隐约约的反义词
a deadly weapon致命武器
deadly dia / virus 致命疾病/病毒
