After a lifetime of bringing nature back, Sir David Attenborough wants us to get out of our com-fort zones and help save the natural world. “I think it’s terrible that children should ________ without knowing what a tadpole (蝌蚪) is. It is very ________,” he says. He sees a very different world: Arctic sea ice has ________ and some of the reefs where he dived are lifeless. His latest film, A Life On Our Planet, highlights the large scale of humanity’s impact on ________. He says, the earth is heating up and could possibly ________ sudden catastrophic disaster. Probably no one else alive has ________ as much of the Earth’s surface as Attenborough. He warned if we don’t mind our ways, we will ________ life as we know it, including ourselves.
For so many years,he travelled with just a leather suitcase. His wife would see him off at the airport, never knowing ________ when he would return. In 1997, when he was filming a ________ about bird life, his wife suffered a serious illness. He flew to her bedside just in time for her to squeeze his ________ before she died. Afterwards, he ________ himself into his work again. These days more often he is in a recording studio, so he stresses it’s film crew who spend months capturing footage (镜头), not he that should take the ________.
Despite his ________, he remains modest. The future is at risk not for him but for the next ________, he says, “We are representatives of a very ________ damaging species. So just be modest. Don’t waste.”
【小题1】A.take off | B.grow up | C.live on | D.pass away |
【小题2】A.awful | B.amazing | C.courageous | D.excellent |
【小题3】A.spread | B.expanded | C.recovered | D.decreased |
【小题4】A.nature | B.humans | C.rate | D.cities |
【小题5】A.turned to | B.turned up | C.be faced with | D.turned down |
【小题6】A.returned | B.fixed | C.pressed | D.seen |
【小题7】A.come out | B.take over | C.wipe out | D.bring out |
【小题8】A.quite | B.hard | C.fast | D.luckily |
【小题9】A.relief | B.series | C.text | D.reaction |
【小题10】A.chest | B.hand | C.face | D.hair |
【小题11】A.awarded | B.approached | C.recognized | D.threw |
【小题12】A.credit | B.reward | C.money | D.chance |
【小题13】A.stress | B.observation | C.fame | D.explanation |
【小题14】A.community | B.generation | C.race | D.species |
【小题15】A.precious | B.curious | C.attractive | D.powerful |