剑桥雅思12Test7Passage1阅读答案解析 Flying tortoises 飞翔的乌龟
剑桥雅思12阅读第7套题目第1篇文章的13道题，由7道段落标题匹配和6道笔记填空构成。因为文章本身结构清晰，段落含义明确，哪怕存在一些专有名词也完全不影响做题，所以难度偏低，很符合阅读第一篇文章的定位。下面是具体每道题目的答案解析。
点击查看这篇雅思阅读中需要大家掌握的重点词汇与对应的原文翻译：
雅思真题阅读词汇 剑桥雅思12 test 7 passage 1 飞翔的乌龟flying tortoises
剑桥雅思12Test7Passage1阅读原文翻译 Flying tortoises
剑桥雅思12 Test7 Passage1阅读答案解析
第1题答案：v
对应原文：A段：This inhospitable environment is home to the giant Galapagos tortoise … As these ancestral tortoises settled on the individual islands … they grew to become the largest and longest-living tortoises on the planet
答案解析：A段按照时间顺序，介绍了加拉帕戈斯象龟在岛屿上出现和繁殖的过程。所有选项中只有v能够对这一内容进行概括，由此确定答案。
第2题答案：iii
对应原文：B段：From the 17th century onwards, pirates took a few on board for food, but the arrival of whaling ships in the 1790s saw this exploitation grow exponentially … This historical exploitation was then exacerbated when settlers came to the islands.
答案解析：B段介绍了加拉帕戈斯象龟的悲惨遭遇。先是被海盗和捕鲸船作为食物储备，后来又受到前来定居的人类的侵害。iii选项-象龟人口的不利发展很好的概括了这一内容，由此确定答案。
第3题答案：viii
对应原文：C段：In 1989, work began on a tortoise-breeding centre just outside the town of Puerto Villamil on Isabela, dedicated to protecting the island’s tortoise populations.
答案解析：这一段的内容比较简短，介绍了面对如此严峻的形式，人们建立了加拉帕戈斯象龟人工繁殖中心，即保护项目的开始，由此确定答案为viii。
第4题答案：i
对应原文：D段：Captive-bred tortoises can’t be reintroduced into the wild until they’re at least five years old and weigh at least 4.5 kilograms
答案解析：这一段描述了放归象龟时间节点的重要性，太早或者太晚都不行，由此确定i选项为正确答案。
第5题答案：iv
对应原文：E段： But in November 2010, the environmentalist and Galapagos National Park liaison officer Godfrey Merlin, a visiting private motor yacht captain and a helicopter pilot gathered around a table in a small café in Puerto Ayora on the island of Santa Cruz to work out more ambitious reintroduction.
答案解析：这一段的内容可以概括为两点，过去放归象龟的困难，和三个人相聚后产生的更为宏大的想法。选项中只有iv能对应后者，由此确定答案。
第6题答案：vi
对应原文：F段：the owners of the 67-metre yacht White Cloud … a custom crate was designed to hold up to 33 tortoises … a group of volunteers from the breeding centre … park wardens, dropped off ahead of time in remote locations, cleared landing sites
答案解析：F段介绍了为了保证这一计划能够成功，各方面所做的努力，包括文章来自老烤鸭雅思游艇的所有者，特殊的集装箱设计，繁殖中心的志愿者，公园的管理人员等。只有vi选项能够与此对应，由此确定答案。
第7题答案：ii
对应原文：G段：Eventually, one tiny tortoise came across a fully grown giant who had been lumbering around the island for around a hundred years.
答案解析：G段主要介绍放归成功之后的事情，一只幼年象龟与一只老年象龟相遇，十分具有代表意义。ii选项很好的概括了这一点，由此确定答案。
第8题答案：pirates
对应原文：B段：From the 17th century onwards, pirates took a few on board for food
答案解析：根据17th century定位到B段的这句话，题干中问的是被…所使用。这句话里填上去合适的只有pirates，由此确定答案。
第9题答案：food
对应原文：B段：in the 1790s … Relatively immobile and capable of surviving for months without food or water, the tortoises were taken on board these ships to act as food supplies during long ocean passages.
答案解析：顺着上一题往下，题干中问的是象龟被当作什么。1790s这句话中并没有合适的、能往上填的内容，因此继续往下。发现act as与kept for对应，由此锁定food supplies。又因为空上只能填一个单词，抛弃supplies，锁定food。
第10题答案：oil
对应原文：B段：Sometimes, their bodies were processed into high- grade oil.
答案解析：顺着上一题往下，原文中提到的象龟的另一种用途是被制成高端油脂，由此确定oil为答案。
第11题答案：settlers
对应原文：B段：This historical exploitation was then exacerbated when settlers came to the islands. They hunted the tortoises and destroyed their habitat to clear land for agriculture.
答案解析：根据hunted锁定they，阅读上一句话发现they指代的是settlers，由此确定答案。
第12题答案：species
对应原文：B段：They also introduced alien species
答案解析：顺着上一题往下，题干中not native与alien同义替换，由此确定答案为species。
第13题答案：eggs
对应原文：that either prey on the eggs and young tortoises or damage or destroy their habitat.
答案解析：题干中baby tortoises对应原文中的young tortoises，根据并列关系确定答案为egg。
剑桥雅思12Test7Passage2阅读答案解析 The Intersection of Health Sciences and Geography
剑桥雅思12Test7Passage3阅读答案解析 Music and the emotions 音乐与情感
