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托福TPO4閱讀真題文本：Part1

　　Deer Populations of the Puget Sound

　　Two species of deer have been prevalent in the Puget Sound area of Washington State in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The black-tailed deer, a lowland, west-side cousin of the mule deer of eastern Washington, is now the most common. The other species, the Columbian white-tailed deer, in earlier times was common in the open prairie country; it is now restricted to the low, marshy islands and flood plains along the lower Columbia River.

　　Nearly any kind of plant of the forest understory can be part of a deer's diet. Where the forest inhibits the growth of grass and other meadow plants, the black-tailed deer browses on huckleberry, salal, dogwood, and almost any other shrub or herb. But this is fair-weather feeding. What keeps the black-tailed deer alive in the harsher seasons of plant decay and dormancy? One compensation for not hibernating is the built-in urge to migrate. Deer may move from high-elevation browse areas in summer down to the lowland areas in late fall. Even with snow on the ground, the high bushy understory is exposed; also snow and wind bring down leafy branches of cedar, hemlock, red alder, and other arboreal fodder.

　　The numbers of deer have fluctuated markedly since the entry of Europeans into Puget Sound country. The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s and yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal. Famous explorers of the north American frontier, Lewis and Clark arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River on November 14, 1805, in nearly starved circumstances. They had experienced great difficulty finding game west of the Rockies and not until the second of December did they kill their first elk. To keep 40 people alive that winter, they consumed approximately 150 elk and 20 deer. And when game moved out of the lowlands in early spring, the expedition decided to return east rather than face possible starvation. Later on in the early years of the nineteenth century, when Fort Vancouver became the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company, deer populations continued to fluctuate. David Douglas, Scottish botanical explorer of the 1830s, found a disturbing change in the animal life around the fort during the period between his first visit in 1825 and his final contact with the fort in 1832. A recent Douglas biographer states:" The deer which once picturesquely dotted the meadows around the fort were gone [in 1832], hunted to extermination in order to protect the crops."

　　Reduction in numbers of game should have boded ill for their survival in later times. A worsening of the plight of deer was to be expected as settlers encroached on the land, logging, burning, and clearing, eventually replacing a wilderness landscape with roads, cities, towns, and factories. No doubt the numbers of deer declined still further. Recall the fate of the Columbian white-tailed deer, now in a protected status. But for the black-tailed deer, human pressure has had just the opposite effect. Wildlife zoologist Helmut Buechner(1953), in reviewing the nature of biotic changes in Washington through recorded time, says that "since the early 1940s, the state has had more deer than at any other time in its history, the winter population fluctuating around approximately 320,000 deer (mule and black-tailed deer), which will yield about 65,000 of either sex and any age annually for an indefinite period."

　　The causes of this population rebound are consequences of other human actions. First, the major predators of deer-wolves, cougar, and lynx-have been greatly reduced in numbers. Second, conservation has been insured by limiting times for and types of hunting. But the most profound reason for the restoration of high population numbers has been the fate of the forests. Great tracts of lowland country deforested by logging, fire, or both have become ideal feeding grounds of deer. In addition to finding an increase of suitable browse, like huckleberry and vine maple, Arthur Einarsen, longtime game biologist in the Pacific Northwest, found quality of browse in the open areas to be substantially more nutritive. The protein content of shade-grown vegetation, for example, was much lower than that for plants grown in clearings.

　　Paragraph 1: Two species of deer have been prevalent in the Puget Sound area of Washington State in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The black-tailed deer, a lowland, west-side cousin of the mule deer of eastern Washington, is now the most common. The other species, the Columbian white-tailed deer, in earlier times was common in the open prairie country; it is now restricted to the low, marshy islands and flood plains along the lower Columbia River.

托福TPO4閱讀真題題目：Part1

　　1. According to paragraph 1, which of the following is true of the white-tailed deer of Puget Sound?

　　○It is native to lowlands and marshes.

　　○It is more closely related to the mule deer of eastern Washington than to other types of deer.

　　○It has replaced the black-tailed deer in the open prairie.

　　○It no longer lives in a particular type of habitat that it once occupied.

　　Paragraph 2: Nearly any kind of plant of the forest understory can be part of a deer's diet. Where the forest inhibits the growth of grass and other meadow plants, the black-tailed deer browses on huckleberry, salal, dogwood, and almost any other shrub or herb. But this is fair-weather feeding. What keeps the black-tailed deer alive in the harsher seasons of plant decay and dormancy? One compensation for not hibernating is the built-in urge to migrate. Deer may move from high-elevation browse areas in summer down to the lowland areas in late fall. Even with snow on the ground, the high bushy understory is exposed; also snow and wind bring down leafy branches of cedar, hemlock, red alder, and other arboreal fodder.

　　2. It can be inferred from the discussion in paragraph 2 that winter conditions

　　○ cause some deer to hibernate

　　○ make food unavailable in the highlands for deer

　　○ make it easier for deer to locate understory plants

　　○ prevent deer from migrating during the winter

　　3. The word "inhibits" in the passage is closest in meaning to

　　○ consists of

　　○ combines

　　○ restricts

　　○ establishes

　　Paragraph 3: The numbers of deer have fluctuated markedly since the entry of Europeans into Puget Sound country. The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s and yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal. Famous explorers of the north American frontier, Lewis and Clark arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River on November 14, 1805, in nearly starved circumstances. They had experienced great difficulty finding game west of the Rockies and not until the second of December did they kill their first elk. To keep 40 people alive that winter, they consumed approximately 150 elk and 20 deer. And when game moved out of the lowlands in early spring, the expedition decided to return east rather than face possible starvation. Later on in the early years of the nineteenth century, when Fort Vancouver became the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company, deer populations continued to fluctuate. David Douglas, Scottish botanical explorer of the 1830s, found a disturbing change in the animal life around the fort during the period between his first visit in 1825 and his final contact with the fort in 1832. A recent Douglas biographer states:" The deer which once picturesquely dotted the meadows around the fort were gone [in 1832], hunted to extermination in order to protect the crops."

　　4. The phrase "in the same breath" in the passage is closest in meaning to

　　○ impatiently

　　○ humorously

　　○ continuously

　　○ immediately

　　5. The author tells the story of the explorers Lewis and Clark in paragraph 3 in order to illustrate which of the following points?

　　○The number of deer within the Puget Sound region has varied over time.

　　○Most of the explorers who came to the Puget Sound area were primarily interested in hunting game.

　　○There was more game for hunting in the East of the United States than in the West.

　　○Individual explorers were not as successful at locating games as were the trading companies.

　　6. According to paragraph 3, how had Fort Vancouver changed by the time David Douglas returned in 1832?

　　○The fort had become the headquarters for the Hudson's Bay Company.

　　○Deer had begun populating the meadows around the fort.

　　○Deer populations near the fort had been destroyed.

　　○Crop yields in the area around the fort had decreased.

　　Paragraph 4: Reduction in numbers of game should have boded ill for their survival in later times. A worsening of the plight of deer was to be expected as settlers encroached on the land, logging, burning, and clearing, eventually replacing a wilderness landscape with roads, cities, towns, and factories. No doubt the numbers of deer declined still further. Recall the fate of the Columbian white-tailed deer, now in a protected status. But for the black-tailed deer, human pressure has had just the opposite effect. Wildlife zoologist Helmut Buechner(1953), in reviewing the nature of biotic changes in Washington through recorded time, says that "since the early 1940s, the state has had more deer than at any other time in its history, the winter population fluctuating around approximately 320,000 deer (mule and black-tailed deer), which will yield about 65,000 of either sex and any age annually for an indefinite period."

　　7. Why does the author ask readers to recall "the fate of the Columbian white-tailed deer" in the discussion of changes in the wilderness landscape?

　　○To provide support for the idea that habitat destruction would lead to population decline

　　○To compare how two species of deer caused biotic changes in the wilderness environment

　　○To provide an example of a species of deer that has successfully adapted to human settlement

　　○To argue that some deer species must be given a protected status

　　8. The phrase "indefinite period" in the passage is closest in meaning to period

　　○ whose end has not been determined

　　○ that does not begin when expected

　　○ that lasts only briefly

　　○ whose importance remains unknown

　　9. Which of the following statements about deer populations is supported by the information in paragraph 4?

　　○Deer populations reached their highest point during the 1940s and then began to decline.

　　○The activities of settlers contributed in unexpected ways to the growth of some deer populations in later times.

　　○The cleaning of wilderness land for construction caused biotic changes from which the black-tailed deer population has never recovered.

　　○Since the 1940s the winter populations of deer have fluctuated more than the summer populations have.

　　Paragraph 5: The causes of this population rebound are consequences of other human actions. First, the major predators of deer-wolves, cougar, and lynx-have been greatly reduced in numbers. Second, conservation has been insured by limiting times for and types of hunting. But the most profound reason for the restoration of high population numbers has been the fate of the forests. Great tracts of lowland country deforested by logging, fire, or both have become ideal feeding grounds of deer. In addition to finding an increase of suitable browse, like huckleberry and vine maple, Arthur Einarsen, longtime game biologist in the Pacific Northwest, found quality of browse in the open areas to be substantially more nutritive. The protein content of shade-grown vegetation, for example, was much lower than that for plants grown in clearings.

　　10.The word "rebound" in the passage is closest in meaning to

　　○ decline

　　○ recovery

　　○ exchange

　　○ movement

　　11.Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

　　○Arthur Einarsen's longtime family with the Pacific Northwest helped him discover areas where deer had an increase in suitable browse.

　　○Arthur Einarsen found that deforested feeding grounds provided deer with more and better food.

　　○B(yǎng)iologist like Einarsen believe it is important to find additional open areas with suitable browse for deer to inhabit.

　　○According to Einarsen, huckleberry and vine maple are examples of vegetation that may someday improve the nutrition of deer in the open areas of the Pacific Northwest.

　　12.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 5 as a factor that has increased deer populations?

　　○A reduction in the number of predators

　　○Restrictions on hunting

　　○The effects of logging and fire

　　○Laws that protected feeding grounds of deer

　　Paragraph 2: Nearly any kind of plant of the forest understory can be part of a deer's diet. Where the forest inhibits the growth of grass and other meadow plants, the black-tailed deer browses on huckleberry, salal, dogwood, and almost any other shrub or herb. But this is fair-weather feeding. What keeps the black-tailed deer alive in the harsher seasons of plant decay and dormancy? One compensation for not hibernating is the built-in urge to migrate. █Deer may move from high-elevation browse areas in summer down to the lowland areas in late fall. █Even with snow on the ground, the high bushy understory is exposed; also snow and wind bring down leafy branches of cedar, hemlock, red alder, and other arboreal fodder.

　　Paragraph 3: █The numbers of deer have fluctuated markedly since the entry of Europeans into Puget Sound country. █The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s and yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal. Famous explorers of the north American frontier, Lewis and Clark arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River on November 14, 1805, in nearly starved circumstances. They had experienced great difficulty finding game west of the Rockies and not until the second of December did they kill their first elk. To keep 40 people alive that winter, they consumed approximately 150 elk and 20 deer. And when game moved out of the lowlands in early spring, the expedition decided to return east rather than face possible starvation. Later on in the early years of the nineteenth century, when Fort Vancouver became the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company, deer populations continued to fluctuate. David Douglas, Scottish botanical explorer of the 1830s, found a disturbing change in the animal life around the fort during the period between his first visit in 1825 and his final contact with the fort in 1832. A recent Douglas biographer states:" The deer which once picturesquely dotted the meadows around the fort were gone [in 1832], hunted to extermination in order to protect the crops."

　　13.Look at the four squares [█] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.

　　There food is available and accessible throughout the winter.

　　Where would the sentence best fit?

　　14.Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.

　　Deer in the Puget Sound area eat a wide variety of foods and migrate seasonally to find food.

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　　Answer Choices

　　○ The balance of deer species in the Puget Sound region has changed over time, with the Columbian white-tailed deer now outnumbering other types of deer.

　　○ Deer populations naturally fluctuate, but early settlers in the Puget Sound environment caused an overall decline in the deer populations of the areas at that time.

　　○ In the long term, black-tailed deer in the Puget Sound area have benefitted from human activities through the elimination of their natural predators, and more and better food in deforested areas.

　　○ Because Puget Sound deer migrate, it was and still remains difficult to determine accurately how many deer are living at any one time in the western United States.

　　○ Although it was believed that human settlement of the American West would cause the total number of deer to decrease permanently, the opposite has occurred for certain types of deer.

　　○ Wildlife biologists have long been concerned that the loss of forests may create nutritional deficiencies for deer.

托福TPO4閱讀答案：Part1

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　　14. Deer populations naturally…

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托福TPO4閱讀翻譯：Part1

　　參考翻譯：普吉特海灣的鹿群

　　在太平洋西北區(qū)的美國華盛頓州，有兩種鹿在普吉特海灣非常普遍。最常見的黑尾鹿是華盛頓東部雜交鹿在西部的表親，它們生活在低地。另一種哥倫比亞白尾鹿，從前在開闊的草原上很常見，而現(xiàn)在只能在低矮的沼澤島嶼地帶和哥倫比亞河下游的河灘地區(qū)才能看到它們。

　　森林里，幾乎任何植物都是鹿的食物。在森林抑制草和其它草甸植物生長的地方，黑尾鹿可以吃越橘、北美白珠樹、山茱萸和其他幾乎所有灌木和草;但這些只能在好天氣里才能吃得到;在植物衰敗、隱匿的嚴寒季節(jié)，黑尾鹿們是如何過冬的呢?避免冬眠的一種方法就是天生的遷徙習性。它們會在夏天遷徙到高海拔覓食區(qū)，直到秋天結(jié)束再回到低地。即便地面還有殘雪，高的灌木也會露出來;風雪天氣會把雪松、鐵衫、紅榿木和其它喬木多葉的樹枝帶下來。

　　自從歐洲人進入了普吉特海灣，鹿群的數(shù)量發(fā)生了顯著的變化。早期的探險家和殖民者說起在19世紀早期那兒有大量的鹿群，與此同時惋惜現(xiàn)在這種誘人動物的稀少。著名的北美探險先驅(qū)者劉易斯和克拉克在落基山西部經(jīng)歷種.種困難，并且直到第二年12月他們才殺死了第一只麋鹿。為了讓40人在冬天里存活，他們消耗了150只麋鹿和20只小鹿。當獵物在早春時期遷徙出了低地，遠征隊決定返回東部而不是去面對潛在的饑餓。此后在19世紀最初幾年里，溫哥華堡成為哈德遜灣公司的總部，鹿的數(shù)量持續(xù)波動。19世紀30年代，蘇格蘭植物學探險家大衛(wèi)o道格拉斯發(fā)現(xiàn)了他在1825年第一次的探訪和1832年的最后接觸之間出現(xiàn)在溫哥華堡附近令人不安的變化。在道格拉斯近期的傳記中陳述到：在1832年曾經(jīng)如畫般點綴在溫哥華堡附近草地上的鹿群已經(jīng)消失了，為了保護農(nóng)作物獵殺致滅絕。

　　鹿群數(shù)量的減少預示了它們今后生存的艱辛。當殖民者入侵它們的領(lǐng)地時，人類在它們生活的土地上進行采伐、焚燒，清除障礙，最終將公路、城市、城鎮(zhèn)和工廠代替了荒野風景。毋庸置疑，鹿群的數(shù)量進一步減少?；叵肫饋恚鐐惐葋啺孜猜沟拿\，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)處于被保護地位。而對黑尾鹿來說，人類的壓力反而產(chǎn)生了相反的效果。野生動物學家赫爾穆特o布希納(1953)通過已有記錄評論了華盛頓地區(qū)生物的自然變化，他說："20世紀40年代早期，美國擁有比以往任何歷史時期都多的鹿群，鹿群冬季的數(shù)量在接近32萬只鹿(雜交和黑尾鹿)左右波動，在此之后的每一年不同年齡段的公鹿和母鹿數(shù)量分別會增加至65 000只。

　　這種鹿群數(shù)量的反彈是由于人類其他活動造成。首先，狼、美洲豹和山貓等鹿群的主要獵食者急劇減少。其次，通過限制捕獵時間和捕獵種類來保護鹿群。但鹿群數(shù)量恢復的主要原因在于森林減少。大部分的低地的樹木被砍伐、焚燒，進而成為了鹿群理想的生活場地。以便他們?nèi)ふ腋m合的嫩葉，比如越橘類和楓葉。太平洋西北的生物學家亞瑟o埃納森還發(fā)現(xiàn)在空曠地區(qū)的高質(zhì)量的嫩葉大部分都是很有營養(yǎng)的，就像在遮蔽中生長的植物，他們所包含的蛋白質(zhì)比那些在空曠地區(qū)生長的植物的蛋白質(zhì)低得多。

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