菁准考英语：高考英语外刊原创 20200216

一、外刊阅读：小猫钓鱼
Humanity has wiped out many
animal populations since 1970,
report finds
A.track B.revealed C.decline D.stable E.contributes F.destruction
G.respectively H.change I.current J.significantly K.regulating

“We are rapidly running out of time,” said Prof Johan Rockström, a global
sustainability expert at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
in Germany. “Only by addressing both ecosystems and climate do we stand
a chance of safeguarding a(n) (31) ______ planet for humanity’s future on
Earth.”

Many scientists believe the world has begun a sixth mass extinction, the
first to be caused by a species – Homo sapiens. Other recent analyses have
(32) ______ that humankind has destroyed 83% of all mammals and half
of plants since the dawn of civilisation and that, even if the destruction
were to end now, it would take 5-7 million years for the natural world to
recover.

The Living Planet Index, produced for WWF by the Zoological Society of
London, uses data on 16,704 populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles
and amphibians, representing more than 4,000 species, to (33) ______
the decline of wildlife. Between 1970 and 2014, the latest data available,
populations fell by an average of 60%. Four years ago, the (34) ______
was 52%. The “shocking truth”, said Barrett, is that the wildlife crash is
continuing unabated.

Wildlife and the ecosystems are vital to human life, said Prof Bob Watson,
one of the world’s most eminent environmental scientists and currently
chair of an intergovernmental panel on biodiversity that said in March that
the destruction of nature is as dangerous as climate (35) ______.

“Nature (36) ______ to human wellbeing culturally and spiritually, as

well as through the critical production of food, clean water, and energy,
and through (37) ______ the Earth’s climate, pollution, pollination and
floods,” he said. “The Living Planet report clearly demonstrates that
human activities are destroying nature at an unacceptable rate, threatening
the wellbeing of (38) ______ and future generations.”

The biggest cause of wildlife losses is the (39) ______ of natural habitats,
much of it to create farmland. Three-quarters of all land on Earth is now
(40) ______ affected by human activities. Killing for food is the next
biggest cause – 300 mammal species are being eaten into extinction –

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while the oceans are massively overfished, with more than half now being
industrially fished.(377)

(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-
animals-since-1970-major-report-finds)

二、参考答案：DBACH EKIFJ

三、原文链接：
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-
animals-since-1970-major-report-finds

四、核心词汇：

track revealed decline stable contributes destruction respectively change

current significantly regulating sustainability extinction civilisation
representing decline unabated spiritually threatening

拓展变形为

change
changeable
changed
changer
changers
changes
changing
unchangeable
unchangeably
unchanged
unchanging

civilise
civilisation
civilisations
civilised
civilises
civilising
civilization
civilizations
civilize
civilized
civilizes
civilizing
uncivilised
uncivilized

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contribute
contributed
contributes
contributing
contribution
contributions
contributor
contributors
contributory
noncontributory

current
currently
currents

decline
declined
declines
declining

destruction
destruct
destructive
destructively
destructiveness
indestructible
indestructibly

extinguish
extinguishable
extinguished
extinguisher
extinguishers
extinguishes
extinguishing
inextinguishable
extinct
extinction
extinctions

regulate
regulated
regulates
regulating
regulation
regulations
regulator
regulators
regulatory

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unregulated

represent
representation
representational
representations
representative
representativeness
representatives
represented
representing
represents
unrepresentative
unrepresented

respect
respectable
respectably
respected
respecter
respecters
respectful
respectfully
respecting
respects
respective
irrespective
irrespectively
respectively

reveal
revealed
revealing
revealingly
reveals
revelation
revelations
unrevealed

sign
signed
signer
signers
signing
signings
signs
unsigned
signify
significant
significantly

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insignificant
insignificantly
significantly

spirit
spirited
spiritedly
spirits
spiritual
spiritualised
spiritualism
spiritualist
spiritualists
spirituality
spiritualized
spiritually

stable
instabilities
instability
stabilisation
stabilise
stabilised
stabiliser
stabilisers
stabilises
stabilising
stability
stabilization
stabilize
stabilized
stabilizer
stabilizers
stabilizes
stabilizing
stabler
stablest
unstable

sustain
sustainability
sustainable
sustained
sustaining
sustains
unsustainable

threat
threaten
threatened

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threatening
threateningly
threatens
threats
unthreatening

track
tracked
tracker
trackers
tracking
trackless
tracks

abate(v.减轻；减弱)
abated
abatement
abatements
abates
abating
unabated
unabating

五、重点讲解：
1.reveal [rɪˈviːl]
v.
揭示;透露;展示
No test will reveal how much of the drug was taken. 
没有哪项测试可以测出用药量。

2.进义辨析
disclose /expose /reveal (揭露)
（1）disclose v. [正式]揭露，透露
指公开某事，尤指不为人知的或被隐瞒的事。
He disclosed important information to the rival of his company.
他向公司的竞争对手泄露了重要信息。

（2）expose v. 暴露，显露
尤指揭露丑闻、阴谋等不好的事。
The report exposes the disadvantages of the present transportation system.
该报道揭露了现有运输系统的不足之处。

（3）reveal v. 揭示，揭露
指揭露此前不为人知或隐秘的事，常可与 disclose 换用。
She will never reveal/disclose her friends' secrets.
她绝不会泄露朋友的秘密。

3.词根词缀
veil= to cover 盖上
(1) reveal v. 揭露

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re 相反；反对；不 + veal〔= veil〕盖上 → 不盖上 → 揭露

(2) unveilv. 揭露
un 打开 + veil 盖上 → 揭开面纱 → 揭露
(3) veil n. 面纱；借口

六、原文翻译

Humanity has wiped out many animal populations since 1970, report finds
报告发现，自 1970 年以来，人类已经消灭了许多动物种群
“We are rapidly running out of time,” said Prof Johan Rockström, a global
sustainability expert at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in
Germany. “Only by addressing both ecosystems and climate do we stand a chance of
safeguarding a stable planet for humanity’s future on Earth.”
德国波茨坦气候影响研究所全球可持续性专家约翰 ·罗克斯特伦教授说：“我们很
快就没时间了。”。“只有同时解决生态系统和气候问题 ，我们才有可能为人类在
地球上的未来维护一个稳定的地球。”

Many scientists believe the world has begun a sixth mass extinction, the first to be
caused by a species – Homo sapiens. Other recent analyses have revealed
that humankind has destroyed 83% of all mammals and half of plants since the dawn
of civilisation and that, even if the destruction were to end now, it would take 5-7
million years for the natural world to recover.

许多科学家认为，世界已经开始了第六次大灭绝 ，第一次是由一个物种 ——智人引

起的。最近的其他分析显示，自文明诞生以来，人类已经摧毁了 83%的所有哺乳动
物和一半的植物，即使这种破坏现在就要结束 ，自然世界也需要 500-700 万年才能
恢复。

The Living Planet Index, produced for WWF by the Zoological Society of London,
uses data on 16,704 populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians,
representing more than 4,000 species, to track the decline of wildlife. Between 1970
and 2014, the latest data available, populations fell by an average of 60%. Four years
ago, the decline was 52%. The “shocking truth”, said Barrett, is that the wildlife crash
is continuing unabated.

伦敦动物学会为世界自然基金会编制的 “ 活星球指数 ”使用了 16704 个哺乳动

物、鸟类、鱼类、爬行动物和两栖动物种群的数据 ，代表了 4000 多个物种，来追
踪野生动物数量的下降。根据最新数据显示 ， 1970 年至 2014 年间，人口平均下降
了 60%。四年前，下降了 52%。巴雷特说，“令人震惊的事实是，野生动物坠毁事件
仍在有增无减。

Wildlife and the ecosystems are vital to human life, said Prof Bob Watson, one of the
world’s most eminent environmental scientists and currently chair of an
intergovernmental panel on biodiversity that said in March that the destruction of
nature is as dangerous as climate change.

野生动物和生态系统对人类生命至关重要 ，世界上最杰出的环境科学家之一、现
任政府间生物多样性委员会主席鲍勃·沃森教授今年 3 月表示，对自然的破坏与气
候变化一样危险。

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“Nature contributes to human wellbeing culturally and spiritually, as well as through

the critical production of food, clean water, and energy, and through regulating the
Earth’s climate, pollution, pollination and floods,” he said. “The Living Planet report
clearly demonstrates that human activities are destroying nature at an unacceptable
rate, threatening the wellbeing of current and future generations.”

他说：“自然在文化和精神上为人类福祉做出了贡献 ，也通过粮食、清洁水和能源
的关键生产，以及通过调节地球的气候、污染、授粉和洪水。 ”。 “活星球报告清
楚地表明，人类活动正在以不可接受的速度破坏自然，威胁到今世后代的福祉。”

The biggest cause of wildlife losses is the destruction of natural habitats, much of it to
create farmland. Three-quarters of all land on Earth is now significantly affected by
human activities. Killing for food is the next biggest cause – 300 mammal species are
being eaten into extinction – while the oceans are massively overfished, with more
than half now being industrially fished.

野生动物损失的最大原因是自然栖息地的破坏 ，其中大部分是为了创造农田。地
球上四分之三的土地现在受到人类活动的严重影响。捕杀食物是下一个最大的
原因——300 种哺乳动物正在被吃掉走向灭绝——而海洋被大量过度捕捞，目前一
半以上是工业捕捞。

七、拓展阅读

（精读后续）

Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970,
leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is
now an emergency that threatens civilisation.

The new estimate of the massacre of wildlife is made in a major report

produced by WWF and involving 59 scientists from across the globe. It finds
that the vast and growing consumption of food and resources by the global
population is destroying the web of life, billions of years in the making, upon
which human society ultimately depends for clean air, water and everything
else.

“We are sleepwalking towards the edge of a cliff” said Mike Barrett, executive
director of science and conservation at WWF. “If there was a 60% decline in
the human population, that would be equivalent to emptying North America,
South America, Africa, Europe, China and Oceania. That is the scale of what
we have done.”

“This is far more than just being about losing the wonders of nature,
desperately sad though that is,” he said. “This is actually now jeopardising the
future of people. Nature is not a ‘nice to have’ – it is our life-support system.”

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The worst affected region is South and Central America, which has seen an
89% drop in vertebrate populations, largely driven by the felling of vast areas
of wildlife-rich forest. In the tropical savannah called cerrado, an area the size
of Greater London is cleared every two months, said Barrett.

“It is a classic example of where the disappearance is the result of our own
consumption, because the deforestation is being driven by ever expanding
agriculture producing soy, which is being exported to countries including the
UK to feed pigs and chickens,” he said. The UK itself has lost much of its
wildlife, ranking 189th for biodiversity loss out of 218 nations in 2016.

The habitats suffering the greatest damage are rivers and lakes, where wildlife
populations have fallen 83%, due to the enormous thirst of agriculture and the
large number of dams. “Again there is this direct link between the food system
and the depletion of wildlife,” said Barrett. Eating less meat is an essential
part of reversing losses, he said.

The Living Planet Index has been criticised as being too broad a measure of
wildlife losses and smoothing over crucial details. But all indicators, from
extinction rates to intactness of ecosystems, show colossal losses. “They all tell
you the same story,” said Barrett.

Conservation efforts can work, with tiger numbers having risen 20% in

Indiain six years as habitat is protected. Giant pandas in China and otters in
the UK have also been doing well.

But Marco Lambertini, director general of WWF International, said the

fundamental issue was consumption: “We can no longer ignore the impact of
current unsustainable production models and wasteful lifestyles.”

The world’s nations are working towards a crunch meeting of the UN’s
Convention on Biological Diversity in 2020, when new commitments for the
protection of nature will be made. “We need a new global deal for nature and
people and we have this narrow window of less than two years to get it,” said
Barrett. “This really is the last chance. We have to get it right this time.”

Tanya Steele, chief executive at WWF, said: “We are the first generation to
know we are destroying our planet and the last one that can do anything about
it.”

（ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-
1970-major-report-finds）

核心词汇拓展

actual actualises actualizations

actualisation actualising actualize
actualisations actualities actualized
actualise actuality actualizes
actualised actualization actualizing

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actually chicken
broad chick
affect broaden chickened
affected broadened chickening
affecting broadening chickens
affects broadens chicks
unaffected broader
broadest chief
agriculture broadly chiefly
agricultural chiefs
agriculturalist call
agriculturalists called civilise
agriculturally caller civilisation
agriculturist callers civilisations
agriculturists calling civilised
calls civilises
air uncalled civilising
aired civilization
airier centre civilizations
airiest center civilize
airily centered civilized
airiness centering civilizes
airing centerist civilizing
airings centerists uncivilised
airless centers uncivilized
airs central
airy centralisation classic
midair centralise classical
centralised classically
annihilate centralises classicism
annihilated centralising classicist
annihilates centralism classicists
annihilating centralist classico
annihilation centralists classics
annihilations centralities neoclassical
centrality neoclassically
billion centralization neoclassicism
billions centralize neoclassicist
billionth centralized neoclassicists
billionths centralizes
centralizing clean
centrally cleaned
biodiversity centred
biodiverse cleaner
centredness cleaners
biodiversities centres cleanest
centric cleaning
biological centring cleanliness
biologically centrist cleanly
centrists cleanness
bird cleans
birdie chance unclean
birdied chanced uncleanliness
birdies chances
birdlike chancing clear
birds mischance clearance
birdy clearances

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cleared criticizes depend

clearer criticizing dependability
clearest dependable
clearing crucial dependably
clearings crucially dependant
clearly dependants
clearness crunch depended
clears crunched dependent
unclear crunches dependents
crunchier depending
colossal crunchiest depends
colossally crunchiness undependable
crunching
commit crunchy deplete
commitment depleted
commitments current depletes
commits currently depleting
committal currents depletion
committals
committed dam desperate
committing dammed desperately
uncommitted damming desperation
dams
conserve destroy
conservation damage destroyed
conservationism damaged destroyer
conservationist damager destroyers
conservationists damagers destroying
conservator damages destroys
conservators damaging
conserved undamaged detail
conserves detailed
conserving detailing
deal
dealer details
consumption dealers
dealership direct
convention dealerships directly
conventional dealing
conventionalism dealings directed
conventionality deals directing
conventionally dealt directive
conventions undealt directives
unconventional director
unconventionally decline directorial
declined directories
country declines directors
countries declining directorship
directorships
criticise deforest directory
criticised deforestation directs
criticises deforestations misdirect
criticising deforested misdirected
criticize deforesting misdirecting
criticized deforests misdirection
criticizer misdirections
criticizers misdirects

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redirect effortlessly export

redirected efforts exported
redirecting exporter
redirects emergency exporters
undirected emergencies exporting
exports
disappear empty
disappearance emptied extinct
disappearances empties extinction
disappeared emptiness extinctions
disappearing emptying
disappears fall
enormous fallen
diverse enormously falling
diversely falls
diverseness equivalent fell
diversities equivalently
diversity equivalents far
farther
drive essential farthest
driven essentialist
driver essentialists feed
drivers essentiality fed
drives essentialized feeder
driving essentially feeders
drove essentials feeding
feeds
drop estimate unfed
droplet estimated
droplets estimates felled
dropped estimating feller
dropper estimation fellers
droppers estimations felling
dropping estimator fells
droppings estimators
drops find
example finder
due examples finders
dues finding
duly findings
undue executive
executives finds
unduly found
unfound
ecosystem expand
ecosystems expandability
expandable first
expanded firstly
edge expanding firsts
edged expands
edger fish
edges fished
edgewise expert
expertly fisheries
edging fishers
expertness
experts fishery
effort inexpert fishes
effortless fishier

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fishiest generally
fishily ignore
fishiness generation ignored
fishing generational ignores
fishy generations ignoring
intergenerational
food impact
foods get impacted
gets impacting
fore getting impacts
foremost got
gotta in
forest gotten inner
forested innermost
forester global inward
foresters globalisation inwardly
foresting globalise inwardness
forestry globalised inwards
forests globalises
globalising include
fundamental globalism incl
fundamentalism globalist included
fundamentalist globalists includes
fundamentalists globalization including
fundamentally globalize
fundamentals globalized index
globalizes indexation
future globalizing indexed
futures globally indexer
futurism indexers
futurist globe indexes
futuristic globes indexical
futuristically indexing
futurists great indices
greater
general greatest indicate
generalisabilty greatly indicated
generalisable greatness indicates
generalisation greats indicating
generalisations indication
generalise habitat indications
generalised habitats indicative
generalises indicator
generalising human indicators
generalist humanism
generalists humanist intact
generalities humanistic intactness
generality humanists
generalizabilty humanity international
generalizable humanly internationalisation
generalization humanness internationalise
generalizations humans internationalised
generalize inhuman internationalises
generalized inhumanity internationalism
generalizes nonhuman internationalist
generalizing nonhumans

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internationalists largest livings

internationalization largish
internationalize long
internationalized last longer
internationalizes lastly longest
internationally longish
internationals lead
leader lose
involve leaderless loser
involved leaders losers
involvement leadership loses
involvements leaderships losing
involves leading lost
involving leads
uninvolved led loss
mislead losses
issue misleading
issuance misleadingly make
issued misleads made
issuer misled maker
issuers makers
issues less makes
issuing lessen making
lessened makings
jeopardy lessening remade
jeopardies lessens remake
jeopardise lesser remakes
jeopardised remaking
jeopardises life unmade
jeopardising lifeless unmake
jeopardize lifelessly
jeopardized lifelike mammal
jeopardizes lifes mammalian
jeopardizing midlife mammals

know lifestyle massacre

knew lifestyles massacred
knowable massacres
knowed link massacring
knowing interlink
knowingly interlinked
known measure
interlinking immeasurable
knows interlinks
unknowable immeasurably
linkage measurable
unknowing linkages
unknowingly measurably
linked measured
unknown linker
unknowns measurement
linkers measurements
linking measures
lake links measuring
lakes unlinked unmeasured

large live meat

largeish lived meats
largely lives meaty
larger living

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nature renumbered
meet natural renumbering
meeting naturalism renumbers
meetings naturalist unnumbered
meets naturalistic
met naturalistically out
unmet naturalists outer
naturally outs
model naturalness outside
modeled natured outsider
modeler naturedly outsiders
modelers natures outsides
modeling unnatural outward
modelled unnaturally outwardly
modeller outwards
modellers need
modelling needed panda
models needful pandas
needing
month needless part
monthly needlessly parted
months needs partial
unneeded partially
narrow parting
narrowed new partly
narrower newer parts
narrowest newest
narrowing newish people
narrowly newly peopled
narrowness newness peoples
narrows renew peopling
renewable
renewables
nation renewal pig
national renewals pigged
nationalisation renewed piggies
nationalisations renewing pigging
nationalise renews piggish
nationalised piggy
nationalising piglet
nationalism north piglets
nationalisms northerlies piglike
nationalist northerly pigs
nationalistic northernmost
nationalistically northward
northwards planet
nationalists interplanetary
nationalization northwest
planetary
nationalize planets
nationalized now
nationalizing population
nationally number populate
nationals nos populated
nationhood numbered populates
nationhoods numbering populating
nations numberless populations
nationwide numbers unpopulated
renumber

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reporter riser
produce reporters risers
produced reporting rises
producer reports rising
producers unreported risings
produces rose
producing reptile
reptiles river
product reptilian rivers
counterproductive
production resource sad
productions resourced sadden
productive resourceful saddened
productively resourcefulness saddening
productivity resources saddens
products resourcing sadder
unproductive underresourced saddest
unresourceful sadly
protect sadness
protected result sadnesses
protecting resultant
protection resulted same
protectionism resulting sameness
protectionist results
protectionists savannah
protections reverse savannahs
protective irreversible
protectively irreversibly say
protectiveness reversal said
protector reversals saying
protectors reversed sayings
protectorship reverser says
protectorships reversers sez
protects reverses unsaid
unprotected reversible unsayable
reversibly
rate reversing scale
rateable scalable
rated rich scaled
rater richer scales
raters riches scaling
rates richest scalings
rating richly
ratings richness science
sciences
region right scientific
regional righthand scientifically
regionalism righthanded scientificity
regionalist righthander scientist
regionalists righthanders scientists
regionally rightist unscientific
regions rightists unscientifically
rightmost
report see
reported rise saw
reportedly risen

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seeing threatened
seen suffer threatening
seer suffered threateningly
seers sufferer threatens
sees sufferers threats
seest suffering unthreatening
unseeing sufferings
unseeingly suffers time
unseen anytime
support timed
show supported timeless
showed supporter timelessness
showing supporters timeliness
showings supporting timely
shown supportive timer
shows supports timers
unsupported times
six timing
sixes sustain timings
sixteen sustainability untimed
sixteenth sustainable untimeliness
sixteenths sustained untimely
sixth sustaining
sixthly sustains toward
sixths unsustainable towards
sixties
sixtieth system tropics
sixtieths subsystem subtropical
sixty subsystems tropic
systematic tropical
size systematically tropically
sizable systems
sized unsystematic ultimate
sizes unsystematically ultimately
sizing
tell vast
smooth retell vaster
smoothed retelling vastly
smoother retold vastness
smoothest telling
smoothing tells vertebrate
smoothly told vertebrates
smoothness untold
smoothnesses warn
smooths thirst warned
thirsted warning
society thirstier warningly
societal thirstiest warnings
societies thirstily warns
thirstiness
south thirsting waste
southerlies thirsts wastage
southerly thirsty wastages
wasted
story threat wasteful
stories threaten wastefully

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wastefulness worker
waster window workers
wasters windowed workin
wastes windowless working
wasting windows workings
works
water wipe
watered unwiped world
waterier wiped unworldliness
wateriest wiper unworldly
wateriness wipers worldliness
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