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1、英语四级段落信息匹配题强化训练段落信息匹配题是四六级改革之后的新题型，很多同学还不是很熟悉，以下是小编为同学们整理的英语四级长篇阅读段落信息匹配题练习，希望对各位有所帮助。 Jaguars Dont Live Here Anymore A)Earlier this month, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would appoint critical habitat for the endangered jaguar. Jaguars-the worlds third-largest wild cats, w
2、eighing up to 250 pounds, with distinctive black rosettes ( 玫瑰花色 ) on their fur-are a separate species from the smaller, tawny (黄褐色的 ) mountain lions, which still roam large areas of the American West in the United States and take the first steps toward mandating (批准) a jaguar recovery plan. This is
3、 a policy reversal and, on the surface, it may appear to be a victory for the conservation community and for jaguars, the largest wild cats in the Western Hemisphere. B) But as someone who has studied jaguars for nearly three decades, I can tell you it is nothing less than a slap in the face to good
4、 science. Whats more, by changing the rules for animal preservation, it stands to weaken the Endangered Species Act. C)The debate on what to do about jaguars started in 1997, when, at the urging of many biologists ( including me), the Fish and Wildlife Service put the jaguar on the United States end
5、angered species list, because there had been occasional sightings of the cats crossing north over the United States-Mexico border. At the same time, however, the agency ruled that it would not be prudent (谨慎的 ) to declare that the jaguar has critical .habitat-a geographic area containing features th
6、e species needs to survive-in the United States. Determining an endangered species critical habitat is a first step toward developing a plan for helping that species recover. D)The 1997 decision not to determine critical habitat for the jaguar was the right one, because even though they cross the bo
7、rder from time to time, jaguars dont occupy any territory in our country-and that probably means the environment here is no longer ideal for them. E)In prehistoric times, these beautiful cats inhabited significant areas of the western United States, but in the past 100 years, there have been few, if
8、 any, resident breeding populations here. The last time a female jaguar with a cub ( 幼兽 ) was sighted in this country was in the early 1900s. F)Two well-intentioned conservation advocacy groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife, sued the Fish and Wildlife Service to chan
9、ge its ruling. Thus in 2006, the agency reassessed the situation and again determined that no areas in the United States met the definition of critical habitat for the jaguar. Despite occasional sightings, mostly within 40 miles of the Mexican border, there were still no data to indicate jaguars had
10、 taken up residence inside the United States. G ) After this second ruling was made, an Arizona rancher ( 牧场主 ), with support from the state Game and Fish Department, set infrared-camera (红外摄像机 ) traps togather more data, and essentially confirmed the Fish and Wildlife Services findings. The cameras
11、 did capture transient jaguars, including one male jaguar, nick named Macho, B, who roamed the Arizona borderlands for more than a decade. But Macho B, now dead, might have been the sole resident American jaguar, and his extensive travels indicated he was not having an easy time surviving in this dr
12、y, rugged region. H) Despite the continued evidence, the two conservation advocacy groups continued to sue the government. Apparently, they want jaguars to repopulate the United State seven if jaguars dont wan! to. Last March, a federal district judge in Arizona ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service
13、 to revisit its 2006 determination on critical habitat. I)The facts havent changed: there is still no area in the United States essential to the conservation of the jaguar. But, having asserted this twice already, the service, nowunder a new president, has bent to the tiresome litigation (诉讼). On Ja
14、n. 12, Fish and Wildlife officials, claimed to have evaluated new scientific information that had become available after the July 2006 ruling. They determined that it is now prudent to appoint critical habitat for the jaguar in the United States. J)This means that Fish and Wildlife must now also for
15、mulate a recovery plan for the jaguar. And since jaguars have not been able to reestablish themselves naturally over the past century, the government will likely have to go to significant expense to attempt to bring them back-especially if the cats have to be reintroduced. K)So why not do everything
16、 we can, at whatever cost, to bring jaguars back into the United States? To begin with, the American Southwest is, at best, marginal habitat for the animals. More important, there are better ways to help jaguars. South of our border, from Mexico to Argentina, thousands of jaguars live and breed in their true critical habitat. Governments and conservation groups (including the one I head) are already working hard to conserve jaguar populations and conne
