Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowner or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat. Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat .The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat , USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67,000 birds over the next 10 years .And it gives the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress. Overall, the idea is to let "states" remain in the driver 's seat for managing the species," Ashe said.
 
　　Not everyone buys the win-win rhetoric. Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court. Not surprisingly, doesn't go far enough. "The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction, " says biologist Jay Lininger.
 
　　26.The major reason for listing the lesser prairie as threatened is____.
 
　　[A]its drastically decreased population
 
　　[B]the underestimate of the grassland acreage
 
　　[C]a desperate appeal from some biologists
 
　　[D]the insistence of private landowners
 
　　【答案】A
 
　　【解析】本題屬于細節(jié)題，考查了考生對文章首段中關(guān)于草原雞數(shù)量的變化的理解。根據(jù)對首段首句當(dāng)中生物學(xué)家預(yù)測的數(shù)量是2百萬，而在首段末句出現(xiàn)but轉(zhuǎn)折以及末句當(dāng)中關(guān)于草原雞現(xiàn)在真實的剩余數(shù)量只有2萬2千只，都可以說明草原雞的數(shù)量急劇的下降；另外，這道題還有一種做法是通過第二段首句的主語的作用，某些情況下，文章中間段落的首句主語起到承上啟下的作用，那么中間段落首句主語就會有概括上一段的作用，本文第二段的首句：The crash was a main reason USFWS decided to formally list the bird as threatened. 就是對第26題題干和正確選項的同義替換，根據(jù)第二段第一句的主語：the crash (這種暴跌)，對應(yīng)正確選項A。
 
　　27.The "threatened" tag disappointed some environmentalists in that it_____.
 
　　[A]was a give-in to governmental pressure
 
　　[B]would involve fewer agencies in action
 
　　[C]granted less federal regulatory power
 
　　[D]went against conservation policies
 
　　【答案】D
 
　　【解析】本題屬于推理題，根據(jù)題干信息：the "Threatened"tag 令許多環(huán)境學(xué)家感到失望，定位到第二段的第三句，因此，原因應(yīng)該出自第三句之后，而第四句和第五句中間有很明顯的轉(zhuǎn)折詞but,因此答案定位在第五句，很多同學(xué)可能會問，這里并沒有表示原因的詞去與題干當(dāng)中的in that進行對應(yīng)，但是在我們的鉆石卡的課程中提到，原文當(dāng)中給出原因的并不一定是直接給出表示原因的連詞或者介詞，在本文第三句的but Ashe and others argued that the "threatened" tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservation approaches. 當(dāng)中的gave這個詞是"使得"的意思，A使得B如何如何，也就是A是B的原因，因此這道題的答案是D (違反了保護措施)。
 
　　28.It can be learned from Paragraph3 that unintentional harm-doers will not be prosecuted if they_____.
 
　　[A]agree to pay a sum for compensation
 
　　[B]volunteer to set up an equally big habitat
 
　　[C]offer to support the WAFWA monitoring job
 
　　[D]promise to raise funds for USFWS operations
 
　　【答案】B
 
　　【解析】本題屬于推理題，根據(jù)題干當(dāng)中給出的位置信息(第三段)以及表示條件與結(jié)果的邏輯關(guān)系的if這個信息，可以迅速定位到第三段的第一句，其中題干當(dāng)中的if與文章當(dāng)中的as long as 進行對應(yīng)，而題干當(dāng)中的表示結(jié)果的部分與as long as 之前進行對應(yīng)，因此，正確選項應(yīng)該出自as long as 之后，也就是原文當(dāng)中的：they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat. "簽訂一系列管理計劃去恢復(fù)草原雞的棲息地"，對應(yīng)到的正確選項是B (volunteer to set up an equally big habitat 幫助搭建同樣大小的棲息地)。
 
　　29.According to Ashe, the leading role in managing the species in______.
 
　　[A]the federal government
 
　　[B]the wildlife agencies
 
　　[C]the landowners
 
　　[D]the states
 
　　【答案】D
 
　　【解析】本題屬于細節(jié)題。答案定位在文章第三段最后一句，從Ashe所說的話中"states remain in the driver's seat for managing the species"可以得出，選項D the states在管理物種方面起著領(lǐng)導(dǎo)作用。
 
　　30.Jay Lininger would most likely support_______.