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凯西国际英语高一英语测试卷 Name: Score:
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Passenger pigeons(旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers.
Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks(群)so large that they darkened
the sky for hours.
It was calculated that when its population reach its highest point, there were more than 3 billion
passenger pigeons– a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United
States, making it perhaps the most abundant birds in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their
numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515
kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.
Sadly, the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were
abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands.
Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to
feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large
cities and sold in restaurants.
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By the closing decadesof the 19 century, the hardwood forests where passengerpigeons
nested had been damaged by Americans ’ need for wood, which scattered(驱散)the flocks and
forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their
decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.
In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, but by
then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wild pigeon in the
United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time, a few birds sur
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