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阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 More than 70 percent of king penguins could 1. (wipe) out by rising...
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阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
More than 70 percent of king penguins could 1. (wipe) out by rising ocean temperatures, according to a recent survey.
Their total population of 1.6 million today could be reduced by more than 1.1 million by 2100.2., many people are optimistic because these statistics show that the birds are not endangered at present. Rated as ''of least concern'', they occupy the lowest category of extinction risk.
But that could change as their fish 3. (supply) move further into the Southern Ocean, where there is only a 4. (hand) of islands to provide a home for the birds.
King penguins require remote islands 5. are not too cold, have no winter sea ice and no fierce animals. If they have to swim more than 435 miles on 6. round trip to hunt for fish, their waiting children can starve to death as their fat reserves become steadily 7. (few). It can take a parent three months 8. (deliver) fish to its young.
The scientists, from the University of Strasbourg in France, whose study 9. (publish) in the journal Nature Climate Change so far, warn that the effects of fish population moving further south could give rise 10. a large population crash of the penguins.
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