Questions 23-26 Complete the summary below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 23-26 on your answer sheet.
原文
A Parrots are found across the tropics and in all southern hemisphere continents except Antarctica, but nowhere do they display such a richness of diversity and form as in Australia. One-sixth of the worlds 345 parrot species are found there, and Australia has long been renowned for the number and variety of its parrots.
B In the 16th century, the German cartographer Mercator made a world map that included a place, somewhere near present-day Australia, that he named Terra Psittacorum —the Land of Parrots —and the first European settlers in Australia often referred to the country as Parrot Land. In 1865 the celebrated British naturalist and wildlife artist John Gould said: ‘No group of birds gives Australia so tropical and benign an air as the numerous species of this great family by which it is tenanted.’
Parrots in Australia
第 23 题
There are 345 varieties of parrot in existence and, of these, _____ live in Australia. As early as the ____, the mapmaker ____ recognised that parrots lived in that part of the world. ____, the famous painter of animals and birds, commented on the size and beauty of the Australian parrot family.
正确答案：one-sixth
第 24 题
There are 345 varieties of parrot in existence and, of these, ____ live in Australia. As early as the _____, the mapmaker ____ recognised that parrots lived in that part of the world. ____, the famous painter of animals and birds, commented on the size and beauty of the Australian parrot family.
正确答案：16th century
第 25 题
There are 345 varieties of parrot in existence and, of these, ____ live in Australia. As early as the ____, the mapmaker _____ recognised that parrots lived in that part of the world. ____, the famous painter of animals and birds, commented on the size and beauty of the Australian parrot family.
正确答案：Mercator
第 26 题
There are 345 varieties of parrot in existence and, of these, ____ live in Australia. As early as the ____, the mapmaker ____ recognised that parrots lived in that part of the world. _____, the famous painter of animals and birds, commented on the size and beauty of the Australian parrot family.