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Ⅰ. (2024·鹤壁市中考模拟)阅读理解。
The climate crisis (气候危机) may lead the human race to shrink in size, as mammals(哺乳类动物) with smaller size appear better able to deal with rising global temperatures, a leading fossil expert has said.
Professor Steve Brusatte at the University of Edinburgh suggested that the way in which other mammals have responded(反应) to periods of climate change before brought thoughts of humans’ future. He said the difficulty of people is similar to that of early horses, which became smaller in body size as temperatures rose around 55 million years ago.
Brusatte notes that animals in warmer parts of the world today are often smaller than those in colder areas. “The reasons are not fully understood, but it is probably, in part, because smaller animals have a higher surface area relative to their size than larger animals and can thus better get rid of the excess(过多的) heat,” he writes.
Brusatte said that becoming smaller was “a common way that mammals deal with climate change”. He added, “That’s not to say every kind of mammal would get smaller, but it seems to be a common survival skill of mammals when temperatures rise pretty quickly. So it does raise the question：If temperatures do rise quickly, might humans get smaller? And I think that’s certainly possible.”
However, not all experts agree with that. Professor Adrian Lister, of the Natural History Museum in London, doubts that humans will shrink as the climate heats. “We are not really controlled by the nature,” he said. “If that was going to happen, you’d need to find large people dying before they could reproduce because of climate warming. That is not happening in today’s world. We wear clothes, we have got heating, we have got air conditioning if it is too hot.”
( )1. What does the underlined word “shrink” most probably mean in Chinese?
A. 增大 B. 增多 C. 缩小 D. 减少
( )2. What happened to the early horses according to the text?
A. They were greatly hunted by humans.
B. They died out because of the hot weather.
C. They became other animals in 55 million years.
D. They became smaller because of the climate change.
( )3. 新考法 跨学科知识 Which of the following matches Brusatte’s opinion best?

( )4. Why does the writer mention Lister’s words?
A. To support his idea.
B. To start a different topic.
C. To give another opinion.
D. To meet the readers’ need.
( )5. 新考法 文章来源 Where is the text probably from?
A. A history book.
B. A tourist guide.
C. A health magazine.
D. A science website.

答案： 1-5 C D C C D