Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times brighter than normal,throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint,including their nighttime breeding choruses.Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs.Like most other creatures,we do need darkness.Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare,to our internal clockwork,as light itself.
Living in a glare of our own making,we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural heritage—the light of the stars and the rhythms of day and night.In a very real sense,light pollution causes us to lose sight of our true place in the universe,to forget the scale of our being,which is best measured against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way—the edge of our galaxy—arching overhead.
52.The writer mentions birds and frogs to ________. A.provide examples of animal protection B.show how light pollution affects animals
C.compare the living habits of both species
D.explain why the number of certain species has declined
[解析] B 文章介绍了光污染对于动物和人类的影响,呼吁我们反思我们的行为。根据第二段第一句话“The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences 这项工程带来好处的同时也带来了坏处”和最后一句,“Wherever human light spills into the natural world, some aspect of life is affected”,
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