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托福阅读总结复****模拟练****包括解析三
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Two species of deer have been prevalent inthe Puget Sound area of Washington State in the Pacific Northwest of the UnitedStates. The black-tailed deer, a lowland, west-side cousin of the mule deer ofeastern Washington, is now the most common. The other species, the Columbianwhite-tailed deer, in earlier times was common in the open prairie country; itis now restricted to the low, marshy islands and flood plains along the lowerColumbia River.
Nearly any kind of plant of the forestunderstory can be part of a deer's diet. Where the forest inhibits the growthof grass and other meadow plants, the black-tailed deer browses on huckleberry,salal, dogwood, and almost any other shrub or herb. But this is fair-weatherfeeding. What keeps the black-tailed deer alive in the harsher seasons of plantdecay and dormancy? One compensation for not hibernating is the built-in urgeto migrate. Deer may move from high-elevation browse areas in summer down to thelowland areas in late fall. Even with snow on the ground, the high bushyunderstory is exposed; also snow and wind bring down leafy branches of cedar,hemlock, red alder, and other arboreal fodder.
The numbers of deer have fluctuatedmarkedly since the
entry of Europeans into Puget Sound country. The
earlyexplorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the
early 1800s and yet almostin the same breath bemoaned the
lack of this succulent game animal. Famousexplorers of the
north American frontier, Lewis and Clark arrived at the
mouthof the Columbia River on November 14, 1805, in nearly
starved had experienced great difficulty
finding game west of the Rockies and notuntil the second of
December did they kill their first elk. To keep 40
peoplealive that winter, they consumed approximately 150 elk
and 20 deer. And whengame moved out of the lowlands i

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