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(B) In the past two years, scores of scientific studies have suggested that trillions of murmuring, droning, susurrating honeybees, butterflies, caddisflies, damselflies and beetles are dying off. Most of the studies describe declines of 50% and more in different measures of insect health over decades. The immediate reaction is consternation. Because insects enable plants to reproduce, through pollination, and are food for other animals, a collapse in their numbers would be catastrophic. “The insect apocalypse is here,” trumpeted the New York Times last year. Yet only a handful of databases record the abundance of insects over a long time. There are no studies at all of wild insect numbers in most of the world, and reliable data are too scarce to declare a global emergency. Where the evidence does show a collapse—in Europe and America—agricultural and rural ecosystems are holding up. Plants still grow, attracting pollinators and reproducing. Farm yields also remain high. As some insect species die out, others seem to be moving into the niches they have left, keeping ecosystems going, albeit with less biodiversity than before. People rely on healthy ecosystems for everything from nutrient cycling to the local weather, and the more species make up an ecosystem, the more stable it is likely to be. The scale of the observed decline raises doubts about how long ecosystems can remain resilient. An experiment in which researchers gradually plucked out insect pollinators from fields found that plant diversity held up well until about 90% of insects had been removed. Then it collapsed. As one character in a novel by Ernest Hemingway says, bankruptcy came in two ways: “gradually, then suddenly.”
【題組】34. Which of the following words can best describe most of the people’s instantaneous reaction to the drastic decrement of insect population?
(A) fright
(B) bewilderment
(C) agitation
(D) placidness

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黃淨盈 國三下 (2019/07/17)
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炸蝦 小二下 (2021/07/13)

consternation(n.)驚惶失措

con共同，stern ( adj.嚴厲的；苛刻的 ) →一萬人嚴厲的指責你你就會處於驚恐狀態

The prospect of so much work filled him with consternation.

一想到要做這麽多事，他心裡驚恐不已。

To his consternation, when he got to the airport he found he'd forgotten his passport.

讓他驚惶失措的是，到機場後他發現自己忘了帶護照。

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炸蝦 小二下 (2021/07/13)

frightened(a.)害怕的，受驚的

The police officer found a frightened child in the hut.

員警在小屋裡發現了一個驚恐的孩子。

fright(n.)（尤指突然産生的）恐懼，驚嚇

I lay in bed shaking with fright.

我躺在床上嚇得發抖。


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