Part B: Ordering Utterances (2025)
Directions:
The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent text by choosing from the list A-H and filling them into the numbered boxes. Paragraphs A, C and H have been correctly placed. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
[A]
[固定位 4] Peters likes to photograph butterflies in a landscape, celebrating the beauty of their surroundings as well as the insects themselves. His pictures of a Glanville fritillary rising from the sea-pinks beside the chalk cliffs of Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight are particularly glorious. These takeoff shots are even more challenging because they require a wide-angle lens, which means he must be less than 2cm from the butterfly. Its incredibly difficult to get that close to a skittish sun-warmed insect. Unlike some photographers, who cheat by keeping insects in a fridge to slow them down, Peters refuses to tamper with wild butterflies.
[B]
Peters signature shot is a butterfly takeoff, showing the multiple wingbeats of one butterfly in one frame as it lifts off from a flower. How does he capture it? Technology helps. A typical digital SLR camera shoots 20 frames a second. He uses a high-speed OM System which shoots 120 frames a second.
[C]
[固定位 1] Britain has relatively few butterfly species compared with mainland Europe and 80% are in decline, mostly because intensive chemical farming has reduced many species to tiny fragments of habitat and small nature reserves. Global heating is benefiting some species but others are too isolated to find suitable new habitat, and gardening habits—paving over gardens and using pesticides—arent helping either. Butterflies may not pollinate as many plants as wild bees and hoverflies, but because British butterflies are the best-studied group of insects in the world, they are an extremely useful indicator of the wider declines in flying insects.
[D]
Five years ago, at summers end, Andrew Fusek Peters was diagnosed with bowel cancer. I was waiting for surgery, feeling really ill, sitting in my garden. It was amazing weather and there were painted lady butterflies everywhere, he says. They were a symbol of fragile life, of hope and defiance, and something appealed to my soul.
[E]
That makes it sound easy, and artificial, but Peters insists it is still a massive challenge. He typically takes between 10,000 and 20,000 shots to get one butterfly take-off sequence in focus. At such high shutter speeds, the depth of field is tiny, and as butterflies do not fly in a straight line they swiftly flutter out of focus. As well as thousands of attempts, it takes patience and fieldcraft to anticipate a butterflys likely flight-line—and catch it—in focus.
[F]
So whats the appeal of a long, sweaty day in pursuit of an elusive, fast-moving wild animal? It just feels bloody brilliant, says Peters. If Ive had a full day of good encounters with butterflies, met interesting butterfly people and Ive got some good shots, that becomes a vault in my spiritual bank. Its a happy feeling.
[G]
A childrens author and poet who had become a keen amateur photographer, Peters watched the butterflies and idly wondered if he could capture them in flight. It swiftly became an obsession as he recovered from a successful operation to remove the cancer. In recent summers, he has travelled the length and breadth of Britain to photograph all 58 native species of butterfly. Now the fruits of these summers have been published in a beautiful new book.
[H]
[固定位 6] A butterfly takes off so quickly it is still impossible to react quickly enough to capture that take-off but if he half-presses the shutter, the camera saves the 70 previous frames before the moment he actually takes the picture. Its time travel, so I dont miss the moment of take-off, he says. After hes captured the butterfly taking off, he layers 10 to 15 frames together in Photoshop.
Answer Sheet
答案解析 (Answers & Analysis)
41. [D] 衔接首段C。C段讲英国蝴蝶的大背景，D段引入主人公 Andrew 并讲述其患癌经历作为故事切入点。词汇钩子：butterfly (C段最后) -> butterflies (D段中)。
42. [G] 衔接D段。D段讲到他在花园看蝴蝶，G段紧接着说他作为作者开始想捕捉它们，并开始了拍摄全英58种蝴蝶的“痴迷”之旅。逻辑：diagnosed with cancer (D) -> recovered from operation (G)。
43. [B] 衔接固定段A。A段最后提到起飞镜头(takeoff shots)很具挑战性，B段首句直接回应：Peters signature shot is a butterfly takeoff。并提出问题：How does he capture it? 引入技术话题。
44. [E] 衔接固定段H。H段讲到了如何利用相机预存帧和 Photoshop 后期叠加，这听起来很“技术/人工”。E段首句 That makes it sound easy, and artificial 进行了完美的逻辑转折，强调即便有技术，实操依然是巨大的挑战。
45. [F] 全文收尾。E段描述了拍摄的艰辛，F段以 So whats the appeal...? 设问，引出拍摄带来的精神慰藉和幸福感，完成从“技”到“心”的升华。