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Asian carp are strong to jump over barriers such as low dams. They lay hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time and spread into new habitat quickly and easily. Also, flooding has helped the fish expand into previously unattainable water bodies. And fishers using young carp as live bait have also helped the fish"s spread, as they have boats going through locks up and down the Mississippi.
The federal government considers the Asian carps to be annoying species and encourages and supports “active control” by natural resources management agencies. Federal and state governments have spent millions in tax dollars to prevent the carp from making their way into the Great Lakes, but an underwater electric fence constructed to keep them out has not worked as well as hoped, and policymakers are reviewing other options now.
In the meantime, state and federal agencies are monitoring the Mississippi and its branches for Asian carp and testing various barrier technologies to prevent their further spread. For instance, the National Park Service is cooperating with the state of Minnesota"s Department of Natural Resources to construct new dams that are high enough to prevent Asian carp from jumping over. The Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee has funded DNA monitoring in potentially affected water bodies whereby researchers can determine whether the troublesome fish are present just by the biological footprints they leave behind. Individuals can do their part by not transporting fish, bait or even water from one water body to another, and by emptying and washing boats before moving them between different water bodies.
小题1:Asian carp have been introduced to the USA in order to ________.
A.improve water quality |
B.help sensitive species |
C.control the number of native fishes |
D.control the ecosystem in aquaculture |
A.testing various barrier technologies |
B.construction of an underwater electric fence |
C.Emptying and washing boats before using them. |
D.monitoring the Mississippi and its branches for Asian carp |
A.aquaculture operations are dangerous to the water bodies |
B.scientific technology is useless in preventing Asian carp spreading |
C.both the state and the individuals can make efforts to keep out Asian carp |
D.Asian carp have successfully invaded the Mississippi and the Great Lakes |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
解析
文章大意:为控制水产养殖的杂草和寄生虫,亚洲鲤鱼被引进到美国,结果引发了一场生物灾难。密西西比河水生物已崩溃,为防止它们进入五大湖,美国政府决定立即采取行动。
小题1:D 细节理解题。由第一段第二句话“Introduced in the southeast to help control weeds and parasites in aquaculture (水产养殖) operations...”可知,引进亚洲鲤鱼的目的是控制水产养殖的杂草和寄生虫。
小题2:B 细节理解题。由第三段最后一句话“Federal and state governments have spent millions in tax dollars to prevent the carp from making their way into the Great Lakes, but an underwater electric fence constructed to keep them out has not worked as well as hoped, and policymakers are reviewing other options now.”可知。
小题3:C 推理判断题。由最后一段可知,各州政府和个人都在努力赶走亚洲鲤鱼。
核心考点
试题【Seven species of carp(鲤鱼) native to Asia have been introduced into United States】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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That American high schools spend more time and money on sports than on math is an old complaint. In December, when the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results are announced, it"s safe to predict that American highschool students will once again show their limited skills in math and reading, outscored not just by students in Poland but also by students in places like China, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. Meanwhile, they will have played some very exciting football games, which will have been breathlessly written up in their hometown papers.
Why does this situation continue? Well, for one thing, kids like it. And for another, according to Ripley, parents seem to like the arrangement, too. She describes a tour she took of a school in Washington D.C., which costs thirty thousand dollars a year. The tour leader a mother with three children in the school was asked about the school"s flaws (瑕疵). When she said that the math program was weak, none of the parents taking the tour reacted. When she said that the football program was weak, the parents suddenly became concerned. “Really?” one of them asked worriedly, “What do you mean?”
One of the ironies of the situation is that sports show what is possible. American kids" performance on the field shows just how well they can do when expectations are high. It"s too bad that their_test_scores_show_the_same_thing._
小题1:Tom decides to spend his senior year in Poland because ________.
A.he intends to improve his scores |
B.Polish kids are better at learning |
C.sports are not supported at schools in Gettysburg |
D.he wants to be the smartest kid in the world |
A.PISA plays a very important role in America |
B.little time is spent on sports in Japanese schools |
C.American students do better in both math and sports |
D.too much importance is placed on sports in America |
A.low expectations result in American students" poor PISA performance |
B.high expectations push up American students" academic performance |
C.American students" academic performance worries their parents a lot |
D.lacking practice contributes to American students" average performance |
A.compare Polish schools with those in America |
B.call on American schools to learn from the Polish model |
C.draw public attention to a weakness in American school tradition |
D.explain what is wrong with American schools and provide solutions |
It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to ____ life as I do if I hadn"t been blind. I believe in life now.I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, ____. I don"t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me ____ the more what I had left.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself.That was ____. If I hadn"t been able to do that, I would have ____ and become a chair rocker for the rest of my life.When I say ____ in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of selfconfidence that helps me down a(n) ____ staircase alone.That is part of it.But I mean something ____ than that: an assurance that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and ____ this assurance.It had to start with the most elementary things.Once a man gave me an indoor baseball, I thought he was laughing at me and I was ____.“I can"t use this,” “I said. Take it with you;” he ____ me.“and roll it around.” The words ____ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could ____ where it went.This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ____: playing baseball.At Philadelphia"s Overbrook School for the Blind I ____ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of ____ and then tried to reach them, one at a time.I had to learn my ____. It was no good trying for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made ____.
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So, the bottom line is that no matter how strong your passwords are, and no matter what clever tricks you use to help you remember them, if you surf internet often, the only truly secure password system is what you need.
Enter LastPass. It"s not the only password manager out there, but I like it the best. You create ONE strong password that you have to memorize and use it to access your LastPass database. The LastPass database is stored online, on LastPass"s servers. LastPass recognizes the site you"re on and automatically logs you in (after, optionally, asking you to reenter your master password). LastPass also has automatic form fill and automatic password generation. This means that you can have a different, unique, very strong password for every site you log into, but you only have to remember one master password. It"s the best of both worlds.
One argument against LastPass is that if their database is attacked, then all of your sites are in danger, and that"s true, but given that their entire line of work is keeping that information safe, I"m willing to take that chance. The alternative is rolling dice(掷骰子) or picking phrases to create passwords, writing all of them down on a piece of paper or something, and then having to manually type them in when I go to a site. A terrible mess.
There is a free version of LastPass, with some additional features unlocked if you pay a $12 a year subscription.
Joshua Bardwell
小题1:The writer thinks using the same password everywhere is ________.
A.dangerous | B.convenient |
C.appropriate | D.adequate |
A.all passwords used |
B.the last password |
C.unique password each time |
D.the master password only |
A.they have better ways to create password |
B.they think rolling dice is more convenient |
C.they have no faith in Lastpass database"s safety |
D.Gawker media and Lastpass were hacked once |
A.share his experience |
B.introduce a product of good quality |
C.advertise his product |
D.teach how to use a new product |
Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It can"t be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we can"t detect them, sense them, without a radio receiver. Similarly, we can"t sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things.
At very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being immediately by killing masses of cells in vital organs. But even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no levels of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be serious. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed immediately. Your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in trouble. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many years.
This is another reason for some of the mystery about nuclear radiation. Serious damage can be done without the victim being aware at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated(辐射)and feel fine, then die for cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. Or a child can be born weak as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents.
Radiation can hurt us. We must know the truth.
小题1:Which of the following statements is true?
A.Nuclear radiation is just like common radio waves. |
B.Nuclear radiation can cause cancer to human beings. |
C.Nuclear radiation can be detected by human senses. |
D.Nuclear radiation can be safe to human beings if its level is low. |
A.By damaging its heart. |
B.By killing a few cells. |
C.By hitting any place in its body. |
D.By killing many cells in important organs. |
A.die of cancer after many years |
B.die immediately |
C.have a child who may be born weak |
D.all of the above |
One of the conclusions of a report released on Sept 27 by the United Nations says that human activities have caused global temperatures to rise by 0.89 0C between 1901 and 2012. That might not seem like a lot, but the truth is that a major part of that heat has been absorbed into the oceans, which is not surprising given that they cover two thirds of Earth"s surface. Also, water has a much greater capacity (容量) to absorb heat than the air does, according to The Economist.
While many greenhouse gases occur naturally and are needed to keep the Earth warm enough to support life, humans" use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess (多余的) greenhouse gases. According to CNN, by driving cars, using electricity produced by burning coal and oil or heating our homes with coal or natural gas, we release a large amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Your body can barely feel a difference of 0.89 0C, but the Earth"s ecosystems are so sensitive that even small changes can disturb them. It often starts with the smallest creatures at the bottom of the food chain, eventually affecting bigger animals, many of which could end up becoming extinct.
Global warming is also linked to an increase in extreme weather. A larger amount of carbon dioxide traps more energy inside the atmosphere. This changes the patterns of storms and rainfall in many regions and can lead to droughts and floods. Worse still, melting sea ice in warmer oceans is causing sea levels to rise at a speed of more than three millimeters per year, according to The Guardian, which also increases the risk of flooding.
“The report should serve as another wakeup call that our activities today have a profound impact on society, not only for us, but for many generations to come,” French Michel Jarraud, secretarygeneral of the World Meteorological Organization, said at a news conference.
小题1:The underlined word “dominant” in the first paragraph means “ ________”.
A.common | B.indirect |
C.secondary | D.leading |
A.Greenhouse gases have been proven to harm merely the Earth . |
B.There is little we can do to prevent global warming. |
C.Global warming can increase the chances of droughts and floods. |
D.The hugeness of oceans makes them better absorbers of heat than the air. |
A.is more harmful to smaller creatures than bigger ones |
B.is not serious because most of the extra heat has been absorbed by the oceans |
C.has made the Earth"s ecosystems more sensitive to changes |
D.is likely to cause many species to become extinct |
A.Negative. | B.Supportive. |
C.Doubtful. | D.Uninterested. |
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