大学生英语竞赛A类阅读理解专项强化真题试卷8
阅读理解
A team of scientists has just finished what might literally be described as one of the most breathtaking jobs in the world — surveying and mapping the coral reefs in Southeast Asia\’s Coral Triangle off the coast of Indonesia\’s Sulawesi Island.
As part of the Catlin Seaview Survey, teams from the University of Queensland, Indonesia\’s Sam Ratulangi University and Indonesia\’s Institute of Sciences spent time underwater over several weeks near the city of Manado to record data and map reefs in what the survey says \\
1.A group of scientists are surveying and mapping the coral reefs along the coast of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, which is described as the most amazing work in the world.(B)
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
解析：原文首段写到该工作“可能是世界上最激动人心的工作之一”(what might literally bedescribed as one of the most breathtaking jobs in the world)，而题干描述的太过绝对，因此错误。
2.The great project to map the Coral Triangle, a triangle area between the Pacific and Indian o-ceans, encompasses 647 million hectares of land and sea located within the territories of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.(A)
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
解析：文章第三段是对该项目的描述，与题干描述一致。注意题干列举国家时打乱了顺序，但没有错误。
3.Recent research reveals that most of the world’s corals have been missing in the last three decades due to climate change.(B)
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
解析：文章第二大部分第一段谈珊瑚的损坏情况。近30年，消失的珊瑚占总量的40％，而题干描述的是大部分珊瑚均已消失，与40％的数据不符，因此错误。
4.Knowledge about the structure and function of such reefs paves the way for underlying their resilience to global change, which also decides how much, and where governments should invest to protect the Earth.(A)
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
解析：文章第二大部分倒数两段，均谈到相关知识对人类保护珊瑚及保护地球起到的巨大作用。与题干描述一致，因此正确。
5.Thousands of images taken with the Seaview SVII underwater camera, which employs new technology to shorten surveying time of large, shallow water areas from months to days, will be stitched to create a whole picture of the reef system.(A)
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
解析：文章倒数两段介绍了Seaview SVII水下摄像新技术的优势，分别谈到其在缩短调查时间(from months to days)和图片链接(to create a whole picture of the reef system)方面起到的效果，与题干描述一致，因此题干正确。
Read the following passage. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which best fits each gap of 61 —65. There are two extra sentences which you do not need to use.
A Dutch Sinologist has spent more than 50 years studying the country\’s language, and classic literature.
【R1】______As a child, the vivid descriptions of China in Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck\’s books sparked Idema\’s interest in the country. He later read classic Chinese literature and spent whole days pouring through works at the National Library of China.
The 70-year-old Dutch Sinologist recalled his half-century-long romance with Chinese culture during a recent visit to Beijing. Idema was the only Sinologist invited this year to participate in the Oriental Culture Research Program, an annual project hosted by the China International Culture Association.
Idema has served as the director of the Chinese Languages and Cultures Department at Leiden University of the Netherlands and was also director of Harvard\’s
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