Scientists inCanadasay big ocean fish have almost disappeared from the world since the start of industrial fishing in the 1950s. The scientists found that the population of large fish like tuna,swordfish and cod has dropped by ninety per cent in the past fifty years. The study took ten years. The researchers gathered records from fishing businesses and governments around the world. The magazine Nature pub?lished the findings.

  The scientists say the common method called longline fishing is especially damaging to populations of large fish. This method involves many fishing lines connected to one boat. These wires can be close to one hundred kilometres long. They hold thousands of sharp metal hooks to catch fish.

  Longline fishing is especially common in the Japanese fishing industry. Records showed that Japanese boats used to catch about ten fish every one hundred hooks. The study says longline fishing boats now might catch one fish per hundred hooks.

  The scientists say industrial fishing can destroy groups of fish much faster than in the past. The study suggests that whole populations can disappear al?most completely from new fishing areas within ten to fifteen years.  

  Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia led the study with Boris Worm of Dalhousie and the University of Kiel inGermany. Mr Worm says the destruction could lead to a complete reorganization of ocean life sys?tems. Mr Myers says the decreased number of large fish is not the only worry. He says even populations that are able to reproduce do not get the chance to live long enough to grow as big as their ancestors (祖先) .He says not only are there fewer big fish,but also they are smaller than those of the past.

  American government scientists say even with the best efforts to protect fish populations,decreases are to be expected.

1. Where is the passage probably taken from?

   A. A storybook.

   B. A business magazine.

   C. An environment report.

   D. An economic survey.

2. Big fish have gradually been disappearing especially because        .

   A. longline fishing method is used

   B. sea water is getting polluted

   C. mankind destroys the environment

   D. governments don't make the best efforts

3. Which of the following shows the fact that populations of large fish have dropped?

   A. Today's "large" fish are smaller than those of the past.

   B. Longline boats now might catch fewer fish every one hundred hooks.

   C. Fish even able to reproduce don't have the chance to live longer.

   D. Japanese boats could catch about ten fish every one hundred hooks.

4. What can be the best title?

   A. Canadian scientists have made discoveries

   B. Japanese fishing industry

   C. Losses of big fish

   D. Modern fishing methods

  Like most people,I was brought up to look upon life as a process of get?ting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important 1      : giving away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you 2        money.

This is how I 3        with giving away. If an idea for improving the win?dow display of a neighbourhood store 4        to me,I step in and make the sug?gestion to the 5      . If an accident takes place,the 6        of which I think the local police could use,I 7        him up and tell him about it,though I am not in 8        here. One discovery I made about this world is to give 9        get?ting something back,though the 10        often comes in an unexpected form.

  One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important 11        letter to my home,though it was 12        to me at my office. I wrote the post?master a note of 13      More than a year later I needed a post office box for a new business I was 14      . I was told at the window that there were 15        boxes left,and that my name would have to go on a long 16        list. As I was about to 17     ,the postmaster appeared in the 18      . "Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well,you certainly are going to have a box in this post office 19        we make one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get 20        but complaints (投诉) .”

1. A. decision   B. research   C. speech   D. discovery

2. A. earn   B. lack   C. spend   D. steal

3. A. experienced   B. connected   C. combined   D. agreed

4. A. happens   B. flashes   C. sticks   D. leads

5. A. postmaster   B. headmaster   C. storekeeper   D. policeman

6. A. story   B. damage   C. challenge   D. material

7. A. call   B. hold   C. break   D. pick

8. A. need   B. trouble   C. common   D. charge

9. A. within   B. without   C. for   D. before 

10. A. process   B. goal   C. return   D. concern 

11.A. curious   B. immediate   C. special   D. heavy 

12. A. realized   B. addressed   C. forgotten   D. brought 

13.A. invitation   B. apology   C. instruction   D. appreciation 

14.A. dealing   B. providing   C. operating   D. starting 

15.A. enough   B. some   C. no   D. more 

16.A. admitting   B. relating   C. examining   D. waiting 

17. A. leave   B. shout   C. guess   D. conduct 

18.A. window   B. doorway   C. library   D. yard 

19.  A. in case   B. now that   C. even if   D. as if 

20.A. anything   B. everything   C. nothing   D. something

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