题目内容
The oceans and seas _________ the islands are deep blue and many cities lie _________ a bay.
A.surrounding;in | B.surrounding;on |
C.surrounded;in | D.surrounded;on |
B
解析
Humans have observed and explored the oceans since ancient times.But it wasn’t until the 19th century that the scientific study of oceans began.The first major scientific expedition,and the one that firmly established the field of oceanography,was the around-the-world voyage of H.M.S. Challenger.Setting out from England in 1872,the Challenger spent almost three and a half years gathering a wealth of information about seawater,sea life,and the ocean floor.Major oceanographic expeditions since then have included the South Atlantic voyage of the German ship Meteor in 1926 and the Deep-Sea Drilling Project from 1968 to 1983.Many individuals also have played important roles in advancing our understanding of oceans,beginning with Matthew Fontaine Maury in the mid-1800s;his work on oceanography and navigation led to a uniform system of weather reporting at sea.Since Maury’s time,oceanography has progressed rapidly.Early oceanographers had to contend themselves with tossing buckets overboard to see what they might haul in.Today’s oceanographers are equipped with space images,supercomputer models,and deep-sea robots that can crawl along the seafloor.As they set goals for the future,some oceanographers even dream of doing research in permanently manned stations on the bottom of the oceans.
【小题1】Which of the following statements is true?
A.Humans didn’t explore the oceans until the 19th century. |
B.Maury first established the field of oceanography. |
C.Maury spent a lot of time in studying seawater,sea life,and the bottom of the ocean. |
D.Many individuals also plays a very important part in advancing our understanding of oceans,such as Maury. |
A.Four. | B.Three. | C.Five. | D.Two. |
A.The process of the oceanography has stopped at one time. |
B.Maury’s work on oceanography contributes a lot to weather reporting at sea. |
C.Nowadays the equipment for studying the oceans needs improving,because it is out of date. |
D.The expeditions in the past had great difficulty and made a lot of efforts in order to study the oceans. |
Global warming is the process of earth’s atmosphere heating up. Over the last 100 years, the average temperature of earth’s atmosphere has gone up 1 Fahrenheit. The weather has not changed exactly the same way in every area of the planet. But scientists think that the rise in average temperature is already affecting the earth’s climate.
Many scientists now believe that global warming is caused by cutting down trees, producing more trash, and polluting the environment which are some of the reasons why the temperature has gone up. Many scientists believe that the biggest causes of global warming are new human technologies that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The greenhouse effect is not new. Certain gases in the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane, making it hard for heat energy to go into space. In the past, the climate didn’t change much because nature produced just the right amount of greenhouse gases to deal with it.
Today, most scientists are pretty sure that the rising temperature can’t be blamed on nature. Ever since the industrial revolution in the 1700s, humans have relied on machines for daily life. And many of those machines give off a lot of greenhouse gases. An increase in the release of greenhouse gases from human activities is throwing nature off balance.
The climate is a very complicated thing, but many scientists agree that the rising atmospheric temperature has already damaged the environment. Sheets of ice, called glaciers, are melting in Antarctica and other parts of the globe. As glaciers break off and melt into the oceans, they are adding warm water to the oceans and causing the sea level to rise.
Over the past 100 years, the sea level has risen 6-8 inches around the world. That means land along the coasts is beginning to disappear under water. Bigger and warmer oceans are also adding to other weather problems caused by pollution in the atmosphere. Some places have received more rain, others have had bigger storms and a few areas in the world have experienced unusual droughts.
【小题1】What is mainly talked about in this passage?
A.The melting of glaciers. | B.Global warming. |
C.The world’s weather. | D.The earth’s temperature. |
A.Human activities. | B.The nature itself. |
C.The earth’s atmosphere. | D.New discoveries |
A.They keep heat in the atmosphere. |
B.They let the heat go out into space. |
C.They release heat into the air |
D.They can make the other gases warm. |
A.the pollution in the atmosphere | B.natural disasters |
C.population pollution | D.the rise of glaciers |