The marine environment is fascinating to study and work in due to its beauty, richness, and complexity. It covers three quarters of the surface of the Earth, yet we know more detail about the surface of Mars.

In the past, it was seen as both an inexhaustible resource and a bottomless sink for our wastes. Yet the increasing pressures of overpopulation, pollution and the threat to our natural environment mean that there is an increasing need for scientists who can understand how it all works, how it affects us, and how we are affecting it from global warming through to the smallest plankton.

From local issues to global concerns, we now know that the marine environment is inextricably linked to our lives, and to our future survival. It is an area where much remains to be discovered, and where only a multidisciplinary approach can cover the breadth of issues to be confronted. This is the approach taken on our Marine Environmental Science degree course.

This course takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore and understand the marine environment. After an initial grounding in basic science, optional choices are available in specialist topics such as marine ecosystems and pollution, coastal navigation and oceanography, among others.

Our new harbor side marine laboratory is used for some of the specialist lectures, laboratory and project work, while a week's residential field course in the Isle of Man provides training to prepare for the research project conducted in your final year. There is an optional trip to Belize in the final year to study tropical marine environments.

From the passage, we can infer that ______.

A. people waste a lot of resource

B. marine environment covers 3/4 of the surface of Mars

C. marine environment is beautiful for its sufficient resources

D. the Earth is similar to Mars

The present environment of the Earth forces the experts and scholars to study ______.

A. the relationship between people’s actions and natural environment

B. the relationship between people’s actions and pollution

C. the relationship between people’s actions and overpopulation

D. the relationship between people’s actions and plankton

According to the passage, a multi-disciplinary approach is effective because _______.

A. we can choose some issues as optionally as we can

B. we have practiced the approach for a long time

C. the approach is linked to our future survival

D. the approach covers a lot of problems we will meet

We can divide the lectures of the course into ______ parts.

A.1       B. 2       C. 3       D. 4

If a student choose marine Environmental Science degree course, he must ______.

A. make lectures about the issues to be confronted

B. provide training to get ready to do research project

C. take several days residential field in the Isle

travel to Belize to study tropical marine environments

Answers:

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    首先阅读以下学校各社团的介绍。

A.

Photography Club --- We are looking for artistically inclined students to join our new club. We plan to meet every Tuesday and Thursday evening after school from 6 to 8 pm. Each member must have their own equipment.

B.

Hiking Society --- Members meet every Saturday to discuss their hiking trips and twice a month, we arrange trips to different parts of the province for members to go on breathtaking scenic mountain walks. Get to understand our local geography, keep fit and have fun.

C.

Film Club --- The club is perfect for students who love artistic movies. Every Tuesday and Friday evening we hold a seminar in which a great new movie or a classic film is discussed and reviewed.

D.

Dancing Club --- We are the largest club in the university with over 400 members. Members are invited to dancing practice every Monday evening from 7 pm to 10 pm and we hold dance parties with students from other universities once a month. Perfect way to keep fit and meet new friends.

E.

English Society --- A new group organized by the University English Dept. gives all students on campus a chance to practice and improve their English. We plan to have regular foreign guests come to our weekly meetings every Wednesday evening at 7:30 and we show English language movies that can help you both practice your English and be entertained as well.

F.

Book Club --- Members meet each week to discuss and recommend books to each other. Meetings are lunch times on Fridays. Membership is free. All members qualify for a 20% discount on all books purchased from the Xinhua Book Store.

 

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1.Cherry wants to join a club that will keep her fit and active but because she has a part-time job every workday evening she is only available to take part on the weekends.

2.David is a new student at the university, whose major is English literature. He is a little shy so is hoping to join a club that can help him get to know new people and build his confidence.

3.Bonnie is majoring in drama and wants to be a scriptwriter when she graduates. She is interested in discovering new stories that she may one day be able to turn into movies. As her home is far from the university she is only free during the day to take part.

4.Betty is studying film making and one day hopes to become a director. But she thinks her ability to create beautiful visual images is not strong enough so she has recently purchased a camera to help her practice.

5. Jack is a first year geography student who would like to learn more about the geography of the local area. He is also worried about passing the English test that all students must take at the end of their first year of study. He has to return to his home to help his parents every weekend so is only free during weekdays.

 

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1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

   A. Yellowstone Tour & Travel is a company with a history of over 25 years.

   B. Yellowstone Tour & Travel is a company serving people 25 years.

   C. Yellowstone Tour & Travel has a one-stop shop for most vacations.

   D. Yellowstone Tour & Travel can lend visitors planes and ships.

2.Yellowstone Tour & Travel can serve the following EXCEPT _________.

   A. girl vacations     B. family vacations     C. group tours    D. international travels

3. If you want to see grey bears, buffalo, you may join __________.

   A. Yellowstone and Grand Teton Park Guided Summer Van Tours

   B. Lamar Valley Wolf & Wildlife Tour

   C. Snowmobile Yellowstone Park

   D. Adventure Snowmobile Packages

4. In Lamar Valley, you can have the best opportunity to see __________ in winter.

   A. bald eagles        B. buffalo         C. grey bears      D. wolves

 

One hot night last July, when our new baby wouldn’t or couldn’t sleep, I tried everything I could think of : a warm bottle, songs gentle rocking. Nothing would settle him down. Guessing that I would have a long night ahead of me, I brought a portable (便携式)TV into his room, figuring that watching the late movie was as good a way as any to kill off the hours till dawn. To my surprise, as soon as the TV lit up, the baby quieted right now, his little eyes focused brightly on the tube. Not to waste an opportunity for sleep, I then walked out of the room, leaving him to watch the actors celebrate John Bellushi's forty-fifth birthday.

My wife and I heard no more of the baby that night, and the next morning when I went into his room, I found him still watching TV himself. I found in my baby's a metaphor(启示)for the new generation. My wife and I had given him some books to examine, but he merely spit upon them. When we read to him, he did not feel comfortable. And so it is in the schools. We find that our students don't read , that they look down upon reading and scold those of us who teach it. All they want to do is watching TV.

After this experience with the baby, however, I have reached a conclusion: “Let them watch it!” If television is that much more attractive to children than books, why should we fight it? Let them watch it all they want!

1.

Father brought a TV set into his son's room____.     

A.to stop his son crying

B.to let him learn something

C.to make him frightened

D.to let his son spend a good night

2.

To the couple’s surprise the boy ___after they brought a TV set into his room.

A.soon fell asleep

B.cried all that night

C.became quiet and silent

D.slept quite well that night

3.

Form the last paragraph we know that the writer thinks it____.

A.terrible for children to watch so many TV programmes

B.useless for parents to blame their children

C.necessary for TV stations to improve their TV programmes

D.favorable for children to watch the programmes they like

 

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