64. What can be learned from The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior?

　 　 A. Soft drink remains a problem in schools.

　 　 B. Girls tend to consume less soda at school.

　 　 C. Soft drinks may not be to blame for eating problems.

　 　 D. Vending machines are not available in all schools.

60.What is the main idea of the passage?

A.The old city of Venice is disappearing.

B.The glaciers in the Glacier National Park in Montana is becoming less and less.

C.Why does the coral of the Great Barrier Reef turn white

D. Climate change has caused many environmental problems.

答案　 BCDCD

Passage 85

(河南省郑州外国语学校2010届高三上学期第三次月考)

(C)

Schools have been blamed for giving kids access to soda in vending machines (自动售货机).But new data suggest that school soft drink sales may not be an important factor in how much soda kids drink.

In the current issue of The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, researchers compared soda consumption among nearly 500 students in Maine who attended seven schools over two school years. Four of the schools cut back on soft drink availability at the schools, while three of the schools made no changes.

All the students were drinking less soda by the end of the study period, but there were no meaningful differences in overall soft drink consumption among the different schools. The data suggest that limiting soft drink availability at school doesn’t result in meaningful changes in drink consumption patterns. While there were no changes in overall soda consumption, there was a notable shift in diet soda drinking among girls. If the school cut back on soda availability, girls were less likely to drink diet soda, compared to girls in schools that made no changes.

The data are the latest to suggest that schools may not play as big of a role in kids’ poor eating habits as widely believed. Last year, The American Journal of Public Health published a provocative (引起争论的) study showing that childhood weight problems often get worse in the summer, when kids are out of school.

Data from kindergarteners and first graders found that body mass index (指数) increased two to three times as fast in summer as during the regular school year. Minority children were especially at risk, as were children who were already overweight.

Even children who were too thin and needed to gain weight appeared to have better eating habits during the school year. They actually gained more weight while in school and less in the summer.

Even so, much of the focus on childhood nutrition and obesity (肥胖) remains in the nation’s schools. Today, The Times reported that even the school bake sale is disappearing as districts impose strict standards on the food served on school grounds.

59.The book “Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them” is mainly about______.

A.the disappearing of wild plants and animals

B.the effects of disappearing ice in Antarctic

C.the travel places that are in danger now

D.the harm tourists do to the places of interest

58.What makes the coral of the Great Barrier Reef turn white?

A.That the water around gets dirty

B.that it attacked by other animals

C.That it cannot get enough food

D.that the high temperature doesn’t suit it

57.From the third paragraph we can infer______.

A.there will be no life in the Glacier National Park in Montana in 2030

B.the present plants in the glacier National Park like warm weather

C.the weather in America half a century ago was colder than it is today

D.there is no ice existing in the Glacier National Park in Montana now

56.Which of the following can show us the climate many centuries ago?

A.Old buildings in Venice

B.Mount Kilimanjaro

C.The Glacier National park in Montana

D.The Great Barrier Reef

75. The purpose of this passage is to_________ .

　 A. show people the findings of a research team　

B. inform people of how acid the ocean is now

　 C. introduce Dr Caldeira and his team's research　

D. warn people of the higher level of CO₂

答案　 DABD

Passage 84

(山东省潍坊市2010届高三上学期阶段性测试)

A

Climate change has caused the disappearance of ice in Antarctic. It will not only do harm to wildlife in the area but also cause levels of oceans and seas around the world to rise. The old city of Venice, Italy has long been threatened by rising sea levels. Its old buildings, built on a body of water called a lagoon, are slowly “sinking”. When the city was founded about one thousand six hundred yours ago, the water level was almost two meters lower than it is today.

　　 Mount Kilimanjaro in northeastern Tanzania is the highest point in Africa, with five vegetation zones and many kinds of animals. The ice glaciers on the mountain are disappearing very quickly. This will have a bad effect on the mountain’s plants and animals and on Tanzania’s travel industry. Also, a valuable record of thousands of years of weather history will also be lost if the ice melts. Scientists study pieces of the glacier to know the weather thousands of years ago.

　　 In the United States, the ice in the Glacier National Park in Montana may soon completely disappear because of climate change. In 1950, there were about 150 glaciers in the park. However there are only 26 glaciers remaining today. Scientists say that the glaciers will be gone by 2030. Many kinds of plants and animals in this mountain park are also disappearing.

　 Rising sea temperatures are greatly harming the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. In some areas, healthy yellow, brown and green reefs have turned white. The coral whitens when it becomes breathless because of high temperatures. Its food also becomes less and less because the water is deepening.

　 These places are included in the book called “Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them.” It aims to call on the world to protect these places of interest in danger.

74. Most experts once believed storing carbon dioxide in the ocean would reduce________ .

　 A. the CO₂ absorbed by the ocean　　　　　　 B. the amount of greenhouse warming

　 C. the acidity of the ocean　　　　　　　　　 D. the gradual release of CO₂

73. If the water's acidity level keeps rising,_________ .

　 A. ocean life whose structures contain calcium carbonate may be affected

　 B. the waters’pH value will become higher and higher

　 C. organisms living near the surface are more sensitive to pH changes

　 D. some disastrous events will occur more often than before

72. According to Dr Caldeira,__________ .

　 A. ocean absorption of carbon dioxide is a good thing

　 B. more oil fuels will be used in the near future

　 C. scientists may predict climate changes with computer models

　 D. the future situation of the amount of acidity is extremely serious