摘要: Oceans of paper

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  If you look down at our planet from outer space, most of what you see is water. In fact, oceans and seas cover more than 70 per cent of the planet's surface. Millions of years ago, there were no oceans on the earth. The surface of the earth was very hot, so water boiled away. As the earth cooled down, steam in the air began to fall down as rain. It rained and rained for many thousands of years and made the first seas on the earth.

  Oceans are a large and wonderful world full of strange and interesting animals and plants. More than 275,000 kinds of fish and other animals live in the ocean. Most of them live in the surface waters because there is enough food there. But there are also some unique animals in the deepest part of the ocean. Some animals live their whole life in the ocean (such as whales) and others can spend time in the ocean or on land (such as sea lions). They are very important to our life.

  Believe it or not, half of the oxygen(氧气)we breathe is produced by algae(藻类), the oldest plants on the earth! Each year we eat about 29 million tons of fish, much more than cattle, sheep and eggs. Without the oceans, we cannot live!

  The oceans are also rich in minerals(矿物), oil and natural gas and many other resources. Every natural element can be found in the ocean. About 3.5 per cent of ocean water is made up of salt which we eat every day. Nearly one-third of the world's oil comes from our oceans. In fact, there is a lot of gold in ocean water, too. If all the gold in the world's seawater were mined(提炼), each person on the earth could have about four kilograms of gold!

True or false:

(1) Water covers over 70% of the earth's surface.

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(2) Oceans are a large, wonderful world full of strange, interesting animals.

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(3) All the animals in the oceans live in the surface waters.

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(4) The oceans gave us the air we breathe and the food we eat.

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(5) The oceans are full of gold to keep everyone happy.

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  Is the whale the world's largest fish? No.It looks like a fish, but it is really a mammal(哺乳动物).Then what's the world's largest fish? It's the whale shark.

  Although the whale shark is our biggest fish and lives in many oceans around the world, few people have ever heard of it.Scientists have not been studying whale sharks for very long.Much more needs to be learned about them.

  A whale shark is sometimes called a “gentle giant(温柔的巨人)”.It likes to be alone and doesn't care a bit about divers or humans.The biggest whale shark weighed 24,250 pounds and was nearly 40 feet long.This makes it heavier and longer than a school bus.

  Inside its huge mouth are great numbers of very small teeth.To count all of them, you'll need to do some math.The whale shark's teeth are arranged in rows.There are between eleven and thirteen rows on each jaw(颚)and around three hundred teeth in each row.

  However, the whale shark hardly uses its teeth.It does not chew or bite its food.Large amounts of water are pulled into its mouth and then pushed out through its gills(鳃).

  For a few months every year, a group of whale sharks comes to Ningaloo Reef, off Western Australia.This gives scientists a wonderful chance to study the large fish.Whale sharks do live in other oceans of the world, but no one knows their population.It is possible that our biggest fish may need protecting.It is one of the reasons why scientists continue to learn all they can about these gentle giants.

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Little is known about whale sharks because scientists ________.

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A.

are not interested in learning about them

B.

find them too difficult to catch

C.

do not know the best places to find them

D.

have studied them for a short time

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Which sentence can tell us that whale sharks are gentle?

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A.

They have large mouths.

B.

They leave divers alone.

C.

They have small eyes.

D.

They live in many oceans.

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How does the writer help us know what the whale shark's mouth looks like?

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A.

By giving reasons.

B.

By describing colors.

C.

By comparing sizes.

D.

By using numbers.

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The fifth paragraph is mainly about ________.

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A.

how a whale shark eats

B.

what a whale shark eats

C.

how different fish use their gills

D.

what's inside a whale shark's mouth

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