IX. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.Biological diversity has become widely recognized as a critical conservation issue only in the past two decades. The rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests, which are the ecosystems with the highest known species diversity on Earth, has awakened people to the importance and fragility of biological diversity. The high rate of species extinctions in these environments is jolting, but it is important to recognize the significance of biological diversity in all ecosystems. As the human population continues to expand, it will negatively affect one after another of Earth's ecosystems. In terrestrial ecosystems and in fringe marine eco common problem is habitat destruction. In most situations, the result is irreversible. Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of activities, such as disposal and runoff of poisonous waste; in less than two centuries, by significantly reducing the variety of species on Earth, they have irrevocably redirected the course of evolution.Certainly, there have been periods in Earth's history when mass extinctions have occurred. The extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by some physical event, either climatic or cosmic. There have also been less dramatic extinctions, as when natural competition between species reached an extreme conclusion. Only 0.01 percent of the species that have lived on Earth have survived to the present, and it was largely chance that determined which species survived and which died out. However, nothing has ever equaled the magnitude and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world and demolishing the environment. In fact, there is wide agreement that it is the rate of change humans are inflicting, even more than the changes themselves that will lead to biological devastation. Life on Earth has continually been in flux as slow physical and chemical changes have occurred on Earth, but life needs time to adapt-time for migration and genetic adaptation within existing species and time for the proliferation of new genetic material and new species that may be able to survive in new environments.According to the passage, natural evolutionary change is different from change caused by humans in that changes caused by humans ________ . A.are occurring at a much faster rateB.affect fewer ecosystemsC.are less devastating to most speciesD.are reversible
If he _____that English school, his English would get better. A.lookedB.attendedC.respondedD.awarded
Could you please______ us about the courses and fees? (information) A.informB.informingC.informativeD.informational
(5)_____ A.seriesB.percentageC.numberD.emission
(6)_______ A.lackB.shortC.shortageD.demand
Reading the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes are recognized (25) _______ vibration, shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. The vibrations may vary in (26) _______. They are caused mostly by slippage within geological faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests. The underground point of (27) _____ of the earthquake is called the focus. The point directly above the focus on the surface is called the epicenter. Earthquakes by themselves rarely kill people or wildlife. It is usually the secondary events (28) _______ they trigger, such as building collapse, fires, tsunamis (seismic sea waves) and volcanoes, that are actually the human disaster. Many of these could possibly be avoided by better construction, safety systems, early warning and (29) _______ planning. (Encarta, DVD, 2009)(29) A.evacuatorB.evacuateC.evacuatingD.evacuation
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.Though I persuaded my boss to solve a very serious problem in the new management system, he just made light of it. A.completely ignoredB.treated as importantC.disagreed withD.discovered by chance
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.The pointless war between the two countries left thousands of people dead and seriously _______. A.injuredB.woundedC.spoiltD.damaged
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.I agree _______ one point with Chris: it will be hard for us to walk 80km. A.inB.ofC.onD.for
(1)_______ A.problemB.issueC.factorD.event
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