________ of the Pacific Ocean________ Canada....

________ of the Pacific Ocean________ Canada.

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People say that Vancouver is Canada’s most beautiful city, ______by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

A. surrounding 　　　　　 B. surrounded

C. being surrounded　　 D. is surrounded

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People say it is Canada’s most beautiful city, _____ by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

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Scientists around the world have been studying the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean known as El Nino(厄尔尼诺). The appearance of El Nino is known to affect the weather around the world. Scientists still do not completely understand it. Yet they now find they can use it to tell about the future in different areas of the world.

One example is the work of two scientists at Columbia University in New York, Mark Cane and Gordon Eshel. A scientist of Zimbabwe, Roger Buckland worked with them. They have found that when El Nino appears, Zimbabwe has little or no rain. This means corn crops in Zimbabwe are poor. The last El Nino was in 1991 to 1993. That was when southeastern Africa suffered a serious lack of rain.

The scientists wrote about their recent work in the publication Nature. Their computer program can tell when an El Nino will develop up to a year before it does. They suggest that this could provide an effective early warning system for southern Africa, and could prevent many people from starving.

1.El Nino is known as ___.

A. the changing of the weather in southern Africa

B. the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean

C. the weather which brings drought(旱灾) to Africa

D. the weather phenomenon (现象)that brings heavy rains to Africa

2.Scientists study El Nino in order that ___.

A. they can provide a kind of early warning to the place that will suffer from drought

B. they can tell why Zimbabwe has little or no rain

C. they can do some research work in this field.

D. they can put all this information into their computers.

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Nature is the name of the article written recently by the scientists.

B. Three scientists from the USA work on this subject.

C. Southern Africa suffered a serious drought and many people died from hunger.

D. El Nino has something to do with Zimbabwe’s poor crops.

4.What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Appearance of El Nino is Predictable（可预测的）　　 B. Drought in Zimbabwe

C. Early Warning System　　 D. Weather in Africa

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The Galapagos Islands are in the Pacific Ocean, off the western coast of South America They are a rocky, lonely spot, but they are also one of the most unusual places in the world.　 One reason is that they are the home of some of the last giant tortoises（乌龟）left on earth.

Weighing hundreds of pounds, these tortoises go slowly around the rocks and sand of the islands.　 Strangely, each of these islands has its own particular kinds of tortoises.　 There are seven different kinds of tortoises on the eight islands, and each kind is slightly different from the other.

Hundreds of years ago, thousands of tortoises were around these islands.　 However, all that changed when people started landing there.　 When people first arrived in 1535, crews would seize as many tortoises as they could. They would roll the tortoises onto their backs when they were brought onto the ships. The tortoises were completely helpless once on their backs, so they could only lie there until used for soups and stews.　 Almost 100,000 tortoises were carried off in this way.

The tortoises faced other problems, too. Soon after the first ships, settlers arrived, bringing pigs, goats, donkeys, dogs and cats. A11 0f these animals ruined life for the tortoises. Donkeys and goats ate all the plants that the tortoises usually fed on, while the pigs, dogs and cats ate thousands of baby tortoises each year. Within a few years, it was hard to find any tortoise eggs-or even any baby tortoises.

Finally, in the 1950s, scientists decided that something must be done. The first part of their plan was to remove as many cats, dogs and other animals as they could from the islands. Next, they tried to make sure that more baby tortoises would be born; This slow, hard work continues today, and, thanks to it, the number of tortoises is now increasing every year. Perhaps these wonderful animals will not disappear after all

1.What can we learn from Paragraph i?

A. The Galapagos Islands are the biggest islands in the Pacific Ocean

B.　 The giant tortoises have all left the Galapagos Islands already.

C. The giant tortoises made the Galapagos Islands unusual places.

D .People have built many homes for the giant tortoises on the islands.

2.What is special about the tortoises according to Paragraph 2?

A. They weigh hundreds of pounds.

B. They move around very slowly.

C. There are different kinds of tortoises.

D. They are larger than the ones in other places.

3.What happened first?

A. Sailors took tortoises aboard the ships.

B. Scientists decided to take measures to protect the tortoises.

C. Pigs, dogs and cats ate many baby tortoises.

D. Settlers brought other as to the islands.

4. What happened soon after people brought animals to the islands?

A. Tortoise eggs were kept in safe containers.

B. The animals ate the tortoises' food and eggs.

C. The tortoises continued to wander freely.

D. The tortoises fought against the other animals.

5. What's the result of the scientists' effort?

A. The tortoises began to disappear gradually.

B. The number of tortoises began to decrease

C. Scientists took away other animals off the islands.

D. There are more and more giant tortoises on the islands.

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　　 the east coast of China, the city of Hangzhou is easy to be attacked by the storm from the Pacific Ocean.

A. Lying off                B. Situated on          C. Located off      D. Laying on

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Shanghai lies _____ the west of the Pacific Ocean, where you can’t find many islands ____ the coast.

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Qingdao lies_____ the west of the Pacific Ocean, where we can not find many islands _____ the coast.

A. on; off         B. to; along            C. on; along          D. in; off

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Captain James Cook was a great explorer. Before he started exploring, maps of the Pacific Ocean were almost empty. He visited hundreds of islands across the Pacific Ocean and put them in the correct places on the map. He made maps of the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand. James Cook was born in England in 1728. His parents were poor farm workers. When James was 18, he found a job on a coastal ship. He worked on the ship until he was 27 years old, and then he joined the navy. He fought in Canada in a war against France, and he mapped some of the eastern coasts of Canada. In 1768 King George made him Captain of a ship and sent him to the Pacific. He was gone for nearly three years. When he returned, he was regarded as a national hero.

He started his third voyage in 1776. On this trip he visited Hawaii. He was the first European to set foot on this beautiful island. Then he mapped the western coast of North America. After that he returned to Hawaii. Unfortunately there was some trouble between the Hawaiians and the white men and they started fighting. In the end Captain was killed in a clash with the local.

1.He started exploring when _______.

A. he worked on a coastal ship

B. he was 18 years old

C. he was sent to the Pacific

D. he served in the navy

2.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. He made the first maps of the Pacific Ocean.

B. He went on three long important voyages in his life.

C. He was the first English man to reach Hawaii.

D. He was respected by his people.

3.He was considered a national hero because of _______.

A. his experience in Canada

B. his being the first European to visit Hawaii

C. his heroic death

D. his devotion to exploring on the Pacific Ocean

4. Captain Cook was killed in _______.

A. his return to England

B. a starting trip to Hawaii

C. exploring Canada

D. a fight with the local people

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Scientist in Canada say big ocean fish have almost disappeared from the world since the start of industrial fishing in the nineteen-fifties. The scientists found that population of large fish like tuna, swordfish and cod have dropped by ninety percent in the past fifty years.

The study took ten years. The researchers gathered records from fishing businesses and governments around the world. The magazine Nature published the findings.

The scientists say the common method called longline fishing is especially damaging to populations of large fish. This method involves many fishing lines connected to one boat. These wires can be close to one-hundred kilometers long. They hold thousands of sharp metal hooks to catch fish.

Longline fishing is especially common in the Japanese fishing industry. Records showed that Japanese boats used to catch about ten fish for every one-hundred hooks. The study says longline fishing boats now might catch one fish per hundred hooks.

The scientists say industrial fishing can destroy groups of fish much faster than in the past. The study suggests the whole populations can disappear almost completely from new fishing areas within ten to fifteen years.

Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia led the study with Boris Worm of Dalhousie and the University of Kiel in Germany. Mister Worm says the destruction could lead to a complete re-organization of ocean life systems. Mister Meyers says the decreased numbers of large fish is not the only worry. He says even populations that are able to reproduce do not get the chance to live long enough to grow as big as their ancestors. He says not only are the fewer big fish, they are smaller than those of the past.

American government scientists say even with the best efforts to protect fish populations, decreases are to be expected.

1. Where is the passage probably taken from?

A. A story book.     B. A business magazine  C. An environment report      D. An economic survey

2. Big fish have gradually been disappearing especially because ________.

A. longline fishing method is used                       B. sea water is getting polluted

C. mankind destroys the environment                   D. governments don’t make the best efforts

3. Which of the following shows the fact that the populations of large fish have dropped?

A. Today’s “large” fish are smaller than those of the past.

B. Longline boats now might catch fewer fish every one-hundred hooks.

C. Fish even able to reproduce don’t have the chance to live longer.

D. Industrial fishing is an effective way to catch fish.

4. What can be the best title?

A. Discoveries Canadian Scientists Have Made      B. Japanese Fishing Industry

C. Losses of Big Fish                                          D. Modern Fishing Methods

5. When did the researchers begin to survey the decreasing of large fish?

A. In the 1960s        B. In the 1970s             C. In the 1980s                    D. In the 1990s

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