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Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by
some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices
marked A),B),C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the
corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
Every year 100 million holiday—makers are drawn to the Mediterranean.With
one third of the world's tourist trade, it is the most popular of all the
holiday destinations; it is also the most polluted.It has only 1 per cent of the
world's sea surface, but carries more than half the oil and tar floating on the
waters. Thousands of factories pour their poison into the Mediterranean, and
almost every city, town and village on the coast sends its sewage, untreated,
into the sea.The result is that the Mediterranean, which nurtured so many
civilizations, is gravely ill—the first of the seas to fall victim to the
abilities and attitudes that evolved around it. And the pollution does not
merely keep back life of the sea—it threatens the people who inhabit and visit
its shores The mournful form of disease is caused by sewage. Eighty five per
cent of the waste from the Mediterranean's 120 coastal cities is pushed out in
to the waters where their people and visitors bathe and fish. What is more, most
cities just drop it in straight off the beach; rare indeed are the places like
Cannes and Tel Aviv which pipe it even half a mile offshore.Not surprisingly,
vast areas of the shallows are awash with bacteria and itdoesn't take long for
these to reach people. Professor William Brumfitt ofthe Royal Free Hospital once
calculated that anyone who goes for a swim in the Mediterranean has a one in
seven chance of getting some sort of disease. Other scientists say this is an
overestimate; but almost all of them agree that bathers are at risk.Industry
adds its own poisons. Factories cluster round the coastline, and even the most
modern rarely has proper waste treatment plant. They do as much damage to the
sea as sewage. But the good news is that the countries of the Mediterraneanhave
been coming together to work out how to save their common sea.
21.The causes of the Mediterranean's pollution is ____.
A) the oil and tar floating on the water
B) many factories put their poison into the sea
C) untreated sewage from the factories and coastal cities
D) there are some sorts of diseases in the sea
22.Which of following consequence of a polluted sea is not true according
to the passage?
A) Bring up so many civilizations.
B) Various diseases in the sea.
C) It threatens the inhabitants and travelers.
D) One in seven chance of getting some sort of disease swimming in the
sea.
23.The word “sewage”refer to ____.
A) poison
C) liquid material
B) waste
D) solid material
24.Why does industry do much damage to the sea?
A) Because most factories have proper waste treatment plants.
B) Because many factories have not proper waste treatment plants
even the most modern one.
C) Because just the modern factory has a waste treatment plant.
D) Because neither ordinary factories nor most modern ones have proper
waste treatment plants.
25.What is the passage mainly about?
A) Save the world.
B) How the people live in the Mediterranean sea.
C) How the industry dangers the sea.
D) Beware the dirty sea. |
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