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阅读下面的短文,文中有15处空白,每处空白给出了4个选项,请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 Animal’s "Sixth Sense" A tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December, 2004. It killed tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa. Wild animals, (51) , seem to have escaped that terrible tsunami. This phenomenon adds weight to notions that they possess a "sixth sense" for (52) , experts said. Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast clearly (53) wild beasts, with no dead animals found. "No elephants are dead, not (54) a dead rabbit. I think animals can (55) disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department, said about one month after the tsunami attack. The (56) washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National ’Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife (57) and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. "There has been a lot of (58) evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven," said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behavior (59) at Johannesburg Zoo. "There have been no (60) studies because you can’t really test it in a lab or field setting," he told Reuters. Other authorities concurred with this (61) . "Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain (62) , especially birds... there are many reports of birds detecting impending disasters," said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife. Animals (63) rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators. The notion of an animal "sixth sense" -- or (64) other mythical ’power -- is an enduring one which the evidence on Sri Lanka’s ravaged coast is likely to add to. The Romans saw owls (65) omens of impending disaster and many ancient cultures viewed elephants as sacred animals endowed with special powers or attributes.

A. waves
B. tides
C. winds
D. rivers

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阅读下面的短文,文章中有5处空白,文章后面有6组文字,请根据文章的内容选择5组文字,将其分别放回文章原有位置,以恢复文章原貌。 Don’t Rely on Plankton to Save the Planet Encouraging plankton growth in the ocean has been touted by some as a promising way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (46) . Adding iron to patches of ocean can make plankton bloom temporarily. The microscopic organisms suck up dissolved carbon dioxide from the water, which in turn is replaced by carbon dioxide from the air. (47) . Jorge Sarmiento from Princeton and his colleagues developed a complex computer model to analyse how factors such as ocean chemistry and water circulation would affect the process if 160, 000 square kilometres of ocean were seeded with iron for a month. (48) . In their scenario, which covers an area 10 times as big as the largest experiment of this kind ever proposed, fertilising the ocean removes 1 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere -- just 0.2 per cent of the carbon dioxide humankind spews out each month. Rough estimates in the past have predicted similarly disappointing results. (49) says Sallie Chisholm, an environmental engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But the take-home message is the same. (50) "A Its opponents argue, however, that it will stop global warming.B Its opponents fear that it will damage the marine ecosystem, and now a computer model shows that the trick would also be remarkably inefficient.C As plankton die and settle on the ocean floor, their carbon is supposedly locked up in the seabed,D They found that 100 years later only between 2 and 11 per cent of the extra carbon that was originally taken up by plankton had actually been removed from the atmosphere.E "These are newer and better models,"F Ocean fertilisation is not the answer to global warming.

阅读下面的短文,文中有15处空白,每处空白给出了4个选项,请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 Animal’s "Sixth Sense" A tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December, 2004. It killed tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa. Wild animals, (51) , seem to have escaped that terrible tsunami. This phenomenon adds weight to notions that they possess a "sixth sense" for (52) , experts said. Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast clearly (53) wild beasts, with no dead animals found. "No elephants are dead, not (54) a dead rabbit. I think animals can (55) disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department, said about one month after the tsunami attack. The (56) washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National ’Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife (57) and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. "There has been a lot of (58) evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven," said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behavior (59) at Johannesburg Zoo. "There have been no (60) studies because you can’t really test it in a lab or field setting," he told Reuters. Other authorities concurred with this (61) . "Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain (62) , especially birds... there are many reports of birds detecting impending disasters," said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife. Animals (63) rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators. The notion of an animal "sixth sense" -- or (64) other mythical ’power -- is an enduring one which the evidence on Sri Lanka’s ravaged coast is likely to add to. The Romans saw owls (65) omens of impending disaster and many ancient cultures viewed elephants as sacred animals endowed with special powers or attributes.

A. unwillingly
B. occasionally
C. doubtfully
D. certainly

阅读下面的短文,文中有15处空白,每处空白给出了4个选项,请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 Animal’s "Sixth Sense" A tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December, 2004. It killed tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa. Wild animals, (51) , seem to have escaped that terrible tsunami. This phenomenon adds weight to notions that they possess a "sixth sense" for (52) , experts said. Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast clearly (53) wild beasts, with no dead animals found. "No elephants are dead, not (54) a dead rabbit. I think animals can (55) disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department, said about one month after the tsunami attack. The (56) washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National ’Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife (57) and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. "There has been a lot of (58) evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven," said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behavior (59) at Johannesburg Zoo. "There have been no (60) studies because you can’t really test it in a lab or field setting," he told Reuters. Other authorities concurred with this (61) . "Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain (62) , especially birds... there are many reports of birds detecting impending disasters," said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife. Animals (63) rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators. The notion of an animal "sixth sense" -- or (64) other mythical ’power -- is an enduring one which the evidence on Sri Lanka’s ravaged coast is likely to add to. The Romans saw owls (65) omens of impending disaster and many ancient cultures viewed elephants as sacred animals endowed with special powers or attributes.

A. such
B. too
C. so
D. even

阅读下面这篇短文,短文后列出7个句子,请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。 Engineering Ethics Engineering ethics is attracting increasing interest in engineering universities throughout the nation. At Texas A&M University, evidence of this interest in professional ethics culminated in the creation of a new course in engineering ethics, as well as a project funded by the National Science Foundation to develop material for introducing ethical issues into required undergraduate engineering courses. A small group of faculty and administrators actively supported the growing effort at Texas A&M, yet this group must now expand to meet the needs of increasing numbers of students wishing to learn more about the value implications of their actions as professional engineers. The increasing concern for the value dimension of engineering is, at 1east in part, a result of the attention that the media has given to cases such as the Challenger disaster, the Kansas City Hyatt-Regency Hotel walkways collapse, and the Exxon oil spill. As a response to this concern, a new discipline, engineering ethics, is emerging. This discipline will doubtless take its place alongside such well-established fields as medical ethics, business ethics, and legal ethics. The problem presented by this development is that most engineering professors are not prepared to introduce literature in engineering ethics into their classrooms. They are most comfortable with quantitative concepts and often do not believe they are qualified to lead class discussions on ethics. Many engineering faculty members do not think that they have the time in an already overcrowded syllabus to introduce discussions on professional ethics, or the time in their own schedules to prepare the necessary material. Hopefully, the resources presented herein will be of assistance. It is likely that following this introductory passage, the author will provide the necessary material related to the topic of engineering ethics.

A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

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