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When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals. They suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived. The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. Now something similar could be happening in the oceans.
That the seas are being overfished has been known for years. What researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world. Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass (the amount of living biological matter) of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time. According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation. In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then.
Dr. Worm acknowledges that the figures are conservative. One reason for this is that fishing technology has improved. Today’s vessels can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago. That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes. In the early days, too, longlines would have been more saturated with fish. Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past. Furthermore, in the early days of longline fishing, a lot of fish were lost to sharks after they had been hooked. That is no longer a problem, because there are fewer sharks around now.
Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management efforts must take into account. They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the “shifting baseline.” The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels. Most fisheries are well below that, which is a bad way to do business.
31. The extinction of large prehistoric animals is noted to suggest that ________.
[A] large animal were vulnerable to the changing environment
[B] small species survived as large animals disappeared
[C] large sea animals may face the same threat today
[D] slow-growing fish outlive fast-growing ones
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Why does a man in the west who asks for a job say something like "Yes, I can certainly do it"?
A. Because to get the job he should give an impression that he's just fit for the job.
B. Because he is not modest.
C. Because he could do nothing but speak that way.
D. Because he was eager to get the job.
此题为推论题。在找工作的时候,我们不需要过于谦虚,特别是在这个竞争激烈的时代,自信比谦虚更重要,所以要表达出自己适合做这份工作。
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Part C
Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET II. ( 10 points)
Do animals have rights.'? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground clearing way to start. 46) Actually, it isn't, because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights, which is something the world does not have.
On one view of rights, to be sure, it necessarily follows that animals have none. 47) Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements. Therefore, animals cannot have rights. The idea of punishing a tiger that kills somebody is absurd, for exactly the same reason, so is the idea that tigers have rights. However, this is only one account, and by no means an uncontested one. It denies rights not only to animals but also to some people—4or instance to infants, the mentally incapable and future generations.
In addition, it is unclear what force a contract can have for people who never consented to it, how do you reply to somebody who says "I don' t like this contract" ?
The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless. 48 ) It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consider- ation humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all. This is a false choice. Better to start with another, more fundamental, question: is the way we treat animals a moral issue at all?
Many deny it. 49) Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice.
Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen as a mistake—a sentimental displacement of feeling that should properly be directed to other humans.
This view which holds that torturing a monkey is morally equivalent to chopping wood, may seem bravely "logical". In fact it is simply shallow: the confused center is right to reject it. The most elementary form. of moral reasoning—the ethical equivalent of learning to crawl—is to weigh others' interests against one's own. This in turn requires sympathy and imagination: without there is no capacity for moral thought. To see an animal in pain is enough, for most, to engage sympathy. 50)When that happens, it is not a mistake: it is mankind' s instinct for moral reasoning in action, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at.
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Starting from 22, ________.
[A] one will obtain more basic rights
[B] the older one becomes, the more basic rights he will have
[C] one won’t get more basic rights than when he is 21
[D] one will enjoy more rights granted by society
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Some Southern learners of English in China tend to say“night”as“light”.This shows:().
AThey cannot pronounce/n/
BInterlangue interference because there is notthe sound /n/in their mother tongue
CThe teachers do not have a good teaching method
DThey do not like to pronounce nasal sounds
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You are installing an application on a computer that runs Windows Server 2008 R2. During installation, the application will need to add new attributes and classes to the Active Directory database. You need to ensure that you can install the application. What should you do()
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Rename Drew’s user account to Adam, and change the account password.
Create a new account and link it to the previous users account.
Delete the account and create a new one.
Add a new user account to all the groups that the previous employee was added.
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Human rights groups could sabotage the war on terrorism.
Terrorism could infringe upon human rights.
The terrorists may take revenge and harm innocent people.
The government may use anti-terrorism as an excuse to arbitrarily execute people it does not like.
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Teenagers do not want their parents to approve of what they do because _______.
A. they don’t like their parents’ way of life
B. they are not likely to win over the adults
C. they have already been accepted into the adult world
D. they don’t want to be isolated from people of their own age
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Most animals have little connection with animals of different kind, unless they hunt them for food. Sometimes, however, two kinds of animals come together in a partnership ( 伙伴关系 ) which does good to both of them. You may have noticed some birds sitting on the backs of sheep. This is not because they want a ride, but because they find easy food in the parasites (寄生虫 ) on sheep. The sheep allow the birds to do so because they remove the cause of discomfort. So although they can manage without each other, they do better together.
Sometimes an animal has a plant partner. The relationship develops until the two partners cannot manage without each other. This is so in the corals ( 珊瑚 ) of the sea. In their skins they have tiny plants act as "dustman", taking some of the waste products form. the corals and giving in return oxygen which the animal needs to breathe. If the plants are killed, or are ever prevented from lighting so that they cannot live normally, the corals will die.
1、Some birds like to sit on a sheep because ( ).
A、they can eat its parasites
B、 they depend on the sheep for existence
C、 they enjoy traveling with the sheep
D、 they find the position most comfortable
2、The underlined word "they" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to ( ).
A、birds and parasites
B、birds and sheep
C、parasites and sheep
D、sheep, birds and parasites
3、What does the second paragraph mainly discuss? ( )
A、Some animals and plants depend on each other for existence.
B、 Some animals and plants develop their relationship easily.
C、 Some plants depend on each other for foo
D、 Some animals live better together.
4、What does this article talk about? ( )
A、Two kinds of animals for a partnership.
B、Most animals only have connection with animals.
C、The connection between the living things.
D、Corals have some connection with plants.
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You are the administrator of a new Microsoft Windows 2000 server computer named HQSQL5. HQSQL5 is a member server in your company's Windows NT 4.0 domain, which is named HQMAIN.
After installing SQL Server 2000 on HQSQL5, you configure the MSSQLServer service account to use the HQMAIN\sqladmin user account, which is a member of the local administrators group on HQSQL5.
You can use the HQMAIN\sqladmin user account to log on the HQSQL5. However, the MSSQLServer service fails to start. You need to start the service. What should you do?
A.Revoke Log on interactivity rights for the HQMAIN\sqladmin user account.
B.Add the HQMAIN\sqladmin user account to the HQMAIN\Domain Admins group.
C.Select the Password Never Expires check box for the HQMAIN\sqladmin user account.
D.Grant Log on as a service rights to the HQMAIN\sqladmin user account.
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You are the administrator of your company’s network. An employee named Mark is leaving the company. A new employee named Eric has been hired to replace him. Mark has a local user account on a Windows 2000 Professional computer. Mark has rights to multiple files and folders on the computer. You want Eric to have the same rights and permissions that Mark has. You want to ensure that Mark will no longer have access to the files and folders. You want to accomplish this with least administrative effort. What should you do?()
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You are installing an application on a computer that runs Windows Server 2008 R2. During installation, the application will need to add new attributes and classes to the Active Directory database. You need to ensure that you can install the application. What should you do()
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