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　　一、 考试概述：

　　本场考试一新两旧，难度高。第一篇马里亚纳海沟，难度适中;第二篇艺术的重要性，难度陡增;第三篇花朵的力量，反而比较友好。

　　二、具体题目分析：

　　Passage One：

　　n 文章题材：说明文(生态环境类)

　　n 文章题目：马里亚纳海沟

　　n 文章难度：★★★

　　n 题型及数量：待补充

　　n 题目及答案：待补充

　　Pollution! In the Bay

　　A

　　Pouring water into the sea sounds harmless enough. But in Florida Bay, a large and shallow section of the Gulf of Mexico that lies between the southern end of the Everglades and the Florida Keys, it is proving highly controversial. That is because researchers are divided over whether it will help or hinder the plants and animals that live in the bay.

　　B

　　What is at risk is the future of the bay’s extensive beds of seagrasses. These grow on the bay’s muddy floor and act as nurseries for the larvae of shrimps, lobsters and fish – many of the important sport and commercial-fishing species. Also in danger is an impressive range of coral reefs that run the length of the Florida Keys and form the third-largest barrier reef in the world. Since the 1980s, coral cover has dropped by 40%, and a third of the coral species have gone. This has had a damaging effect on the animals that depend on the reef, such as crabs, turtles and nearly 600 species of fish.

　　C

　　What is causing such ecological change is a matter of much debate. And the answer is of no small consequence. This is because the American government is planning to devote $8 billion over the next 30 years to revitalise the Everglades. Seasonal freshwater flows into the Everglades are to be restored in order to improve the region’s health. But they will then run off into the bay.

　　D

　　Joseph Zieman, a marine ecologist at the University of Virginia, thinks this is a good idea. He believes that a lack of fresh water in the bay is its main problem. The blame, he says, lies with a century of drainage in the Everglades aimed at turning the marshes into farmland and areas for development. This has caused the flow of fresh water into Florida Bay to dwindle, making the water in the bay, overall, more saline. This, he argues, kills the seagrasses, and as these rots, nutrients are released that feed the microscopic plants and animals that live in the water. This, he says, is why the bay’s once crystal-clear waters often resemble pea soup. And in a vicious circle, these turbid blooms block out sunlight, causing more seagrasses to die and yet more turbidity.

　　E

　　Brian Lapointe, a marine scientist at the Harbour Branch Oceanographic Institution at Fort Pierce in Florida, disagrees. He thinks seagrasses can tolerate much higher levels of salinity than the bay actually displays. Furthermore, he notes that when freshwater flows through the Everglades were increased experimentally in the 1990s, it led to massive plankton blooms. Freshwater running off from well-fertilised farmlands, he says, caused a fivefold rise in nitrogen levels in the bay. This was like pouring fuel on a fire. The result was mass mortality of seagrasses because of increased turbidity from the plankton. Dr Lapointe adds that, because corals thrive only in waters where nutrient levels are low, restoring freshwater rich in nitrogen will do more damage to the reef.

　　F

　　It is a plausible theory. The water flowing off crops that are grown on the750,000 acres of heavily fertilised farmland on the northern edge of the Everglades is rich in nitrogen, half of which ends up in the bay. But Bill Kruczynski, of America’s Environmental Protection Agency, is convinced that nitrogen from farmlands is not the chief problem. Some coral reefs well away from any nitrogen pollution are dying and, curiously, a few are thriving. Dr Kruczynski thinks that increased nutrients arriving from local sewage discharges from the thousands of cesspits along the Florida Keys are part of the problem.

　　G

　　Such claims and counterclaims make the impact of the restoration plan difficult to predict. If increased salinity is the main problem, the bay’s ecology will benefit from the Everglades restoration project. If, however, nitrogen is the problem, increasing the flow of freshwater could mate matters much worse.

　　H

　　If this second hypothesis proves correct, the cure is to remove nitrogen from farmland or sewage discharges, or perhaps both. Neither will be easy. Man-made wetlands, at present, being built to reduce phosphate runoff into the bay—also from fertilisers—would need an algal culture (a sort of contained algal bloom) added to them to deal with discharges from farmlands. That would be costly. So too would be the replacement of cesspits with proper sewerage—one estimate puts the cost at $650m. Either way, it is clear that when, on December 1st, 3,000 square miles of sea around the reef are designated as a “protective zone” by the deputy secretary of commerce, Sam Bodman, this will do nothing to protect the reef from pollution.

　　I

　　Some argue, though, that there is a more fundamental flaw in the plans for the bay: the very idea of returning it to a Utopian ideal before man wrought his damage. Nobody knows what Florida Bay was like before the 1950s when engineers cut the largest canals in the Everglades and took most of the water away. Dr Kruczynski suspects it was more like an estuary. The bay that many people wish to re-create could have been nothing more than a changing phase in the bay’s history.

　　J

　　These arguments do not merely threaten to create ecological problems but economic ones as well. The economy of the Florida Keys depends on tourism—the local tourist industry has an annual turnover of $2.5 billion. People come for fishing-boat trips, for manatee watching, or for scuba diving and snorkeling to view the exotically coloured corals. If the plan to restore the Everglades makes problems in the bay and the reef worse, it could prove a very expensive mistake.

　　Questions 1-4

　　The reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-J.

　　Which paragraph contains the following information?

　　Write the correct letter A-J, in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet.

　　1 See grass turned to be more resistant to the saline water level in the Bay.

　　2 Significance of finding a specific reason in controversy

　　3 Expensive proposals raised to solve the nitrogen dilemma

　　4 A statistic of ecological changes in both the coral area and species

　　Questions 5-8

　　Use the information in the passage to match the people (listed A-C) with opinions or deeds below.

　　Write the appropriate letters A-C in boxes 5-8 on your answer sheet.

　　A Bill Kruczynski

　　B Brian Lapointe

　　C Joseph Zieman

　　5 Drainage system in everglades actually results in high salty water in the bay.

　　6 Restoring water high in nitrogen level will make more ecological side effect

　　7 High nitrogen levels may be caused by the nearby farmland.

　　8 Released sewage rather than nutrients from agricultural area increase the level of Nitrogen.

　　Questions 9-13

　　Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2

　　In boxes 9-13 on your answer sheet, write

　　TRUE if the statement is true

　　FALSE if the statement is false

　　NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage

　　9 Everyone agrees with “pouring water into the sea is harmless enough” even in the Florida Bay area.

　　10 Nitrogen was poured in from different types of crops as water flows through.

　　11 Everglade restoration project can be effective regardless of the cause of the pollution.

　　12 Human has changed Florida Bay where old image before 1950s is unrecalled.

　　13 Tourism contributes fundamentally to the Florida Bay area.

　　参考答案

　　1. E

　　2. C

　　3. H

　　4. B

　　5. C

　　6. B

　　7. B

　　8. A

　　9. FALSE

　　10. NOT GIVEN

　　11. FALSE

　　12. TRUE

　　13. TRUE

　　*本文话题与实考一致，但是文章和题目与考试有出入，仅供各位考生复习使用~

　　可参考真题：剑桥19——TEST3 Passage2 The global importance of wetlands

　　Passage Two：

　　n 文章题材：说明文(艺术与文化)

　　n 文章题目：艺术的重要性

　　n 文章难度：★★★

　　n 题型及数量：匹配+填空+选择

　　n 题目及答案：

　　14. B

　　15. G

　　16. C

　　17. D

　　18. E

　　19. dancing

　　20. advertising

　　21. play

　　22. beauty

　　23. B

　　24. D

　　25. A

　　26. C

　　可参考真题：OG 2——TEST1 Passage2 The Romantic Movement

　　n Passage Three：

　　n 文章题材：议论文(动植物)

　　n 文章题目：花朵的力量

　　n 文章难度：★★★★

　　n 题型及数量：LOHs+特征匹配题+填空

　　n 题目及答案：

　　Flower Power

　　Why do people give flowers? To offer condolence to those who are grieving. To express gratitude. To ask for forgiveness. There is something undeniably powerful about giving flowers; in fact, few objects provoke such a universal response. In the US alone, the flower industry is now worth about $5bn a year—suggesting, at the very least, that they service a compelling human need.

　　Paragraph A

　　Research at the Department of Psychology at Rutgers State University of New Jersey confirms that flowers are unique among living organisms in their ability to induce changes in our emotional state. As the first part of their research, the Rutgers psychologists studied women in their homes. Each was presented with a variety of gifts such as flowers, fruit, or sweets. The women were unaware that the study was about the effect of gifts on their emotions. They were told that it was a study about their daily moods, and that they would receive a gift in return for taking part. Following the presentation of the gifts, women receiving flowers were assessed as displaying a much more positive mood than those who received other gifts, and this effect lasted for several days. After receiving flowers, participants were more willing to answer questions concerning their social circle and intimate relationships with friends and family. The results suggest that flowers influence our emotional behaviours, as well as having a strong effect on our immediate expression.

　　Paragraph B

　　In the second study, the psychologists observed participants being handed single flowers, or no gift at all, in a constrained and stressful situation—inside an elevator. Contrary to expectations regarding gender differences, both men and women presented with flowers were more likely to smile, to stand closer and to initiate conversation. Several subjects who were initially skeptical about the experiment's purpose then learnt that flowers were also being handed out, and returned to the elevator and demanded a flower. The scientists used elevators for this study precisely because typical behaviour in sparsely occupied elevators is for people to retreat to opposite corners. The subjects who received flowers, however, closed up that space to a considerable extent—indicating that the flowers not only induced a strong positive mood but brought a significant affiliation among people who had never previously met.

　　Paragraph C

　　The third study involved regularly sending flowers to a selected sample of men and women. The researchers found not only a profound elevation of mood but also reliable improvements in other measures of cognitive function, like memory. In this series of experiments, some participants produced such extraordinary emotional displays that the psychologists were totally unprepared for them. Subjects gave spontaneous hugs and kisses to the people who delivered the flowers, and sent invitations to the psychologists to come to their homes for refreshments.

　　Paragraph D

　　Various evolutionary hypotheses attempt to explain the remarkably powerful psychological effect of flowers. One is that our aesthetic preferences for fertile locations and growing things stem from prehistory, when these clues in our environment could mean the difference between starvation and survival. We may have become hardwired to respond positively to flowers because, for early man, finding them in a particular location predicted future food supplies and possibly a better place to rear children. Yet the flaw in this argument is that the showy flowers which humans seem to find most visually attractive are generally found on those plants which yield no edible products.

　　Paragraph E

　　The Rutgers psychologists' findings show that the various physical attributes of flowers combine to directly affect our emotions through multi-channel interactions. We have evolved preferences for the particular colours, textures, patterned symmetries, and specific floral odours which influence our moods. Indeed, previous research has established that popular perfumes, which often have a floral 'top-note', will actually reduce depression. The origins of these inclinations may well be as the evolutionary theories suggest: the patterned symmetries of flowers can be detected easily as a recognisable signal within a wide variety of visual arrays, and a response to certain colour tones is important in finding ripe fruit against a leafy background. But, claim the Rutgers team, these preferences have long been separated from their primary evolutionary use, and become rewarding to us more generally. Thus, plants with preferred colours, shapes and odours—despite having no other products—would therefore be protected and dispersed.

　　Paragraph F

　　The Rutgers study suggests that flowers may have actually evolved to exploit their peculiar impact on humans. The team's theory proposes a plant-human co-evolution, or even domestication, based on the intense emotional rewards that flowers provide. The idea that flowering plants, with no known food or other basic survival value to man, have co-evolved with us by exploiting an emotional niche instead, is very much like the scenario presented for the evolution of dogs. Flowers may be the plant equivalent of 'companion animals'. If this is true, then there is a very real sense in which, when you next give flowers, they are using you just as much as you are using them.

　　Questions 27-33

　　Reading Passage 3 has seven paragraphs, A-G.

　　Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-viii, in boxes 27-33 on your answer sheet.

　　List of Headings

　　i. A negative reaction to receiving flowers

　　ii. Some surprisingly strong responses to flowers

　　iii. A mutually beneficial relationship?

　　iv. Becoming more open about personal matters

　　v. Some common social functions of flowers

　　vi. Sensory appeal versus practical purpose of flowers

　　vii. Bridging the gap between strangers in an enclosed space

　　viii. An imperfect theory

　　27 Paragraph A

　　28 Paragraph B

　　29 Paragraph C

　　30 Paragraph D

　　31 Paragraph E

　　32 Paragraph F

　　33 Paragraph G

　　Questions 34-37

　　Classify the following statements as referring to:

　　A the first study

　　B the second study

　　C the third study

　　Write the correct letter, A, B, or C, in boxes 34-37 on your answer sheet.

　　34 The study focused on participants' short-term reaction to receiving flowers.

　　35 Participants were deliberately misled as to the aim of the study.

　　36 Receiving flowers had a notable effect on participants' mental capacities.

　　37 Male and female responses were more uniform than expected.

　　Questions 38-40

　　Complete the summary of paragraph E below.

　　Choose ONE WORD ONLY from paragraph E for each answer.

　　Write your answers in boxes 38-40 on your answer sheet.

　　A possible explanation for the appeal of flowers

　　It has been suggested that our intense response to flowers originates in prehistoric times. The presence of flowers might indicate a potential source of 38__________ in a particular location, and primitive humans would search for such signs when looking for a suitable site to raise their 39__________. The interpretation of these signs was essential for the survival of our ancestors. However, the problem with this idea is that the plants producing the most attractive flowers do not usually have fruit which is 40__________.

　　27. v

　　28. iv

　　29. vii

　　30. ii

　　31. viii

　　32. vi

　　33. iii

　　34. A

　　35. A

　　36. C

　　37. B

　　38. food

　　39. children

　　40. edible

　　可参考真题：OG 1—TEST5 Passage1 Trees in trouble

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