PASSAGE ONE
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 it doesn't take long for these to reach people. Professor William Brumfitt of the 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 Mediterranean have 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 B) waste C) liquid material 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 p roper 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.
【参考答案】
21. 答案C。A. 指的是石油和(焦油)漂浮于水面上，这是现象而非原因,因此不正确。B.指出许多工厂将有毒物放进海里。这只是一个方面,因此也不正确。C. 谈的是来自工厂和沿海城市中没有经过处理的废物,这在文中提到了,因此为正确答案。D.谈到海中有几种疾病，这也是现象而非原因。
22. 答案A。A.提供了诸多的文明;B.海洋中各种疾病;C.污染使当地居民和旅行者感到恐惧;D.如果在海里游泳七个人中就有一个会染上疾病。从文章中我们知道B、C、D都是污染所产生出的结果,因此A是正确答案。
23. 答案B。A.有毒物质;B.废物;C.液体材料;D.固体材料。从文中我们知道sewage 的含义为废物。
24. 答案B。A.因为许多工厂有适当的废物处理厂;B.因为许多工厂甚至最现代化的工厂都很少有废物处理厂;C.因为仅仅现代工厂有废物处理工厂; D.因为普通工厂和最现代化工厂都没有废物处理工厂,很明显选项B是正确的。
25. 答案D。本文讲的是地中海的污染原因及结果。A. 拯救世界, 范围太大,不对。B. 地中海地区的人们是怎样生活的,这也不正确。 C. 工业是如何危害海洋,这只是污染的一个方面。 D. 警惕污染了的海洋,这一答案最贴近,因此,D为正确答案。
