2016年12月大學(xué)英語四級閱讀模擬練習(xí)(17)

　　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.

　　1. 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

　　2. 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.

　　3. The word “sewage”refer to ____.

　　A) poison B) waste C) liquid material D) solid material

　　4. 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.

　　5. 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.

　　參考答案：

　　1. 答案C。A. 指的是石油和(焦油)漂浮于水面上，這是現(xiàn)象而非原因,因此不正確。B.指出許多工廠將有毒物放進(jìn)海里。這只是一個方面,因此也不正確。C. 談的是來自工廠和沿海城市中沒有經(jīng)過處理的廢物,這在文中提到了,因此為正確答案。D.談到海中有幾種疾病，這也是現(xiàn)象而非原因。

　　2. 答案A。A.提供了諸多的文明;B.海洋中各種疾病;C.污染使當(dāng)?shù)鼐用窈吐眯姓吒械娇謶?D.如果在海里游泳七個人中就有一個會染上疾病。從文章中我們知道B、C、D都是污染所產(chǎn)生出的結(jié)果,因此A是正確答案。

　　3. 答案B。A.有毒物質(zhì);B.廢物;C.液體材料;D.固體材料。從文中我們知道sewage 的含義為廢物。

　　4. 答案B。A.因為許多工廠有適當(dāng)?shù)膹U物處理廠;B.因為許多工廠甚至最現(xiàn)代化的工廠都很少有廢物處理廠;C.因為僅僅現(xiàn)代工廠有廢物處理工廠; D.因為普通工廠和最現(xiàn)代化工廠都沒有廢物處理工廠,很明顯選項B是正確的。

　　5. 答案D。本文講的是地中海的污染原因及結(jié)果。A. 拯救世界, 范圍太大,不對。B. 地中海地區(qū)的人們是怎樣生活的,這也不正確。 C. 工業(yè)是如何危害海洋,這只是污染的一個方面。 D. 警惕污染了的海洋,這一答案最貼近,因此,D為正確答案。