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80% of the population in Australia lives in______of the country.
A．the eastern, southern and southwestern borders
B．the north, east and southwest
C．the eastern, central and western areas
D．the southern, eastern and western hills
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第1题
The main idea of paragraph 3 is that ______.
A．modern industry is developing
B．the population has grown
C．there are only written exams
D．examinations are now written and timed
第2题
From the factual data in the passage, we know that by the year 2020 ______.
A．the population growth rates in Thailand will have increased
B．there will be a disproportionate number of older people
C．US population growth rate will stabilize
D．the average age of Europeans will be 35
第3题
【A5】
A.THE DISASTROUS IMPACT ON BIODIVERSITY.
B.HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WORSENS THE PROBLE
M.
C.WHAT IS LAND CONVERSION？
D.PROTECTED AREAS ARE UNDER THREAT.
E.THE LAND-CONVERSION CASCAD
E. BEHIND THE PROJECTIONS OF SPECIES LOSS LURK A NUMBER OF CRUCIAL BUT HARD-TO-PLOT VARIABLES, AMONG WHICH TWO ARE ESPECIALLY WEIGHTY; CONTINUING LANDSCAPE CONVERSION AND THE GROWTH CURVE OF HUMAN POPULATIO
N. 【A1】______ LANDSCAPE CONVERSION CAN MEAN MANY THINGS:DRAINING WETLANDS TO BUILD ROADS AND AIRPORTS, TURNING TALLGRASS (高秆草) PRAIRIES UNDER THE PLOW, FENCING SAVANNA (热带大草原) AND OVERGRAZING IT WITH DOMESTIC STOCK, CUTTING SECOND-GROWTH FOREST VERMONT AND CONSIGNING THE LAND TO SKI RESORTS OR VACATION SUBURBS, SLASH-AND-BURN CLEARING OF MADAGASCAR"S (马达加斯加) RAIN FOREST TO GROW RICE ON WET HILLSIDES, INDUSTRIAL LOGGING IN BORNEO (婆罗洲) TO MEET JAPANESE PLYWOOD DEMANDS. 【A2】______ THE ECOLOGIST JOHN TERBORGH AND A COLLEAGUE CAREL P.VAN SCHAIK, HAVE DESCRIBED A FOUR-STAGE PROCESS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION THAT THEY CALL THE LAND-USE CASCAD
E.THE SUCCESSIVE STAGES ARE (1)WILDLANDS, ENCOMPASSING NATIVE FLORAL AND FAUNAL COMMUNITIES ALTERED LITTLE OR NOT AT ALL BY HUMAN IMPACT; (2)EXTENSIVELY USED AREAS, SUCH AS NATURAL GRASSLANDS LIGHTLY GRAZED, SAVANNA KEPT OPEN FOR PREY ANIMALS BY INFREQUENT HUMAN-SET FIRES, OR FORESTS SPARSELY WORKED BY SLASH-AND-BURN FARMERS AT LOW DENSITY; (3)INTENSIVELY USED AREAS, MEANING CROP FIELDS, PLANTATIONS, VILLAGE COMMONS, TRAVEL CORRIDORS, URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES; AND FINALLY(4)DEGRADED LAND, FORMERLY USEFUL BUT NOW ABUSED BEYOND VALUE TO ANYBODY. 【A3】______ AMONG ALL FORMS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION, PUSHING TROPICAL FOREST FROM THE WILDLANDS CATEGORY TO THE INTENSIVELY USED CATEGORY HAS THE GREATEST IMPACT ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE CENTRAL AMAZON, WHERE BIG TRACTS OF RAIN FOREST HAVE BEEN FELLED AND BURNED, IN A LARGELY FUTILE ATTEMPT TO PASTURE CATTLE ON SUN- HARDENED CLAY.BY THE MIDDLE OF THE NEXT CENTURY, IF TREND CONTINUE, TROPICAL FOREST WILL EXIST VIRTUALLY NOWHERE OUTSIDE OF PROTECTED AREAS—THAT IS, NATIONAL PARKS, WILDLIFE REFUGES, AND OTHER OFFICIAL RESERVES. 【A4】______ HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WILL MAKE A BAD SITUATION WORSE BY PUTTING EVER MORE PRESSURE ON ALL AVAILABLE LAN
D.THE ANNUAL INCREASE IS NOW 80 MILLION PEOPLE, WITH MOST OF THAT INCREMENT COMING IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES.ACCORDING TO THE UN"S MIDDLE ESTIMATE, HUMAN POPULATION WILL RISE FROM THE PRESENT 5.9 BILLION TO 9.4 BILLION BY THE YEAR 2050, THEN TO 10.8 BILLION BY 2150, BEFORE LEVELING OFF THERE AT THE END OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY.ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT THE PRESSURES THESE PEOPLE WILL FACE, AND THE PRESSURES THEY WILL EXERT IN RETUR
N. 【A5】______ THAT DIRECTION, NECESSARILY, WILL BE TOWARD EVER MORE DESPERATE EXPLOITATION OF LANDSCAP
E.EVEN NOAH"S ARK ONLY MANAGES TO RESCUE PAIRED ANIMALS, NOT LARGE PARCELS OF HABITAT.THE JEOPARDY OF THE ECOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS THAT WE PRESENTLY CHERISH AS PARKS, REFUGES, AND RESERVES IS ALREADY SEVERE, DUE TO INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FORCES: INTERNAL, BECAUSE INSULARITY ITSELF LEADS TO ECOLOGICAL UNRAVELING; AND EXTERNAL, BECAUSE THOSE AREAS ARE STILL UNDER SIEGE BY NEEDY AND COVETOUS PEOPL
E.WE SHOULDN"T TAKE COMFORT IN ASSUMING THAT AT LEAST YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK WILL STILL HARBOR BEARS IN THE YEAR 2150, THAT AT LEAST ROYAL CHIT-WAN IN NEPAL WILL STILL HARBOR TIGERS AND GIR IN INDIA WILL STILL HARBOR LIONS.THOSE PREDATOR POPULATIONS, AND OTHER SPECIES DOWN THE CASCADE, ARE LIKELY TO DISAPPEAR."WILDNESS" WILL BE A WORD APPLICABLE ONLY TO URBAN TURMOIL.LIONS, TIGERS, AND BEARS WILL EXIST IN ZOOS.NATURE WON"T COME TO AN END, BUT IT WILL LOOK VERY DIFFERENT.
第4题
【A4】
A.THE DISASTROUS IMPACT ON BIODIVERSITY.
B.HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WORSENS THE PROBLE
M.
C.WHAT IS LAND CONVERSION？
D.PROTECTED AREAS ARE UNDER THREAT.
E.THE LAND-CONVERSION CASCAD
E. BEHIND THE PROJECTIONS OF SPECIES LOSS LURK A NUMBER OF CRUCIAL BUT HARD-TO-PLOT VARIABLES, AMONG WHICH TWO ARE ESPECIALLY WEIGHTY; CONTINUING LANDSCAPE CONVERSION AND THE GROWTH CURVE OF HUMAN POPULATIO
N. 【A1】______ LANDSCAPE CONVERSION CAN MEAN MANY THINGS:DRAINING WETLANDS TO BUILD ROADS AND AIRPORTS, TURNING TALLGRASS (高秆草) PRAIRIES UNDER THE PLOW, FENCING SAVANNA (热带大草原) AND OVERGRAZING IT WITH DOMESTIC STOCK, CUTTING SECOND-GROWTH FOREST VERMONT AND CONSIGNING THE LAND TO SKI RESORTS OR VACATION SUBURBS, SLASH-AND-BURN CLEARING OF MADAGASCAR"S (马达加斯加) RAIN FOREST TO GROW RICE ON WET HILLSIDES, INDUSTRIAL LOGGING IN BORNEO (婆罗洲) TO MEET JAPANESE PLYWOOD DEMANDS. 【A2】______ THE ECOLOGIST JOHN TERBORGH AND A COLLEAGUE CAREL P.VAN SCHAIK, HAVE DESCRIBED A FOUR-STAGE PROCESS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION THAT THEY CALL THE LAND-USE CASCAD
E.THE SUCCESSIVE STAGES ARE (1)WILDLANDS, ENCOMPASSING NATIVE FLORAL AND FAUNAL COMMUNITIES ALTERED LITTLE OR NOT AT ALL BY HUMAN IMPACT; (2)EXTENSIVELY USED AREAS, SUCH AS NATURAL GRASSLANDS LIGHTLY GRAZED, SAVANNA KEPT OPEN FOR PREY ANIMALS BY INFREQUENT HUMAN-SET FIRES, OR FORESTS SPARSELY WORKED BY SLASH-AND-BURN FARMERS AT LOW DENSITY; (3)INTENSIVELY USED AREAS, MEANING CROP FIELDS, PLANTATIONS, VILLAGE COMMONS, TRAVEL CORRIDORS, URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES; AND FINALLY(4)DEGRADED LAND, FORMERLY USEFUL BUT NOW ABUSED BEYOND VALUE TO ANYBODY. 【A3】______ AMONG ALL FORMS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION, PUSHING TROPICAL FOREST FROM THE WILDLANDS CATEGORY TO THE INTENSIVELY USED CATEGORY HAS THE GREATEST IMPACT ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE CENTRAL AMAZON, WHERE BIG TRACTS OF RAIN FOREST HAVE BEEN FELLED AND BURNED, IN A LARGELY FUTILE ATTEMPT TO PASTURE CATTLE ON SUN- HARDENED CLAY.BY THE MIDDLE OF THE NEXT CENTURY, IF TREND CONTINUE, TROPICAL FOREST WILL EXIST VIRTUALLY NOWHERE OUTSIDE OF PROTECTED AREAS—THAT IS, NATIONAL PARKS, WILDLIFE REFUGES, AND OTHER OFFICIAL RESERVES. 【A4】______ HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WILL MAKE A BAD SITUATION WORSE BY PUTTING EVER MORE PRESSURE ON ALL AVAILABLE LAN
D.THE ANNUAL INCREASE IS NOW 80 MILLION PEOPLE, WITH MOST OF THAT INCREMENT COMING IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES.ACCORDING TO THE UN"S MIDDLE ESTIMATE, HUMAN POPULATION WILL RISE FROM THE PRESENT 5.9 BILLION TO 9.4 BILLION BY THE YEAR 2050, THEN TO 10.8 BILLION BY 2150, BEFORE LEVELING OFF THERE AT THE END OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY.ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT THE PRESSURES THESE PEOPLE WILL FACE, AND THE PRESSURES THEY WILL EXERT IN RETUR
N. 【A5】______ THAT DIRECTION, NECESSARILY, WILL BE TOWARD EVER MORE DESPERATE EXPLOITATION OF LANDSCAP
E.EVEN NOAH"S ARK ONLY MANAGES TO RESCUE PAIRED ANIMALS, NOT LARGE PARCELS OF HABITAT.THE JEOPARDY OF THE ECOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS THAT WE PRESENTLY CHERISH AS PARKS, REFUGES, AND RESERVES IS ALREADY SEVERE, DUE TO INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FORCES: INTERNAL, BECAUSE INSULARITY ITSELF LEADS TO ECOLOGICAL UNRAVELING; AND EXTERNAL, BECAUSE THOSE AREAS ARE STILL UNDER SIEGE BY NEEDY AND COVETOUS PEOPL
E.WE SHOULDN"T TAKE COMFORT IN ASSUMING THAT AT LEAST YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK WILL STILL HARBOR BEARS IN THE YEAR 2150, THAT AT LEAST ROYAL CHIT-WAN IN NEPAL WILL STILL HARBOR TIGERS AND GIR IN INDIA WILL STILL HARBOR LIONS.THOSE PREDATOR POPULATIONS, AND OTHER SPECIES DOWN THE CASCADE, ARE LIKELY TO DISAPPEAR."WILDNESS" WILL BE A WORD APPLICABLE ONLY TO URBAN TURMOIL.LIONS, TIGERS, AND BEARS WILL EXIST IN ZOOS.NATURE WON"T COME TO AN END, BUT IT WILL LOOK VERY DIFFERENT.
第5题
【A1】
A.THE DISASTROUS IMPACT ON BIODIVERSITY.
B.HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WORSENS THE PROBLE
M.
C.WHAT IS LAND CONVERSION？
D.PROTECTED AREAS ARE UNDER THREAT.
E.THE LAND-CONVERSION CASCAD
E. BEHIND THE PROJECTIONS OF SPECIES LOSS LURK A NUMBER OF CRUCIAL BUT HARD-TO-PLOT VARIABLES, AMONG WHICH TWO ARE ESPECIALLY WEIGHTY; CONTINUING LANDSCAPE CONVERSION AND THE GROWTH CURVE OF HUMAN POPULATIO
N. 【A1】______ LANDSCAPE CONVERSION CAN MEAN MANY THINGS:DRAINING WETLANDS TO BUILD ROADS AND AIRPORTS, TURNING TALLGRASS (高秆草) PRAIRIES UNDER THE PLOW, FENCING SAVANNA (热带大草原) AND OVERGRAZING IT WITH DOMESTIC STOCK, CUTTING SECOND-GROWTH FOREST VERMONT AND CONSIGNING THE LAND TO SKI RESORTS OR VACATION SUBURBS, SLASH-AND-BURN CLEARING OF MADAGASCAR"S (马达加斯加) RAIN FOREST TO GROW RICE ON WET HILLSIDES, INDUSTRIAL LOGGING IN BORNEO (婆罗洲) TO MEET JAPANESE PLYWOOD DEMANDS. 【A2】______ THE ECOLOGIST JOHN TERBORGH AND A COLLEAGUE CAREL P.VAN SCHAIK, HAVE DESCRIBED A FOUR-STAGE PROCESS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION THAT THEY CALL THE LAND-USE CASCAD
E.THE SUCCESSIVE STAGES ARE (1)WILDLANDS, ENCOMPASSING NATIVE FLORAL AND FAUNAL COMMUNITIES ALTERED LITTLE OR NOT AT ALL BY HUMAN IMPACT; (2)EXTENSIVELY USED AREAS, SUCH AS NATURAL GRASSLANDS LIGHTLY GRAZED, SAVANNA KEPT OPEN FOR PREY ANIMALS BY INFREQUENT HUMAN-SET FIRES, OR FORESTS SPARSELY WORKED BY SLASH-AND-BURN FARMERS AT LOW DENSITY; (3)INTENSIVELY USED AREAS, MEANING CROP FIELDS, PLANTATIONS, VILLAGE COMMONS, TRAVEL CORRIDORS, URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES; AND FINALLY(4)DEGRADED LAND, FORMERLY USEFUL BUT NOW ABUSED BEYOND VALUE TO ANYBODY. 【A3】______ AMONG ALL FORMS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION, PUSHING TROPICAL FOREST FROM THE WILDLANDS CATEGORY TO THE INTENSIVELY USED CATEGORY HAS THE GREATEST IMPACT ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE CENTRAL AMAZON, WHERE BIG TRACTS OF RAIN FOREST HAVE BEEN FELLED AND BURNED, IN A LARGELY FUTILE ATTEMPT TO PASTURE CATTLE ON SUN- HARDENED CLAY.BY THE MIDDLE OF THE NEXT CENTURY, IF TREND CONTINUE, TROPICAL FOREST WILL EXIST VIRTUALLY NOWHERE OUTSIDE OF PROTECTED AREAS—THAT IS, NATIONAL PARKS, WILDLIFE REFUGES, AND OTHER OFFICIAL RESERVES. 【A4】______ HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WILL MAKE A BAD SITUATION WORSE BY PUTTING EVER MORE PRESSURE ON ALL AVAILABLE LAN
D.THE ANNUAL INCREASE IS NOW 80 MILLION PEOPLE, WITH MOST OF THAT INCREMENT COMING IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES.ACCORDING TO THE UN"S MIDDLE ESTIMATE, HUMAN POPULATION WILL RISE FROM THE PRESENT 5.9 BILLION TO 9.4 BILLION BY THE YEAR 2050, THEN TO 10.8 BILLION BY 2150, BEFORE LEVELING OFF THERE AT THE END OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY.ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT THE PRESSURES THESE PEOPLE WILL FACE, AND THE PRESSURES THEY WILL EXERT IN RETUR
N. 【A5】______ THAT DIRECTION, NECESSARILY, WILL BE TOWARD EVER MORE DESPERATE EXPLOITATION OF LANDSCAP
E.EVEN NOAH"S ARK ONLY MANAGES TO RESCUE PAIRED ANIMALS, NOT LARGE PARCELS OF HABITAT.THE JEOPARDY OF THE ECOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS THAT WE PRESENTLY CHERISH AS PARKS, REFUGES, AND RESERVES IS ALREADY SEVERE, DUE TO INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FORCES: INTERNAL, BECAUSE INSULARITY ITSELF LEADS TO ECOLOGICAL UNRAVELING; AND EXTERNAL, BECAUSE THOSE AREAS ARE STILL UNDER SIEGE BY NEEDY AND COVETOUS PEOPL
E.WE SHOULDN"T TAKE COMFORT IN ASSUMING THAT AT LEAST YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK WILL STILL HARBOR BEARS IN THE YEAR 2150, THAT AT LEAST ROYAL CHIT-WAN IN NEPAL WILL STILL HARBOR TIGERS AND GIR IN INDIA WILL STILL HARBOR LIONS.THOSE PREDATOR POPULATIONS, AND OTHER SPECIES DOWN THE CASCADE, ARE LIKELY TO DISAPPEAR."WILDNESS" WILL BE A WORD APPLICABLE ONLY TO URBAN TURMOIL.LIONS, TIGERS, AND BEARS WILL EXIST IN ZOOS.NATURE WON"T COME TO AN END, BUT IT WILL LOOK VERY DIFFERENT.
第6题
Whether Is Reintroduction of the Death Penalty Necessary？
In the USA, 85% of the population over the age of 21 approve of the death penalty. In the many states which still have the death penalty, some use the electric chair, which can take up 20 minutes to kill, while others use gas or lethal injection.
The first of these was the case of Ruth Ellis who was hanged for shooting her lover in what was generally regarded as a crime passion. The second was hanged for murders which, it was later proved, had been committed by someone else.
The pro-hanging lobby (赞成极刑的活动集团) uses four main arguments to support its call for the reintroduction of capital punishment. First there is the deterrence theory, which argues that potential murders would think twice before committing the act if they knew that they might die if they were caught. The armed bank robber might, likewise, go back to being unarmed.
The other two arguments are more suspect. The idea of retribution demands that criminals should get what they deserve: if a murderer intentionally set out to commit a crime, he should accept the consequences. Retribution, which is just another word for revenge, is supported by the religious doctrine of an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth.
The arguments against the death penalty are largely humanitarian (人道主义的). But there are also statistical reasons for opposing it: the deterrence figures do not add up. In Britain, 1903 was the record year for execution and yet in 1904 the number of murders actually rose. There was a similar occurrence in 1946 and 1947. If the deterrence theory were correct, the rate should have fallen.
The other reasons to oppose the death penalty are largely a matter of individual conscience and belief. One is that murder is murder and that the state has no more right to take a life than the individual. The other is that Christianity advises forgiveness, not revenge.
All of the following death penalty methods are mentioned in the passage EXCEPT______.
A．the electric chair
B．the lethal injection
C．the poisonous gas
D．the shooting
第7题
【A3】
A.THE DISASTROUS IMPACT ON BIODIVERSITY.
B.HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WORSENS THE PROBLE
M.
C.WHAT IS LAND CONVERSION？
D.PROTECTED AREAS ARE UNDER THREAT.
E.THE LAND-CONVERSION CASCAD
E. BEHIND THE PROJECTIONS OF SPECIES LOSS LURK A NUMBER OF CRUCIAL BUT HARD-TO-PLOT VARIABLES, AMONG WHICH TWO ARE ESPECIALLY WEIGHTY; CONTINUING LANDSCAPE CONVERSION AND THE GROWTH CURVE OF HUMAN POPULATIO
N. 【A1】______ LANDSCAPE CONVERSION CAN MEAN MANY THINGS:DRAINING WETLANDS TO BUILD ROADS AND AIRPORTS, TURNING TALLGRASS (高秆草) PRAIRIES UNDER THE PLOW, FENCING SAVANNA (热带大草原) AND OVERGRAZING IT WITH DOMESTIC STOCK, CUTTING SECOND-GROWTH FOREST VERMONT AND CONSIGNING THE LAND TO SKI RESORTS OR VACATION SUBURBS, SLASH-AND-BURN CLEARING OF MADAGASCAR"S (马达加斯加) RAIN FOREST TO GROW RICE ON WET HILLSIDES, INDUSTRIAL LOGGING IN BORNEO (婆罗洲) TO MEET JAPANESE PLYWOOD DEMANDS. 【A2】______ THE ECOLOGIST JOHN TERBORGH AND A COLLEAGUE CAREL P.VAN SCHAIK, HAVE DESCRIBED A FOUR-STAGE PROCESS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION THAT THEY CALL THE LAND-USE CASCAD
E.THE SUCCESSIVE STAGES ARE (1)WILDLANDS, ENCOMPASSING NATIVE FLORAL AND FAUNAL COMMUNITIES ALTERED LITTLE OR NOT AT ALL BY HUMAN IMPACT; (2)EXTENSIVELY USED AREAS, SUCH AS NATURAL GRASSLANDS LIGHTLY GRAZED, SAVANNA KEPT OPEN FOR PREY ANIMALS BY INFREQUENT HUMAN-SET FIRES, OR FORESTS SPARSELY WORKED BY SLASH-AND-BURN FARMERS AT LOW DENSITY; (3)INTENSIVELY USED AREAS, MEANING CROP FIELDS, PLANTATIONS, VILLAGE COMMONS, TRAVEL CORRIDORS, URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES; AND FINALLY(4)DEGRADED LAND, FORMERLY USEFUL BUT NOW ABUSED BEYOND VALUE TO ANYBODY. 【A3】______ AMONG ALL FORMS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION, PUSHING TROPICAL FOREST FROM THE WILDLANDS CATEGORY TO THE INTENSIVELY USED CATEGORY HAS THE GREATEST IMPACT ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE CENTRAL AMAZON, WHERE BIG TRACTS OF RAIN FOREST HAVE BEEN FELLED AND BURNED, IN A LARGELY FUTILE ATTEMPT TO PASTURE CATTLE ON SUN- HARDENED CLAY.BY THE MIDDLE OF THE NEXT CENTURY, IF TREND CONTINUE, TROPICAL FOREST WILL EXIST VIRTUALLY NOWHERE OUTSIDE OF PROTECTED AREAS—THAT IS, NATIONAL PARKS, WILDLIFE REFUGES, AND OTHER OFFICIAL RESERVES. 【A4】______ HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WILL MAKE A BAD SITUATION WORSE BY PUTTING EVER MORE PRESSURE ON ALL AVAILABLE LAN
D.THE ANNUAL INCREASE IS NOW 80 MILLION PEOPLE, WITH MOST OF THAT INCREMENT COMING IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES.ACCORDING TO THE UN"S MIDDLE ESTIMATE, HUMAN POPULATION WILL RISE FROM THE PRESENT 5.9 BILLION TO 9.4 BILLION BY THE YEAR 2050, THEN TO 10.8 BILLION BY 2150, BEFORE LEVELING OFF THERE AT THE END OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY.ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT THE PRESSURES THESE PEOPLE WILL FACE, AND THE PRESSURES THEY WILL EXERT IN RETUR
N. 【A5】______ THAT DIRECTION, NECESSARILY, WILL BE TOWARD EVER MORE DESPERATE EXPLOITATION OF LANDSCAP
E.EVEN NOAH"S ARK ONLY MANAGES TO RESCUE PAIRED ANIMALS, NOT LARGE PARCELS OF HABITAT.THE JEOPARDY OF THE ECOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS THAT WE PRESENTLY CHERISH AS PARKS, REFUGES, AND RESERVES IS ALREADY SEVERE, DUE TO INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FORCES: INTERNAL, BECAUSE INSULARITY ITSELF LEADS TO ECOLOGICAL UNRAVELING; AND EXTERNAL, BECAUSE THOSE AREAS ARE STILL UNDER SIEGE BY NEEDY AND COVETOUS PEOPL
E.WE SHOULDN"T TAKE COMFORT IN ASSUMING THAT AT LEAST YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK WILL STILL HARBOR BEARS IN THE YEAR 2150, THAT AT LEAST ROYAL CHIT-WAN IN NEPAL WILL STILL HARBOR TIGERS AND GIR IN INDIA WILL STILL HARBOR LIONS.THOSE PREDATOR POPULATIONS, AND OTHER SPECIES DOWN THE CASCADE, ARE LIKELY TO DISAPPEAR."WILDNESS" WILL BE A WORD APPLICABLE ONLY TO URBAN TURMOIL.LIONS, TIGERS, AND BEARS WILL EXIST IN ZOOS.NATURE WON"T COME TO AN END, BUT IT WILL LOOK VERY DIFFERENT.
第8题
【A2】
A.THE DISASTROUS IMPACT ON BIODIVERSITY.
B.HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WORSENS THE PROBLE
M.
C.WHAT IS LAND CONVERSION？
D.PROTECTED AREAS ARE UNDER THREAT.
E.THE LAND-CONVERSION CASCAD
E. BEHIND THE PROJECTIONS OF SPECIES LOSS LURK A NUMBER OF CRUCIAL BUT HARD-TO-PLOT VARIABLES, AMONG WHICH TWO ARE ESPECIALLY WEIGHTY; CONTINUING LANDSCAPE CONVERSION AND THE GROWTH CURVE OF HUMAN POPULATIO
N. 【A1】______ LANDSCAPE CONVERSION CAN MEAN MANY THINGS:DRAINING WETLANDS TO BUILD ROADS AND AIRPORTS, TURNING TALLGRASS (高秆草) PRAIRIES UNDER THE PLOW, FENCING SAVANNA (热带大草原) AND OVERGRAZING IT WITH DOMESTIC STOCK, CUTTING SECOND-GROWTH FOREST VERMONT AND CONSIGNING THE LAND TO SKI RESORTS OR VACATION SUBURBS, SLASH-AND-BURN CLEARING OF MADAGASCAR"S (马达加斯加) RAIN FOREST TO GROW RICE ON WET HILLSIDES, INDUSTRIAL LOGGING IN BORNEO (婆罗洲) TO MEET JAPANESE PLYWOOD DEMANDS. 【A2】______ THE ECOLOGIST JOHN TERBORGH AND A COLLEAGUE CAREL P.VAN SCHAIK, HAVE DESCRIBED A FOUR-STAGE PROCESS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION THAT THEY CALL THE LAND-USE CASCAD
E.THE SUCCESSIVE STAGES ARE (1)WILDLANDS, ENCOMPASSING NATIVE FLORAL AND FAUNAL COMMUNITIES ALTERED LITTLE OR NOT AT ALL BY HUMAN IMPACT; (2)EXTENSIVELY USED AREAS, SUCH AS NATURAL GRASSLANDS LIGHTLY GRAZED, SAVANNA KEPT OPEN FOR PREY ANIMALS BY INFREQUENT HUMAN-SET FIRES, OR FORESTS SPARSELY WORKED BY SLASH-AND-BURN FARMERS AT LOW DENSITY; (3)INTENSIVELY USED AREAS, MEANING CROP FIELDS, PLANTATIONS, VILLAGE COMMONS, TRAVEL CORRIDORS, URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES; AND FINALLY(4)DEGRADED LAND, FORMERLY USEFUL BUT NOW ABUSED BEYOND VALUE TO ANYBODY. 【A3】______ AMONG ALL FORMS OF LANDSCAPE CONVERSION, PUSHING TROPICAL FOREST FROM THE WILDLANDS CATEGORY TO THE INTENSIVELY USED CATEGORY HAS THE GREATEST IMPACT ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE CENTRAL AMAZON, WHERE BIG TRACTS OF RAIN FOREST HAVE BEEN FELLED AND BURNED, IN A LARGELY FUTILE ATTEMPT TO PASTURE CATTLE ON SUN- HARDENED CLAY.BY THE MIDDLE OF THE NEXT CENTURY, IF TREND CONTINUE, TROPICAL FOREST WILL EXIST VIRTUALLY NOWHERE OUTSIDE OF PROTECTED AREAS—THAT IS, NATIONAL PARKS, WILDLIFE REFUGES, AND OTHER OFFICIAL RESERVES. 【A4】______ HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH WILL MAKE A BAD SITUATION WORSE BY PUTTING EVER MORE PRESSURE ON ALL AVAILABLE LAN
D.THE ANNUAL INCREASE IS NOW 80 MILLION PEOPLE, WITH MOST OF THAT INCREMENT COMING IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES.ACCORDING TO THE UN"S MIDDLE ESTIMATE, HUMAN POPULATION WILL RISE FROM THE PRESENT 5.9 BILLION TO 9.4 BILLION BY THE YEAR 2050, THEN TO 10.8 BILLION BY 2150, BEFORE LEVELING OFF THERE AT THE END OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY.ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT THE PRESSURES THESE PEOPLE WILL FACE, AND THE PRESSURES THEY WILL EXERT IN RETUR
N. 【A5】______ THAT DIRECTION, NECESSARILY, WILL BE TOWARD EVER MORE DESPERATE EXPLOITATION OF LANDSCAP
E.EVEN NOAH"S ARK ONLY MANAGES TO RESCUE PAIRED ANIMALS, NOT LARGE PARCELS OF HABITAT.THE JEOPARDY OF THE ECOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS THAT WE PRESENTLY CHERISH AS PARKS, REFUGES, AND RESERVES IS ALREADY SEVERE, DUE TO INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FORCES: INTERNAL, BECAUSE INSULARITY ITSELF LEADS TO ECOLOGICAL UNRAVELING; AND EXTERNAL, BECAUSE THOSE AREAS ARE STILL UNDER SIEGE BY NEEDY AND COVETOUS PEOPL
E.WE SHOULDN"T TAKE COMFORT IN ASSUMING THAT AT LEAST YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK WILL STILL HARBOR BEARS IN THE YEAR 2150, THAT AT LEAST ROYAL CHIT-WAN IN NEPAL WILL STILL HARBOR TIGERS AND GIR IN INDIA WILL STILL HARBOR LIONS.THOSE PREDATOR POPULATIONS, AND OTHER SPECIES DOWN THE CASCADE, ARE LIKELY TO DISAPPEAR."WILDNESS" WILL BE A WORD APPLICABLE ONLY TO URBAN TURMOIL.LIONS, TIGERS, AND BEARS WILL EXIST IN ZOOS.NATURE WON"T COME TO AN END, BUT IT WILL LOOK VERY DIFFERENT.
第9题
【R2】
A. THE NECESSITY TO STOP THE CURRENT PRACTIC
E.
B. EFFECT OF THE PET-RAISING INDUSTRY ON FISH POPULATIO
N.
C. CONSEQUENCES FROM KILLING FISH PREDATORS.
D. CONSUMPTION OF FISH BY DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
E. THE PRACTICE OF REMOVING PREDATORY SPECIES. ALL OVER THE WORLD, FISHING COMMUNITIES ARE SCREAMING FOR THE HEADS OF SEALS, DOLPHINS, PELICANS AND EVEN WHALES. THE REASON FOR THIS IS GROSSLY DIMINISHED POPULATIONS OF COMMERCIAL FIS
H. SIMPLY PUT, MOST OF THE WORLD"S COMMERCIAL FISHERIES HAVE COLLAPSED OR ARE IN A STATE OF COLLAPS
E. THE REASON FOR THE COLLAPSE HAS BEEN A COMBINATION OF MISMANAGEMENT AND CORRUPTION WITHIN GOVERNMENTAL FISHERY DEPARTMENTS, INDUSTRIAL OVER-FISHING, INCREASING DEMAND FROM STEADILY RISING HUMAN POPULATIONS AND JUST PLAIN GREE
D. 【R1】______ INSTEAD OF FACING UP TO REAL REASONS, GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS, FISHERMEN AND THE PUBLIC HAVE CHOSEN TO SCAPEGOAT OTHER SPECIES THAT RELY ON FISH FOR THEIR SURVIVAL. BECAUSE OF THIS, CANADIANS ARE ENGAGED IN A MAMSSIVE SLAUGHTER OF SEALS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST AND CLAMOURING FOR A SEA LION KILLED ON THE PACIFIC COAST. THE NAMIBIANS ARE KILLING SOME 60,000 SEALS EACH YEAR. THE JAPANESE ARE SLAUGHTERING DOLPHINS; FISHERMEN IN CALIFORNIA ARE KILLING AND MAIMING PELICANS AND CORMORANTS; AND THE NORWEGIANS, ICELANDERS AND THE JAPANESE ARE STEADILY INCREASING THEIR ILLEGAL WHALE KILLS. 【R2】______ IN FACT, IN EVERY COASTAL COMMUNITY THE STORY IS THE SAM
E. KILL THE SEALS, KILL THE BIRDS AND KILL THE DOLPHINS—ANYTHING TO SAVE THE FIS
H. IRONICALLY, THE DIMINISHMENT OF SEALS AND OTHER NATURAL PREDATORS IS DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTING TO A FURTHER DECLINE IN FIS
H. THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT MARINE MAMMALS AND BIRDS EAT FISH AND REMOVE SICK AND WEAK SPECIES FROM THE POPULATIONS THEY PREY UPO
N. IN THE CASE OF THE HARP SEAL, THE SEALS REMOVE SPECIES THAT PREY UPON COD AND THUS REDUCE PREDATORY SPECIES HAVING AN IMPACT ON THE CO
D. THE FACT IS THAT THE LARGEST PREDATORS OF FISH ARE OTHER FIS
H. SEALS, DOLPHINS, PELICANS AND CORMORANTS KEEP THESE POPULATIONS IN CHECK AND IN BALANC
E. 【R3】______ BEFORE MODERN GLOBAL FISHING, MARINE MAMMAL AND SEA BIRD POPULATIONS WERE MUCH MORE POPULOUS THAN TODAY. THE SEAL POPULATION ON THE EAST COAST ALONE WAS CLOSE TO 40 MILLION ONLY 500 YEARS AGO. AND THERE WAS NO SHORTAGE OF FIS
H. THE COD HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO ONE PER CENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL NUMBERS IN THE LAST 500 YEARS BY THE HUMAN SPECIES. LET"S PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIV
E. THE WORLDWIDE POPULATION OF ALL SPECIES OF SEALS IS ABOUT 28 MILLION YET THE WORLDWIDE POPULATION OF DOMESTIC HOUSE CATS IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 80 MILLION THE HOUSE CAT POPULATION OF THE US ALONE CONSUMES 2. 9 MILLION TONS OF FISH EACH YEAR. THIS MEANS THAT SOUTH AFRICA"S ENTIRE ANNUAL CATCH OF FISH IS ONLY 17 PER CENT OF THIS 2. 9-MILLION-TON REQUIREMENT AS SEAL CONSERVATIONIST FRANCOIS HUGO OF SOUTH AFRICA PUTS IT, "WE ARE DESTROYING OUR INDIGENOUS NATURAL WILDLIFE TO FEED AN UNCHECKED EXOTIC DOMESTIC PET MARKET. " 【R4】______ IT IS ALSO A TRAGEDY THAT MORE THAN 50 PER CENT OF ALL THE FISH TAKEN FROM THE SEA ARE NOT EATEN BY PEOPL
E. MOST OF IT IS RENDERED INTO ANIMAL FEED FOR CATTLE, CHICKENS, PIGS AND, IRONICALLY, FOR FARM-RAISED SALMO
N. IT TAKES 30 TO 50 FISH CAUGHT FROM THE OCEAN TO RAISE AND MARKET ONE FARM-RAISED SALMO
N. CAPTAIN JACQUES COUSTEAU TOLD ME NOT LONG BEFORE HE DIED THAT "THE OCEANS ARE DYING IN OUR TIM
E. " 【R5】______ WE MUST BE INSANE TO CONTINUE TO PULL THE LAST OF THE FISHES FROM THE SEA TO FED DOMESTIC PETS AND LIVESTOC
K. MOST OF THESE FISH ARE THE SMALL FISHES LIKE THE HERRING AND SAND-EELS—THE VERY FISH THAT PROVIDE THE FOUNDATION OF THE FOOD CHAIN FOR THE LARGER FIS
H. THE NORTH SEA SAND-EEL FISHERY ALONE HAS DESTROYED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PUFFINS AND THIS FISHERY IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE LIVESTOCK FEED TRAD
E. IF NATIONS SIMPLY PROHIBITED THE TAKING OF FISH TO FEED LIVESTOCK AND PETS, WE WOULD EFFECTIVELY CUT THE ANNUAL REDUCTION OF FISH FROM OUR OCEANS BY MORE THAN 50 PER CENT. BUT IT WON"T HAPPEN BECAUSE THERE IS MUCH MONEY TO BE MADE FROM SELLING THESE PRODUCTS AND GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS AND POLITICIANS DO WHAT THEY ARE TOLD BY THE CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE THE MONEY AND PROVIDE THE JOBS. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS PATH HAS ONLY ONE DESTINATION—THE SILENT SEAS, FISHES OUT, WITH WHALES, SEALS, BIRDS, AND TURTLES REMOVE
D. A STAGNANT STINKING CESSPOOL OF LIFELESS BRINE WILL BE OUR LEGACY.
第10题
【R5】
A. THE NECESSITY TO STOP THE CURRENT PRACTIC
E.
B. EFFECT OF THE PET-RAISING INDUSTRY ON FISH POPULATIO
N.
C. CONSEQUENCES FROM KILLING FISH PREDATORS.
D. CONSUMPTION OF FISH BY DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
E. THE PRACTICE OF REMOVING PREDATORY SPECIES. ALL OVER THE WORLD, FISHING COMMUNITIES ARE SCREAMING FOR THE HEADS OF SEALS, DOLPHINS, PELICANS AND EVEN WHALES. THE REASON FOR THIS IS GROSSLY DIMINISHED POPULATIONS OF COMMERCIAL FIS
H. SIMPLY PUT, MOST OF THE WORLD"S COMMERCIAL FISHERIES HAVE COLLAPSED OR ARE IN A STATE OF COLLAPS
E. THE REASON FOR THE COLLAPSE HAS BEEN A COMBINATION OF MISMANAGEMENT AND CORRUPTION WITHIN GOVERNMENTAL FISHERY DEPARTMENTS, INDUSTRIAL OVER-FISHING, INCREASING DEMAND FROM STEADILY RISING HUMAN POPULATIONS AND JUST PLAIN GREE
D. 【R1】______ INSTEAD OF FACING UP TO REAL REASONS, GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS, FISHERMEN AND THE PUBLIC HAVE CHOSEN TO SCAPEGOAT OTHER SPECIES THAT RELY ON FISH FOR THEIR SURVIVAL. BECAUSE OF THIS, CANADIANS ARE ENGAGED IN A MAMSSIVE SLAUGHTER OF SEALS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST AND CLAMOURING FOR A SEA LION KILLED ON THE PACIFIC COAST. THE NAMIBIANS ARE KILLING SOME 60,000 SEALS EACH YEAR. THE JAPANESE ARE SLAUGHTERING DOLPHINS; FISHERMEN IN CALIFORNIA ARE KILLING AND MAIMING PELICANS AND CORMORANTS; AND THE NORWEGIANS, ICELANDERS AND THE JAPANESE ARE STEADILY INCREASING THEIR ILLEGAL WHALE KILLS. 【R2】______ IN FACT, IN EVERY COASTAL COMMUNITY THE STORY IS THE SAM
E. KILL THE SEALS, KILL THE BIRDS AND KILL THE DOLPHINS—ANYTHING TO SAVE THE FIS
H. IRONICALLY, THE DIMINISHMENT OF SEALS AND OTHER NATURAL PREDATORS IS DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTING TO A FURTHER DECLINE IN FIS
H. THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT MARINE MAMMALS AND BIRDS EAT FISH AND REMOVE SICK AND WEAK SPECIES FROM THE POPULATIONS THEY PREY UPO
N. IN THE CASE OF THE HARP SEAL, THE SEALS REMOVE SPECIES THAT PREY UPON COD AND THUS REDUCE PREDATORY SPECIES HAVING AN IMPACT ON THE CO
D. THE FACT IS THAT THE LARGEST PREDATORS OF FISH ARE OTHER FIS
H. SEALS, DOLPHINS, PELICANS AND CORMORANTS KEEP THESE POPULATIONS IN CHECK AND IN BALANC
E. 【R3】______ BEFORE MODERN GLOBAL FISHING, MARINE MAMMAL AND SEA BIRD POPULATIONS WERE MUCH MORE POPULOUS THAN TODAY. THE SEAL POPULATION ON THE EAST COAST ALONE WAS CLOSE TO 40 MILLION ONLY 500 YEARS AGO. AND THERE WAS NO SHORTAGE OF FIS
H. THE COD HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO ONE PER CENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL NUMBERS IN THE LAST 500 YEARS BY THE HUMAN SPECIES. LET"S PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIV
E. THE WORLDWIDE POPULATION OF ALL SPECIES OF SEALS IS ABOUT 28 MILLION YET THE WORLDWIDE POPULATION OF DOMESTIC HOUSE CATS IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 80 MILLION THE HOUSE CAT POPULATION OF THE US ALONE CONSUMES 2. 9 MILLION TONS OF FISH EACH YEAR. THIS MEANS THAT SOUTH AFRICA"S ENTIRE ANNUAL CATCH OF FISH IS ONLY 17 PER CENT OF THIS 2. 9-MILLION-TON REQUIREMENT AS SEAL CONSERVATIONIST FRANCOIS HUGO OF SOUTH AFRICA PUTS IT, "WE ARE DESTROYING OUR INDIGENOUS NATURAL WILDLIFE TO FEED AN UNCHECKED EXOTIC DOMESTIC PET MARKET. " 【R4】______ IT IS ALSO A TRAGEDY THAT MORE THAN 50 PER CENT OF ALL THE FISH TAKEN FROM THE SEA ARE NOT EATEN BY PEOPL
E. MOST OF IT IS RENDERED INTO ANIMAL FEED FOR CATTLE, CHICKENS, PIGS AND, IRONICALLY, FOR FARM-RAISED SALMO
N. IT TAKES 30 TO 50 FISH CAUGHT FROM THE OCEAN TO RAISE AND MARKET ONE FARM-RAISED SALMO
N. CAPTAIN JACQUES COUSTEAU TOLD ME NOT LONG BEFORE HE DIED THAT "THE OCEANS ARE DYING IN OUR TIM
E. " 【R5】______ WE MUST BE INSANE TO CONTINUE TO PULL THE LAST OF THE FISHES FROM THE SEA TO FED DOMESTIC PETS AND LIVESTOC
K. MOST OF THESE FISH ARE THE SMALL FISHES LIKE THE HERRING AND SAND-EELS—THE VERY FISH THAT PROVIDE THE FOUNDATION OF THE FOOD CHAIN FOR THE LARGER FIS
H. THE NORTH SEA SAND-EEL FISHERY ALONE HAS DESTROYED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PUFFINS AND THIS FISHERY IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE LIVESTOCK FEED TRAD
E. IF NATIONS SIMPLY PROHIBITED THE TAKING OF FISH TO FEED LIVESTOCK AND PETS, WE WOULD EFFECTIVELY CUT THE ANNUAL REDUCTION OF FISH FROM OUR OCEANS BY MORE THAN 50 PER CENT. BUT IT WON"T HAPPEN BECAUSE THERE IS MUCH MONEY TO BE MADE FROM SELLING THESE PRODUCTS AND GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS AND POLITICIANS DO WHAT THEY ARE TOLD BY THE CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE THE MONEY AND PROVIDE THE JOBS. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS PATH HAS ONLY ONE DESTINATION—THE SILENT SEAS, FISHES OUT, WITH WHALES, SEALS, BIRDS, AND TURTLES REMOVE
D. A STAGNANT STINKING CESSPOOL OF LIFELESS BRINE WILL BE OUR LEGACY.
第11题
【R4】
A. THE NECESSITY TO STOP THE CURRENT PRACTIC
E.
B. EFFECT OF THE PET-RAISING INDUSTRY ON FISH POPULATIO
N.
C. CONSEQUENCES FROM KILLING FISH PREDATORS.
D. CONSUMPTION OF FISH BY DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
E. THE PRACTICE OF REMOVING PREDATORY SPECIES. ALL OVER THE WORLD, FISHING COMMUNITIES ARE SCREAMING FOR THE HEADS OF SEALS, DOLPHINS, PELICANS AND EVEN WHALES. THE REASON FOR THIS IS GROSSLY DIMINISHED POPULATIONS OF COMMERCIAL FIS
H. SIMPLY PUT, MOST OF THE WORLD"S COMMERCIAL FISHERIES HAVE COLLAPSED OR ARE IN A STATE OF COLLAPS
E. THE REASON FOR THE COLLAPSE HAS BEEN A COMBINATION OF MISMANAGEMENT AND CORRUPTION WITHIN GOVERNMENTAL FISHERY DEPARTMENTS, INDUSTRIAL OVER-FISHING, INCREASING DEMAND FROM STEADILY RISING HUMAN POPULATIONS AND JUST PLAIN GREE
D. 【R1】______ INSTEAD OF FACING UP TO REAL REASONS, GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS, FISHERMEN AND THE PUBLIC HAVE CHOSEN TO SCAPEGOAT OTHER SPECIES THAT RELY ON FISH FOR THEIR SURVIVAL. BECAUSE OF THIS, CANADIANS ARE ENGAGED IN A MAMSSIVE SLAUGHTER OF SEALS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST AND CLAMOURING FOR A SEA LION KILLED ON THE PACIFIC COAST. THE NAMIBIANS ARE KILLING SOME 60,000 SEALS EACH YEAR. THE JAPANESE ARE SLAUGHTERING DOLPHINS; FISHERMEN IN CALIFORNIA ARE KILLING AND MAIMING PELICANS AND CORMORANTS; AND THE NORWEGIANS, ICELANDERS AND THE JAPANESE ARE STEADILY INCREASING THEIR ILLEGAL WHALE KILLS. 【R2】______ IN FACT, IN EVERY COASTAL COMMUNITY THE STORY IS THE SAM
E. KILL THE SEALS, KILL THE BIRDS AND KILL THE DOLPHINS—ANYTHING TO SAVE THE FIS
H. IRONICALLY, THE DIMINISHMENT OF SEALS AND OTHER NATURAL PREDATORS IS DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTING TO A FURTHER DECLINE IN FIS
H. THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT MARINE MAMMALS AND BIRDS EAT FISH AND REMOVE SICK AND WEAK SPECIES FROM THE POPULATIONS THEY PREY UPO
N. IN THE CASE OF THE HARP SEAL, THE SEALS REMOVE SPECIES THAT PREY UPON COD AND THUS REDUCE PREDATORY SPECIES HAVING AN IMPACT ON THE CO
D. THE FACT IS THAT THE LARGEST PREDATORS OF FISH ARE OTHER FIS
H. SEALS, DOLPHINS, PELICANS AND CORMORANTS KEEP THESE POPULATIONS IN CHECK AND IN BALANC
E. 【R3】______ BEFORE MODERN GLOBAL FISHING, MARINE MAMMAL AND SEA BIRD POPULATIONS WERE MUCH MORE POPULOUS THAN TODAY. THE SEAL POPULATION ON THE EAST COAST ALONE WAS CLOSE TO 40 MILLION ONLY 500 YEARS AGO. AND THERE WAS NO SHORTAGE OF FIS
H. THE COD HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO ONE PER CENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL NUMBERS IN THE LAST 500 YEARS BY THE HUMAN SPECIES. LET"S PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIV
E. THE WORLDWIDE POPULATION OF ALL SPECIES OF SEALS IS ABOUT 28 MILLION YET THE WORLDWIDE POPULATION OF DOMESTIC HOUSE CATS IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 80 MILLION THE HOUSE CAT POPULATION OF THE US ALONE CONSUMES 2. 9 MILLION TONS OF FISH EACH YEAR. THIS MEANS THAT SOUTH AFRICA"S ENTIRE ANNUAL CATCH OF FISH IS ONLY 17 PER CENT OF THIS 2. 9-MILLION-TON REQUIREMENT AS SEAL CONSERVATIONIST FRANCOIS HUGO OF SOUTH AFRICA PUTS IT, "WE ARE DESTROYING OUR INDIGENOUS NATURAL WILDLIFE TO FEED AN UNCHECKED EXOTIC DOMESTIC PET MARKET. " 【R4】______ IT IS ALSO A TRAGEDY THAT MORE THAN 50 PER CENT OF ALL THE FISH TAKEN FROM THE SEA ARE NOT EATEN BY PEOPL
E. MOST OF IT IS RENDERED INTO ANIMAL FEED FOR CATTLE, CHICKENS, PIGS AND, IRONICALLY, FOR FARM-RAISED SALMO
N. IT TAKES 30 TO 50 FISH CAUGHT FROM THE OCEAN TO RAISE AND MARKET ONE FARM-RAISED SALMO
N. CAPTAIN JACQUES COUSTEAU TOLD ME NOT LONG BEFORE HE DIED THAT "THE OCEANS ARE DYING IN OUR TIM
E. " 【R5】______ WE MUST BE INSANE TO CONTINUE TO PULL THE LAST OF THE FISHES FROM THE SEA TO FED DOMESTIC PETS AND LIVESTOC
K. MOST OF THESE FISH ARE THE SMALL FISHES LIKE THE HERRING AND SAND-EELS—THE VERY FISH THAT PROVIDE THE FOUNDATION OF THE FOOD CHAIN FOR THE LARGER FIS
H. THE NORTH SEA SAND-EEL FISHERY ALONE HAS DESTROYED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PUFFINS AND THIS FISHERY IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE LIVESTOCK FEED TRAD
E. IF NATIONS SIMPLY PROHIBITED THE TAKING OF FISH TO FEED LIVESTOCK AND PETS, WE WOULD EFFECTIVELY CUT THE ANNUAL REDUCTION OF FISH FROM OUR OCEANS BY MORE THAN 50 PER CENT. BUT IT WON"T HAPPEN BECAUSE THERE IS MUCH MONEY TO BE MADE FROM SELLING THESE PRODUCTS AND GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS AND POLITICIANS DO WHAT THEY ARE TOLD BY THE CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE THE MONEY AND PROVIDE THE JOBS. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS PATH HAS ONLY ONE DESTINATION—THE SILENT SEAS, FISHES OUT, WITH WHALES, SEALS, BIRDS, AND TURTLES REMOVE
D. A STAGNANT STINKING CESSPOOL OF LIFELESS BRINE WILL BE OUR LEGACY.
