全国2018年1月高等教育自学考试
英语阅读（二）试题
课程代码：00596
I. Reading Comprehension. (50 points, 2 points for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages. Following each passage, there are five questions with four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choo the best answer and then write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.
Two decades ago, the channels that parate the Adriatic Islands were brimming with giant blue-fin tuna, a species so plentiful that tourists ud to climb ladders by the a to watch the schools swim by.
Today, the majestic predators are rarely, if ever, caught. The catches have dropped by 80 percent over the past few years, even for high-tech trawlers that now comb remote corners of the a in arch of the hard-to-find fish.
“This is past the alarm stage,” said Simon Cripps, director of the global marine program at the World Wildlife Fund. “We are eing a complete collap of the tuna population. It could disappear and never come back.wifi漫游” The group is urging the European Union to impo an immediate fishing moratorium until the international body that regulates tuna catches meets in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in November.
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Many edible fish stocks in the Mediterranean and its extension, the Adriatic, have sharply declined in the past decade becau of pollution and intensive fishing, including crayfish and John Dory, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. In Croatia, much of the fish eaten at aside resorts is imported from as far away as the United States.
But it is the blue-fin tuna that is in crisis, thanks to a new and lucrative European network of fishing and fish farming companies that provide the prized fish to sushi and sashimi markets in Japan. With tuna prices going as high as $15 a pound in Tokyo, European trawlers fish for tuna aggressively and illegally, far exceeding international quotas meant t
o protect the species, scientists said. Compounding the problem is the recent development of tuna fattening farms in Croatia, Spain, Turkey and other Mediterranean countries.
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Now, even small juvenile tuna, captured in the few corners of the Mediterranean where the species still breeds or even from the Atlantic, can be brought to the vast underwater cages that line the Croatian coast, where they are fed for months or years until they are ready for market. And so, though few tuna are in Croatia’s as and none are in its restaurants, tuna is one of this country’s most lucrative food exports. One hundred percent of Croatia’s tuna is farm-fattened, ending up as toro—precious, fatty raw tuna.
Questions 1-5 are bad on Passage One.
1. In the cond paragraph, “the majestic predators”当外科医生遇上内科医生 refer to ______.
A. big fish B. blue-fin tuna
C. crayfish D. fish that eat other fishes
2. Blue-fin tuna is in crisis becau ______.
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A. fishing companies catch the fish to-excess for money
B. it takes a long time for small tuna to grow up
C. there is no law to protect this species
D. the natural environment worns
3. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Tuna is a typical dish on Croatian dinner table.
B. Europe consumes most of the tuna Croatia exports.
C. There are large amounts of tuna in the Mediterranean area.
D. Small tuna are kept at the Croatia’s coast and fed to be sold.
4. The author points out that ______.
A. intensive fishing caus sharp decline of the fish stock
B. it is quite difficult to catch tuna in the Mediterranean as
C. Croatia doesn’t really need to import fish
D. tuna is the most expensive fish on market
5. “One hundred percent of Croatia’s tuna is farm-fattened”. This means that Croatia’s tuna are ______.
清远旅游 A. fed and fattened by crops B. of first class quality
C. kept and fed to larger size 当代神农D. very fat
Passage Two
A college education can be very costly in the United States, especially at a private school. Rising costs have led more and more families to borrow money to help pay for college.
There are different federal loans and private loans for students and parents. Interest rates on some of the loans will go up on July 1st. As borrowing has incread, there are growing concerns that many students graduate with too much debt. In 1993, less than one-half of graduates from four-year colleges had student loans. Now two-thirds of them do. Their average loan debt when they graduate is nineteen thousand dollars. At public universities, the average is venteen thousand dollars.
女生撒娇The Project on Student Debt is an action group that collects the numbers from reports. It notes that averages do not prent the full picture. For example, in 2004, one-fourth of students with loans graduated more than twenty-five thousand dollars in debt. And that did not include borrowing by their parents. The Project on Student Debt says parents as well as students are borrowing more to pay for college. Students can expect to take about ten years to pay back their loans. Repayment does not begin until after they are out of school.
