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Name: 邵, 俊凯
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邵, 俊凯
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A Warm-Blooded Turtle

When it comes to physiology, the leatherback turtle is, in some ways, more like a reptilian whale than a turtle. It swims farther into the cold of

the northern and southern oceans than any other sea turtle, and it deals with the chilly waters in a way unique among reptiles.

A warm-blooded turtle may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Nonetheless, an adult leatherback can maintain a body temperature of

between 25 and 26°C (77-79°F) in seawater that is only 8°C (46.4°F). Accomplishing this feat requires adaptations both to generate heat in

the turtle's body and to keep it from escaping into the surrounding waters. Leatherbacks apparently do not generate internal heat the way we

do, or the way birds do, as a by-product of cellular metabolism. A leatherback may be able to pick up some body heat by basking at the

surface; its dark, almost black body color may help it to absorb solar radiation. However, most of its internal heat comes from the action of its

muscles.

Leatherbacks keep their body heat in three different ways. The first, and simplest, is size. The bigger the animal is, the lower its surface-to-

volume ratio; for every ounce of body mass, there is proportionately less surface through which heat can escape. An adult leatherback is twice

the size of the biggest cheloniid sea turtles and will therefore take longer to cool off. Maintaining a high body temperature through sheer bulk

is called gigantothermy. It works for elephants, for whales, and, perhaps, it worked for many of the larger dinosaurs. It apparently works, in a

smaller way, for some other sea turtles. Large loggerhead and green turtles can maintain their body temperature at a degree or two above that

of the surrounding water, and gigantothermy is probably the way they do it. Muscular activity helps, too, and an actively swimming green turtle

may be 7°C (12.6°F) warmer than the waters it swims through.

Gigantothermy, though, would not be enough to keep a leatherback warm in cold northern waters. It is not enough for whales, which

supplement it with a thick layer of insulating blubber (fat). Leatherbacks do not have blubber, but they do have a reptilian equivalent: thick, oil-

saturated skin, with a layer of fibrous, fatty tissue just beneath it. Insulation protects the leatherback everywhere but on its head and flippers.

Because the flippers are comparatively thin and blade-like, they are the one part of the leatherback that is likely to become chilled. There is

not much that the turtle can do about this without compromising the aerodynamic shape of the flipper. The problem is that as blood flows

through the turtle's flippers, it risks losing enough heat to lower the animal's central body temperature when it returns. The solution is to allow

the flippers to cool down without drawing heat away from the rest of the turtle's body. The leatherback accomplishes this by arranging the

blood vessels in the base of its flipper into a countercurrent exchange system.
In a countercurrent exchange system, the blood vessels carrying cooled blood from the flippers run close enough to the blood vessels

carrying warm blood from the body to pick up some heat from the warmer blood vessels; thus, the heat is transferred from the outgoing to the

ingoing vessels before it reaches the flipper itself. This is the same arrangement found in an old-fashioned steam radiator, in which the coiled

pipes pass heat back and forth as water courses through them. The leatherback is certainly not the only animal with such an arrangement;

gulls have a countercurrent exchange in their legs. That is why a gull can stand on an ice floe without freezing.

All this applies, of course, only to an adult leatherback. Hatchlings are simply too small to conserve body heat, even with insulation and

countercurrent exchange systems. We do not know how old, or how large, a leatherback has to be before it can switch from a cold-blooded to

a warm-blooded mode of life. Leatherbacks reach their immense size in a much shorter time than it takes other sea turtles to grow. Perhaps

their rush to adulthood is driven by a simple need to keep warm.

1. The phrase “unique among” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A natural to
B different from all other
C quite common among
D familiar to

回答正确！

2. What can be inferred about whales from paragraph 1?

A They are considered by some to be reptiles.
B Their bodies are built in a way that helps them manage extremely cold temperatures.
C They are distantly related to leatherback turtles.
D They can swim farther than leatherback turtles.

回答正确！

3. The word “feat” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A remarkable achievement
B common transformation
C daily activity
D complex solution

回答正确！

4. Paragraph 2 mentions all of the following as true about the body heat of adult leatherback turtles EXCEPT:
A Their muscles produce heat for maintaining body temperature.
B Their dark bodies help trap solar radiation.
C Their cellular metabolism produces heat as a by-product.
D Basking at the water’s surface helps them obtain heat.

回答错误！正确答案：C

5. The word “bulk” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A strength
B effort
C activity
D mass

回答正确！

6. The word “it” in paragraph 4 refers to

A the problem
B blood
C the turtle
D body temperature

回答正确！

7. According to paragraph 4, which of the following features enables the leatherback turtle to stay warm?
A An insulating layer of blubber
B A thick, oily skin covering fatty tissue
C The aerodynamic shape of its flippers
D A well-insulated head
 回答正确！

8. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices
change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A In a turtle's countercurrent exchange system, outgoing vessels lie near enough to ingoing ones that heat can be exchanged
from the former to the latter before reaching the turtle's flippers.
B Within the turtle's flippers, there is a countercurrent exchange system that allows colder blood vessels to absorb heat from
nearby warmer blood vessels and then return warmed blood to the turtle's body.
C In a countercurrent exchange system, a turtle can pick up body heat from being close enough to other turtles, thus raising its
blood temperature as it passes them.
D When a turtle places its flippers close to its body, it is able to use its countercurrent exchange system to transfer heat from the
warmer blood vessels in its body to the cooler blood vessels in its flippers.

回答正确！

9. Why does the author mention old-fashioned steam radiator in the discussion of countercurrent exchange systems?
A To argue that a turtle's central heating system is not as highly evolved as that of other warmblooded animals
B To provide a useful comparison with which to illustrate how a countercurrent exchange system works
C To suggest that steam radiators were modeled after the sophisticated heating system of turtles
D To establish the importance of the movement of water in countercurrent exchange systems

回答正确！

10. The phrase “courses through” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A rises through
B heats up in
C runs through
D collects in

回答正确！

11. According to paragraph 6, which of the following statements is most accurate about young leatherback turtles?
A They lack the countercurrent exchange systems that develop in adulthood.
B Their rate of growth is slower than that of other sea turtles.
C They lose heat easily even with insulation and countercurrent exchange systems.
D They switch between cold-blooded and warm-blooded modes throughout their hatchling stage.

回答错误！正确答案：C

12. However, these animals have additional means of staying warm.

A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

回答错误！正确答案：D

13. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting
the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary
because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.
Contrary to what we would expect of reptiles, the leatherback turtle is actually warm-blooded.

1 Even though they swim into cold ocean waters, leatherbacks maintain their body heat in much the same way as sea turtles in
warm southern oceans do.

2 The leatherback turtle uses a countercurrent exchange system in order to keep the flippers from drawing heat away from the
rest of the body.

3 The shape of the leatherback turtle's flippers is especially important in maintaining heat in extremely cold northern waters.

4 The leatherback turtle is able to maintain body heat through sheer size.

5 Leatherbacks have an insulating layer that can be considered the reptilian version of blubber.
 6 Young leatherbacks often do not survive to adulthood because they are not able to switch from a cold-blooded way of life to a
warm-blooded one quickly enough.

回答正确！ 正确答案：2,4,5

Mass Extinctions

Cases in which many species become extinct within a geologically short interval of time are called mass extinctions. There was one such

event at the end of the Cretaceous period (around 70 million years ago). There was another, even larger, mass extinction at the end of the

Permian period (around 250 million years ago). The Permian event has attracted much less attention than other mass extinctions because

mostly unfamiliar species perished at that time.

The fossil record shows at least five mass extinctions in which many families of marine organisms died out. The rates of extinction happening

today are as great as the rates during these mass extinctions. Many scientists have therefore concluded that a sixth great mass extinction is

currently in progress.

What could cause such high rates of extinction? There are several hypotheses, including warming or cooling of Earth, changes in seasonal

fluctuations or ocean currents, and changing positions of the continents. Biological hypotheses include ecological changes brought about by

the evolution of cooperation between insects and flowering plants or of bottom-feeding predators in the oceans. Some of the proposed

mechanisms required a very brief period during which all extinctions suddenly took place; other mechanisms would be more likely to have

taken place more gradually, over an extended period, or at different times on different continents. Some hypotheses fail to account for

simultaneous extinctions on land and in the seas. Each mass extinction may have had a different cause. Evidence points to hunting by

humans and habitat destruction as the likely causes for the current mass extinction.

American paleontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski, who have studied extinction rates in a number of fossil groups, suggest that

episodes of increased extinction have recurred periodically, approximately every 26 million years since the mid-Cretaceous period. The late

Cretaceous extinction of the dinosaurs and ammonoids was just one of the more drastic in a whole series of such recurrent extinction

episodes. The possibility that mass extinctions may recur periodically has given rise to such hypotheses as that of a companion star with a

long-period orbit deflecting other bodies from their normal orbits, making some of them fall to Earth as meteors and causing widespread

devastation upon impact.

Of the various hypotheses attempting to account for the late Cretaceous extinctions, the one that has attracted the most attention in recent

years is the asteroid-impact hypothesis first suggested by Luis and Walter Alvarez. According to this hypothesis, Earth collided with an

asteroid with an estimated diameter of 10 kilometers, or with several asteroids, the combined mass of which was comparable. The force of

collision spewed large amounts of debris into the atmosphere, darkening the skies for several years before the finer particles settled. The

reduced level of photosynthesis led to a massive decline in plant life of all kinds, and this caused massive starvation first of herbivores and

subsequently of carnivores. The mass extinction would have occurred very suddenly under this hypothesis.

One interesting test of the Alvarez hypothesis is based on the presence of the rare-earth element iridium (Ir). Earth's crust contains very little

of this element, but most asteroids contain a lot more. Debris thrown into the atmosphere by an asteroid collision would presumably contain

large amounts of iridium, and atmospheric currents would carry this material all over the globe. A search of sedimentary deposits that span the

boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods shows that there is a dramatic increase in the abundance of iridium briefly and

precisely at this boundary. This iridium anomaly offers strong support for the Alvarez hypothesis even though no asteroid itself has ever been

recovered.
An asteroid of this size would be expected to leave an immense crater, even if the asteroid itself was disintegrated by the impact. The intense

heat of the impact would produce heat-shocked quartz in many types of rock. Also, large blocks thrown aside by the impact would form

secondary craters surrounding the main crater. To date, several such secondary craters have been found along Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula,

and heat-shocked quartz has been found both in Mexico and in Haiti. A location called Chicxulub, along the Yucatan coast, has been

suggested as the primary impact site.

1. Paragraph 1 supports which of the following statements about mass extinctions?

A They take place over a period of 70 million years.
B They began during the Cretaceous period.
C They eliminate many animal species that exist at the time they occur.
D They occur every 250 million years.

回答正确！

2. According to paragraph 2, scientists base their belief that a mass extinction is going on at present on which of the following?
A The speed with which mass extinctions are happening today is similar to the speed of past extinctions.
B The number of species that have died out since the last extinction event is extremely large.
C Mass extinctions occur with regularity and it is time for another one.
D Fossil records of many marine species have disappeared.

回答错误！正确答案：A

3. The word extended in the passage is closest in meaning to

A specific
B unlimited
C reasonable
D long

回答正确！

4. According to paragraph 3, each of the following has been proposed as a possible cause of mass extinctions EXCEPT
A habitat destruction
B continental movement
C fierce interspecies competition
D changes in Earth's temperature

回答正确！

5. Paragraph 3 supports which of the following ideas about mass extinctions?

A Scientists know the exact causes of most mass extinctions.
B Mass extinctions are unlikely to happen again in the future.
C Insects, flowering plants, and bottom-feeding predators in the oceans tend to be the first organisms to disappear during
episodes of mass extinctions.
D Some mass extinctions occurred on land and in the seas at the same time.

回答错误！正确答案：D

6. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices
change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A Based on their studies of extinction rates of numerous fossil groups, paleontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski have
determined that mass extinctions occur about every 26 million years.
B David Raup and John Sepkoski studied extinction rates of numerous fossil groups and suggest that mass extinctions during the
Cretaceous period continued for 26 million years.
C Studies that paleontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski conducted of various fossil groups have revealed that extinction
rates have increased over the past 26 million years.
D The studies conducted by paleontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski of the fossil remains of species suggest that the
extinction rate of species started to increase by the middle of the Cretaceous period.

回答错误！正确答案：A

7. According to paragraph 4, what aspect of extinction episodes does the companion-star hypothesis supposedly clarify?
A Their location
B Their frequency
C Their duration
D Their severity

回答正确！
8. The phrase account for in the passage is closest in meaning to
A describe
B challenge
C explain
D test

回答正确！

9. According to paragraph 6, what made iridium a useful test of the Alvarez hypothesis?
A Its occurrence in a few locations on Earth against several locations on other planets
B Its occurrence in limited quantities on Earth against its abundance in asteroids
C Its ability to remain solid at extremely high temperatures
D Its ease of detection even in very small amounts

回答错误！正确答案：B

10. In stating that no asteroid itself has ever been recovered, the author emphasizes which of the following?
A The importance of the indirect evidence for a large asteroid
B The fact that no evidence supports the asteroid impact hypothesis
C The reason many researchers reject the Alvarez hypothesis
D The responsibility of scientists for not making the effort to discover the asteroid itself

回答错误！正确答案：A

11. The word intense in the passage is closest in meaning to

A sudden
B unusual
C immediate
D extreme

回答正确！

12. What is the purpose of paragraph 7 in the passage?

A It proposes a decisive new test of the Alvarez hypothesis.
B It presents additional supporting evidence for the Alvarez hypothesis.
C It explains why evidence relating to the Alvarez hypothesis is hard to find.
D It shows how recent evidence has raised doubts about the Alvarez hypothesis.

回答错误！正确答案：B

13. In general, it is believed that these two extinctions resulted from drastic environmental changes that followed meteorite impacts or
massive volcanic eruptions.
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

回答正确！

14. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting
the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary
because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.
There have been many attempts to explain the causes of mass extinctions.

1 Asteroid impacts, evolutionary developments, and changes in Earth's climate and in the positions of the continents have all
been proposed as possible causes of mass extinctions.

2 Researchers have observed 26-million-year cycles in extinction rates of a number of fossil groups that could all be attributed to
the same cause.

3 According to the Alvarez hypothesis, much of the iridium originally present on Earth was thrown into the atmosphere as a result
of an asteroid impact that also caused a mass extinction.
 4 The unusual distribution of iridium on Earth and the presence of craters and heat-shocked quartz are central to the theory that
an asteroid impact caused the late Cretaceous event.

5 The collision between Earth and a large asteroid resulted in massive damage and generated enough heat to cause irreversible
changes in Earth's atmosphere.

6 There was a particularly large mass extinction that occurred around 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian period,
whose cause could not be determined.

部分正确！正确答案：1, 2, 4

Glacier Formation

Glaciers are slowly moving masses of ice that have accumulated on land in areas where more snowfalls during a year than melts. Snow falls

as hexagonal crystals, but once on the ground, snow is soon transformed into a compacted mass of smaller, rounded grains. As the air space

around them is lessened by compaction and melting, the grains become denser. With further melting, refreezing, and increased weight from

newer snowfall above, the snow reaches a granular recrystallized stage intermediate between flakes and ice known as firn. With additional

time, pressure, and refrozen meltwater from above, the small firn granules become larger, interlocked crystals of blue glacial ice. When the ice

is thick enough, usually over 30 meters, the weight of the snow and firn will cause the ice crystals toward the bottom to become plastic and to

flow outward or downward from the area of snow accumulation.

Glaciers are open systems, with snow as the system's input and meltwater as the system's main output. The glacial system is governed by

two basic climatic variables: precipitation and temperature. For a glacier to grow or maintain its mass, there must be sufficient snowfall to

match or exceed the annual loss through melting, evaporation, and calving, which occurs when the glacier loses solid chunks as icebergs to

the sea or to large lakes. If summer temperatures are high for too long, then all the snowfall from the previous winter will melt. Surplus

snowfall is essential for a glacier to develop. A surplus allows snow to accumulate and for the pressure of snow accumulated over the years to

transform buried snow into glacial ice with a depth great enough for the ice to flow. Glaciers are sometimes classified by temperature as

faster-flowing temperate glaciers or as slower-flowing polar glaciers.

Glaciers are part of Earth's hydrologic cycle and are second only to the oceans in the total amount of water contained. About 2 percent of

Earth's water is currently frozen as ice. Two percent may be a deceiving figure, however, since over 80 percent of the world's freshwater is

locked up as ice in glaciers, with the majority of it in Antarctica. The total amount of ice is even more awesome if we estimate the water

released upon the hypothetical melting of the world's glaciers. Sea level would rise about 60 meters. This would change the geography of the

planet considerably. In contrast, should another ice age occur, sea level would drop drastically. During the last ice age, sea level dropped

about 120 meters.

When snowfalls on high mountains or in polar regions, it may become part of the glacial system. Unlike rain, which returns rapidly to the sea

or atmosphere, the snow that becomes part of a glacier is involved in a much more slowly cycling system. Here water may be stored in ice

form for hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of years before being released again into the liquid water system as meltwater. In the

meantime, however, this ice is not static. Glaciers move slowly across the land with tremendous energy, carving into even the hardest rock

formations and thereby reshaping the landscape as they engulf, push, drag, and finally deposit rock debris in places far from its original

location. As a result, glaciers create a great variety of landforms that remain long after the surface is released from its icy covering.

Throughout most of Earth's history, glaciers did not exist, but at the present time about 10 percent of Earth's land surface is covered by

glaciers. Present-day glaciers are found in Antarctica, in Greenland, and at high elevations on all the continents except Australia. In the recent

past, from about 2.4 million to about 10,000 years ago, nearly a third of Earth's land area was periodically covered by ice thousands of meters
thick. In the much more distant past, other ice ages have occurred.

1. The word “interlocked” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A intermediate
B linked
C frozen
D fully developed

回答正确！

2. According to paragraph 1, which of the following does NOT describe a stage in the development of firn?
A Hexagonal crystals become larger and interlock to form a thick layer.
B Snow crystals become compacted into grains.
C Granules recrystallize after melting, refreezing, and further compaction.
D Grains become denser owing to reduced air space around them.

回答错误！正确答案：A

3. The word “match” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A measure
B enlarge
C approximate
D equal

回答正确！

4. The word “transform” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A break
B push
C change
D extend

回答正确！

5. According to paragraph 2, surplus snow affects a glacier in all the following ways EXCEPT:
A It provides the pressure needed to cause glacial ice to flow.
B It offsets losses of ice due to melting, evaporation, and calving.
C It brings about the formation of firn in the snow it buries.
D It results in temperate glaciers that are thicker than polar glaciers.

回答错误！正确答案：D

6. Paragraph 2 implies that which of the following conditions produces the fastest moving glaciers?
A A climate characteristic of the polar regions
B A thick layer of ice in a temperate climate
C Long, warm summers
D Snow, firn, and ice that have been buried for several years

回答正确！

7. The word “deceiving” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A approximate
B exaggerated
C unusual
D misleading

回答正确！

8. Why does the author consider the hypothetical melting of the world's glaciers?
A To contrast the effects of this event with the opposite effects of a new ice age
B To emphasize how much water is frozen in glaciers
C To illustrate the disastrous effects of a warming trend
D To support the claim that glaciers are part of Earth's hydrologic cycle

回答正确！

9. The discussion in paragraph 3 answers all the following questions EXCEPT:

A Where is most of Earth's freshwater?
 B What effect would a new ice age have on sea levels?
C What is the total amount of water in Earth's oceans?
D How much of Earth's water is in ice?

回答正确！

10. The word “static” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A unchanging
B usable
C thick
D harmless

回答正确！

11. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect
choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A As a glacier moves, it leaves behind rock formations that have been engulfed, pushed, and dragged by the glacier.
B Glaciers reshape the landscape by carving into rock and transporting the resulting debris to distant locations.
C Glaciers carve the hardest rock formations with great energy and slowly reshape them into debris.
D The tremendous energy of slowly moving glaciers transports and finally deposits rock debris into large rock formations.

回答正确！

12. According to paragraph 5, in what way is the present time unusual in the history of Earth?
A There are glaciers.
B More land is covered by glaciers than at anytime in the past.
C There is no ice age.
D No glaciers are found in Australia.

回答正确！

13. Firn has the appearance of wet sugar, but it is almost as hard as ice.
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

回答正确！

14. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting
the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary
because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.
Glaciers are part of Earth's hydrologic cycle.

1 Glaciers, which at present contain 80 percent of Earth's freshwater, form when accumulated snow is compressed and
recrystallized into ice over a period of years.

2 When there are glaciers on Earth, water is cycled through the glacier system, but the cycle period may be hundreds of
thousands of years during periods of ice ages.

3 The glacial system is governed by precipitation and temperature in such a way that glaciers cannot form in temperate latitudes.

4 When glacial ice reaches a depth of 30 meters, the weight of the ice causes ice crystals at the bottom to flow, and the resulting
movement of the glacier carves the landscape.

5 If global warming melted the world's glaciers, sea level would rise about 60 meters worldwide.

6 Glaciers have had little effect on Earth's surface because only 2 percent of Earth's water is currently contained in glaciers, and
there are fewer glaciers now than at most times in the past.

部分正确！正确答案：1, 2, 4
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A Warm-Blooded Turtle

When it comes to physiology, the leatherback turtle is, in some ways, more like a reptilian whale than a turtle. It swims farther into the cold of

the northern and southern oceans than any other sea turtle, and it deals with the chilly waters in a way unique among reptiles.

A warm-blooded turtle may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Nonetheless, an adult leatherback can maintain a body temperature of

between 25 and 26°C (77-79°F) in seawater that is only 8°C (46.4°F). Accomplishing this feat requires adaptations both to generate heat in

the turtle's body and to keep it from escaping into the surrounding waters. Leatherbacks apparently do not generate internal heat the way we

do, or the way birds do, as a by-product of cellular metabolism. A leatherback may be able to pick up some body heat by basking at the

surface; its dark, almost black body color may help it to absorb solar radiation. However, most of its internal heat comes from the action of its

muscles.

Leatherbacks keep their body heat in three different ways. The first, and simplest, is size. The bigger the animal is, the lower its surface-to-

volume ratio; for every ounce of body mass, there is proportionately less surface through which heat can escape. An adult leatherback is twice

the size of the biggest cheloniid sea turtles and will therefore take longer to cool off. Maintaining a high body temperature through sheer bulk

is called gigantothermy. It works for elephants, for whales, and, perhaps, it worked for many of the larger dinosaurs. It apparently works, in a

smaller way, for some other sea turtles. Large loggerhead and green turtles can maintain their body temperature at a degree or two above that

of the surrounding water, and gigantothermy is probably the way they do it. Muscular activity helps, too, and an actively swimming green turtle

may be 7°C (12.6°F) warmer than the waters it swims through.

Gigantothermy, though, would not be enough to keep a leatherback warm in cold northern waters. It is not enough for whales, which

supplement it with a thick layer of insulating blubber (fat). Leatherbacks do not have blubber, but they do have a reptilian equivalent: thick, oil-

saturated skin, with a layer of fibrous, fatty tissue just beneath it. Insulation protects the leatherback everywhere but on its head and flippers.

Because the flippers are comparatively thin and blade-like, they are the one part of the leatherback that is likely to become chilled. There is

not much that the turtle can do about this without compromising the aerodynamic shape of the flipper. The problem is that as blood flows

through the turtle's flippers, it risks losing enough heat to lower the animal's central body temperature when it returns. The solution is to allow

the flippers to cool down without drawing heat away from the rest of the turtle's body. The leatherback accomplishes this by arranging the

blood vessels in the base of its flipper into a countercurrent exchange system.

In a countercurrent exchange system, the blood vessels carrying cooled blood from the flippers run close enough to the blood vessels

carrying warm blood from the body to pick up some heat from the warmer blood vessels; thus, the heat is transferred from the outgoing to the

ingoing vessels before it reaches the flipper itself. This is the same arrangement found in an old-fashioned steam radiator, in which the coiled

pipes pass heat back and forth as water courses through them. The leatherback is certainly not the only animal with such an arrangement;

gulls have a countercurrent exchange in their legs. That is why a gull can stand on an ice floe without freezing.

All this applies, of course, only to an adult leatherback. Hatchlings are simply too small to conserve body heat, even with insulation and

countercurrent exchange systems. We do not know how old, or how large, a leatherback has to be before it can switch from a cold-blooded to

a warm-blooded mode of life. Leatherbacks reach their immense size in a much shorter time than it takes other sea turtles to grow. Perhaps

their rush to adulthood is driven by a simple need to keep warm.

1. The phrase “unique among” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A natural to
 B different from all other
C quite common among
D familiar to

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2. What can be inferred about whales from paragraph 1?

A They are considered by some to be reptiles.
B Their bodies are built in a way that helps them manage extremely cold temperatures.
C They are distantly related to leatherback turtles.
D They can swim farther than leatherback turtles.

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3. The word “feat” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A remarkable achievement
B common transformation
C daily activity
D complex solution

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4. Paragraph 2 mentions all of the following as true about the body heat of adult leatherback turtles EXCEPT:
A Their muscles produce heat for maintaining body temperature.
B Their dark bodies help trap solar radiation.
C Their cellular metabolism produces heat as a by-product.
D Basking at the water’s surface helps them obtain heat.

回答错误！正确答案：C

5. The word “bulk” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A strength
B effort
C activity
D mass

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6. The word “it” in paragraph 4 refers to

A the problem
B blood
C the turtle
D body temperature

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7. According to paragraph 4, which of the following features enables the leatherback turtle to stay warm?
A An insulating layer of blubber
B A thick, oily skin covering fatty tissue
C The aerodynamic shape of its flippers
D A well-insulated head

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8. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices
change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A In a turtle's countercurrent exchange system, outgoing vessels lie near enough to ingoing ones that heat can be exchanged
from the former to the latter before reaching the turtle's flippers.
B Within the turtle's flippers, there is a countercurrent exchange system that allows colder blood vessels to absorb heat from
nearby warmer blood vessels and then return warmed blood to the turtle's body.
C In a countercurrent exchange system, a turtle can pick up body heat from being close enough to other turtles, thus raising its
blood temperature as it passes them.
D When a turtle places its flippers close to its body, it is able to use its countercurrent exchange system to transfer heat from the
warmer blood vessels in its body to the cooler blood vessels in its flippers.

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9. Why does the author mention old-fashioned steam radiator in the discussion of countercurrent exchange systems?
A To argue that a turtle's central heating system is not as highly evolved as that of other warmblooded animals
B To provide a useful comparison with which to illustrate how a countercurrent exchange system works
C To suggest that steam radiators were modeled after the sophisticated heating system of turtles
 D To establish the importance of the movement of water in countercurrent exchange systems

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10. The phrase “courses through” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A rises through
B heats up in
C runs through
D collects in

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11. According to paragraph 6, which of the following statements is most accurate about young leatherback turtles?
A They lack the countercurrent exchange systems that develop in adulthood.
B Their rate of growth is slower than that of other sea turtles.
C They lose heat easily even with insulation and countercurrent exchange systems.
D They switch between cold-blooded and warm-blooded modes throughout their hatchling stage.

回答错误！正确答案：C

12. However, these animals have additional means of staying warm.

A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

回答错误！正确答案：D

13. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting
the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary
because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.
Contrary to what we would expect of reptiles, the leatherback turtle is actually warm-blooded.

1 Even though they swim into cold ocean waters, leatherbacks maintain their body heat in much the same way as sea turtles in
warm southern oceans do.

2 The leatherback turtle uses a countercurrent exchange system in order to keep the flippers from drawing heat away from the
rest of the body.

3 The shape of the leatherback turtle's flippers is especially important in maintaining heat in extremely cold northern waters.

4 The leatherback turtle is able to maintain body heat through sheer size.

5 Leatherbacks have an insulating layer that can be considered the reptilian version of blubber.

6 Young leatherbacks often do not survive to adulthood because they are not able to switch from a cold-blooded way of life to a
warm-blooded one quickly enough.

回答正确！ 正确答案：2,4,5

Mass Extinctions

Cases in which many species become extinct within a geologically short interval of time are called mass extinctions. There was one such

event at the end of the Cretaceous period (around 70 million years ago). There was another, even larger, mass extinction at the end of the

Permian period (around 250 million years ago). The Permian event has attracted much less attention than other mass extinctions because
mostly unfamiliar species perished at that time.

The fossil record shows at least five mass extinctions in which many families of marine organisms died out. The rates of extinction happening

today are as great as the rates during these mass extinctions. Many scientists have therefore concluded that a sixth great mass extinction is

currently in progress.

What could cause such high rates of extinction? There are several hypotheses, including warming or cooling of Earth, changes in seasonal

fluctuations or ocean currents, and changing positions of the continents. Biological hypotheses include ecological changes brought about by

the evolution of cooperation between insects and flowering plants or of bottom-feeding predators in the oceans. Some of the proposed

mechanisms required a very brief period during which all extinctions suddenly took place; other mechanisms would be more likely to have

taken place more gradually, over an extended period, or at different times on different continents. Some hypotheses fail to account for

simultaneous extinctions on land and in the seas. Each mass extinction may have had a different cause. Evidence points to hunting by

humans and habitat destruction as the likely causes for the current mass extinction.

American paleontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski, who have studied extinction rates in a number of fossil groups, suggest that

episodes of increased extinction have recurred periodically, approximately every 26 million years since the mid-Cretaceous period. The late

Cretaceous extinction of the dinosaurs and ammonoids was just one of the more drastic in a whole series of such recurrent extinction

episodes. The possibility that mass extinctions may recur periodically has given rise to such hypotheses as that of a companion star with a

long-period orbit deflecting other bodies from their normal orbits, making some of them fall to Earth as meteors and causing widespread

devastation upon impact.

Of the various hypotheses attempting to account for the late Cretaceous extinctions, the one that has attracted the most attention in recent

years is the asteroid-impact hypothesis first suggested by Luis and Walter Alvarez. According to this hypothesis, Earth collided with an

asteroid with an estimated diameter of 10 kilometers, or with several asteroids, the combined mass of which was comparable. The force of

collision spewed large amounts of debris into the atmosphere, darkening the skies for several years before the finer particles settled. The

reduced level of photosynthesis led to a massive decline in plant life of all kinds, and this caused massive starvation first of herbivores and

subsequently of carnivores. The mass extinction would have occurred very suddenly under this hypothesis.

One interesting test of the Alvarez hypothesis is based on the presence of the rare-earth element iridium (Ir). Earth's crust contains very little

of this element, but most asteroids contain a lot more. Debris thrown into the atmosphere by an asteroid collision would presumably contain

large amounts of iridium, and atmospheric currents would carry this material all over the globe. A search of sedimentary deposits that span the

boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods shows that there is a dramatic increase in the abundance of iridium briefly and

precisely at this boundary. This iridium anomaly offers strong support for the Alvarez hypothesis even though no asteroid itself has ever been

recovered.

An asteroid of this size would be expected to leave an immense crater, even if the asteroid itself was disintegrated by the impact. The intense

heat of the impact would produce heat-shocked quartz in many types of rock. Also, large blocks thrown aside by the impact would form

secondary craters surrounding the main crater. To date, several such secondary craters have been found along Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula,

and heat-shocked quartz has been found both in Mexico and in Haiti. A location called Chicxulub, along the Yucatan coast, has been

suggested as the primary impact site.

1. Paragraph 1 supports which of the following statements about mass extinctions?

A They take place over a period of 70 million years.
B They began during the Cretaceous period.
C They eliminate many animal species that exist at the time they occur.
D They occur every 250 million years.

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2. According to paragraph 2, scientists base their belief that a mass extinction is going on at present on which of the following?
A The speed with which mass extinctions are happening today is similar to the speed of past extinctions.
 B The number of species that have died out since the last extinction event is extremely large.
C Mass extinctions occur with regularity and it is time for another one.
D Fossil records of many marine species have disappeared.

回答错误！正确答案：A

3. The word extended in the passage is closest in meaning to

A specific
B unlimited
C reasonable
D long

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4. According to paragraph 3, each of the following has been proposed as a possible cause of mass extinctions EXCEPT
A habitat destruction
B continental movement
C fierce interspecies competition
D changes in Earth's temperature

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5. Paragraph 3 supports which of the following ideas about mass extinctions?

A Scientists know the exact causes of most mass extinctions.
B Mass extinctions are unlikely to happen again in the future.
C Insects, flowering plants, and bottom-feeding predators in the oceans tend to be the first organisms to disappear during
episodes of mass extinctions.
D Some mass extinctions occurred on land and in the seas at the same time.

回答错误！正确答案：D

6. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices
change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A Based on their studies of extinction rates of numerous fossil groups, paleontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski have
determined that mass extinctions occur about every 26 million years.
B David Raup and John Sepkoski studied extinction rates of numerous fossil groups and suggest that mass extinctions during the
Cretaceous period continued for 26 million years.
C Studies that paleontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski conducted of various fossil groups have revealed that extinction
rates have increased over the past 26 million years.
D The studies conducted by paleontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski of the fossil remains of species suggest that the
extinction rate of species started to increase by the middle of the Cretaceous period.

回答错误！正确答案：A

7. According to paragraph 4, what aspect of extinction episodes does the companion-star hypothesis supposedly clarify?
A Their location
B Their frequency
C Their duration
D Their severity

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8. The phrase account for in the passage is closest in meaning to

A describe
B challenge
C explain
D test

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9. According to paragraph 6, what made iridium a useful test of the Alvarez hypothesis?
A Its occurrence in a few locations on Earth against several locations on other planets
B Its occurrence in limited quantities on Earth against its abundance in asteroids
C Its ability to remain solid at extremely high temperatures
D Its ease of detection even in very small amounts

回答错误！正确答案：B

10. In stating that no asteroid itself has ever been recovered, the author emphasizes which of the following?
A The importance of the indirect evidence for a large asteroid
B The fact that no evidence supports the asteroid impact hypothesis
 C The reason many researchers reject the Alvarez hypothesis
D The responsibility of scientists for not making the effort to discover the asteroid itself

回答错误！正确答案：A

11. The word intense in the passage is closest in meaning to

A sudden
B unusual
C immediate
D extreme

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12. What is the purpose of paragraph 7 in the passage?

A It proposes a decisive new test of the Alvarez hypothesis.
B It presents additional supporting evidence for the Alvarez hypothesis.
C It explains why evidence relating to the Alvarez hypothesis is hard to find.
D It shows how recent evidence has raised doubts about the Alvarez hypothesis.

回答错误！正确答案：B

13. In general, it is believed that these two extinctions resulted from drastic environmental changes that followed meteorite impacts or
massive volcanic eruptions.
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

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14. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting
the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary
because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.
There have been many attempts to explain the causes of mass extinctions.

1 Asteroid impacts, evolutionary developments, and changes in Earth's climate and in the positions of the continents have all
been proposed as possible causes of mass extinctions.

2 Researchers have observed 26-million-year cycles in extinction rates of a number of fossil groups that could all be attributed to
the same cause.

3 According to the Alvarez hypothesis, much of the iridium originally present on Earth was thrown into the atmosphere as a result
of an asteroid impact that also caused a mass extinction.

4 The unusual distribution of iridium on Earth and the presence of craters and heat-shocked quartz are central to the theory that
an asteroid impact caused the late Cretaceous event.

5 The collision between Earth and a large asteroid resulted in massive damage and generated enough heat to cause irreversible
changes in Earth's atmosphere.

6 There was a particularly large mass extinction that occurred around 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian period,
whose cause could not be determined.

部分正确！正确答案：1, 2, 4

Glacier Formation
Glaciers are slowly moving masses of ice that have accumulated on land in areas where more snowfalls during a year than melts. Snow falls

as hexagonal crystals, but once on the ground, snow is soon transformed into a compacted mass of smaller, rounded grains. As the air space

around them is lessened by compaction and melting, the grains become denser. With further melting, refreezing, and increased weight from

newer snowfall above, the snow reaches a granular recrystallized stage intermediate between flakes and ice known as firn. With additional

time, pressure, and refrozen meltwater from above, the small firn granules become larger, interlocked crystals of blue glacial ice. When the ice

is thick enough, usually over 30 meters, the weight of the snow and firn will cause the ice crystals toward the bottom to become plastic and to

flow outward or downward from the area of snow accumulation.

Glaciers are open systems, with snow as the system's input and meltwater as the system's main output. The glacial system is governed by

two basic climatic variables: precipitation and temperature. For a glacier to grow or maintain its mass, there must be sufficient snowfall to

match or exceed the annual loss through melting, evaporation, and calving, which occurs when the glacier loses solid chunks as icebergs to

the sea or to large lakes. If summer temperatures are high for too long, then all the snowfall from the previous winter will melt. Surplus

snowfall is essential for a glacier to develop. A surplus allows snow to accumulate and for the pressure of snow accumulated over the years to

transform buried snow into glacial ice with a depth great enough for the ice to flow. Glaciers are sometimes classified by temperature as

faster-flowing temperate glaciers or as slower-flowing polar glaciers.

Glaciers are part of Earth's hydrologic cycle and are second only to the oceans in the total amount of water contained. About 2 percent of

Earth's water is currently frozen as ice. Two percent may be a deceiving figure, however, since over 80 percent of the world's freshwater is

locked up as ice in glaciers, with the majority of it in Antarctica. The total amount of ice is even more awesome if we estimate the water

released upon the hypothetical melting of the world's glaciers. Sea level would rise about 60 meters. This would change the geography of the

planet considerably. In contrast, should another ice age occur, sea level would drop drastically. During the last ice age, sea level dropped

about 120 meters.

When snowfalls on high mountains or in polar regions, it may become part of the glacial system. Unlike rain, which returns rapidly to the sea

or atmosphere, the snow that becomes part of a glacier is involved in a much more slowly cycling system. Here water may be stored in ice

form for hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of years before being released again into the liquid water system as meltwater. In the

meantime, however, this ice is not static. Glaciers move slowly across the land with tremendous energy, carving into even the hardest rock

formations and thereby reshaping the landscape as they engulf, push, drag, and finally deposit rock debris in places far from its original

location. As a result, glaciers create a great variety of landforms that remain long after the surface is released from its icy covering.

Throughout most of Earth's history, glaciers did not exist, but at the present time about 10 percent of Earth's land surface is covered by

glaciers. Present-day glaciers are found in Antarctica, in Greenland, and at high elevations on all the continents except Australia. In the recent

past, from about 2.4 million to about 10,000 years ago, nearly a third of Earth's land area was periodically covered by ice thousands of meters

thick. In the much more distant past, other ice ages have occurred.

1. The word “interlocked” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A intermediate
B linked
C frozen
D fully developed

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2. According to paragraph 1, which of the following does NOT describe a stage in the development of firn?
A Hexagonal crystals become larger and interlock to form a thick layer.
B Snow crystals become compacted into grains.
C Granules recrystallize after melting, refreezing, and further compaction.
D Grains become denser owing to reduced air space around them.

回答错误！正确答案：A

3. The word “match” in the passage is closest in meaning to

 A measure
B enlarge
C approximate
D equal

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4. The word “transform” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A break
B push
C change
D extend

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5. According to paragraph 2, surplus snow affects a glacier in all the following ways EXCEPT:
A It provides the pressure needed to cause glacial ice to flow.
B It offsets losses of ice due to melting, evaporation, and calving.
C It brings about the formation of firn in the snow it buries.
D It results in temperate glaciers that are thicker than polar glaciers.

回答错误！正确答案：D

6. Paragraph 2 implies that which of the following conditions produces the fastest moving glaciers?
A A climate characteristic of the polar regions
B A thick layer of ice in a temperate climate
C Long, warm summers
D Snow, firn, and ice that have been buried for several years

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7. The word “deceiving” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A approximate
B exaggerated
C unusual
D misleading

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8. Why does the author consider the hypothetical melting of the world's glaciers?
A To contrast the effects of this event with the opposite effects of a new ice age
B To emphasize how much water is frozen in glaciers
C To illustrate the disastrous effects of a warming trend
D To support the claim that glaciers are part of Earth's hydrologic cycle

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9. The discussion in paragraph 3 answers all the following questions EXCEPT:

A Where is most of Earth's freshwater?
B What effect would a new ice age have on sea levels?
C What is the total amount of water in Earth's oceans?
D How much of Earth's water is in ice?

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10. The word “static” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A unchanging
B usable
C thick
D harmless

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11. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect
choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A As a glacier moves, it leaves behind rock formations that have been engulfed, pushed, and dragged by the glacier.
B Glaciers reshape the landscape by carving into rock and transporting the resulting debris to distant locations.
C Glaciers carve the hardest rock formations with great energy and slowly reshape them into debris.
D The tremendous energy of slowly moving glaciers transports and finally deposits rock debris into large rock formations.
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12. According to paragraph 5, in what way is the present time unusual in the history of Earth?
A There are glaciers.
B More land is covered by glaciers than at anytime in the past.
C There is no ice age.
D No glaciers are found in Australia.

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13. Firn has the appearance of wet sugar, but it is almost as hard as ice.
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

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14. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting
the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary
because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.
Glaciers are part of Earth's hydrologic cycle.

1 Glaciers, which at present contain 80 percent of Earth's freshwater, form when accumulated snow is compressed and
recrystallized into ice over a period of years.

2 When there are glaciers on Earth, water is cycled through the glacier system, but the cycle period may be hundreds of
thousands of years during periods of ice ages.

3 The glacial system is governed by precipitation and temperature in such a way that glaciers cannot form in temperate latitudes.

4 When glacial ice reaches a depth of 30 meters, the weight of the ice causes ice crystals at the bottom to flow, and the resulting
movement of the glacier carves the landscape.

5 If global warming melted the world's glaciers, sea level would rise about 60 meters worldwide.

6 Glaciers have had little effect on Earth's surface because only 2 percent of Earth's water is currently contained in glaciers, and
there are fewer glaciers now than at most times in the past.

部分正确！正确答案：1, 2, 4