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1、 1 阅读理解选练 2 由江苏省盐城市2014模拟改编 阅读理解 阅读下面短文 从每题所给的A B C D四个选项中 选出最佳选项 Spanish explorers called them Las Encantadas the Enchanted Isles and Charles Darwin used his studies of the islands as the foundation for his theory of natural selection The Galapagos are among the world s most important scientific tr
2、easures a group of volcanic islands surrounded by deserted beaches and inhabited by unique varieties of giant tortoise lizards and birds Yet life on this United Nations world heritage site has turned sour Battles have broken out between fishermen and conservationists Ecuador which owns the islands h
3、as sent a naval patrol 海军巡逻队 to put down disturbances The controversial director of the Galapagos National Park which controls 97 percent of Galapagos land and the reserve extending to 40 miles offshore has been fired while an air of uneasy tension hangs over the islands as the islanders prepare for
4、 election when they pick their representatives in Ecuador s national assembly It s a very tense situation said Leonor Stjepic director of the London based Galapagos Conservation Trust which raises money to help projects on the islands We are watching it with concern The violence has been triggered b
5、y an alarming growth in the islands population Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz island housed just 45 inhabitants in the 50s Today there are more than 10 000 while the islands total population is more than 19 000 and growing by 6 percent a year despite recently introduced a law to limit waves of immigrant
6、s fleeing the poor areas of Ecuador for a life in paradise 天堂 On top ofthis more than 100 000 tourists visit the islands every year Such numbers have put the islands special ecology under intense pressure Conservationists backed by the Ecuador government have replied by exercising strict controls to
7、 protect the islands iguanas blue footed boobies and giant 2 tortoises These moves have angered many local people however They want to exploit 开 发利用 the islands waters and catch its protected species of sharks lobsters and sea cucumbers which can fetch high prices in Japan and South Korea Angry fish
8、ermen surrounded the Charles Darwin research station on Santa Cruz last February threatened to kill Lonesome George the last surviving member of the Pinta Island species of the Galapagos giant tortoise The situation got improved after the Ecuador government made concessions 让 步 by increasing fishing
9、 quotas 配额 which angered conservationists It is tragic the short term gain of a few fishermen versus the long term survival of the Galapagos said John McCosker of the California Academy of Sciences They are killing the golden goose Then the Ecuador government appointed Fausto Cepeda as the national
10、park s new director a post that has become a political football for the mainland government There have been nine directors in the past 18 months This appointment was particularly controversial however Cepeda was known to have close ties with the fishing industry and the rangers 管理员 who run the natio
11、nal park and reserve rebelled More than 300 staged a sit in at the park s headquarters and prevented Cepeda from taking up his post A battle broke out and at least two people suffered serious injuries Eventually Cepeda with the fishermen s help entered the park I am in office i am in control And I a
12、m trying to lower the tension he announced The Ecuador government took no chances and sent a patrol boat to maintain the peace A few days later Ecuador Environment Minister Fabian Valdivicso met representatives of rangers After discussions he told newspapers that he had decided to remove Cepeda from
13、 the post However as the population continues to rise the long term pressures on the islands are serious and will not disappear that easily We have to balance its special environment with the needs of local people In that sense it is a microcosm 缩影 for all the other threatened parts of the 3 world S
14、o getting it right here is going to be a very very important trick to pull off said Stjepic 1 What does the underlined word this in Paragraph 5 refer to A The island s swelling population B The law to limit waves of immigrants C A life in paradise D The tourists visiting the islands every year 2 How
15、 significant were the islands for Charles Darwin A He based his theory on his studies there B He built the Charles Darwin research center there C He advocated the balance between ecology and people there D He found the last surviving giant tortoise there 3 What is the primary contributing factor to
16、the conflict between conservationists and fishermen A The dismissal of the previous director of the Galapagos National Park B The exploitation of the islands C The government s support of Galapagos Conservation Trust D Cepeda s close tie with the fishing industry 4 We can learn from the passage that A the projects of Galapagos Conservation Trust on the islands are profitable B conservationists get angry when fishermen are killing a goose C politicians from the mainland government play football o
