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1、智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料老托福阅读真题PASSAGE 51-智课教育旗下智课教育本文和大家分享的是老托福阅读真题PASSAGE 51，练习真题是最 重要也最有效的复习方法，大家在复习托福阅读考试的时候一定要对真 题重视起来。 托福阅读 的思维方式就是托福阅读的出题方式，只有掌握了这种思 维方式，才有可能在做题之前，预测到新托福阅读题的出题形式和特点 ，为找答案节省时间。老托福阅读试题的核心价值，在于其最贴近真题 的阅读思维方式。此外老托福阅读真题比新托福IBT阅读文章要短，比 较容易适应。这也是大家在备考托福的时候非常重要的一点。因为前期 的入手如果能从容易的开始，就会形成一个循序渐
2、进的过程方式，让大 家的练习有一个提高的过程 。 既然老托福阅读试题有这样的效果，那我们如何利用那有限的真题 来达到锻炼自己的目的呢?事实上这就一个办法，就是坚持。本期为大 家推荐老托福阅读的真题PASSAGE 51，附有原文及答案，希望对托福考生备考有所帮助。In 1972, a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Pr
3、ogram. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to v
4、isit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed. The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce. Initially, 70 sites were proposed as
5、 candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, withhalf of these established after 1978. They range in size from the very small (less than 1 square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay N
6、ational Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers. The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradatio
7、n and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species.Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The
8、National Estuarine Research Reserve System, managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and protected estuaries. Outside the United States, marine protected-area programs exist as marine parks, reserves, and preserves. Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the C
9、aribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrier Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems. As state, national, and international agencies come to recognize the i
10、mportance of conserving marine biodiversity, marine projected areas. whether as sanctuaries, parks, or estuarine reserves, will play an increasingly important role in preserving that diversity. 1. What does the passage mainly discuss? (A) Differences among marine parks, sanctuaries, and reserves (B)
11、 Various marine conservation programs (C) International agreements on coastal protection(D) Similarities between land and sea protected environments 2. The word intent in line 3 is closest in meaning to (A) repetition (B) approval (C) goal (D) revision 3. The word administered in line 8 is closest i
12、n meaning to (A) managed (B) recognized (C) opposed (D) justified 4. The word these in line 11 refers to (A) sites (B) candidates (C) decades (D) sanctuaries 5. The passage mentions the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (lines 13-14) as an example of a sanctuary that (A) is not well know(B) cov
13、ers a large area (C) is smaller than the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary (D) was not originally proposed for sanctuary status 6. According to the passage , when was the National Marine Sanctuaries Program established? (A) before 1972 (B) after 1987 (C) one hundred years before national parks
14、were established (D) one hundred years after Yellowstone National Park was established7. According to the passage , all of the following are achievements of the National Marine Sanctuaries Program EXCEPT (A) the discovery of several new marine organisms (B) the preservation of connections between in
15、dividual marine species (C) the protection of coastal habitats (D) the establishment of areas where the public can observe marine life 8. The word periphery in line 24 is closest in meaning to (A) depth (B) landmass (C) warm habitat (D) outer edge 9. The passage mentions which of the following as a threat to marine areas outside the United States? (A) limitations in financial support (B) the use of marine species as food (C) variability of the climate (D) increases in tourism参考答案：BCADB DADD 以上就是智课教育为大家整理的老托福阅读真题，考生可进行参考 训练以提高自己的考试水平。若您想了解托福考试更多相关信息请关注 智课教育。
