The author seems to be mainly concerned with most fisheries’ ________.

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• 1Dr. Myers and other researchers hold that ________.

  A.people should look for a baseline that can work for a longer time

  B.fisheries should keep their yields below 50% of the biomass

  C.the ocean biomass should be restored to its original level

  D.people should adjust the fishing baseline to the changing situation

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• 2By saying "these figures are conservative" (Line 1, paragraph 3), Dr. Worm means that ________.

  A.fishing technology has improved rapidly

  B.the catch-sizes are actually smaller than recorded

  C.the marine biomass has suffered a greater loss

  D.the data collected so far are out of date

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• 3We can infer from Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm’s paper that ________.

  A.the stock of large predators in some old fisheries has reduced by 90%

  B.there are only half as many fisheries as there were 15 years ago

  C.the catch sizes in new fisheries are only 20% of the original amount

  D.the number of larger predators dropped faster in new fisheries than in the old

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• 4The extinction of large prehistoric animals is noted to suggest that ________.

  A.large animal were vulnerable to the changing environment

  B.small species survived as large animals disappeared

  C.large sea animals may face the same threat today

  D.slow-growing fish outlive fast-growing ones

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• 5From the text we can conclude that the author ________.

  A.is supportive of both sides

  B.favors the townsfolk’s view

  C.takes a detached attitude

  D.is sympathetic to the RSC

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• 6By citing the examples of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that ________.

  A.poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music

  B.art grows out of both positive and negative feelings

  C.poets today are less skeptical of happiness

  D.artists have changed their focus of interest

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• 7The word “bummer” (Line 5, paragraph 5) most probably means something ________.

  A.religious

  B.unpleasant

  C.entertaining

  D.commercial

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• 8In the author’s opinion, advertising ________.

  A.emerges in the wake of the anti-happy art

  B.is a cause of disappointment for the general public

  C.replaces the church as a major source of information

  D.creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself

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• 9We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes ________.

  A.happiness more often than not ends in sadness

  B.the anti-happy art is distasteful but refreshing

  C.misery should be enjoyed rather than denied

  D.the anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms

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• 10Which of the following is true of the text、

  A.Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery.

  B.Art provides a balance between expectation and reality.

  C.People feel disappointed at the realities of modern society.

  D.Mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths.

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