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【題目】A strong EI Nino（厄爾尼諾暖流）causes the temperature around the world to rise. “That’s how we will see the influences of climate (氣候) change", says Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State University.

The Great Barrier Reef (礁) is far beyond its name. Coral (珊瑚) of all shapes, sizes and colors covers more than 130,000 square meters off the coast of Australia, making it the world's largest reef system with many amazing kinds of life under the sea.

But today the Great Barrier Reef is dying. The waters around the reef become warmer. That warming then causes the bleaching(白化).The bleaching takes the color and the life out of the coral. Bleaching happens when the warm water and pollution drive away the living things that live on the coral and give it color. Within weeks, the reef could die, leaving behind a forest of lifeless, bone white coral. Scientists believe the bleaching may kill more than 15% of the world’s coral. The Great Barrier Reef isn't alone. This is the longest bleaching event ever recorded, " says David Kline, a scientist.

But a bigger worry may be what the bleaching suggests about future climate(氣候)change. Climate change may be slow sometimes, but other times it takes great leaps forward, "says Steve Palumbi, an ocean scientist at Stanford University.

Local solutions like reducing fishing and cleaning up, pollution can help slow reef loss, but scientists say a global(8)problem requires a global solution. Nearly 200 countries agreed last year to work to keep global temperatures from rising more than 3. 6F by 2100, but that goal will be hard to reach.

【1】The underlined word “It” in Paragraph 2 refers to (指代)_____________.

A. the country –AustraliaB. the coast of Australia

C. the coral under the seaD. The Great Barrier Reef.

【2】What does the writer mean by saying "The Great Barrier Reef isn’t alone. "?

A. There are many other reefs beside the Great Barrier Reef.

B. There are kinds of living things on the Great Barrier Reef.

C. The Great Barrier Reef is becoming warmer and warmer.

D. Some other reefs have the same problem as the Great Barrier Reef.

【3】After reading the article, you can learn that__________.

A. the climate is changing quickly within a short time

B. it's hard to see colorful coral when bleaching happens

C. the global warming is the only reason for the death of reefs

D. lots of countries found it easy to make the temperature low

【4】What's the writer’s main purpose in writing the article?

A. To draw more attention to global warmingB. To explain how bleaching happens.

C. To advise Australians to solve global warming.D. To explain why the world gets warm

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】D

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

厄爾尼諾暖流對(duì)海洋中珊瑚礁的影響及世界氣候的影響。

【1】詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)上文The Great Barrier Reef (礁) is far beyond its name. Coral (珊瑚) of all shapes, sizes and colors covers more than 130,000 square meters off the coast of Australia可知下文中it指代的是“大堡礁�！�。故選D

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)文中The bleaching takes the color and the life out of the coral. Bleaching happens when the warm water and pollution drive away the living things that live on the coral and give it color. Within weeks, the reef could die, leaving behind a forest of lifeless, bone white coral. Scientists believe the bleaching may kill more than 15% of the world’s coral.可知，其他一些珊瑚礁和大堡礁有同樣的問(wèn)題。故選D。

【3】主旨大意。通讀整篇短文可知，漂白時(shí)很難看到彩色珊瑚。故選B

【4】觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度。通讀整篇短文可知，作者寫這篇短文是為了讓更多的人們引起對(duì)全球變暖的更多關(guān)注。故選A。

我們?cè)谧鲩喿x理解題時(shí)，就要明確初中閱讀理解考查的主要內(nèi)容,在此基礎(chǔ)上,快速閱讀全文,了解文章大意;在了解文章的基礎(chǔ)上,抓住首尾句;認(rèn)真仔細(xì)、逐步答題;平心靜氣,不急躁,仔細(xì)檢查,減少誤差。嚴(yán)格說(shuō)來(lái),閱讀理解主要要求是:1.掌握閱讀主旨大意,用以說(shuō)明主旨大意的事實(shí)和細(xì)節(jié);2.既理解具體事實(shí),也理解抽象的概念;3.既理解字面意思,也理解深層含義,包括作者的態(tài)度以及意圖等。