更多"Tigers, the largest of the world’s "的相关试题:
[单项选择]Tigers, the largest of the world’s cats, are the heart and soul of Asia’s jungles, grasslands, and deserts. They’re so adaptable that they even thrive in the frigid Himalayan foothills—and they are the dominant predator, literally the kings and queens, of every ecosystem they inhabit. But Asia’s exploding human population is eating away their forest home, and both tigers and their prey have been caught in the crosshairs (瞄准器) , killed in vast numbers by hunters and more recently, by poachers.
In just 100 years’ time, we humans have engineered their grand-scale death. A century ago, more than 100,000 tigers roamed across 30 nations, from Turkey to Siberia, throughout Southeast Asia down to the tip of Indonesia. Today, they hang on in just 12 countries; though they’re the national animal of six nations, they’ve vanished from two of them, North and South Korea. They’ve disappeared from 93 percent of their former range; just 42 breeding populations remain, scattered across the contine
A. tigers can survive from harsh environment
B. Asian tigers dominantly live in forest
C. Asia’s population growth leads to the decrease of the forest
D. many tigers are killed by hunters and poachers
[单项选择]Some of the world’s most beautiful cats are Persian cats. However, it must be acknowledged that all Persian cats are pompous, and pompous cats are invariably irritating.
If the statements above are true, each of the following must also be true on the basis of them EXCEPT:
A. Some of the world’s most beautiful cats are irritating.
B. Some irritating cats are among the world’s most beautiful cats.
C. Any cat that is not irritating is not a Persian cat.
D. Some pompous cats are among the world’s most beautiful cats.
E. (E) Some irritating and beautiful cats are not Persian cats.
[单项选择]It’s perhaps the world’s most famous underwater attraction, immortalized in film and in legend: the Titanic. But now experts say the ocean liner, once a wonder of the high seas, is falling to pieces.
Capt. Alfred McLaren, the scientist who in July led the most recent expedition to the ship’s underwater grave, said his team saw clear signs of the wreck’s accelerating decay. There was damage likely caused by rust and sea life, and the captain’s cabin had collapsed.
"I was absolutely astonished," McLaren said.
Worse still, the fallen mast that crushed the ship’s deck is believed by many to be the result of an unapproved salvage operation. "It was almost depressing to see how quickly she was deteriorating," McLaren says. "I would be really surprised if there’s very much standing up from the bottom, two decades from now."
Ed Kamuda, who runs the Titanic Historical Society in Springfield, Mass., says adventure tourists-who pay $36,000 each to visit the
A. To help finance the preservation of the Titanic.
B. To satisfy their curiosity and adventurousness.
C. To better understand the history of the Titanic.
D. To contribute to the crumbling of the Titanic.
[填空题]
The sky’s the limit
The world’s top airlines have been, battling for several years to equip the business class of their aircraft with everything they believe the business customer could desire. Over ￡, 2bn plane has been spent on services.
(31) as faxes, on-board shopping and even video games. The problem
(32) that business customers do not seem particularly interested in hi-tech entertainment and certainly not in working
(33) they are travelling, flying is, for most business travellers, a chance to relax
This has been indicated by a number of surveys which have given business travellers a chance to say
(34) they want from air travel.
(35) highest priority is given to old-fashioned airline values such as comfort, fast check-in and good food. Not surprisingly, the most important single priority, on long-haul flights is comfortable seals. The survey, also revealed that travelle
