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For hundreds of millions of years, turtles (海龟) have struggled out of the se
For hundreds of millions of years, turtles (海龟) have struggled out of the se
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2024-03-07
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For hundreds of millions of years, turtles (海龟) have struggled out of the sea to lay their eggs on sandy beaches, long before there were nature documentaries to celebrate them, or GPS satellites and marine biologists to track them, or volunteers to hand-carry the hatchlings (幼龟) down to the water’s edge lest they become disoriented by headlights and crawl towards a motel parking lot instead. A formidable wall of bureaucracy has been erected to protect their prime nesting on the Atlantic coastlines. With all that attention paid to them, you’d think these creatures would at least have the gratitude not to go extinct.
But
nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness
, and a report by the Fish and Wildlife Service showed a worrisome drop in the populations of several species of North Atlantic turtles, notably loggerheads, which can grow to as much as 400 pounds. The
South Florida nesting population, the largest, has declined by 50% in the last decade, according to Elizabeth Griffin, a marine biologist with the environmental group Oceana. The figures prompted Oceana to petition the government to upgrade the level of protection for the North Atlantic loggerheads from "threatened" to "endangered"—meaning they are in danger of disappearing without additional help.
Which raises the obvious question: what else do these turtles want from us, anyway? It turns out, according to Griffin, that while we have done a good job of protecting the turtles for the weeks they spend on land (as egg-laying females, as eggs and as hatchlings), we have neglected the years spend in the ocean. "The threat is from commercial fishing," says Griffin. Trawlers (which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor) and longline fishers (which can deploy thousands of hooks on lines that can stretch for miles) take a heavy toll on turtles.
Of course, like every other environmental issue today, this is playing out against the background of global warming and human interference with natural ecosystems. The narrow strips of beach on which the turtles lay their eggs are being squeezed on one side by development and on the other by the threat of rising sea levels as the oceans warm. Ultimately we must get a handle on those issues as well, or a creature that outlived the dinosaurs (恐龙) will meet its end at the hands of humans, leaving our descendants to wonder how creature so ugly could have won so much affection. [br] What does the author suggest we should do for turtles?
选项
A、We should not do much because turtles are ugly creatures.
B、We should help them lay their eggs.
C、We should reduce intervention on nature and deal with global warming.
D、We should re-decorate our beaches.
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据题干中的the author suggest定位到原文最后一段。该段指出,当然,就像今天其他的环境问题一样,这是在全球变暖和人类对自然生态系统的干扰的背景下发生的。海龟产卵的狭长海滩一方面受到人类发展的挤压,另一方面受到海洋变暖导致海平面上升的威胁。并在最后一句指出我们必须解决这些问题。由此可知,在作者看来,人类应该减少对自然的干预,并解决全球变暖问题,故选C。
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