首页
登录
职称英语
Whales, several species of which face extinction, have become subjects of consid
Whales, several species of which face extinction, have become subjects of consid
游客
2024-09-06
6
管理
问题
Whales, several species of which face extinction, have become subjects of considerable sympathy. These are the recorded voices of whales. These monstrous creatures have been trumpeting their songs, one to another, in the world’s oceans since the【C1】______of time, while overhead, great【C2】______and civilizations have come and gone. Now, their time of decline has come. It began a long time ago.
Four-thousand-year-old rock carvings show that the people who lived in what is now Norway were probably the first to seek out and kill whales in the sea. By around 890 AD, 3,000 years later, the【C3】______had spread to the Basque people of France and Spain, who【C4】______whales from boats in the Bay of Biscay. In the centuries that followed, Whaling became an important industry in Denmark, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and, finally, in what would become America.
Whaling went into dramatic【C5】______, beginning around 1900. Today, whales are hunted commercially only by Norway, Iceland and Japan. The world’s【C6】______with them, however, is at an all-time high, because so few of them are left, given their【C7】______history.
Richard Ellis writes about whales, takes pictures of whales in the open sea, and【C8】______whales stranded on the beach. He says it’s a 20-year【C9】______ that began in the mid-1960s, when he designed a model of a great blue for the Museum of Natural History in New York.
"As I began to do the research. I realized that nobody knew anything about whales. And I couldn’t really find any pictures of what they looked like: all I could find was pictures of dead whales. And I became very excited at the prospect of doing what seemed to be original research on something that was so【C10】______, which was the largest animal that has ever lived on earth."
A. beginning B. decline C. rise D. empires
E. fascination F. different G. hunted H. dawn
I. practice J. behavior K. peculiar L. sketches
M. obsession N. tragic O. trapped [br] 【C9】
选项
答案
M
解析
obsession,词义辨析题。根据词性,此处应当填入名词。此处描述Richard Ellis的职业,开始于60年代中期长达20年,着重表达他对这份职业的爱好,主要区别fascination和obsession,详细差异见第6题解析。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3746317.html
相关试题推荐
PASSAGETWOBytransplanting“anti-freeze”geneintootherspecies.根据题目中的extremely
(1)Debatesamongcandidatesarerareinmostcountries.Buttheyhavebecome
(1)Debatesamongcandidatesarerareinmostcountries.Buttheyhavebecome
MassStrandingsofWhales1.Thetidegoesoutsudden
MassStrandingsofWhales1.Thetidegoesoutsudden
MassStrandingsofWhales1.Thetidegoesoutsudden
MassStrandingsofWhales1.Thetidegoesoutsudden
MassStrandingsofWhales1.Thetidegoesoutsudden
PASSAGETHREEBecauseitwillmakeone’sdietbecomehighinfat.根据题干中的McDonald’s
Sherememberedseveraloccasionsinthepast_____shehadexperiencedasimilar
随机试题
ChooseTWOletters,A-E.WhatTWOthingswillthewomandointherestoftheti
Theonlineshopaimstofilteroutallofthechemicalsandvenomoussubstances
Whatisthemostprobablerelationshipbetweenthetwospeakers?[br][original
PASSAGETHREETheracialissue./Theissueonrace./Theissueonracism.本文从第1段提到奥巴
A.输液,输血并观察 B.抗休克的同时紧急剖胸探查 C.胸腔闭式引流 D.
提示疾病发展转折点的是()A.自汗 B.盗汗 C.蒸汗 D.冷汗
共用题干 患儿,女,11个月,牛乳喂养,未加辅食,近2个月来食欲差,面色苍白,
持有的单一券种买断式回购未到期数量累计达到该券种发行量的20%的机构投资者在相应
小张利用自动存款机,先后两次将手中的假人民币存入银行,数量高达30万余元,则他犯
某企业按要求开展安全生产规章制度的编制工作,由企业安全管理部门进行起草,根据相关
最新回复
(
0
)