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Light Night, Dark Stars Thousands of people around the globe step outside to gaze at their night sky. On a clear night, with
Light Night, Dark Stars Thousands of people around the globe step outside to gaze at their night sky. On a clear night, with
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2013-10-25
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Light Night, Dark Stars
Thousands of people around the globe step outside to gaze at their night sky. On a clear night, with no clouds, moonlight, or artificial lights to block the view, people can see more than 14, 000 stars in the sky, says Dennis Ward, an astronomer with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research(UCAR)in Boulder, Colo. But when people are surrounded by city lights, he says, they’re lucky to see 150 stars.
If you’ve ever driven toward a big city at night and seen its glow from a great distance, you’ve witnessed light pollution. It occurs when light from streetlights, office buildings, signs, and other sources streams into space and illuminates the night sky. This haze of light makes many stars invisible to people on Earth. Even at night, big cities like New York glow from light pollution, making stargazing difficult.
Dust and particles of pollution from factories and industries worsen the effects of light pollution. "If one city has a lot more light pollution than another, " Ward says, "that city will suffer the effects of light pollution on a much greater scale. "
Hazy skies also make it far more difficult for astronomers to do their jobs.
Cities are getting larger. Suburbs are growing in once dark, rural areas. Light from all this new development is increasingly obscuring the faint light given off by distant stars. And if scientists can’t locate these objects, they can’t learn more about them.
Light pollution doesn’t only affect star visibility. It can harm wildlife too. It’s clear that artificial light can attract animals, making them go off course. There’s increasing evidence, for example, that migrating birds use sunsets and sunrises to help find their way, says Sydney Gauthreaux Jr. , a scientist at Clemson University in South Carolina. "When light occurs at night, " he says, "it has a very disruptive influence. " Sometimes birds fly into lighted towers, high-rises, and cables from radio and television towers. Experts estimate that millions of birds die this way every year.
Which of the following is NOT correct? .
选项
A、Animals may go off course due to the attraction of artificial lights.
B、Animals might be attracted by artificial lights to go into cities.
C、Artificial lights at night may make migrating birds lose their way.
D、Attracted by artificial lights, birds fly into lighted buildings.
答案
B
解析
题意:以下说法哪个是错误的?第六段最后三句告诉我们人造光源会误导动物而致使它们迷路,但却没有说会将它们引进城市,故本题选B。
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