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Narrator Listen to part of a lecture in a geography class. Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help
Narrator Listen to part of a lecture in a geography class. Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help
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2013-08-12
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问题
Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture in a geography class.
Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer.
What does "temporary flooding of coastal areas" mean?
Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture in a geography class.
Professor
We’re gonna look at the effects of global warming on a particular country to get this thing into context and I want to look at Australia, a country with 12 000 kilometers of coastline. There’s a whole series of problems. What I mean by that is uh... in a country like this, well, there are floods, droughts, cyclones, bushfires, landslides, earthquakes, soil degradation and...so on you name it, we’ve got it!
OK. Now on your handouts there’s a list of reading materials which you should have a look at in preparation for your tutorials next week. I’d particularly recommend The Greenhouse Effect by Henderson-Sellers and Blong—they’re very good on the Australian situation. If you...for general background, Lovelocks is good, and the book edited by Pearman offers a nice review of greenhouse issues in Australia. I’ve put them in Special Reserve, so you shouldn’t have any trouble finding them.
Okey...so I’m gonna start today by looking at one of the most serious effects of a change in the global temperature that is, a rise in sea-level and...as I said, I’m gonna concentrate today on the effects this would have on the Australian context. If we assume that there’ll be a meter or so rise in sea-level over uh...say, the next fifty years but unfortunately, the situation’s not so clear because we’ve got to take into consideration a variety of scenarios such as increased precipitation at the poles which might actually cause a fall in sea-level. Anyway, taking this figure of a meter rise over, say, the fifty or so years, what are we going to see? Well, we’ll see an effect on flooding of structures on the coast you know, house, sea walls, ports and the whole infrastructure of roads, rails, power lines and cables, and so on.
Secondly, we’re gonna be seeing shoreline retreat in some low-lying areas. The sea will move inland in areas...such as the Gulf of Carpentaria. To put it another way, in low-lying urban areas, your nice beachfront apartment may just end up floating away and your parking lot two hundred meters from the beach will end up as a prime waterfront estate. Most Australian cities are on the coast and in the case of Brisbane in particular well, take a look at this overhead. That’s roughly the area indicated by the blue line that’s gonna be affected with a one meter rise in sea-level. So if you’re thinking of investing in real estate in this area, take my advice don’t! Again, though, it’s difficult to predict the situation. Local conditions in some areas may actually increase the deposit of materials affecting an extension of the land. But whichever way you look at it there’ll be a fairly radical change to many eco-systems, and if you recall last week’s lecture on change well, we’re really opening a can of worms here.
Apart from coastal flooding, we should also expect the penetration of salt water systems into estuaries, rivers and lagoons. If you think about the Myall Lakes system for example well, the whole freshwater complex could be reunited with the sea. One of the most serious direct consequences of this for man of course would be seepage into the groundwater in other words, the sea’s salt water would enter the water table under the land. This would cause salinity in sources of drinking water and irrigation.
Thirdly, we should expect to see a rise in temporary flooding of coastal areas. I’m not talking about flooding as a result of increased rainfall, though that’s another consideration I’ll come to it later. For now, I’m talking about flooding as a result of higher tides. Think about it, the swamping of the storm water drainage system. What’s that gonna do to the street you’re living in?
So, in summary, as we’ve seen you’ve got coastal flooding, destruction of coastal structures, shoreline shifts and salt water intrusion. I’ll come back to some of these later, but for now, let’s move on and look at tropical cyclones. Everyone remembers Tracy. Or maybe you don’t because that is going back to 1974. I’m getting a bit old.
Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer.
18. What is the lecture mainly about?
19. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a direct effect of the rise in sea-level?
20. What does "temporary flooding of coastal areas" mean?
21. What does the professor imply when she says this?
Professor
...your parking lot two hundred meters from the beach will end up as a prime waterfront estate.
Listen again to part of the lecture. Then answer the question.
Professor
But whichever way you look at it there’ll be a fairly radical change to many eco-systems, and if you recall last week’s lecture on change—well, we’re really opening a can of worms here.
22. Why does the professor say this?
Professor
well, we’re really opening a can of worms here.
Listen again to part of the lecture. Then answer the question.
Professor
...but for now, let’s move on and look at tropical cyclones. Everyone remembers Tracy. Or maybe you don’t because that is going back to 1974. I’m getting a bit old.
23. What does the word "Tracy" most probably refer to?
选项
A、The flooding caused by increased rainfall.
B、The flooding caused by swamping of drainage system.
C、The flooding caused by higher tides.
D、The flooding caused by destruction of coastal structure.
答案
C
解析
本题为组织结构题,要求考生能够辨认出讲座内容的要点、细节、例证,注意到表示介绍、结论、话题转换的语言提示,从而把握讲话内容的组织结构。题目问:教授提到的“temporary flooding of coastal areas”指的是什么?弄清楚教授在提及此概念时所说的“I’mnot talking about flooding as a result of increased rainfall,though that’s another considerationI’ll come to it later.For now,I’m talking about flooding as a result of higher tides.Think aboutit.the swamping of the storm water drainage system.What’s that gonna do to the street you’reliving in?(我这里要说的泛洪不是指降雨增多引起的泛洪,虽然这是我一会儿要讲到的内容。我要说的泛洪是指因为潮水升高而引起的泛洪。想象一下,雨水排泄系统被淹没的样子,那将会为你所居住的街道带来怎样的结果?)”从这段话中各要点间的关系结构,我们知道,选项A、B、D是教授没谈的问题,而选项C是他正在谈的问题,所以选项C为正确答案。
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