首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
PASSAGE THREE (1) The concern throughout the world in 1988 for those three whales that were locked in the Arctic ice was d
PASSAGE THREE (1) The concern throughout the world in 1988 for those three whales that were locked in the Arctic ice was d
admin
2022-08-07
27
问题
PASSAGE THREE
(1) The concern throughout the world in 1988 for those three whales that were locked in the Arctic ice was dramatic proof that whales, several species of which face extinction, have become subjects of considerable sympathy.
(2) 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 dawn of time, while overhead, great empires and civilizations have come and gone. Now, their time of decline has come. It began a long time ago.
(3) 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 practice had spread to the Basque people of France and Spain, who hunted 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.
(4) Whaling went into dramatic decline, beginning around 1900. Today, whales are hunted commercially only by Norway, Iceland and Japan. The world’s fascination with them, however, is at an all-time high, because so few of them are left, given their tragic history.
(5) Richard Ellis writes about whales, takes pictures of whales in the open sea, and sketches whales stranded on the beach. He says it’s a 20-year obsession 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 peculiar, which was the largest animal that has ever lived on earth."
(6) So large, he discovered that the largest dinosaur weighed only half as much as the female blue whale. As he continued his research, he boarded scientific vessels, dove with whales in the Pacific, and even watched whales die at the hands of modern explosive-tipped harpoons. His sketches appeared in magazines and encyclopedias and at the center of what was then the beginning of a movement to save the whales.
(7) "I was one of those people who used to stand on street corners and ask for people to sign petitions, which at that time were directed towards the Japanese and the Soviets. Because in that period of time, late 60s and early 70s, the Japanese and the Soviets were killing tens of thousands of sperm, particularly in the North Pacific. And we thought that getting the world’s opinion on paper would make them say, ’Oh look, all these people don’t like what we are doing. We will stop.’ Well, of course, they didn’t stop."
(8) Not at first, commercial whaling peaked in the mid-1960s, with more than 60,000 whales killed each year. The International Whaling Commission, a group of member nations aimed at regulating the industry, began to make recommendations to end commercial whaling entirely. Why kill whales for soap, or fuel or paints and varnishes, even margarine, if we had substitutes for all those products? The seemingly senseless slaughter focused the world’s attention on the whale and consequently the International Whaling Commission or IWC.
(9) "And since it’s said nowhere in the constitution of the IWC that you had to be whaling nation to join, you have countries like Kenya and the Seychelles. Switzerland is a member of the IWC, a country not known for its whaling history. Countries joined because they felt that this was something that needed to be done. "
(10) By 1986, the Commission had passed a moratorium on commercial whaling. But since the organization had no enforcement powers, it could and can not impose sanctions on violators. Only a few nations, Japan, Iceland, and Norway, continue to hunt whales commercially.
(11) Richard Ellis says there is something magical about this animal caught in the net of life and time, and we must continue to fight to preserve it, because in the end we are really protecting a small part of ourselves and our earth.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was an organization that ___
选项
A、a country could join only when being a whaling nation
B、had the right to end commercial whaling entirely
C、collected the world’s opinion to show concerns for whales
D、had no authority for punishing violators
答案
D
解析
从题干中的The International Whaling Commission定位到第8、9、10段第10段第2句提到,IWC没有强迫执行的权力不能对违反者进行制裁,因此可得出答案D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/nWnD777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Itisoftendifficultforamantobequitesurewhattaxheoughttopaytothegovernmentbecauseitdependsonsomanydiffer
Millionsofhamburgersareeatenbypeopleineveryconnoroftheworldeveryday.TogetherwithhotdogsandCoca-Cola,hamburg
Howmanypeoplehavebeenaskedforasecondinterview?
Whatisthewomanconcernedabout?
availability对于租客和房东来说,他们最关心的(themajorconcern)不是住房的条件而是房子的可获得性的问题。录音原文中的ratherthan是题目insteadof的同义替换,themajorconcern为原词复现,故空
WhichTWOproblemsdoesGroveridentifyconcerningthelecturers?APunctuality.BOrganisation.CAccessibility.
WhichTWOofthefollowingpointsdoesthetutorwarnstudent’sresearchwork?AintervieweesBmakedataclearlyC
Whichcounsellorshouldyousee?ALouiseBagshawBTonyDenbyCNaomiFlynnifyourconcernsarerelatedtoanxiety
PASSAGETWOWhatistheconclusionofthelastparagraph?
PASSAGETHREE(1)Innovation,theelixirofprogress,hasalwayscostpeopletheirjobs.IntheIndustrialRevolutionartis
随机试题
A公司拟建造一幢新厂房,工期预计2年。有关资料如下:(1)2013年1月1日向银行专门借款10000万元,期限为3年,年利率为8%,每年1月1日付息。(2)除专门借款外,公司只有一笔其他借款,为公司于2012年1月1日借入的长期借款81300万元,期限为5
病人,女性,12岁。口底蜂窝组织炎3日,伴高热、乏力、头痛、全身不适,医生决定切开引流,其目的是为预防
大中型冷库多采用_______系统。
以下各项中,属于股东价值最大化的限制因素有()。
下列关于非公开增发新股的表述中,正确的有()。
甲注册会计师担任A公司2013年度财务报表审计项目合伙人,要求A公司提供承担财务报表编制责任的书面声明,但是A公司表示财务报表是上任的财务总监负责编制的,由于财务总监已经离职,所以现任公司管理层对于该报表不承担编制责任,拒绝提供相应的书面声明,但是愿意签署
国外的心理学研究表明,当遇到有人冒犯你时,如果你选择原谅冒犯者,冒犯者会更有可能在心理上感到悔恨而产生内在的愧疚。因此,类似的冒犯行为再次发生的可能性将会大大降低。根据以上观点,可以推出()。
拿破仑法典
Althoughinteriordesignhasexistedsincethebeginningofarchitecture,itsdevelopmentintoaspecializedfieldisreallyqui
WhichofthefollowingunderlinedphrasesindicatesCAUSE?
最新回复
(
0
)