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Ocean water plays an indispensable role in supporting life. The great ocean basins hold about 300 million cubic miles of water.
Ocean water plays an indispensable role in supporting life. The great ocean basins hold about 300 million cubic miles of water.
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2010-12-06
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Ocean water plays an indispensable role in supporting life. The great ocean basins hold about 300 million cubic miles of water. From this vast amount; about 80,000 cubic miles of water are sucking into the atmosphere each year by evaporation and returned by precipitation and drainage to the ocean. More than 24,000 cubic miles of rain descend annually upon the continents. This vast amount is required to replenish the lakes and streams, springs and water tables on which all flora and fauna are dependent. Thus, the hydrosphere permits organism existence.
The hydrosphere has strange characteristics because water has properties unlike those of any other liquid. One anomaly is that water upon freezing expands by about 9 percent, whereas most liquids contract on cooling. For this reason, ice floats on water bodies instead of sinking to the bottom. If the ice sank, the hydrosphere would soon be frozen solidly, except for a thin layer of surface melt water during the summer season. Thus, all aquatic life would be destroyed and the interchange of warm and cold currents, which moderates climate, would be notably absent.
Another outstanding characteristic of water is that it has a heat capacity which is the highest of all liquids and solids except ammonia. This characteristic enables the oceans to absorb ard store vast quantities of heat, thereby often preventing climatic extremes. In addition, water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. It is this characteristic which helps make oceans a great storehouse for minerals which have been washed down from the continents. In several areas of the world these minerals are being commercially exploited. Solar evaporation of salt is widely practiced, potash is extracted from the Dead Sea, and Magnesium is produced from seawater along the American Gulf Coast.
From this passage, we may conclude that ______.
选项
A、ocean and land masses are equal
B、ocean masses are smaller than land masses
C、it is difficuit to get fresh water from the ocean
D、none of the above is correct
答案
C
解析
本文并未对ocean mass与land mass进行比较,因此选项A、B不正确。最后—段讲到oceans a great storehouse for minerals which have been washed down from the continents(大海成厂一个储存从大陆上冲刷下来的诸多矿物质的仓库),由此可以推断从海水中提取淡水可能会比较困难。所以答案为选项C。
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