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09年6月高校英语六级真题(5)
Section B Directions: There are 2 passages h raises the obvious question: what else do these turtles want from us, anyway? It turns out, according to Griffin, that while we have done a good job of protecting the turtles for the weeks they spend on land 〔as egg-laying females, as eggs and as hatchlings〕, we have neglected the years they spend in the ocean. "The threat is from commercial fishing," says Griffin. Trawlers 〔which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor〕 and longline fishers 〔which can deploy thousands of hooks on lines that can stretch for miles〕 take a heavy toll on turtles. Of course, like every other environmental issue today, this is playing out against the background of global warming and human interference with natural ecosystems. The narrow strips of beach on which the turtles lay their eggs are being squeezed on one side by development and on the other by the threat of rising sea levels as the oceans warm. Ultimately we must get a handle on those issues as well, or a creature that outlived the dinosaurs 〔恐龙〕 will meet its end at the hands of humans, leaving our descendants to wonder how a creature so ugly could have won so much affection. 52. We can learn from the first paragraph that ______. [A] human activities have changed the way turtles survive [B] effor