Filmmakers Michele dive into an eerie (怪誕的) world. The usually colorful corals are a ghostly white. Most of the fish, crabs, and other animals have disappeared. The reef is sick and dying.
Coral reefs are often called “the rainforests of the sea” because of their abundance of life forms. A great diversity of animals finds food and shelter in every crack and crevice.
Today’s reefs are about 10,000 years old. Found in sunny, shallow water in warm seas all over the world, reefs are made up of the hard shells of millions of corals. As corals live and die, they create a giant, rocky honeycomb. Only a thin top layer is living coral.
A reef grows only about as fast as your fingernails—three-quarters of an inch a year. But coral reefs are huge, and in time a healthy reef can be thousands of miles long.
Millions of people around the world rely on reef fish and other animals for food. And reefs provide protection from storms at sea. Without thousands of miles of reefs surrounding coastal areas, many beaches and even whole islands could be destroyed by the pounding of powerful ocean waves.
“Let’s say a grazing animal like the parrot fish is overfished,” Michele explains. “Without them, the kind of algae (海藻) that the fish feed on could grow like weeds and take over the reef. The competition for space and sunlight could then starve the coral.”
Nearly 27 percent of the world’s coral reefs have been lost or damaged. But there is hope. Many reefs around the world—including the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the reefs off the Florida Keys in the United States—are now protected areas where scientists study how to keep reefs healthy. They determine how many and which kinds of fish can be taken for food without hurting the reef’s delicate balance.
There is hope, too, that people will learn to be good partners to the reefs. “We want our film to inspire people to help coral reefs,” says Michele. “For me, even though I may not go back to the South Pacific, just knowing the reefs are there and thriving brings a sense of contentment (滿足) to my spirit.”
小題1:What is the main purpose of the author in writing the passage?
A．To describe what coral reefs are.
B．To tell people to protect coral reefs.
C．To introduce a film to people.
D．To ask people to visit coral reefs.
小題2:From the passage we can infer that          .
A．coral reefs grow very fast
B．there are few huge coral reefs
C．coral reefs appear mostly in deep water
D．it takes a long time to make a coral reef
小題3:By mentioning the parrot fish, Michel wants to tell us        .
A．coral reefs need sunlight to survive
B．the biggest enemies of reefs are weeds
C．the parrot fish feed on a kind of algae
D．it is easy to destroy coral reefs
小題4:What is the author’s attitude towards the protection of reefs?
A．OptimisticB．Disappointed.C．Uncertain.D．Pessimistic (悲觀的).

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:D
小題4:A
文章向我們描繪了珊瑚礁的形成情況以及對珊瑚礁的保護。
小題1:主旨大意題。通讀前文可知文章是呼吁大家保護珊瑚礁。
小題2:推理題。根據(jù)第四段第一行A reef grows only about as fast as your fingernails—three-quarters of an inch a year�？芍汉鹘傅男纬煞浅ｋy，要形成一個珊瑚礁需要很多年。
小題3:推理題。舉這個例子就是想告訴大家破壞珊瑚礁是很容易的。
小題4:推理題。根據(jù)最后一段There is hope, too, that people will learn to be good partners to the reefs.可知作者還是比較樂觀的。
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In choosing a friend, one should be very careful. A good friend can help you study. But how do I know when I have found a good friend? I think a good friend should have certain good qualities(品質(zhì)), especially understanding, honesty and reliability(可靠).
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Sometimes you will meet “fair weather friends”. They will be with you as long as you have money or luck, but when you are down, they will run away. So, I think another quality of a friend is reliability. I can always depend on a good friend. If he is in trouble, I will do my best to help him. If I need a favor, he will not run away from me.
When I meet someone who is reliable, honest, and understanding, I know I’ve found a friend!
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　     If Dick Drew had listened to his boss in 1925, we might not have a product that we now think of as very important: a new type of tape. Drew worked for the Minnesota Mining Company. At work he developed a kind of material strong enough to hold things together. But his boss told him not to think more about the idea. Finally, using his own time, Drew improved the tape, which now is used everywhere by many people. And his former company learned from its mistake. Now it encourages people to spend 15 percent of their work time just thinking and developing new ideas.
　     Creativity is not something one is just born with, nor is it necessarily an indicator of high intelligence. Just that a person is highly intelligent does not mean that he uses it creatively. Creativity is the matter of using the resources one has to produce new ideas that are good for something.
　     Unfortunately, schools have not tried to encourage creativity. With strong attention paid to test results and the development of reading, writing and mathematical skills, many educators give up creativity for correct answers. The result is that children can give back information but can’t recognize ways to use it in new situations. They may know the rules correctly, but they are unable to use them to work out practical problems.
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B．They discouraged people to think freely.
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B．They don’t want their students to make mistakes.
C．They pay too much attention to examination marks and language skills.
D．They think it more important to remember information.
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