To me, the ocean is our greatest wilderness. I love swimming in it , surfing its waves, watching it from shore and thinking about all the life living unseen under the surface.
When I take my little kids to check out tide pools, we’re overjoyed when we find a sea star or some shellfish. Lately, though, I've noticed a change in my favorite pools: there are more sea grasses and fewer animals with shells.
I can't help feeling these small changes portend something more troubling about our oceans. It matches what scientists are telling us: our oceans are being troubled by carbon dioxide that threatens corals, colorful fish, salmon, sea otters, even whales. Our oceans are facing a major change.
Every hour, a million tons of carbon dioxide from cars, factories and power plants rain down on the world’s oceans. Carbon pollution brings about a chemical reaction that turns sea water more acidic (酸的) and takes away things important for sea animals .
Some of us are already feeling the effects of this growing crisis（危機(jī)）. Shellfish farmers in the Pacific Northwest have reported a decrease in natural and farmed oysters(牡蠣). Just this week, a new studyproved the link between the huge reduction in the numbers of oysters and ocean acidification. As polar waters become more acidic, Alaskan fishermen are troubled by the future of smaller fish.
Without action, ocean acidification will have a disastrous influence on the food chain, affecting not only sea life but the people who depend on it for food and their living. Already, our oceans have become 30 percent more acidic since preindustrial times, and it gets worse every day. We can stop this frightening dream, but only if we act now.
That's why the Center for Biological Diversity has started a petition (請(qǐng)?jiān)笗? requesting President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a plan to deal with ocean acidification. Decisive action can save sea life as we know it.
Now it isn’t too late to save our oceans and sea life. With immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide release we can start taking important steps today to deal with this disastrous situation. Join me in our petition calling for a national plan to save our oceans.
小題1:The author’s recent visits to the tide pool brought her ___ .
A．happinessB．a(chǎn)ngerC．concernD．comfort
小題2:The underlined word “portend” in Paragraph 3 probably means ___ .
A．predictB．preventC．replaceD．reduce
小題3:What the author worries about most is ____ .
A．the harm of sea grasses
B．carbon pollution in the sea
C．that the petition may be turned down
D．how fishermen can make a living in the future
小題4:What is the main purpose of the text ?
A．To inform.B．To educate.C．To persuade .D．To instruct.

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：文章介紹了作者對(duì)海洋碳污染的擔(dān)心，號(hào)召讀者開始行動(dòng)，說服讀者加入請(qǐng)?jiān)笗男辛小?br />小題1:從第一段的句子：Lately, though, I've noticed a change in my favorite pools: there are more sea grasses and fewer animals with shells.可知作者最近去池塘發(fā)現(xiàn)了擔(dān)心的事情。選C
小題2:從第二段的句子：可知這個(gè)單詞是“預(yù)示”的意思。選A
小題3:從第四段的句子：可知作者最擔(dān)心的是海洋的二氧化碳污染。選B
小題4:寫作意圖題：從最后一段的句子：Join me in our petition calling for a national plan to save our oceans.可知作者是在說服讀者加入請(qǐng)?jiān)笗男辛小＿xC。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：這類閱讀理解要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系，對(duì)未說明的趨勢(shì)或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷；或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點(diǎn)理論，對(duì)文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋�？忌紫纫屑�(xì)閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準(zhǔn)確把握作者觀點(diǎn)。
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