【正文】 lp to begin fashioning conservation measures .A bill by Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, which would offer financial incentives for private industry is a promising start Many see that the country is getting ready to build lots of new power plants to meet our energy needs. If we are ever going to protect the atmosphere, it is crucial that those new plants be environmentally . An argument made by supporters of smoking was that　　[A]. there was no scientific evidence of the correlation between smoking and death. 　　[B]. the number of early deaths of smokers in the past decades was insignificant. 　　[C]. people had the freedom to choose their own way of life. 　　[D]. antismoking people were usually talking . According to Bruce Alberts, science can serve as　　[A]. a protector. 　　[B]. a judge. 　　[C]. a critic. 　　[D]. a . What does the author mean by “paralysis by analysis” (Last line, paragraph 4) 　　[A]. Endless studies kill action. 　　[B]. Careful investigation reveals truth. 　　[C]. prudent planning hinders. 　　[D]. Extensive research helps . According to the author, what should the Administration do about　　[A]. Offer aid to build cleaner power plants. 　　[B]. Raise public awareness of conservation. 　　[C]. Press for further scientific research. 　　[D]. Take some legislative . The author associates the issue of global warming with that of smoking because　　[A]. they both suffered from the government39。s obvious that a majority of the president39。s report “Science never has all the answers .But science does provide us with the best available guide to the future, and it is critical that out nation and the world base important policies on the best judgments that science can provide concerning the future consequences of present actions.” instructions. 　　[C]. nice in both appearance and temperament. 　　[D]. more generous than their male panions24. Dr. Brosnan and Dr. de Waal have eventually found in their study that the monkeys　　[A]. prefer grapes to cucumbers. 　　[B]. can be taught to exchange things. 　　[C]. will not be cooperative if feeling cheated. 　　[D]. are unhappy when separated from others.25. What can we infer from the last paragraph? 　　[A]. Monkeys can be trained to develop social emotions. 　　[B]. Human indignation evolved from an uncertain source. 　　[C]. Animals usually show their feelings openly as humans do. 　　[D]. Cooperation among monkeys remains stable only in the wild.passage 2Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn39。 In the world of capuchins grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers) So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to 。s。s and Dr. de waal39。 nature. 　　[C]. monkeys, like humans, tend to be jealous of each other. 　　[D]. no animals other than monkeys can develop such emotions.23. Female capuchin monkeys were chosen for the research most probably because they are　　[A]. more inclined to weigh what they get. 　　[B]. attentive to researchers39。s atmosphere is definitely warming and that the problem is largely manmade. The clear message is that we should get moving to protect ourselves. The president of the National Academy, Bruce Alberts, added this key point in the preface to the panel39。 Fortunately, the White House is starting to pay attention. But it39。 To serve as responsible stewards of the planet, we must press forward on deeper atmospheric and oceanic research But research alone is inadequate. If the Administration won39。 Blaming the permissive 1960s is nothing new, but this is not yet another criticism against the decline in education. ’s academic speciality is language history and change, and he sees gradual disappearance of “whom” ,for example, to be natural and no more regranttable than the loss of the caseendings of Old English Text 1 In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. There is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of consumption” launched by the 19thcentury department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite.” these were stores “anyone could enter, regardless of class or background. This turned shopping into a public and democratic act.” The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization. Immigrants are quickly fitting into this mon culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguez reports that today’s immigration is neither at unprecedented level nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were percent of population。 they suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived, the large, slowgrowing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. Now something similar could be happening in the oceans that the seas are being overfished has been known for years what researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world. Their methods de not attempt to estimate the actual biomass (the amount of living biological matter) of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time. According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) inanes fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation. In some longfished areas, it has halved again since