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【正文】 and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. It is the fifth largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. Some 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice, which averages at least kilometres ( mi) in thickness. On average, Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. ? Dictation Passage The Antarctic ? The Antarctic is a continent of great size—equal almost to Europe and Australia put together—yet it has no permanent inhabitants. Only those who man weather stations and the bases from which parties of explorers set out live there. Some go only for one year, many for two, but never longer, unless the ship which is to bring them out cannot reach their base. In that event they must make the best of it and settle down to another year’s work. ? Of all this vast continent only about one percent is exposed rock。 ? 冰川消融速度加快 盤點全球冰川現(xiàn)狀 據(jù)英國 《 衛(wèi)報 》 報道，由于全球氣候變暖和溫室效應，地球上的冰川和冰架目前正在不斷消融，而且速度還在進一步的加快。聯(lián)合國此前公布的一份報告說，乞力馬扎羅山的冰蓋將隨著全球氣候變暖而融化，并且可能會完全消失。左圖拍攝于 1992年，右圖拍攝于 2022年。那里氣候嚴寒，冰雪茫茫，中部地區(qū)的最冷月平均溫度為攝氏零下 47度，絕對最低溫度達到攝氏零下 70度。 46′N，南北長度約為 2600千米。 ? 其實，這個島并不像它的名字那樣充滿著春意。t long before the idea of attracting deposits and securing temporary loans from wealthy customers became an important source of bank funding. 3. The banking industry gradually spread outward from the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome into northern and western Europe. 4. The early banks in Europe were places for safekeeping of valuable items as people came to fear loss of their assets due to war, theft, or expropriation by government. 5. As the 19th century began, the development of large, professionally managed banking firms was centered in a few leading mercial centers, especially New York. Keys to Ex. C 1 . B 2 . A 3 . C 4 . D 5 . D 6 . A 7 . C 8 . B Section Three NEWS News Item 1 News Item 2 News Item 3 Cool Weather and Warm Weather ? If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of year. A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (18761947), concluded from other men’s work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities. ? He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in summer than they are during the rest of the year. Ii does mean, however, that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer. ? Spring appears to be the best time of the year for thinking. Fall is the nextbest season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking. ? Greenland丹麥語作 Gronland，格陵蘭語作 Kala
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