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the ocean are increasingly threatened by noise pollution caused by human noise that affects sea creatures es from a number of human is caused mainly by industrial underwater explosions, ocean drilling, and ship noises are added to natural sounds include the breaking of ice fields, underwater earthquakes, and sounds made by animals (分貝)measured in water are different from those measured on noise of one hundredtwenty decibels on land causes pain to human water, a decibel level of onehundred ninetyfive would have the same scientists have proposed setting a noise limit of onehundredtwenty decibels have observed that noises at that level can frighten and confuse whales(鯨魚).A team of American and Canadian scientists discovered that louder noises can seriously injure some research team found that powerful underwater explosions were causing whales in the area to lose their seriously affected the whales39。t be confused by They are deaf to Their ability to reproduce will be lowered by highlevel Their hearing will be damaged by highlevel According to the passage, what will scientists most probably do in the future?A They will work hard to reduce ocean noise They will protect animals from harmful They will try to set a limit of 120 They will study the effect of ocean noise Lifetime Employment in Japanese CompaniesIn most large Japanese panies, there is a policy of lifetime this means is that when people leave school or university to join an enterprise, they can expect to remain with that organization until they effect, the employee gets job security for life, and can only be fired for serious mistakes in in times of business recession, he or she is free from the fear of being laid result of this practice is that the Japanese worker identifies closely with his pany and feels strong loyalty to working hard for the pany, he believes he is safeguarding his own is not surprising that devotion to one39。s interests before those of his immediate job security guaranteed by this system influences the way employees approach their tend to think in terms of what they can achieve throughout their is because they are not judged on how they are performing during a short period of can afford to, take a longer perspective than their Western marriage between the employee and the panymay explain why Japanese workers seem positively to love the products their pany is producing and why they are willing to stay on after work, for little overtime pay, to participate in earnest discussions about the quality control of their Lifetime employment in the Japanese pany means that the leaves his pany only when business is gets a job soon after he leaves school or can work there throughout his career,D can have his serious mistakes in work Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?A Family and pany interests are equally importantB The Japanese worker is very loyal to his One39。s pany is encouraged……Lifetime employment influences one39。s products because his marriage with the daughter of the the close link between him and his his willingness to work his active participation in quality control,40 The passage mainly how lifetime employment works in what benefits lifetime employment has brought to Japanese what lifetime employment how lifetime employment is Dreams of FlightThe story of man39。請將答案涂在答題卡相應(yīng)的位置上。TransportationFor many years in the desert, camels Used to be the only form of transportation(運(yùn)輸).Before the(51)of modern trains, camel trains used to carry all the goods for trading between Central Africa and sometimes(52)to put together camel trains with 10,000 to 15,000 animal often carried(53)400 pounds and could travel twenty miles a form of transportation was so important that camels were called the “ships of the(54).”Now modern trains travel across the desert in a very(55) engine can pull as much weight as 135,000(56).In addition, trains use special cars for their cars carry food。stock cars carry animals。Crashed Cars to Text Message for HelpThere is no good place to have a car crashbut some places are worse than a foreign country, for instance, 51 to explain via cellphone that you are upside down in a ditch when you cannot speak the local language can fatally delay the arrival of the emergency an answer may be at funded by the European Commission are beginning tests of a system called Emerge that 52 senses when a car has crashed and sends a text message telling emergency services in the local language that the accident has taken system was 53 by ERTICO, a transport research organization based in Brussels, are fitted with a cellphonesized device attached 54 the underside of the dashboard which is activated by the same sensor that triggers the airbag in a device 55 a cellphone circuit, a GPS positioning unit, and a microphone and registers the severity of the crash by 56 the deceleration data from the airbag39。s occupants are conscious, they can municate with the operator 59 the speaker and also transmits the vehicles make, model, color and license number, and its heading when it crashed, which in turn indicates on which side of a multilane highway it ended 60 the emergency services find the vehicle as soon as they arrive on the scene, “We can waste a large 61 time searching for an incident,” says Jim Hammond, a(an)62 in vehicle technology at the Association of Chief Police Officers in the will begin soon with police car fleets in the have already started in Germany, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands and systems that summon the emergency services after a crash have 63 been fitted in some premium says that 64 EU states are willing to fund the necessary infrastructure。s roads, and prevent a similar number of serious Renault study estimates that fitting Emerge to every car in Europe would eventually save around 150 billion per 65 in terms of reduced costs to health services and insurance panies, and fewer lost working A try B