問題詳情
請依下文回答第 31 題至第 35 題： Earth is poorly named. The ocean 31 almost three-quarters of the planet. The ocean provides3 billon people with almost a fifth of their protein, making fish a bigger source of the stuff than beef.Fishing and aquaculture assure the 32 of one in ten of the world’s people. Climate and weathersystems depend on the temperature patterns of the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere. Ifanything ought to be too big to fail, it is the ocean. Humans have long 33 that the ocean’s size allowed them to put anything they wanted into itand to take anything they wanted out. Changing temperatures and chemistry, overfishing and pollutionhave stressed its ecosystems for decades. The ocean stores more than nine-tenths of the heat trapped onEarth by greenhouse-gas emissions. 34 , coral reefs are suffering; scientists expect almost all coralsto be gone by 2050.
By the middle of this century the ocean could contain more plastic than fish by weight. Grounddown into tiny pieces, it is eaten by fish and then by people. Appetite for fish grows 35 : almost90% of stocks are fished either at or beyond their sustainable limits. The ocean nurtures humanity.Humanity treats it with contempt.
【題組】31
(A) covers
(B) imposes
(C) discloses
(D) exposes
參考答案
答案：A
難度：簡單0.75
統計：A(3),B(0),C(0),D(1),E(0)