The marine environment is fascinating to study and work in due to its beauty, richness, and complexity. It covers three quarters of the surface of the Earth, yet we know more detail about the surface of Mars.
In the past, it was seen as both an inexhaustible resource and a bottomless sink for our wastes. Yet the increasing pressures of overpopulation, pollution and the threat to our natural environment mean that there is an increasing need for scientists who can understand how it all works, how it affects us, and how we are affecting it from global warming through to the smallest plankton.
From local issues to global concerns, we now know that the marine environment is inextricably linked to our lives, and to our future survival. It is an area where much remains to be discovered, and where only a multidisciplinary approach can cover the breadth of issues to be confronted. This is the approach taken on our Marine Environmental Science degree course.
This course takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore and understand the marine environment. After an initial grounding in basic science, optional choices are available in specialist topics such as marine ecosystems and pollution, coastal navigation and oceanography, among others.
Our new harbor side marine laboratory is used for some of the specialist lectures, laboratory and project work, while a week's residential field course in the Isle of Man provides training to prepare for the research project conducted in your final year. There is an optional trip to Belize in the final year to study tropical marine environments.
1. From the passage, we can infer that ______.
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B．marine environment covers 3/4 of the surface of Mars |
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C．marine environment is beautiful for its sufficient resources |
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D．the Earth is similar to Mars |
2.The present environment of the Earth forces the experts and scholars to study ______.
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A．the relationship between people’s actions and natural environment |
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B．the relationship between people’s actions and pollution |
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C．the relationship between people’s actions and overpopulation |
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D．the relationship between people’s actions and plankton |
3. According to the passage, a multi-disciplinary approach is effective because _______.
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A．we can choose some issues as optionally as we can |
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B．we have practiced the approach for a long time |
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C．the approach is linked to our future survival |
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D．the approach covers a lot of problems we will meet |
4.We can divide the lectures of the course into ______ parts.
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5.If a student choose marine Environmental Science degree course, he must ______.
A. make lectures about the issues to be confronted
B. provide training to get ready to do research project
C. take several days residential field in the Isle
travel to Belize to study tropical marine environments
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Student Services
Students' Union
Every University has a Students' Union. If students are the lifeblood of a university, the Union is surely its beating heart.
For students, by students
A Students’ Union is run by students and acts independently. At the end of each academic year, it will find six students to hold a sabbatical（带有休假的） position managing the Union for the coming year. That the six successful sabbatical officers have only recently experienced issues affecting students ensures that your needs are very well understood.
Letting your hair down
Although the University is spread across a fairly wide area, the Union is centrally located and is only a short walk from any of the main buildings. This makes it very easy to catch up with friends who might be on a different course.
At night, the place really comes alive – we have three different bars to suit every occasion. The venues are student-only so you can be sure of meeting people with a similar outlook and we throw in a transport service to make sure you get home safely.
The Union also organizes various formal balls throughout the year, with the highlight being the end-of-year ball.
Supporting you
Beyond having fun, we also make sure some of the more serious issues are effectively dealt with. If you have a problem with your course, another sabbatical officer is trained to help you. Being independent from the University means we can represent and support you to the best of our ability, and once you reach university you may find that you become aware of more national or political issues.
1.From the second paragraph of the passage, we can infer that ______.
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A．a Students’ Union is operated by the university |
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B．a Students’ Union is not operated by the university |
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C．a Students’ Union is operated is working for the university |
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D．a Students’ Union is affected by the university |
2. The person who takes up a certain post of the Students’ Union ______.
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A．learns what the students need |
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B．is very happy and easy |
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C．can affect the life of any student |
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D．has understood everything of the University |
3.According to the third paragraph, we can learn that ______.
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A．a Students’ Union is far away from the university |
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B．a Students’ Union is near to the home |
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C．a Students’ Union is central part of the university |
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D．a Students’ Union has different courses for all the students |
4.From the passage, we can learn that ______ is the most wonderful program of every year.
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A．making friends |
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B．dancing in a bar |
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C．the match of the end-year ball |
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D．electing the officers |
5.After reading the last two parts, we can infer that _______.
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A．the Students’ Union can help a student who has trouble in the study |
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B．the Students’ Union can help a student who is being trained |
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C．the Students’ Union can cultivate the ability of a student to be suitable for political position |
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D．the Students’ Union can support a student to run the University |
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36至50各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中,选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
People who are cheerful and relaxed are less likely to suffer from colds．It's 36 that being full of vim（活力） and vigor（精力） helps the body 37 illnesses, say the researchers from Carnegie Mellon University（CMU） in Pittsburgh．
"We need to take more seriously the possibility that a 38 emotional style is a fighter player in disease risk," says psychologist Sheldon Cohen, the study's lead researcher．
In a previous study, Cohen and his colleagues found that people who 39 to be cheerful and lively were 40 likely to develop sniffles, coughs, and other cold symptoms （症状）．
Those findings were interesting, but they didn't prove that a person's 41 affects whether he or she gets sick． 42 it was still possible that a person's underlying personality is 43 matters．
44 suggests, for instance, that certain people are naturally more likely to be outgoing（外向的）and 45 , with high self-respect and a sense of 46 over life．This would mean that who we are, not how we feel, finally decides our 47 of catching colds．
To figure out which mattered more （personality or 48 ）, the CMU team 49 193 healthy adults．The researchers talked to each person over the phone every evening for 2 weeks．They told the researchers about the positive and negative 50 they had experienced that day．
The results showed that everyone in the study was 51 likely to get infected．Their symptoms（征兆）, however, 52 depending on the types of emotions that they had reported over the 53 2 weeks．
Scientists 54 about whether negative emotions or positive emotions have a stronger 55 on how healthy we are．For now, it can't hurt to look on the bright side more often than not!
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