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Michael Fish may soon be replaced as a weather forecaster by something truly fishier—the shark (鲨鱼)．
Research by a British biology student suggests that sharks could be used to predict storms.
Lauren Smith,24，is close to completing her study on shark's ability to sense pressure.
If her studies prove the theory，scientists may be able to monitor the behaviour of sharks to predict bad weather.
Miss Smith had previously studied the behaviour of lemon sharks in the Bahamas.
She then used their close relatives, lesser spotted dogfish，for further research at Aberdeen University.
Her work—thought to be the first of its kind to test the pressure theory—resulted from the observation that juvenile (幼年的) blacktip sharks off Florida moved into deeper water ahead of a violent storm in 2001.
Miss Smith said：“I've always been crazy about travelling and diving and this led me to an interest in sharks.”
“I was delighted to have been able to research in the area for my degree.I know there's so much more we need to understand—but it certainly opens the way to more research.”
It has been discovered that a shark senses pressure using hair cells in its balance system.
At the Bimini Shark Lab in the Bahamas，Miss Smith fixed hi-tech sensors to sharks to record pressure and temperature，while also tracking them using GPS (Global Positioning System) technology.
In Aberdeen，she was able to study the effects of tidal(潮汐的)and temperature changes on dogfish—none of which were harmed.She also used a special lab which
can mimic(模拟)oceanic pressure changes caused by weather fronts.
She is due to complete her study and graduate later this year.She says she will be looking for a job which will give her the chance to enrich her experience of shark research.
1．The passage is most probably taken from ________. A．a short-story collection B．a popular science magazine C．a research paper D．a personal diary
2．What do we learn from the first four paragraphs of the passage? A．Sharks may be used to predict bad weather. B．Sharks' behaviour can be controlled. C．Michael Fish is not qualified for his job. D．Lauren Smith will become a weather forecaster . 3．Lauren Smith conducted her research by ________. A．removing hair cells from a shark's balance system B．measuring the air pressure of weather fronts C．recording sharks' body temperature D．monitoring sharks' reaction to weather changes
4．What is the passage mainly about? A．A popular way of forecasting weather. B．A new research effort in predicting storms. C．Biologists' interest in the secrets of sharks. D．Lauren Smith's devotion to scientific research. B
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The people who built Stonehenge in southern England thousands of years ago had wild parties, eating barbecued pigs and breaking pottery.This is according to recent work by archaeologists—history experts who investigate how human beings lived in the past.
Archaeologists digging near Stonehenge last year discovered the remains of a large prehistoric village where they think the builders of the mysterious stone circle used to live.The village is about 4,600 years old，the same age as Stonehenge and as old as the pyramids in Egypt.It is less than two miles from the famous ancient landmark and lies inside a massive manmade circular dirt wall，or“henge”，known as the Durrington Walls.
Remains found at the site included jewellery，stone arrowheads，tools made of deer antlers，wooden spears and huge amounts of animal bones and broken pottery.“These finds suggest Stone Age people went to the village at special times of the year to feast and party”，says Mike Parker Pearson from Sheffield University in England.
He said many of the pig bones they found had been thrown away half-eaten. He also said the partygoers appeared to have shot some of the farm pigs with arrows，possibly as a kind of sport before barbecuing them.
An ancient road which led from the village to the River Avon was also found. Here，the experts think，people came after their parties to throw dead relatives into the water so the bodies would be washed downstream to Stonehenge.
Parker Pearson believes Stonehenge was like a cemetery where ancient Britons buried the dead and remembered their ancestors.“The theory is that Stonehenge is a kind of spirit home to the ancestors.”
The recent discovery of the village within the Durrington Walls shows that Stonehenge didn't stand alone but was part of a much bigger religious site，according to Parker Pearson.
People still come to worship and celebrate at Stonehenge today.They meet there when the sun sets on the shortest day of winter and when it rises on the longest day of summer.But the days of barbecuing whole pigs there and throwing family members into the river are a thing of the past.
5．The underlined word“It”(Paragraph 2) refers to ________. A．the village C．the pyramid
B．Stonehenge D．the dirt wall
6．From the text we can infer that the people who came to the village ________. A．liked to drink wine
B．knew how to hunt C．were from Egypt D．lived by the River Avon
7．What do experts think people did after the village parties? A．Returned to live at Stonehenge. B．Prayed for good luck in the new year. C．Hunted farm pigs as a sport. D．Put their dead relatives into the river.
8．When do people most often go to Stonehenge today? A．When a new discovery is made. B．At the beginning of summer and winter. C．On the longest and shortest days of the year. D．When they want to have a barbecue.
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(2016·杭州第二中学高一期中) Do you ever wonder why the English have one word for some animals and a different one for their meat? Why do they use pig and pork, cow and beef, and sheep and mutton?
To find out, we have to go back to 1066, when the Norman French invaded England and put a French king on the English throne (王位), which not only changed the government but also changed the language.French became the language of the upper classes of society.And it remained that way for 300 years.Only these high society people could afford to eat meat.As a result, French words like porc(pork)and beouf (beef) came into the English language.However, poor English farmers raised the animals.So the English language retained the words pig and cow from the Native Anglo-Saxon.
The Norman French added about 10,000 French words to the English language.Seventy-five percent of them are still in use today.
According to language experts, English speakers who have never studied French may already know 15,000 French words! Between one-third and two-thirds of all English words have French origins.Some words such as “possible” and “avenue” are the same in French and English; only the pronunciations change.Other words such as “ballet” keep their French pronunciations in both languages.