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/ 托福综合写作练手材料 海獭数量急剧减少的原因 摘要：100托福小编为考生们搜集了一系列的托福综合写作的阅读材料，考生们快来练手吧。下面是托 福综合写作练手材料系列——《托福综合写作练手材料 海獭数量急剧减少的原因》（含文章分析和范文）。 100托福小编为考生们搜集了一系列的托福综合写作的阅读材料，考生们快来练手吧。下面是托福综合 写作练手材料系列——《托福综合写作练手材料 海獭数量急剧减少的原因》。 托福综合写作——海獭数量急剧减少的原因 阅读材料： The sea otter is a small mammal that livesin waters along the western coast of North America from California to Alaska.When some sea otter populations off the Alaskan coast started rapidly declininga few years ago, it caused much concern because sea otters play an importantecological role in the coastal ecosystem. Experts started investigating thecause of the decline and quickly realized that there were two possibleexplanations: environmental pollution or attacks by predators. Initially, thepollution hypothesis seemed the more likely of the two. 海獭是一种生活在北美西海岸从加州到阿拉斯加沿线的小型海洋哺乳动物。几年前，阿拉斯加海岸的海 獭数量急剧减少。由于海獭对于维持海岸沿线生态平衡有非常重要的作用，所以其数量下降引起了广泛 的关注。专家开始研究海獭数量下降的原因，并且很快发现了两个可能的原因，分别是环境污染和天敌 捕食。最初，环境污染说看起来更为可信。 The first reason why pollution seemed themore likely cause was that there were known sources of it along the Alaskancoast, such as oil rings and other sources of industrial chemical pollution. Watersamples from the area revealed increased levels of chemicals that coulddecrease the otters’ resistance to life-threatening infections and thus couldindirectly cause their deaths. 为什么污染说更为可信呢？这是因为阿拉斯加海岸确实有污染源，比如石油带或者其他的工业污染物。 该地的水样显示水中化学物的含量增加，其数量可以导致海獭对于一些致命感染丧失抵抗力，进而间接 导致数量下降。 Second, other sea mammals such as seals andsea lions along the Alaskan coast were also declining; indicating that whateverhad endangered the otters was affecting other sea mammals as well. This factagain pointed to environmental pollution, since it usually affect the entire ecosystemrather than a single species. Only widely occurring predators, such as the orca(a large predatory whale), could have the same effect, but orcas prefer to huntmuch larger