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此版本已将98、99年答案补上,请放心使用 请大家点击word文档中的显示/隐藏按钮进行显示/隐藏答案，或者使用快捷键ctrl+shift+8。 1995.10 13 1995.12 23 1996.01 33 1996.05 45 1996.08 55 1996.10 65 1996.12 75 1997.01 85 1997.05 95 1997.08 105 1997.10 115 1997.12 125 1998.01 135 1998.05 145 1998.08 155 1998.10 165 1999.01 175 1999.05 185 1999.08 195 1999.10 204 2000.01 214 2000.05 224 2000.08 234 2000.10 244 2001.01 253 2001.05 263 2001.08 273 2001.10 283 2002.01 293 2002.05 303 2002.08 313 2002.09 323 2002.10 333 2003.01 343 2003.08 353 2003.10 363 2004.01 373 2004.05 383 2004.08 393 2004.10 403 2005.01 412 2005.05 422 2005.08 432 1995.08 Question 1-9 Investigation of the Deep-Ocean Keywords: ocean, researchers, techniques, samples, rocks The ocean bottom – a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth – is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep – ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,6000 meters deep. Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earths surface, the deep – ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space. Although researchers have taken samples of deep – ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning of the National Science Foundations Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDPs drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the oceans surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting samples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor. The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15 – year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 core samples of seabed sediments