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系 专业 年级 班 姓名 学号 密 封 线 锡林郭勒职业学院 师范教育系（英语）专业（07）级 《英语泛读》期中考试试题（A卷）2007—2008学年第二学期 闭（开）卷 （90）分钟 题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 总分 得分 评分人 核分人 复核人 阅读理解（共25小题；每小题4分，满分100分） 阅读下面的短文，从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，写在答题表上。 1 LONDON ( Reuters)-- Ecotourism ( 生态旅游) is causing a lot of damage to wildlife and may be endangering the survival(生存) of the very animals people are flocking to see, according to researchers. Biologists and conservationists ( 自然环境保护论者) are worried because polar bears, dolphins, penguins and other creatures are getting stressed and losing weight and some are dying. Evidence is growing that many animals do not react well to tourists in their backyard,” New Scientist magazine said. The immediate effects researchers have noticed are changes in behavior, heart rates, or stress hormone levels but they fear it could get much worse and over the long term could endanger the survival of the very wildlife they want to see. Although money produced through ecotourism, which has been growing at about 10--30 percent a year, has major benefits for poor countries and people living in rural areas, the Swiss-based World Conservation Union and some governments fear not all projects are audited (审计) and based on environmentally friendly policies, according to the magazine, The transmission(传播) of disease to wildlife, or small changes to wildlife health through disturbance of daily life or increased stress levels, while not obvious to the casual observer, may translate to lower survival and breeding ,said Philip Seddon, of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Scientists have noticed that bottleneck dolphins along the northeastern coast of New Zealand become nervously excited when tourist boats arrive. Similar changes in behavior have been observed in polar bears a