老托福阅读全套试题【98-05】.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料老托福阅读全套试题【98-05】 摘要： 不少学生不明白为什么现在考试的都是新托福阅读了，为什么还要做老托福阅读的题目呢?原因很简单，虽然我们现在考试的是新托福阅读，但是托福阅读考试的题型共有10种(这里就不再为大家介绍)，其中有6种常考的题型还是沿用了老托福的，所以联系老托福真题对我们的托福阅读分数影响非常大。 老 托福 阅读全套试题： 2001.01 Questions 1-9 In 1972, a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar To that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas a marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to visit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed. The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce. Initially, 70 sites were proposed as candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, with half of these established after 1978. They range in size from the very small (less than I square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers. The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradation and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species. Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System, managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and pro