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自然环境类阅读文章的答题技巧点拨 华中农业大学 外国语 胡素芬 自然环境是我们人类赖以生存的空间。人类从对自然的恐惧，到改造自然，到现在保护自然环境的过程，实际上是人类文明进步和发展的过程。环境是人们永远关注的话题。一般从如下几个方面进行阐述：（1）人类生存的环境中出现的问题；（2）））2005年1月Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. Lead deposits, which accumulated in soil and snow during the 1960s and 70s, were primarily the result of leaded gasoline emissions originating in the United States. In the twenty years that the Clean Air Act has mandated unleaded gas use in the United States, the lead accumulation world-wide has decreased significantly. A study published recently in the journal Nature shows that air-borne leaded gas emissions from the United States were the leading contributor to the high concentration of lead in the snow in Greenland. The new study is a result of the continued research led by Dr. Charles Burton, an expert on the impact of heavy metals on the environment at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. A study by Dr. Burton published in 1991 showed that lead levels in arctic (北极的) snow were declining. In his new study, Dr. Burton found the ratios of the different forms of lead in the leaded gasoline used in the United States were different from the ratios of European, Asian and Canadian gasoline and thus enabled scientists to differentiate (区分) the lead sources. The dominant lead ratio found in Greenland snow matched that found in gasoline from the United States. In a study published in the journal Ambio, scientists found that lead levels in soil in the North-eastern United States had decreased markedly since the introduction of unleaded gasoline. Many scientists had believed that the lead would stay in soil and snow for a longer period. The authors of the Ambio study examined samples of the upper layers of soil taken from the same sites of 30 forest floors in New England, New York and Pennsylvania in 1980 and in 1990. The forest environment processed and redistributed the lead faster than the scientists had expected. Scientists say both studies demons