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同等学力英语每日一练(2013-1-21)

2013年参加同等学力的考生们,学苑教育献上同等学力英语每日一练,供考生学习与参 考。大家可随时关注学苑教育同等学力考试频道,我们将第一时间公布相关考试信息。 Within a large concrete room, cut out of a mountain on a freezing-cold island just 1,000 kilometersfromtheNorthPole,couldlie thefutureofhumanity. The room is a vault(地下库) designed to hold around 2 million seeds, representing all known varieties ofthe world’scrops.It is beingbuilt tosafeguard theword’sfoodsupplyagainst nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels, earthquakes and the collapse of electricity supplies “if the worst came to the worst, this would allow the world to reconstruct agriculture on this planet,” says Cary Fowler, director of the global Crop Diversity Trust ,an independent internationalorganization promotingtheproject. The Norwegian (挪威的)government is planning to create the seed bank next year at the request of crop scientists. The $3 million vault will be built deep inside a sandstone mountain on the Norwegian Arctic island of Spitsbergen. The vault will have metre-thick walls of reinforced concreteandwill beprotectedbehindtwoairlocks andhigh-security doors. The vault’s seed collection will represent the products of some 10,000 years of plant breeding by the world’s farmers, though most are no longer widely planted, the varieties contain vitalgenetic propertiesstill regularlyusedinplantbreeding. To survive, the seeds need freezing temperatures. Operators plan to replace the air inside the vault each winter, when temperatures in Spitsbergen are around -18 °C. But even if some disaster meant that the vault was abandoned, the permanently frozen soil would keep the seeds alive. And ever accelerated global warming would take many decades to penetrate the mountain vault. “This will betheworld’smost securegenebank.,” says Fowler. “But its seeds will only beusedwhenallothersampleshave goneforsome reason. The project comes at a time when there is growing concern about the safety of existing see

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