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2019 年 12 月英语四级阅读冲刺练习及答案 (30) 阅读材料： It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial  ’s largest whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult, and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior. So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy ’s formerly top -secret system of underwater listening devices spannin