05职称英语理工ab考试模拟题(2).docx

05 职称英语理工 AB 考试模拟题 (2) 第三部分：概括大意与完成句子 （每题 1 分，共 8 分， 建议 10分钟以内完成） 阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有 2 项测试任务：（1 ）1---4 题要求 从所给的 6 个选项中为第 2--5 段每段选择 1 个正确的小标题；（2） 第 5--8 题要求从所给的 6 个选项中选择 4 个正确的选项，分别完成 每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。 难度E/A级 Blasts from the past Volcanoes were more destructive in ancient history ． Not because they were bigger, but because the carbon dioxide they released wiped out 1ife with greater ease ． Paul Wignall from the University of Leeds was investigating the link between volcanic eruptions and mass extinctions ．Not a11 volcanic eruptions killed off large numbers of animals ，but all the mass extinctions over the past 300 million years coincided with huge formations of volcanic rock ．To his surprise ，the older the massive volcanic eruptions were ，the more damage they seemed to do ． Wignall calculated the" killing efficiency "for these volcanoes by comparing the proportion ．ion of life they killed off with the volume of lava that they produced ．He found that size for size ， older eruptions were at least 1 0 times as effective at wiping out life as their more recent rivals ． The Permian extinction ，for example ， which happened 250 million years ago ， is marked by floods of volcanic rock in Siberia that cover an arearoughly the size of western Europe ． Those volcanoes are thought to have pumped out about 10 gigatonnes of carbon as carbon dioxide ．The global warming that followed wiped out 80 per cent of all marine genera at the time 。 And it took 5 million years for the planet to recover ． Yet 60 million years ago in the late Palaeocene there was another huge amount of volcanic activity and global warming but}Io mass extinction ．Some animals did disappear but things returned to normal within ten thousands of years ，"The most recent ones hardly have an effect at all 。 " Wignall says ．He ignored the extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous ，。 65 million years ago ，because many scientists believe it was primarily caused by the impact of an asteroid Wi