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精品 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 精品 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 精品 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 核心素养测评三十九 Module 1～3 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A (2020·北京模拟) We hope you’ve finally made your peace with Pluto being downgraded from a planet to an ice dwarf (冰矮星), because we have some more jarring news for you: It seems your teachers may have been wrong about the number of continents on the earth, too. Earlier this year, scientists published a report in the journal of the Geological Society of America detailing an eighth continent called Zealandia, roughly the size of India and almost completely hid itself under the Pacific Ocean east of Australia. Covering all of New Zealand as well as several nearby islands, Zealandia likely spent the best of its above-water days as part of the supercontinent Gondwana before fragmenting off Australia and Antarctica some 80 million years ago. This lost, underwater continent is just beginning to reveal its secrets, making for one of the most promising scientific discoveries this year. While researchers have been aware of the 1. 9 million-square-mile mass for two decades, Zealandia has only recently become the object of serious study since the Geological Society paper argued that it fits all the criteria for a proper continent, including a continental crust (地壳)that’s distinctly separate from the seabed in terms of elevation, thickness, and geology. A team of 32 scientists from 12 countries just completed their first visit to six dig sites around Zealandia, where they drilled up more than 8, 000 feet of sediment cores (沉积物岩心)that will help explain the lost continent’s 80-million-year history. Because there is no official body that formally recognizes continents, whether or not Zealandia ends up in future geography textbooks will come down to its acceptance by the scientific community at large, possibly with a little help from travelers like you. 【文章大意】本文为说明文。众所周知, 地球上有七大洲, 但是最近科学家们却发现, 地球上有可能存在第八大洲, 就是现在新西兰等周边岛屿所在的地方, 但尚待科学的进一步论证。 1. Why does the author mention Pluto? A. To expr