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Unit 3 素养提升：阅读理解+完形填空 组合训练（一） 一、阅读理解 It may not be quite old enough to be the world’s oldest living organism—that “honor” goes to the bristlecone pine tree(aged 5,000 years)—but, at 4,000 years of age, Leiopathes glaberrima, a deep water coral species, does set the record for being the oldest animal living under the sea. Located on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, off Hawaii, the 3 meters tall, (extremely) long-lived “black coral” could have some valuable clues about past incidents of climate change；specifically, it could better scientists’ understanding of how oceans draw down carbon dioxide—and of ocean acidification(酸化) in general. Brendan Roark of Texas AM University, who led a research expedition in 2006 to study the corals’ climate records, presented his findings at the recent AAAS meeting. How long they can live is anybody’s guess, Roark told Science’s Erik Stokstad. He and his colleagues used radiocarbon dating to determine the coral’s age. What this suggests, he said, is that the harvesting of deep-water coral for jewelry should be completely banned；because the corals grow at such an anemic(无活力的)rate, any level of harvesting would likely wipe out the remaining specimens—those not yet affected by ocean acidification. Roark believes it could be possible to reconstruct records of subsurface(地下的) temperature variability and ocean circulation changes, which would provide some insight on climate change incidents and help predict future effects. By comparison, that ocean quahog clam(圆蛤) we mentioned a while back—aged 405 years—seems almost sprightly(活泼的)． 语篇解读：本文是一篇科普文。主要讲述了海洋的寿星，一种叫作Leiopathes glaberrima的珊瑚的发现及其被发现的意义。 1. What does the underlined word “clues” in the second paragraph mean? A. Evidence. B. Treasure. C. Worth. D. Usage. 答案：A 解析：词义猜测题。联系第二段可知，Leiopathes glaberrima的发现对研究海洋提供了有力的线索与证据。故选A项。 2. What’s the value of the finding of the Leiopathes glaberrima? A. It shows which is the oldest in the ocean. B. It helps the scientists get more informa