人教版（2019）高中英语选择性必修第四册 Unit3 拓展阅读专项训练（一）.docxVIP

PAGE1 / NUMPAGES7 Unit3 拓展阅读专项训练（一） 一、刷阅读理解 A 体裁：说明文 题材：探索海洋 词数：343 难度：中 建议用时：7分钟 [河南林州一中2020高二月考]It seems we cant get off the planet fast enough. Two thirds of NASAs money is spent on manned space exploration. Weve seen all we can see on Earth，right？Wrong. The final place is here，under the surface of the sea. When we are heading down into the ocean，human limits are quickly reached. At a depth of 200 metres，the water is as black as a moonless night. Most nuclear submarines（核潜艇）would implode（内爆）before they reach 1 km down. At a depth of 3 km-still less than the average depth of the ocean—theres a good chance that youll discover a new species. The deepest-diving whales go no further. At the very bottom，about 11 km down，lies the Challenger Deep，the deepest part of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. Twelve humans have walked on the Moon，but only three have seen the Challenger Deep with their own eyes. Yet things live down there. Big things. A very loud sound was once heard and scientists suggested that it was produced by an animal bigger than a blue whale, the largest creature known on the planet. In the late 1990s, a deep-water submarine was dropped in the Southern Ocean, and passing 4,000 metres, it discovered something huge passing under it. Surprised? Dont be. The ocean covers 71% of the planets surface and weve studied less than 5% of it. We know more about the dark side of the Moon than about the bottom of the sea. One reason that we explore space is to find evidence of other life forms. The search for life outside of Earth is important, but robots can look under the dry rock on Mars better than humans. Theyre absolutely important for doing ocean research too, but they cant look under the sea. The cost of exploration is rising, but the results would benefit all of us. Perhaps now its time to begin a new period of sea exploration. Manned exploration of space is under way. The adventure in the deep sea is to be expected. 1. What do the examples in Paragraph 2