2022-2023年河北省张家口市大学英语6级大学英语六级测试卷(含答案).docxVIP

2022-2023年河北省张家口市大学英语6级大学英语六级测试卷(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________  一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题) 1.Because the interview is on campus, you should look and act like a student.A.Y B.N C.NG?2.Population Growth RatesPopulations have a birth rate (the number of young produced per unit of population per unit of time), a death rate(the number of deaths per unit of time), and a growth rate. The major agent of population growth is births, and the major agent of population loss is deaths. When births exceed deaths, a population increases; and when deaths exceed additions to a population, it decreases. When births equal deaths in a given population, its size remains the same, and it is said to have zero population growth.When introduced into a favorable environment with an abundance of resources, a small population may undergo geometric, or exponential(指数的) growth, in the manner of compound interest. Many populations experience exponential growth in the early stages of colonizing a habitat because they take over an underexploited niche or drive other populations out of a profitable one. Those populations that continue to grow exponentially, however, eventually reach the upper limits of the resources; they then decline sharply because of some catastrophic(灾难的) events such as starvation, disease, or competition from other species. In a general way, populations of plants and animals that characteristically experience cycles of exponential growth are species that produce numerous young, provide little in the way of parental care, or produce an abundance of seeds having little food reserves. These species, usually short-lived, disperse rapidly and are able to colonize harsh or disturbed environments. Such organisms are often called opportunistic species.Other populations tend to grow exponentially at first, and then logistically—that is, their growth slows as the population increases, then levels off as the limits of their enviro