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PAGE PAGE 14 拓展创新学程一Unit 1 Our living planet In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous. ——Aristotle 在自然界的所有事物中，总有奇妙之处。 ——亚里士多德 Part 1: 课文精练 课文语法填空改编 Reading: The Ocean Deep. We look upwards and wonder 1.______________ lies beyond our planet. We send probes into the 2.________________ (vast) of space 3._________________ (explore) the unknown. We build space stations to advance our understanding of the universe. Our 4.__________________ (curious) about outer space has remained 5.____________________ (shake). Meanwhile, it 6.______________________ (estimate) that more than eighty per cent of the world’s oceans are unexplored. So, if we want to find exciting new life forms as well as undiscovered and unusual geological formations, the ocean is 7.________________ we should also be looking. Then why don’t we dive to the bottom of a really deep ocean and take a long, close look beneath the waves? The first 200 metres of our dive 8._________________ (take) us through 9.________________ can be called the open ocean, 10.__________________ most visible light exists. Here 11._______________ (live) much of the marine life we know about, such as dolphins, corals and seaweeds. 12._________________ (sink) below 200 metres, we enter the twilight zone, where there is little sunlight and 13.________________ almost no plant life. Most of the fish living here are small filter feeders which swim up at night to feed in the nutrient-rich waters above. Also living in the twilight zone 14._____________ (be) hunters with telescopic, upward-pointing eyes that can easily spot a meal in the waters above. Consequently, the fish most likely 15._______________________ (eat) have evolved to have thin bodies so that they are less easily seen from below. However, once they are captured, the hunters’ backward-curving teeth prevent them from getting away. 16.____________________ (evolve), it seems helps both the hunter and the hun