With the depletion of the cod fishery and so many other coastal fish stocks worldwide, the fishing industry has turned to the high seas to exploit their resources. Fishing operations are now (1) the seamounts, oceanic ridges and plateaus of the deep ocean (2) national jurisdiction, where owner ship and responsibility do not (3) to any nation.
(4) a decade or more, we have caused significant damage to (5) unknown ecosystems, depleted species and probably doomed many others to (6) .Every day, commercial fishing fleets (7) primarily from just 11 nations venture (8) the high seas to fish the deep ocean. What’s left is truly a lonely, infertile, undersea desert.
The high seas are very special. It is here where you can find (9) groupings of animals that (10) their energy from sources (11) the sun around volcanoes on the deep sea floor. It is only here where you can find areas still free from introduced species, (12) in the seas around Antarctica. And it is here where you can find (13) organisms that are more than 8,000 years old, like many of the massive deep-sea corms.
But what really sets the high seas (14) from all other areas we know is the (15) lack of protection for any of this natural heritage.
A United Nations meeting recently finally pay great attention to the high seas and put them on the (16) .Government officials from around the world gathered together with scientists, representatives from the fishing (17) , conservation groups and other stake-holders to discuss conservation and (18) use of marine biological diversity in the high seas, (19) 64 percent of the Earth’s surface.
They need to move quickly. (20) the fragility of these environments, we simply do hot have the luxury of time, but we can act before it is too late.

A:living B:alive C:lively D:vital

American higher education stands on the brink (边缘) of chaos. (1) have so many spent so long learning so little.
The present crisis (2) the increasingly widespread acceptance among faculty and administrators of the fatal educational (3) that a student should not be required to do any academic work that (4) him. If a student prefers not to study science or history or literature, he is (5) to attain his degree without studying any science, history, or literature.
Throughout the country the attempt is being (6) to provide students with what is advertised as a (7) education without requiring of them the necessary self-discipline and hard work. Students have been led to believe they can achieve (8) effort, that all they need to do in order to obtain a good education is skip (跳跃) casually down the merry road to learning. Unfortunately, that road is no (9) a detour (绕路) to the dead end of ignorance.
We must realize that becoming an educated person is a difficult, demanding (10) . Just as anyone who spoke of intense (11) training as a continuous source of pleasure and delight would be thought a fool, for we all know how much pain and frustration such training involves, so anyone who speaks of intense mental (12) as a continuous source of joy and ecstasy ought to be thought (13) foolish, for such effort also involves pain and frustration. Of course, there can be joy in learning as there can be joy in sport. But in both cases the joy is a result of overcoming genuine (14) and cannot be experienced without sweat.
And that he (15) well is no reason why he should not be criticized for an (16) performance. Such criticism, when well-founded and constructive, is (17) demeaning (有辱人格的). Yet criticism of any sort is (18) nowadays. (19) student opinion is given greater and greater (20) in the evaluation of faculty, professors are busy trying to ingratiate (迎合) themselves with the students.

A:humane B:generous C:lively D:liberal

The speech （　）, a lively discussion started.

A:to deliver B:be delivered C:delivering D:having been delivered

The speech ______, a lively discussion started.

A:being delivered B:was delivered C:be delivered D:having been delivered

What is the typical American family (21) Married American adults will name their husband or wife and their children (22) their "immediate family"(直系家庭). If they (23) their father, mother, sisters, or brothers, they will define them as separate units, usually (24) in separate households. Aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents are (25) "extended family"(扩大的家庭).
The structure of the American family has undergone great changes (26) the 1950s. Traditionally, the American family (27) been a nuclear family, consisting (28) a husband, a wife, and their children. Grandparents (29) live in the same home with their (30) sons and daughters.
In the 1950s, 70 percent of American households (31) the "classic" American family—a husband, wife, and two children. The father earned the money to (32) the family, the mother (33) the children and did not work outside the home, and they had two children.
Yet, in the 1990s,only 8 percent of American households consisted of a (35) father, a stay-at- home mother, and two children. And (35) ,18 percent of households consisted of two parents who were both working and some or more children living at home.

A:living B:live C:lively D:leaving

Jungle country is not friendly to man, but it is possible to survive there. You must have the right (21) and you must know a few important things about the jungle. Then your chances of staying (22) are very good.
In the jungle, you should always carry a (23) . Then you can (24) which way to go. Again and again you must check your position by it.
Keep alert. Watch the ground in front of you carefully. Stop and listen (25)
If you lose your (26) , do not be afraid. Mark the spot where you are with blazes on a tree. Then you can always know where you started.
Finding water that is safe to drink can be a problem. Many streams and rivers carry germs that can be (27) to man. Luckily, the jungle has many kinds of plants and vines that give water.
(28) in the jungle is a science. Learn as much as you can about what to (29) in the jungle. Then no part of the jungle will seem completely unfriendly or frightening. In fact, you will be able to " (30) " it for a long time.

A:life B:live C:alive D:lively

She was, I thought, the best novelist(小说家)in the world because she told us a large number of ______ stories about her life in Afric

A:a. alive living lively live

His package looks pretty, people will buy just about anything. So says an advertising executive in New York, and he has proved his point by selling boxes of rubbish for the price of an expensive bottle of wine. Justin Gignac, 26, has sold almost 900（1）presented plastic boxes of rubbish from the street of the Big Apple at between ＄50 and ＄100 each. Buyers from 19 countries have paid for the souvenirs(纪念品). The idea has been so successful that he is thinking of promoting it around the world. It all began when Mr. Gignac was at a summer workshop. "We had a discussion about his importance of （2）," he recalls. "Someone said packaging was unimportant. I disagreed. The only way to prove it was by selling something nobody would ever want." He searches the streets of Manhattan and typical（3） include broken glass, subway tickets, Starbucks cups and used（4）forks. "Special editions" are offered at a high price. He charged ＄100 for rubbish from the opening day of the New York Yankees stadium. Mr. Gignac denies（5）his customers for fools: "They know what they're getting. They appreciate the fact that they're taking something nobody would want and finding beauty in it." Some（6）customers include people who used to live in the city and want a down to earth souvenir. He claims he has even sold to art collectors. Realizing that the concept appears to be a real moneymaker, Mr. Gignac has（7）a company and is employing his girlfriend as vice president. He（8）to discuss his profit margins: "Its actually quite a lot of effort putting them together-but yet, garbage is free."Mr. Gignac is considering more varieties of souvenirs. He maintains that he has signed（9）with people interested in（10）projects from as far as Berlin and London.
 

A:lively B:lovely C:harvest D:lonely