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閲讀下列短文，從每題所給的`四個選項(A、B、C、D)中，選出最佳選項，並在答題卡上將該項塗黑。

Aquarium Event

Sea of Light

As a child in Laguna Beach，Richard Salas often wished he could swim through the tide pools and the underwater world.

A photography class in high school gave his life new purpose，and further studies at the Brooks Institute of Photography inspired Salas to take his love for the ocean in a new direction.

Join the Santa Barbara photographer as he records the undersea beauty of California’s Channel the last five years Salas has braved the cold waters and unpredictable currents to create a collection of portraits and content to simply record the well-known life forms，Salas uses dramatic lighting to uncover a world of never-ending color and texture(紋理)that is inhabited by personalities ranging from the funny to file evil.

Copies of Richard Salas’s book Sea of Light will be for sale at Pacific Collections and there will be a book signing after the lecture.

rding to the text，Salas________.

loped a love for oceans at college

a gift for photography in his childhood

dn’t find the direction of his life

rded the undersea beauty through hard work

can we know about Aquarium Event?

can go there in the morning.

will be free for everyone.

tickets can be bought online.

dy can get Salas’s signature.

is the advertisement about?

A.A course of the tide pools.

B.A photographer’s lecture and book on seas.

C.A photography class in a high schoo1.

D.A journey to California’s Channel Islands.

At 65，most people are thinking about getting a senior citizen bus for Montana woman Ethel MacDonald，who’s now a great-grandmother，that’s when she took up tour cycling.

“I like what I like to do without having to wait for someone else to be ready，”explains the appeal of biking alone on the open road，she says，is“just feeling like I’m my own boss.”

She began tour cycling in 2003，beginning with France’s Atlantic e from trips round her native United States，she’s wheeled her way through the Netherlands，Germany，Belgium，Scandinavia and beyond.

Her companion on her Ireland trip is a pink Brompton folding bike，which she’s used on five trips around the us keeps another bike with a friend for her tours of mainland seasoned biker reckons she’s traveled at least 10，000 miles.“Usually my trips are close to 1,000 miles in three to four weeks.”MacDonald says.

She uses online travel communities Warm Showers and Couchsurfing to find a place to stay，and hosts guests herself at her home in Missoula， Showers is exclusively(專門地)for touring cyclists while Couchsurfing is for any travelers wanting to meet new people or open their homes to August 2016，MacDonald estimated that she’d stayed with 165 hosts and hosted around 200 guests of her own.“It saves a pile of money，”she admits.“But far beyond that，the real value is the people you meet，the inspiration you get from each other，the memories，the connections.”

She keeps a scrapbook(剪貼簿)filled with photos and notes from all the people she’s met at home and abroad，and keeps in touch with her friends worldwide through traveling，she particularly loves the“big cultural exchange”that comes with spending each night with a new host with a different perspective on the world.

For anyone who wants to follow in her advice is simple.“Just do it.”

does the second paragraph mainly tell us?

history of her tour cycling.

reason for her taking up tour cycling.

range of her tour cycling.

equipment for her tour cycling.

nationality is Ethel MacDonald?

ium. ce. ica. any.

h of the following can replace the underlined word“seasoned”in Paragraph 4?

thy. thy. red. rienced.

does Ethel MacDonald find a place to stay?

ugh online travel communities. keeping a scrapbook.

ugh email. writing a letter.

A few years ago，Douglas Long was helping to identify some fish caught off the Pacific coast of Central America in g the images were those of a mysterious pitch black rested，he asked the researcher to lend him the preserved specimens(樣本)so that his team could study the fish in detail.

When the shark specimens arrived，the researchers immediately suspected that they had came across a new prove，they turned to shark expert Victoria Vasquez for December 21，2015，the team was finally able to prove that their initial guess had been correct.

According to Vasquez，the black sharks belong to the lantern shark gh each species has its own unique features，they all share one feature—the ability to glow in the dark.

Though there are over 40 known species of lantern sharks swimming in our oceans，they manage to keep a low profile because of their small size and tendency to stay in deep waters. Vasquez says the new species features tiny photospheres(發光點)that glow throughout its black sharks have other distinguishing 1antern shark features like spines on their fins as well as a different set of teeth on each jaw.

The researchers said that once it was proved that this was a new species they had come up with two settled on a name as an honor to Peter Benchley，the now dead author of the classic book and movie“Jaws.”To come with a more fun common name，Vasquez decided to consult her four young r some thought，the group that ranged from 8 to 15 suggested the fish be called“Super Ninja Shark.”The researchers named it Ninja! It was the perfect name for the fish whose uniform black skin and fine photospheres make it nearly invisible in the deep dark oceans.

proved the black shark a new species?

las Long. researchers.

oria Vasquez. r Benchley.

rding to the text，black sharks____________.

of large size

glow all over the body

to stay in shallow waters

a similar set of teeth on each jaw

did the researchers name the new species Ninja?

honor Peter Benchley.

please the young people.

protect the sea species.

show its invisible feature perfectly.

can be a suitable title for the text?

A.A new species of lantern sharks.

unique ability of sharks.

erious underwater sharks.

names for a black shark.

According to a report by the United Nations，54 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas and it predicts that by 2050，this figure will have increased to around 70 as more and more people migrate from the countryside to the city to get better opportunities，they can end up with nowhere to live.

This is true in places such as Rio de Janeiro，where migrants can’t rent or buy a home，and they end up building their own communities and houses on unoccupied e are called shanty towns—poor communities where the houses are built out of cheap materials—and often don’t have any electricity or water supply.

These are，of course，not the megacities(大城市)of the future we want to serious urban planning is needed to make our cities of the future good，safe and modern places to live involves improving the infrastructure(基礎設施)，the housing conditions and also the opportunities for education and employment.

Something urban planners are looking at now is the creation of“smart cities”rding to John Rossant，founder and chairman of the non-profit organization New Cities Foundation，technology is the way thinks that it's generally accepted that“cloud computing， ubiquitous internet，robust 5G networks etc，will transform our cities.”He says technology is really“a game changer”，in would collect large amounts of data about how a city is performing and may improve how a city functions.

This may sound like a utopian(烏托邦似的) now，some big cities around the world are trying out more low—tech schemes to try and make them desirable places to live and work ding shared—ownership housing and improving public transport are some ways. And encouraging cycling and building bike lanes can keep the population healthy and cut down on would make your city a better place to live in?

’s the text mainly about?

city of the future. increase of the population.

n construction. function of smart cities.

does the author mention Rio de Janeiro in Paragraph 2?

show the growth of the world population.

show the problems in urbanization.

show poor living conditions of the city.

show financial trouble of the city.

plays an important role in the creation of smart cities?

nology. n planning.

infrastructure of the city. rtunities for education.

can we know from the last paragraph?

-tech plans can be easily realized.

ic transport is well developed in cities.

ed-ownership houses make no sense.

of low-tech are available at present.