°专00826.What does the underlined word"emaciated"in the last paragraph mcan?30.We can be inferred about hurricanes?A.They are more destructive to inland homeowners.A.Skinny and weak.B.Perfectly healthy.计一【0B.They will become much stronger in the coming years.C.Wild and crazy.D.Badly injured.4,文C.They cause a lot of damage to the areas within their reach.27.What is the text mainly about?D.They have given a heavy blow to homeowners in the last five years.A.An exciting Father's Day.31.What can we learn from the passage?B.The amazing survival of my dog.A.It's not worthwhile to live along the coast.C.A magical collar that saved my dog.B.Insurance companies will no longer lose money.D.A shepherd conquering the Grand Traverse Peak.C.Good things always come along with something bad.【原创】CD.Hurricanes affect both homeowners along the coast and those inland.Living along the coast has its advantages.The nice weather and quick access to beaches【原创】Dprovide people there with lots of opportunities to relax.However,there are disadvantagesEarth is far more alive than we previously thought,according to"deep life"studies thatthat come along with these good things,especially for those who live along the Gulf ofreveal a rich ecosystem beneath our feet that is almost twice the size of all the world'sMexico.Hurricanes and other weather-related events can make living in this regionoceans.Despite extreme heat,no light and intense pressure,scientists estimate it hasdangerous.Hurricane insurance is one important part of any hurricane preparation-plan.between 15 billion and 23 billion tons of microorganisms."it's like finding a whole newMany homeowners that live right along the coast have had to deal with the high costs ofreservoir()of life on Earth,"said Karen Lloyd,an associate professor at theinsurance,because these houses receive the full force of storms.Recently,more and morehurricanes have been continuing to keep their strength when they move inland,so manyResults suggest 70 percent of Earth's bacteria and archaea()exist in theUniversity of Tennessee.insurance companies are now adjusting charges to reflect this increased risk.To determinesubsurface.One organism found 2.5 kilometers below the surface has been buried forwhich areas are more likely to suffer hurricane damage,insurance companies rely on modelsmillions of years and may not rely at all on energy from the sun.Also.the methanogen(which help estimate the amount of risk for each region.The data are designed to tell whichhas found a way to create methane in this environment,which it may not use toareas are most likely to be hit by a once-in-a-hundred-year hurricane.Insurance companiesreproduce or divide,but use to replace or repair broken parts.Lengths of their lives werereview these data and then decide the rates that will be charged to homeowners within thosecompletely different.Some microorganisms have been alive for thousand of years,barelymoving except with shifts in earthquakes or eruptions.They're just active inside,with lessGenerally,hurricanes become less powerful as they move inland.However,manyparticular regions.energy than people thought possible to support life.hurricanes within the last five years still kept their strength when they hit land.Because theThe team consists of 1,200 scientists from 52 countries in disciplines ranging fromstorms remain intact(完整的),they are causing much more property damage to homes thatgeology and microbiology to chemistry and physics.A year before the conclusion of theirare far away from the coast.Insurance companies have lost a lot of money because they didstudy,they will present the findings before the American Geophysical Union's annualnot expect these powerful storms to impact homes located so far inland.In order to covermeeting opens this week,which they say are made possible by technical advances on drillsthe rising costs,they are raising rates to cover themselves in the event of a major hurricaneThe scientists have been wondering about the point beyond which life cannot exist.butand microscopes.and passing these costs on to homeowners.the deeper they dig,the more life they find.There is a temperature maximum-currently28.What do we know about living along the coast?122 C-but they believe this record will be broken if they keep exploring and developingA.It is necessary to have hurricane insurance.more advanced instruments.B.Its disadvantages outweigh the advantages.Questions remain,including how the microbes interact with chemical processes,andC.It is beginning to appeal to more and more people.what this might reveal about how life and Earth coevolved.D.People can enjoy nice weather and sandy beaches all year round.32.What do the scientists find about the underground organisms?29.What do we learn about the insurance companies from the passage?A.Some of them always keep still.A.Hurricanes have put many of them out of business.B.They are the oldest living things.B.They adjust their insurance rates based on the hurricane risk.C.Some of them consume no energy.C.They have changed their methods of calculating to protect homeowners.D.The insurance for homeowners living along the coast will be designed highest.D.They are unable to reproduce and divide.英语试题第6页(共10页)英语试题第5页(共10页)