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Anna's g ae C. set D. given u purification ile effects appear will be greater than the concentrations that the pollut es, The actual concentration need not be large for a substanc concentrations at which the a ¢ i human activiti would have in al value tells us litle until we know how much of an increase this repres bea pollutant i jon that would occur naturally in the area, For example, sulfur dioxide hie weina eae ~ over the concent i er million (ppm), which is about 400 times its natural level. Carbon monoxide, how. effects at Oa S£0.1 ppm and is not usually a pollutant unt its levelreaches about 15 ppm, has a natural anata pots ee asta ml SRE (9) yy Bs a a euch Dar Pac tants can cause The effets of compOUNAS added to the amosph nuch oe aly in lines 2-3 is closest in meaning to_ ‘ 2. Tee wont Biqiickly C. admittedly D. considerably exativel: Lee teed from the first paragraph that ‘A. water vaP' B. most air po! ‘or is an air pollutant in Ios lized areas today can be seen or smelled Jutants today, Bya aa é OMe definition of air pollution will continue to change — a pen pollutant only in cities 26 The word ‘altered” in line 11 is closest in meaning to. A, climinated B, caused C.slowed C)changed 5 aun pollutants can play an important role in controlling air poll 4 wn for which of the following reasons? They function as part of a purification process: o They occur in greater quantities than other pollutants, ‘They are less harmful to living beings than are other pollutants. D, ‘They have existed since the Barth developed. 6. According to the passage, which of the following is regions? ‘It can be dwarfed by nature’s output of pollutants in the localized region. Itcan overwhelm the natural system that removes pollutants. e, It will damage areas outside of the localized regions. 1) It will react harmfully with naturally occurring pollutants. 7. She word “noxious” in line 17 is closest in meaning. {© harm! B. noticeable C. extensive D. weak 8. YXccording to the passage, the numerical yalue of the concentration level of a substance is only useful if __ ‘A. the other substances in the area are known. B. itis in a localized area © the naturally occurring level is also known D. it can be calculated quickly 9, “he word “detectable” in line 24 is closest in-meaning 10 wh A. beneficial (Chmeasurable D, separable 10. Which of the followilg is best supported by the passage? a effectively control pollution, local government should regularly revi git air pollution laws One of the most important ateps in preserving natural lands isto better “0 ‘air pollution laws. Scientists should be consulted in order to establish uniform limits for all air pollutants. CD. Human activities have been effeetive in reducing air pollution. ___ Reading passage 2.6 points) “EXOTIC AND ENDANGERED SPECIES” 1s enthusiastically about an exotic species, you ean safely bet ibs syaker fara resident of an established community that was deliberately © ier dentally moved from its home range and became established ‘elsewhere, Unlike most imports, which ean’t wea hold outside their home range, an exotic species permanently HSIN into a new community. ‘Sometimes the additions are harmless and even have benef ial effgets. More often, they make mative species endangered species, which by efinition are extremely Wulnetable to extinction. Of all species on the a or endangered lists or that recently became extinet, close to 70 percent owe their precarious existence OT demise to displacement by exotic species. Two examples are included here to illustrate the problem. ¥ During the 1800s ish settlers in Australia just couldn’t bond with the koalas and kangaroos, so they started to import familiar animals from their homeland. In 1859, in what would be the start of a wholesale Srauster, a northem Australian landowner imported and then released two dozen wild European rabbits (Oryetolagus cuniculus). Good food and good sport hnunting-that was the idea. An ideal rabbit habitat with no natural predators was the reality. F Six years later, the landowner true about human generated air pollution in localized : Wien you hear someone bubblin: isn’t an ecologist: This is a name had killed 20,000 rabbits and was besieged by 20,00 more, The rabbits displaced livestock, even kangaroos. Now ‘Australia has 200 to 300’ million hippityhopping through the southern half of the country. They overgraze perennial grasses in good times and strip bark from shrubs and frees during droughts. You know where they've been, they transform grasslands and shrublands into erode: ‘deserts “They have been shot and poisoned, Their warrens have been plowed under, fumigated, and dynamited ed their population size by 70 percent, the rapidly reproducing imports mad Even when all-out assaults reduct comeback in less tana year. Did the construction of a 2,000-mile-long fence protect westem Australia? Ni Rabbits made it to the other side before workers finished the fence. Tn 1951, government workers introduced a myxoma virus by way of mildly infected South America rabbits, its normal hosts. This virus causes myxomatosis ‘The disease has mild effects on South Americe rabbits that coevolved with the virus ‘but nearly always had lethal effects on 0. cuniculus, Biting insects, main mosquitoes and fleas, quickly transmit the virus from host to host. Having no coevolved defenses against t most ius, the European rabbits died in droves, But, as you might expect, natural selection has since favor rapid growth of populations of 0. cuniculus resistant to the virus. in 1991, on an uninhabited island in Spencer Gulf, ‘Australian researchers released a population of rabk és Page 3 of 288 ~/