老托福阅读理解原文、真题及答案.pdf

老托福精选95-05 阅读理解原文、真题及答案 此版本已将98、99年答案补上,请放心使 请大家点击word文档中的显示/隐藏按钮进行显示/隐藏答案，或者使用快捷键ctrl+shift+8。 1995.10 13 1995.12 23 1996.01 33 1996.05 45 1996.08 55 1996.10 65 1996.12 75 1997.01 85 1997.05 95 1997.08 105 1997.10 115 1997.12 125 1998.01 135 1998.05 145 1998.08 155 1998.10 165 1999.01 175 1999.05 185 1999.08 195 1999.10 204 2000.01 214 2000.05 224 2000.08 234 2000.10 244 2001.01 256 2001.05 266 2001.08 276 2001.10 286 2002.01 296 2002.05 306 2002.08 316 2002.09 326 2002.10 336 2003.01 346 2003.08 356 2003.10 366 2004.01 376 2004.05 386 1 老托福精选95-05 阅读理解原文、真题及答案 2004.08 396 2004.10 406 2005.01 415 2005.05 425 2005.08 435 2 老托福精选95-05 阅读理解原文、真题及答案 1995.08 Question 1-9 Investigation of the Deep-Ocean Keywords: ocean, researchers, techniques, samples, rocks The ocean bottom – a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth – is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep – ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,6000 meters deep. Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earths surface, the deep – ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space. Although researchers have taken samples of deep – ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning of the National Science Fou