判断题
A team of scientists has just finished what might literally be described as one of the most breathtaking jobs in the world—surveying and mapping the coral reefs in Southeast Asia"s Coral Triangle off the coast of Indonesia"s Sulawesi Island.
As part of the Catlin Seaview Survey, teams from the University of Queensland, Indonesia"s Sam Ratulangi University and Indonesia"s Institute of Sciences spent time underwater over several weeks near the city of Manado to record data and map reefs in what the survey says "could become one of the last refuges on Earth for coral reefs".
The effort was part of a larger project to map the Coral Triangle, which encompasses 647 million hectares of land and sea located within the territories of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. "Coral Triangle" refers to a roughly triangular shape of waters between the Pacific and Indian oceans.
As part of the Catlin Seaview Survey, teams from the University of Queensland, Indonesia"s Sam Ratulangi University and Indonesia"s Institute of Sciences spent time underwater over several weeks near the city of Manado to record data and map reefs in what the survey says "could become one of the last refuges on Earth for coral reefs".
The effort was part of a larger project to map the Coral Triangle, which encompasses 647 million hectares of land and sea located within the territories of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. "Coral Triangle" refers to a roughly triangular shape of waters between the Pacific and Indian oceans.
判断题
A group of scientists are surveying and mapping the coral reefs along the coast of Indonesia"s Sulawesi Island, which is described as the most amazing work in the world.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 原文首段写到该工作“可能是世界上最激动人心的工作之一”(what might literally be described as one of the most breathtaking jobs in the world)，而题干描述的太过绝对，因此错误。
判断题
The great project to map the Coral Triangle, a triangle area between the Pacific and Indian oceans, encompasses 647 million hectares of land and sea located within the territories of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第三段是对该项目的描述，与题干描述一致。注意题干列举国家时打乱了顺序，但没有错误。
判断题
Recent research reveals that most of the world"s corals have been missing in the last three decades due to climate change.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第二大部分第一段谈珊瑚的损坏情况。近30年，消失的珊瑚占总量的40%，而题干描述的是大部分珊瑚均已消失，与40%的数据不符，因此错误。
判断题
Knowledge about the structure and function of such reefs paves the way for underlying their resilience to global change, which also decides how much, and where governments should invest to protect the Earth.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第二大部分倒数两段，均谈到相关知识对人类保护珊瑚及保护地球起到的巨大作用。与题干描述一致，因此正确。
判断题
Thousands of images taken with the Seaview SVII underwater camera, which employs new technology to shorten surveying time of large, shallow water areas from months to days, will be stitched to create a whole picture of the reef system.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 文章倒数两段介绍了Seaview SVII水下摄像新技术的优势，分别谈到其在缩短调查时间(from months to days)和图片链接(to create a whole picture of the reef system)方面起到的效果，与题干描述一致，因此题干正确。