Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.
For questions 1-4, mark
Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
NG (for NOT GIVRN) if the information is not given in the passage.
For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
Unity and Diversity
Many physicists are engaged in the search for a "theory of everything". Biologists, smugly, think they have found one already. Organisms that survive long enough to reproduce and are attractive enough to find a mate pass their genes on to the next generation. Those that do not are evolutionary cul-de-sacs. But the details—how you go on from the basic principles of evolution to explain large-scale patterns in biology—are more divisive. Scientific camps form. Their leaders step onto soap boxes. And only rarely do people concede that their own theories and those of their opponents are not always mutually exclusive.
Since the early 1970s, the two grandest patterns of life—how species are arranged in space and how they are arranged in time—have divided their opposing camps quite neatly. Those who squabble over space disagree about why there are more species in the tropics than anywhere else. To them, the tropics are either where species are more often born (cradles of diversity) or where they tend not to die (museums of diversity). By contrast, biologists concerned with patterns in time tenaciously debate whether new species come into being in a smooth and gradual manner, or whether the history of life is actually a series of bursts of change that are interspersed with periods when nothing much happens.
Two papers just published in Science have cast light on these questions, and their findings, if not necessarily resulting in compromise, do show the value of taking leaves out of other people's books. The "space biologists" have looked into time, namely the fossil record over the past 11m years. Meanwhile the "time biologists" have looked at the here and now and found evidence in living species for periods of rapid evolution in their genes.
Biological Spacetime
The space biologists have the advantage that they agree about the pattern they are trying to explain. Almost all groups of life that have been studied—be they fungi, plants, vertebrates or invertebrates, and no matter whether they occur in forests, streams or seas—seem to have more species the closer they are to the equator.
To decide whether the tropics are a cradle or a museum, though, involves picking this pattern apart with statistics. And statistics work best when you have more than one sample. That is the reason for reaching into the past.
David Jablonski, of the University of Chicago, and his colleagues created their samples by dividing the past 11m years into three periods. For simplicity's sake, they also chopped the Earth's surface into two: tropical regions and everywhere else, which they called the "extratropics".
To avoid sampling bias, they restricted their analysis to one group of animals—the bivalve molluscs—that fossilise well. This allowed them to follow 431 "lineages" of marine bivalve through the course of geological time. The vast majority of these lineages appear in the tropics and then spread into the extratropics, in other words, the tropics do, indeed, act as cradles of biodiversity.
In fact, the pattern Dr Jablonski reports is probably more marked than
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
第1题
A.胸部平片检查是肺癌普查的最快捷有效手段
B.CT引导下经胸壁穿刺活检可广泛用于对高危人群的普查
C.纵隔镜检查对明确诊断、肺癌分期和指导治疗具有非常重要意义
D.纤维支气管镜检查可取到小块组织作病理检查,并对外科手术有指导意义
E.剖胸探查是最常用的确诊肺癌的方法
第2题
A.胸片平片检查是肺癌普查的最快捷有效手段
B.CT引导下经胸壁穿刺活检可广泛应用于对高危人群的普查
C.纵隔镜检查对明确诊断和指导治疗具有非常重要的作用
D.纤维支气管镜检查可取到小块组织作病理检查,并对外科手术有指导作用
E.剖胸检查是最常用的确诊肺癌的方法
第3题
下列哪项检查不常作为肺癌的辅助检查手段
A.胸部MRI检查
B.支气管造影检查
C.胸部CT检查
D.胸部PET检查
E.胸部X线片检查
第6题
下列哪项检查不常作为肺癌的辅助检查手段
A.胸部MRI检查
B.支气管造影检查
C.胸部PET检查
D.胸部X线片检查
E.胸部CT检查
第7题
A、每年1次胸部X线摄影有助于早期发现肺癌
B、每年1次螺旋CT检查有助于早期发现肺癌
C、每年1次PET–CT检查有助于早期发现肺癌
D、定期行肿瘤标志物检查有助于早期发现肺癌
E、目前对早期肺癌的筛查手段仍不令人满意
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