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The black robin(旅鸫)is one of the world's rarest birds.It is a small,wild bird,and it lives only on the island of Little Mangere,off the coast of New Zealand.In1967there were about fifty black robins there;in1977there were fewer than ten.

(46)

Energetic steps are being taken to preserve the black robin.

(47)The idea is to buy another island nearby as a special home, a"reserve",for threatened wild life,including black robins. The organizers say that Little Mangere should then be restocked (重新准备)with the robin's food.Thousands of the required plants are at present being cultivated in New Zealand.

Is all this concern a waste of human effort?(48)Are we losing our sense of what is reasonable and what is unreasonable?

In the earth's long,long past hundreds of kinds of creatures have evolved,risen to a degree of success and died out.In the long,long future there will be many new and different forms of life.Those creatures that adapt themselves successfully to what the earth offers will survive for a long time.(49)This is nature's proven method of operation.

The rule of selection--"the survival of the fittest"--is the one by which human beings have themselves arrived on the scene.

We,being one of the most adaptable creatures the earth has yet produced,may last longer than most.(50)You may take it as another rule that when,at last,human beings show signs of dying out,no other creature will extend a paw(爪)to postpone our departure.On the contrary,we will be hurried out.

Life seems to have grown too tough for black robins.I leave you to judge whether we should try to do anything about it.

A Some creatures,certain small animals,insects and birds, will almost certainly outlast(比…长久)man,for they seem even more adaptable.

B Those that fail to meet the challenges will disappear early.

C Detailed studies are going on,and a public appeal for money has been made.

D Both represent orders in the classification of life.

E Is it any business of ours whether the black robin survives or dies out?

F These are the only black robins left in the world.

答案：F C E B A

Should the U.S.halt human space flight?

The Columbia accident has revived the debate on whether the rewards of

human space exploration are worth the risks

No.I was a teacher when men first landed on the moon in1969, and I remember how it moved my students and this country.(46) And we haven't ventured outward since then.That's30years too long!America's human space-flight program is adrift,with no clear vision or goals beyond the completion of the International Space Station.

I want NASA to establish a phased series of goals over the next 20years,including human visits to asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit,establishing a research and living facility for humans on the moon,and human expeditions to the surface of. Mars and its moons.(47)

An astronaut is today's Christopher Columbus,who sailed into the unknown and discovered the Americas.The knowledge we gain from having actual people exploring can never be replaced by robots.(48)Robots are useful,but humans can do things that robots can't.

The real obstacle we face in overcoming the drift in the nation's human space-flight program is not technological and it's not financial.(49)

The lesson from the Columbia accident is not that humans don't belong in space.

______(50)

A Instead,we should honor the memory of the lost astronauts by pushing our exploration of space future.

B Astronauts are key to this expanded exploration.

C It's the lack of commitment to get started.

D Until then,we should stop risking people's lives by sending them into space.

E It is now more than30years since the last American left the surface of the moon and returned to Earth.

F Our ability to send humans into space and have them return gives us amazing information about ourselves and our universe.答案：E B F C A

Little Lady Starts Big War

Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery book"Uncle Tom's Cabin."(46)The publisher was so doubtful that he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him,and all she hoped was that it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk dress.

But when the first5,000copies were printed in1852.They sold out in two days.In a year the book had sold300,000copies in the United States and150,000in England.(47)Within six months of its release,a play was made from the book which ran350 performances in New York and remained America's most popular

play for80years.It might appear that"Uncle Tom's Cabins was universally popular,but this was certainly not true.Many people during those pre-Civil War days--particularly defenders of the slavery system--condemned it as false propaganda and poorly written melodrama(传奇剧作品).

Harriet did have strong religious views against slavery(When asked how she came to write the book,she replied:"God wrote it."),and she tried to convince people slavery was wrong,so perhaps the book could be considered propaganda.(48) Though she was born in Connecticut in1832,as a young woman she moved to Cincinnati,Ohio,when her father accepted the presidency of newly founded Lane Theological Seminary(神学院).Ohio was a free state,but just across the Ohio River in Kentucky,Harriet saw slavery in action.(49)In1851,Harriet Beecher Stowe began her book.

Its vast influence strengthened the anti-slavery movement and angered defenders of the slave system.(50)

In fact,when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet at the White House during the Civil War,he said,"So,this is the little lady who started this big war."

A She had read a lot about the slavery system.

B Today some historians think that it helped bring on the

American Civil War.

C But if so,it was true propaganda,because it accurately described the evils of slavery.

D For a while it outsold every book in the world,except the Bible.

E But neither she nor her first publisher thought it would be a big success.

F She lived18years in Cincinnati,marrying Calvin Stowe, professor of a college.

答案：E D C F B

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