__________________________________________________________________________A young English botanist named Charles Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution, was the first European to see alerces, with trunks that had a circumference of 130 feet. He gave the tree its generic name, Fitzroya cupressoides, for the captain of his ship, Robert Fitzroy.Argentina, pressed by the United States, Canada, the World Bank and other global lenders, rewrote its mining laws in the 1990s to encourage foreign investment.

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• 1______________________________________Meridian's project, about 5 miles outside Esquel at a higher elevation, is about 20 miles from a national park that preserves rate trees known as alerces, a southern relative of California's giant sequoi

  A.Some of them have been growing serenely in the temperate rain forest for more than 3,000 years.The greatest fear is that cyanide, which is used to leach gold from ore, will drain downhill and poison Esquel's and possibly the park's water supplies. The mine will use 180 tons of the deadly chemical each month. Although many townspeople and some geologists disagree, the company says any excess cyanide would drain away from Esquel."We won't allow them to tear things up and leave us with the toxic aftermath," said Felix Aguilar, 28, as he piloted a boatload of tourists through a lake in the Alerces National Park."We take care of things here, so that the entire world can hear and see nature in its pure state. The world must help us prevent this."A.

  E.The world must help us prevent this."A. B. C. D. E.

  H.a. Some of them have been growing serenely in the temperate rain forest for more than 3,000 years.The greatest fear is that cyanide, which is used to leach gold from ore, will drain downhill and poison Esquel's and possibly the park's water supplies. The mine will use 180 tons of the deadly chemical each month. Although many townspeople and some geologists disagree, the company says any excess cyanide would drain away from Esquel."We won't allow them to tear things up and leave us with the toxic aftermath," said Felix Aguilar, 28, as he piloted a boatload of tourists through a lake in the Alerces National Park."We take care of things here, so that the entire world can hear and see nature in its pure state. The world must help us prevent this."A. B. C. D. E. F. G.

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• 2__________________________About 3.2 million acres already are under contract for mineral exploration in poor and sparsely settled Chubut Province, where Esquel is, near the southern tip of South Americ

  A.A.

  H.a.A. B. C. D. E. F. G.

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• 3___________________________________________________________________Esquel's plight is winning attention from international conservation and environmental groups such as Greenpeace.

  H.A. B. C. D. E. F. G.

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• 4The sentence "But this has rarely been a oneway street."in the last paragraph means that.

  A.contemporary art has been nourished by modern science

  B.modern science has been nourished by art

  C.artists can become scientists and scientists can become artists

  D.the impacts of modern art and science are actually mutual

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• 5Which of the following is true about Surrealists、

  A.They diminished all time barriers and moral judgements to combine disconnected dream experiences.

  B.They tried to express their subconscious world.

  C.They could transform real existence into incoherent dreams.

  D.They wanted to substitute direct expressions for fragmented images.

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