阅读理解
What do you know about the sea? You may have seen it. Some of us have swum or bathed in it. It
looks beautiful on a fine sunny day and it can be very rough when there is a strong wind. What other
things do we do about it? Of course, the sea is very large. In the world there is more sea than land. The
sea covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. It is not deep
everywhere; some parts of it are very great. At one spot, near Japan the sea is nearly 11kilometres deep
just think of it, the highest mountain in the world is only 9 kilometres high! If you have swum in the sea,
you know that the water is salty. Rivers carry salt from the land into the sea. Some parts of the sea are
more salty than other parts. Do you know the Dead Sea in Arabia? It is very salty. Swimmers cannot
sink in it! Fish cannot live in the Dead Sea. It is a strange sea. In most parts of the sea, there are a lot of
fishes and plants. Some live near the top of the sea. Others live deep down. No sunlight can reach the
depth of the sea. So it is completely dark. Strange fishes live there. Some are blind. Some have their own
lights. Some have great jaws（嘴巴）.With their great jaws, they swallow fish larger than themselves.
The sea can be very cold. Deep sea divers know this well. At the top the water may be warm. Then as
the divers go down, the sea becomes colder and colder.
Many scientists are now making a study of animal and plant life in the sea. They hope to find new
resources for mankind.
1. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Land covers one fourth of the area of the earth.
B. The depths of the sea are different in different places.
C. The depth of a sea at one spot near Japan is nearly the height of the highest mountain.
D. The salt in the sea mainly comes from the land.
2. The Dead Sea is lifeless because
A. the water in it is too cold
B. the water in it is too salty for anything to grow
C. the water in it never flows
D. no sunlight can reach the bottom of the sea
3. We can see the underlined word "rough" in this passage means " "
A. ugly
B. noisy
C. cold
D. not calm
4. What does the writer intend to tell us in the last paragraph ?
A. The necessity (必要性) of the study of the sea.
B. The purpose of man's further study of the sea.
C. Man's limited knowledge of the sea.
D. The importance of new resources for man.
