问题 选择题

据中国地震台网测定,北京时间2012年11月8日0时35分在危地马拉附近海域发生7.3级地震,震中地理坐标为(14°N、92°W),震源深度30千米。据此完成题。

小题1:地震发生时,危地马拉下列景象可信的是

A.晨曦初现,村庄内升起袅袅炊烟

B.香蕉园内,闪现着农民忙碌的身影

C.夕阳西下,渔民们满载而归

D.在海滩上,旅游者欣赏点点繁星小题2:关于危地马拉的叙述,正确的是

A.地处北美洲,经济发达

B.地处热带,以水稻种植业为主

C.人口增长缓慢,老龄化现象突出

D.濒临太平洋,渔业资源丰富

答案

小题1:B

小题2:D

题目分析:

小题1:该地地理坐标为(14°N、92°W),即位于西六区,区时较北京时间晚14个小时,故北京时间为11月8日0时35分,则当地区时为7日10时35分,应为上午时间,A、C、D项错误;结合该地的经纬度位置判断,该地位于中美洲地区,受热带气候影响,形成种植园农业,B正确。

小题2:危地马拉应为中美洲国家,属于发展中国家,A错误;该地区地处热带,主要的农业地域类型属于种植园农业,B错误;中南美洲国家,人口增长快,C错误;该地区位于中美地峡的西侧,濒临太平洋,且受沿岸加利福尼亚寒流影响,盛行上升补偿流,利于形成渔场,D项正确。

点评:本题难度一般,学生只要能抓住该地区的经纬度位置进行准确的经纬度定位并结合中美洲的自然地理环境,并掌握区时的一般计算方法,计算当地的区时即可判断。

填空题

Part 3


Questions 19-25


·Read the following newspaper article and answer questions 19-25.
·For questions 19-25, choose the correct answerA, B, C or D.
·Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.

A Talent Shortage Hits Green Start-ups


On May 1 applications closed for the first intake of a novel kind of executive-education programme. Set up by a bunch of venture-capital firms and other companies in New England, the three-month course will teach its "fellows" about renewable energy. To qualify for a fellowship, applicants must be successful entrepreneurs from other industries, such as IT or health care, and be zealous about profiting from greenery.
"A lack of talent, especially entrepreneurial talent, was one of the biggest bottlenecks to growth we identified in the clean-tech industry," says Peter Rothstein of Flagship Ventures, a venture-capital firm that is one of the programme’s founders. That bottleneck worries investors, who have been pouring cash into everything from solar energy to hybrid electric cars: last year global investment in renewable-energy businesses alone rose by 60%, to $148.4 billion, according to New Energy Finance (NEF), a research firm.
Although the prospect of minting money while helping to save the planet has attracted a stream of executives from other industries to clean-tech start-ups, few of them have much experience of their new field. In a recent global survey of 75 senior executives involved in clean-tech firms conducted by NEF and Heidrick & Struggles, a headhunter, over 90% cited top-level recruitment as a serious concern.
Counting on converts from other industries is risky, because some of the skills needed to run clean-tech companies are very different from those required to, say, launch a website. For one thing, the bosses of renewable-energy start-ups need to understand enough about the science to be able to pluck scientists from obscurity. For another, they need a grasp of project-financing techniques for costly prototype power plants. They also need to be able to deal with capricious regulatory and fiscal regimes. "If you’ve never done anything in the energy space, it can be intimidating,"says Bill Davis, the boss of Ze-gen, a start-up that generates electricity from waste.
Hence the New England bootcamp’s goal of helping 25 aspiring green entrepreneurs a year to make the transition. As well as giving them an overview of the latest scientific research, the course also includes sessions on project finance and government regulations.
Start-ups also face a battle for engineers and scientists. And as small firms take advantage of a growing enthusiasm for greenery in East Asia and the Middle East, they also need more staff with international experience. Tracking down such rare pearls can be a distraction for busy bosses.
Ann Cormack, the head of DI-BP Fuel Crops, a firm based in London that develops crops for biodiesel, reckons talent-spotting takes up about a fifth of her time. She has spent several months hunting for an agronomist, for instance, to no avail.
Like the bosses of many other clean-tech firms, Ms Cormack is using headhunters. They like the clean-tech business because wages, on which their commissions tend to be based, are rising fast. Not so long ago, executives would do meaningful green jobs for menial pay. But in recent years, wages have soared as the industry has grown and attracted big utilities and private-equity firms. Now what matters to the geeks is a different kind of green. "Good people can set their own price tag," says one recruiter, "and they want jam tomorrow, not in five years." It looks like they’ll get it.

What does the last sentence of the passage indicate

A.It will get easier for the headhunters to find qualified candidates for clean-tech firms.

B.The wages of the executives of clean-tech firms will continue to increase.

C.There will be more qualified top executives joining clean-tech industry.

D.There will be more job vacancies offered by clean-tech firms.

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