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班级： 姓名： 学号： 选修⑧ Module 1 单元主题语篇训练 I,阅读理解 Nicholls,an oceanographer with the British A Antarctie Survey and the United Kingdom lead on An underwater robot named Ieefin has gone to the team,said in the Georgia Tech statement."This the bottom of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier (new data will provide a new viewpoint of the recently,which is one of Antaretiea's fastest melting processes taking place,so we can predict future （a融化）glaciers.Even so,scientists learned:change with more certainty.” unexpectedly that waters at the ground line,the1.What were scientists surprised to discover at the region where the glacier meets the sea.are more than 2: bottom of Thwaites Glacier? degrees Celsius above the normal freezing temperature. A.A melting glacier. The journey to collect the data wasn't easy. B.Warm waters. Scientists dropped Icefin through a 700-meter-deep: C.The ground line. hole they had drilled through the glacier."We're D.An underwater robot. proud of Icefin,since it represents a new way of2.What did leefin do as it moved along underwater? looking at glaciers,"said Britney Schmidt,lead: A.It took photos. scientist for Icefin."For really the first time,we can B.It mapped the area. drive miles under the ice to measure and map: C.It drilled holes. processes we can't otherwise reach.We've taken the D.It measured sea water. first close-up look at a grounding zone.It's our3.From Paragraph 4,we ean infer Thwaites Glacier 'walking on the moon'moment."The grounding zone is the region where the bottom of the glacier A.is extremely vital to Antarctica meets the sea water beneath it. B.is a lot larger than Florida.USA The team spent the last two months in minus C.is melting the fastest in Antaretica 30C weather at the glacier for the projeet.After D.is to blame for the global sea rise entirely going down the nearly half-mile hole through the 4.What does the underlined word "eroding"in the glacier,Icefin swam more than a mile to the: last paragraph mean? grounding zone.As it moved