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McGill Comedy Club
Important meeting today.
Discussions on putting on
Blazing Saddles.Union room
302, 3-4 pm. New
members(both actors and
non-actors, living and
dead )are welcome. |
History Students'
Association
Prof. Michael Cross of
Dalhousie University will
be speaking on“Unskilled
Labours on Rivers and
Canals in Upper Canada,
1820-1850:The Beginnings
of Class Struggle,”at 10
am in Leacock 230.
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Design Mirror Sale
All types and
sizes of
design mirrors
priced to
please . Sale
today in
Union room
108. |
McGill Teaching Assistants'
Association
A general meeting, for all
the TAs, will be held at 4
pm in Leacock 116 . |
Women's Union
Important.General Meeting at 6 pm, Union
room 423. Speaker on “Importance of
deciding basic goals of the Women's
Union.”Everyone, old, new and those
interested, please attend. |
Film Society
Last meeting of the term
for all members. All
managers are required to be
present. 6:00 sharp, Union
room 434. |
Canadian University Students
Overseas
CUSO presents “Guess Who's Coming to
Breakfast”at 7 pm, Newman Centre,3484
Peel. Find out about CUSO here and
overseas. Everyone welcome. |
60. Where can you probably find this text?
A. In a school magazine
B. In a national paper.
C. In a guide book.
D. In a university daily newspaper.
61. If you are interested in arts, where would you go for a visit?
A. Leacock 116. B. Union room 423.
C. Union room 108. D. Newman Centre, 3484 Peel.
62. Which of the following is the name of a play?
A. Blazing Saddles.
B. Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast.
C. Importance of deciding basic goals of the Women's Union.
D. Unskilled Labours on Rivers and Canals in Upper Canada, 1820 - 1850.
D
Fish Ears Tell Fish Tales
Fish have ears. Really. They're quite small and have no opening to the outside world carrying sound through the body. For the past seven years, Simon Thorrold, a university professor, has been examining fish ears, small round ear bones called otoliths.
As fish grow, so do their otoliths. Each day, their otoliths gain a ring of calcium carbonate(碳酸钙).By looking through a microscope(显微镜)and counting these rings, Thorrold can determine the exact age of a young fish. As a fish gets older, its otoliths no longer get daily rings. Instead, they get yearly rings, which can also be counted, giving information about the fish's age, just like the growth rings of a tree.
Ring counting is nothing new to fish scientists. But Thorrold has turned to a new direction. They're examining the chemical elements(元素)of each otolith ring.
The daily ring gives us the time, but chemistry tells us about the environment in which the fish swam on any given day. These elements tell us about the chemistry of the water that the fish was in. It also says something about water temperature, which determines how much of these elements will gather within each otolith ring.
Thorrold can tell, for example, if a fish spent time in the open ocean before entering the less salty water of coastal areas. He can basically tell where fish are spending their time at any given stage of history.
In tne case of the Atlantic croaker, a popular saltwater food fish, Thorrold and his assistant have successfully followed the travelling of young fish from mid-ocean to the coast, a journey of many hundreds of miles.
This is important to managers in the fish industry, who know nearly nothing about the whereabouts of the young fish for most food fish in the ocean. Eager to learn about his technology, fish scientists are now lending Thorrold their ears.
63. What can we learn about fish ears from the text?
A. They are small soft rings.
B. They are not seen from the outside.
C. They are openings only on food fish.
D. They are not used to receive sound.
64. Why does the writer compare the fish to trees?
A. Trees gain a growth ring each day.
B. Trees also have otoliths.
C. Their growth rings are very small.
D. They both have growth rings.
65. Why is it important to study the chemistry of otolith rings?
A. The elements of the otoliths can tell the history of the sea.
B. Chemical contents of otoliths can tell how fast fish can swim.
C. We can know more about fish and their living environment.
D. Scientists can know exactly how old a fish is.
66. How would you understand“fish scientists are now lending their ears”?
A. They are very interested in Thorrold's research findings.
B. They want to know where they can find fish.
C. They lend their fish for chemical studies.
D. They wonder if Thorrold can find growth rings from their ears.
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