职称英语考试

【单选题】Questions 41 to 44 are based on the following passage: 　　TheAntarctica treaty applies to all areas (the high seas excepted) below latitude 60 degrees south. This line, running around the globe some 2,000 miles from the South Pole itself, just misses the lower tip of SouthAmerica, and is well below theCape of Good Hope and New Zealan
D、There are a number of small islands between this line and theAntarctic continent, but the waters here are known to mariners as "the screaming Sixties" because there is so little obstruction to the world-circling winds. 　　In contrast, in the northern hemisphere, the lands lying above the sixtieth parallel of latitude include much of Scandinavia, Siberia andAlaska, all of Greenland and Iceland, with a total population of several million. Great mountains help subdue the winds; a spur of the Gulf Stream and part of the JapanCurrent temper the frigid airs of this polar region. This, and the presence of theArctic Ocean in the center of the great land mass, give the area a markedly different conformation and climate from that around the opposite pole.Antarctica seems a vast basin of rock, filled and overflowing with a load of ice. In the heart of the continent it is almost as high as the summits of theAlps, yet soundings show that in some places the rock floor is below sea level.Actually, the ice accumulation is less than it was perhaps 1,000 years ago. Its seaward flow is not so voluminous as it once was, and as a result there are patches of bare rock here and there along the coast and inlan
D、They were scoured clear of soil ages ago, but one may sometimes find moss or lichens growing, though virtually no flowering plants.The large area in the southern hemisphere is taken up by
A、the major part of SouthAmerica
B．oceans
C．Australia

D、Africa

网考网参考答案：B
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