SECTION Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Part A
Directions:
Read the following three texts. Answer thequestions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWERSHEET 1.
Text 1
Back in the early 1990s，I knew little about computers beyond what it took to get through aworking day. But here’s what I did know: something huge was happening. It wasstirring economies and imaginations and possibilities like nothing I had everknown. I knew the world was changing in ways that meant I shouldn’t count onold assumptions. And I knew I had dreams I still hadn’t fulfilled. But I didn’tknow how to realize them until I met with my old friend, Rolly Rouse, when wehappened to move into the same neighborhood.
Rolly often called me with a stream of ideas. His rate of idea production per secondseemed almost incredible. Soon we were on the phone with each other every day.Talking about the Internet. Talking about starting a new online company—maybetogether.
He was then developing a plan and he wanted me to be a part of it: we would givepeople wonderful, whole electronic houses on a CD-ROM and let them modify thosehomes to their own needs. Try out different windows and doors, different paintcolors and furnishings. When they were satisfied，we would enable them to go online tomake the project happen，to get the products and the financing and the professional design andconstruction to help to do it outright.
BuildingBlocks was the name Rolly came up with for his new enterprise. Roily took the plungefirst. He simply dropped his profitable energy-consulting business to commithimself full time to BuildingBlocks. I soon joined him after I quit mywell-paid job at a newspaper.
Together we developed a demo to show the features of our CD-ROM，“The New American DreamHome”. Then we took it to the annual convention of the National Association ofHome Builders in Boston. All the big companies were there showing off theirlatest products.
To our delight, nearly everyone was eager to see what we were showing, includingthe top executives of some enormous companies. When we left, we had invitationsfrom them to come to their offices to tell them more about BuildingBlocks.
That was the start of my real lifetime dream and BuildBlocks, our company, has beenprospering ever since.
46. By “something huge was happening”, the writer refers to ____.
[A] house designing [B] home decoration
[C] furniture production [D] high-tech development
47. The, text shows that Roily Rouse is ____.
[A] creative [B] cautious
[C] considerate [D] conservative
48. BuildingBtocks is a company that helps people to ____.
[A] rent ideal houses
[B] buy ideal houses
[C] find ideal houses
[D] own ideal houses
49. Rolly and the writer decided to start a company together becausethey were both____.
[A] expert in architectee [B]underpaid at their jobs
[C] out of work at the time [D]interested in e-business
50. At the Boston convention, Roily and the miter were happy because____.
[A] they aroused people’s interest in their products
[B] they sold some of their own products right there
[C] they got their first orders from some famous building firms
[D] they had the opportunity to visit some famous building firms
Text 2
Anxiety disorders are common and range from 10 percent to 20 percent of children andteens. Girl are usually more likely than boys to report anxiety symptoms orsigns. Anxiety runs in families, due to a combination of inherent and environmental factors. Anxious parents may produce anxious children. When signsare so severe that they interfere with daily life activities, it is time toseek an evaluation from a mental health professional.
Consider the following example of a child who suffered stress disorder. Maria, age 12，was at her physician’soffice awaiting her yearly checkup. A bullet from a gun battle in the nextbuilding tore through the wall and struck her mother in the shoulder, severelywounding her. The mother was rushed to the hospital，but Maria did not know herfate for several days.
Unable or unwilling to speak, visibly anxious and fearful, Maria was evaluated by achild doctor in the same hospital several days later. He recommended a brieftreatment and began by taking Maria to her mother’s bedside.
Maria,reassured that her mother was alive, nevertheless could not be separated fromher. During the following weeks she insisted on sleeping with her mother andwould not let her out of her sight. Her mother was equally shocked, and toldher daughter she was suffering great pain.
The doctor began a series of play treatment sessions using dolls and paly surgicalinstruments in which Maria performed operations in her doll hospital. She beganto get great pleasure in her sessions. Her mother did not recover so quickly,so the doctor recommended individual treatment for her.
The final sessions involved Maria performing the operation on, not a doll, but hermother, who submitted to patient status once again. Playing out the painfultheme was extremely beneficial， and with a minimum of interpretation, both were back to their normalfunctioning by the month’s end. Maria did not need any medication.
There are many ways of helping anxious children cope with their fears and worries. Acareful evaluation and specific treatment plan can help these children get backon the path of normal development.
51. We learn from the text that anxiety in a family atmosphere isoften ____.
[A] analyzable [B]unavoidable
[C] uncontrollable [D]communicable
52. People should seek professional help when anxiety begins to ____.
[A] appear in their kids [B]affect their judgments
[C] appear in their families [D]affect their life activities
53. According to the text, Mafia suffered from stress disorderbecause ____.
[A] she witnessed a gun battle
[C] she worried about her mother
[B] she was wounded by a bullet
[D] she was scared of her checkup
54. Maria was taken to her mother’s bedside in the hospital to ____.
[A] start her initial treatment
[C] sleep together with her mom
[B] keep her mom in her sight
[D] help with her mom’s recovery
55. To help an anxious kid out, it is suggested to ____.
[A] tolerate his fears and worries [B] point out his normal grow path
[C] put him in a particular treatment [D] ask him to make a self-evaluation
Text 3
Lately，presidents of someAmerican universities have added inflation to their worry list. They are notconcerned about inflation of prices，but of academic grades. Larry Summers，president of Harvard,recently caused a storm when he told one of the university’s professors hedidn’t like grade inflation.
Insiders say that nearly half the grades Harvard awards have lately been A or A-minus —a lot more than in the 1980s. Is this trend a bad thing, in fact? And is thisgrade inflation really inflation”?
Totake the second question first, the answer is No, not strictly speaking.“Inflation” in grades ought to mean that work of a given standard would beawarded an ever higher grade，year by year. The highest permissible grade would therefore have to keeprising in a ceaseless procession of non-improvement. Because in reality the topgrade is fixed, the process is not so much grade inflation as gradecompression. This is worse: a distortion in relative prices is more confusingthan a uniform upward drift. Grade compression squeezes information out of thesystem.
But is grade inflation necessarily a bad thing? The answer depends on who you are.When students leave Harvard, they carry grades as a sort of currency: a pocketfulof intellectual capital, to bid for jobs or places in graduate schools againstgraduates from other universities with other currencies. These positions go tothose who can put the most academic cash on the table. Employers and graduateschools must decide on the exchange rate, as it were, between a Harvard Cstudent and an A student from a less distinguished place.
Again,overall grade inflation—the uniform devaluation of the students, capital—wouldbe relatively easy to cope with, working in principle neither to the advantageor disadvantage of Harvard graduates. Recruiters, in a position to see the market for graduates as a whole, would simply adjust their exchange rate.Compression, however, has distributional consequences. The best Harvardstudents see their grades devalued relative to those of second-rate Harvardstudents. That is bad with respect to encouraging students to work harder.
56. The school report indicates that the writer’s daughter ____.
[A] lacks interest in her school work
[B] ranks among the best at language
[C] has some trouble with her handwriting
[D] needs to improve in math and computer skills
56. The text talks about the recent storm concerning. gradeinflation in American universities by focusing on ____.
[A] its causes [B] its features
[C] its impacts [D] its purposes
57. In the writer’s opinion, real grade inflation can occur when thehighest permissible grade ____.
[A] is raised accordingly [B]is cautiously granted
[C] is strictly administered [D]is limited appropriately
58. The writer thinks that grade compression characterizes ____.
[A] a just policy in evaluation [B]a distorted grading system
[C] a fixed criterion for the work done [D] a relative difference among students
59. As far as job-seeking is concerned, Harvard grade inflation willbenefit ____.
[A]its best graduates [B] its ordinary graduates
[C]the job recruiters [D] the school authorities
60. With grade inflation going on in Harvard, it is likely that ____.
[A] its best students will lack the urge to make progress
[B] its ranking in the US universities will be going down
[C] its advantages will be overtaken by its disadvantages
[D] its system of school score distribution will be in chaos
Part B
Directions:
Read the texts in which five people are commentingon a magazine article called “The Global Fish Crisis”. For questions 61 to 65，match the name of each person (61 to 65) to one of the statements (Ato G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Tom Hagen:
Iam a commercial fisherman in Alaska, It was an eye-opener to see thedestruction and waste in the world’s fisheries. The Alaska salmon fishery isvery well managed, and we don’t see the destruction occurring elsewhere. Manylocal people complain of the many restrictive laws in the fishery, but afterreading this article, I’m in favor of even stricter regulation. The sea is thebasis for life on Earth, and we must take care of it.
Jimmy O’Bricin:
Youdidn’t touch the fishing here in the U. S. where the fisherman is working underthe harshest regulations on Earth and the strictest equipment restrictions. Weare fishing in a fashion that is completely environmentally friendly asrequired under the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The U. S. keeps importing more fishfrom countries that have no requirements on equipment or on their catch. U. S.fishermen cannot compete with foreign prices so the fishermen’s numbers havebeen reduced.
Tiffany Miller:
Iwas shocked at the utter lack of regard that the commercial fishing industryhas for its very own resources. I’d like to ask these same fishermen who saythat they cannot make a living on the catch limits set for them： How are you going to makea living when all the fish are gone?
Nathan Kennedy:
Youfailed to note the obvious root cause of the global fish crisis，which is not new technologiesbut the explosion of world population. There simply are not enough fish in theocean to feed us, and all the fisheries management and conservation in theworld will do nothing to stop overfishing if nothing is done to stem theunsupportable demand for human consumption.
Peter Paul:
Asa person with some 35 years of membership in various conservation groups，and after writingthousands of emails，letters，and protest forms，I arrived at the sadconclusion that nothing I did mattered one bit. When the catch drops below thecost of operating expenses，the industry will die， taking the health of the ocean with it. We will then all stand back andwonder why we let it happen.
Now match the name of each person (61 to65) to the appropriate statement.
Note: there are two extra statements.
Statements
61. Tom Hagen [A] Overfishing results from extensive use of new technologies.
62. Jimmy O’Bricin [B] Many people in my place support stricter regulation on fishing.
63. Tiffany Miller [C] I think that you failed to point out the real reason for overfishing.
64. NathanKennedy [D] We are in a very weakposition to compete with other countries in fishing.
65. Peter Paul [E] Sooner or later, we will feel regretful about our current fishing practice.
[F] I didn’t know there were such damaging ways of fishing around the world.
[G] I wonder if those fishermen have ever considered the consequences of exhausting ocean resources.
【答案速查】
46~50 D A D D A
51~55 A D C A C
56~60 C A B B A
61~65 F D G C E
【答案解析】
Part A
Text 1
46.【答案】D
【题型】推理题
【出处】题目问的是“somethinghuge was happening指的是什么”。先找到原句，即第一段第二句。向前后句寻找答案，根据第一段第一句“Back inthe early 1990s I knew little about computers beyond what ittook to get through a working day. ”和第三句 “It was stirring economies and imaginations and possibilities likenothing I had ever known. ”可知，前后文讲的主要是技术带来的影响，由此可以推知巨大的变化指的是高科技的发展，故选D。
47.【答案】A
【题型】细节题
【出处】题目问的是“Roily Rouse是什么样的人”。第一段末尾提到Roily的名字，从第二段开头“Roily oftencalled me with a stream of ideas”可以看出Roily是一个很有创造力的人。故选A。
48.【答案】D
【题型】推理题
【出处】题目问的是“BuildingBtocks是一个帮助人们做什么的公司”. 根据第三段第二、三句“Try out different windowsand doors,…to get theproducts and the financing and the professional design and construction tohelp, to do it outright.”可知这家公司的目的是帮助人们拥有一个理想的房子”,故选D。
49.【答案】D
【题型】推理题
【出处】“Rolly和作者决定一起开一家公司，因为他们都…”。根据第四段后两句“He simply dropped hisprofitable energy-consulting business to commit himself full time toBuildingBlocks. I soon joined him after I quit my well-paid job at a newspaper.” 可知，两个人都拥有一份收入较髙的工作，为了共同的兴趣而辞职，故选D。
50.【答案】A
【题型】细节题
【出处】“在波士顿会议上，Roily和作者很开心是因为…”。根据倒数第二段第一句“To our delight, nearlyeveryone was eager to see what we were showing...”可见Roily他们很开心是因为大家对他们的产品很感兴趣，故选A。
参考译文
回想起20世纪90年代初，我对电脑一无所知。在用电脑工作了一天之后,我才对其有所了解。但我知道：巨大的变化即将发生，即激动人心的经济、想象力及各种前所未有的事情。我知道世界正在变化,也就是说,我不能靠着过去的经验过活。我也知道我有 很多未实现的梦想。但我是在遇到我的老朋友罗林•劳斯之后，才意识到如何实现我的那些梦想，那时我俩刚巧搬到了同一个社区。
罗林总是说我满脑子主意。但他每秒钟所产生的想法的数量似乎也非常不可思议。很快,我们每天 打电话聊天,谈论互联网的一些事情，商讨一起开一家新网络公司的可能性。
紧接着,他开始制定计划，并想让我也参与其中：我们将在只读光盘驱动上为人们提供丰富的、全套的 电子房间，并让人们根据自己的需求装饰自己的房 子。他们可以尝试多种门窗、不同的漆色和家具。当他们感到满意时,我们就让他们去网上实现自己的规划，购买产品及专业的设计和建筑，我们将帮助他们实现规划。
“BuildkgBlocks”是罗林为新公司起的名字。罗林决定自己先冒险试试。他直接将其利润丰厚的能源咨询业抛下，全身心投入到“BuildingBlocks”公司 中。我辞去了报社待遇丰厚的工作后,很快加入了他。
我们一起开发出一款小样,展示了我们只读光盘驱动的特点——全新美国梦想家园。我们将其带到波士顿全美住宅商协会的年度会议上。所有大公司都在那里展示、炫耀自己的最新产品。
令我们高兴的是，包括一些大公司的高管在内, 几乎每个人都想看看我们所展示的产品。离开会场时，我们已经收到很多邀请,他们都希望我们能去他们的办公室并为其介绍更多有关“BuildingBlocks”公司的产品。
那只是我人生梦想迈出的第一步，我们的公司 “BuildingBlocks”，从此以后也逐渐兴旺发达。
Text 2
51.【答案】A
【题型】推理题
【出处】题目问的是“我们从文中看出家庭气氛中的焦虑气息常常是因为…”根据第一段第四句“Anxiousparents may produce anxious children. ”可知，“如果父母患有焦虑，生出来的孩子很可能也患有焦虑。”由此可知, 焦虑在一个家庭中可以分析得出，故选A。
52.【答案】D
【题型】细节题
【出处】题目问的是“当焦虑开始…时，人们应该寻求专业帮助”。根据第一段最后一句“When signs are so severe that they interfere with daily lifeactivities, it is time to seek an evaluation from a mental health professional.”可知，“一旦焦虑症状非常明显,妨碍了日常活动，就需要找一个心理健康专家进行治疗了。”由此可知，影响到正常生活后，就要寻求专业人士的帮助,故选D。
53.【答案】C
【题型】推理题
【出处】题目问的是：“根据文章，Mafia有应激障碍是因为…”。根据第四段第一、二句“Maria, reassured thather mother was alive, nevertheless could not be separated from her...she insistedon sleeping with her mother and would not let her out of sight.”可知，她的压力来自 于害怕失去妈妈，担心妈妈的身体健康，故选C。
54.【答案】A
【题型】细节题
【出处】题目问的是：“Maria在医院被带到她母亲的身边是为了…”根据文中第三段最后一句 “He recommended a brief treatment and began by taking Maria to hermother, s bedside.”可知，玛丽亚来到妈妈的身边最初是因为医生要对其进行初步的治疗,故选A。
55.【答案】C
【题型】细节题
【出处】题目问的是：“应该如何帮一名焦虑的孩子脱离焦虑。”由全文最后一段可知,仔a careful evaluationand specific treatment plan能帮助患有焦虑症的孩子。故选C。
参考译文
焦虑障碍很普遍，在儿童和青少年中，患该疾病的比例从10%到20%不等。一般情况下，女孩比男孩 更容易出现焦虑症状或征兆。焦虑是由内在因素和环境因素共同造成的，因此有家族遗传现象。如果父母患有焦虑，生出来的孩子很可能也患有焦虑。一旦焦虑症状非常明显，妨碍了日常活动，就需要找一个心理健康专家进行治疗了。
来看看下面这个患有压力心理障碍孩子的例子。12岁的玛丽亚正在她医生的办公室等着她每年的常规检查。隔壁大厦枪击案中的子洋穿过了墙,打在她 妈妈的肩膀上,妈妈受伤很严重，立即被送到医院。然 而,接下来的几天玛前亚都不知道妈妈的命运。
玛丽亚不能或者不愿意讲话，几天以后，同一家 医院的医生诊断其具有很明显的焦虑恐惧症状。医生建议对其进行短暂的治疗，并首先把她带到了妈妈的床边。
玛丽亚看到妈妈还活着，放心了，但不能和妈妈分开。接下来的几周，她坚持睡在妈妈身边，不让妈妈离开她的视线。她的妈妈同样感到很震惊，并告诉女儿她正在忍受巨大的痛苦。
医生开始利用玩偶对玛丽亚进行一系列的游戏治疗;在此期间玛丽亚在她的玩偶医院里通过使用手术工具对玩偶进行了手术。她在治疗中获得了极大的乐趣。她的妈妈恢复的没有那么快，因此医生建议 对其进行单独治疗。
在最后一期治疗中，玛丽亚要进行手术的，不是玩偶，而是她的妈妈，妈妈扮演的是再次回到生病的状态。演绎受伤主题非常有益。不用多做解释，月底时，两个人都恢复正常了。此后,玛丽亚不再需要任何药物治疗。
有许多方法可以帮助患有焦虑障碍的孩子面对恐惧和担心。仔细的诊断和特殊的治疗计划能帮助这些孩子回到正常成长的轨道上。
Text 3
56.【答案】C
【题型】推理题
【出处】分析全文的结构可知，前两段提出了学分通胀的问题，第三段的第二句和第三句简要说明了学分通胀的原因，即：学分“通胀”应该意味着同一水准的成绩获得的学分逐年增高。因此，在没有改善、提高的情况下，允许学生获得的最高学分在不断上升。然而在现实中，最髙学分是固定的，因此这个过程不是学分增值而是学分贬值。紧接着,该文又分析了学分通胀所产生的影响相对价格的扭曲比统一上浮更加令人困惑;学分贬值让学生学到的知识越来越少，从而令整个教育系统的知识量减少,甚至匮乏。文章的第四段和第五段也是对学分通胀所产生的影响的分析，包括对学生就业和继续学习的影响，故选C。
57.【答案】A
【题型】细节题
【出处】根据第三段第二句“‘Inflation’ in grades ought to mean that workof a given standard would be awarded an ever higher grade, year by year. ”内容可知，学分通胀意味着同一水准的成绩获得的学分逐年增髙，因此,在作者看来,最高学分提高时会发生学分胀，故选A。
58.【答案】B
【题型】推理题
【出处】根据第三段最后两句“Thatis worse：a distortionin relative prices is more confusing than a uniform upward drift. Gradecompression squeezes information out of the system.”可知，相对价格的扭曲比统一上浮更加令人困惑。学分贬值让学生学到的知识越 来越少,从而令整个教育系统的知识量逐渐减少，甚至匮乏。由此可推知，作者认为学分贬 值的特征就是一个扭曲的评分体系,故选B。
59.【答案】B
【题型】推理题
【出处】根据文章第四段内容可知，雇主在录取人员时,会考虑选择一个哈佛毕业 但只获得C的学生，还是选择一个学校并不那么出名却获得A的学生，由此可推知，哈佛 成绩一般的学生在找工作时更能从学分通胀 中获益，故选B。
60.【答案】A
【题型】细节题
【出处】根据最后一段最后两句“The best Harvard students see their grades devalued relative tothose of second-rate Harvard. That is bad with respect to encouraging studentsto work harder. ”可知，哈佛大学学分通胀让优秀学生丧失了不断进步的动力,故选A。
参考译文
最近，美国部分高校的校长将“通胀”列到了其担心列表上。他们所担心不是物价的通胀，而是学分的通胀。哈佛大学校长拉里•萨摩斯最近告诉该校一位大学教授他不喜欢学分通胀，因此引发了一场风波。
内部人士说哈佛大学的成绩奖几乎一半都是A或者A-,这样的一个比例比20世纪80年代时高很多。但这样的趋势事实上是坏事儿吗?这样的学分通胀真的是“通胀”吗?
先回答第二个问题，从并不严格的意义上讲，答案是否定的。学分“通胀”应该意味着同一水准的成绩获得的学分逐年增高。因此,在没有改善、提高的情况下，允许学生获得的最高学分应该不断上升。然而在现实中，最高学分是固定的，因此这个过程不是学分增值而是学分贬值。这个更糟:相对价格的扭曲比统一上浮更加令人困惑。学分贬值让学生学到的知识越来越少，从而令整个教育系统的知识量逐渐减少，甚至匮乏。
那么学分通胀就一定是坏事儿吗?答案取决你是哪所学校毕业的学生。从哈佛毕业的学生，他们将学分看成是一种货币：满兜的智力资本,他们用它同 毕业于其他院校的、拿着其他货币的学生竞争工作岗位或所申请的研究生院。只有那些将最多的学术现金放到桌上的人才可能得到这些职位。雇主和各大研究生院必须决定汇率，即他们必须考虑是选择一个 哈佛毕业但只获得C的学生还是选择一个学校并不 那么出名却获得A的学生。
总体再看一下学分通胀——学生资本的集体贬值——将相对容易理解，它基本上既不是哈佛毕业生的优势也不是他们的劣势。招聘人员，站在自己的角度，会把毕业生作为一个整体来看，唯一的差别仅仅是调整汇率的问题。然而，学分贬值呈现出了区域性分布的结果。和哈佛大学二流学生相比，哈佛大学一流的学生认为他们的学分贬值了。这对于鼓励学生努力学习这一点，影响不是很好。
Part B
61.【答案】 F
【题型】主旨题
【解析】第一段汤姆•哈根对世界上渔业所受的破坏和污染感到十分震惊。这与F项“我没有想到世界上对捕鱼业有各种破坏的 方法”表示的意思相同。故选F。
62. 【答案】D
【题型】主旨题
【解析】第二段吉米•奥勃良提到美国渔民捕鱼时受到的诸多限制，因此相对来说,美国鱼类价格较高,无法与国外不受严格限制的鱼类价格竞争。这与D项“和其他国家的捕鱼业相比,我们所处的地位相对比较弱”表示的意思相同，故选D。
63.【答案】 G
【题型】主旨题
【解析】第三段蒂芙尼•米勒认为过渡捕捞终有一天将使鱼类灭绝，渔民也将很难生存。这与G项“我在想渔民是否想过耗尽海洋资源的后果”表示的意思相同，故选G。
64. 【答案】C
【题型】主旨题
【解析】第四段内森•肯尼迪认为全球鱼类危机的根源在于人口爆炸性的增长，而不是新技术的出现，文章并没有指出这一点，这与 C项“我认为这篇文章没有指出过度捕捞的真正原因”表示的意思相同,故选C。
65. 【答案】E
【题型】主旨题
【解析】第五段皮特•保罗分析了鱼量减产后，其对整个捕鱼业及海洋所带来的厄运，而届时人们只能眼睁睁无奈地看着，并在想其中的原因，这与E项“迟早有一天，我们会对自己现行的捕捞方式后悔的”表示的意思相 同,故选E。
参考译文
下面这段文字是5个人对于一篇杂志文章《世界渔业危机》所作的评论。
汤姆•哈根：
我是阿拉斯加的一名商业渔夫。看到世界上渔业所受的破坏和污染真是大开眼界。阿拉斯加鲑鱼业经营得非常好,在那里我们看不到任何的破坏。许 多当地人抱怨对捕鱼业的诸多限制法律，但读完这篇文章后，我对严格的条文非常赞成。海洋是地球上的生命赖以生存的基础,我们必须保护它。
吉米•奥勃良：
你在美国不会涉足捕鱼业，因为这里的渔夫执行着世界上最严格的捕鱼法律及捕鱼设备限制。根据麦格纳森•史蒂文森渔业保育管理法的相关规定，我们是在当下比较流行的提法——友好型的环境下进行捕鱼的。美国一直从那些对捕鱼设备或捕获量没有严格限制的国家进口大量的鱼产品。美国渔民无法和国外的价格竞争，因此渔民的数量逐渐减少。
蒂芙尼•米勒：
看到商业捕鱼业完全忽视其自身资源，我感到很 震惊。一些渔民说由于其捕捞量受限，他们很难生存，那么，我想问问他们：如果所有的鱼类都灭绝了，你们将如何生存呢?
内森•肯尼迪：
你可能没有注意到全球渔业危机的根本原因：不 是新技术的出现，而是人口的爆炸性增长，仅仅是因 为海洋中的鱼已经无法满足人类的需求。如果没有任何措施来根除人类对鱼类消费的无限需求，那世界 上所有渔业管理和保护法对于过度捕捞都将束手无策。
皮特•保罗：
作为一个在多种保护组织中拥有35年之久会员 身份的人，我曾写过数以千计的邮件、信件,并进行过 多种其他形式的抗议，但最后，我得出了一个可悲的结论：我所做的事没有起到任何作用。一旦捕鱼量低于营业成本，这个行业就会消失，海洋的健康也一并被摧毁。届时，我们将全都无奈地站在一边，想着为什么会发生这样的事情。
