Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) SectionA Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to selectone word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank followingthe passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the correspondingletter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Youmay not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the followingpassage. As anAlaskan fisherman, Timothy June,54, used to think that he was safe fromindustrial pollutants( 污染物) at his home in Haines--a town with apopulation of 2,400 people and 4,000 eagles,with 8 million acres of protectedwild land nearby. But in early 2007, June agreed to take part in a 36 of35 Americans from seven states. It was a biomonitoring project, in whichpeople's blood and ur/ne (尿) were tested for 37 ofchemicals--in this case, three potentially dangerous classes of compounds foundin common household 38 like face cream, tin cans, and shower curtains. Theresults-- 39 inNovember in a report called"Is It in Us?" by an environmentalgroup--were rather worrying. Every one of the participants, 40 from anminois state senator to a Massachusettsminister, tested positive for all three classes of pollutants. And while the 41 presence of these chemicals does not 42 indicate a health risk, thefact that typical Americans carry these chemicals at all 43 June and hisfellow participants. Clearly,there are chemicals in our bodies that don't 44 there. A large, ongoingstudy conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found 148chemicals in Americans of all ages. And in 2005, the Environmental Working Group foundan 45 of 200 chemicals in the blood of 10 new-borns."Our babies arebeing born pre-polluted," says Sharyle Patton of Commonweal, whichcosponsored "Is It in Us?This is going to be the next big environmentalissue after climate change." 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 A . analyses B . average C . belong D . demonstrated E .excess F . extending G . habitually H . necessarily I . products J . ranging K . released L . shocked M . simple N . survey O . traces