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We recruited participants online, including men in our study based on how they answered one question about color blindness that was buried in a long screening questionnaire.
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Para.1
The ocean feels infinite. If you were to start swimming from shore, it’s easy to believe—fitness and oxygen aside—that you could continue forever. That’s a much different experience from overland travel, where mountains, rivers, and six-lane highways buzzing with traffic thwart easy passage.
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It’s equally easy to believe that fish and other highly mobile marine creatures experience the ocean in an unrestrained fashion. Surely these animals, adapted over millennia to navigate the ocean, must easily bypass any barrier around which they can theoretically swim. That assumption, though, is wrong.
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According to Karissa Lear, an aquatic ecologist at Australia’s Murdoch University, it’s common for many marine species to stick to specific habitats and only seldom venture beyond them. That is especially true for many juvenile animals, she says, which are small and vulnerable to predation. This timidness can cause unexpectedly big problems for marine species, especially when infrastructure gets in the way.
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In 2017, engineers working on a local oil-and-gas-processing plant built a new loading facility consisting of a large piling jetty and solid rock wall, which stretched about 550 yards offshore. At the time, Lear and her colleagues were concerned with how the construction would affect the critically endangered green sawfish, which uses the region as a nursery.
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As time went on, however, the scientists realized that the green sawfish were unable, or unwilling, to pass around the barrier. That could prevent the animals from reaching valuable feeding grounds and other habitats. The juvenile green sawfish, says Lear, are probably too scared of getting nabbed by predators to leave the safety of their nearshore habitat to swim out and around the jetty. That, and they’re used to spending time in the shallowest waters.
本文节选自：The Atlantic（大西洋月刊）
发布时间：2024.9.16
作者：SCIENCE
原文标题：The Ocean Is Too Crowded
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写作句总结
原句：As time went on, however, the scientists realized that the green sawfish were unable, or unwilling, to pass around the barrier.
结构：As time went on, however, A realized that B were C.
随着时间的推移，A（某人）意识到B（某事）是C（情况）。
例句：As time went on, however, environmentalists realized that plastic waste was harming marine life.
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阅读理解题
Which of the following best describes the primary reason why juvenile green sawfish have difficulty navigating around the new loading facility built by engineers?
A) The green sawfish prefer deep waters and avoid shallow areas near the shore.
B) The new loading facility was constructed with materials that are harmful to marine life.
C) The green sawfish are frightened by potential predators and are accustomed to shallow waters.
D) The green sawfish have evolved to avoid any man-made structures in their environment.
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