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【题干】Directions:
Read the flloing text. Chose the best uord or phrase for each numbered blank and markA, B,C, or D on your ANSWER SHEET.
It is an unfortunate fact of today's life that most people are growing up unable to see the stars.The prime night sky exists only____ 26 pictures. This is true not only in cities and suburbs, but al-soin____ 27 areas. We have lost our view of the stars and_____28 our nightime environment aswell.
Such a loss_____ 29 be acceptable if light pollution were the inevitable price of progress ,30____it is not. Most sky glow is____31 . It comes mainly from lighting sources that do lttle toincrease 32_____safety, security or utility. They produce only glare,____ 33 over one billion,dollars annually in the U. S. alone.
34 science, the impact has been even more dramatic. Scientists require observations of
extremely faint objects that can only be_ 35_ with advanced devices at sites_ 36 of air pollu-tion and urban sky glow. For example, some images of the objects can___37 information about faraway cormners of the universe , helping us understand the way in____ 38 our world was actually formed.____39, the light from these objects can be lost at the very end of its_____40 in the glare of our own sky.
Reducing light pollution is not difficult. It____ 41 that public officials and citizens be___
42of the problem and act to counter it. As____ 43people can help reduce sky glow just by____44 lighting only when necessary.
The stars above us are a 45 heritage. We must do our best to preserve it.

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