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雅思阅读理解真题模拟题库及试题答案解析(1) 　　一、◆选择题 　　1.Passage 1 　　Worms Put New Life Into Derelict Site 　　Poisoned soil at an old steelworks is being cleansed by thousands of worms 　　AThousands of deep-burrowing earthworms are to help turn the long-derelict site ofa steelworks into woodland and a renewable energy park. 　　BAs part of a pioneering low-cost plan to reclaim the site of the former Hallside 　　Steelworks at Cambuslang near Glasgow,worms are being used to accelerate the process ofsoil regeneration and to transform the land, over time, into an attractive and financially 　　productive site. 　　CHallsides closure in 1979 put an end to more than 100 years of steel production.The surrounding land had become heavily compacted and was too contaminated withheavy metals such as chromium, cadmium and leads to support any kind of brick andmortar development. 　　DThe sites 30 hectares were left abandoned until 1990, when a rescue plan puttogether by local landscaping and earthmoving company,HL Banks, and the regionaldeveloper,Scottish Greenbelt, was approved by local authorities. 　　ENow the site has been covered by a two-meter layer of partially treated sewagematerial which has been mixed with colliery waste. This will be converted into usable soil byabout 21,000 Lubricus territories (garden lobworms) and Aporrectodea longa(black 　　headed worms) that have been let loose on the site. 　　FThe specially raised hermaphrodites, which are self-impregnation, will spend the 　　next five to ten years chewing their way through the topping layer to create a soil structureable to sustain long-term plant growth. Without them, the process could take up to 60 　　years. 　　Researchers at Bell College of Technology in nearby Hamilton examined the use ofearthworms in land regarding, and found that even in the hostile mixture of coal-tip wasteand partially treated sewage, earthworms were able to speed up the process of soil 　　recomposition. 　　H They selected different varieties of deeper burrowing earthworm spec