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67.In what way did Correia carry out the research?A.By doing online surveys.B.By intervicwing experts.O.By making comparisons.D.By reviewing earlier studies.68.What does the underlined word "expanded"probably mean?A.Real.B.Lost.C.Passing.D.Increased.69.How does nature help with our sense of the future?A.By meeting our needs.B.By changing our focus.C.By showing us pictures.D.By reminding us of the past.70.Which is the best title for the passage?A.What differences time brings us.B.Where our sense of time has gone.C.Why we lose sense of time in nature.D.How nature changes our sense of time.X.阅读表达。（每题2分，满分10分）请阅读下面短文，根据所提供的信息，回答5个问题，要求所写答案语法正确、语义完整切题。“吃”塑料的真菌In the forest,certain fungi (grow on trees to break down and eat the carbon (withintheir wood before letting it out as.CO2.But when their meal isn't there,these wood-eating fungi can catup plastic instead.White-rot fungi can break down lignin.a yery strong polymer (that helpsmake wood hard.“"We were thinking,if these fungi can decay(使腐烂)these hard woods,,then theyhave some tools with them to break down some other polymers as well,"says Renuka Attanayake,aplant researcher at the University of Kelaniya.For their study.the researchers picked 50 fungal examples from decaying hard woods.They thendivided them into two dishes:a dish with a kind of plastic,and a dish with both the plastic and thewood.After 45 days,it was clear that the fungi preferred wood to plastic.But in the dish with justplastic,the fungi broke down the plastic.We think that these fungi are able to get used to newconditions,and this may be an advantage-the fungi had to keep themselves alive using whatever wasthere.Though the scientists don't yet know how the fungi change when they eat plastic,they do knowthat the white-rot fungi used some enzymes (to break down both the wood and the plastic.Until now,more than 430 kinds of fungi and bactcria have been found to break down plastic.Scientists believe that the discovery can help produce the products that can break down plastic andsolve the problem of plastic pollution.71.What is lignin?72.How many dishes did the researchers divide the fungal examples into?73.What happened in the dish with just plastic?74.How can the discovery help the environment according to the scientists?75.What do you think of the discovery above?As a student,what can you do to help solve the