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Earth is poorly named. The ocean ___31___ almost three-quarters of the planet. The ocean provides 3 billon people with almost a fifth of their protein, making fish a bigger source of the stuff than beef. Fishing and aquaculture assure the ___32___ of one in ten of the world’s people. Climate and weather systems depend on the temperature patterns of the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere. If anything ought to be too big to fail, it is the ocean. Humans have long ___33___ that the ocean’s size allowed them to put anything they wanted into it and to take anything they wanted out. Changing temperatures and chemistry, overfishing and pollution have stressed its ecosystems for decades. The ocean stores more than nine-tenths of the heat trapped on Earth by greenhouse-gas emissions. ___34___ , coral reefs are suffering; scientists expect almost all corals to be gone by 2050. By the middle of this century the ocean could contain more plastic than fish by weight. Ground down into tiny pieces, it is eaten by fish and then by people. Appetite for fish grows ___35___ : almost 90% of stocks are fished either at or beyond their sustainable limits. The ocean nurtures humanity. Humanity treats it with contempt.
Earth is poorly named. The ocean ___31___ almost three-quarters of the planet. The ocean provides 3 billon people with almost a fifth of their protein, making fish a bigger source of the stuff than beef. Fishing and aquaculture assure the ___32___ of one in ten of the world’s people. Climate and weather systems depend on the temperature patterns of the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere. If anything ought to be too big to fail, it is the ocean. Humans have long ___33___ that the ocean’s size allowed them to put anything they wanted into it and to take anything they wanted out. Changing temperatures and chemistry, overfishing and pollution have stressed its ecosystems for decades. The ocean stores more than nine-tenths of the heat trapped on Earth by greenhouse-gas emissions. ___34___ , coral reefs are suffering; scientists expect almost all corals to be gone by 2050. By the middle of this century the ocean could contain more plastic than fish by weight. Ground down into tiny pieces, it is eaten by fish and then by people. Appetite for fish grows ___35___ : almost 90% of stocks are fished either at or beyond their sustainable limits. The ocean nurtures humanity. Humanity treats it with contempt.
請選出最合適的字詞填入空格 35。
- A nevertheless
- B thereafter
- C whereby
- D henceforth
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請觀察空格前方的兩句話，作者描述了海洋魚類正遭遇什麼樣的危機（如微塑膠、生存威脅）？接著再看空格後方的句子，提到人類對魚類的需求（appetite）呈現什麼趨勢？這兩者之間是「順向發展」還是「存在某種矛盾或出乎意料」的關係呢？
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