問題詳情：
It`s a sunny afternoon here in Texas, and my wife Barbara is at the park again,counting and recording the number of eggs laid by monarch butterflies. After collecting her data, she`ll share it with the professional scientist who recruited her. In another state, our friend Antonio listens for frogs by visiting 12 different sites, four times a year. He has been submitting(提交)his findings to scientists for almost 20 years on the other side of the country, our niece Emily is catching native bees, putting tiny tags on them, and handing in weekly reports to the biology department at a local university. Nobody is Paying Barbara, Antonio, or Emily for their efforts, but all three consider themselves lucky to be "citizen scientists.”
When volunteers participate as assistants in activities like these, they are engaging in citizen science, a valuable research technique that invites the public to assist in gathering information. Some of them are science teachers or students, but most are simply amateurs who enjoy spending time in nature. They also take pride in aiding scientists and indirectly helping to protect the environment. The movement they are involved in is not a new one. In fact, its roots go back over a hundred years. One of the earliest projects of this type is the Christmas Bird Count, started by the National Audubon Society in 1900. However, citi zen science projects are burgeoning more than ever： over 60 of them were mentioned at a meeting of the Ecological Society of America not long age.
In formal studies, Professional scientists and other experts need to maintain the highest possible standards. For research to be accepted as must not only be thorough, but also objective and might argue that citizen scientists cannot maintain the necessary attention to detail ,or that amateurs will misunderstand the context of the investigation and make mistake when collecting and organizing other words,can citizen science be considered truly reliable?
Two recent studies show that it can. The first focused on volunteer knowledge and this study, a scientist asked volunteers to identify(鑑定、識別)types of crabs along the Atlantic coast of the US. He found that almost all adult volunteers could perform the task and even third graders in elementary school had an 80% success rate. The second study compared professional and nonprofessional methods. Following a strict traditional procedure,a group of 12 scuba divers identified 106 species of fish in the Caribbean. Using a procedure designed by professionals to be more relaxed and enjoyable for volunteers, a second group of 12 divers spent the same amount of time in the same waters. Surprisingly, the second method was even more successful： this group identified a total of 137 species. Results like these suggest that research assisted by amateurs can be trusted when scientists organize it.
33. The citizen scientists in Paragraph I
A. compare their data with that of other volunteers
B. earn some money for the information they gather
C. monitor the life cycles of insects in laboratories
D. report on their results or activities to professionals
34. The word burgeoning in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to 。
A. causing arguments B. increasing rapidly
C. losing popularity D. receiving awards
35. Why does the author emphasize.80% success rate in Paragraph 4?
A. To contrast negatively with the adults'success rate.
B. To show the high quality of the overall results.
C. To emphasize how many types of crabs there are.
D. To reveal the elementary students'lack of skills.
【回答】
DBB
知識點：人物傳記 故事類閱讀
題型：閱讀理解
