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成品油价税费改革方案自2009年1月1日起实施。有关燃油税问题，不同人有不同看法。请你根据下列内容在China Daily Opinion栏目发表观点。

观点	原因
赞同	1．公平、合理。用油越多，交费也应越多； 2．增强节约意识，减少不必要用车； 3．减少空气污染，有利于环保
反对	1．中国是发展中国家，不能盲目学西方； 2．油价上涨，加重消费者负担； 3．失业人数增加，会产生其它社会问题。
你的观点	？（至少两点）

注意：1．对所给要点，逐一陈述，适当发挥，不要简单翻译。

2．词数150左右。开头已经写好，不计入总词数。

3．参考词汇：燃油税fuel tax

With the new fuel tax policy taking effect on January 1, more and more people show their great concerns about what it brings to their life.

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Could your cellphone give you cancer? Whether it could or not, some people are worrying about the possibility that phones, powerlines and wi-fi (路由器) could be responsible for a range of illnesses, from rashes to brain tumours.

For example, Camilla Rees, 48, a former investment banker in the US, moved out of her apartment in San Francisco because of the radiation coming from next door. Rees told the Los Angeles Times that when her neighbors moved in and installed a wi-fi router she lost her ability to think clearly. “I would wake up dizzy in the morning. I’d fall to the floor. I had to leave to escape that nightmare,” she said. Since then, she’s been on a campaign against low-level electromagnetic fields, or EMFs (低频电磁场).

And she’s not alone. Millions of people say they suffer from headaches, depression, nausea and rashes when they’re too close to cellphones or other sources of EMFs.

Although the World Health Organization has officially declared that EMFs seem to pose little threat, governments are still concerned. In fact, last April, the European Parliament called for countries to take steps to reduce exposure to EMFs. The city of San Francisco and the state of Maine are currently considering requiring cancer-warning labels on cellphones.

If these fears are reasonable, then perhaps we should all be worried about the amount of time we spend talking on our phones or plugging into wi-fi hotpots.

Some say there is evidence to support the growing anxieties. David Carpenter, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University at Albany, in New York, thinks there’s a greater than 95% chance that power lines can cause childhood leukemia. Also there’s a greater than 90% chance that cellphones can cause brain tumours.

But others believe these concerns are unreasonable paranoia (猜疑). Dr Martha Linet, the head of radiation epidemiology at the US National Cancer Institute, has looked at the same research as Carpenter but has reached a different conclusion. “I don’t support warning labels for cellphones,” said Linet. “We don't have the evidence that there’s much danger.”

Studies so far suggest a weak connection between EMFs and illness — so weak that it might not exist at all. A multinational investigation of cellphones and brain cancer, in 13 countries outside the US, has been underway for several years. It’s funded in part by the European Union, in part by a cellphone industry group.

According to Robert Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland in the US, the magnetic waves aren’t nearly powerful enough to break apart DNA, which is how known threats, such as UV rays and X-rays, cause cancer.

Perhaps it’s just psychological. Some experts find that the electro-sensitivity syndrome seems to be similar to chemical sensitivity syndrome, which is a condition that’s considered to be psychological.

Whether EMFs are harmful or not, a break in the countryside, without the cellphone, would probably be good for all of us.

Title: Could cellphones give you cancer?
Key points	Supporting details
Cellphones are (1.)__▲__ to use	● Some people think it (2.) __▲__ for cellphones to cause cancer. ● Camilla Rees got ill after his neighbor installed a wi-fi router. ● Millions of people have the (3.) __▲__ problems as Camilla. ● Some evidence supports people’s anxieties.
Cellphones are safe to use	● Some believe that these concerns are just paranoia. ● So far, studies show that there isn’t much (4.) __▲__ between EMFs and illness. ● Robert Park thinks that the magnetic waves aren’t powerful enough to (5.) __▲__ DNA. ● It’s just for psychological (6.) __▲__ that people feel ill when they use cellphones.
Attitudes and (7.) __▲__	● Some governments are (8.) __▲__ about the safety of cellphones or EMFs. ● The author thinks that we should (9.) __▲__ the chance of talking on the phone or spend more time in the (10.) __▲__ without cellphones.

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There is an old saying：No one thinks he’s a bad driver. Here’s an updated 21st century version: No one thinks he sends annoying (令人烦恼的) e-mails.

But, plenty of us do.

A Princeton University research found that 22 per cent of Americans say e-mail has added to their work pressures and caused misunderstandings. Here’s a guide on e-mail etiquette (礼节) to help you avoid being annoying.

Experts say there are three types of e-mails with different rules-close friends, office and public e-mails.

The close friends e-mail

You can send your lover, your closest friends and your siblings (brothers and sisters) anything, from jokes to “you got to see this!”. But bear in mind that not everyone shares your sense of humour and you may expose them to viruses.

The office e-mail

Don’t add to people’s workload. Keep e-mails short and to the point.

◆Make the subject line factual and brief.

◆Write in clear, concise (简练的) sentences.

◆Provide your name and phone number at the end.

The public e-mail

Occasionally we have to send an e-mail to a group of people. If possible, write your public e-mails with a who, what, when, where structure. For example:

Who: All members of the soccer team

What: Team photo

When: Saturday, March 25, at noon

Where: Playing field 2.

Finally, before you hit “Send”, check the following:

◆Is the e-mail a “flame”? Never send an e-mail in anger, It could stay around forever and haunt (萦绕心头) your professional and personal life.

◆Check the “To” field. Is this really who you want to send the message to?

◆Spell-check the message. Does it have an error that can affect you badly?

1.The writer may want to tell the reader that _____.

A. mails online are often sent to wrong places

B. different e-mails should be written in different ways

C. sending office e-mails is sure to add to people’s workload

D. the public e-mail is usually sent to a large number of people

2.According to the writer, _____.

A. e-mails with some misspellings may hurt the receiver

B. before sending an e-mail, the sender should ask someone to check it

C. jokes sent to a close friend online sometimes may be harmful

D. about 80％ of Americans like sending and receiving e-mails

3.If an e-mail is a “flame”, the sender of it must be very _____ at the moment.

A. angry B. excited C. worried D. disappointed

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Everywhere you look, large quantities of information in the world are pouring. This data flood is already starting to transform business, government, science and everyday life. It has great potential for good — as long as consumers, companies and governments make the right choices about when to restrict the flow of data, and when to encourage it.

A few industries have led the way in their ability to gather and take advantage of the data. Credit-card companies monitor every purchase and can identify cheats with a high degree of accuracy. Stolen credit cards are more likely to be used to buy hard liquor than wine, for example, because it is easier to overlook. Insurance firms are also good at combining clues to spot doubtful claims: dishonest claims are more likely to be made on a Monday than a Tuesday, since policyholders (保险客户) who stage accidents tend to assemble friends as false witnesses over the weekend. By combining many such rules, it is possible to work out which cards are likeliest to have been stolen, and which claims are untrue. By analyzing “basket data”, supermarkets can make promotions to appeal to particular customers’ preferences. The oil industry uses supercomputers to help them before drilling wells.

But the data flood also poses risks. There are many examples of databases being stolen: disks full of social-security data go missing, laptops loaded with tax records are left in taxis, credit-card numbers are stolen by online purchase. The result can be privacy made public, identity stolen and cheats permitted large space. Rather than owning and controlling their own personal data, they very often find that they have lost control of it.

The best way to deal with the data flood is to make more data available in the right way, by requiring greater transparency in several areas. First, users should be given greater access to and control over the information held about them, including whom it is shared with. Google allows users to see what information it holds about them, and lets them delete their search histories or modify the targeting of advertising, for example. Second, organizations should be required to disclose details of security breaches (安全漏洞), as is already the case in some parts of the world, to encourage bosses to take information security more seriously. Third, organizations should be subject to an annual security check, with the resulting grade made public (though details of any problems exposed would not be). This would encourage companies to keep their security measures up to date.

1.What is the best title for this passage?

A. Information Flood B. Benefits of Data Flood

C. Harms of Data Flood D. How to Use Data in a Right Way

2.From the passage we can infer that _____.

A. lots of data are lost because of hardware problems

B. online purchases are becoming more and more popular

C. credit cards are not so secure to use and will go out of use very soon

D. insurance firms have to investigate before they confirm their policyholders’ claims

3.Which of the following is the writer’s opinion about how to deal with the data flood?

A. Personal information should be used for public benefits.

B. The users should be given the right to access public information.

C. Companies should update their measures to guarantee their data safety.

D. Organizations should keep their resulting grade of security checks unknown to the public.

4.From the passage we can conclude that _____.

A. the data flood makes peoples’ life less convenient and more expensive

B. companies and insurance firms are responsible for the data flood

C. the information flood is more useful to organizations than to individuals

D. the information flood has both positive and negative influence on modern life

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