----What a pity! I missed the last concert of the year.
----Oh, not at all. It was so terrible. In fact, I would rather I there.
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A．hadn’t been |
B．was not |
C．haven’t been |
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It was John we won the game.
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A．because; who |
B．because of; whom |
C．as; that |
D．thanks to; that |
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随着生活水平的提高，很多家庭购买了小轿车作为代步工具，由此引起了一些社会问题，尤其是交通堵塞问题，许多大城市纷纷提出治堵方案，考虑控制私家车数量，市民们对此意见不一，你就此事进行了调查，请你根据所给材料用英语向某英语报写一封信说说你调查的情况，并说明你的看法和建议。
优势：1.促进汽车工业、促进经济发展 2.方便、快捷、省时
不足：1.交通拥堵 2.环境污染
注意：1.短文包括所有要点，可适当发挥；
2.开头和结尾已为你写好，但不计入总词数；
3.词数：150词左右
Dear editor,
With the improvement of the life standard, many families buy private cars in recent years, thus causing some social problems.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Best wishes.
Yours Li Ping
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阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
People unhappy with the rich: Poll
There is growing dissatisfaction toward rich people, according to a new online poll.
The poll by the China Youth Daily in collaboration(与…合作) with Sina.com has highlighted the apparent discontent (不满)over the country's widening income gap.
Nearly 8,000 people filled in online questionnaires last week, and when asked to use three words to describe society's rich, the top responses were "extravagant"(奢侈的), "greedy" and "corrupt".
About 57 percent of those polled said that "extravagant" was the best word to describe the rich, followed closely by "greedy".
Ironically, despite their dissatisfaction, 93 percent of those polled wished they could be rich too, and that richer people should be "socially responsible".
Some 33 percent of respondents also praised rich people for being "smart".
Nearly 90 percent of respondents agreed that most people in society, including themselves, were willing to speak up for the poor but were reluctant to take action and actually do something for them.
The survey comes on the heels of a heated debate over comments made by renowned economist Mao Yushi, who said he was "speaking for the rich and working for the poor".
A report released by the Asian Development Bank last Wednesday revealed that China's Gini coefficient - an indicator of the wealth divide - rose from 0.407 in 1993 to 0.473 in 2004.
An earlier CASS report said that the richest 10 percent of Chinese families now own more than 40 percent of all private assets, while the poorest 10 percent share less than 2 percent of the total wealth.
The country's income disparity(悬殊) is close to that of Latin America, the report which came out in January said.
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The poll by China Daily |
1. Nearly 8,000 people filled in __1.__ on the ___2.___last week. 2. There is an __3.__ dissatisfaction tendency toward rich people. 3. Ironically, in __4._ of their dissatisfaction, 93 percent of the polled wished they could be rich too, and rich people should take “__5._ responsibility”. 4. ___6.__ ,Mao Yushi, said he was “speaking for the rich and working for the poor.” |
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A report ___7.__ by the Asian Development Bank |
1. The richest 10 percent of Chinese families now on more than 40 percent of all _8.__ assets, while the poorest 10 percent ___9._ for less than 2 percent of the total wealth. 2. The country’s income disparity is close to that of Latin America, according to the report which came out in ___10._. |
Good posture certainly shows good health. It also adds to a body’s energy and beauty. The body is not handsome when the back is bent and neck thrusts forward. Bad posture suggests the impression that a person is tired, lacking in energy, bored, or weak. Tiredness may sometimes be the cause of bad posture. Most often, however, it is due to careless and poor health habits. Whatever it causes, bad posture affects one physically. The muscles are stretched and pulled into unnatural positions, which can lead to poor base of the body’s various systems.
Nutrition is the study of how the body takes food and uses it. This science provides information about the kinds of food a person must eat to improve and maintain good health. Such knowledge helps him develop and form people habits to his problems of healthful living. People habits of nutrition can be developed by paying attention to: (1) the variety of food included in the diet; (2) the quality of each kind of food eaten. A diet, or the food regularly eaten, must contain all the necessary factors.
Many physicians believe that overweight is one of the greatest dangers to good health. This condition often leads to a shorter life. An overweight person is also easier to suffer disease, and various disorders of the digestive system. A person’s weight directly has something to do with the amounts of food he eats.
All foods can make a person fat if too much is eaten. In reducing, the safe weight loss is about two pounds a week. The sensible way to lose weight is to decrease the gaining starchy(含淀粉的) foods, fats and sweets in the diet.
1. According to this passage, which of the following is suggested about the good health habits?
A. Good way of holding your body. B. Balanced food.
C. Right body weight. D. All of the above
2. According to this passage, bad posture is most probably caused by_______.
A. tiredness, boredom and weakness B. lack of energy
C. carelessness and poor health habits D. overworking and illness
3.Which of the following eating habits is NOT proper in terms of maintaining good health?
A. Vegetables, meat and water only
B. A suitable quantity of each kind of food
C. Fats being part of diet.
D. Various foods included in the diet
4. We can infer from the statement “all foods can make a person fat if too much is eaten” that___.
A. to lose weight you had better eat properly for daily meals
B. the most effective way to lose weight is to have no fat and sweet
C. even vegetables can make you put on weight, so there is no need to have fat and sweet.
D. a shorter life is a sure result of overweight
We produce 500 billion of plastic bags in a year worldwide and they are thrown away polluting oceans, killing wildlife and getting dumped in landfills where they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Researchers have been unsuccessfully looking for a solution.
The 16-year-old Canadian high school student, Daniel Burd, from Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has-discovered a way to make plastic bags degrade(降解) in as few as 3 months, a finding that won him first prize at the Canada Wide Science Fair, a ＄10,000 prize, a ＄20,000 scholarship, and a chance to revolutionize a major environmental issue.
Burd’s strategy was simple: Since plastic does eventually degrade, it must be eaten by microorganisms (微生物). If those microorganisms could be identified, we could put them to work eating the plastic much faster than under normal conditions.
With this goal in mind, he grounded plastic bags into a powder and concocted(调制) a solution of household chemicals, yeast(酵母) and tap water to encourage microbes growth. Then he added the plastic powder and let the microbes work their magic for 3 months. Finally, he tested the resulting bacterial culture on plastic bags, exposing one plastic sample to dead bacteria as a control. Sure enough, the plastic exposed to the live bacteria was 17% lighter than the control after six weeks.
The inputs are cheap, maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide.
“Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have piles of plastic bags falling on top of me. One day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bags. The answer: not much. So I decided to do something myself.” Said Daniel Burd.
1.Daniel Burd won first prize at the Canada Wide Science Fair because .
A. he found a new kind of microorganism
B. he contributed much to environmental protection
C. he found a way to degrade plastics in shorter time
D. he could encourage microbe growth in an easier way
2. Daniel Burd exposed one plastic sample to dead bacteria to .
A. make the live bacteria work better B. test how effective his method was
C. know which bacteria worked faster D. control the temperature in the process
3.
Maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because .
A. plastics can get hot easily B. microbes can produce heat themselves
C. much carbon dioxide is produced D. the temperature can be controlled
4. Daniel Burd got his idea from .
A. his school textbook B. the failure of researchers
C. his everyday work D. the practice of other people
