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A. a; the B. a; a C. the; a D. the; the
当今世界粮食短缺，价格飞涨，给部分地区造成社会动荡。假设在你校开展的研究性学习中，你们小组以“World Food Crisis”为题进行研究，现在请你代表你们小组向全体同学简要介绍你们的研究成果。主要内容如下：
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造成原因 |
应对的措施 |
自己的贡献 |
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1．气候变化，造成粮食减产 |
1．注重环保，改善生态 |
1． |
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2．工业发展，城市化加速，耕地减少 |
2．严格保护耕地 |
2． |
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3．世界能源价格上涨，使用粮食生产生物燃料 |
3．富国支持穷国，促进世界和谐 |
3． |
注意：
1．内容包括以上要点，但不要逐句翻译。
2．字数150左右，文章开头已提供，不计入总词数
3．参考词汇：城市化urbanization 生物燃料 biofuels
Nowadays, studying abroad gains popularity in China. Many rich parents would rather send their children abroad to receive education than let them be educated in China.
As every coin has two sides, studying abroad is not an exception. There are advantages for people to attend school abroad. In the first place, he can use the foreign language in his daily life so that his ability in the second language may be greatly improved, as it is obvious that there is no better chance to improve second-language than living in the country where it is spoken. While studying in a foreign country, he will most likely meet many others from overseas and it is possible to make friends from all over the world. This is not only exciting on the social level, but could lead to important overseas contacts in his career as well. He can get familiar with the latest knowledge in science and make use of the first-rate facilities (设备) available. In this way, there is every chance that he is able to widen his horizon (眼界) and broaden his mind.
Of course, attending schools abroad may bring about a series of problems. The most serious problem is language barrier (障碍). Most of the students who go abroad don’t have enough skills in the language spoken there. As a result, on arriving there, they will find it difficult to understand what the teachers say. Besides, for lack of knowledge of the customs of the local people, they may constantly run into trouble in dealing with various situations.
Therefore, given an opportunity to attend a school abroad, one must consider both sides of the factors carefully before making up his mind.
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Title: Studying Abroad |
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Phenomenon |
Sending children abroad to receive education is (1) __________ with many rich parents. |
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Advantages |
● Children have the (2) ________ chance to improve the second language because they can use it (3) ___________. ● They can make friends with other students from (4)____________. ● They can (5)__________ of the latest knowledge in science and have access to the best facilities. |
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● Language barrier is the number one problem. Because students are not (7)___________ at the language spoken there, they will have difficulty in (8)____________ what the teachers say. ● It is not easy for them to deal with cross-culture communication (9)________ to lack of knowledge of the customs of the locals. |
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Conclusion |
Both sides of the factors should be (10)______________ carefully before one makes a decision. |
When you’re surfing the Internet on your laptop from your dorm or home, do you know your personal details are being gathered secretly? And would you be surprised to know the information may be sold cheaply to advertisers and marketers?
According to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal, all it takes is a tiny file in a computer-a single code consisting of a long series of numbers and letters- to record the computer user’s age, gender, location, favorite movies and hobbies.
The newspaper reports that Lotame Solutions Inc., a New York company, uses sophisticated(高科技) software called a "beacon" to capture what people are typing on a website.
Lotame packages that data into profiles（个人资料）about individuals, only without their names, and sells the profiles to companies seeking customers．Batches of such data may be sold for a few dollars.
The Wall Street Journal survey discovered that spying on Internet users is one of the fastest-growing businesses on the World Wide Web.
The "cookie"- a tiny text file put on your PC by websites or marketing firms which might be used to remember your preferences for one site, or to track you across many sites is already old news．There are new and more complex tools such as "beacons" which scan in real time what people are doing on a webpage．These beacons instantly assess the Internet user’s location, income, shopping interests and even medical conditions.
Millions of Internet users around the world also face unprecedented（空前的）threats．Private, sensitive, personal and business information is being gathered and sold without their knowledge.
Companies insist the information they gather is anonymous and the data is used harmlessly. But the technology has grown so powerful that even some of the biggest websites in the US don’t know that they were installing intrusive files on visitors’ computers．These include MSN.com and Yahoo.com.
Next time you visit a webpage and find an ad banner advertising something you’ve been planning to buy, don’t be amazed that your computer can read your mind.
1.The purpose of the passage is to .
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A．introduce a tiny file in a computer-a single code |
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B．show how your individual information was let out when you surf the Internet |
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C．show how to protect your privacy |
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D．introduce a sophisticated software called a "beacon" |
2.．All of the following statements are Wrong except .
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A．Lotame sells the profiles about individuals to companies seeking customers with their age, gender, location, hobbies and names |
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B．spying on Internet users is the fastest-growing businesses on the World Wide Web |
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C．some of the biggest websites in the US know they were installing intrusive files on visitors’ computers |
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D．a tiny file in a computer-a single code consisting of a long series of numbers and letters can record users’ information |
3.It can be inferred that .
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A．because the data is used harmlessly．Internet users around the world will not face threats |
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B．when a person surf the Internet, his personal details may be let out without his knowledge |
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C．your computer can really read your mind |
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D．MSN.com and Yahoo.com．use software to capture what people are typing on a website |
4.According to the passage, “beacon” .
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A．is a tiny text file put on your PC by websites |
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B．is a soft ware that can package that data into profiles about individuals |
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C．can assess the Internet user’s location, income, shopping interests and even medical conditions |
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D．is not more complex than the "cookie" |
5.What’s the writer’s attitude to this problem?
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A．Neutral |
B．Worried |
C．Optimistic |
D．Indifferent |
It is pretty much a one-way street. While it may be common for university researchers to try their luck in the commercial world, there is very little traffic in the opposite direction. Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job. For some industrial scientists, however, the attractions of academia (学术界) outweigh any financial considerations.
Helen Lee took a 70% cut in salary when she moved from a senior post in Abbott Laboratories to a medical department at the University of Cambridge. Her main reason for returning to academia mid-career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions. Some areas of inquiry have few prospects of a commercial return, and Lee’s is one of them.
The impact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career. Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher. He took a 30% salary cut but felt it worthwhile for the greater intellectual opportunities.
Higher up the ladder, where a pay cut is usually more significant, the demand for scientists with a wealth of experience in industry is forcing universities to make the transition (转换) to academia more attractive, according to Lee. Industrial scientists tend to receive training that academics do not, such as how to build a multidisciplinary team, manage budgets and negotiate contracts. They are also well placed to bring something extra to the teaching side of an academic role that will help students get a job when they graduate, says Lee, perhaps experience in manufacturing practice or product development. “Only a small number of undergraduates will continue in an academic career. So someone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far more potential in the job market than someone who has spent all their time on a narrow research project.”
1.By “a one-way street” (Line 1, Para. 1), the author means ________.
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A．university researchers know little about the commercial world |
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B．there is little exchange between industry and academia |
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C．few industrial scientists would quit to work in a university |
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D．few university professors are willing to do industrial research |
2.What was Helen Lee’s major consideration when she changed her job in the middle of her career?
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A．Flexible work hours. |
B．Her research interests. |
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C．Her preference for the lifestyle on campus. |
D．Prospects of academic accomplishments. |
3.Guy Grant chose to work as a researcher at Cambridge in order to ________.
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A．do financially more rewarding work |
B．raise his status in the academic world |
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C．enrich his experience in medical research |
D．exploit better intellectual opportunities |
4.What contribution can industrial scientists make when they come to teach in a university?
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A．Increase its graduates’ competitiveness in the job market. |
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B．Develop its students’ potential in research. |
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C．Help it to obtain financial support from industry. |
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D．Gear its research towards practical applications. |
The crisis at the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station in northern Japan has raised worries about radiation risks. We spoke Tuesday with Jonathan Links, an expert in radiation health sciences. He is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland.
Professor Links says workers within the nuclear plant are the only people at risk of extremely high doses of radiation.
JONATHAN LINKS: "Of course, we don't know what doses they've received, but the only persons at risk of acute radiation effects are the workers."
For other people, he says, there may be a long-term worry. People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing radiation, the kind released in a nuclear accident.
Professor Links says scientists can use computers to quickly model where radioactive material has blown and settled. Then they measure how large an area is contaminated. He says if the situation is serious enough, officials could take steps like telling people not to eat locally grown food or drink the water.
JONATHAN LINKS: "But that would only be the case if there was a significant release and, because of wind direction, the radioactive material was blown over the area, and then settled out of the air into and onto water, plants, fruits and vegetables."
The reactors at Fukushima are on the Pacific coast. But Professor Links says people should not worry about any radioactive material leaking into the ocean.
JONATHAN LINKS: "Even in a worst-case scenario accident, the sea provides a very high degree of dilution. So the concentration of radioactivity in the seawater would still be quite low."
Japan is the only country to have had atomic bombs dropped on it. That memory from World War Two would create a stronger "psychological sensitivity" to radiation exposure, Professors Links says.
Next month is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The nineteen eighty-six event was the world's worst accident in the nuclear power industry.
A new United Nations report says more than six thousand cases of thyroid cancer have been found. These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The report says that by two thousand five the cancers had resulted in fifteen deaths.
The cancers were largely caused by drinking contaminated milk. The milk came from cows that ate grass where radioactive material had fallen.
To get the latest updates, go to www.unsv.com.
Contributing: James Brooke
1.The passage mainly tells us __________.
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A．What measures the Japan Government takes to solve the nuclear crisis . |
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B．Worries and influences caused by the nuclear crisis . |
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C．With great efforts of scientists , the Japan Government has put the nuclear crisis under control . |
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D．To explain that the nuclear crisis has less effect on its neighboring countries. |
2.Which of the following is NOT the influences caused by the leak of Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station?
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A．Workers at the nuclear station are suffering the risk of death . |
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B．People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing radiation, the kind released in a nuclear accident. |
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C．The radioactive material may be blown over the area causing the pollution to water . |
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D．The concentration of radioactivity in the seawater can not be diluted. |
3.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “dilution”?
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A．chemical |
B．salt |
C．dissolution |
D．elimination |
4.According to the passage which of the following is not TRUE ?
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A．Water people drink ,food and vegetables people eat may be polluted by nuclear radiation . |
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B．Japan is the only country to have had atomic bombs dropped on it. |
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C．You can go to www.unsv.com. to get the latest news . |
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D．The nuclear accident in Japan is the worst in the nuclear power industry. |
