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［1］Today, millions of people want to learn or improve their English but it is difficult to find the best method．Is it better to study in Britain or America or to study in your own country?
［2］The advantages of going to Britain seem obvious．Firstly, you will be able to listen to the language all the time you are in the country．You will be surrounded completely by the language wherever you go．Another advantage is that you have to speak the language if you are with other people．In Italy,it is always possible, in the class, to speak Italian if you want to and the learning is slower．
［3］On the other hand, staying at home to study．You don’t have to make big changes to your life．As well as this,it is also a lot cheaper than going to Britain but it is never possible to achieve the results of living in the UK．If you have a good teacher in Italy,I think you can learn in a more concentrated way than being in Britain without going to a school．
［4］So,in conclusion,I think that if you have enough time and enough money, the best choice is to spend some time in the UK．This is simply not possible for most people, so being here in Italy is the only（可行的）viable option．The most important thing to do in this situation is to maximise your opportunities:to speak only English in class and to try to use English whenever possible outside the class．
1.What is the text mainly about?（no more than 10 words）
2.Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one?
All the people and everything around are related with English,and you’ll have more opportunities．
3.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words．（no more than 8 words）
4.What suggestion does the author give to those who learn English in their own country?（no more than 20 words）
5.Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese．
As they migrate（迁移) , butterflies and moths choose the winds they want to fly with, and they change their body positions if they start floating in the wrong direction. This new finding suggests that insects may employ some of the same methods that birds use for traveling long distances. Scientists have long thought that insects were simply at the mercy of the wind.
Fascinating as their skills of flight are, migrating behavior has been difficult to study in insects because many long distant trips happen thousands of feet above ground. Only recently have scientists developed technologies that can detect such little creatures at such great heights.
To their surprise, though, the insects weren't passive travelers on the winds. In autumn, for example, most light winds blew from the east, but the insects somehow sought out ones that carried them south and they positioned themselves to navigate directly to their wintering homes.
Even in the spring, when most winds flowed northward, the insects didn't always go with the flow. If breezes weren't blowing in the exact direction they wanted to go, the insects changed their body positions to compensate. Many migrating birds do the same thing.
The study also found, butterflies and moths actively flew within the air streams that pushed them along. By adding flight speeds to wind speeds, the scientists calculated that butterflies and moths can travel as fast as 100 kilometers an hour. The findings may have real-world applications. With climate warming, migrating insects are growing in number. Knowing how and when these pests move could help when farmers decide when to spray their crops.
1. What's the main idea of the text?
A. Windsurfing insects have real direction.
B. Wind helps insects greatly in migrating.
C. Insects migrate with the seasons.
D. Scientists have trouble in observing insects.
2.Scientists originally thought that _____.
A. insects were just blown about by the wind
B. insects chose the winds they wanted to ride
C. insects always waited for their favourable winds
D. insects positioned themselves in the winds
3. It is not easy to study the migrating behavior of the insects because ______.
A. the little creatures can fly very fast
B. their flight is long and high above ground
C. the wind's direction is hard to foresee
D. they have no regular migrating courses
4. We can learn from the text that _____.
A. insects never position themselves when flying low
B. insects travel more easily in autumn
C. insects fly in the way birds do
D. insects rest a lot when the wind pushes them along
The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a potential hunger crisis in poor countries and an energy crisis worldwide, world leaders failed to think ahead. The result is a global food crisis. Wheat, corn and rice prices have more than doubled in the past two years. And oil prices have increased more than three times since the start of 2004. These food-price increases, combined with increasing energy costs, will slow if not stop economic growth in many parts of the world and will even affect political stability. Practical solutions to these problems do exist, but we'll have to start thinking ahead and acting globally.
Here are three steps to ease the current food crisis and avoid the potential for a global crisis. The first is to promote the dramatic success of Malawi, a country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and seeds with high productivity. Malawi’s harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion altogether.
Second, the U.S. and Europe should abandon their policies of paying partly for the change of food into biofuels (生物燃料). The U.S. government gives farmers a taxpayer-financed payment of 51 cents per gallon of ethanol (乙醇) changed from corn. There may be a case for biofuels produced on lands that do not produce foods — tree crops, grasses and wood products — but there’s no case for the government to pay to put the world’s dinner into the gas tank.
Third, we urgently need to weather-proof the world’s crops as soon and as effectively as possible. For a poor farmer, sometimes something as simple as a farm pond — which collects rainwater to be used in dry weather — can make the difference between a good harvest and a bad one. The world has already committed to establishing a Climate Adaptation Fund to help poor regions climate-proof vital economic activities such as food production and health care but has not yet acted upon the promise.
1. An international fund based on the Malawi model would______.
A. cost each of the developed countries $10 billion per year
B. give poor farmers access to fertilizer and highly productive seeds
C. decrease the food prices as well as the energy prices
D. aim to double the harvest in southern African countries in a year
2.With the second step, the author expresses the idea that ______.
A. we should get alternative forms of fuel in any way
B. it is misleading to put tree crops into the gas tank
C. it is not wise to change food crops into gas
D. biofuels should be developed on a large scale
3.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The world has made a serious promise to build farm ponds.
B. A Climate Adaptation Fund has been established to help poor.
C. A rain-collecting pond is a simple safeguard against dry weather.
D. It makes a great difference whether we develop wood products or not.
4.In the passage, the author calls on us to______.
A. slow down but not to stop economy
B. act now so as to relieve the global food shortage
C. achieve economic growth and political stability
D. develop tree crops, grasses and wood products
China news, Beijing, Feb. 9 – Housing price in China has always aroused heated discussions among property developers and ordinary Chinese. To many property developers and local government officials, housing price in China is still low compared with many developed countries. However, the average housing price in the United States is only 8,000 yuan per square meter, while in China, it is even higher than in the United States. This shows that there are some bubbles(泡沫) in Chinese real estate (房地产) market, the International Finance News reported.
Although the average price of residential houses in the United States, after converted to Renminbi, is about 8,000 yuan per square meter, the houses in US are not sold in terms of building area, as most Chinese property developers do when they sell their houses. If US property developers sell their houses according to the building area, then the housing price will be even lower than 8,000 yuan per square meter. In most big Chinese cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, houses are sold at a price even higher than those in the US.
The high housing sales price in large cities in China proves that Chinese real estate market does have some bubbles. Moreover, Chinese houses can not be compared with houses in US in terms of building quality, environment and supporting facilities. Furthermore, it should be noted that American people’s average income is several dozen times higher than that of Chinese people. How can the Chinese afford to buy a house which is even more expensive than that sold in US?
At the beginning of 2007, Chinese government issued a set of policies that aimed to benefit the public. Now in order to reduce the high housing prices, the government can regulate (控制) the real estate market by raising tax on property industry and controlling the release of loans to property developers. At the same time, the government should allow people to build more houses through various fund-raising channels, such as funds collected from buyers or raised by working units. By applying these multiple means, it is expected that the high housing prices can be lowered.
1.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A．Chinese houses can not be compared with houses in US in terms of building quality, environment and supporting facilities.
B．There are more people who need houses in China than those in the United States.
C．The houses in US are not sold in terms of building area, as most Chinese property developers do when they sell their houses.
D．American people’s average income is several dozen times higher than that of Chinese people.
2.What is the main idea of this passage?
A．The Chinese government should do something to control the housing price.
B．The Chinese government issued a set of policies that aimed to benefit the public.
C．The average housing price in China is even higher than in the United States. D．There are some bubbles in Chinese real estate market.
3.How many measures are mentioned in the last paragraph in order to reduce the high housing prices?
A．Four B．Two C．Five D． Three
4. It can be inferred from the passage that ______
A. Ordinary Chinese are looking forward to seeing that the high housing prices will be lowered.
B. There will be no bubbles in Chinese real estate after the government raises tax on property industry.
C. Housing price in China has lowered since 2007.
D. More ordinary Chinese will buy a house in America instead of in China.
