Health and climate scientists have mapped how climate change affects different parts of the world in different ways. The scientists point to the fact that changes in the past thirty years may, have been affecting human health. Possible effects include more deaths from extreme(极度的) heat or cold, more storms and more crop failures in dry periods.
The health and climate scientists recently estimated(估计) that climate changes caused by human activity lead to more than one hundred and fifty thousand deaths each year. Cases of sickness are estimated at five million. And the W.H.O. says the numbers could rise quickly by the year of 2003.
Jonathan Patz of an environmental institute led the study. Professor Patz points out that climate scientists connected global warming with the heat that killed thousands in Europe in August, 2003. But he says poor countries least responsible(对……负责) for the warming are most in danger from the health effects of higher temperatures.
Professor Patz says areas in greatest danger include southern and eastern Africa and coastlines along the Pacific and Indian oceans. Also, large cities experience what scientists call a "heat island"effect that can make conditions worse.
Representatives(代表) from about two hundred countries hold a meeting in Canada, to discuss climate change. The ten-day meeting ends on December 9th. It is the first such United Nations meeting since the Kyoto Protocol(京都议定书) took effect earlier this year. The agreement aims to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide(二氧化碳) and other heat-trapping(吸热的) gases sent off into the air.
1.Who is Jonathan Patz?
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A．A scientist responsible for the climate change. |
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B．A scientist in charge of the study of the climate change. |
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C．A professor interested in the climate change. |
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D．A professor who is a representative from an African country. |
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
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A．Climate changes affect different parts of the world in the same way. |
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B．The ten-day meeting is the first United Nations meeting on climate change. |
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C．The Kyoto Protocol aims to make smaller the amount of heat-trapping gases into the air. |
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D．Poor countries are responsible for the global warming. |
3.Possible effects from the climate changes include the following EXCEPT ______.
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A．crop failures |
B．storms |
C．more deaths from overheat |
D．air pollution |
4.According to the health and climate scientists, climate changes have been caused by ______.
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A．dry weather |
B．cold weather |
C．human activities |
D．storms |
5.We can infer from the passage that ______.
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A．climate changes are having a bad effect on human’s health |
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B．Professor Patz leads the study of climate changes |
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C．a "heat island"effect large cities experience makes the matter worse |
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D．rich countries are most responsible for climate changes |
Fire can help people in many ways. Fire can heat water, (21)____ your house, give light and cook food. But fire can burn things too. Nobody knows (22)____ people began to use fire. One story from Australia tells about a man a very long time ago. He (23)____ the sun by a rope and brought fire down.
Today people know how to (24)____ a fire with matches. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very (25)____.
Fire kills people every year. So you must be careful (26)____ matches. You should also learn to (27)____ fires. Fires need oxygen（氧气）. Without oxygen they die. There is (28)____ in the air. Cover a fire with water, sand, or (29)____, with your coat or a blanket. This keeps the air from a fire and kills it.
Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it might (30)____ you.
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If you had to choose the single most important 1___________(discover) of the 20th century, you would have a real 2_________ on your hands. In just 100 years, the world changed completely. Amazing discoveries were made in medicine, communications and transport, not to 3____________ our knowledge of the world and space. Medical advances 4 ________ from discovering the causes of diseases under microscopes to surgical procedures 5____________(replace) 6__________(disease) organs with 7________ (donate) ones. Communications changed 8______ the introduction of mobile phones and the way we _9_________(通信) went 10________ writing letters to emailing. We started flying around the world and 11____________（同时）, scientists figured 12________ how to 13______(劈开) the atom, 14________（过去） thought to be the smallest particle of matter 15______ the universe.
用所给的短语的适当形式填空
to put it another way, in detail, look into, click into, in terms of , link to , die of , as a result of , on demand, figure out, do with
1.I can’t give you any good suggestions until you tell me the whole thing ________.
2.If you like listening to rock music, you can ______________ this website.
3.The murder case is _____________ by the police now.
4.You can __________your computer _________the Internet only after you have paid the service.
5. ______________ population, China is the largest country in the world.
6.His speech was very long but few people could _____________ what he meant .
7.His sister _______________ cancer last year.
8.The boss is not satisfied with your work, ______________ , you lose your job.
9.What have you been __________________ the conflict?
10.He is unable to work _______________ the fall from his horse.
单词拼写。
1.Tom and Jack had ___________________( 通信 ) for many years.
2.Professor Smith , an ear ____________(专家 ), organized a national survey of nose disease in children.
3.Singing, playing games, and reading are forms of _____________(消遣)
4.The chairman is considering changes to the sex ________________(歧视) law to promote equal opportunities.
5. A p_______ gives the owner their right to be the only one who can make , use or sell an invention or product for a particular number of years.
6.Everyone was encouraged to d________ a day’s pay to help survivors of the disaster.
7.Had not Tom dived into the river to r___________ him, the boy would have drowned.
8.A car is very h______ for people who live some little distance from town.
9.Some good sources of information can a_______ us in making the best selection.
10.his medicine is ____________( 有毒的) if taken in large quantities.
When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very 21 . Some stories are told 22 they were true. Real people who live in a 23 world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not 24 . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be 25 for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only 26 . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter ,we 2 7 seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than 28 . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of 29 . When we read or write something ,we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our 30 --which is real—and our imagination—which is real in a different way --- to make the words come to life in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy(幻想) 31 the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read 32 realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we 33 that we are real and they are 34 . It sounds 35 ,but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and 36 about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by 37 that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our 38 when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose 39 in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel 40 we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
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