The United Nations climate talks in Doha, Qatar, continued into their second week, Wednesday, as delegates from nearly 200 countries struggle to craft a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, the global agreement on climate change that expires at the end of this month.
The negotiations are deadlocked （陷入僵局）over demands by poorer nations for financial help in coping with climate change.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on delegates at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to speed up their work on an agreement to address a warming planet.
“Let us be under no illusion（幻想）, this is a crisis, a threat to us all, our economies, our security and the well-being of our children and those who will come after," he said. "No one is immune to climate change, rich or poor.”
Delegates from nearly 200 countries --- rich and poor --- are in Doha to extend the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 global climate change agreement that expires （到期）at the end of this month, and to begin to forge a new agreement to replace it.
Two issues block the way forward. Developing countries are demanding that industrialized nations fulfill their pledges(保证)under Kyoto to reduce their climate-changing industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and to put new, larger emission curbs on the table.
The developing nations, led by China, are also insisting that rich nations provide more aid to poorer countries to help them cope with the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and more violent storms.
In Doha Wednesday, Tim Gore, a climate change policy advisor for Oxfam International, a confederation of groups working on social justice issues, applauded efforts by England, Germany and Sweden to increase their climate aid and expects other nations to follow.
“Those announcements are truly welcome. And they shine a spotlight on those that have remained silent: the U.S., Canada, Japan, even Australia," Gore said. "But we need to be very clear as well that those types of announcements made in press conferences can be no substitute for clear commitments in the text that poor countries have come here to negotiate.”
1.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. China plays an important role in The United Nations climate talks in Doha, Qatar.
B. The United Nations climate talks in Doha, Qatar, continued into their second week, Wednesday.
C. Developing countries want rich nations to pay for climate change.
D. Ban Ki-moon called on delegates at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to speed up their work on an agreement to address a warming planet.
2.What did United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Climate change will do harm to all the countries in the world.
B. There is no hope to deal with the problem.
C. Illusion（幻想）is a crisis, a threat to us all.
D. Ban Ki-moon called on delegates to cope with a warming planet.
3.What does the underlined word in Paragraph Five forge mean?
A. put aside B. deal with C. call off D. work out
4.Which of the following is Not true?
A. Climate change includes rising sea levels and more violent storms.
B. All the industrialized nations will carry out their promises under Kyoto to reduce their climate-changing industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and to put new, larger emission curbs on the table.
C. Tim Gore thought highly of the efforts by England, Germany and Sweden to increase their climate aid and expects other nations to follow.
D. The U.S., Canada, Japan, even Australia didn’t make announcements to be responsible for the climate changes.
Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive (主管的) circle, beauty can become a liability.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.
Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success.
Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight successes.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is considered to be more feminine (女性的，娇柔的) and has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the “manly” qualifies required.
This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates (候选人). She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
1.The underlined word in the first paragraph “liability” most probably means_________.
A. trust B. trouble C. disadvantage D. benefit
2.Bowman's experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness________.
A. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women
B. turns out to be a disadvantage to men
C. has more effects on men than on women
D. has nothing to do with one’s work
3.It can be inferred from the passage that people's views on beauty are often__________.
A. objective B. supportive C. old-fashioned D. subjective
4.The author writes this passage to_________.
A. give advice to job-seekers who are attractive
B. discuss the disadvantages of being attractive
C. emphasize the impact of appearance on both sexes
D. make women pay more attention to their appearance
All it took was a slice of Xinjiang cake to spark heated debates online over China's policy on ethnic minorities (少数民族) .
Since Monday, qiegao (cut cake) has been a trending topic on Sina Weibo, China’s main Twitter-like microblogging service.
The cake was a reference to Xinjiang’s famed nut cake, sometimes known by its old Turkic name baklava, a popular pastry across Central Asia and the Middle East. In Xinjiang, they are sold by Uygur vendors on tricycles who are known to charge dubious prices depending on the time and season.
The ethnic flare-up started after the Yueyang police from Hunan province posted a message on their official Weibo account. It reported a dispute in Pingjiang county over an overpriced piece of nut cake between a Xinjiang Uygur vendor and a villager named "Ling".
Villager Ling got into a fight with a Uygur due to a misunderstanding. The verbal dispute eventually escalated into a fight and then a mass fight. As a result, two people were injured and Xinjiang nut cakes worth about 160,000 yuan (US$25,000) were destroyed. The total damage was worth 200,000 yuan which included a broken motorcycle and injuries to people. Local police have detained Ling. The 16 Uygur sellers were dully compensated and sent back to Xinjiang.
"Yueyang police incident" quickly became one of the most popular topics on Weibo. Yueyang police removed the post shortly after. As of Tuesday night, the topic was still amassing more than 66,000 hits.
The incident is just one of many similar cases of ethnic tensions across China, notably in Xinjiang province, where deeply entrenched social and racial frictions between the dominant ethnic Han Chinese and minority Uygur Muslims occasionally spark violence. Many Uygurs living in major Chinese cities are viewed by locals as thieves, crooks and even terrorists.
1.Which of the following is true?
A. The dispute is between a Xinjiang Uygur vendor and a policeman.
B. Nut cake is a popular pastry across East Asia and the Middle East.
C. The prices of Baklava will change according to the time and season.
D. The demand of the 16 Uygur sellers were refused and they were sent back to Xinjiang.
2.How much did the broken motorcycle cost？
A. 160,000 yuan B. 200,000 yuan C. 40,000yuan D. We don’t know
3.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. World's most expensive baklava
B. Ethnic tensions across China
C. Pay attention to the Uygurs
D. Misunderstanding caused a fight
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Yueyang police are afraid of the Xinjiang Uygur vendor
B. It’s not the only ethnic tension across China,
C. Many Uygurs living in major Chinese cities are viewed by locals as thieves, crooks and even terrorists.
D. Villager Ling got into a fight with a Uygur due to a misunderstanding.
PRINT PRODUCTION MANAGER WANTED A well-known printing company, now well established in the UK and in the Far East, wishes to set up a manufacturing base in Europe. An experienced manager, responsible to the Production Director, is required to assist in setting up the department and will then take charge of the day-to-day work. The successful applicant will have had experience of modern methods and machines especially in the printing, multicolour work and finishing processes, he / she will have had at least three years' experience in cost-effective management. A good working knowledge of English is essential. We offer excellent pay and prospects, with 4 week's holiday a year plus public holidays, a company car, and a company pension scheme (养老金制度). Interviews will be arranged in the nearest city to applicant's home. Write, with CV, to the Personnel Manager, Box 32507, Daily News, Kemsworth Street, Comston. United Kingdom SG 186 37 AH. |
ASSISTANT PRINT PRODUCTION MANAGER An internationally recognized printing company is seeking to set up a manufacturing plant in Europe. We are appointing an assistant (male or female) to our Print Production Manager. The job-holder will carry out duties involving the buying of paper and of finishing equipment, will liaise (联络) with the supervisors of the various production lines, and will assist the Production Manager. At least three years' experience on one or more lines as well as supervisory experience is needed. A working knowledge of English is required to communicate with colleagues in the UK. We offer excellent pay, prospects, holidays, pension scheme, sick pay, etc. Write to the Manager, Box 3526. Broad Street, Northby, Millshire BK 57 PX. |
1.Both the printing companies have something in common with each other except that________.
A. they are to set up a manufacturing factory in Europe.
B. they require at least three years' experience
C. they offer excellent pay and sick pay
D they provide holidays
2.According to the first advertisement, the applicant living in a small village will ________.
A. get in touch with the Personal Manager by telephone
B. get the result on TV
C. be interviewed in a city
D. write to Box 3526 to get more information
3.We can infer from the two advertisements that ________.
A. the companies want to do business in Europe and Far East
B. applicants should have a good knowledge of English.
C. the companies haven't got telephones to save money
D. cars are necessary for the successful applicants
I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago whose husband died suddenly of a heart attack. About a week after his death, she _________ some of her insight with a classroom of students. As the late afternoon sunlight came streaming in _________ the classroom windows and the class was nearly over, she moved a few things aside on the _________ of her desk and sat down there.
With a gentle look on her face, she paused and said,"Before class is over, I would like to share with all of you a thought __________ I feel is very important. Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate and give of ourselves...and ______ of us knows when this fantastic experience will end. It can be taken away at any moment. Perhaps this is a(an) _________that we must make the most out of every single day."
Her eyes beginning to__________, she went on,"So I would like you all to make me a _________...from now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesn't have to be something you see---it________ be a scent(香味)--perhaps of__________ baked bread wafting out of someone's house, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly rustling the leaves in the trees, or the __________ the morning light catches one autumn leaf as it falls gently to the ground. Please, look for these things, and remember them.
"For, _________ it may sound silly to some people, these things are the 'stuff' of life. The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy. The things we often take for ________. We must make _______important to notice them, for at any time...it can all be taken away."
The class was completely quiet. We all picked up our books and filed out of the room _________ .That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole semester. Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what a deep _________ she made on all us, and I try to appreciate all of those things that sometimes we all __________.
Take notice of something _________you see on your lunch hour today. Go barefoot. Or walk on the beach at sunset. Stop off on the way home tonight to get a double dip ice cream cone. _______ as we get older, it is not the things we did that we often _______, but the things we didn't do.
1.A. enjoyedB. sharedC. changed D. connected
2.A. through B. on C. across D. along
3.A. back B. front C. feet D. edge
4.A. what B. which C. when D. where
5.A. no oneB. every C. none D. any
6.A. sign B. signal C. symbol D. scene
7.A.cry B. sweat C. run D. water
8.A. present B. promise C. discoveryD. contribution
9.A. should B. mustC. couldD. need
10.A. eventuallyB. freshly C. graduallyD. slightly
11.A. wayB. method C. access D. process
12.A. because B. since C. unless D. although
13.A. responsibilityB. granted C. fun D. pleasure
14.A. one B. that C. them. D. it
15.A. happily B. silentlyC. sadly D. tiredly
16.A. expressionB. depression C. impression D. progress
17.A. notice B. forget C. overlook D. remember
18.A. special B. nice C. beautiful D. typical
19.A. While B. Though C. For D. If
20.A. like B. regret C. neglect D. remember
― It will be only 6 months before we take the college entrance examination.
―Time flies! ________
A. A light heart lives long.
B. We have time on our side.
C. Many heads are better than one.
D. Every minute counts.
