In Antarctica, you learn not to take anything for granted. Everything people depend on has to be shipped or flown into the continent. Why? There are no farms on the icy continent. There are certainly no cows, pigs or chickens. As for drinking water, special systems and a great deal of energy are needed to take the salt out of seawater to make it useable.
Then there is the matter of waste. The US Antarctic Program is committed (致力于) to reducing its impact- or footprint--on the Antarctic environment. That means that every bit of garbage a person might produce in a day has to be transported off the continent. That's true whether it's the wrapper from your candy bar, the green beans you didn't want to eat or the paper towels you used to wipe your hands,
McMurdo Station has put into place technology that helps it reduce its footprint. It starts with energy. The US research base has partnered its nearby neighbor, New Zealand's Scott Base, to share energy produced from three large wind turbines. Scott Base gets 100% of its power from wind, says Ron Blevins, manager at a power plant, while the American base gets about 35% of its energy from wind. The much larger US base uses oil-fired generators(发电机) to supply the rest of its energy needs. The waste heat produced by the generators is then used to warm many of its buildings.
The McMurdo base also has a wastewater treatment plant. Yubecca Bragg, an organic farmer, manages the treatment plant. Bragg explains that treatment depends on allowing microorganisms(微生物) to break down the waste until the liquid part of the waste can be safely released into the ocean. Between 150, 000 and 180,000 pounds a year of the remaining solid waste is packed into containers and sent back to the US.
1.We can learn from the first paragraph that .
A. farmers have to raise cows in Antarctica
B. people like taking the ships in Antarctica
C. it is not easy to live in Antarctica
D. water in Antarctica is useless at all
2.How do people in Antarctica deal with the solid garbage?
A. They have it taken away later. B. They wrap it in the paper towels.
C. They ignore it completely. D. They keep it in the dustbins.
3.It can be inferred from Ron Blevins’ words that .
A. the US base gets its most energy from wind
B. the US base doesn't need too much energy
C. Scott Base tries to remove its footprint
D. New Zealand's technology is advanced
4.Which of the following is harmful to the environment of Antarctica?
A. The large wind turbine. B. An oil-fired generator.
C. A wastewater treatment plant. D. Scott Base's power plant.
The Summer Program
Program Highlights:
(1)More outdoor Chinese study: All trips and activities focus on developing language skills in Chinese, as well as building up self-confidence and teamwork ability. Campers would get a clear awareness of the program theme---- “Observe-Think-Act”.
(2) One-to-one Chinese tutoring; One hour per day, we have college students majoring in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language work as tutors.
(3) Breakfast is upgraded to western buffet style and offered by the host four-star hotel.
Discount Policy:
●￥1,000 off per student for early bird applications on or before March 31st;
●¥1,000 off per student for returning students;
●¥500 off per student for 2 family siblings;
●¥1,000 off per student for a group of 3 or above (siblings/friends).
Contact information: Ms Summer
E-mail : summer@richblcu . com
Tel: (+86) 10 8230-3067
1.What will campers do if they join in the program?
A. Study together with some college teachers.
B. Have a chance to improve their confidence.
C. Spend more time learning Chinese.
D. Have each meal in four-star hotels every day.
2.When should all the applications be submitted at the latest?
A. By late July. B. By late August. C. By late March. D. By late June.
3.What should we do to save some money according to the discount policy?
A. Attend the program with three or more students.
B. Hand in our applications as early as we can.
C. Make a trip with all our family members.
D. Come back to the program in a limited time.
Not long ago, people could only buy organic food in small shops. Today it is common in most major supermarkets. The reason for the increase is that more and more people are demanding food grown without chemicals. Since the 1990s, organic farm production has gone up 20 percent every year. This pattern is expected to continue around the globe.
Australia leads the world in land used for organic agriculture. It has four times as much land devoted to organic farming as all of Asia. However, most of the land is not very fertile, and it only produces a modest amount of food. Argentina is a distant second, followed by Brazil, the United States and China. In Africa, only a very small amount of land is registered for organic farming. That does not mean Africa relies on chemicals. In fact, many farmers do not use chemicals because they cannot afford them. Yet there are no programs for these farmers to prove they do not use chemicals. Without these programs their food can never be approved organic.
India has had the most dramatic recent increase in organic farming. Like many other countries, India sees continual growth in organic food sales around the world. This, of course, leads to growth in profits. Sales of organic food were more than doubled from 2000 to 2005. Like India, many countries are trying to increase commercial organic farming to get a share of the sales. This has led to criticism. Some people believe that organic farming should not just be about making money. They think the goal is to help the environment. Others say organic farming will not continue if it is not profitable. They say that people should be able to make money while providing food that is healthy to mankind.
1.What is the passage mainly about?
A. Countries all want to make money from organic farming.
B. Organic food has become much more common.
C. People do not want to eat food with chemicals in it.
D. Farming organically is growing around the world.
2.Why do people want to increase organic farming?
A. Organic food is good for the Earth and the human beings.
B. More and more people demand chemicals to grow food.
C. Profits from organic farming help make approval programs.
D. There are fewer chemicals available to the human beings.
3.From the passage, it can be said that __________.
A. China and India have the same amount of organic farmland
B. India uses the least land to farm organically
C. the US is the fourth largest organic farming country
D. Brazil uses less land to farm organically than China
4.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. there will be fewer organic farms if demand for organic food goes down
B. people who eat food with chemicals have shorter lifespan
C. India will soon become the largest grower of organic food
D. more countries will farm organically as the environment gets worse
No poem should ever be discussed or analyzed, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end. All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation” of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on films, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching cannot replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting(背诵) it.
I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than analyzing it if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is a criticism of life, and a heightening(提升) of life. It is an approach to the truth of feeling, and it can save your life.
I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don’t like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.
1.To have a better understanding of a poem, one should________.
A. analyze it by oneself B. copy it down in a notebook
C. practise reading it aloud D. discuss it with others
2.According to the writer, one of the purposes of teaching English is to get students ________.
A. to enjoy poetry B. to become teachers
C. to become poets D. to understand life
3.The underlined words “make room” in the last paragraph probably means ________.
A. to provide equipment B. to leave a certain amount of time
C. to set aside enough space D. to build a booth
4.The best title for the passage may be “________”.
A. Analyzing Poems B. Discussing Poems
C. Learning English D. Reading Poems Aloud
加拿大高中生David在互联网上登出启事notice，希望结识一位中国朋友，以便学习中国的语言、文化。假设你是光明中学的李华，请在看到这则启事后，用英文给David发出一封电子邮件。主要内容包括：
1．你怎样得知他的愿望
2．你愿意成为他的朋友
3．你打算如何帮助他
4．你盼望他的回复
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear David,
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
I’d like to introduce Sarah to you. She is a good friend of me. Actually she is an exchange student from Ireland, which has been studying in my school for two month. Wanting to take an advantage of her short time here, Sarah works hardly. She had not studied Chinese before arriving here, but she has some difficulty communicating with people. She woke up early morning to study a bit before class. I admire her independence for doing all of this while live so far away from her family. Besides, Sarah is in great help. Busy as she is, she often takes time help classmates with their English homework. A lovely girl, isn’t she?
