You might think that “global warming” means nothing more than a rise in the world’s temperature. But, rising sea levels caused by it have resulted in the first evacuation (撤离) of an island nation — the citizens of Tuvalu will have to leave their homeland.
During the 20th century, sea level has risen 8～12 inches. As a result, Tuvalu has experienced lowland flooding of salt water which has polluted the country’s drinking water.
Paani Laupepa, a Tuvaluan government official, reported to the Earth Policy Institute that the nation suffered an unusually high number of fierce storms in the past ten years. Many scientists connect higher surface water temperatures resulting from global warming to greater and more damaging storms.
Laupepa expressed dissatisfaction with the United States for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement calling for industrialized nations to reduce their green house gas emissions (排放), which are a main cause of global warming.“By refusing to sign the agreement, the US has effectively taken away the freedom of future generations of Tuvaluans to live where their forefathers have lived for thousands of years,” Laupepa told the BBC.
Tuvalu has asked Australia and New Zealand to allow the gradual move of its people to both countries.
Tuvalu is not the only country that is vulnerable (易受影响的) to rising sea levels. Maumoon Gayoon, president of the Maldives, told the United Nations that global warming has made his country of 311 000 an“endangered nation”.
1.The text is mainly about___________.
A. rapid changes in earth’s temperature?
B. bad effects of global warming
C. moving of a country to a new place
D. reasons for lowland flooding
2.According to scientists, the DIRECT cause of more and fiercer storms is __________.
A. greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized nations
B. higher surface water temperatures of the sea
C. continuous global warming
D. rising sea levels
3.Laupepa was not satisfied with the United States because it did not _________.
A. agree to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions
B. sign an agreement with Tuvalu
C. allow Tuvaluans to move to the US
D. believe the problems facing Tuvalu were real
4.The country whose situation is similar to that of Tuvalu is _________.
A. Australia B. New Zealand
C. the Maldives D. the United States
A large number of women in Western European countries wish that they were born men. The number is said as high as 60% in West Germany. “Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe it is still men’s world,” said Dr James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study.
Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company. She also believes in “Women’ s Liberation(解放)”. “I don’t wish that I were a man,” she says, “and I don’t think many women do. But I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones and open only to men. If you’re a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. How many women pilots are there ... or engineers or scientists?”
1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. 60% women in West Germany wish that they were born men.
B. Most women in Western European countries wish that their babies were all boys.
C. 60% Western European women wish that they were born men.
D. 60% Western European women who wish that they were born men are from West Germany.
2.“It is still men’s world.” means “______.”
A. There’re more men than women in the world
B. There’re more men scientists or engineers than women scientists or engineers in the world
C. Women have not been given the same chance as men
D. Women cannot live without men
3.Anne Harper considers that women should ______.
A. be well paid B. live a better life than men
C. be really liberated D. get better jobs than men
4.Anne Harper doesn’t wish that she were a man because she ______.
A. has got a very good job
B. isn’t looked down upon by anyone
C. does the work that a man can’t do
D. believes in “Women’s Liberation”
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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。
Dear Nick,
I’m glad to hear if you’re coming to Sichuan in August.You had made the wise choice to travel here.Sichuan Province is rich for tourist attractions and enjoy many world-famous place of interest,such as Jiuzhaigou and Dujiangyan Irrigation Project.
Jiuzhaigou is well known for its beautiful lakes,of that the water is clear and looks colorfully.It can excite visitors’ imagination.Other attraction is Dujiangyan Irrigation Project.It is built over 2000 years ago and is still playing important part in irrigation today.Besides,the nice weather and convenient transportation here can make your trip easier but more enjoyable.I’m sure you’ll have a good time.
I’m looking forward to your coming.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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Our brains naturally start slowing down at the cruelly young age of 30.1. used to be thought that this couldn’t be helped,but new studies show that people of any age can train their brains to work faster.“Your brain is a learning machine,”says Dr.Merzenich from University of California.2. (give) the right tools,we can train our acts as they did when we were young.All that 3.(require) is the practice designed just for this purpose: a few exercises for 4.mind.
Dr.Merzenich has developed a computer-based training method to speed up the process in5. the brain deals with information.Since much of the data we receive comes through speech,the Bain Fitness Program works with language and hearing to improve speed and accuracy.
Over the course of the training,the program starts asking you to distinguish sounds-between“dog” and “bog”,for example-6.an increasingly faster speed.It’s a bit like a tennis instructor,says Dr.Merzenich,hitting balls at you faster and 7.(fast) to keep you challenged.You may start out slow,but before long you’re pretty quick.
The biggest finding in brain research in the last decade is that the brain at any age is highly plastic.8. you ask your brain to learn,it will learn.And it may speed up in the process.
To keep your brain young and plastic,you can do one of a million new 9. (activity) that challenge and excite you: playing table tennis or bridge,doing crossword puzzles,learning a new language…“When it comes to10.(prevent) aging,you really do‘use it or lose it’”,says Barbara Sahakian ,a professor at Cambridage University.
I drive daily to work on Highway Ⅷ.Each spring ___colorful wild flowers in the ditches____the road.There is one ___golden flower that has always caught my eyes.It blooms（开花）only in the __ hours-the afternoon sun is too warm for it.
Last spring,I stated a wildflower garden in our yard.I can look through the kitchen window while doing the___ and enjoy the flowers.Those lovely golden flowers from the ditch,I have often though,would look great in the bed alongside other wildflowers.I____past the flowers every day,thinking I’ll dig them home.“___,they may be hard to keep till the office time ends.” Or,“___,I don’t want to get my good clothes dirty.” Whatever the reason,I never stopped to dig them out.My husband even gave me a folding shovel to be used for that expressed ____
One day on my way to the office,I was____to see the highway department had weeded out the ditches and the golden flowers were____“You have on one to____but yourself-you waited too long.” I thought to myself,“You____have done it when you first saw them blooming this spring.”
Days later,I____the news that my sister has brain cancer.She is 12 years older than me and___,because of age and distance,we hadn’t been as____as we would have.I couldn’t help but see the____between the golden flowers and the relationship between my sister and me.__,thanks to God,we have some time left to____some wonderful memories that will bloom every year for us.
And when I catch sight of the golden flowers again this spring,you can____I’ll surely stop an transplant them to my garden.
1.A. grows B. brings C. holds D. removes
2.A. along B. off C. around D. in
3.A. strange B. superior C. particular D. common
4.A. day B. evening C. morning D. noon
5.A. homework B. repairs C. dishes D. exercise
6.A. stopped B. walked C. dashed D. drove
7.A. What’s more B. Thus C. Never mind D. However
8.A. Remember it B. Make it C. Forget it D. Catch it
9.A. pleasure B. anger C. purpose D. anxiety
10.A. delighted B. shocked C. frightened D. saddened
11.A. falling B. gone C. standing D. abandoned
12.A. question B. blame C. hire D. follow
13.A. should B. must C. would D. might
14.A. discovered B. studied C. proved D. learned
15.A. unfortunately B. surprisingly C. frequently D. interestingly
16.A. deep B. close C. good D. long
17.A. connection B. combination C. condition D. competition
18.A. So B. In fact C. Still D. Above all
19.A. remember B. plant C. form D. harvest
20.A. doubt B. wonder C. bet D. understand
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An old Hollywood movie Free Willy has touched so deeply so many large audiences.1.The story goes;
Little killer whale Willy is captured and sent to a marine park to be trained.The whale trainers find it so hard to get Willy into their expected process of learning the designed tricks.2..Jessie teaches Willy to perform tricks far more wonderfully that any other whale trained by other whale trainers.
3.He decides to help Willy escape from the marine park.The two of them make it through chains of adventures and risks and Willy eventually gets back his free in the open sea.The closing scene of the movie goes to a great length of the director’s effort to level it high up as a film to touch deep into people’s heart,in which Jessie guides Willy in its repeated desperate attempts to jump over the fence into the sea.4.
Later,people get to know that the real whale who stars in the movie is still leading a Willy’s life in a Mexican sea park.That annoys the public and people want the entertainment industry to give up some of their gained interests and follow what is finally conducted in the case of Willy.5.And the film studio and the Mexican park had to eventually surrender to the public and children and fund for the whale’s free life in the open ocean.
A.Willy balloons up in his self-pride for himself to be a performing whale.
B.And also it has brought in so huge profits for the film studio which produced it.
C.It wins large seas of tears from wildly-beating hearts of young kids and adults as well.
D.Jessie and Willy are planning to fight for a larger share of the gain from all the performances.
E.And there Willy encounters little Jessie and a close friendship soon develops between the two.
F.Kids and adults launch countless campaigns and demonstrations of varied scales all across the US to protest.
G.To his great shock,Jessie overheard by chance that the owner is plotting to kill Willy for the vast amount of insurance profit.
