What does the man say about the necklace?
A. It suits the woman. B. It doesn't look expensive. C. It looks really old.
Why does the man make the call?
A. To make an appointment.
B. To do some experiments.
C. To ask about his test results.
What does the woman mean?
A. She agrees with the man.
B. She doesn't know Mrs.Kim.
C. Mrs.Kim shouldn't be on the committee.
Where does the woman live now?
A. In the dorm. B. In the hotel. C. In an apartment.
An audio book is a recording of a text being read. Audio books are considered a valuable tool. Digital innovation isn’t just changing the way audio books are created, packaged and sold. It’s starting to reshape the way readers consume literature.
Like many young people, Tony Chou, a 25-year-old software engineer in Shanghai, never used to read much. He barely cracked a book in college and would read one or two a year on vacation, at most. But in the past year, he’s finished 10 books. He listens to audio in pieces throughout the day on his iPhone during his morning workout, on his 20-minute-trip to work, and while he’s cooking dinner or cleaning up. Before he falls asleep, he switches to an e-book of the same story on his Kindle, and starts reading right where the narrator left off.
（写作内容）
1.用约 30 个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；
2.分析有声读物受欢迎的原因(不少于两点)；
3.联系实际，谈谈你愿意读传统读物还是有声读物，并简述理由。
（写作要求）
1.写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3，不必写标题。
（评分标准） 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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Lindsay Renwick, the mayor of Deniliquin, a country town in New South Wales, misses the constant whir of the rice mill whose giant fans dried the rice. The Deniliquin mill, the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere, once processed enough grain to meet the needs of 20 million people globally. But six years of drought have had a destructive effect, reducing Australia’s rice crop by 98 percent and leading to the mothballing of the mill last December.
Drought affects every agriculture industry based in Australia, not just rice – from sheep farming, the country’s other backbone, to the cultivation of grapes for wine, the fastest-growing crop there, with that expansion often coming at the expense of rice. The drought’s effect on rice has produced the greatest impact on the rest of the world, so far. It is one factor contributing to skyrocketing prices, and many scientists believe it is among the earliest signs that a warming planet is starting to affect food production.
Researchers are looking for solutions to global rice shortages – for example, rice that blooms earlier in the day, when it is cooler, to fight against global warming. Rice plants that happen to bloom on hot days are less likely to produce grains of rice, a difficulty that is already starting to emerge in inland areas of China and other Asian countries as temperatures begin to climb. “There will be problems very soon unless we have new varieties of rice in place,” said Reiner Wassmann, climate change director at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). The recent reports on climate change carried a warning that could make the news even worse: that existing models for the effects of climate change on agriculture did not yet include newer findings that global warming could reduce rainfall and make it more variable.
Meanwhile, changes like the use of water to grow wine grapes instead of rice carry their own costs, as the developing world is discovering. "Rice is an essential food," sail Graeme Haley, the general manager of the town of Deniliquin. "Wine is not."
Yet the effects of climate change are not uniformly bad for rice. Rising concentrations (浓度) of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, can actually help rice – although the effect reduces or disappears if the plants face unnecessary heat, inadequate water, severe pollution or other stresses. Still, the flexibility of farmers here has persuaded some climate experts that, particularly in developed countries, the effects of climate change may be relieved, if not completely avoided. “I’m not as negative as most people,” said Will Steffen, director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University. “Farmers are learning how to do things differently.”
Phenomenon | Six years of drought has reduced Australia’s rice crop by 98%, leaving the largest rice mill 1. |
2.of climate change on agriculture | ◎Every Australian agriculture industry is affected, sheep farming 3. ◎The cultivation of grapes for wine may stop 4. owing to a shortage of rice. ◎Rice prices are rising 5. . ◎Food production will be reduced for a recent report reveals that global warming may reduce rainfall and cause it to 6. more often. |
7.to global rice shortages | ◎8. old types with a new variety of rice that blooms earlier when it is cooler. ◎Use water instead of rice to grow wine. |
Some good news | ◎Rice can actually 9. by the rising concentration of carbon dioxide and the main greenhouse gas. ◎Though the effects of climate change are 10., farmers are flexible and can do things differently . |
