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Should e­cigarettes (electronic cigarettes) be a new choice for the smokers trying to get rid of the habit? Reactions from Americans are mixed.More than half of the people questioned in a survey think e­cigarettes should be controlled by the US Food and Drug Administration,but 47 percent believe the e­cigarettes should be available to the smokers who want to quit.
“In the hunt for a safer cigarette,e­cigarettes are becoming a popular choice among those either trying to quit or looking to replace standard tobacco smoke with an alternative that manufacturers claim to be safer,” Zogby International,which conducted the survey,said in a statement.
About half of the 4,611 adults who took part in the survey had heard about e­cigarettes,which are battery­powered,or rechargeable cigarettes that vaporize a liquid nicotine solution.They do not produce smoke but a water vapor without smell.Sold mostly on the Internet,e­cigarettes were first made in China.
Last year the World Health Organization (WHO) warned against using e­cigarettes,saying there was no evidence to prove they were safe or helped smokers break the habit.The WHO said people who smoke e­cigarettes breathe in a fine fog of nicotine into the lungs.
Nearly a third of people questioned in the survey think that e­cigarettes should be allowed in places where smoking is forbidden,because they don’t produce smoke,but 46 percent disagree.Men who were aware of the availability of e­cigarettes were more likely than women to say they should be a choice available to smokers who want to quit.Young people,aged 18-29,and singles were the groups most open to trying e­cigarettes.Smoking is the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide,according to the WHO.
小题1:What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A.American smokers ought to try e­cigarettes.
B.Americans have different opinions about e­cigarettes.
C.Every kind of cigarettes should be forbidden in America.
D.Most of the Americans don’t like e­cigarettes.
小题2:According to Zogby International,e­cigarettes ______.
A.are much safer than common cigarettes
B.are popular among people who want to quit smoking
C.will take the place of traditional cigarettes
D.are produced in a safer way by manufacturers
小题3:What do we know about e­cigarettes from the passage?
A.Most Americans are familiar with them.
B.They are a good choice as there is no nicotine.
C.They produce a water vapor that can’t be seen.
D.Most people buy them on the Internet.
小题4:What’s the attitude of the WHO towards e­cigarettes?
A.NegativeB.SupportiveC.DoubtfulD.Indifferent

答案

小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A
解析
文章想打架展示了人们对待电子烟的不同态度一句WHO的观点。
小题1:B 段落大意题。第一段主要讨论的就是每个人对电子烟的不同态度,有人同意有人反对。
小题2:B 细节题。根据第2段1,2行In the hunt for a safer cigarette,e­cigarettes are becoming a popular choice among those either trying to quit可知B正确。
小题3:D 细节题。根据第三段最后一句Sold mostly on the Internet,e­cigarettes were first made in China可知D正确。
小题4:A 推理题。根据最后两段特别是第四段第一句Last year the World Health Organization (WHO) warned against using e­cigarettes,saying there was no evidence to prove they were safe or helped smokers break the habit.可知WHO是持反对态度的。故A正确。
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Seth DeBolt is a plant scientist at the University of Kentucky US. He and other scientists wanted to find a source of fuel that poor people in rural areas of developing countries could use to make electricity.
The United Nations Development Program says a billion and a half people have no electricity. A billion others have an undependable supply.
Professor DeBolt went on a study trip to rural Indonesia. He saw that there was very little waste in the use of agricultural products. Everything that farmers grew was used for something. Even the remains of fruit that people did not eat were fed to chickens.
Little waste meant there was little that could be used for fuel. Growing a separate fuel crop would take land away from food crops. That was something Professor DeBolt did not want to do.
DeBOLT said, "The people at most risk with respect to energy poverty, typically they"re the same people who have food insecurity issues as it is. And then any change in availability would be most damaging to that group of people."
But he found one item that was in plentiful supply and would not create competition between food and fuel. Coconut shells are generally thrown out. Yet Professor DeBolt says it has an "excellent" heating value. All someone needs is a way to release that energy.
DeBolt says he and his team see possibilities for coconut power. "Coconuts are growing here and these are the areas where there is possibility for energy poverty to be eased at least in part by these small-scale production systems."
The researchers say these systems could provide as much as thirteen percent of the energy needs of a country like Indonesia. Other tropical countries with large crops of coconuts and similar fruit could benefit, as well.
But DeBolt says this is not a perfect solution. There are technical questions, like how to safely deal with the dangerous waste produced in the process. And there needs to be money to get these projects started.
小题1:Professor DeBolt went on a study trip to rural areas of developing countries to      .
A.help farmers make full use of waste
B.seek certain materials to make electricity
C.persuade farmers to grow more coconuts
D.find a suitable place to carry out the experiment
小题2:DeBolt thought it was not a good idea to grow fuel crops because      .
A.there are plenty of coconuts
B.local farmers have no interest in it
C.it would make food problems worse
D.fuel crop has little use for local farmers
小题3:The last two paragraphs mainly tell us that coconut power      .
A.needs further experiments and efforts
B.can help solve energy problem perfectly
C.will cause technique and money problems
D.has drawn Indonesia"s government attention
小题4:What might be the best title for the passage?
A.Make Full Use Of CoconutsB.Make Power From Coconuts
C.A Perfect SolutionD.Food And Energy Problems

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In the animal kingdom, weakness can bring about aggression in other animals. This sometimes happens with humans also. But I have found that my weakness brings out the kindness in people. I see it every day when people hold doors for me, pour cream into my coffee, or help me to put on my coat. And I have discovered that it makes them happy.
From my wheelchair experience, I see the best in people, but sometimes I feel sad because those who appear independent miss the kindness I see daily. They don’t get to see this soft side of others. Often, we try every way possible to avoid showing our weakness, which includes a lot of pretending. But only when we stop pretending we’ re brave or strong do we allow people to show the kindness that’ s in them.
Last month, when I was driving home on a busy highway, I began to feel unwell and drove more slowly than usual. People behind me began to get impatient and angry, with some speeding up alongside me, horning (按喇叭) or even shouting at me. At that moment,I decided to do something I had never done in twenty-four years of driving. I put on the car flashlights and drove on at a really low speed.
No more angry shouts and no more horns!
When I put on my flashlights, I was saying to the other drivers, “I have a problem here. I am weak and doing the best I can.” And everyone understood. Several times, I saw drivers who wanted to pass. They couldn’t get around me because of the stream of passing traffic. But instead of getting impatient and angry, they waited, knowing the driver in front of them was in some way weak.
Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don’t feel that way. But those are few and far between. More often, it would be better if we don’t pretend we feel strong when we feel weak or pretend that we"re brave when we’re scared.
小题1:The author has discovered that people will feel happy when ________.
A.they offer their help
B.they receive others’ help
C.they feel others’ kindness
D.they show their weakness
小题2:The author feels sad sometimes because ________.
A.he has a soft heart
B.he relies much on others
C.some people pretend to be kind
D.some people fail to see the kindness in others
小题3:What did the other drivers do when they saw the flashlights?
A.They speeded up to pass.
B.They waited with patience.
C.They tried their best to help.
D.They put on their flashlights too.
小题4:In this passage, the author advises us to ________.
A.handle problems by ourselves
B.accept help from others
C.admit our weakness
D.show our bravery

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If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago,we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day,we should be able to give an answer to the question.
It is the same in history .Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them .Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country,but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war.Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write.For example,we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4,000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them.But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.
Sometimes, of course,even if the people cannot write,they may know something of the past.They have heard about it from older people,and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings,and these have been sung and acted  and told for many generations, for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past.This we may call  “remembered history”.Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is,because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing.But where there are no written records,such spoken stories are often very helpful.
小题1:Which of the following ideas is not suggested in the passage?
A.“Remembered history”,compared with written history,is less reliable
B.Written records of the past play the most important role in our learning of the human history.
C.A written account of our daily activities helps US to be able to answer many questions.
D.Where there are no written records.there is no history.
小题2:We know very little about the central Africa 200 years ago because ___
A.there was nothing worth being written down at that time
B.the people there ignored the importance of keeping a record
C.the written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire
D.the people there did not know how to write
小题3:“Remembered history” refers to ___.
A.history based on a person’s imagination
B.stories of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth
C.songs and dances about the most important events
D.both B and C
小题4:“Remembered history”is regarded as valuable only when ____.
A.it is written downB.no written account is available
C.it proves to be timeD.people are interested in it
小题5:The passage suggests that we could have learned much more about our past than we do now if the ancient people had _____
A.kept a written record of every past event
B.not burnt their written records in wars
C.told exact stories of the most important happenings
D.made more songs and dances

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Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either.
Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air    pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad to all living things in the world.
Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.
Many countries are making rules to flight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air.
We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground, there will be less pollution.
Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.
小题1:Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because ______.
A.there were not any modern machines
B.there was no modern medicine
C.both A and B
D.there were not many people
小题2:What is the biggest problem in today’s life?
A.Water pollution
B.Air pollution
C.Noise
D.Pollution
小题3:The most serious kind of pollution is ______.
A.noise pollution
B.air pollution
C.water pollution
D.A, B and C
小题4:Factories must clean their water ______.
A.before they are thrown away
B.when they are thrown away
C.after it is thrown away
D.before it is thrown away
小题5:From the passage we know that ______.
A.a few years ago, there was no smog at all
B.today people don’t have to talk to each other in a loud voice
C.we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes
D.people are making rules in order to fight pollution

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Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach(菠菜) to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid(叶酸).
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.   
小题1:A good title for this reading passage is______.
A.Popeye the Sailor
B.The Truth About Spinach
C.A Mistake with Numbers
D.Folic Acid Makes You Strong
小题2:Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?
A.They thought spinach made them strong.
B.They thought Popeye was funny.
C.Spinach had a lot of iron.
D.People liked folic acid.
小题3:A research group told people that spinach______.
A.made Popeye strong
B.was a green vegetable
C.had less iron than other green vegetables
D.had more iron than other green vegetables
小题4:Folic acid is ______.
A.something in food
B.a vegetable
C.dangerous
D.a certain kind of spinach

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