题目
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The report "Whales in hot water?" draws attention to the growing impacts of climate change on whales.They range from changes in sea temperature and the freshening of the seawater because of the melting of ice and increased rainfalls, to a sea level rise, loss of icy polar habitats and the decline of krill populations in key areas.Krill, a tiny shrimp that is dependent on sea ice, is the main source of food for many of the great whales.
The speeding up of climate change adds greatly to trouble from other human activities, such as chemical and noise pollution, which kills some 1000 whales every day.
"Whales and dolphins have an ability to adapt to their changing environment," said Mark Simmonds, International Director of Science at WDCS."But the climate is now changing at such a fast pace that it is unclear to what extent whales and dolphins will be able to adjust."
Climate change impacts are currently greatest in the Arctic and the Antarctic.According to the report, cetaceans that rely on polar, icy waters for their home and food resources are likely to be greatly affected by the reduction of sea ice cover.
WDCS and WWF are urging governments to cut global production of C02 by at least 50 percent by the middle of this century.The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed it was possible to stop global warming if the world"s emissions start to decline before 2015.
小题1:Which of the following is the most important for whales and dolphins?
A.Rainfall | B.Krill | C.Sea ice cover | D.High sea level |
A.dolphins | B.krill | C.sea horses | D.sharks |
A.increase | B.control | C.protection | D.fall |
A.The Pacific Ocean | B.Asia. |
C.Two polar areas. | D.Equator. |
A.Climate change will lead to the changes in sea temperature. |
B.Climate change will result in the freshening of the sea water. |
C.Climate change will have a bad effect on human activities and whales. |
D.Human beings will forever have no ability to stop global warming. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:D
解析
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试题【The USA, New York—Whales and dolphins are facing increasing threats from climate】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective.
Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm. The size of a product can attract a shopper.But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product.The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius to sell it.”
小题1:Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?
A.The cost of its package. | B.The price of the product. |
C.The colour of its package. | D.The brand name of the product. |
A.attracted the customers strongly B.had weak effects on the customers
C.tricked the customers into shopping D.caused the customers to lose interest
小题3:Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?
A.The way to promote goods. | B.The discovery of a genius. |
C.The team to produce a good product. | D.The brand name used by successful producers. |
A.Choice of Good Products | B.Disadvantages of Products |
C.Effect of Packaging on Shopping | D.Brand Names and Shopping Tricks |
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the upper and middle reaches of the Pearl River has been rapidly urbanized(城市化)and industrialized in recent years, leading to a rise in the amount of urban rubbish to the damage of the land, rivers and atmosphere.
Refuse dumps and special plants in most cities treat rubbish to make it harmless, with 5,800 tons of wastes being burnt, buried or made into fertilizers on a daily basis.
He Suping, a woman engineer with the water resources department in Guangxi said, it is imperative for the autonomous region to treat sewage wastes to protect the area’s Karst terrain(喀斯特地形)and rain water which brings contact between groundwater and surface water, making groundwater more easily polluted.
The Xijiang River, a branch of the Pearl River which runs from Guangxi to neighboring Guangdong Province, provides fresh water for a number of riverside cities such as Macao, Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Zhaoqing, so Guangxi must begin to treat rubbish quickly to protect the water sources, said Liu Chen, a senior engineer with the Ministry of Water Resources.
The government 2001—2006 plan to spend billions of yuan to turn wastes harmless has been mainly provided by national debt payments and overseas investment.So far wastes treatment projects have received a total of 400 million yuan(48 million US dollars)from national debts and 60 million yuan(7.22 million US dollars)from overseas loans(贷款).
小题1:The main idea of the passage is __
A.A large number of waterways have been polluted in China up to now. |
B.Guangxi and Guangdong have taken the lead in making water clean. |
C.China"s rivers are badly in need of improvement. |
D.China is making efforts to reduce pollution of the rivers. |
A.The government has no ability to afford the expenses of treating wastes. |
B.The government has a long-term plan to treat wastes. |
C.National debt payments and overseas investment are taking an important part in developing China"s economy. |
D.A great deal of money is needed in dealing with wastes. |
A.the improvement of people’s living standard |
B.people’s wasting too much |
C.urbanization and industrialization |
D.too many tourists’ coming |
A.unnecessary | B.important | C.easy | D.unbelievable |
In Scotland the sound denoted by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be silent in southern English. In the Highlands and the Western Isles the ancient Scottish language, Gaelic, is still heard. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty(节约的) people, rather inventive(善于创造的) and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are often described as being more "fiery(暴躁的)" than the English. They are often of a race that is quite different from the English.
The Welsh have protected their language to a remarkable extent. The English generally look upon the Welsh as an emotional(易动感情的) people who are, however, somewhat difficult to get to know easily.
Ireland is divided into two parts. The six countries of Northern Ireland are still part of Great Britain, though, in normal circumstances(环境), they have their own Parliament. The Irish are known for their charm and vivacity(活泼), as well as for the beauty of the Irish girls. Irish, often calls Erse, is a form of Gaelic. It was in danger of dying out, but when the territory(地域) of the Republic became independent, Erse was received, and is now the official first language of the Republic, English being the second. The Irish are known for their charm and vivacity, as well as for the beauty of the Irish girls.
小题1:Why do many foreigners call the inhabitants English?
A.Because only English live on the British Isles. |
B.Because only English plays a more important role than the others. |
C.Because all the people are glad to be regarded as English. |
D.Because they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. |
A.both England and Scotland |
B.both Wales and Ireland |
C.both Highland and Western Isles |
D.both Northern Ireland and England |
A.“R” is often pronounced in words in which it would be silent in north English. |
B.The Welsh, the Irish and the Scots are all the Celtic peoples of Britain. |
C.The Celtic peoples are often of a race that is little different from the English. |
D.The Welsh have not protected their language very carefully. |
A.English; first | B.Gaelic; second | C.Gaelic; first | D.English; second |
MacDonald began his quest last summer when he decided he wanted to live in a house. He didn’t have a job, so instead of posting a resumé, he looked at a red paper clip on his desk and decided to trade it on an Internet website. The response was immediate —a fish pen was offered for exchange. MacDonald then bartered the fish pen for a handmade doorknob from a potter in Seattle.
In Massachusetts, MacDonald traded the doorknob for a camp stove. He traded the stove to a U.S. soldier in California for a generator. Then he exchanged the generator for an “instant party kit” — an empty keg(小桶) and an illuminated Budweiser beer sign. MacDonald then traded the keg and sign for a snowmobile. He bartered all the way up to an afternoon with rock star Alice Cooper, a KISS snow globe and finally a paid role in a Corbin Bernsen movie.
“Now, I’m sure the first question on your mind is, ‘Why would Corbin Bernsen trade a role in a film for a snow globe? A KISS snow globe,’ MacDonald said on his website.”Well, Corbin happens to be arguably one of the biggest snow globe collectors on the planet.
Now, the town of Kipling, Sask., Canada, with a population of 1,100,has offered MacDonald a farmhouse in exchange for the role in the movie. The town is going to hold a competition for the movie role.
MacDonald said: “There’re people all over the world that are saying that they have paper clips clipped to the top of their computer, or on their desk or on their shirt, and it proves that anything is possible and I think to a certain degree it’s true.”
MacDonald, who has attracted international media attention in his quest, said the journey has turned out to be more exciting than the goal. “This is not the end. This may be the end of this part of the story, but this story will go on.”
小题1:The best title for this passage is “ ”.
A.A lucky paper clip | B.From poor to rich |
C.A lucky young man | D.From paper clip to house |
A.to get something for free | B.to sell something at a price |
C.to sell goods on the Internet | D.to exchange goods for other goods |
A.Paper clipsnow globesnowmobilehouse |
B.Paper clipkeg of beerdoorknobsnowmobile |
C.Paper clipcamp stovesnowmobilemovie role |
D.Paper clipkeg of beercamp stovesnowmobile |
A.All of his trades were done in his country. |
B.A film role was offered due to Bernsen’s hobby. |
C.They took over a year and some of them were really unbelievable. |
D.The house in Kipling has been offered to MacDonald to attract media. |
A.He wanted to gain fame through his quest. |
B.His success largely depended on the Internet. |
C.He never expected his aim could be achieved. |
D.He intends to begin another quest on the Web. |
On average,Hispanics outlive whites by 2.5 years and blacks by 7.7 years. Their life expectancy at birth in 2006 was 80.6 years,compared with 78.1 for whites,72.9 for blacks and 77.7 years for the total population.
The report shows that the Hispanic population has higher life expectancy at birth and at almost every age despite a socioeconomic status lower than that of whites.“Mortality is very correlated with income,education and health care access,”says Elizabeth Arias,author of the report.“You would expect the Hispanic population would have higher mortality,”in line with the black population.
The Hispanic paradox has been documented for more than two decades,but this is the first time the government has had enough data to issue national numbers. Researchers are struggling to explain why Hispanics live longer.
“We don’t know,”says David Hayes-Bautista,director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine.“We thought it was a problem in the data,but we can pretty much say this is real.”
Potential factors:
·Culture and lifestyle. Support from extended family and lower rates of smoking and drinking.Latino groups in particular have very strong family and social ties.
·Migration. The“healthy migrant effect”argues that healthy people are more likely to emigrate. And when immigrants become ill,they might return home and die there.
Solving the puzzle may help the nation deal with health care issues because Hispanics use health services less—they make fewer doctors visits and spend less time in hospitals,Hayes-Bautista says.“It’s clearly something in the Latino culture,”he says.
小题1:In 2006,Hispanics’life expectancy is years longer than the average of the total population.
A.2.5 | B.7.7 | C.2.9 | D.80.6 |
A.To live longer than… | B.To live shorter than… |
C.To die out. | D.To expect to live. |
A.Hispanics were born better than whites. |
B.Morality is closely related with health care access. |
C.Whites should have longer life expectancy. |
D.Even experts can’t explain the phenomenon. |
A.He supports there is a problem with the data. |
B.He intends to trust the cultural factor. |
C.He believes in the“healthy migrant effect”. |
D.He thinks health care the most important factor. |
A.Black people suffer the lowest social status in America. |
B.Hispanics might have healthier ways of life. |
C.Only healthy people can immigrate into America. |
D.White people don’t have strong family ties. |
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