题目
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It would help deal with the problem of climate change if people ate less meat, according to a
government agency.
A leaked email to a vegetarian campaign group from an Environment Agency official expresses
sympathy with the environmental benefit of a vegan diet, which bans dairy products and fish.
The agency also says the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs(DEFRA)is
considering recommending eating less meat as one of the key environmental behavior changes needed
to save the planet.
It says that this change would have to be introduced"gently"because of"the risk of alienating(使疏远)
the public".
David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, has raised the issue that farm animals are blamed for
producing large amounts of powerful greenhouse gas, methane, and told farmers they need to do
something about it but the agency"s response appears to go further than official advice.
It has provoked(引起)an immediate response from the National Farmers Union, which said the
suggestion was"simplistic"and"a cause of concern".
The agency"s official was responding to an email from the vegan group Viva, which argues that it
is more efficient to use land to grow crops for direct consumption by humans rather than feeding them
to dairy cows or livestock(家畜)raised for meat.
The campaign group entered a comment on the Environment Ageney"s website saying:"Adopting
a vegan diet reduces one person"s impact on the environment even more effective than giving up their
car or forgoing several plane trips a year!Why aren"t you promoting this message as part of your
World Environment Day campaign?"
An agency official replied:"While potential benefit of a vegan diet in terms of climate impact could
be very significant, encouraging the public to take a lifestyle decision as substantial as becoming a vegan
would be a request that few are likely to take up."
You will be interested to hear that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is
working on a set of key environmental behavior changes to mitigate climate change.Consumption of
animal protein has been highlighted within that work.As a result the issue may start to figure in climate
change communications in the future.It will be a case of introducing gently as there is a risk of alienating
the public.
"Future Environment Agency communications are unlikely to ever suggest adopting a fully vegan
lifestyle, but certainly encouraging people to examine their consumption of animal protein could be a
key message."
Juliet Gellatley, director of Viva, said, "I think it is extraordinary that a government agency thinks
becoming a vegetarian or a vegan could have such a positive impact on the environment yet it is not
prepared to stand up and argue the case."
A DEFRA spokesman said:"The government is not telling people to give up meat.It isn"t the role
of government to enforce a dietary or lifestyle change on any individual."
答案
7.Consider/Treat/Regard8.difficulty/trouble9.risk10.role/part
核心考点
试题【阅读理解 Adopting a vegan diet dramatically(显著地)reduces one person"s impact on t】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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"hardly ever". As the pace of life continues to increase,we are fast losing the art of relaxation. Once
you are in the habit of rushing through life,being on the go from morning till night,it is hard to slow
down. But relaxation is essential for a healthy mind and body.
Stress is fl natural part of everyday life. There is no way to avoid it, since it takes many and varied
forms-driving in traffic,problems with personal relationships are all different forms of stress. Stress,in
fact,is not the"baddy"it is often reputed to be. A certain amount of stress is vit
al to provide motivationand give purpose to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance
and ill health.
The amount of stress a person can withstand depends very much on the individual. Some people
are not afraid of stress,and such characters are obviousl
y prime material for managerial responsibilities.Others lose heart at the first sight of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress,in whatever form,we
react both chemically and physically. In fact we make a choice between "fight" or "fright" and in more
primitive days the choice made the difference between life and death. The crisis we meet today are
unlikely to be so extreme,but however little the stress,it involves the same response. All the energy is
shifted to cope with the stress. It is when such a reaction lasts long,through continued exposure to
stress,that health becomes endangered. Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart
disease have established links with stress.
Stress in some people produces stomach disorders,while others experience tension headaches.
Since we cannot remove stress from our 1ires,We need to find ways to cope with it.
B. they are often too busy to find the time
C. they are not clear of how to relax by themselves
D. they are suffering from the effects of stress
B. People in primitive days know certain ways to deal with stress.
C. If one gets into the habit of relaxing every day he can overcome stress easily.
D. Stress can lead to serious health problem if one is exposed to it for too long.
B. stress has a bad reputation of causing ill health
C. stress is not so t
errible as people often believe it to beD. stress is always harmful to people all the time
B. Different people can stand different amounts of stress.
C. All the stress can lead to poor performance.
D. Large amounts of stress is important to people"s lire.
B. Stress should not be rid completely from the life.
C. Stress produces both positive and negative effects on people.
D. People usually work better under stress if they are healthy.
阅读下面短文,并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求).
Modern inventions have speeded up people"s lives amazingly. Motor cars cover a hundred miles
in lithe more than an hour,aircraft cross the world inside a day,while computers operate at lightning
speed. Indeed,this love of speed seems never ending. Every year motor cars are produced which g
o even faster and each new computer boasts(吹嘘)of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time,but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in
an airplane,our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as j et lag； our bodies
feel that they have been left behind in another time zone. Again,spending too long at computers results
in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also ,according to some scientists；too much
use may put harmful radiation into our brains,a consequence we do not like to think about.
However,what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax,or so it seems. We are
so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at
a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio,letting
imagination take us into another world.
There was a time when some people"s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation(耕耘)of the land
or the care of cattle. No multi tasking there；their lives went on at a much gentler pace,and in a familiar
pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so,we must
think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced:they farmed with bare hands,often lived close to hunger,and
had to make tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive
existence.
1. What"s the passage mainly about?(within 10 words)
2. List the difficulties our ancestors met according to the text. (within 15 words)
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②
③
3. Fill in the blank in the 2nd paragraph with proper words or phrases.
4. Why do we make new products more and more time-saving according to Paragraph 1 of this passage?
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the 3rd paragraph into Chinese.
professor.Conversation soon __1__ into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the __2__ and returned with a large pot of coffee
and a couple of __3__-porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some __4__ looking, some expensive, some
delicate-telling them to __5__ themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in __6__, the professor said :" If you noticed, all the nice
looking expensive cups were taken up, __7__behind the plain and cheap ones.While it is normal for you
to __8__only the best for yourselves, that is the __9__ of your problems and stress.Be assured that the
cup itself __10__ no quality to the coffee.In most cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases even
hides what we drink.__11__ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you __12__ went for
the best cups...And then you began __13__ each other"s cups.Now consider this: Life is the __14__, the
jobs, money and position in society are the cups.They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type
of cup we have does not __15__, nor change the quality of life we__16__.Sometimes, by concentrating
only on the cup, we__17__to enjoy the coffee God has __18__ for us.God brews the coffee, not the cups… Enjoy the coffee!"
The happiest people don"t have the best of everything.They just __19__the best of everything.
Live simply.Love generously.Care deeply.Speak kindly.Leave the __20__to God.
| ( )1. A. stopped ( )2. A. livingroom ( )3. A. cups ( )4. A. plain ( )5. A. devote ( )6. A. stomach ( )7. A. falling ( )8. A. hope ( )9. A. source ( )10. A. adapts ( )11. A. As ( )12. A. consciously ( )13. A. looking ( )14. A. tea ( )15. A. sign ( )16. A. spend ( )17. A. fail ( )18. A. shown ( )19. A. keep ( )20. A. complex | B. looked B. waitingroom B. pans B. clean B. help B. hand B. leaving B. wish B. resource B. puts B. What B. cheerfully B. glaring B. water B. say B. live B. succeed B. taken B. take B. remains | C. grew C. bedroom C. bowls C. ugly C. dedicate C. mind C. hiding C. need C. energy C. adds C. That C. deliberately C. eyeing C. wine C. define C. hate C. tend C. sent C. make C. rest | D. turned D. kitchen D. bottles D. fine D. enjoy D. mouth D. keeping D. want D. reason D. applies D. Which D. bravely D. glancing D. coffee D. signal D. love D. manage D. provided D. hold D. complaints | ||||
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