environmentally responsible is a good investment for those who are concerned about their own
health and the well-being of the earth. Based on this trend, entire districts, known as eco-communities,
are being designed with a green focus in mind. Dockside Green in Victoria, British Columbia is
one of them.
If everything goes according to plan, Dockside Green will be a self sufficient community along
the harbour front of British Columbia"s capital city. The community will be home to 2500 people
and will consist of residential, office, and retail space. Builders of Dockside Green have the
environment in mind with every choice they make. They ensure proper ventilation(通风), and
guarantee residents 100% fresh indoor air. Building materials, such as paints and wood, are natural
and non-poisonous. Eco-conscious builders use bamboo wherever possible because it grows fast
and does not require pesticides(***虫剂) to grow.
Energy efficiency is one of the top concerns in eco-communities, such as Dockside Green. Not
only do energy efficient appliances and light fixtures(照明设备) reduce the environmental impact
of heating and hot water, they also save residents and business owners money. Dockside Green
claims that home owners will use 55% less energy than average residents in Canada. Residents will
have individual water metres as studies show that people use around 20% less energy when they are
billed for exactly what they use. In addition, water is treated at Dockside Green and reused on site
for flushing(冲洗) toilets.
Planners of eco-communities such as Dockside Green must take the future into account. Dockside
Green plans on reusing 90% of its construction waste. They also plan to continue using local suppliers
for all of their transport and maintenance needs. This is a great way to reduce emissions(排放).
Dockside residents will be encouraged to make use of a mini transportation system and buy into the
community"s car share program. Finally, plans are in the works for a high-tech heating system that
will use renewable energy instead of fossil fuels (化石燃料).
Dockside residents will benefit from excellent local services with high quality healthcare, shopping
and education at the heart of the community, along with excellent recreation facilities and plentiful
green open spaces. The Eco-Community will favour the use of locally-sourced goods and services;
they will be desirable places to live, promoting a tangible(看得见的) sense of civic pride, responsibility
and, as the name suggests, community.
B. It is a self sufficient community with a population of 2500 people.
C. It is being built along the harbor front that is threatened by pollution.
D. It emphasizes the importance of green energy and energy efficiency.
B. keeps pets outside the house
C. grows quickly and easily
D. does not produce any waste
B. Creating an alternative to fossil fuels heating.
C. Having people pay for individual household usage.
D. Promoting the car share program to the residents.
B. Green Energy: New Trends in Canada
C. Eco-Communities: Dockside Green
D. Wise Investment in Eco-Communities
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you keep healthy,both physically and mentally.
Forgiveness-giving up anger toward another- can greatly reduce your body"s anger and
stress responses,which affect your mental and physical health. Research conducted by the University
of Michigan"s institute for Social Research has showed that people who for-give themselves and
others experience reduced feelings of restlessness,nervousness and hopelessness. Other researches
have found forgiveness can also lower blood pressure and heart rates.
"Stress worsens pain,tightens muscles and influences the smooth running of the immune(免疫)
system." says Fred Luskin,director of the Forgiveness Project at Stanford University." People think
they have unlimited storage of anger that will never do harm to their health,but they are quite wrong."
And good news:You don"t have to be Gandhi to forgive others or ask for forgiveness." Forgiveness
is a teachable skill,which you can learn just like you learn to play the piano." says Luskin.
Remember these tips when learning to forgive:
Commit yourself. Do whatever you have to do to feel better. Forgiveness is for you not______.
Grasp the truth. Recognize that your primary bitterness comes from the hurt feelings and physical
upset you suffer now,not what offended or hurt you 2 minutes or 10 years ago.
Meet positive goals. Instead of mentally replaying your hurt,seek a new and positive future.
Live well. remember that a life well lived is the most important. Stop focusing on wounded
feelings-that gives the person who caused your pain power over you. Instead,look for love,beauty
and kindness around you.
2. List three feelings that forgiveness can reduce based on the text.(Please answer within 9words.)
①_________________________________________________________________________
②_________________________________________________________________________
③_________________________________________________________________________
3.Fill in the blank with proper words to complete the sentence.(Please answer within 6 words.)
4. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?
Keep in mind that living a good life is of vital significance.
5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.
"The world"s oceans are slowly getting more acidic."say scientists.The researchers from California
report that the change is taking place in response to higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The lowering of the waters"pH value is not great at the moment but could cause a serious threat to
current ocean life if it continues, they warn. Ken Caldeira and Michael Wickett, from the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, report their concerns in the journal Nature.
Increasing use of oil fuels means more carbon dioxide is going into the air, and most of it will eventually be
absorbed by seawater. Once in the water, it reacts to form carbonic acid. Scientists believe that the
oceans have already become slightly more acidic over the last century.
These researchers have tried to predict what will happen in the future by combining what we know
about the history of the oceans with computer models of climate change."This level of acidity will get
much more extreme in the future if we continue releasing COZ into the atmosphere," said Dr Caldeira.
"And we predict the amount of future acidity will exceed(超过)anything we have seen over the last
several hundred million years, let alone perhaps after rare disastrous events such as asteroid(小1j-%+)
impacts."
However, it is not absolutely clear what that means for ocean life.Most organisms live near the
surface, where the greatest pH change would be expected to occur, but deep-ocean life forms may
be more sensitive to pH changes.Coral reefs and other organisms whose shells contain calcium carbonate(小行星) may be particularly affected if the water"s acidity levels keep going up, the team predict. They
could find it much more difficult to build these structures in water with a lower pH.
In recent years some people have suggested storing carbon dioxide from power stations in the deep
ocean as a way of dealing with global warming.But Dr Caldeira said that such a strategy should now be
re-considered. "Previously, most experts had looked at ocean absorption of carbon dioxide as a good
thing一because in releasing CO2 into the atmosphere we warm the planet, and when CO2, is absorbed
by the ocean, it reduces the amount of greenhouse warming."
A. the lower water pH value
B.the warming atmosphere
C.the higher level of COZ in the air
D.the increasing use of oil fuels
B .more oil fuels will be used in the near future
C .scientists may predict climate changes with computer models
D .the future situation of the amount of acidity is extremely serious
B .the waters"pH value will become higher and higher
C .organisms living near the surface are more sensitive to pH changes
D .some disastrous events will occur more often than before
B .the amount of greenhouse warming
C .the acidity of the ocean
D .the gradul release Of CO2
B .inform people of how acid the ocean is now
C .introduce Dr Caldeira and his team"s research
D .warn people of the higher level of COZ
rising fever with your 2 , or you have difficulty in breathing, you had better 3 a doctor or call
the emergency hotline (64629100 or 64629112) as soon as possible, 4 these could be symptoms
(症状) of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
If you want to 5 extra precautions(预防) and buy a filter mask, go to your local drug store.
Your Chinese friends may 6 you to take Banlangen, a traditional Chinese medicine widely 7
in China to activate the immune(免疫的) system, or fumigate vinegar in your house to 8 viruses
(病毒) in the 9 , but "these measures are of no use in 10 the disease", said Dr. Qi Xiaoqiu,
Director General of the Department of Diseases Control, Ministry of Health.
If you have 11 returned from Hong Kong or areas 12 SARS has been active, go to your
doctor and 13 him or her of your recent trip. If you develop symptoms 14 your trip, stop traveling
until fully 15 . If you pass 12 days symptom-free after coming back from these areas, you 16
set your mind at ease(无忧无虑).
The following are some preventive measures you can take 17 by experts from the Chinese
Center for Diseases Control and Prevention:
●Wash hands with running water after sneezing, coughing or clearing your nose;
●Use a clean towel or tissue after washing hands;
●Do not share towels with 18 ;
●Keep a healthy diet, add or 19 clothes according to changes of the weather and exercise regularly
and get plenty of sleep;
●Relieve stress and do not smoke so as to 20 your body"s resistance to diseases;
●Reduce visits to crowded places with poor ventilation.
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( )15. A. recover
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( )20. A. set up
B. cold
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B. get
B. suggest
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B. defending
B. yet
B. which
B. speak
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B. recovers
B. can
B. giving
B. other
B. reduce
B. go up
C. headache
C. see
C. with
C. bring
C. hope
C. buying
C. kill
C. land
C. preventing
C. just
C. when
C. inform
C. in
C. recovering
C. shall
C. to give
C. others
C. wear
C. put up
D. stomach
D. look at
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D. take
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D. bought
D. attract
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D. winning
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itself - there is no such thing as a high incidence rates(发病率) of cancer. Except for lung cancer,
mostly caused by cigarette smoking, the incidence rates are not on the rise. However, some kinds
of cancer are decreasing. But the fear of cancer is catching, and the country stands at risk of an
anxiety. The earth itself is coming to seem like a huge carcinogen(致癌物). The ordinary, more or
less, scientific statement that something between 80 and 90 percent of all cancers are due to things
in the environment is taken to mean that none of us will be safe until the whole environment is "cleaned
up." This is not at all the meaning.
The 80-percent calculation is based on the unthinkable differences in the incidence of cancer in
various societies around the world - for example, the high incidence of liver cancer in Africa and
the Far East, stomach cancer in Japan, breast cancer in Western Europe and North America, and
the relatively low figures for breast cancer in Japan and parts of Africa and for liver cancer in America.
These data show there may be specific environmental influences, but largely based on personal life-style,
which determines the incidence of various forms of cancer in different communities - that is all the
data suggest. The overall incidence of cancer, counting up all the cases, is probable roughly the same
everywhere.
B. to be due to anxiety
C. to result from environmental influences
D. to be caused by heavy smoking
and environment is _____.
B. negative
C. neutral
D. approving
B. the whole earth is coming to seem like a huge carcinogen
C. the risk of catching cancer isn"t so great as people think
D. cancer can be cured if the environment is cleaned up
B. The Fear Caused by Cancers
C. Data on Cancer Incidence
D. Cancer and its Investigation
of ice cream,bowls of noodles and plates of meatall while losing weight?
You might hate me,thinking I have one of those annoyingly good metabolisms (新陈代谢) that just
burn up fat the instant it enters my body.You might wonder if I have an intestinal (肠的) worm,or perhaps an eating disorder.Or maybe you"d just shrug your shoulders and figure I have a rich fantasy life.You"d be
wrong.
For my body to finish such a surprising task,I would have to be a mouse.Not just any mouse,but one
lucky enough to be involved in a new study at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
After identifying an enzyme (酶) that allows fat to be stored in the body,scientists fed mice without
those enzymes,and found those mice were able to consume far more food than other miceand still weigh
10 to 15percent less.
Best of all,the mice that had no enzymes were in very good health,producing baby mice with no
problem and generally acting like any other mouse.That"s great news for obesity researchers,who think
that scientists may figure out a way to prevent the fatmetabolizing (脂肪代谢) enzyme in humans and
control weight
gain.And such a pill would be very exciting for many struggling to get rid of dangerous extra pounds.
But don"t start planning any big dinner just yet:At this point,of course,any pill for humans is but a
twinkle (闪烁) in the eye of every medicine company"s CEO.More tests are to be made,and eventually
humans will be introduced in the test.
But for now,unfortunately,control in diet is still key.
B.Burning fat very quickly.
C.Controlling the diet.
D.Having a rich fantasy life.
B.Because the weightlosing tests were made on the mouse.
C.Because the mouse has a very good metabolism.
D.Because the author wants to try the food without the enzyme.
B.Scientists cannot find the key to identifying the enzyme.
C .Don"t overeat before the test is made on humans.
D.It is unnecessary to control weight at present.
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- 5They"ve won their last three matches,________ I find a bit s
- 6Audrey’s death was a great _______to film fans.A.lostB.loseC
- 7下图是长江水系图,看图完成填空:(1)a城市是我国重要的工业城市和商业中心,它是__________市。(2)b是长江下
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- 9如图甲所示,在以O为坐标原点的xoy平面内,存在着范围足够大的电场和磁场.一个质量m=2×10-2kg,带电量q=+5×
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