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environment, and they are tired of people who disagree with them. Those people, say skeptics, spread nothing
but bad news about the environment. The "eco-guilt" brought on by the discouraging about our planet gives
rise to the popularity of skeptics as people search for more comforting worldviews.
Perhaps that explains why a new book by Bjorn Lomborg received so much publicity. That book, The
Skeptical Environmentalist, declares that it measures the "real state of the world" as fine. Of course, another
explanation is the deep pockets of some big businesses with special interests. Indeed, Mr. Lomborg"s views
are similar to those of some Industry-funded organizations, which start huge activities though the media to
confuse the public about issues like global warming.
So it was strange to see Mr. Lomborg"s book go largely unchallenged in the media though his beliefs were
contrary to most scientific opinions. One national newspaper in Canada ran a number of articles and reviews
full of words of praise, even with the conclusion that "After Lomborg, the environmental movement will begin
to die down."
Such one-sided views should have immediately been challenged. But only a different review appeared in
Nature, a respected science magazine with specific readership. The review remarked that Mr. Lomborg"s
"preference for unexamined materials is incredible (不可信的)".
A critical (批判的) eye is valuable, and the media should present information in such a way that could
allow people to make informed decisions. Unfortunately, that is often inaccessible as blocked by the desire
to be shocking or to defend some special interest. People might become half-blind before a world partially
exhibited by the media. That"s a shame, because matters concerning the health of the planet are far too
important to be treated lightly.
B. People who disbelieve the serious situation of our planet.
C. People who dislike the harmful effect of human activities.
D. People who spread comforting news to protect our environment.
B. The book challenges views about the fine state of the world.
C. The author convinces people to speak comforting worldviews.
D. Industry-funded media present confusing information.
B. find fault with Lomborg"s book
C. challenge the authority of the media
D. point out the value of scientific views.
B. To warn the public of the danger of half-blindness with reviews.
C. To blame the media"s lack of responsibility in information.
D. To show the importance of presenting overall information by the media.
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试题【阅读理解。 Skeptics are strange lot. Some of them refuse to admit the serious thr】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be
that their parents have failed to enforce (确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically these sleepyhead
students aren"t used to the early hour.
"Maybe these kids me being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies," says Mary Carskadon, a
professor looking at problem of adolescent (青春期的) sleep at Brown"s School of Medicine.
Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And, at a more
basic level. She and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect
sleep needs and patterns.
Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, no less,
as commonly thought.
Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer
to stay up later at nigh and sleep later in the morning. But it"s not just a matter of choice-their bodies are going
through a change of sleep patters.
All of this makes the transfer from middle school to high school-which may start one hour earlier in the
morning-all the more difficult, Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks
set on the "sleep late, rise late" pattern, adolescent are up against difficulties when it conics to trying to be up
by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first hell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their body"s way of saying. "I need
a timeout."
B. it is biologically difficult for students to rise early
C. students work so late at night that they can"t get up early
D. students are so lazy that they don"t like to go to school early
B. agree with others
C. full asleep
D. refuse to work
B. Adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns.
C. Adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood.
D. Adolescents need more sleep than they used to.
B. Problems in adolescent learning.
C. Adolescent sleep difficulties.
D. Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns.
time: early morning, noon, and evening. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas
shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. "Come on!" My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged
by my house every evening. "You"ll feel great."
Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging
seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is
the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our
neighborhood jogging army. I"m not alone in my opinion.
First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet a real pounding (追击) ruining down a road
for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger
who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn"t kill hundreds
of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me.
Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes
isn"t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, "I love being out there with just my
thoughts" Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt.
And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn"t just the first week: it was
practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn"t fun. What a cruel way to do
it! So many other exercises, including walking, lead to almost the same results painlessly, so why jog?
I don"t jog any more, and I don"t think I ever will. I"m walking two miles three times a week at a fast pace,
and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I"m getting exercise, and I"m enjoying it at the
same time. I could never say the same for jogging, and I"ve found a lot of better ways to stay in shape.
B. people jogged only during the daytime
C. Alex organized an army of joggers
D. jogging provided a chance to get together
B. Back problems
C. famous joggers
D. physical weaknesses
B. He was very fond of it.
C. He was strongly against it.
D. He thought it must be painful.
B. He found it neither healthy nor interesting.
C. He was afraid of having a heart attack.
D. He was worried about being left alone.
B. he is the only person who hates jogging
C. nothing other than jogging can help people keep fit
D. jogging makes people feel greater than any other sport.
On one side stand those who see clothes dryers (干衣机) as a waste of energy and a major polluter of the
environment. As a result, they are turning to clotheslines as part of the "what-I-can do environmentalism (环境
保护主义)."
On the other side are people who are against drying clothes outside, arguing that clotheslines are unpleasant
to look at. They have persuaded Homeowners Associations (HOAs) access the U.S. to ban outdoor clotheslines,
because clothesline drying also tends to lower home value in the neighborhood. This had led to a Right-to-Dry
Movement that is calling for laws to be passed to protect people"s right to use clotheslines.
So far, only three states have laws to protect clothesline. Right-to-Dry supporters argue that there should
be move.
Matt Reck, 37, is the kind of eco-conscious (有生态意识的) person who feeds his trees with bathwater
and reuses water drops from his air conditioners to water plants. His family also uses a clothesline. But on July
9, 2007, the HOA in Wake Forest, North Carolina, told him that a dissatisfied neighlzir had telephoned them
about him clothesline. The Recks paid no attention to the warming and still dried their clothes on a line in the
yard. "Many people e say they are environmentally friendly but they don"t take matters in their own hands,"
says Reck. The local HOA has decided not to take any action, unless more neighbors come to them.
North Carolina lawmakers are saying that banning clotheslines is not the right thing to do. But HOAs and
housing businesses believe that clothesline drying reminds people of poor neighborhoods. They worry that if
buyers think their future neighbors can"t even afford dryers, housing prices will fall.
Environmentalists say such worries are not necessary, and in view of global warming, that idea needs to
change. As they say, "The clothesline is beautiful. Hanging clothes outside should be encouraged. We all have
to do at least something to slow down the process of global warming."
B. clothesline drying reduces home value
C. clothes dryers are energy-saving
D. clothesline drying is not allowed in most U.S. states
B. He is an impolite man.
C. He is and experienced gardener.
D. He is a man of social responsibility.
B. He is an impolite man.
C. He is and experienced gardener.
D. He is a man of social responsibility.
B. Clothesline drying: a lost art rediscovered.
C. Opposite opinions on clothesline drying.
D. Different varieties of clotheslines.
night"s leftovers in the a.m. if you want to.
I know lots of women who skip breakfast (不吃早饭), and they have a ton of different excuses for
doing it. Some say they don"t have time, others think they"re "saying" calories (卡路里), still others just
don"t like breakfast food.
But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you"re trying to lose weight.
"Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all," says Katherine
Brooking, R.D., who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year"s "SELF CHALLENGE". And
even pizza can be healthy if it"s loaded with vegetables, and you stick to one small piece.
Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research
shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at the University of
Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who
regularly have a morning meal.
So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast
altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night"s leftovers-it may sound
crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, "You can always eat it tomorrow." I put away
the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it … you may save yourself some pre-bedtime calories.
And watch your body gain the fat-burning effects.
B. things left undone
C. meals made of vegetables
D. pizza topped with fruit
B. Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.
C. There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.
D. Eating vegetables helps save energy.
B. be careful about what you cat
C. heat up food before eating it
D. cat calorie-controlled food
B. who want to lose weight
C. who stay up late
D. who eat before sleep
they city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing (用推土机推平) the trees and grass to
make way for a new apartment complex. When I saw the fence and bulldozers, I asked myself, "Why don"t
they just leave it alone?"
Looking back, I think what sentenced the part to oblivion (别遗忘) was the drought (旱灾) we had about
four years ago. Up until then, Southway Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming
pool. My friends and I roller-skated on the sidewalks, climbed the tress, and swam in the pool all the years I
was growing up. The park was almost like my own yard. Then the summer I was fifteen the drought came and
things changed.
There had been almost no rain at all that year. The city stopped watering the park grass. Within a few weeks
I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert. Leaves fell off the park tress, and pretty soon
the trees started dying, too. Next, the park swimming pool was closed. The city cut down on the work force
that kept the park, and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore.
As the drought lasted into the fall, the park got worse every month. The rubbish piled up or blew across the
brown grass. Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck. People said
drugs were being sold or traded there now. The park had gotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go
there anymore. The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal, that is, everything but the
park. It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way. Then about six months ago I heard
that the city was going to "redevelop" certain worn-out areas of the city. It turned out that the city had planned
to get rid of the park, sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it.
The chain-link fencing and the bulldozers did their work. Now we live across the street from six rows of
apartment buildings. Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction. The neighborhood
has changed without the park. The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the
same again. Sometimes I wonder, though, what changes another drought would make in the way things
are today.
B. Confused.
C. Upset.
D. Curious.
B. It was dangerous.
C. It because crowded.
D. It had turned into a desert.
B. The crime.
C. The beggars and the rubbish.
D. The decisions of the city.
B. people would have to desert their homes
C. the city would be fully prepared in advance
D. the city would have to redevelop the neighborhood
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