| The Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines | Features: The Tokyo Metro and Toei lines that make up of Tokyo"s huge subway system carry almost 8 million people each day, making it the busiest system in the world. The system is famous for its oshiya- literally, "pusher"- who push passengers into crowded subway cars so the doorscan close. And you think your ride is hell. |
| The Moscow Metro | Features: The Moscow Metro has some of the most beautiful stations in the world. The best of them were built during the Stalinist era and feature chandeliers(枝行吊灯),marble moldings and elaborate murals(精美壁画). With more than 7 million riders a day , keeping all that marble clean has got to be a burden. |
| The Hong Kong MTR | Features: The Hong Kong MTR has the distinction of being one of the few subway systems in the world that actually turns a profit. It"s privately owned and uses real estate development along its tracks to increase income and ridership. It also introduced "Octopus cards" that allow people to not only pay their fares electronically, but buy stuff at convenience stores ,supermarkets, restaurants and even parking meters. It"s estimated that 95% of all adults in Hong Kong own an Octopus card. |
| Shanghai Metro | Features: Shanghai is the third city in China to build a metro system, and it has become the country"s largest in the 12 years since it opened. Shanghai Metro has 142 miles of track and plans to add another 180 miles within five years. By that point, it would be three times larger than Chicago "L". The system carries about 2.18 million people a day. |
| The London Metro | Features: Londoners call their subway the Underground, even though 55 percent of it lies above ground. No matter when you"ve got the oldest mass-transit system in the world, you can call it anything you like. Trains started in 1863 and they"ve been running ever since. Some 3 million people ride each day, every one of them remembering to "Mind the gap" |
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| Many people would interpret "The American dream" as "living like an American"-a two-story house with a white picket fence; a family with two cars; and two children. However, the economic situation is now affecting the American way of life for 4.4 million people living in the US, according to new census (人口普查) data. "It"s going to have a long-term impact and to say it"s going to end is optimistic, " says Cheryl Russell, former editor-in- chief of American Demographics magazine. "I"m more pessimistic that this is the new normal." So what is the new normal? *Marrying later. The average age of the first marriage has increased to 28.7 for men and 26.7 for women, up from 27.5 and 25.9 respectively in 2006. At the same time, fewer people are getting married. If the marriage rate had stayed the same as in 2006, there would have been about 4 million more married people in 2010. *Fewer babies. There were 200,000 fewer births among women aged 20 to 34 in 2010 compared with two years before. This was despite the fact that the number of women of childbearing age had gone up by more than 1 million. "The recession(衰退) is the likely cause ," says Kenneth Johnson, demographer at the University of New Hampshire"s Carsey Institue, "Economic fertility (生育能力)" because women delay …in uncertain times. *Breaking up is harder. The number of divorces has been falling for 25 years as people wait longer or choose to live together before they get married. There were about 65,000 fewer divorces in 2010 than in 2008, a 7 percent decrease. *Crowd living. Unemployment is forcing more people to live together. The number of households where people lived with "other relatives" climbed from 6.7 percent in 2006 to 7.2 percent in 2010. *Going public. Private school enrollment decreased from 13.6 percent in 2006 to 12.8 percent in 2010. *Fewer cars. The percent age of households without a car rose to 9.1 percent against 8.8 percent in 2006. The percent-age of households with two or more cars fell from 58 percent to 57.1 percent. *Driving solo. When people are not working, they don"t carpool. The proportion of people aged 16 to 64 in employment dropped greatly in all but one of the 50 largest metropolitan (大城市的) areas. That has helped push the share of people driving to work alone from 76 percent in 2006 to 76.6 percent in 2010. Ride-sharing is down a full percentage point, to 9.7 percent. 1. What is the article mainly about? A. The interpretation of "the American dream". B. The significance of the current economic crisis. C. Changes to the American lifestyle. D. The traditional American way of life. 2. What might Cheryl Russell agree with according to the article? A. A traditional lifestyle is much better and healthier. B. The new study based on the members" financial reports. C. The spirit of American dream will inspire Americans to get through the economic recession. D. American lifestyles are being reshaped and will continue to change 3. What are the characteristics of the future American lifestyle? a. Delayed marriage. b. A lower divorce rate c. Increased car ownership. d. An increase in private school enrollment. e. Having children later A. abe B. ace C. bde D. bce 4. Which of the following statements is TRUE? A. The typical US family is expected to have three-story house with a big yard and two children. B. The US birth rate rose slightly in 2010 compared with two years before. C. A growing number of people are forced to share their homes with other relatives in the US. D. US students prefer to go to private schools rather than pubic schools. 5. Why do more and more Americans drive solo to work in recent years, according to the passage ? A. Because they don"t like carpool. B. Because more and more people are out of work. C. Because the share of people driving to work alone is increasing. D. Because the proportion of people aged 16-64 in unemployment dropped greatly. | |
| 阅读表达 阅读下面的短文,并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求). (1)Our character, basically, is a mixture of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit;________, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny (命运)," the maxim goes. (2)Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are often unconscious patterns, they constantly daily affect our character and produce our effectiveness or ineffectiveness. (3)As Horace Mann, the great educator, once said, "Habits are like a cable. We weave a rope of it everyday and soon it cannot be broken." I personally do not agree with the last part of his expression. I know habits can be learned and unlearned. But we also know it isn"t a quick fix. It involves a process and a tremendous effort. (4)Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo 11 were shocked as we saw the first men walk on the moon and return to earth. But to get there, those astronauts had to break out of the tremendous gravity pull of the earth. More energy was spent in the first few minutes of lift-off, in the first few miles of travel, than was used over the next several days to travel half million miles. (5)Habits, too, have tremendous gravity pull- more than most people realize or would admit. Breaking deeply developed habitual tendencies such as procrastination(拖延) , impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that go against basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. "Lift off" takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new situation. (6)Like any natural force, gravity pull can work with us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also gravity pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force, and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the order necessary to establish effectiveness in our lives. 1.What is the best title of the passage? (no more than 8 words) ______________________________________________ 2. Please complete the blank in the para.1 (no more than 3 words) _______________________________________________ 3. Why does the author say habits have powerful effects on our lives? (no more than 15 words) _________________________________________________ 4. What does the writer mean by refering to gravity pull? (no more than 13 words) ________________________________________________ 5. What does the underlined " it " in line3 para3 refer to ?(no more than 3 words) _________________________________________________ | |
| 根据2011年人教版高一英语课时典中点第二单元自主预习案(必修1)完成下面问题 1. Which country may have the largest number of English learners? A. Britain. B. America. C. China. D. Australia. 2. Which of the following is Not true? A. Languages are changing gradually over time. B. Between AD 450 and 800,English was like German. C. In the 19th century,English was the official languageof India. D. Before the 18th century, English was only spoken in England. 3. The last sentence"Only time will tell."in the text probably means that_______. A. English may develop its own identity in China B. Chinese people may help change English a great deal C. there may be more and more English learners in China D. there may be a completely new language in China 4. Why do more people speak English than ever before? A. Because it is an international language. B. Because it has the largest number of speakers. C. Because it is easy to learn. D. Because it always stays the same. 5. What"s the main idea of the passage? A. China has the largest number of English learners. B. Languages always change. C. English is easy to learn. D. The development of modern English. | |
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| Wang Kun and his sister had 1. __________ about taking a great bike trip ever 2._______middle school. After 3.________ from college, they 4. ________got the chance to make their dream come true. His sister thought of the idea t0 5.________ along the Mekong River. They both bought expensive bikes. Wang Wei also got their cousins 6. __________ in cycling. Wang Wei 7. _______ to the idea that they should find the source and begin their journey there. When she heard that the 8. __________ of the Mekong River is in Qinghai Province, she wouldn"t 9.________her mind. She even felt excited when she knew that their journey would begin at an 10. _________ of more than 5,000 metres. Before the trip they found a large atlas in the library. From the atlas they knew clearly about the Mekong River. | |
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| The five R"s are five questions that we ask ourselves all the time in order to judge whether we"re doing a good job for our customers, having positive vendor(小贩) relationships, and dealing with our peers(同辈人)and those around us. Respect: Have you been respectful to whomever you"re dealing with whether it"s a customer, peer, or a vendor? And we define respect not as a respect for a superior, but a respect for someone because they walk on this planet with you. And you give them respect equally as you would do. Respond:Have you been responsive to the needs of your customer or the person you"re dealing with? Many people say "You didn"t react fast enough"and I actually don"t agree with that philosophy. I think it"s more that you"re not responding fast enough. Reacting is a very emotional thing. Responding to somebody involves thinking about what you"re doing so you can help them. Responding implies that you"re listening to what they want and what they"re saying, and you"re trying to find a solution for them. Realistic:Have you been realistic about what you can or cannot do? If somebody comes to us with an unrealistic goal that they need fulfill (完成), then we need to immediately tell them that we can"t do it. We will ruin our own reputation(名誉) through over promising. Responsibility: It"s easy for one person to take responsibility, but it"s difficult in an organization where each person has a job to do and different people are shepherding that project. Everybody has to go into it with the philosophy that this is my project and I own it collectively(共同地) with everybody else, but I"m going to make it a personal responsibility when this thing succeeds. Remembered:When you walk away from a situation with a customer, vendor, peer, or anyone in your organization, are you going to be remembered positively? And if you have done all of the other four R"s, I think you are going to be remembered positively. |