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阅读理解     Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly
mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle
often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that
over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so
much material home in the first place.
    The total amount of packaging has increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a
third of a typical household"s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged
twice with plastic and cardboard.
    Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out
of it for burying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go
on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not
to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets
encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, few of them are coming round to the idea
that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.
     But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging
with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But it is also applied to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.
     There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collected. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.

1. What does the underlined phrase "that over-consumption" refer to?

A. Using too much packaging.
B. Recycling too many wastes.
C. Making more products than necessary.
D. Having more material than is needed.

2. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show ___________.

A. the tendency of cutting household waste
B. the increase of packaging recycling
C. the rapid growth of supermarkets
D. the fact of packaging overuse

3. According to the text, recycling ___________.

A. helps control the greenhouse effect
B. means burning packaging for energy
C. is the solution to gas shortage
D. leads to a waste of land

4. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?

A. Unpackaged products are of bad quality.
B. Supermarkets care more about packaging.
C. It is improper to judge quality by packaging.
D. Other products are better packaged than food.

5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Fighting wastefulness is difficult.
B. Needless material is mostly recycled.
C. People like collecting recyclable wastes.
D. The author is proud of their consumer culture.

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     I suppose that having been brought up in the countryside and close  to animals,it wasn"t remarkable
(不平常的)when I decided  to become a vet(兽医). Luckily I was also good at all the necessary science
subjects. So after the college entrance examination I found myself at a veterinary college,training to look
after animals in all kinds of situations. I hoped that I would be able to work in the research field so that I
could find cures for animal diseases.
      Much to my surprise,I found public health care was a very important aspect of my course. This is an
area of animal medicine where a vet"s work has many things in common with the work of a doctor of
human diseases. I particularly liked it because I recognized that the study of animal diseases can help
human medicine. As we know,many infectious diseases come from animals-including SARS and bird flu.
Some of the infections have only been understood after carefully analytical work in labs by animal doctors. They helped identify the animal source for diseases such as SARS. They were also the first to identify
various kinds of viruses. Sometimes vets are also able to suggest a cure for human illnesses. When I found this out I was determined to make public health medicine my chosen career.
      After graduation,I applied for a job in public health. Soon I found myself concerned with the problem
of bird flu. This is  an illness that attacks birds,but humans can catch the disease  if they are in close
contact with infected birds. Though the job  is dangerous,it makes me proud that vets and other animal
disease researchers are in the front line helping to fight these  unknown human diseases.

1. The writer wanted to become a vet mainly because______.

A. he did well in all necessary subjects
B. he wanted to help animals
C. he was close to animals in his early life
D. he wanted to find cures for human diseases

2. What made the writer particularly like the course of public health care was that________.

A. it was both important and interesting
B. it could help him connect many human diseases with animals
C. it made a vet"s work very much like a doctor"s
D. it could help human medicine by studying animal diseases

3. What can be followed if this passage continues?

A. The writer"s happy family life.
B. How the writer did research work in studying bird flu.
C. How the writer dealt with the relationship with other workmates.
D. What difficulty the writer met in the research work.

4. Which of the following is implied in the passage?

A. Animals with infectious diseases should be killed.
B. Keeping animals is dangerous to humans.
C. Dangerous as a vet"s job is,it is significant to the human race.
D. Animal researchers work in the same way as human doctors.

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Being a vet is helpful to both animals and humans.
B. Vets can cure both animals and humans.
C. Vets helped identify animal resources for SARS.
D. Both SARS and bird flu are infectious diseases coming from animals.

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      __1__  To begin with, cleaner environment, enjoying the game with hundreds of sports athletes and
entertainment stars, and the opportunity of contacting people from all over the world seem exciting to the
citizens. 2__  In most cases, bidding for the Olympics is well supported by both the public and the
central government.
      Unfortunately, this is not the entire view of the pretty picture. If looking from another angle, the
Olympic bid might bring about some sideeffects to a city.
     __3__  It includes the increasing pollution of cars, more pressure on water resources, huge amount
of wasted leaflets and other materials used for public activities, which are most probably neglected. In
order to broaden the streets, some trees may have to be cut. Reduction of farmland may be caused b
y the need of setting up new sports centers or accommodation facilities. These environmental
consequences can be especially serious in a resourcelimited and crowded city in a thirdworld country.
     Besides, if not well managed and organized, the big event may not be so beneficial, and the new
facilities may be forever empty after the games.__4__
     Finally, let"s think about the lowincome groups in the city.__5__ More tax, more fees, more
expensive property prices, and higher cost of living. These definitely are not good news for them.

A. Hosting the Olympics surely would bring about much gain to a city.
B. We can only benefit from it for a short time.
C. What will they get from the Olympics bidding?
D. First of all, it will bring a lot of environmental problems.
E. There are many reasons for not hosting the Olympic Games.
F. There have been cases that host cities ended up with large debts.

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阅读理解     Sir Richard Branson today offered a $25,000,000 prize for scientists who find a way to save the
planet from the effects of climate change.
    Supported by the former US vicepresident Al Gore and other environmentalists, the boss of Virgin
Atlantic airlines called for scientists to come up with a way to take greenhouse gases out of the
atmosphere.
     "What we are doing is making sure we get the most carbon dioxidefriendly planets.We promise that
100% of profits we make from our transportation business are put into things like the prize we"ve offered
today.We shall convince people that we are facing a threat which is urgent and there"s no superhero.We
have no hope of a meaningful solution unless we find a way to work together."he said.
    Mr Gore said global warming was manmade and was like the planet suffering from a"fever". He said,
"Humans had slipped into a way of thinking that was centered on"short term satisfaction", and now meet
the challenge of "transforming ourselves and changing the structures of everything we do"".
     Reacting to the launch of the prize, Tony Jupiter, the Friends of the Earth"s director, warned against
wasting time waiting for new inventions.He said, "Sir Richard"s initiative (初衷) may encourage inventors
to develop a wonder technology to deal with carbon dioxide of the atmosphere.But many of the ways,
such as energy efficiency and renewables, already exist, and it is essential that these be put into practice
as soon as possible.Moreover, Sir Richard must also look at his business activities and the contribution
they make to climate change.The world will find it very difficult to settle climate change if air travel
continues to expand and space tourism is developed."

1. Sir Richard Branson is________.

A. a scientist concerned for climate change
B. a businessman working for Al Gore
C. the boss of Virgin Atlantic airlines
D. the director of the Friends of the Earth

2. The purpose of using Al Gore"s quotation was to________.

A. ask people to change the way of thinking
B. compare global warming to an Earth"s fever
C. show how serious and urgent the problem is
D. call for more attention to the launch of the prize

3. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. It is important for people to save our planet.
B. Humans are to blame for causing climate change.
C. Scientists are trying to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
D. A prize was offered for solutions to global warming.

4. How was Tony Jupiter"s attitude to space tourism?

A. Negative.
B. Positive.
C. Optimistic.
D. Neutral(中立).

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阅读理解     What would you think if I told you I could eat 40 percent more food than other people-eating boxes
of ice cream, bowls of noodles and plates of meat-all 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 mice-and still weigh 10 to 15 percent 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 fat?metabolizing(脂肪代谢)enzyme in humans and
control weight gain.And such a pill would be very exciting for many people who are 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 the key.

1. What does "such a surprising task" in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A. Eating a lot of food while losing weight.
B. Burning up fat very quickly.
C. Controlling the diet.
D. Having a rich fantasy life.

2. Why did the author say he/she had to be a mouse in Paragraph 4?

A. Because a mouse can lose weight no matter how much it eats.
B. Because the weight losing 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.

3. In the experiment, the mice without those enzymes_______.

A. were in good condition
B. put on weight
C. became weak
D. could not have baby mice

4. What does the author want to show through the last two paragraphs?

A. You can be free of guilt when having big dinners.
B. Scientists cannot find the key to identifying theenzyme.
C. Don"t overeat before the test is made on humans.
D. It is unnecessary to control weight at present.

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阅读理解     There are several advantages in planting trees: they firm the soil, soak(渗透) up extra water and take
carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.However, it now turns out that planting trees could add to global
warming.We all know that tree roots do a great job of keeping soil firmly on the ground and out of the
wind"s power.The problem is that some of the dust clouds play an important part in soaking up carbon
dioxide.
     Huge dust storms blow out over the oceans from dry parts of North Africa and Central Asia.Tons of
dust are lifted and left as a thin film over the ocean surface.
     Dust from China is carried east and left in the Pacific Ocean.If a tree?planting programme there is
successful and the dust supply reduced, the net result may be that less carbon dioxide gets locked away
in the ocean.
     Andy, an environmental scientist has spent the past few years studying dust and says his work shows
clearly the complexity of the system.For this reason the need is to focus on cutting carbon dioxide giving
off rather than doing anything else.
     Robert, an American scientist, has shown that when native grassland areas are invaded by trees,
carbon is lost from the soil."We are studying why the soil carbon disappears, but one theory is that trees
do a lot more of their growing above ground compared to grass, so less carbon goes directly into the soil
from trees." said Robert.
     In wet areas of the world, the gain from trees absorbing carbon dioxide above ground seems to be
outweighed by the loss of carbon from the soil below ground.
     Countries that plan to fight against global warming by planting trees may have to think again.Solutions
to environmental problems are often more complex than they first appear, and understanding the Earth"s
climate is a very great challenge.

1. People usually hold the opinion that________.

A. huge dust storms can destroy carbon dioxide
B. planting trees could reduce global warming
C. huge dust storms can destroy the oceans on the Earth
D. planting trees is the only way to control huge dust storms

2. Andy, an environmental scientist, believes that________.

A. environmental problems are more complex than expected
B. trees shouldn"t have been planted in dry places
C. dust plays a more important part than trees
D. carbon dioxide is harmful to everything

3. Robert"s experiment proves that________.

A. trees absorb more carbon than grass
B. carbon can turn grass into dust
C. less carbon can make trees grow faster
D. grassland areas should be covered by forests

4. The best title for this passage is "________".

A. The importance of planting trees
B. The dust clouds soak up carbon dioxide
C. Is it really useful to plant trees to reduce global warming?
D. Why the soil carbon disappears

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