阅读理解。 On April 24th , another natural disaster - the oil spill(泄露)in the Gul
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On April 24th , another natural disaster - the oil spill(泄露)in the Gulf of Mexico , happened .
Millions of dollars have been used to help stop the spill and to clean up the animals , beaches , and
land spoiled by the oil . Unfortunately , when many of these chemicals are used , more damage is
caused to the environment , especially to lives in the sea .
But governments seem to accept the risk of transporting millions of tons of oil by ship every day
so that we can fill up our cars and drive around and cause even more environmental damage .
Interestingly , the biggest companies in the world produce cars , and the next biggest supply the
gasoline to make them run .
Of all of today"s environmental disasters , an oil spill may actually be one of the least serious .
Although oil is poisonous , it is a natural material . In the end , it breaks down naturally . In 1967
the tanker Torrey Canyon sank off the Scilly Isles near the coast of England and spilled 120,000
tones of oil into the ocean . If you go there today , you will find it hard to see any sign that it ever
happened .
However , we should be thinking more about reducing our dependency on oil . Governments
should be encouraging research into new technologies , such as cars run by solar power, electricity ,
hydrogen , and so on . Much of this research , in the past , was stopped by the oil , gas , and coal .
If the world"s millions 
of cars were 10% more efficient(高效的), we would need many fewer tankers
crossing the oceans each year . If this happened , the risks of oil spills would be reduced , and the air
we breathe would be cleaner and fresher , too .
t ?B. What
oil pollution isC. Oil tanker ac
cidents D. How to reduce oil pollution
B. By making an argument
C. By giving an example
D. By drawing a diagram(图表)
es the underlined word " risk " in Paragraph 2 refer to ?B. Poisonous oil breaking down naturally
C. Millions of tons of oil spilling into the sea
D. More environmental damage being caused
B. We should dev
elop new technologies to cut oil useC. Tankers should not be allowed to sail near the coastlines
D. Countries should build more oil pipelines under the sea
B. In a science magazine .
C. In a novel
D. In a brochure .
答案
举一反三
----- Reported by Sheila Carrick
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
Most people know this joke. But recently, some people have been much more concerned with how
the grizzly bear and mountain lion can cross the road.
Millions of animals die each year on U.S. roads, the Federal Highway Administration reports. In fact,
only about 80 ocelots, an endangered wild cat, exist in the U.S. today. The main reason? Road kill.
"Ecopassages" may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars. They are paths both over
and under roads. "These ecopassages can be extremely useful, so that wildlife can avoid human conflicts," said Jodi Hilty of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
But do animals actually use the ecopassages? The answer is yes. Paul Beier of Northern Arizona
University found foot marks left by mountain lions on an ecopassage that went under a highway. This
showed that the lion used the passage.
Builders of some ecopassages try to make them look like a natural part of an area by planting trees
on and around them. Animals seem to be catching on. Animals as different as salamanders and grizzly
bears are using the bridges and underpasses.
The next time you visit a park or drive through an area with a lot of wildlife, look around. You might
see an animal overpass!
B. the driving conditions have improved greatly
C. the measure for protecting wildlife fails to work
D. an increasing number of animals are killed in road accidents
B. a fence built for the safety of the area
C. a bridge for animals to get over a river
D. a pass for animals to cross the road
B. animals begin to learn to use ecopassages
C. animals are crossing the road in groups
D. animals are increasing in number
B. wild animals may jam the road
C. they may see wild animals in the park
D. they may see wild animals on ecopassages
Yoga (瑜伽) is an ancient practice that helps create a sense of union in body, mind, and spirit. It brings
us balance. I was seriously out of balance when I started practicing yoga in 1999. I had plantar fascitis in
both feet, and my doctor had warned me against all the things I loved to do: walking, hiking, and playing
tennis. I was desperate for exercise. Yoga became my salvation(救星) and even enhanced my other
fitness activities. I practice yoga at least twice a week, but I consider yoga to be part of my daily life
because after a while you no longer just practice yoga-you love it.
Yoga becomes part of your physical life. Your body grows stronger, more toned, and more flexible
as you move from one pose to the other. I spent a week in Mexico at a yoga retreat, and it was the first
vacation on which I lost weight. "Rather than building muscle, yoga builds muscle tone," says Shakta Kaur Khalsa, author of the K.I.S.S. Guide to Yoga. "Because yoga helps maintain a balanced metabolism (新
陈代谢), it also helps to regulate weight. Additionally, yoga stretches muscles lengthwise, causing fat to
be removed around the cells." I do yoga poses throughout the day. After hours at my computer, I stretch my stiff shoulders and arms. When I need a boost of energy, I do energizing poses. When I am feeling
exhausted at the end of the day, I do restorative poses.
Yoga becomes part of your mental life. Yoga teaches you to focus on breathing while you hold the
poses. This attention to breath is calming; it dissolves stress and anxiety. I use yogic breathing on the
tennis courts, in the dentist"s chair, and in traffic jams. You should always leave a yoga practice feeling
energized, not tired. If you feel tired after yoga, it means you spent the time "fighting" yourself, trying to
force yourself into poses. In yoga, you "surrender" to the pose by letting go of the tension.
Yoga becomes part of your spiritual life. Yoga is practiced by people from all religions; it is not
restricted to any religious group. Yoga teaches "right" living in how we deal with ourselves and others.
As I work on a difficult pose, I learn patience, forgiveness, and the value of gentleness. Yoga advocates
proper eating, but you don"t have to be a vegetarian to practice yoga.
B. How I Do Yoga Poses
C. The Benefits of Yoga
D. The Varieties of Yoga
B. they respond well to yoga poses
C. they spend too much time on yoga
D. they push themselves to do yoga poses
B. Different yoga poses.
C. Popularity of yoga all over the world.
D. Encouraging people to do yoga.
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you are more than twice as likely to die of skin cancer as a woman,and nine times more likely to die of
AIDS.
There are many reasons for this. Typically,men take more risks than woman and are more likely to
drink and smoke but perhaps more importantly,men don"t go to the doctor.
Gullotta,a professor from a famous medical university,says a healthy man should visit the doctor every
year or two.For those over 45 ,it should be at least once a year.
Two months ago Gullotta saw a 50-year-old man who had delayed doing anything about his smoker"s
cough for a year.
According to a recent survey,95% of women aged between 15 and early 40s see a doctor once a
year,compared to 70% of men in the same age group.
" A lot of men think they are absolutely strong," Gullotta says. They only come in when a friend
drops dead on the golf course and they think," Geez,if it could happen to him,________. "
Then there is the ostrich approach, " Some men are scared of what might be there and would
rather not know, " says Dr. Ross Cartmill.
" Most men get their cars serviced more regularly than they service their bodies," Cartmill says. He
believes most diseases that commonly affect men could be addressed by preventive check-ups. Cartmill
says " regular check-ups for
men would surely place stress on the public purse,but prevention is cheaper in the long run than having
treat the diseases. " Besides,the ultimate cost is far greater:it is called premature death.
______________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?
In his opinion, medical examinations in advance can help solve some common male diseases.
_______________________________________________________________________________
3. Please fill in the blank in the sixth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. ( Please answer within 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
4. Give three suggestions for men to keep healthy. ( Please answer within 30 words)
①__________
②__________
③__________
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
____________________________________________________________________
have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems.
Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world,
changing some living patterns, scientists say.
Increased carbon dioxide(CO2)in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on how plants
produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of
growth.
"Predicting species" reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology," said the researches of
several U.S. universities. They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to
climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services.
The study, published on the Nature website, uses the findings from plant life cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1,634 species. It found that some experiments had underestimated (低估)
the speed of flowering by 8.5 times and leafing by 4 times.
"Across all species, the experiments under-predicted the speed of the advance - for both leafing and
flowering - that results from temperature increases," the study said.
The design of future experiments may need to be improved to better predict how plants will react to
climate change, it said.
Plants are necessary for life on the Earth. They are the base of the food chain, using photosynthesis
(光合作用) to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water. They let out oxygen which is needed by
nearly every organism on the planet.
Scientists believe the world"s average temperature has risen by about 0.8? since 1900, and nearly 0.2?
every ten years since 1979.
So far, efforts to cut emissions(排放)of planet-warming greenhouse gases are not seen as enough to
prevent the Earth heating up beyond 2? this century - a point scientists say will bring the danger of a
changeable climate in which weather extremes are common, leading to drought, floods, crop failures and
rising sea levels.
B. The increasing speed of flowering is beyond scientists" expectation.
C. Climate change leads to the change of food production patterns.
D. Food chains have been seriously damaged because of weather.
B. there are 1,634 plant species on the four continents
C. scientists should improve the design of the experiments
D. the experiments failed to predict how plants react to climate change
B. they are very important in the food chains
C. they play a leading role in reducing global warming
D. they are growing and flowering much faster than before
B. Its change will lead to weather extremes.
C. It is 0.8? higher in 1979 than that of 1990.
D. It needs to be controlled within 2? in this century.
Eating too much fatty food, exercising too little and smoking can raise your future risk of heart disease. But there is
another factor that can cause your heart problems more immediately: the air you breathe.
Previous studies have linked high exposure (暴露)to environmental pollution to an increased risk of heart problem,
but two analyses now show that poor air quality can lead to heart attack or stroke (中风)within as little as a few hours
after exposure. In one review of the research, scientists found that people exposed to high levels of pollutants (污染物)were up to 5% more likely to suffer a heart attack within days of exposure than those with lower exposure. A separate
study of stroke patients showed that even air that the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers to be of "moderate" (良好)quality and relatively safe for our health can raise the risk of stroke as much as 34% within 12 to 14
hours of exposure.
The authors of both studies stress that these risks are relatively small for healthy people and certainly modest
compared with other risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. However, it is important to be aware
of these dangers because everyone is exposed to air pollution regardless of lifestyle choices. So stricter regulation
by the EPA of pollutants may not only improve environmental air quality but could also become necessary to
protect public health.
B. heart problems and exercising
C. heart problems and smoking
D. heart problems and fatty food
B. extremely low
C. relatively low
D. extremely high
B. The EPA conducted many studies on air quality.
C. Moderate air quality is more harmful than smoking,
D. Stricter regulations on pollutants should be made.
A. inform
B. persuade
C. describe
D. entertain
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