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Reading comprehension.     The traditional tent cities at festivals such as Glastonbury may never be the same again. In a victory of
green business that is certain to appeal to environmentally-aware music-lovers, a design student is to receive
financial support to produce eco-friendly tents made of cardboard that can be recycled after the bands and
crowds have gone home.
     Major festivals such as Glastonbury throw away some 10,000 abandoned tents at the end of events each
year. For his final year project at the University of the West of England, James Dunlop came up with a
material that can be recycled. And to cope with the British summer, the cardboard has been made waterproof.
     Taking inspiration from a Japanese architect, who has used cardboard to make big buildings including
churches, Mr. Dunlop used cardboard material for his tents, which he called Myhabs.
     The design won an award at the annual New Designers Exhibition after Mr. Dunlop graduated from his
product design degree and he decided to try to turn it into a business.
     To raise money for the idea, he toured the City"s private companies which fund new businesses and found
a supporter in the finance group Mint. He introduced his idea to four of Mint"s directors and won their support.
Mint has committed around ￡500,000 to MyHab and taken a share of 30 per cent in Mr. Dunlop"s business.
The first Myhabs should be tested at festivals this summer, before being marketed fully next year.
     Mr. Dunlop said that the design, which accommodates two people, could have other uses, such as for
disaster relief and housing for the London Olympics.
     For music events, the cardboard houses will be ordered online and put up at the sites by the Myhab team
before the festival-goers arrive and removed by the company afterwards. They can be personalized and the
company will offer reductions on the expense if people agree to sell exterior (外部的) advertising space.
     The biggest festivals attract tens of thousands of participants, with Glastonbury having some 150,000
each year. Altogether there are around 100 annual music festivals where people camp in the UK. The events
are becoming increasingly environmentally conscious. 1. "eco-friendly tents" in paragraph 1 refer to tents _____. A. economically desirable
B. favorable to the environment
C. for holding music performances
D. designed for disaster relief 2. Mr. Dunlop established his business _____. A. independently with an interest-free loan from Mint
B. with the approval of the City"s administration
C. in partnership with a finance group
D. with the help of a Japanese architect 3. It is implied in the passage that _____. A. the weather in the UK is changeable in summer
B. most performances at British festivals are given in the open air
C. the cardboard tents produced by Mr. Dunlop can be user-tailored
D. cardboard tents can be easily put up and removed by users. 4. The passage is mainly concerned with _____. A. an attempt at developing recyclable tents
B. some efforts at making full use of cardboards
C. an unusual success of a graduation project
D. the effects of using cardboard tents on music festivals

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阅读理解。     The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need
to address a potential hunger crisis in poor countries and an energy crisis worldwide, world leaders failed to
think ahead. The result is a global food crisis. Wheat, corn and rice prices have more than doubled in the past
two years. And oil prices have increased more than three times since the start of 2004. These food-price
increases, combined with increasing energy costs, will slow if not stop economic growth in many parts of the
world and will even affect political stability. Practical solutions to these problems do exist, but we"ll have to
start thinking ahead and acting globally.
     Here are three steps to ease the current food crisis and avoid the potential for a global crisis. The first is to
promote the dramatic success of Malawi, a country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a
special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and seeds with high productivity. Malawi"s harvest doubled after
just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in
the rich world, or S10 billion altogether.
    Second, the U.S. and Europe should abandon their policies of paying partly for the change of food into
biofuels. The U.S. government gives farmers a taxpayer-financed payment of 51 cents per gallon of ethanol
(乙醇) changed from corn. There may be a case for biofuels produced on lands that do not produce foods-tree
crops, grasses and wood products-but there"s no case for the government to pay to put the world"s dinner into
the gas tank.
     Third, we urgently need to weather-proof die world"s crops as soon and as effectively as possible. For a
poor farmer, sometimes something as simple as a farm pond-which collects rainwater to be used in dry weather-
can make the difference between a good harvest and a bad one. The world has already committed to
establishing a Climate Adaptation hind to help poor regions climate-proof vital economic activities such as food
production and health care but has not yet acted upon the promise. 1. An international fund based on the Malawi model would ______. A. cost each of the developed countries $10 billion per year
B. aim to double the harvest in southern African countries in a year
C. decrease the food prices as well as the energy prices
D. give poor farmers access to fertilizer and highly productive seeds 2. With the second step, the author expresses the idea that ______. A. it is not wise to change food crops into gas
B. it is misleading to put tree crops into the gas tank
C. we should get alternative forms of fuel in any way
D. biofuels should be developed on a large scale 3. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. A rain-collecting pond is a simple safeguard against dry weal.
B. A Climate Adaptation Fund has been established to help poor.
C. The world has made a serious promise to build farm ponds.
D. It makes a great difference whether we develop wood products or not. 4. In the passage, the author calls on us to ______. A. slow down but not to stop economic
B. develop tree crops, grasses and wood products
C. achieve economic growth and political stability
D. act now so as to relieve the global food shortage

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B. Keep a Healthy Self-image.
C. Difficulty in Curing Eating Disorders
D. Best Prevention of Eating Disorders
E. What Factors Bring about an Earing Disorder?
F. How Does One Develop an Eating Disorder?

阅读理解。

     本文介绍了美国著名的生物学家Edward Wilson 的著作The Future of Life中的一些有关如何开发、利
用和保护自然资源的情况.
     Edward Wilson is America"s, if not the world"s, leading naturalist. In The Future of Life, he takes us on a
tour of the world"s natural resources (资源). How are they used? What has been lost? What remains and is it
able to continue with the present speed of use? Wilson also points out the need to understand fully the
biodiversity (生物多样性)of our earth.
     Wilson begins with an open letter to the pioneer in environment (环境) protection, Henry David Thoreau.
He compares today"s Walden Pond with that of Thoreau"s day. Wilson will use such comparisons for the rest
of the book. The problem is clear: man has done great damage to his home over the years. Van the earth, with
human help, be made to return to biodiversity levels that will be able to support us in the future?
     Biodiversity, Wilson argues, is the key to settling many problems the earth faces today. Even our agricultural
crops can gain advantages from it. A mere hundred species (物种) are the basis of our food supply, of which
but twenty carry the load. Wilson suggests changing this situation by looking into ten thousand species that
could be made use of, which will be a way to reduce the clearing of the natural homes of plants and animals to
enlarge farming areas.
     At the end of the book, Wilson discusses the importance of human values in considering the environment.
If you are to continue to live on the earth, you may well read and act on the ideas in this book.

1. We learn from the text that Wilson cares most about ______

A. the environment for plants
B. the biodiversity of our earth
C. the wastes of natural resources
D. the importance of human values

2. How many species are most important to our present food supply?

A. Twenty.
B. Eighty.
C. One hundred
D. Ten thousand.

3. Wilson suggests that one way to keep biodiversity is to _______.

A. learn how to farm scientifically
B. build homes for some dying species
C. make it clear what to eat
D. use more species for food .

4. We can infer that the text is _______

A. a description of natural resources
B. a research report
C. a book review
D. an introduction to a scientist

阅读理解。

     Every year more people recognize that it is wrong to kill wildlife for "sport." Progress in this direction
is slow because shooting is not a sport for watching, and only those few who take part realize the cruelty
and destruction.
     The number of gunners, however, grows rapidly. Children too young to develop proper judgments
through independent thought are led along way away by their gunning parents. They are subjected to
advertisements of gun producers who describe shooting as good for their health and guncarrying as a way
of putting redder blood in the veins (血管). They are persuaded by gunner magazines with stories honoring
the chase and the kill. In school they view motion pictures which are supposedly meant to teach them how
to deal with arms safely but which are actually designed to stimulate (刺激) a desire to own a gun. Wildlife
is disappearing because of shooting and because of the loss of wildland habitat (栖息地). Habitat loss will
continue with our increasing population, but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by shooting? There
doesn"t seem to be any chance if the serious condition of our birds is not improved.
     Wildlife belongs to everyone and not to the gunners alone. Although most people do not shoot, they seem
to forgive shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it. The only answer, then, is to bring
the truth about sport shooting to the great majority of people.
     Now, it is time to realize that animals have the same right to life as we do and that there is nothing fair or
right about a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful creatures. The gunners like to describe
what they do as character-building, but we know that to wound an animal and watch it go through the agony
of dying can make nobody happy. If, as they would have you believe, gun-carrying and killing improve human-
character, then perhaps we should encourage war.

1. According to the text, most people do not seem to be against hunting because _____.

A. they have little knowledge of it
B. it helps to build human character
C. it is too costly to stop killing wildlife
D. they want to keep wildlife under control

2. The underlined word "agony" in the last paragraph probably means _____.

A. form
B. condition
C. pain
D. sadness

3. According to the text, the films children watch at school actually _____.

A. teach them how to deal with guns safely
B. praise hunting as character-building
C. describe hunting as an exercise
D. encourage them to have guns of their own

4. It can be inferred from the text that the author seems to _____.

A. blame the majority of people
B. worry about the existence of wildlife
C. be in favour of war
D. be in support of character-building

阅读理解。

     The famous American gorilla (大猩猩) expert Diane Fossey had a completely new way to study gorillas-she
pretended to be one of them. She copied their actions and way of life - eating plants and getting down on her
hands and knees to walk the way a gorilla does. It was a new relationship.
     Diane Fossey was murdered in Rwanda in 1985 and her story was made into the popular film Gorillas in
the Mist. It was a long way from King Kong, which is about a gorilla as a monster (a frightening animal), and
helped to show a new idea: the real monster is man, while the gorilla is to be admired.
     Today there are thought to be around 48,000 lowland gorillas and maybe 400-450 mountain gorillas in the
wild. From the Congo in West Africa, to Rwanda and Uganda further east, they are endangered by hunting and
by the cutting down of their forest homes.
     Some time ago, I found in my letterbox a little magazine from the World Wide Fund for Nature. It had two
photos side by side. One was of a young gorilla. "This is a species of mammal (哺乳类动物)," said the words
below it. "It is being destroyed by man. We must save it for our own good." The other photo showed a human
baby. The words also read, "This is a species of mammal," but then went on:"It is the most destructive (破坏性的) on earth. We must retrain it for its own good."

1. The text mainly talks about _____.

A. Diane Fossey
B. the gorillas in Rwanda
C. the protection of the gorillas
D. the film Gorillas in the Mist

2. We can learn from the text that _____.

A. Gorillas in the mist was based Fossey"s experiences
B. Lowland gorillas live longer than mountain gorillas
C. King Kong showed us that a gorilla is admirable
D. Diane Fossey was murdered by a gorilla

3. What message can we get from the two photos in the magazine?

A. Gorillas are man"s close friends.
B. Both man and the gorilla need to be saved.
C. Young gorillas are as lovely as human babies.
D. Man should live peacefully with the gorilla.