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Traditional rubbish collection is dirty, smelly, labor-intensive, and rubbish can pile up in basements or
wooden bins. This new system does away with all that and with lots of expensive bin lorries.
"Nobody sees anything happening, there"s no bins, there"s no trucks on street, there"s no boxes, there
is no kids on the bikes trying to fight with dust cars going up on the street. It"s safe, it"s clean, and it"s
healthy for everybody."
This is how it works: you sort your rubbish into special containers in your kitchen, then take the bags
to one of these. They drop down into the building"s basement. Twice a day, a powerful vacuum sucks them
away to a collection centre down a single pipe. First, the food waste, then general rubbish, then stuff for
recycling, like paper and cans.
In the past thirty years, the system"s been equipped around the world, from Stockholm to Barcelona,
Disneyland to Dubai, but never in the UK. One problem: it"s expensive. Local councils don"t pay the cost
of equipment. The developer here next to Wembley Stadium, says it makes sense partly because this
development is the size of a small town.
"We own the entire site, the 85 acres and all the roads. And that"s the fundamental that we control the
public ground. And we take a benefit of that because our public ground"s going to be great as a consequence
of this system."
"And this is where it ends up, the central collection centre. That great big green pipe is the outlet from
the underground network and laid in all the roads around here. These great big things are essentially enormous
intensive vacuum cleaner that will swirl (使旋转) the rubbish around, the air, goes off to the top. The waste
goes down to the bottom and then it is shifted to one of these containers where it can be put on to a lorry
and taken away." Environmentally, it"s claimed the systems are great improvement, but it has a challenge. |
| 1. Which of the followings about the new collection system is WRONG according to the passage? |
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A. High price.
B. Labor consumption.
C. Big size.
D. Good safety. |
| 2. Which is the right order when the new system works? |
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A. Sort rubbish-put rubbish bags in basement-suck rubbish by a vacuum-shift to containers.
B. Put rubbish bags in basement-suck rubbish by a vacuum-sort rubbish-shift to containers.
C. Sort rubbish-shift to containers-suck rubbish by a vacuum-put rubbish bags in basement.
D. Suck rubbish by a vacuum-sort rubbish-shift to containers-put rubbish bags in basement. |
| 3. According to the passage, the challenge of the new system is _____. |
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A. to work economically
B. to take up the size of a small town
C. to equip itself in the UK
D. to be environmentally friendly |
答案
| 1-3: BAA |
举一反三
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To Whom It May Concern:
Your address was forwarded to us by Why Bother Magazine. All of us here think The International
Institute
Not Doing Much is the best organization in the world. You know how to avoid unnecessary activities!
We closely followed the advice in your article. First, we replaced all our telephones with carrier
pigeons. Simply removing the jingle of telephones and replacing them with the pleasant sounds of birds
has had a remarkable effect on everyone. Besides, birds are cheaper than telephone service. After all,
we are a business. We have to think of the bottom line. As a side benefit, the birds also fertilize the lawn
outside the new employee sauna.
Next, we sold the computers of, to Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty, a firm of lawyers nearby. Our
electricity bill went way down. Big savings! The boss is impressed. We have completely embraced paper
technology. Now that we all use pencils, doodling is on the increase, and the quality of pencilwomanship
is impressive, as you can tell from my handwriting in this letter. By the way, if you can, please send this
letter back to us. We can erase and reuse it. Just tie it to Maggie"s leg and she"ll know where to take it.
Now it"s very calm and quiet here. You can notice the di fference. No more loud chatter on the
telephones! All we hear is the scratching of pencil on paper, the sound of pigeons, and the delivery of inter-
office correspondence by paper airplane.
Wonderful! I"ve always wanted to work for an insurance company ever since I was a little girl. Now
it"s perfect.
Sincerely yours,
Eleanor Lightly
Spokeswoman and ComPany Hair Stylist
ABC Activity Insurance: Insure against overdoing it |
| 1. Where is Eleanor"s letter sent to? |
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A. Why Bother Magazine.
B. ABC Activity Insurance Company.
C. Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty Law Firm.
D. The International Institute of Not Doing Much. |
| 2. Which of the following is practiced in the author"s company? |
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A. Replacing the manual work system with modern technology.
B. Turning off lights in the daytime to save electricity.
C. Recycling paper resources whenever possible.
D. Buying birds and pets as company for the staff. |
| 3. What is true about Maggie? |
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A. She works as a manager in the author"s company.
B. She sometimes helps fertilize the lawn outside the sauna.
C. She often helps with inter-office correspondence using e-mail.
D. Her handwriting has improved a lot after entering the company. |
| 4. What does it refer to in Paragraph 3? |
| [ ] |
A. Pencil.
B. Letter.
C. Telephone.
D. Computer. |
| 5. Which of the following best describes the life the author is leading? |
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A. A simple, slow-paced life.
B. A life of hard work and security.
C. A religious, peasant-like life.
D. A life away from paper and pencils. |
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If you don"t have a college degree, you"re at greater risk of developing memory problems or even
Alzheimer"s (老年痴呆). Education plays a key role in lifelong memory performance and risk for mental
disorder, and it"s well documented that those with a college degree possess a cognitive (认知的) advantage
over their less educated counterparts in middle and old age.
Now, a large national study from Brandeis University published in the American Joumal of Geriatric
Psychiatry shows that those with less schooling can significantly make up for poorer education by frequently
engaging in mental exercises such as word games, puzzles, reading, and lectures.
"The lifelong benefits of higher education for memory in later life are quite lmpressive, but we do not
clearly understand how and why these effects last so long," said lead author Margie Lachman, a psychologist.
She suggested that higher educatlon may encourage lifelong interest in cognitive efforts, while those with less
education may not engage as frequently in mental exercises that help keep the memory agile (敏捷地).
But education early in adulthood does not appear to be the only route to maintain your memory. The study
found that intellectual activities undertaken regularly made a difference. "Among individuals with low education,
those who are engaged in reading, writing, attending lectures, doing word games or puzzles once a week or
more had memory scores similar to people with more education," said Lachman.
The study, called Midlife in the United States, assessed 3343 men and women between the ages of 32 and
84 with a mean age of 56 years. Almost 40 percent of the participants had at least a 4-year college degree. The
researchers evaluated how the partlclpants performed in two cognltlve areas,Verbal menlory and eXecutive
functiorl_brain processes invol"ed in planning, abstract thinking and cognitive flexibility. Participants were given
a battery of tests, including tests of verbal fluency, word recall, and backward counting.
As expected, those with higher education said they engaged in cognitive activities more often and also did
better on the memory tests, but some with lower education also did well, explained Lachman.
"The findings are promising because they suggest there rnay be ways to level the playing field for those
with lower educational achievement, and protect those at.greatest risk for memory declines," said Lachman.
"Although we cannot rule out the possibility that those who have better memories are the ones who take on
more activities, the evidence is consistent with cognitive plasticity (可塑性), and suggests some degree of
personal control over cognitive functioning in adulthood by adopting an intellectually active lifestyle." |
| 1. What is the text mainly about? |
| [ ] |
A. Higher education has a better cognitive advantage.
B. Better memories result from college degree.
C. Cognitive activity does a mind good.
D. Poor education has more risk of memory declines. |
| 2. According to the result of Margie Lachman"s study,we can conclude that _____. |
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A. education is responsible for the lifelong memory perfomance and risk for mental disorder
B. education early in adulthood can be the only route to maintain your mernory
C. those with higher education did better on the memory tests than those with lower education
D. an intellectually active lifestyle does help to maintain your memory |
| 3. What do we know about the study called Midlife? |
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A. Participants each were given a battery to test their memory.
B. The average age of the participants are 56 years old.
C. Participants had to perform in one of the two cognltlve areas.
D. One in four of the participants had a 4-year college degree. |
| 4. Why are the findings of the Lachman"s study promising? |
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A. The lower educated may have the same opportunities to keep up memory.
B. We may have ways to cure the people who have memory declines.
C. Adopting a different lifestyle can control over cognitive functionlng.
D. We can find out the possibility to have better memories. |
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Doctors say anger can be an extremely damaging emotion, unless you leam how to deal with it. They warn
that anger can lead to heart disease, stomach problems, headaches, emotional problems and possibly cancer.
Anger is a normal emotion that we all feel from time to time. Some people express anger openly in a calm
reasonable way. Others burst with anger, and scream and yell. But other people keep their anger inside. They
can not or will not express it. This is called repressing anger.
For years many doctors thought that repressing anger was more dangerous to a person"s health than
expressing it. They said that when a person is angry, the brain releases the same hormones (荷尔蒙). They
speed the heart rate, raise blood pressure, or sugar into the blood, etc. In general the person feels excited and
ready to act.
Some doctors say that both repressing and expressing anger can be dangerous. They believe that those who
express anger violently may be more likely to develop heart disease, and they believe that those who keep their
anger inside may face a greater danger of high blood pressure.
Doctors say the solution is learning how to deal with anger. They say the first step is to admit that you are
angry and to recognize the real cause of the anger, then decide if the cause is serious enough to get angry about.
If it is, they say, "Do not express your anger while angry. Wait until your anger has cooled down and you are
able to express yourself calmly and reasonably."
Doctors say that a good way to deal with anger is to find humor in the situation that has made you angry.
They said that laughter is much healthier than anger. |
| 1. "Damaging emotion" means that _____. |
| [ ] |
A. the emotion is harmless
B. the emotion is hannful
C. the feeling is veiy strong
D. the feeling is hard |
| 2. What statement is right? |
| [ ] |
A. Were you angry,you would be cancered (得癌症).
B. Once you are angry,you must be cancered.
C. Angry as you are often,you can"t be cancered.
D. Anger may cause you a cancer. |
| 3. Expressing anger violently _____ repressing it according to some scientists. |
| [ ] |
A. is just the same as
B. is more harmful than
C. is no better than
D. is much better than |
| 4. According to the author, you"d better _____. |
| [ ] |
A. never be angry
B. cool it down before you express it
C. laugh and laugh when you get angry
D. admit you are wrong when you are angry |
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Electronic devices (装置) are changing the way people listen to music. But studies show the devices may
be causing hearing loss in many people. Some experts say people may be playing them too loud and too long.
And experts say sound levels on these devices need to be set lower.
Researchers did a study with three hundred high school students and one thousand adults. They were
asked about their use of portable music devices. Forty percent of the students and adults said they set the
sound levels at high on their players. But students were twice more likely to play the mu- sic at a very loud
volume (音量). More than half of the students said they would probably not limit their listening time.
The study found that more than half of the students and less than forty percent of the adults had at least
one kind of hearing loss. Some reported difficulty hearing parts of a discussion between two people. Others
said they had to raise volume controls on a television or radio to hear it better. And, some experienced ringing
in their ears or other noises.
Hearing experts say part of the problem is the listening equipment people are using. They say large
earphones that cover the whole ear are probably safer than the smaller earbuds (耳塞) that come with most
music players. Hearing loss may not be obvious for years, however, once it happens, there is few chance of
curing. About thirty million Americans have some hearing loss. One third of them lost their hearing as a result
of loud noises.
The American Speech-language-Hearing Association is working with companies and government officials
on setting rules for use of portable music devices. The group says the best way to protect your hearing is
to _____, limit listening time and use earphones that block out foreign noises. |
1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? Compared to adults, teenagers are
more likely to turn up their players.
______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please
answer within 10 words.)
______________________________________________________________________________________
4. What trouble will happen to a person if he suffers some hearing loss? (Please give at least two examples
mentioned in the passage, each within 15 words.
______________________________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.
______________________________________________________________________________________ |
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We have met the enemy and he is ours. We bought him at a pet shop. When monkey-pox, a disease usually
found in the African rain forest suddenly turns up in children in the American Midwest. It"s hard not to wonder
of the disease that comes from foreign animals is homing in on human beings. "Most of the infections (感染)
we think of as human infections started in other animals." says Stephen Morse, director of the Center for Public
Health Preparedness at Columbia University.
It"s not just that we"re going to where the animals are; we"re also bringing them closer to us. Popular foreign
pets have brought a whole new disease to this country. A strange illness killed Isaksen"s pets and she now thinks
that keeping foreign pets is a bad idea. "I don"t think it"s fair to have them as pets when we have such a limited
knowledge of them." says Isaksen.
"Laws allowing these animals to be brought in from deep forest areas without stricter control need changing."
says Peter Schantz. Monkey-pox may be the wake-up call. Researchers believe infected animals may infect their
owners. We know very little about these new diseases. A new bug (病毒) may be kind at first. But it may
develop into something harmful (有害的). Monkey-pox doesn"t look a major infectious disease. But it is not
impossible to pass the disease from person to person. |
| 1. We learn from Paragraph l that the pet sold at the shop may _____. |
| [ ] |
A. come from Columbia
B. prevent us from being infected
C. enjoy being with children
D. suffer from monkey-pox |
| 2. Why did Isaksen advise people not to have foreign pets? |
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A. They attack human beings.
B. We need to study native animals.
C. They can"t live out of the rain forest.
D. We do not know much about them yet. |
| 3. What does she phrase "the wake-up call" in paragraph 3 most probably mean? |
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A. a new disease
B. a clear warning
C. a dangerous animal
D. a morning call |
| 4. The text suggests that in the future we _____. |
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A. may have to fight against more new diseases
B. may easily get infected by diseases from dogs
C. should not be allowed to have pets
D. should stop buying pests from Africa |
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