Dear Expert: I was asked to retrieve my 14-year-old daughter from a five-day camping trip. She was suffering from such severe separation anxiety, her teacher thought she should go home. She hadn"t eaten anything and had refused to participate in any activities. The thing is my daughter is extremely bright and has many friends; she organized a few friends into a band, and it belongs to several school clubs. She"s just always had an extreme fear of being away from home. I don"t want her to miss out on other trips. Yours truly, Jonathan | Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. | A. additional B. producing C. regular D. predicted E. identified F. atmosphere G. matched H. reducing I. carried J. increase | 阅读理解。 | Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is el.ean and cool. Fox Point is a very new47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the city"s poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families. The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions (碳排放) while also cutting costs. Fox Point is operated by Palladia, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy, people. Palladia received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers. ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy. Michael Bloomberg, New York"s mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for 500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City"s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing. So he recently announced that the city"s Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD), whose duty is to develop and keep the city"s supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP"s green standards. Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York"s DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country. | 1. What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph? | [ ] | A. To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people. B. To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas. C. To show how the environment-friendly building works. D. To compare old and new boiler rooms. | 2. What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards? | [ ] | A. Lower running costs. B. Costing less in construction. C. Less air to be lost in hot days. D. Better prices for homeless people. | 3. It can be learned from the text that, _____. | [ ] | A. New York City is seriously polluted B. people"s daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City C. a great number of people in New York City don"t have houses to live in D. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City | 4. What is the main purpose of this text? | [ ] | A. To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems. B. To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing. C. To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families. D. To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing. | 阅读所给短文,并根据短文后题目的要求进行简答。(注意题后的字数要求) | _____. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many ways: education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the growing of America has made it a very different society, one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages. A person"s age no longer tells you anything about his or her social position, marriage or health. There"s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn"t as strong as it used to be. It doesn"t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing. Many people say, "I am much younger than my mother or my father was at my age." No one says, "Act your age" any more. We"ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways. | 1. What is mainly talked about in the passage? (Within 12 words) _____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? We no longer feel astonished when older people behave as young people. _____________________________________________________________________________ 3. Fill in the blank with proper word to complete the sentence. (Within 6 words) _____________________________________________________________________________ 4. What does "Act your age" mean? _____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. _____________________________________________________________________________ |
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