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on getting better．" Ridley"s critics have accused him of his views on climate change and the free market．Yet Ridley,54,sticks to his guns．"It is not mad to believe in a happy future for people and the planet．
"he says．Ridley,who"s been a foreign correspondent,a zoologist,an economist,and a financier,brings a
broad view to his sunny outlook．"People say I"m bonkers to claim the world will go on getting better.
yet I can"t stop myself,"he says．Read on to see how Ridley makes his case．
Compared with 50 years ago,when I was just four years old,the average human
now earns nearly three times as much money,eats one third more calories,and can expect to live one third longer．In fact,
it"s hard to find any region of the world that"s worse off now than it was then,even though the global
population has more than doubled over that period．
City citizens take up less space,use less energy,and have less impact on natural ecosystems than
country livers．The world"s cities now contain over half its people,but they occupy less than 3 percent
of its land．Urban growth may worry environmentalism,but living in the country is not the best way to
care for the earth．The best thing we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers．
The rich get richer,but the poor do even better．Between 1980 and 2000,the poor doubled their
consumption．Nigerians are twice as rich and live nine more years．The percentage of the world"s
people living in absolute poverty has dropped by over half．The United Nations estimates that poverty
was reduced more in the past 50 years than in the previous 500．
B．proud
C．concerned
D．optimistic
B．earning more money,better food and living longer
C．spending more money,richer food and easy life
D．higher pay,various food
and active lifeB．all people should live in cities
C．living in the countryside causes trouble
D．tall buildings should be built in the country
B．poverty in the world nearly disappears
C．the percentage of the rich has dropped by over half
D．the rich get more benefit than the ordinary people
B．Calm Down!
C．Cheer Up!
D．Take Care!
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核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 "The world has never been a better place to live in,"says science writ】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the livingroom, my 12yearold son
looked up at me and said, "I__1__you." I did not__2__what to say, and I just stood there, looking__3__at him. My first__4__was that he__5__need help with his homework. Then I asked, "What was that all
__6__?"
"Nothing," he said, "My teacher said we should tell our parents we love them and__7__what they say."
The next day I called his teacher to__8__more about what my son said and how the other parents had
reacted( 反应). "Most of the fathers had the__9__response as you did," the teacher said, "When I first
__10__that we try this, I asked the children__11__they thought their parents__12__say. Some of them
thought their parents would have heart trouble."
Then the teacher__13__, " I want my students to know that feeling love is an important part of__14__. I"m trying to tell them it"s too bad that we don"t express our feelings. A boy__15__tell his father or mother
he loves him or her." The teacher understands that sometimes it is__16__for some of us to say something
that is good for us to say.
That evening when my son__17__to me, I took him in my arms and held on for an__18__moment,
saying, "Hey, I love you,__19__." I don"t know if saying that made__20__of us healthier, but it did feel
pretty good.
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A serious car crash leads one woman to rediscover her faith in human kindness. long wait in the emergency ward and__6__me to deal with the visible distress of my hospital visitors. | |||
| ( )1. A.caught ( )2. A.imagined ( )3. A.push ( )4. A.into ( )5. A.survived ( )6. A.advised ( )7. A.assist ( )8. A.stay ( )9. A.patient ( )10.A.make ( )11.A.claim ( )12.A.presenting ( )13.A.accident ( )14.A.hoped ( )15.A.held ( )16.A.puzzled ( )17.A.knowledge ( )18.A.progress ( )19.A.unforeseen ( )20.A.sympathy | B．trapped B．found B．force B．onto B．met B．forced B．leave B．visit B．performance B．offer B．consult B．showing B．incident B．prepared B．lent B．doubted B．belief B．pride B．happier B．strength | C．lost C．devoted C．get C．off C．beat C．ordered C．participate C．operation C．presence C．drink C．conclude C．giving C．event C．waited C．moved C．stopped C．power C．surprise C．strange C．kindness | D．involved D．dreamed D．turn D．on D．feared D．helped D．come D．appointment D．physician D．take D．check D．telling D．occasion D．watched D．waved D．listened D．privilege D．comfort D．extreme D．donation |
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| It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. "I"m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it," Deluca recalls saying. "Buck said, "you should open a sandwich shop."" That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn"t cover their startup costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000. But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, "After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial controls." All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs. Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. "We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, "We are so successful; we are opening a second store."" And they did-in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error. But the partners" learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and handdeliver the checks to pay their supplies. "It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn"t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out," Deluca says. And having a goal was also important. "There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal," Deluca adds. Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimilliondollar restaurant chain. | |||
| 1．Deluca opened the first sandwich shop in order to ________. | |||
| A．support his family B．pay for his college education C．help his partner expand business D．do some research | |||
| 2．Which of the following is true of Buck? | |||
| A．He put money into the sandwich business. B．He was a professor of business administration. C．He was studying at the University of Bridgeport. D．He rented a storefront for Deluca. | |||
| 3．What can we learn about their first shop? | |||
| A．It stood at an unfavorable place. B．It lowered the prices to poor management. C．It made no profits due to poor management. D．It lacked control over the quality of sandwich. | |||
| 4．They decided to open a second store because they ________. | |||
| A．had enough money to do it B．had succeeded in their business C．wished to meet the increasing demand of customers D．wanted to make believe(假装)that they were successful | |||
| 5．What contributes most to their success according to the author? | |||
| A．Learning by trial and error. B．Making friends with supplies. C．Finding a good partner. D．Opening chain stores. | |||
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| It"s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. That"s especially__1__of children who remain in homes where they"re badly treated__2__the law blindly favors biological parents. It"s also true of children who__3__for years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can"t or won"t care for them but__4__to give up custody (监护) rights. Fourteenyearold Kimberly Mays__5__neither description, but her recent court victory could__6__ help children who do. Kimberly has been the__7__of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge__8__that the teenager can remain with the only father she"s ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal__9__"on her. Shortly after__10__in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched and sent home with the__11__parents. Kimberly"s biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests__12__that the child wasn"t the Twiggs" own daughter, but Kimberly was, thus leading to a custody__13__with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families__14__that Mr. Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting__15__ rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being__16__. The decision to__17__Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made it clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉)__18__her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was__19__just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels(取消) all the__20__of children. | |||
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| Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street boy was 1 the shining car. “Is this your car, Paul?” he asked. Paul 2 , “My brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was astonished. “You mean your brother gave it to you and it cost you 3 ? Paul, I wish…” he hesitated. Of course Paul knew he was going to wish he had a 4 like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly. "I 5 ", the boy went on, "that I could 6 a brother like that."Paul looked at the boy 7 , then he said. "Would you like to take a ride in 8 car?" "Oh, yes. I’d love that." After a short 9 , the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said, “Paul, would you mind driving in front of my 10 ?” Paul smiled a little. He knew he wanted to show his 11 that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was 12 again. “Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked. He ran up to the steps. 13 in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was coming 14 . He was carrying his little brother disabled in one leg. He sat him down on the step and 15 the car. "There he is, Buddy, just like I told you 16 . His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And 17 I’m going to give you one just like it…, then you can see by yourself all the 18 things in the Christmas window that I’ve been trying to tell you about.” Paul got out and 19 the boy to the front seat of his car. The 20 older brother climbed in beside him. The three of them began an unforgettable holiday. | |||
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