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This seems like a simple question and there are plenty of reasons we choose plastic: easier to carry, lighter than paper bags, possibly less damaging to the environment, less expensive to the shop owners, able to be used as trash bag, and so on. There are different opinions on plastic and paper. Now let’s follow the travels of 3 plastic bags. It begins at the grocery store with the customer’s choice.
Plastic Bag 1: As the waste engineer come by and pick up the trash, the first plastic bag falls out. It sits on a small street for a couple of hours until a car comes along and takes it down to the road. Then a gust of wind blows it across the road, then another car, then another gust of wind finally makes its way to the beach. Water fills the plastic bag and makes it look like a jellyfish. A seal(海豹) swims by, thinking it looks very interesting, and swallowed it. The plastic bag may stay in the seal’s stomach for months, maybe years. You see, our lovely animals have been living thousands of years in a world where everything can be eaten.
Plastic Bag 2: This bag does make its way to landfill(垃圾场). Before they have a chance to cover up the thousands of pounds of daily waste, a strong wind comes up and blows these plastic bags out of the landfill. Once the wind stops, workers will be sent to collect thousands of bags around. But they can’t possibly get them all. So our little bag continues his adventure getting caught in trees, eaten by birds or making its way to our lakes or rivers.
Plastic Bag 3: The last bag also blows away but is caught in a landfill where it sits for many years, as all the trash is wrapped in a big plastic bag, making natural degradation(降解) impossible. Although workers do much work to make sure water and air system won’t be polluted, some do. Guess what, plastic bags are made from petrol, a harmful waste material, which in one way or another makes its way to the environment.
Another problem with putting plastic bags in out trash is that our landfills for most cities may be filled in about 20 years. More importantly, since we are running out of land to build homes, you might have the pleasure of one day living on top of your plastic bags!
One of the best suggestions is not to use a bag at all or bring your own cloth bags. If you must, please choose paper bags, which, though not suggested, can be eaten by animals. And there are more opportunities recycle paper bags. It does take a little extra effort. But please have a thought about the little seal next time you say, “Plastic please.”
小题1:According to the passage, what is NOT the reason for a customer to choose plastic bags?
A.He can use plastic bags to carry trash later. |
B.He finds paper bags heavier than plastic bags. |
C.He finds plastic bags more convenient to carry. |
D.He can save money for plastic bags are cheaper. |
A.seals like eating plastic bags around them. |
B.seals really have a good stomach. |
C.seals are potential victims of plastic bags. |
D.seals are not able to differ plastic from food. |
A.still does harm to the environment |
B.can hardly be harmful to the environment |
C.is much safer than Plastic Bag2 |
D.will end up being eaten by seals or some fish |
A.Suggestions on reducing harm of plastic bags. |
B.Disadvantages of using too many plastic bags. |
C.Persuading people into using paper bags. |
D.Other potential victims of plastic bags. |
A.Excited | B.Serious | C.Ironical | D.Casual |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:A
小题5:C
解析
试题分析:文章大意:本文是一篇议论文。通过对三个塑料袋的不同命运结局的描述,说明了塑料袋对人类环境和自然界动物的影响,呼吁人们要注重这种白色垃圾,减少白色污染。
小题1:D细节题。从文章第一段“ there are plenty of reasons we choose plastic: easier to carry, lighter than paper bags, possibly less damaging to the environment, less expensive to the shop owners, able to be used as trash bag, and so on.”可知,使用塑料袋是对店主来说要便宜,而不是顾客。所以D选项正确。
小题2:C 推理判断题。第三段“You see, our lovely animals have been living thousands of years in a world where everything can be eaten. ”作者用貌似很轻松幽默的语言表达了一个很严肃的话题。塑料被吃到肚子中,当然不会有好处的,所以C选项正确。
小题3:A细节题。从文章第五段“ Although workers do much work to make sure water and air system won’t be polluted, some do. Guess what, plastic bags are made from petrol, a harmful waste material, which in one way or another makes its way to the environment.”可知,塑料是由一种有害材料制成的,被埋到地下后仍然会对环境有害,所以A选项正确。
小题4:A 推理判断题。从文章最后一段“One of the best suggestions is not to use a bag at all or bring your own cloth bags. ”“And there are more opportunities recycle paper bags.”可知说完塑料袋的危害后,作者又提到了一些建议,所以接下一段应该是和建议有关的,故A选项正确。
小题5:C 推理判断题。文章整篇是用反语讽刺的语调写的。如第三段末尾“You see, our lovely animals have been living thousands of years in a world where everything can be eaten. ”和第四段末尾“So our little bag continues his adventure getting caught in trees, eaten by birds or making its way to our lakes or rivers.”所以C选项正确。
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试题【 You’ve bought what you need. The grocery cashier asks, “Will that be paper or p】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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According to one story, a sheepherder named Kaldi, as he tended his sheep, noticed the effect of coffee beans. He noticed that the sheep became excited after eating the red “cherries" from a certain plant when they changed pastures (牧场). He tried it himself, and was soon as overactive as his sheep. Another story relates that a monk happened to discover that this fruit from the shiny green plant could help him stay awake.
Another legend gives us the name for coffee, “mocha”. Omar, an Arabian was thrown to the desert with his followers to die of starvation. In desperation, Omar had his friends boil and eat the fruit from an unknown plant. Not only did the soup save the group, but the residents of the nearest town, Mocha, took their survival as a religious sign. The plant and its beverage (饮料) were named Mocha to honor this event.
Coffee was introduced much later to countries beyond Arabia, whose inhabitants believed it to be a tasty thing and guarded its secret as if they were top secret military plans. The government forbade transportation of the plant out of the Moslem nations. The actual spread of coffee was started illegally. One Arab named Baba Budan smuggled (走私) beans to some mountains near Mysore, India, and started a farm there. Early in this century, some of those original plants were found still growing fruitfully in the region.
Coffee today is grown and enjoyed worldwide, and is one of the few crops that small farmers in third-world countries can profitably export.
小题1:What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?
A.A sheepherder used coffee beans to keep sheep excited. |
B.Coffee was a special kind of red cherry from a certain plant. |
C.A sheepherder and a monk accidently discovered coffee’s effect. |
D.Sheep ate a lot of coffee beans while they changed pastures. |
A.Kaldi’s story. | B.The monk’s story. |
C.Omar’s story. | D.Baba Budan’s story. |
A.a town | B.an Arabian | C.a kind of coffee | D.a sheepherder |
A.The Secret of Coffee | B.The Tales of Coffee |
C.People’s Love for Coffee | D.The Function of Coffee |
Americans drink far more sodas than people in other countries— as much as 170 liters per person per year. But the impact of this study isn’t limited to the United States. “Sweetened drinks, coffee and tea are commonly consumed worldwide and have important physical consequences. And they may have important mental-health consequences as well,” study author Dr Honglei Chen said in a statement.
The study studied 263,925 people between the ages of 50 and 71. Researchers followed their consumption of drinks like soda, tea coffee, and other soft drinks from 1995 to 1996 and then. 10 years later, asked them if they had been diagnosed with depression since the year 2000. More than 11,3000 of them had.
Participants who drank more than four servings of sodas per day were 30 percent more likely to develop depression than participants who did not drink sodas at all. People who stuck with fruit punch(鸡尾酒), had a 38 percent higher risk than people who didn’t drink sweetened drinks. And all that extra sugar isn’t the actual problem. Researchers say that the artificial sweetener aspartame may be to blame.
The study found a link but could not surely determine whether sodas and other sweet soft drinks cause depression. Still, the results “are consistent with a small but growing body of evidence suggesting that artificially sweetened beverages may be linked to poor health outcomes.”
But there’s a bright side for those who can’t live without their daily sodas. Adults who drank coffee had a 10 percent lower risk of depression compared to people who didn’t drink any coffee, according to the study. “Our research suggests that cutting out or down on sweetened diet drinks or replacing them with unsweetened coffee may naturally help lower your depression risk,” said Chen.
小题1:What has the new study of more than 260,000 people found?
A.Sugary sodas aren’t good for the physical health of old people. |
B.Americans have a special tooth for sweet foods. |
C.Sweetened soft-drinks may increase the risk of depression. |
D.Sweetened soft-drinks have important physical consequences. |
A.About twenty-six thousand people participated in it. |
B.The oldest participants were below 80 when the study was over. |
C.Most of the participants had depression when the study was over. |
D.The study lasted more than ten years from the beginning to the end. |
A.can reduce the harm of sweetened drinks |
B.is used to reduce the risk of depression |
C.is mainly used to make fruit punch |
D.is used to make something .sweet |
A.more research is needed to confirm the new findings |
B.the new findings aren’t consistent with any previous findings |
C.cutting one’s sodas intake will surely reduce one’s depression |
D.the new findings won’t have an impact on people’s drinking habits |
A.Sodas. |
B.Unsweetened coffee. |
C.Sugary coffee. |
D.Fruit punch. |
Another day begins with the call of the phone’s alarm, Where are you? Open your eyes. Turn the alarm off and you will start working out on your apps(应用软件).First stop, weather: Sunny day. Look outside the window. Oh, no, it isn’t. Second stop, Air Quality Index: 344, dangerous, Level 6 Severely Polluted. Mental recheck required: It really is a sunny day and the weather app isn’t lying or in need of being replaced, it’s just that you can’t see the sun through the thick fog. Note to self: Cycling to work is out, face mask is in.
Has the world stopped turning? News app merely confirms that it’s business as usual. Another government has fallen, your soccer team has lost again, and China’s economy is still increasing steadily.
Diary app informs you of all the things you failed to do the previous day and loads you up with another half-dozen tasks. Next, browse a couple of social networking apps to determine the status updates of friends.
Another sound from the phone, it’s a message from your significant friend who is already at work, saying the Taobao. com order for Italian cheese is about to arrive.
Apps have become part of our “every-moment” lives. Apps provide so much information. But the dark side to all this connectivity would be lack of privacy, being a slave to the app. The only real problem is that once you lose your smartphone, you lose your life.
Some friends and family do not have smartphones, but prefer the old-fashioned Nokia that merely makes phone calls and sends instant messages. While I respect their purity and desire to be free of the control of technology, it’s obvious they are outsiders, and their lives are loaded up with paper and old devices. They’re still buying books at stores, complaining the lack of CDs on the market, watching TV and missing out on complete news cycles. Though I would add, they have lives that aren’t spent inside small screens.
My phone is a palm-sized one-stop shop and about the only thing it doesn’t do is teleport(心灵运输). What’s not to like?
小题1:The functions of apps mentioned in the passage can be listed as follows EXCEPT that _______.
A.the apps can show you weather forecast |
B.the apps can tell you how to work directly |
C.the apps can inform you the latest news |
D.the apps can tell you what you failed to do |
A.people’s life is governed by apps |
B.people feel bored about the use of apps |
C.people can’t live without apps |
D.people hate apps with powerful functions |
A.more and more people like Nokia more than apps |
B.using Nokia can be free of the control of technology |
C.all people don’t like the advanced smartphones |
D.ordinary people don’t like shopping online |
Inspectors questioned 105 young people for a report on apprenticeships published on Wednesday. They found several examples of young people who felt they had been laughed at by their teachers for wanting to progress to work-based learning, particularly in care or hairdressing, rather than stay on at school.
Right or wrong, is it any surprise that this is happening? From 2014,the government will measure schools according to the rate of their pupils who go to university. Brian Lightman , general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, says the government has already put teachers under “very great pressure to focus on academic subjects”
On the other hand, the Education Act 2011,which came into force in November, places schools under a duty to give fair career advice to pupils. This advice must include information on all post-16 education and training choices, including apprenticeships. This doesn’t appear to be happening in several schools, according to Ofsted9S report. Many of the young people the inspectors talked to said the advice they had received on apprenticeships was “unsatisfactory”.
Schools were also blamed for lack of work experience courses, which are particularly important for teenagers considering an apprenticeship. They help students decide whether they enjoy a line of work and enable employers to see whether those on work experience have the potential to be hired as apprentices in future years.
But there is a good reason why they can’t do this: they’d be unable to adapt to GCSE (英国齊通中等教育证书)exams if they did. Sometimes, it seems, schools just can’t win.
小题1:Why do teachers oppose the students’ leaving school and working as apprentices?
A.The government urges teachers to concentrate on academic subjects. |
B.The students are only wasting time working as apprentices. |
C.Employers are under great pressure of taking GCSE exams. |
D.Employers don’t give students chances to work as apprentices |
A.Association of School and College Leaders |
B.Education Act 2011 |
C.GCSE exams |
D.OFSTED |
A.schools |
B.employers |
C.work experience courses |
D.teenagers considering an apprenticeship |
A.Surprising | B.Understandable |
C.Wrong | D.Right |
Lead researcher Brent Scott with other researchers studied a group of bus drivers for two weeks. They tried to find out what happened when the drivers were involved in “surface acting” or fake smiling, and the opposite, “deep acting” which means people put on real smiles by recalling pleasant memories or thinking about their current situation more positively.
The results showed that on days when drivers were forced to smile, they felt depressed and didn’t want to work. On days when they smiled due to positive thoughts, their mood improved a lot as well as their work efficiency.
The research goes against the popular belief among companies that employees should be cheerful to customers at all times. They include employees of shops, banks, call center workers and others who have face-to-face contact with members of the public. “Smiling for the sake of(为了) smiling can lead to emotional exhaustion and coldness, and that’s bad for the organization,” Scott told the Daily Mail.
The study also showed that women were harmed more by fake smiling than men. Their mood and work performance both worsened more. But they were helped more by deep acting — their mood became better and they worked more efficiently.
However, while deep acting seemed to improve mood in the short term, Scott says it’s not a long-term solution for unhappiness.
“There have been some suggestions that if you do this over a long period that you start to feel inauthentic(不真实的),” Scott said. “You may be trying to cultivate positive emotions, but at the end of the day you may not feel like yourself anymore.”
小题1:Brent Scott and others’ experiments on bus drivers suggest that ______.
A.depression among bus drivers is common |
B.thinking in a positive way helps with work efficiency |
C.bus drivers with pleasant memories tend to be less efficient |
D.the bus drivers’ work efficiency is determined by their mood |
A.It is good for the business but bad for the employees. |
B.It doesn’t work on people who are emotionally expressive. |
C.It is a widely accepted cultural practice in the US. |
D.It causes more harm to women than men. |
A.people should be true to their feelings |
B.smiling helps to put people in a good mood and become more efficient |
C.it is unnecessary to cultivate positive emotions |
D.deep acting can improve mood in the long run |
A.the importance of smiling during face-to-face contact |
B.a new study on fake smiling and its influence on people |
C.suggestions on improving work efficiency |
D.how to cheer up when you are exhausted |
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