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A 7.0 magnitude(级)earthquake killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Then an 8.8 magnitude quake killed more than 900 people in Chile. And few weeks later, a 6.0 magnitude quake struck rural eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people.
The earthquakes kept coming hard and fast. 1 It’s not. The problem is what’s happening above ground, not underground, experts say.
2 They’re rapidly putting up buildings that can’t stand up to earth quakes, scientists believe.
And news reports and better earthquake monitoring make it seem as if earth quakes are increasing all the time.
On average, there are 134 earthquakes a year that have a magnitude between 6.0 and 6.9. So far this year there have been 40 earthquakes—more than in most years for that time period. But that’s because the 8.8 quake in Chile caused a large number of strong aftershocks.
Also, it’s not the number of quakes, but their destructive effects that gain attention. The death is largely due to building standards, 3 Paul Earle, a US seismologist, called for better building standards in the world’s big cities.
Of the 130 cities worldwide with populations of more than I million, more than half are likely to be hit by earthquakes. 4 “If you have a problem feeding yourself, you’re not really going to worry about earthquakes,” said Paul.
The earthquakes made everyone start to think 5 “People are paying attention to the violent planet we’re always lived on. Come back an another six moths if there has been no earthquakes, most people will have forgotten it again,” said US disaster researcher Dennis Mileti.
A.But it won’t last. B.More people are moving into big cities. C.Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do. D.There have been more deaths overt the past decade from earthquakes. E.Many people began to wonder if something terrible is happening underground. F.While it seems as if the are more earthquakes occurring, there really aren’t. G.But developing nations with growing populations don’t pay attention to earthquake preparedness. |
答案
小题1:E
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:G
小题5:A
解析
小题1:根据后面的It"s not。可知,此处应当是一个关于地震方面的问题。故选择E,人们在问是否地下出了什么严重的问题
小题2:根据They’re rapidly putting up buildings that can’t stand up to earth quakes可知,此处的they指的是人,对应的就是B选项中的涌入城市的人们。
小题3:根据 The death is largely due to building standards可知,地震中死亡的人是由于建筑物的原因,对应的是C中的buildings do。
小题4:根据If you have a problem feeding yourself, you’re not really going to worry about earthquakes可知,如果温饱问题没有解决,他们不会考虑地震问题,对应的G中的发展中国家不注意地震的预防。
小题5:根据Come back an another six moths if there has been no earthquakes, most people will have forgotten it again可知,人们经常忘记地震这个教训,所以选择A,人们对地震的思考不会持续(很久)
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试题【A 7.0 magnitude(级)earthquake killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Then an 8】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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A.Word Power |
B.Word Smart Junior |
C.Grammar Smart Junior |
D.Grammar Smart: An Audio Guide to Perfect Usage |
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Some people are pessimistic(悲观的)when they think about the future. They say that, a hundred years from now, we will have used up most of the earths resources. We will have made our seas so dirty that we will not be able to eat fish from them. There will be so many people in the world that we will have to use all the countryside for housing; there will be no farmland left.
Other people have a different idea about the future. In their view, the city of the future will be a huge pyramid-shaped(金字塔形的) building, which will be floating on the surface of the sea. About 5,000 families will live there, and there will also be schools, shops in it.
In a hundred years’ time, people will not need to use oil. They will heat their homes with power from the sun.
Think of space. Perhaps a station will be set up on the moon; people will be able to visit the moon as tourists. They may even spend their holidays in space, travelling from planet to planet.
What an interesting picture!
Many people don"t think about the future. “I don"t care. I’ll be dead. ”they say. But it is our duty to care because the world of a hundred years’ time will be the world of our children’s and their children after them.
小题1:How many viewpoints are discussed here about the future?
A.Two | B.Three | C.Four | D.Five |
A.have to use power from the sea |
B.have to live on the moon |
C.be able to grow food on the sea |
D.find it difficult to live on the earth |
A.On the moon | B.On the sea | C.In pyramids | D.On other planets |
A.with those who look at the bright side of the future |
B.with those who take a pessimistic view about the future |
C.with those who won’t trouble their heads about the future |
D.to none of these viewpoints |
Enter a typical high school, and the first thing you see is the front office, where the principal dwells and grades are stored. The front office also reinforces familiar hierarchy(等级制度): principal at the top, teachers in the middle, kids on the bottom, sitting with hands folded at their desks.
Now, imagine a school where the organizational structure is completely flat. At the New Country School in Henderson, Minn, there is no front office. Visitors are immediately embraced by an airy atrium that is the centerpiece of this one-room schoolhouse. And all around the room, 124 students sit at desks — real office desks — working at their own personal computers on their own projects.
When Dee Thomas and her colleagues got together 15 years ago to design a new high school, they knew there was one thing that had to go: The bell. "You don"t go into your job in the morning and say, "OK, for the first 45 minutes of my job, I"m going to do the math part." And then a bell goes off, and you do the social history part of your job. You don"t do that," Thomas said.
There are no teachers at New Country. Every few weeks, students must present projects they"ve been working on to the rest of the school community. To prepare for their presentations, they gather at tables in the middle of the school atrium and present their work to their "advisers."
Kids at New Country test better than their peers on the state tests and on the pre-college ACT. The school sends 90 percent of its graduates to college. But that doesn"t tell the whole story. New Country struggles to keep its seniors from leaving. The school"s senior project is demanding — 300 hours of work.
But for some students, New Country offers a rare alternative, a choice they can"t find anywhere else. And the school is constantly visited by educators from around the world looking for new ideas. That"s the foundation of efforts to reform American high schools today — that there"s a need to experiment with an institution that is failing millions of students
小题1:The author mentioned the typical high school in the first paragraph ___________.
A. to tell us what the typical high school is like in USA.
B. to present a sharp contrast with the experimental school, New Country.
C. to introduce the topic, New Country, of the passage.
D. to call on students to register in the typical high school
小题2:The following statements about New Country are all true except________.
A.New Country students sit in an open environment that looks a lot like a typical office. |
B.Students consult with "advisers", who "teach" in the traditional sense. |
C.No bells in New Country, students choose how to spend their time. |
D.No traditional classes, students work on projects they select themselves. |
A.high test scores | B.alternative |
C.comfortable conditions | D.teaching methods |
A.experimental school gets rid of classes and teachers. |
B.typical high school and experimental School. |
C.new schools in future in America. |
D.education reform in America. |
These days everyone is worried about the size of their carbon footprint. In order to reduce global warming we need to make our carbon footprints smaller. But how much CO2 are we responsible for?
A new book by Mike Berners Lee, an expert, might be able to help. The carbon footprint looks at the different things we do and buy, and calculates the amount of CO2 all of the following created: the ingredients, the electricity, the equipment, the travel and commuting of the beer, and the packaging. It’s amazing how many different things need to be included in each calculation. And it’s frightening how much carbon dioxide everything produces.
This can help us decide which beer to drink. From Berners Lee’s calculations, it’s clear that a pint (568ml) of locally brewed beer has a smaller carbon footprint than a bottle of imported beer. This is because the imported beer has been transported from far away, and it uses more packaging. The local beer only produces 300g of CO2, but the imported beer produces 900g! So, one pint of local beer is better for the environment.
Berners Lee has even calculated the carbon footprint of cycling to work. Nothing is more environmentally friendly than riding a bike, surely? Well, it depends on what you’ve had to eat before. To ride a bike we need energy and for energy we need food. So if we eat a banana and then ride a kilometer, our footprint is 65g of CO2. However, if we eat bacon before the ride, it’s 200g. In fact, bananas are good because they don’t need packaging, they can be transported by boat and they grow in natural sunlight.
So, does this mean that cycling is bad for the environment? Absolutely not, for a start, if you cycle, you don’t use your car, and the fewer cars on the road, the fewer traffic jams. And cars in traffic jams produce three times more CO2 than cars traveling at speed. Cycling also makes you healthy and less likely to go to hospital. So maybe it’s time for us all to start making some changes. Pass me a banana and a pint of local beer, please.
小题1:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Everything produces carbon dioxide equally. |
B.The imported beer is much better than the local beer in quality. |
C.Actually bananas are good in general because they produce less CO2. |
D.To make our carbon footprints smaller, we should often drink more beer. |
A.make | B.put | C.look after | D.take place |
A.To tell the differences among bikes, beer and bananas. |
B.To call on us to take action to make carbon footprint smaller. |
C.To introduce what CO2 really is in our life. |
D.To remind us to start healthy eating habits. |
A.In a science fiction story. | B.In a newspaper advertisement. |
C.In a science research report. | D.In a travel magazine. |
Many people consider their pets members of the family and are very sad when they die, but what if you could clone your dog, cat or bird?
A scientist in New Orleans, who has proved his ability to clone other animals, is now offering the possibility to pet owners here in Wisconsin.
Scientists have not been able to clone dogs, cats or other pets, but if and when the time comes, several companies will be ready and able to do the job.
The question is: Are you ready to clone your pet? Brett Reggio is betting on it.He is working on his Ph. D at Louisian State University. He"s successfully cloned a goat five times and wants to try the process on family pets. So he started a business called Lazaron. “What Lazaron provides is the first step in the cloning process. ”He said.“It’s for curing and storing the fiberglass cells that will be used for cloning.”
“Your first reaction is yeah! I think I’d like that.” said Donna Schacht, a pet owner.
“I don’t believe you can ever replace a special love,” pet owner Paulette Callattion said.
Most pet owners will tell you freezing your pet’s DNA in hopes of one day cloning it is a personal decision.
Scientists say that cloning your own pet doesn’t mean that the offspring(后代) will have the same intelligence, temperament(性情) or other qualities that your pet has.
小题1:From the passage we know that scientists have ______.
A.tried to clone animals |
B.cloned many kinds of animals |
C.been able to clone pets for people |
D.once cloned goats successfully |
A.clone pets for people |
B.store the DAN of people’s pets for cloning one day |
C.make pets members of a family |
D.collect different ideas on cloning from people |
A.they think it would be too expensive |
B.they don’t think scientists will one day be able to clone their pets |
C.they think the cloned pet would not be the one they once had |
D.they don’t want to give any love to the cloned pet |
A.looked different from the pet you once had |
B.turned out to be another kind of animal |
C.had a different character |
D.were just the same pet your once had |
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