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Today, innovations(创新) to make our lives more eco-friendly can be found everywhere. There are
energy-efficient automobiles, eco-friendly light bulbs, and clothes made by fashion designers using
sustainable(可持续的) environmental practices. Industries around the world have also begun to take a
serious look at how their operations affect the local and global environment.
The university of Colorado has been named one of the top green colleges and universities in the United States. This university was one of the first to start a student-led recycling program in the 1970s and today
supplies students with reusable shopping bags to use both on and off campus. The entire University of
Colorado also uses low flow water fixtures(设备) and has reduced water usage by 40 percent since 2002.
When it comes to going green, Warren Wilson College has been recognized in many places. The
Sierra Club and The Princeton Review have named the college as one of America"s greenest colleges and universities, while the school has also received the Outstanding College Recycling Award from the
Carolina Recycling Association, as well as awards from the Association for the Advancement of
Sustainability in Higher Education(AASHE). For a small college, Warren Wilson has made enormous
efforts to be an eco-friendly campus since its beginning, and today owns a campus farm, a seeding
program, and an extensive recycling program. Warren Wilson was also the first College to have an LEED platinum certified(白金认证的) residence hall, and its building services department is also 100 percent
GreenSeal certified. According to College Stats, Warren Wilson College is one of the first institutions in the United States to be almost completely self-sufficient(自给自足的) while also engaging students to
incorporate sustainability into all academic programs.
Going green efforts at Oberlin College have not gone unnoticed. Oberlin College spends 22 percent of
its food budget on buying food from local farmers, with most of the food raised or harvested with organic
and sustainable practices. Oberlin has also stopped selling bottled water on campus and offers discounts to students who use their own storage containers when purchasing beverages and food items. Among
Oberlin"s other eco-friendly accomplishments is a green graduation ceremony, which includes programs
printed on 100 percent recycled paper.
1.The author writes the first paragraph mainly to tell us that ____.
A. we can find new ways to be eco-friendly
B. everyone is aware of being eco-friendly
C. industries are reducing their influence on the environment
D. American colleges and universities care much about environmental issues
2.What do we know about the University of Colorado?
A. Its recycling program is followed by other universities.
B. It produces reusable shopping bags by itself.
C. It uses special systems to save water.
D. It is the most eco-friendly university.
3.Which of the following about Warren Wilson College is TRUE?
A. The Princeton Review praised it for its teaching methods.
B. Its residence hall"s building material is platinum.
C. It owns a campus garden and a seeding program.
D. It sustains itself almost without help from others.
4.Students in Oberlin College can _____.
A. grow their own food on campus
B. pay less with their own containers
C. help the college make its food budget
D. recycle paper at their graduation ceremony
5.How is the text organized?
A. Main idea - Comparison.
B. Opinion - Discussion - Description
C. Introduction - Supporting examples.
D. Introduction - Explanation - Conclusion.
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question I get asked the most is "Will the kids be alright?" It"s made me realize that we tend to look at the
glass half-empty rather than half-filled when it comes to mixing work and family. We forget about all the
benefits that we bring to our children when we work - and I"m not talking about the obvious financial
benefits, although these of course shouldn"t be taken for granted.
About a year ago I remember getting a call from the school just as I was pulling up to the house after
having driven 20 minutes to the school and 20 minutes back. "Mrs. Brown Quinn, your son asked us to
call. He forgot his sports clothes. Can you come back to the school and drop them off?" I was exasperated(恼火)! I had already spent 40 minutes in aggressive weekday morning traffic. I replied, "Sorry, I"m
working at the moment. I"m afraid my son needs to learn to be organized."
Being a good parent requires delivering tough love sometimes. Kids need to learn to be independent.
It can be a cruel and competitive world out there. Seeking interests, including business, outside of your
kids, can give you that extra idea that you need not care for your kids with attention. This benefit of
working isn"t always immediately evident.
It wasn"t until our daughter went away to college that she realized why we had raised her in the way
that we did. "Mom, I can"t believe how so many of my friends struggle to manage things on their own.
They are constantly calling their parents for help." You"ll love that moment! After all those years of
complaining about why you don"t do this or why you don"t give them that, your kids realize that tough
love has made them better people.
1. The author refused to drop off her son"s sports clothes because ______.
A. she was caught in heavy traffic
B. she was busy working
C. she thought her son was lying
D. she wanted her son to be organized
2. How can kids become better people according to the author?
A. By giving them all your attention.
B. By giving them freedom to do things on their own.
C. By showing them your deep love.
D. By giving them tough love.
3. The daughter"s attitude towards the author is ______ when she grows up.
A. surprised
B. caring
C. understanding
D. disappointed
4. The purpose of the author is to ______.
A. throw light on a special benefit of working
B. advise us to mix work and family
C. argue for working mothers
D. describe her own experience in raising children
March, a professor at Stanford University and a pioneer in the field of organizational decision making.For
years March (possibly the wisest philosopher of management) has studied how humans think and act, and he continues to do so in his new book The Ambiguities of Experience.
He begins by reminding us of just how firmly we have been sticking to the idea of experiential learning: "Experience is respected; experience is sought; experience is explained." The problem is that learning from experience involves (涉及) serious complications(复杂化), ones that are part of the nature of experience
itself and which March discusses in the body of this book.
In one interesting part of the book,for example, he turns a doubtful eye toward the use of stories as
the most effective way of experiential learning.In our efforts to make stories interesting, he argues, we lose part of the complicated truth of things.He says "The more accurately(精确地) reality is presented, the less understandable the story, and the more understandable the story, the less realistic it is."
Besides being a broadly knowledgeable researcher, March is also a poet, and his gift shines through in
the depth of views he offers and the simple language he uses.Though the book is short, it is demanding:
Don"
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experience in work and life.
1. According to the text, James March is _____.
A. a poet who uses experience in his writing
B. a teacher who teaches story writing in university
C. a researcher who studies the way humans think and act
D. a professor who helps organizations make important decisions
2. According to James March, experience _____.
A. is overvalued
B. is easy to explain
C. should be actively sought
D. should be highly respected
3. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. Experience makes stories more accurate.
B. Stories made interesting fail to full
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C. The use of stories is the best way of experiential learning.
D. Stories are easier to understand when reality is more accurately described.
4. What"s the purpose of this text?
A. To introduce a book.
B. To describe a researcher.
C. To explain
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D. To discuss organizational decision making.
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mild,many animals are still hibernating(冬眠). It"s too bad that humans can"t hibernate.In fact, as a
species, we almost did.
Apparently, at times in the past, peasants in France liked a semistate of human hibernation.So writes
Graham Robb, a British scholar who has studied the sleeping habits of the French peasants.As soon as the weather turned cold, people all over France shut themselves away and practiced the forgotten art of doing nothing at all for months on end.
In line with this, Jeff Warren, a producer at CBC Radio"s The Current, tells us that the way we sleep
has changed fundamentally since the invention of artificial (人造的 )lighting and the electric bulb.
When historians began studying texts of the Middle Ages, they noticed something referred to as “first
sleep”, which was not clarified, though.Now scientists are telling us our ancestors most likely slept in
separate periods.The business of eight hours" uninterrupted sleep is a modern invention.
In the past, without the artificial light of the city to bathe in, humans went to sleep when it became dark and then woke themselves around midnight.The late night period was known as “The Watch”. It was
when people actually kept watch against wild animals, although many of them simply moved around or
visited family and neighbours.
According to some sleep researchers, a short period of insomnia(失眠)at midnight is not a disorder.It
is normal.Humans can experience another state of consciousness around their sleeping, which occurs in the brief period before we fall asleep or wake ourselves in the morning.This period can be an extraordinarily
creative time for some people.The impressive inventor, Thomas Edison, used this state to hit upon many of his new ideas.
Playing with your sleep rhythms can be adventurous, as anxiety may set in.Medical science doesn"t help much in this case.It offers us medicines for a full night"s continuous sleep, which sounds natural; however,
according to Warren"s theory, it is really the opposite of what we need.
1.The example of the French peasants shows the fact that_____ .
A.people might become lazy as a result of too much sleep
B.there were signs of hibernation in human sleeping habits
C.people tended to sleep more peacefully in cold weather
D.winter was a season for people to sleep for months on end
2.The late night was called “The Watch” because it was a time for people_____.
A.to set traps to catch animals
B.to wake up their family and neighbours
C.to remind others of the time
D.to guard against possible dangers
3.What does the author advise people to do?
A.Sle
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B.Consult a doctor if they can"t sleep.
C.Follow their natural sleep rhythm.
D.Keep to the eighthour sleep pattern.
4.What is the author"s purpose in writing the passage?
A.To give a prescription for insomnia.
B.To urge people to sleep less.
C.To analyze the sleep pattern of modern people.
D.To throw new light on human sleep.
city i
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Set to open in 2013,the£188m LoB is already beginning to take shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment.
As digital media(媒介) is important to its_idea,_the project is already providing chances for some of
the many small new local compani
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Brian Gambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning:"The
aim is to mix the physical wi
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different ways.It is important to enable us to reach more people,more effectively."
The digital library will, he say
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services, making sure that it is never closed to the public.
Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual (虚拟的)
LoB, designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual worlds specialists.Not only have the public been able
to learn about the LoB, but the virtual one
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building and how it will work before it even opens.
Two other small Birminghambased digital compa
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a digital design company, is developing what it calls an example of an "enlarged reality" project.It is about
the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the LoB which is in the early stages of
development.And The People"s Archive is an online library of historical figures of the city being built up
by a digital content company in Cahoot
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the material.
Gambles says:"Technology will enable us to make the library"s content and services open to citizens
as never before."
1. The underlined part "its idea" in Paragraph 3 refers to the idea of ________.
A. the equipment
B. the project
C. the digital media
D. the physical library
2. While visiting the Virtual LoB the public can ________.
A. get a general idea of the LoB
B. meet many world
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C. learn how to put up a library building
D. understand how the specialists work on the project
3. Which of the following is true of the LoB when it opens?
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A. a,b,d
B. a,c,e
C. b,c,d
D. b,d,e
4. The text is most probably taken from ________.
A. a computer book
B. a library guide
C. a project handbook
D. a newspaper report
Architects have long had the feeling that the places we live in can affect our thoughts, feelings and
behaviors.But now scientists are giving this feeling an empirical (经验的,实证的) basis.They are
discovering how to design spaces that promote creativity, keep people focused, and lead to relaxation.
Researches show that aspects of the physical environment can influence creativity.In 2007, Joan
MeyersLevy at the University of Minnesota, reported that the height of a room"s ceiling affects how
people think.Her research indicates that higher ceilings encourage people to think more freely, which may
lead them to make more abstract connections.Low ceilings, on the other hand, may inspire a more detailed outlook.
In addition to ceiling height, the view afforded by a building may influence an occupant"s ability to concentrate.Nancy Wells and her colleagues at Cornell University found in their study that kids who experienced the greatest increase in greenness as a result of a family move made the most gains on a standard test of
attention.
Using nature to improve focus of attention ought to pay off academically, and it seems to, according to a study led by C. Kenneth Tanner, head of the School Design & Planning Laboratory at the University of Georgia.Tanner and his team found that students in classrooms with unblocked views of at least 50 feet
outside the window had higher scores on tests of vocabulary, language arts and maths than did students
whose classrooms primarily overlooked roads and parking lots.
Recent study on room lighting design suggests that dim (暗淡的) light helps people to loosen up.If that
is true generally, keeping the light low during dinner or at parties could increase relaxation.Researchers of Harvard Medical School also discovered that furniture with rounded edges could help visitors relax.
So far scientists have focused mainly on public buildings."We have a very l
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so we"re_almost_looking_ at_the_problem_through_a_straw_(吸管),"architect David Allison says."How do you take answers to very specific questions and make broad, generalized use of them? That"s what
we"re all struggling with."
1. What does Joan MeyersLevy focus on in her research?
A. Light.
B. Ceilings.
C. Windows.
D. Furniture.
2. The passage tells us that ________.
A. the shape of furniture may affect people"s feelings
B. lower ceilings may help improve students" creativity
C. children in a dim classroom may improve their grades
D. students in rooms with unblocked views may feel relaxed
3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that ________.
A. the problem is not approached step by step
B. the researches so far have faults in themselves
C. the problem is too difficult for researchers to detect
D. research
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4. Which of the following shows the organization of the passage?
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CP:Central PointP:PointSp:Subpoint (次要点)C:Conclusion
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