Saki Kuroda, 24
Schoolteacher (Japanese nonsmoker)
Yes. It should be banned. Smoking is not only bad for the smoker"s health, but also for nonsmokers
through passive smoking. In public people should think about others.
Alex Wright, 23
Teacher (American nonsmoker)
I don"t smoke. However, I don"t really care if people smoke around me. Leave them alone. They have
the right, and let them be.
Masako Imai, 24
Phone engineer (Japanese smoker)
I smoke but I think it should be banned. I really want to give up and I think that if everywhere became
nonsmoking, it would make it much easier for me to do so.
Luke Collings, 35
Musician (British smoker)
I"m a smoker but am against others having to share my addiction. It"s only a matter of time before society
wakes up and realizes how addictive and destructive nicotine is.
Jenny Wilcox, 31
Civil servant (British smoker)
I smoke but I agree with a ban. It forces people, including me, to smoke less. I"m from London, and
although smokers were against the ban at first, it now feels totally normal.
Chris Kennedy, 23
Student (British nonsmoker)
Walking pasta smoking area, like the one by Hachiko, feels and smells absolutely awful. At least if smokers
could smoke anywhere, then it would be spread out.
C. Two.
D. Four.
B. Luke Collings
C. Saki Kuroda
D. Alex Wright
B. someone who smokes but agrees with a ban
C. a place near which there is an area for smokers
D. a legal smoking area which may spread out
groups are developing what they call the Human-Wildlife Confict, Mitigation (缓和) Toolkit-a collection of
advice and information that farmers in southern Africa have been testing. The main aim of the toolkit is to
provide low-cost methods to deal with wild animals without harming them.
In Zambia and Mozambique, crocodiles are blamed for more deaths than any other animal. Nile crocodiles
kill an estimated three hundred people each year in Mozambique alone. 2._____ Besides, people should always
enter the water several at a time, in groups armed with weapons like sticks and stones, axes and spears.
The toolkit also has ideas to control baboons. These large monkeys raid crops and they can kill sheep and
other livestock. One suggestion is to remove the center from a loaf of bread and hide a snake inside-a live one
if possible. Baboons have a fear of snakes, 3._____ A baboon frightened by a snake sandwich will probably
not come back.
Another animal with a good memory-the elephant-often destroys field crops. The loss of their crops means
the loss of a family"s food supply. 4._____ Famers can mix pepper powder with elephant waste and form
bricks. The idea is to burn these bricks around the edges of fields to keep elephants away. Farmers can also
grow fields of chili peppers. Another way to control elephants is with a plastic gun. It fires balls that burst and
release a chili liquid when they hit the elephant"s skin. 5._____
B. But the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is trying to help.
C. For example, some farmers in Kenya use donkeys to guard against lions.
D. And they also have very good memories.
E. Crocodile attacks are less likely in places that have not been overfished.
F. Strong fencing at watering points can offer protection.
G. Did you know elephants hate chili pepper?
thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use.
Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people"s. 2_____ They learn to
do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare their own performances with
those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes.
But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. 3_____
we act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it
unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says,
what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answer, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. 4_____
Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? 5_____ Let the children learn what all educated
people must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, and how to know what they know or
do not know.
B. Let him correct his own papers.
C. Point out his mistakes.
D. We do it all for him.
E. We allow him to learn from other children.
F. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time.
G. Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can"t find the way to get the right answer.
1 , as if he were above everybody else. You will find him in school, in college, at home, or 2 you work.
In school, he is teacher"s 3 , her favorite who can do nothing 4 . Sometimes she lets him do little jobs
for her. He comes to class in the morning, all shiny and clean. He is always raising his hand, 5 with answers
to the teacher"s questions. And he knows all the answers. He gets into your hair, especially if you are at the 6
of the class and the teacher thinks you are slow at learning things. How you 7 the guy!
At college, he walks across the school ground as if he 8 it. Sometimes he wears a colorful football or
basketball shirt or sweater, with a bright red, or green or yellow college letter 9 worn on the front of it. What
10 shoulders, what muscles he has! He 11 the girls happy by just smiling at them. He has the mark of 12
on him.
At home, "the fair-haired boy" is 13 choice. Sometimes, he is the oldest son- 14 , the youngest. If you are
in between, you are out of 15 .
Then, you discover that there are others who 16 your feelings, ready to tell you their private 17 . One of
them asks, "What does he have that I haven"t got?" You ask yourself the same question.
18 , there comes a day when you decide to stop hating him. Is it 19 because he has been made boss and
you 20 yourself working for him?
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American life before 1950 felt nothing like American life feels now, and a big reason is those three changes that took place in the second half of the 20th century, which has had the most lasting impact on our lives today. 1. The building of the interstates (州际公路). 2. The covering of the United States with coast-to-coast television. 3. The introduction and spread of the Internet. Before the interstates were constructed, even a trip within an individual state often took considerable planning; two-lane roads, dangerous and slow, were common. The interstates tore down the invisible walls around U. S. towns. President Eisenhower was in favor of building the interstates, because he believed that, in a time of war, they would be helpful in moving troops and supplies. But their immediate effect was to make Americans feel that certain doors had been unlocked. With the interstates came a sense of freedom: A person could drive anywhere- everywhere-easily. Suddenly, horizons were unlimited. "Local" didn"t mean quite the same thing it used to. Getting away was effortless. The introduction of national television meant that for the first time in history, people in every corner of the country were watching exactly the same thing at exactly the same moment. It connected the country, in a way that even network radio hadn"t accomplished, and it was because of the quality of the TV pictures. As with the interstates, coast-to-coast television was a cure to separation. Those who ran the newly formed television networks had an enormous amount of power. Their decisions about what to put on the air determined what people would be talking about the next day. They controlled what people would laugh at and when, what people would cry over and when, what would anger people and when it would anger them. And then, later in the century, the Internet came along, erasing all symbolic borders. If the interstate highways had allowed physical freedom, the Internet allowed a different kind of freedom, one unprecedented (空前的) in human experience. It was no coincidence that it was initially referred to as the information superhighway: Seemingly overnight, the knowledge of the world was available to anyone with a keyboard and a modem; people who had never met and would never meet could communicate as if they were lifelong friends. Now the individual at his or her computer terminal was given the power to decide how he or she would be informed or entertained at a given moment. No one else had the absolute authority to arrange the individual"s life; he or she made that decision, moment by moment. What in the past might have taken a person a lifetime- searching for mankind"s recorded wisdom in distant and magnificent libraries- now, in theory, was available with a series of key taps from one"s room. What had once seemed unbelievable had, very quickly, become routine. The three developments ended up changing our daily world greatly; largely because of them, it is a world that would be almost unrecognizable to our grandparents and great-grandparents. | |||
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If you and your friends wish to share a secret, you can write it in code (编码), and no one else will be | |||
1. The best title of this passage would be _______. | |||
A. Codes and Ciphers B. Differences between Codes and Ciphers C. History of Codes and Ciphers D. Inventors of Codes and Ciphers | |||
2. Which of the following statements is true? | |||
A. Ciphers can be broken or figured out more easily than codes. B. You could read some words in Geronimo"s letter without his trellis. C. The first person who ever used a cipher in history was Julius Caesar. D. Fondness of using codes was the hobby of the scientists in the 16th century. | |||
3. According to Geronimo Cardano, a trellis is _______. | |||
A. a piece of paper with many small holes B. a secret message with a lot of small holes C. a letter with unreadable words and sentences D. a sheet of paper with groups of Arabic figures | |||
4. It is NOT mentioned in the passage that codes and ciphers are used for the purpose of _______. | |||
A. military affairs B. commercial secrets C. scientific achievements D. personal enjoyment |