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25,000,000 children, half of all schoolchildren in the country. But these buses, on average, use four liters of
diesel (柴油) fuel to travel less than sixteen kilometers. When the school year began last fall, diesel averaged
55 cents a liter nationally. The price nearly doubled, to a dollar and 8 cents, by the end of school in June.
Bob Riley speaks for the American School Bus Council. He says fuel prices for schools are not much
lower than others have to pay. As a result, schools are looking for ways to reduce transportation costs. Bus
routes are being redrawn or, in some cases, canceled (取消). Some areas are buying buses that use natural
gas or other alternative fuels. Other steps include fewer field trips and less travel by sports teams. And some
school districts (地区) may end any bus service not required by law.
Studies show that school buses are the safest form of transportation to and from school. The American
School Bus Council says cuts in bus service are bad for children and possibly the environment. It says
removing buses from the road will mean an increase in other vehicles transporting students. Spokesman Bob
Riley says another concern is that reducing bus services might reduce attendance.
But it could also get more children to walk or bicycle to school. And that would surely make people happy
at the National Center for Safe Routes to School. More kids walking or biking safely to school is the aim of a
three-year-old federal program, part of an international movement. The goal is to increase physical activity and
reduce air pollution. The United States will celebrate Walk to School Day on October eighth this year. But for
some students, high fuel prices could make every day a walk-to-school day.
B. New measures to transport school students.
C. The safest form of student transportation.
D. The origin of Walk to School Day.
B. There are too many students in the US.
C. Diesel prices are going up too rapidly in the US.
D. School buses consume too much diesel in the US.
B. The US government is encouraging cuts in bus services.
C. The US schools are searching for the safest transportation means.
D. Reducing bus service will do a lot of good to the environment.
B. stopping some bus routes
C. asking parents to drive children to and from school
D. using other types of fuels
order to _____.
B. keep the children safe on their way to school
C. make the children live a simple life
D. keep the children healthy and the environment clean
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to a close.
When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was
expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation, but
nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before his 48th
birthday.
Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist, had had many conversations with him, and the more he learned, the
stranger he realized Jim"s case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered a heart attack and
stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework, promising to come
home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his father had died. Jim"s
father was 48.
"I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father," Dr. Smoller says. "He felt that if he had not asked him
to look at his homework, his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation was
the trial he had expected for forty years."Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48.
Jim"s case shows the powerful role that attitude plays in physical health, and that childhood experiences
produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct than Jim"s, studies
show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and
mental illness.
B. he expected a full recovery
C. his life was drawing to a close
D. the first one wasn"t well performed
B. Jim died on the operating table.
C. Both Jim and his father died of the same disease.
D. Jim"s death is closely connected with his father"s.
B. Smoller agreed that Jim did kill his father
C. Jim thought he would be punished some day
D. Smoller believed Jim wouldn"t live to the age of 48
a. One"s genes.
b. One"s life in childhood.
c. One"s physical education.
d. The date of one"s birthday.
e. The opinions one has about something.
B. a, b, e
C. a, c, e
D. b, c, d
B. Jim often asked his father to do his homework.
C. Jim was believed to kill his father.
D. Most childhood events can cause cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
greatly improved material well-being in several areas of life. In the field of medicine, cures for life threatening
diseases have enabled people to live longer. In communication, the telephone and e-mail have made it possible
for us to communicate with anyone in the world without leaving our homes or offices. Advances in
transportation allow businessmen to fly across the ocean in the morning and return home the same evening.
Space technology has put men on the moon. More efficient ways of using available resources, such as coal
and solar power, have been explored.
Scientific discoveries have also changed man"s moral atmosphere. Ethical (伦理的) issues are raised by
these discoveries. Should we keep a terminally ill person alive through drugs and machines or should we allow
him to die in dignity? With advances in transportation had come the problem of pollution for nearly every major
city in the world. If cities become uninhabitable, then such technical advances may come with too great a price
to pay. Many people also question the wisdom of sending men to the moon when there are urgent problems
that have not been solved on earth. During future years, increasing attention must be given to the moral as well
as the practical applications of science.
the passage?
B. communication and transportation
C. education
D. space technology
B. Scientific discoveries have only changed man"s material well-being.
C. Scientific discoveries have helped people find efficient ways of using available resources.
D. Men are sent to the moon because there are urgent problems that have not been solved on earth.
B. the practical applications of science
C. urgent problems on the earth
D. both A and B
B. Science and daily life
C. Advances in transportation
D. City pollution
threatening life on Earth, so we must make the changes. The good news is that many of those changes are
really quite simple, even enjoyable, but for every careful step we take as individuals, we must press
government and industry to take a big step on our benefit. And we must start now. Tomorrow"s too late.
My aim this year is to persuade as many of my friends and colleagues as possible to choose the train,
and leave their cars behind too. My gardens have been pesticide (***虫剂)-free zones for years and I enjoy
seeing more wildlife on my doorstep as a result; I"ve tried to reduce my contribution to water pollution too,
by using environment-friendly, phosphate (磷)-free washing powder, and by no longer thinking of the toilet
as a suitable waste-disposal (处理) point.
I ran after a young lady through town recently to give her back the piece of paper she had carelessly
thrown away. She disappeared into a shop, and when I followed her inside and made my presentation, she
was doubly embarrassed-she worked there, and the boss gave her a ticking-off too. I"ve started asking
fellow drivers at gas stations why they aren"t using unleaded (无铅的) petrol. These are small things, but
we have to start somewhere, and every little does help.
B. throwing away the old cars
C. avoiding the use of pesticides
D. running after those who throw articles carelessly
B. to give her back the piece of paper she had lost
C. to tell her not to throw away pieces of paper carelessly
D. to ask her to pay him for picking up the piece of paper.
B. a piece of paper
C. prize
D. ticket
B. inform us of the good news
C. make clear who is responsible for the environment
D. try to advise us all to protect our environment
Let"s see how…
A heart attack can happen to anyone. Let"s say it"s 4:17 p.m. and you"re driving home (alone of course)
after an unusually hard day on the job. Not only was the workload (工作负担) extremely heavy, you also had
a disagreement with your boss, and no matter how hard you tried, he just wouldn"t see your side of the situation.
You"re really upset and the more you think about it, the more nervous you become.
All of a sudden you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to spread out into your arm and
up into your jaw (下巴). You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home, unfortunately you
don"t know if you"ll be able to make it that far.
What can you do? You"ve been trained in CPR but the guy who taught the course didn"t tell you how to
perform it on yourself.
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seems in order. Without help the
person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint (晕眩的) has only about 10 seconds
left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very
powerfully. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and last long, as
when producing sputum (痰) from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every
two seconds without stopping until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep
breaths get oxygen into the lungs (肺) and coughing movements squeeze (挤压) the heart and keep the blood
circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm (节奏). In this way, heart attack
victims can get to a phone and, between breaths, call for help.
Now, do you understand the whole matter? Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save
their lives!
B. help someone treat a heart attack by himself
C. teach people how to stay in good state
D. train people how to stay calm when facing dangers
B. to get oxygen into the lungs
C. to keep the blood circulating
D. to reduce the pain in the chest
B. not only the chest aches when one suffers a heart attack
C. people should attend a CPR course to survive heart attacks
D. one should cough loudly immediately one"s chest aches
B. Advertisement.
C. Family.
D. Teaching.
country areas to learn about AIDS, one of the biggest threats to public health in the world today.
China has decided to use user-friendly methods including exhibitions, VCDs and TV programmes to
spread knowledge of the disease across the nation to try to keep it in check.
Educating people nationwide about AIDS is the top priority (优先权) to prevent the disease from getting
out of hand. The farmers will be given knowledge in the easiest way that they can understand.
A recent survey from the commission (调查团) of more than 7,000 people in China showed that nearly
20 percent of them had never heard of AIDS before. Just over 71 percent said they knew AIDS was highly
infectious (传染), but most of them had no clear idea of how the disease could be spread. Just over 62
percent said they knew they could do things in advance to prevent them catching AIDS but they didn"t know
what these measures were.
The month-long survey, carried out last December, talked to people in seven countries and cities across
China including both developed coastal areas and less-developed inland areas. The interviewees changed from
15 to 49 years old, and country residents were about 63% of the total surveyed.
Chinese residents, especially those in the country, have very little knowledge about what AIDS is all about,
not to mention prevention and treatment. By the end of last year, there were 22,517 known HIVAIDS cases
in China. However, more than 6,000,000 people in China have been infected.
Since 1985, China has discovered 880 patients with AIDS-466 of them have died. Sharing needles,
prostitution (卖淫) and contaminated blood transfusions are major ways for HIV to spread. A lack of education
has been the biggest difficulty against nationwide efforts to prevent AIDS, especially in the countryside.
B. make people know about AIDS
C. call on people to fight against AIDS
D. tell us people are short of the knowledge of AIDS
B. the shortage of money
C. its infection
D. lack of education
B. over 6,000,000
C. 880
D. over 7,000
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