Beijing had its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap (寒潮) since 1981. And freezing weather is hitting the Deep South, including Florida’s orange groves and beaches.
Whatever happened to global warming?
Such weather doesn’t seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases. But experts say the cold snap doesn’t contradict global warming at all—it’s just a temporary phenomenon in the long-term heating trend. “It’s part of natural variability,” said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist. With global warming, he said, “we’ll still have record cold temperatures. We’ll just have fewer of them.”
Scientists say man-made climate change does have the potential to cause more frequent and more severe weather extremes. But experts did not connect the current cold snap to climate change.
So what is going on?
“We basically have seen just a big outbreak of Arctic air over populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere”, Arndt said.
In the atmosphere, large rivers of air travel roughly west to east around the globe between the Arctic and the tropics. This air flow acts like a fence to keep Arctic air restricted. But recently, this air flow has become bent into a zigzag (之字形) pattern, wandering north and south. If you live in a place where it brings air up from the south, you get warm weather. In fact, record highs were reported this week in Washington state and Alaska.
But in the eastern United States, like some other unlucky parts of the globe, Arctic air is coming from the north. And that’s how you get a temperature of 3 degrees in Beijing, a reading of minus-42 in mainland Norway, and 18 inches of snow in parts of Britain. The zigzag pattern arises naturally from time to time, but it is not clear why it’s so strong right now.
1.What is the best title of the text?
A. Freezing weather is hitting the Deep South.
B. We’ll still have record cold temperatures.
C. The air flow has become a zigzag pattern.
D. Cold snap doesn’t contradict global warming.
2.With global warming, we will ______.
A. also meet with severe cold snap
B. have more hot temperatures forever
C. never experience cold temperatures
D. have more cold temperatures
3.According to experts, the current cold snap ______.
A. suggests that the climate has changed greatly
B. is not related to the climate change
C. shows that the climate will turn cold
D. is affected by global warming
4.Beijing had its biggest snowfall since 1951 because of ______.
A. a fence from the Arctic B. a cooling trend in climate
C. a big outbreak of Arctic air D. its large population
5.We can conclude that ______.
A. not all the parts of the Northern Hemisphere are cold in face of the cold snap
B. the zigzag pattern arises naturally accidentally
C. Beijing will get cold weather next year
D. Washington state and Alaska will not face cold weather next year
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Beijing had its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap (寒潮) since 1981. And freezing weather is hitting the Deep South, including Florida’s orange groves and beaches.
Whatever happened to global warming?
Such weather doesn’t seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases. But experts say the cold snap doesn’t contradict global warming at all—it’s just a temporary phenomenon in the long-term heating trend. “It’s part of natural variability,” said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist. With global warming, he said, “we’ll still have record cold temperatures. We’ll just have fewer of them.”
Scientists say man-made climate change does have the potential to cause more frequent and more severe weather extremes. But experts did not connect the current cold snap to climate change.
So what is going on?
“We basically have seen just a big outbreak of Arctic air over populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere”, Arndt said.
In the atmosphere, large rivers of air travel roughly west to east around the globe between the Arctic and the tropics. This air flow acts like a fence to keep Arctic air restricted. But recently, this air flow has become bent into a zigzag (之字形) pattern, wandering north and south. If you live in a place where it brings air up from the south, you get warm weather. In fact, record highs were reported this week in Washington state and Alaska.
But in the eastern United States, like some other unlucky parts of the globe, Arctic air is coming from the north. And that’s how you get a temperature of 3 degrees in Beijing, a reading of minus-42 in mainland Norway, and 18 inches of snow in parts of Britain. The zigzag pattern arises naturally from time to time, but it is not clear why it’s so strong right now.
1.What is the best title of the text?
A. Freezing weather is hitting the Deep South.
B. We’ll still have record cold temperatures.
C. The air flow has become a zigzag pattern.
D. Cold snap doesn’t contradict global warming.
2.With global warming, we will ______.
A. also meet with severe cold snap
B. have more hot temperatures forever
C. never experience cold temperatures
D. have more cold temperatures
3.According to experts, the current cold snap ______.
A. suggests that the climate has changed greatly
B. is not related to the climate change
C. shows that the climate will turn cold
D. is affected by global warming
4.Beijing had its biggest snowfall since 1951 because of ______.
A. a fence from the Arctic B. a cooling trend in climate
C. a big outbreak of Arctic air D. its large population
5.We can conclude that ______.
A. not all the parts of the Northern Hemisphere are cold in face of the cold snap
B. the zigzag pattern arises naturally accidentally
C. Beijing will get cold weather next year
D. Washington state and Alaska will not face cold weather next year
高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
The Great Wall of China is one of Beijing’s biggest
|
postcards across the world, it rarely fails to attract tourists at
the first proper sight.
Yet the authorities open only certain sections of the wall
as fit for viewing, and few get to visit the unauthorized sections.
|
American journalist Steven Schwankert has been diving
since age 10. It was though his setting – up of a diving school
that Schwankert came to explore some of lesser – known areas
of China’s lakes – and discovered the underwater Wall under a
reservoir.
“The most fascinating piece of diving I ever did in China must be the Great Wall. I managed to find out about it via the Internet. It wasn’t difficult to get to Pan Jiakou in Hebei Province, near the East Qing Tomb about 4 hour’s drive from Beijing. Why do I want to dive the Great Wall? Why do people want to walk on the Great Wall? It’s the same answer.”
There are, however, advantages of visiting the Great Wall in a diving suit over being on foot. The water acts as a preservative by preventing the kind of mass tourism that has brought trouble on other parts of the Wall. “Unlike the people who walk in the Wall, we as divers never need to actually touch it. I’ve dived twice there, the last time in July. I found that the water then was much deeper than it was before – 13 meters deep.” When he first dived, parts of the Wall were visible above the surface. Now even the guard tower is completely submerged. “It’s better that the Wall is deep under water, as there are lots of boats coming in and out around that area. Their wave action could potentially damage the brickwork. So, the deeper, the better.”
1.Steven Schwankert is most interested in ________.
A.collecting photos of the Wall B.walking along on the Wall
C.diving the underwater Wall D.visiting some famous lakes
2.What does the underlined word “submerged” in Paragraph 5 most probably mean?
A.Damaged by water. B.Washed by water.
C.Preserved by water. D.Covered by water.
3.What is the topic discussed in the last paragraph?
A.Advantages of walking on the Great Wall.
B.Advantages of visiting the underwater Wall.
C.The reasons why the Wall is deep under water.
D.The reasons why the underwater Wall is protected.
4.What can we infer from the text?
A.The underwater Wall will sink deeper year by year.
B.Diving the Wall is popular with divers all over the world.
C.Diving is a good way to visit the Wall without causing much damage.
D.More and more tourists will come to visit the underwater Wall in China.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The Great Wall of China is one of Beijing’s biggest draws for tourists; despite its fame and ubiquity in postcards across the world, it rarely fails to attract tourists at the first proper sight.Yet the authorities open only certain sections of the wall as fit for viewing, and few get to visit the unauthorized sections. Fewer still are aware of the existence of at least one part of the Wall that remains in almost original condition, nearly 1,500 years after construction of legendary fortification began. But there’s a good reason for this – it’s underwater.
American journalist Steven Schwankert has been diving since age 10. It was though his setting – up of a diving school that Schwankert came to explore some of lesser – known areas of China’s lakes – and discovered the underwater Wall under a reservoir. “The most fascinating piece of diving I ever did in China must be the Great Wall. I managed to find out about it via the Internet. It wasn’t difficult to get to Pan Jiakou in Hebei Province, near the East Qing Tomb about 4 hour’s drive from Beijing. Why do I want to dive the Great Wall? Why do people want to walk on the Great Wall? It’s the same answer.”
There are, however, advantages of visiting the Great Wall in a diving suit over being on foot. The water acts as a preservative by preventing the kind of mass tourism that has brought trouble on other parts of the Wall. “Unlike the people who walk in the Wall, we as divers never need to actually touch it. I’ve dived twice there, the last time in July. I found that the water then was much deeper than it was before – 13 meters deep.” When he first dived, parts of the Wall were visible above the surface. Now even the guard tower is completely submerged. “It’s better that the Wall is deep under water, as there are lots of boats coming in and out around that area. Their wave action could potentially damage the brickwork. So, the deeper, the better.”
1.Steven Schwankert is most interested in .
A.collecting photos of the Wall B.walking along on the Wall
C.diving the underwater Wall D.visiting some famous lakes
2.What does the underlined word “submerged” in Paragraph 5 most probably mean?
A.Damaged by water. B.Washed by water.
C.Preserved by water. D.Covered by water.
3.What is the topic discussed in the last paragraph?
A.Advantages of walking on the Great Wall.
B.Advantages of visiting the underwater Wall.
C.The reasons why the Wall is deep under water.
D.The reasons why the underwater Wall is protected.
4.What can we infer from the text?
A.The underwater Wall will sink deeper year by year.
B.Diving the Wall is popular with divers all over the world.
C.Diving is a good way to visit the Wall without causing much damage.
D.More and more tourists will come to visit the underwater Wall in China.
高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
(2014·皖北协作区联考)—________Beijing of 2012 saw its first snowfall in the month of November.
—Oh,it came as ________surprise to us.
A.The;the B.The;a
C./;a D./;the
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—________Beijing of 2012 saw its first snowfall in the month of November.
—Oh, it came as ________ surprise to us.
A.The; the B.The; a
C./; a D./; the
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
There were red faces at one of Britain’s biggest banks recently. They had accepted a telephone order to buy £100,000 worth of shares from a 15-year-old schoolboy (they thought he was 21). The shares fell in value and the schoolboy was unable to pay up. The bank lost £20,000 on the deal which it cannot get back, because, for one thing, the young boy does not have the money, for another, being under 18, he is not legally liable for his debts. If the shares had risen in value by the same amount that they fell, he would have pocketed £20,000 profit. It certainly is better than delivering the morning newspaper. In another case, a boy of 14 found, in his grandmother’s house, a suitcase full of foreign banknotes. But they were now not used in their country of origin or anywhere else. This young boy headed straight to the nearest bank with his pockets filled with notes. The cashiers did not realize the country in question had reduced the value of its currency by 90%. They exchanged the notes at their face value at the current exchange rate. In three days, before he was found out, he took £200,000 from nine different banks. Amazingly, he had already spent more than half of this before the police caught up with him. Because he is also under 18 the banks have kissed goodbye to a lot of money, and several cashiers have lost their jobs.
Should we admire these youngsters for being enterprising and showing initiative or condemn them for their dishonesty? Maybe they had managed for years with tiny amounts of pocket money that they got from tight-fisted parents. Maybe they had done Saturday jobs for peanuts. It is hardly surprising, given the expensive things that young people want to buy, such as fashionable running shoes and computer games, if they sometimes think up more imaginative ways of making money than delivering newspapers. These youngsters saw the chance to make a lot of money and took it.
Another recent story which should give us food for thought is the case of the man who paid his six-year-old daughter£300 a week pocket money. He then charged her for the food she ate a few coins for her piggy bank(存钱灌)“She will soon learn the value of money, ” he said. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Everything has to be paid for and the sooner she learns that the better.” At the other extreme there are fond parents who provide free bed and board for their grown-up children, While even the most hard-hearted parents might hesitate to throw their children out on the streets, we all know of people in their twenties who still shamelessly live off their parents. Surely there comes a time when everyone has to leave the parental nest, look after themselves and pay their own way in life. But when is it?
1..
Recently one of Britain’s biggest banks _____.
A. bought a lot of shares for a customer and brought him a great loss
B. lost money as its young customer had no money to pay his debts
C. lost much money because the shares they bought fell in value
D. received a telephone order to buy shares for a 21-year-old boy
2..
. The author’s attitude to the example of the two boys who cheated the banks is _____.
A. objective B. subjective C. questioning D. negative
3..
The man paid his daughter £300 a week pocket money and then required her to pay for her living expenses because _____.
A. he wanted her to know making money was not easy
B. he wanted to save money for her future education
C. he thought it useful for family members to bear life hardships together
D. he wanted her to learn the value of money
4..
It can be concluded from the passage that the author believes that _____.
A. children should leave the parental nest as soon as possible
B. grown-up children should live on their own
C. children should be taught not to cheat others
D. parents should give more pocket money to their children
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London will stage its biggest political funeral in almost half a century on Wednesday when Britain's governing elite join the Queen and global leaders to bid farewell to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, better known as the “ Iron Lady".
In an event comparable to that of Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965, Thatcher's coffin will be carried on a horse-drawn gun carriage through streets lined with admirers from parliament to the city's most famous cathedral.
The bells of London's symbolic Big Ben clock tower will fall silent for the first time since Churchill's funeral and more than 700 men and women from Britain's armed forces will honor a woman who led them to victory in the 1982 Falklands War as foreign politicians from around 170 nations look on.
Surveys have shown that many are unhappy that the estimated l0-million($15 million)pound bill for the funeral is being picked up by the taxpayer, while some left-wing lawmakers say the luxurious funeral is too expensive.
But her admirers, of whom there are many in her party and in southern England, argue that her historical profile deserves such a funeral. She was the country's first and only woman premier, was Britain's longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century, and won three general elections.
More than 2,300 mourners will attend including 11 serving prime ministers from around the world, the British government's entire cabinet, two heads of state and 17 foreign ministers.
But there will be notable absences. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is too ill to attend and Nancy Reagan, the widow of Thatcher's great U·S. ally Ronald Reagan, is also unable to come.
Thatcher struck up a close relationship with Reagan during the Cold War, backed the first President George Bush during the 1991 Gulf War, and was among the first to discover that Gorbachev was a man she could "do business with. ”
Covered in the red, white and blue British flag, Thatcher's coffin lay overnight in a 13th-century church in Britain's parliament, a forum she dominated for years.
1.From the passage we know that Big Ben clock tower will fall silent to________.
A. get repaired for the first time
B. honour the passing away of the great woman
C. tell the specific time to the public
D. welcome the officials from all over the world
2.Who that are still alive will be absent from the funeral?
A. Mikhail Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan.
B. Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan.
C. Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan.
D. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev.
3.From the passage we can learn that Margaret Thatcher was________.
A. strong and smart B. weak and disappointing
C. aggressive and warlike D. stubborn and luxurious
4.Which of the following might serve as the best title of the passage?
A. The legend of Thatcher, the “Iron Lady".
B. Why Big Ben falls silent for the first time?
C. Who will pay for such a luxurious funeral?
D. London will witness its biggest political funeral.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Isn't it time that children to bed since it is too late?
A. went B.had gone C.have gone D.go
高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
How long is it ________ we last had a picnic together?
A.until B.before C.that D.since
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It is the most instructive lecture that ________since I came to this school.
A attended B had attended C am attending D have attended
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