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BUKHANNON, West Virginia--- Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path on Monday night to the site of a coal explosion that trapped 13 miners ,who had been heard from since the early morning accident.
Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered ,waiting for updates(最新报道)on the rescuers’ progress.
The miners were trapped at about 6:30 and many families weren’t informed of the accident until about 10 a.m-more than three hours after it happened.” It’s very upsetting, but you’ve got to be patient, I guess,” said John Helms, whose brother, Terry, was trapped in the mine.
The trapped miners were about 260 feet underground and about 10,000 feet from the Sago Mine’s entrance, said Roger Nicholson, general counsel from International Coal Group.
At a late night news conference, Nicholson said one team had advanced about 4,800 feet in the four houses since entering the mine just before 6p.m.Another team entered the mine about 30 minutes later.
He said the crew was very experienced ,with some members having worked underground for 30 to 35 years .The miners were equipped with about one hour of breathable oxygen each .The company has not released the names of the miners.
The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect (remove) the power to the phones they use to communicate with the surface before doing that.” We don’t want to be energizing anything if it’s in an atmosphere with burnable gases,” Kips said.
The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. High levels of carbon monoxide were detected shortly after the explosion, which delayed rescue efforts，but those levels have since subsided(减退),authorities said.
1.According to the passage, we can infer that _____.
A. all the miners who were trapped underground were still alive
B. communication with the trapped miners was cut off.
C. the two rescue teams entered the miner at the same time.
D. the rescue started as soonas the accident happened.
2.If the first team advanced at an average speed, they could dig about _____ per hour.
A.1,000 feet B.2,400 feet C.1,200 feet D.4,800 feet.
3.Where can the passage be seen?
A. In a magazine B .In a newspaper C. In a science book D. On an advertisement.
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BUKHANNON, West Virginia—Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path on Monday night to the site of a coal mine explosion that trapped 13 miners, who had not been heard from since the early morning accident． Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered, waiting for updates（最新报道）on the rescuers’ progress．
The miners were trapped at about 6:30 and many families weren’t informed of the accident until about 10 a．m---more than three hours after it happened．“It’s very upsetting, but you’ve got to be patient, I guess,” said John Helms, whose brother, Terry, was trapped in the mine． The trapped miners were about 260 feet underground and about 10,000 feet from the Sago Mine’s entrance, said Roger Nicholson, general counsel from International Coal Group．
At a late night news conference, Nicholson said one team had advanced about 4, 800 feet in the four hours since entering the mine just before 6 p．m．Another team entered the mine about 30 minutes later．
He said the crew was very experienced, with some members having worked underground for
30 to 35 years．The miners were equipped with about one hour of breathable oxygen each．The company has not released the names of the miners．
The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect （remove） the power to the phones they use to communicate with the surface before doing that．“ We don’t want to be energizing anything if it’s in an atmosphere with burnable gases,” Kips said．The cause of the explosion was not immediately known．High levels of carbon monoxide were discovered shortly after the explosion, which delayed rescue efforts, but those levels have since subsided（减退）, authorities said．
1.According to the passage, we can infer that ________．
A．all the miners who were trapped underground were still alive
B．communication with the trapped miners was cut off
C．the two rescue teams entered the mine at the same time
D．the rescue started as soon as the accident happened
2.If the first team advanced at an average speed, they could dig about _______ per hour．
A．1,000 feet B．2,400 feet C．1,200feet D．4,800feet
3.Where can the passage be seen?
A．In a magazine． B．In a newspaper．
C．In a science book．． D．On an advertisement．
4.Which of the following shows the position where the miners wd?
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BUKHANNON, West Virginia—Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path on Monday night to the site of a coal mine explosion that trapped 13 miners, who had not been heard from since the early morning accident．
Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered, waiting for updates（最新报道）on the rescuers’ progress．
The miners were trapped at about 6:30 and many families weren’t informed of the accident until about 10 a．m-more than three hours after it happened．“It’s very upsetting, but you’ve got to be patient, I guess,” said John Helms, whose brother, Terry, was trapped in the mine．
The trapped miners were about 260 feet underground and about 10,000 feet from the Sago Mine’s entrance, said Roger Nicholson, general counsel from International Coal Group．
At a late night news conference, Nicholson said one team had advanced about 4, 800 feet in the four hours since entering the mine just before 6 p．m．Another team entered the mine about 30 minutes later．
He said the crew was very experienced, with some members having worked underground for 30 to 35 years．The miners were equipped with about one hour of breathable oxygen each．The company has not released the names of the miners．
The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect （remove） the power to the phones they use to communicate with the surface before doing that．“ We don’t want to be energizing anything if it’s in an atmosphere with burnable gases,” Kips said．
The cause of the explosion was not immediately known．High levels of carbon monoxide were discovered shortly after the explosion, which delayed rescue efforts, but those levels have since subsided（减退）, authorities said．
1.According to the passage, we can infer that ________．
A．all the miners who were trapped underground were still alive
B．communication with the trapped miners was cut off
C．the two rescue teams entered the mine at the same time
D．the rescue started as soon as the accident happened
2.If the first team advanced at an average speed, they could dig about _______ per hour．
A．1,000 feet B．2,400 feet C．1,200feet D．4,800feet
3.Where can the passage be seen?
A．In a magazine． B．In a newspaper．
C．In a science book．． D．On an advertisement．
4.Which of the following shows the position where the miners were trapped?
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BUKHANNON, West Virginia—Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path on Monday night to the site of a coal mine explosion that trapped 13 miners, who had not been heard from since the early morning accident．
Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered, waiting for updates（最新报道）on the rescuers’ progress．
The miners were trapped at about 6:30 and many families weren’t informed of the accident until about 10 a．m-more than three hours after it happened．“It’s very upsetting, but you’ve got to be patient, I guess,” said John Helms, whose brother, Terry, was trapped in the mine．
The trapped miners were about 260 feet underground and about 10,000 feet from the Sago Mine’s entrance, said Roger Nicholson, general counsel from International Coal Group．
At a late night news conference, Nicholson said one team had advanced about 4, 800 feet in the four hours since entering the mine just before 6 p．m．Another team entered the mine about 30 minutes later．
He said the crew was very experienced, with some members having worked underground for 30 to 35 years．The miners were equipped with about one hour of breathable oxygen each．The company has not released the names of the miners．
The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect （remove） the power to the phones they use to communicate with the surface before doing that．“ We don’t want to be energizing anything if it’s in an atmosphere with burnable gases,” Kips said．
The cause of the explosion was not immediately known．High levels of carbon monoxide were discovered shortly after the explosion, which delayed rescue efforts, but those levels have since subsided（减退）, authorities said．
1.According to the passage, we can infer that ________．
A．all the miners who were trapped underground were still alive
B．communication with the trapped miners was cut off
C．the two rescue teams entered the mine at the same time
D．the rescue started as soon as the accident happened
2.If the first team advanced at an average speed, they could dig about _______ per hour．
A．1,000 feet B．2,400 feet C．1,200feet D．4,800feet
3.Where can the passage be seen?
A．In a magazine． B．In a newspaper．
C．In a science book．． D．On an advertisement．
4.Which of the following shows the position where the miners were trapped?
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BUKHANNON, West Virginia—Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path on Monday night to the site of a coal mine explosion that trapped 13 miners, who had not been heard from since the early morning accident.
Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered, waiting for updates（最新报道）on the rescuers’ progress.
The miners were trapped at about 6:30 and many families weren’t informed of the accident until about 10 a.m-more than three hours after it happened. “It’s very upsetting, but you’ve got to be patient, I guess,” said John Helms, whose brother, Terry, was trapped in the mine.
The trapped miners were about 260 feet underground and about 10,000 feet from the Sago Mine’s entrance, said Roger Nicholson, general counsel from International Coal Group.
At a late night news conference, Nicholson said one team had advanced about 4, 800 feet in the four hours since entering the mine just before 6 p.m. Another team entered the mine about 30 minutes later.
He said the crew was very experienced, with some members having worked underground for
30 to 35 years. The miners were equipped with about one hour of breathable oxygen each. The company has not released the names of the miners.
The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect （remove） the power to the phones they use to communicate with the surface before doing that. “ We don’t want to be energizing anything if it’s in an atmosphere with burnable gases,” Kips said.
The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. High levels of carbon monoxide were detected shortly after the explosion, which delayed rescue efforts, but those levels have since subsided（减退）, authorities said.
1. According to the passage, we can infer that ________.
A. all the miners who were trapped underground were still alive
B. communication with the trapped miners was cut off
C. the two rescue teams entered the mine at the same time
D. the rescue started as soon as the accident happened
2. If the first team advanced at an average speed, they could dig about _______ per hour.
A. 1,000 feet B. 2,400 feet C. 1,200feet D. 4,800feet
3. Where can the passage be seen?
A. In a magazine. B. In a newspaper.
C. In a science book.. D. On an advertisement.
4. Which of the following shows the position where the miners were trapped?
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BUKHANNON, West Virginia—Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path on Monday night to the site of a coal mine explosion that trapped 13 miners, who had not been heard from since the early morning accident.
Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered, waiting for updates（最新报道）on the rescuers’ progress.
The miners were trapped at about 6:30 and many families weren’t informed of the accident until about 10 a.m-more than three hours after it happened. “It’s very upsetting, but you’ve got to be patient, I guess,” said John Helms, whose brother, Terry, was trapped in the mine.
The trapped miners were about 260 feet underground and about 10,000 feet from the Sago Mine’s entrance, said Roger Nicholson, general counsel from International Coal Group.
At a late night news conference, Nicholson said one team had advanced about 4, 800 feet in the four hours since entering the mine just before 6 p.m. Another team entered the mine about 30 minutes later.
He said the crew was very experienced, with some members having worked underground for
30 to 35 years. The miners were equipped with about one hour of breathable oxygen each. The company has not released the names of the miners.
The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect (remove) the power to the phones they use to communicate with the surface before doing that. “ We don’t want to be energizing anything if it’s in an atmosphere with burnable gases,” Kips said.
The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. High levels of carbon monoxide were discovered shortly after the explosion, which delayed rescue efforts, but those levels have since subsided（减退）, authorities said.
1.According to the passage, we can infer that ________.
A. all the miners who were trapped underground were still alive
B. communication with the trapped miners was cut off
C. the two rescue teams entered the mine at the same time
D. the rescue started as soon as the accident happened
2. If the first team advanced at an average speed, they could dig about _______ per hour.
A. 1,000 feet B. 2,400 feet C. 1,200feet D. 4,800feet
3.Where can the passage be seen?
A. In a magazine. B. In a newspaper. C. In a science book.. D. On an advertisement.
4.Which of the following shows the position where the miners were trapped?
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Youth football team members rescued more than two weeks after sudden flooding trapped them in a cave in Thailand are now being well looked after at a hospital in the northern city of Chiang Rai. In addition to treating the boys for potential body fluid loss, inadequate nutrition and lack of oxygen, their doctors also plan to closely monitor them for symptoms of diseases that may have been infected by animals living in the cave.
“The next step is to make sure those kids and their families are safe, because living in a cave provides a different environment, which might contain animals that could transmit…disease,” said the local hospital. The boys and their family members have been told to watch for symptoms such as headache, nausea(反胃), muscle pain or difficulty breathing, the reports added.
Yet based on the location where the boys were trapped—more than four kilometers from the cave complex’s main entrance, past some fully submerged passages—and the fact they have been swimming out wearing full scuba face masks, it seems unlikely that they were living with bats in the cave or breathed in bat-associated bacteria during their rescue, several infectious disease experts said. “It’s hard to imagine bats got that deep into the cave because of all those narrow passageways, but it is possible,” says Ian Lipkin, an animal expert and professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. “It’s unlikely that there would be many animals in there,” notes Jonathan Epstein, a doctor at EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that studies diseases and how to prevent them. Bats typically like to rest in areas they can easily enter and exit, not in places that fully flood, he adds.
Bats in Thailand have been linked with a wide range of viruses that are similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)—Lipkin says. But it seems more likely the boys would have been exposed to infection-causing bacteria when they swam through the dirty water with cuts and scrapes. “If you are trying to prioritize issues with respect to health care for these kids, number one would be psychological damage and second will be bacterial infections from the cuts and scrapes they may have encountered.” Lipkin says.
1.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the potential symptom of the rescued team members?
A. Lacking body water B. Unbalanced nutrition
C. Pain in the head and muscles D. Adequate oxygen
2.The underlined word “submerged” in paragraph 3 means ____________.
A. under the water B. wild and dangerous
C. with animals D. bat-associated
3.Which is true about the caves and the trapped people?
A. Jonathan Epstein thought it possible for the team members to be attacked by bats in the fully-flooded cave.
B. Lipkin argued bats were not able to get deep into the narrow cave where the kids were trapped.
C. Lipkin said the victims might be infected when their body were exposed to bacterial water during the rescue.
D. Lipkin believed the most important issue for the cave-trapped teenagers was infectious bacteria examination.
4.What is the text type of the passage?
A. An academic essay about bats. B. A newspaper article.
C. A medical magazine. D. A Thai website about sports.
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Each summer, Craig Stihler and Jack Wallace, scientists for the state of West Virginia hike to Peacock Cave to count Virginia big-eared bats. 1.. They want to see if the number of bats is going up or down.
I was there to learn about the bats for my book. After we arrived at the small entrance to Peacock Cave, Craig and Jack unpacked their equipment. Crale said, “2. .Hibernating (冬眠)bats may be awakened and fly around and burn up the fat they've stored in their bodies. Without that food supply, they might not live until spring when they can eat insects again. And bat mothers may drop their babies. “
As night settled in，they set up a night-vision scope (观察仪器）.3. .They also set up a radio-like bat detector outside the cave. It picks up bat sounds that our ears can’t hear. For the next two hours, Craig counted the bats by speaking into a handheld voice recorder each time five bats flew out of the cave. By the time the last bat left the cave at about 10:30 p. m., Craig and Jack had counted 1,242 bats! 4. .Craig explained that when the first count was taken at Peacock Cave in 1983, there were only 160 Virginia big-eared bats. Projects to help protect bats have helped the bats make a remarkable comeback. Today the total number of Virginia big-eared bats there are more than 25,000.
5. .They will continue to need human’s help if they are going to survive into the future.
A.Why do they do so?
B.It allows them to see the bats in darkness.
C.Virginia big-eared bats are medium-sized.
D.Bats are important because they eat insects.
E.They want to catch some bats for their research.
F.Bats living in caves can suffer if disturbed by people.
G.That was the most Craig and Jack had ever counted there.
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At the age of sixteen, I went on my first volunteer project with Dad in West Virginia. The family ____ was living in a trailer (拖车) that was in ____ condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but one problem after another ____.
We decided the only ____ was to build a new ____. The family was ____. Tuesday that week, we began to ___ the bedrooms for the family’s three boys. Josh, Eric and Ryan. ____ toys and other gadgets (小玩意) that children usually ____, we were astonished when Josh responded, “ I just warn a ____.”
The boys had ____ slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we decided that beds would be the perfect ____. As we ____ the frames of the beds together, Erie ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed ____ from the doorway.
As my Dad ____ one of the pillows into a pillowcase (枕套), Erie asked, “What is that?” Dad told him it was a pillow. “What do you do with it?” Eric continued to ask. “____ you sleep, you put your head on it” I answered softly. Tears came to my eyes as I ____ Eric the pillow. “Oh…that’s ____,” he said, hugging it tightly .
Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems very ____. Dad gently asks,” Do you have a ____?” We know exactly what he means.
1.A. in danger B. in need C. on guard D. on duty
2.A. poor B. dusty C. perfect D. fierce
3.A. acted B. disappeared C. died D. surfaced
4.A. request B. attempt C. solution D. purpose
5.A. house B. room C. truck D. garage
6.A. overjoyed B. interested C. privileged D. determined
7.A. guarantee B. process C. brush D. furnish
8.A. Requiring B. Expecting C. Offering D. Listing
9.A. ask for B. donate C. put away D. praise
10.A. room B. pillow C. bed D. mat
11.A. even B. still C. ever D. never
12.A. service B. memory C. gift D. happiness
13.A. fitted B. applied C. tore D. unfolded
14.A. spirit B. anxiety C. enthusiasm D. confidence
15.A. escaped B. slipped C. broke D. cut
16.A. Once B. As soon as C. Until D. When
17.A. lent B. handed C. collected D. sent
18.A. flat B. handy C. vacant D. soft
19.A. urgent B. complex C. difficult D. disturbing
20.A. bed B. pillow C. toy D. family
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Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness. West Virginians’ lack of sleep was about double the national rate, perhaps a side effect of health problems such as obesity(肥胖), experts said.
Nearly 1 in 5 West Virginians said they did not get a single good night’s sleep in the previous month. The national average was about 1 in 10, according to a federal health survey. Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma also were notably above average with nearly 1 in 7 people reporting in a lack of sleep. In contrast, North Dakota was below average, with only 1 in 13 reporting that degree of sleeplessness. Health officials do not know the exact reasons for the differences.
In the survey, people weren’t required to answer the question why they were not able to get enough rest or sleep. But experts noted several possible explanations: West Virginia ranks at or near the bottom of the nation in several important measurements of health, including obesity, smoking, heart disease and the proportion of adults with disabilities.
Studies have increasingly found that sleeping problems often occurred among people with certain health problems, including obesity. “You would expect to see poorer sleep within a chronically (慢性地) diseased population,” noted Dr Ronald Chervin, a sleep disorders expert in University of Michigan.
Financial stress and work shifts(倒班)can play roles in sleeplessness, too, Chervin added. He suggested those may be contributing factors in West Virginia, an economically depressed state with tens of thousands of people working in coal mining.
The report was based on results of an annual telephone survey of more than 400,000 Americans, including at least 3,900 in each state. The survey did not include people who use only cellphones.
1.What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? (No more than 15 words.)
2.What does the underlined word “notably” in Paragraph 2 mean? (No more than 3 words.)
3.What was the possible reason for the high rate of sleeplessness in West Virginia according to Paragraph 3? (No more than 12 words.)
4.List three factors that contribute to sleeplessness based on the passage.
(No more than 8 words.)
①______________________ ②________________________ ③______________________
5.How was the research carried out? (No more than 10 words.)
Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered, waiting for updates（最新报道）on the rescuers’ progress.
The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect （remove） the power to the phones they use to communicate with the surface before doing that. “ We don’t want to be energizing anything if it’s in an atmosphere with burnable gases,” Kips said.