China has seen _______dramatic decline in rur...

China has seen _______dramatic decline in rural poverty, but the problem is on _______increase in Africa and South Asia.

A. a; \　　 B. \ ；the　　 C. the ;an　　　　　　　　 D. a; the

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________ China hasn’t banned the travel to Korea, we have seen a decline in choosing Korea as the tourist destination.

A. While　　 B. Since

C. When　　 D. As

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Some experts thought that the standards of education __________ these years in China.

A. has declined　　　　　 B. had declined

C. has raised　　　　　 D. had raised

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China’s high-tech buildings can be seen everywhere in places like Beijing and Shanghai, but a few hundred miles away in Shanxi province, some three million people still live in caves.

These simple homes often dot the countryside in small, hard-to-find groups, but in places like Lijiashan, where hundreds of caves are on nine different levels of a hillside, it is possible to find whole villages made up entirely of cave livers.

People have been living in caves in Shanxi for around 5,000 years, and it is believed that at one time a quarter of the population lived underground. These days around one-twelfth live in caves and for many of them, life is almost as it was for their ancestors.

Lijiashan, a 550-year-old cave village is typical. Like most cave villages, there is still no running water, meaning locals are using muddy water of the nearby Yellow River. Most homes still have paper windows rather than glass ones. Inside, their owners sleep on large stone beds, known as kang; cool in the summer, but fires can be lit inside them during the winter months.

Lijiashan once housed 600 families. But now there are just over 40. Mr Li’s family has lived in Lijiashan for six generations. After his kids left the village to find work elsewhere, he and his wife turned their 180-year-old home into a guest house with cave bed-rooms where Chinese art students stay when they come to paint the unusual village landscape.

“The only people left here now are old people,” he said, “As soon as the children grow up they leave. They don’t mind living here by the Yellow River. Sometimes they just move down the road. But they want to live in new apartments, not in these old caves.”

1.According to the passage, in Lijiashan________.

A. some three million people still live in caves　　 B. hundreds of caves are hard to find

C. all the villagers are cave livers　　 D. people live in small groups

2.In a typical cave village_________.

A. people usually use water of the river　　 B. the houses have glass windows

C. people sleep on the ground　　 D. there is running water

3.Why do the families in Lijiashan become fewer and fewer?

A. Because old people have to leave their homes to have a better life.

B. Because the students go to school in the city.

C. Because caves are not fit to live now.

D. Because young people don’t want to live there any more.

4.The underlined word “landscape” can probably be replaced by_______.

A. animal　　 B. scenery　　 C. clothing　　 D. window

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As was recorded in history , Diaoyu Island has been _________ part of China.

A．regarded to be                         B．seen as

C．thought as                             D．thought of to be

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The income gap between China's rural and urban residents(居民) has continued to widen during the past few years in spite of rapidly rising rural incomes, Agricultural Minister Sun Zhengcai said here on Wednesday.

The income ratio(比率) between urban and rural residents was 3.28:1 in 2006, against 3.23:1 in 2003, said Sun in his report on the promotion of building a new countryside in 2007. Sun also said the net income of rural residents in different regions also varied widely. The income gap is only one of several problems in rural areas, according to Sun's report. While listing the achievements in rural areas in recent years, Sun believed that rural development still followed behind urban development.

"We have bigger pressure to ensure the supply of major agricultural products such as grain," he said. "China's urbanization(都市化) has been speeded up and more rural residents have gone to urban areas," he said.

"In this case, more agricultural producers become farm produce consumers, which created more pressure for supply," he said.

Another problem facing China's agricultural development is inadequate application of science and technology.

"Only 30 percent of scientific and technological achievements have been applied to agricultural production, which is 40 percentage points lower than developed countries," he said.

Despite increased government spending in rural areas, the infrastructure(基础下部组织) is still poor and easily hit by disasters.

According to Sun, the government spent 431.8 billion yuan ($59.15 billion) on agriculture, rural areas and farmers this year, an increase of 80.1 billion yuan over the previous year.

China set aside 11.38 billion yuan to promote a new rural cooperative medical care system and 27.98 billion yuan to support the new compulsory education mechanism in rural area to ensure that all citizens shared the fruits of China's reform and opening-up, Sun said.

1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

2.Can you infer the meaning of the underlined words in paragraph 5?

3.How much is spent on agriculture, rural areas and farmers the previous year?

4.Which is NOT the problem in rural areas?

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The Internet has changed the world we live in dramatically, so that in some ways it is unrecognizable from the place we lived in twenty years ago. Communications have been revolutionized. Not only have cell phones found their way into most people’s pockets or purses, but they are also used for next messaging and as cameras. Long distance phone calls have been replaced by e-mail and video conferencing. Communications, person to person or company to company, have turned into a fast-paced exchange with instant response. In fact, it has become more convenient and efficient.

The other kind of communication the Internet provides is information. School children and medical researchers alike will tell you that they could not work without the Internet and its ability to connect them to any number of websites and databases of information. Many people do their banking on-line. Others plan a trip and book a flight for themselves. People do their own stock  trading through the Net. Sports fans follow scores and statistics on websites. Political junkies(政治狂) gather campaign statements and debate topics, even between elections. And almost everyone who owns a computer and has Internet access has bought at least one item on-line. No wonder some young people can not imagine what life was like before the Internet.

Some Advantages of the Internet

I. ________1.________ of the Internet communication

●A fast-paced exchange replacing long distance phone calls with ________2.________ like e-mail and vedio conferencing

II. Accessibitlity to the Internet information

●On-line ________3.________ service

Convenience to do banking at home or office

●________4.________ service

Choices of booking traffic and accommodation

●Sports websites

Information about scores and statistics

●Political websites

Campaign statements and ________5.________

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About 270 million people in rural areas in China have no ______ to safe drinking water.

A. entrance 　　 B. access　　 C. solutions　　 　 D. sources

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Recently, we have already shown that climate change has led to a dramatic increase in storm surge risk in New York City, making devastating events like Hurricane Sandy more likely.

What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented disaster that is unfolding in Houston with Hurricane Harvey? There are certain climate change-related factors that we can, with great confidence, say worsened the flooding.

Sea Level rise attributable to climate change-some of which is due to coastal subsidence(下沉) caused by human disturbance such as oil drilling-is more than half a foot(15cm) over the past few decades. That means the storm surge was half a foot higher than it would have been just decades ago, meaning far more flooding and destruction.

In addition to that, sea surface temperatures in the region have risen about 0.5℃(close to 1F) over the past few decades from roughly 30℃(86F) to 30.5℃(87F), which contributed to the very warm sea surface temperatures(30.5-31℃, or 87-88F). There is a simple thermodynamic(热力学的) relationship known as the Clausius-Clapeyron equation that tells us there is a roughly 3% increase in average atmospheric moisture content for each 0.5℃ of warming. Sea surface temperatures in the area where Harvey intensified were 0.5-1℃ warmer than current-day average temperatures, which translates to 1-1.5℃ warmer than “average” temperatures a few decades ago. That means 3-5% more moisture(水分) in the atmosphere. That large amount of moisture creates the potential for much greater rainfalls and greater flooding. The combination of coastal flooding and heavy rainfall is responsible for the devastating flooding that Houston is experiencing.

Not only are the surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico unusually warm right now, but there is a deep layer of warm water that Harvey was able to feed upon when it intensified at near record pace as it neared the coast. Human-caused warming is penetrating down into the ocean. It’s creating deeper layers of warm water in the Gulf and elsewhere. Harvey was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human-caused warming, which means stronger winds, more wind damage and a larger storm surge.

Finally, the more tenuous but potentially relevant climate factors: part of what has made Harvey such a devastating(毁灭性的) storm is the way it has stalled near the coast. It continues to strike Houston and surrounding regions with a seemingly endless flood, which will likely top out at nearly 4ft(1.22m) of rainfall over a days-long period before it is done. The stalling is due to very weak prevailing winds, which are failing to steer the storm off to sea, allowing it to spin around and wobble back and forth. This pattern, in turn, is associated with a greatly expanded subtropical high pressure system over much of the US at the moment, with the jet stream pushed well to the north. This pattern of subtropical expansion is predicted in model simulations of human-caused climate change. More tenuous(微弱的), but possibly relevant still, is the fact that very persistent, nearly “stationary” summer weather patterns of this sort, where weather anomalies(both high-pressure dry hot regions and low-pressure stormy/rainy regions) stay locked in place for many days at a time, appears to be favoured by human-caused climate change.

In conclusion, while we cannot say climate change “caused” Hurricane Harvey, what we can say is that it exacerbated several characteristics of the storm in a way that greatly increased the risk of damage and loss of life. Climate change worsened the impact of Hurricane Harvey.

1.What’s the main purpose of writing the passage?

A. To offer tips on climate change.

B. To advocate paying more attention to current climate change urgently.

C. To share experiences on avoiding climate change.

D. To criticize human-caused climate change.

2.The underlined word “intensified” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.

A. worsened　　 B. caused

C. favoured　　 D. increased

3.What is the best title for the passage?

A. Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadly

B. Sea level rise sea and surface temperatures changed Hurricane Harvey

C. Hurricane Harvey and its characteristics

D. The climate change-related factors and human-caused warming

4.Which of the following shows the development of ideas in this passage?

I: Introduction　　　　 CP: Central point　　　 P: Point　　　 Sp: Sub-point(次要点)　　　 C: Conclusion

A. 　　 B.

C. 　　 D.

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There are many flights to Dalian, and the city has connections with most large cities in China,　 but you need to make a(an) ________ in advance.

A. adaptation　　　　　　 B. appointment

C. reservation　　　　 D. Assumption

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