______ more than half of us were against the ...

______ more than half of us were against the new plan, he still decided to carry it out.

A. As 　　　 B. Since 　　 C. Unless 　　 D. While

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______ more than half of us were against the new plan, he still decided to carry it out.

A.As　　　 B.Since 　　　　　 C.Unless 　　　 D.While

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21st Century is ______ a newspaper; it helps us know a lot about the world.

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Bill Gates is very _________because he has given away more than half of his money to help those who are poor .

A. generous　　 　　 B. active

C. grateful　　　　　　 D. mean

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More than half of the world’s population live in cities. Traffic and pollution are becoming big problems in big cities all over the world. In cities like Mexico City, Shanghai or Cairo the quality of air is getting worse every day. In the United States, people spend more time sitting in traffic jams.

Some of the world’s cities have already found the answer to the problem. In Bogota, the capital of Columbia, the government has taken measures to improve the quality of life for the city’s 8 million people. They created over a thousand new parks, a new public transport system, and built hundreds of cycling and walking paths. People who live in the city also joined in making their city one of the most livable (适合居住的) places in South America.

Today city planners around the world are looking for ways to provide more room for living and less room for cars. In America, public transport has increased over 2 % since the mid 1990s — not much but a start. More and more people leave their cars at home and get on buses, trains or even ride a bike to work. Some cities are far better at planning than others. In Amsterdam, for example, only 40 % of the population use their cars to get to work, 35 % ride bikes while 25% use public transport. In Paris, about half of the city’s workers drive their cars to work.

For cities in developing countries, the problems have just started. Traffic is getting worse as more and more people can afford to buy a car.

1.The writer listed Mexico City, Shanghai and Cairo as examples of cities of ______.

A. heavy traffic          B. air pollution

C. rapid development        D. large population

2.What did Bogota do to improve the quality of life for its people?

A. It shut down some factories in the city.

B. It introduced a foreign public transport system.

C. It encouraged people to plant trees in the city.

D. It built new parks and a new public transport system.

3.From the third paragraph, we can learn that ______.

A. 35% of the population in Paris ride bikes to work

B. half of the people in Amsterdam drive their cars to work

C. a quarter of the people in Amsterdam use public transport

D. American public transport has increased much since the 1990s

4.What would be the best title of the text?

A. Ways to solve traffic jams

B. New changes in transport systems

C. People’s new choice in big cities

D. Parks instead of cars for cities

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Women are on their way to holding more than half of all American jobs. The latest government report shows that their share of non-farm jobs nearly reached fifty percent in September, 2009.

The job market continues to suffer the effects of last year’s financial crash. On the one hand more women have entered the labor market over the years, and on the other hand the economic recession (衰退) has hit men harder than women. In October the unemployment rate for men was almost 11% compared to 8% for women.

Industries that traditionally use lots of men have suffered deep cuts. For example, manufacturing (制造业) and building lost more jobs last month. But health care and temporary employment services have had job growth. Both of those industries employ high percentages of women.

Thirty years ago, women earned sixty-two cents for every dollar that men earned. Now, for those who usually work full time, women earn about eighty percent of what men earn. And a recent study from the University of California, Davis, reveals that women hold fifty-one percent of well-paid management and professional jobs. Yet the study also shows that men still hold about nine out of every ten top positions at most companies. The results have remained largely unchanged for five years.

Also, a new research paper in the journal Sex Roles looks at the experiences of women who are the main earners in their families. Rebecca Meisenbach at the University of Missouri in Columbia interviewed fifteen women. She found that they all value their independence and many enjoy having the power of control, though not all want it. But they even feel more pressure and worry. That is partly because of cultural expectations that working women should still take care of the children. Also, men who are not the main earners may feel threatened.

1.Which of the following is a reason why women have a larger share of jobs?

2.There have been an increasing number of jobs for women in ________.

3.In the late 1970s, if a man earned 500 dollars a month, a woman probably earned ________.

4.If a woman is the main earner in her family, she probably ________.

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Over the past half-century, North America has lost more than a quarter of its entire bird population, or around 3 billion birds.

“We saw this great net loss across the entire bird community,” says Ken Rosenberg, a scientist in Ithaca, N.Y. “But we also knew that other bird populations were increasing. And what we didn’t know is whether there was a net change.”

Common birds with decreasing populations include dark-eyed juncos and red-winged blackbirds, says Rosenberg. Grassland birds have suffered a 53% decrease, and more than a third of the shorebird population has been lost. Bird populations that have increased include raptors (猛禽), like the bald eagle, and waterfowl.

“The numbers of ducks and geese are larger than they’ve ever been, and that’s not an accident,” says Rosenberg. It’s because hunters who mainly want to see healthy waterfowl populations for sportful hunting have raised their voices.

“People are doing a wonderful effort to try and understand our bird populations with a lot of uncertainty, but the actual systems that we have in place to try and answer really tough questions like this are really far short of what we need,” Ted Simons in North Carolina State University says.

“In all, the conclusions weren’t necessarily surprising,” says Kristen Ruegg, a biologist at Colorado State University. There have been hints (暗示) that the loss was this large from all kinds of sources over the past few years. But in most cases, these were species-specific records of local extinctions or models of projected losses, resulting from things like climate change. This really sort of wakes people up to the idea that this is happening.

Elise Zipkin, a quantitative ecologist at Michigan State University, says the loss can be a big problem. “Just because a species hasn’t gone extinct (灭绝) or isn’t even necessarily close to extinction, it might still be in trouble,” she says. We need to be thinking about conservation (保护) efforts for that.”

1.Which of the following becomes more than before?

A.Dark-eyed juncos. B.The bald eagle.

C.Grassland birds. D.The shorebirds.

2.Why do duck and goose populations increase?

A.To hunt for fun. B.To provide rich foods.

C.To escape net loss. D.To keep people healthy.

3.What does the underlined word “tough” mean in Paragraph 5?

A.Extra. B.Interesting.

C.Difficult. D.Official.

4.What can we infer from Elise’s words in the last paragraph?

A.Bird loss can be a big problem. B.Climate change causes part of bird loss.

C.Protecting birds is quite necessary. D.What is happening is worth considering.

5.How does the author support the subject of the text?

A.By giving examples. B.By showing ideas.

C.By explaining numbers. D.By providing research results.

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阅读下面的材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式.

Nowadays, more than half of the population in the world 1.(speak) English. If you are good at English, it will be 2.(extreme) convenient for you to travel or study abroad. There are two main groups of English — British English and American English. American English 3.(consist) of vocabulary and grammar people brought from Britain, 4.(go) through great changes over the last hundred of years, such as pronunciation, spelling and accents.

Many factors has made 5.(contribute) to the changes. One reason is that people from many different countries have brought their words to America, many of 6.are absent in British English. Another reason is that after the Americans 7.(defeat) the British in 1781 and gained independence, they wanted to make the spelling of English words simpler. For example, they write “color” while the British still use “colour”. Besides, both countries have slowly changed the way they say the same words, yet in different ways.

However they have no difficulty 8.(understand) each other. Also, there is no doubt 9. both languages will keep on 10.(change) in the future.

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What a wonder! They have finished _______  half of the project in such a short time.

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The new road is __________ of the old one.

A．more than three times the length

B．three times more than the length

C．more than the length

D．more three times than the length

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