Recently, there a boom in population movements.
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Recently, there a boom in population movements.
A. is B. was C. has been D. had been
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Recently, there is ____ boom(繁荣)in population mobility and according to ____ national population survey of 2004, 17 percent of the population move every year.
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Iceland is experiencing a book boom(繁荣时期).
It is hard to avoid writers in Reykjavik. There is a phrase in Icelandic, “ad ganga med bok I maganum”, meaning everyone gives birth to a book. Literally, everyone “has a book in their stomach”. One in 10 Icelanders will publish one.
“Does it get rather competitive?” I ask the young novelist, Kristin Eirikskdottir. “Yes. Especially as I live with my mother and partner, who are also full-time writers. But we try to publish in alternate years so we do not compete too much.”
“Writers are respected here,” Agla Magnusdottir tells me. “They live well. Some even get a salary.” Magnusdottir is head of the new Icelandic Literature Centre, which offers state support for literature and its translation. “They write everything --- modern sagas(长篇英雄故事), poetry, children's books, literary and extraordinary fiction --- but the biggest boom is in crime writing,” she says.
So what has led to this phenomenal book boom? I would say it is due to a crop of good writers, telling interesting tales with elegant economy and fantastic characters.
Iceland's black lava(火山岩) riverbeds, its steaming, bubbling earth, with its towering volcanoes and fairytale streams also make it the perfect setting for stories. Solvi Bjorn Siggurdsson, an Icelandic novelist, says writers owe a lot to the past. “We are a nation of storytellers. When it was dark and cold we had nothing else to do,” he says. “Thanks to the poetic works and medieval(中世纪的) sagas, we have always been surrounded by stories. After independence from Denmark in 1944, literature helped define our identity.”
Siggurdsson shows respect to Iceland's Nobel Literature winner, Halldor Laxness, whose books are sold in petrol stations and tourist centres across the island. Locals name their cats after Laxness and pay a visit to his home. “When Laxness won the Nobel Prize in 1955 he put modern Icelandic literature on the map,” Siggurdsson tells me. “He gave us confidence to write.”
1.The underlined phrase in the passage suggests that ________.
A. Icelanders love collecting books.
B. Icelanders love writing very much.
C. there are a lot of great books in Iceland.
D. it is competitive to publish a book in Iceland.
2.What kind of book is the most popular in Iceland?
A. Poetry. B. Medieval sagas.
C. Crime novels. D. Children’s stories.
3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?.
A. Siggurdsson won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
B. Icelanders publish books to increase their income.
C. Writers in Iceland don’t benefit from its literary tradition.
D. Iceland possesses some factors to be a perfect setting for stories.
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There is nowadays in schools a great movement that places major emphasis on higher order skills, these being those skills that encourage the ability to reason. This group of skills involves recalling information, basic concept formation, critical thinking, and creative idea formation. Formerly viewed as the tools of mathematics, these skills are now recognized as necessary to abilities across the curriculum.
Higher order thinking skills are now recognized as important for those who will enter the twenty-first century work force. Preparing young learners for their future requires that teachers employ a great deal of inventiveness and creativity in designing lessons that meet the dual challenge of providing the basics as in reading, language arts, and mathematics, and developing the ability to reason.
This unit uses detective fiction to address both of these challenges, and the activities that lie here are designed to draw the learner along a path that moves him from the simple skills, such as recalling information, to the more difficult area of creative thinking. Activities may be modified, simplified, lengthened, or deleted to meet the needs of the intellectual diversity found in most classrooms.
For this unit I have chosen three separate series of children’s detective fiction. The easiest to read are the Private Eyes club mysteries, written and illustrated by Crosby Bonsall. This series centers on the activities of four neighborhood boys who along with their cat Mildred keep the area they live in free of crime. Each title is centered on one issue and the list of titles is expanding. The reading levels range from about 1.6 to 2.0 and the print is large and well organized on the page. Snitch, Wizard, Skinny, and Tubby are funny and engaging, and are represented in lively color illustrations. The only issue that could be a problem is that the private eyes are all boys. However, girls are well represented among the peripheral (次要的) peer group.
1.What can we know from the above passage?
A. Children have different abilities.
B. Reading for information needs more skills.
C. Reasoning is higher than reading and writing in school.
D. Mathematics is the most difficult in school.
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in this passage?
A. Basic reading skills.
B. Ways of thinking.
C. Who wrote the detective fiction.
D. How much to pay for the course.
3.What is the chosen series of fiction mainly about?
A. How some brave boys find their cats.
B. How some brave children help find the lost cat.
C. How people help the boys solve the crime.
D. How some brave boys fight against crime.
4.What will mostly likely be presented after this passage?
A. The Private Eyes club mysteries.
B. Other ways to interest the readers.
C. How girls can keep on reading the stories.
D. Where to buy these interesting stories.
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There is a small but growing movement in America of households that want to reduce waste to zero. Zero Wasters, as they are called, help each other by sharing advice on blogs and social media. A number of people also have written recent books on the subject.
Bea Johnson is author of Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life. She said, “It may be too extreme for some people, but even if you can cut your trash down by even 20 percent, you’ll gain 80 percent of the benefits, like saving time and money for experiences instead of shopping for unnecessary stuff. It’s about a simpler life based on being, not having.”
Johnson said that reducing shopping means her family has more money for fun vacations. She said her family buys recycled things also. All their clothing, for example, comes from used clothing stores. She says that has reduced her household spending by 40 percent.
“We can get most brands on eBay and request that they be sent to us without any non-recyclable packaging,” she said.
Zero Wasters like to talk about five “R’s”: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot. The first “R” stands for refuse. They refuse containers and plastic straws at restaurants. To this end, they either ask to use their own containers or request that things like food be wrapped in paper. Zero Wasters also seek to reduce the number of things they buy. They reuse household goods and recycle materials. They also try to compost, or rot, food material that can be used to enrich soil.
Amy Korst is another most popular writer in the zero waste movement. She wrote the book Zero Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less. She noted that once food is buried under plastics and other things in, for example, a landfill, it no longer composts as it normally would. She said that is why it is so important to cut down on using things made out of plastic and separate things that can be broken down from other trash. She recommended residents to contact the local sanitation department in understanding how to recycle. Officials there will be able to advise about what can be recycled and how to do it.
1.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 most probably implies that ____________.
A. Zero Wasters’ goal of producing no trash is hard to reach
B. it’s a primitive life depending on nature rather than people
C. Zero Wasters emphasize a rich spiritual life based on basic needs
D. the new lifestyle sought by Zero Wasters will make people richer
2.What does Paragraph 5 talk about?
A. Reasons why Zero Wasters try to reduce trash.
B. Contributions Zero Wasters have already made.
C. Problems that Zero Wasters face in their daily life.
D. Actions that Zero Wasters take to achieve their goal.
3.What does Amy Korst think of the zero waste movement?
A. She opposes spending more money for fun experiences.
B. She believes a landfill is an ideal place for food wastes.
C. She advocates using less plastics and garbage classification.
D. She holds that many people are ignorant about recycling.
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
There is a small but growing movement in America of many 1. ( family) that want to reduce waste to zero. 2. (they) goal of producing no trash is probably impossible to reach. Some come close, reducing a year’s worth of trash to only a few things 3. can fit into a small container. All other things, they say, can be recycled or composted.
Zero Wasters, as they are called, help each other by sharing advice on blogs and social media. A lot of people have given 4. (value) advice on the subject recently. Some of the advice includes where to buy things 5. (avoid) unwanted packaging and how to recycle things that most people throw away.
Bea Johnson, a housewife, says that reducing shopping means her family has more money for fun vacations 6. ever before. She, who is 7. (satisfy) with the fact, says all their clothing comes from used clothing stores. She says that has reduced her household spending 8. 40 percent.
Zero Wasters advocate 9. (talk) about five “r’s” that describe want they do: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot. They request that things like remaining food not 10. (throw) away randomly and refuse containers at restaurants.
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Do you know ________
A.how many populations there are in the world |
B.how much population there is in the world |
C.how many the population of the world is |
D.what the population of the world is |
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In Britain, in a population of 60 million, there are 13 million grandparents, many of whom live alone a long way from their grandchildren.The loneliness of these older people has become an issue that schools are trying to teach children about .
On a popular teacher’s website, there is a classroom activity to help make children aware of the implications of the different generations of the same family living far from each other. It’s a story about Mrs. Eiderdown, an elderly lady whose grandchildren have moved to Australia with their parents. She lives alone and rarely sees her family .
First of all, the children speculate about Mrs. Eiderdown’s life. What does she have for breakfast ? what does she do all day ?how does she feel about her life ?
One day, Mrs. Eiderdown decides that she wants a pet to keep her company and puts an advertisement in a local shop window. Then she waits at home to see if anyone will answer her advertisement .
A tall thin man rings her doorbell. he is holding a cardboard box. Mrs. Eiderdown chats with the man for ten minutes before she realizes that she hasn’t looked in-side the box to see what the pet is. She can hear a his-sing sound. The children guess what is in the box(a snake). Mrs. Eiderdown thanks the man but says she doesn’t think the snake is a good idea .
The next time the doorbell rings, there’s a lady on the doorstep, also carrying a cardboard box.In the bottom of the box, Mrs. Eiderdown sees something black and hairy with eight legs. Again ,the children say what they think it is (a spider). Mrs. Eiderdown thanks the lady for her kindness but says that a spider is not the sort of pet she has in mind.
At last, the little girl next door brings her a dog .Mrs. Eiderdown’s life improves a lot because of the dog. more importantly, of course, the little girl, whose own granny lives a long way away, starts to visit Mrs.Eiderdown more often. This interactive classroom idea has led to a greater awareness among children about the possible loneliness of older people who live quite near them .
1.what’s the main idea of the passage?
A. children get to know about the trouble of the elderly
B. neighbors help select pets for Mrs. Eiderdown
C. society helps the lonely people in the UK
D. school send pets to the lonely elderly
2.what does the underlined sentence in the third paragraph mean ?
A. they talk about how she feels about being old
B. they try to experience her loneliness
C. they try to imagine how she lives
D. they write about her life story
3.what can we infer from the passage ?
A. the little girl often visits her own granny
B. the people who offer pets are lady’s neighbors
C. the farther the elderly live ,the lonelier they feel
D. the little girl begins to care more about Mrs. Eiderdown
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There are around 600,000 vegans (素食者) in the UK. That' s just over 1% of the population — an amount expected to increase to 25% by 2025. And if there's one type of food that Brits love, it is fast food. People in the UK love it so much that there was a 34% increase in the number of fast food outlets from 2010 to 2018. It's no surprise, then, that vegan fast food is also on the rise.
Vegan fast food has become big business. At Just Eat, an online food delivery company, vegan orders more than doubled in 2018. Greggs, a chain of high-street bakeries, named its vegan sausage roll the ''fastest - selling product in six years". And big franchises such as McDonald's and KFC have announced meat-free chicken nuggets (鸡块) to come in the future.
What's. driving this popularity? Katrina Fox, founder of Vegan Business Media, believes it's the result of the breaking down of stereotypes (成见). ''Vegan food is no longer seen as a bit of lettuce and lentils — you can eat pretty much anything".
It's also claimed that there are health benefits. John Marulanda, owner of Mooshies is a vegan burger bar in London — wants to implement “a change to a healthy version of fast food. Something, he claims, that comes as a result of the inherent nutritional value of the ingredients they use.
But, is vegan fast food actually healthy? Azmina Govindji of the British Dietetic Association says ''not to assume" that is the case, ''It' s fine if those products have got vitamin B12, iodine or calcium added to them. but they can still be fried, it can still have lots of creamy, fatty sauces and lots of salt.
Given the current growth in orders, the trend for vegan fast food isn't likely to disappear any time soon, Health — wise, it may not be any more nourishing than regular fast food, but for many, the lack of animal suffering involved in the process is a big plus.
1.What's the main idea of Paragraph 1?
A.Vegans in the UK are increasing.
B.British people love junk food.
C.Eating too much fast food is bad for health.
D.Vegan fast food is becoming popular in Britain.
2.Which might be the reason for the popularity of vegan fast food?
A.Its unique flavors. B.The change of life pace.
C.Its health benefits. D.Its colorful decorations.
3.What is Azmina Govindji's opinion about vegan fast food?
A.It is not so healthy. B.It is more varied.
C.It is more nutritious. D.It will soon disappear.
4.Why do many people tend to vegan fast food according to the last sentence?
A.To keep a balanced diet. B.For religious reasons.
C.Out of the love for animals. D.It's cheaper than regular food.
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Recently there was a major discovery in the scientific research — the mapping of all DNA in a human gene(基因) is complete.Couple of years ago, this seems an impossible task for scientist to accomplish.All this progress in science leads us to believe that the day, when the human being will be cloned, is not far away.Human cloning has always been a topic of argument, in terms of morality(道德) or religion.
Taking a look at why cloning might be beneficial, among many cases, it is arguable that parents who are known to be at risk of passing a genetic limitation to a child could make use of cloning.If the clone was free of genetic limitations, then the other clone would be as well.The latter could be inserted in the woman and allowed to ripen to term.Moreover, cloning would enable women, who can’t get pregnant, to have children of their own.
Cloning humans would also mean that organs could be cloned, so it would be a source of perfect transfer organs.This surely would be greatly beneficial to millions of unfortunate people around the world that are expected to lose their lives due to failure of single (or more) organ(s).It is also arguable that a ban on cloning may be unlawful and would rob people of the right to reproduce and limit the freedom of scientists.
Arguments against cloning are also on a perfectly practical side.Primarily, I believe that cloning would step in the normal “cycle” of life.There would be a large number of same genes, which reduce the chances of improvement, and, in turn, development — the fundamental reason how living things naturally adapt to the ever-changing environment.Life processes failing to do so might result in untimely disappearance.Furthermore, cloning would make the uniqueness that each one of us possesses disappear, thus leading to creation of genetically engineered groups of people for specific purposes, and chances are that those individuals would be regarded as “objects” rather than people in the society.
Scientists haven’t 100% guaranteed that the first cloned humans will be normal.Thus, this could result in introduction of additional limitations in the human “gene-pool”.
Regarding such arguable topics in “black or white” approach seems very innocent to me personally.We should rather try to look at all “shades” of it.I believe that cloning is only legal if its purpose is for cloning organs; not humans.Then we could regard this as for “saving life” instead of “creating life”.I believe cloning humans is morally and socially unacceptable.
1.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.Genetic limitations will be beneficial for some women.
B.A large number of genes will prevent us from developing.
C.First cloned humans might be normal according to scientists.
D.Forbidding cloning might limit the freedom of scientists.
2.What’s the author’s opinion on cloning?
A.It should be entirely banned.
B.It is acceptable if it is used for cloning organs.
C.It will take away the right to reproduce.
D.It should be used in creating life.
3.Where can you read this article?
A.In a story book. B.In a magazine.
C.In a science fiction. D.In a novel.
4.Which of the following shows the structure of the passage(1—6 refer to paragraph 1—6)?
A. | B. |
C. | D. |
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