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COPENHAGEN—The world is gathered in Copenhagen for the U.N. climate summit, but Denmark’s bicycle-friendly capital has also given its name to a movement of cities trying to find a kinder way to commute(往返上下班).
Nearly 40 percent of Copenhagen’s population cycle to work or school on ubiquitous(无处不在的) paved cycle paths. Many residents take to their bikes year-round, braving rain and snow through the winter in a city where the bicycles outnumber the people.
Amsterdam and Beijing too are known for their bicycles, but the Danish capital is where urban planners from around the world have been looking for ways to get their people out of cars and up onto bikes, an effort known as Copenhagenisation.
Klaus Bondam, Copenhagen’s technical and environmental chief, calls himself a “mega cyclist” and says the bike’s popularity stems partly from high taxes on cars which meant working-class Danes could not afford to drive in the 1930s and 40s. “Today you’ll meet everybody on the bicycle lanes --- women and men, rich and poor, old and young,” Bondam said.
The local government has during the last three years invested more than 250 million crowns ($49.42 million) in bicycle lanes and to make the traffic safer for bicyclists. Today around a third of the population drive cars to work or study, another third take public transport, while 37 percent cycle -- a figure the city aims to boost to 50 percent by 2015.
There are many benefits when citizens choose bicycles over cars: pollution and noise decline, public health improves, and more people on bikes or walking creates a sense of safety in the city. Fewer parked cars leaves more space for playgrounds, parks, shopping areas and other useful public places.
54.According to the first paragraph, Copenhagen is better known as __________.
A.a city without cars B.a bicycle-friendly city
C.Denmark’s capital D.the U.N. climate summit
55.We can learn from the second and the third paragraph, _________.
A.there is no path for cars during rainy and snowy days
B.citizens are limited to have only one bike for each person
C.two-thirds of people in Copenhagen cycle to work or school
D.city planners try their best to encourage more citizens to ride bikes
56.Bikes are popular in Copenhagen partly because __________.
A.the citizens are unable to afford to buy a car
B.the rich tend to keep fit by cycling to work
C.young people regard cycling a fashion to follow
D.high taxes were paid for cars in the 1930s and 40s
57.Which of the following is NOT the benefit of cycling?
A.Saving time on the road. B.Declining pollution and noise.
C.Improving public health. D.Creating safety in the city.
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COPENHAGEN—The world is gathered in Copenhagen for the U.N. climate summit, but Denmark’s bicycle-friendly capital has also given its name to a movement of cities trying to find a kinder way to commute(往返上下班).
Nearly 40 percent of Copenhagen’s population cycle to work or school on ubiquitous(无处不在的) paved cycle paths. Many residents take to their bikes year-round, braving rain and snow through the winter in a city where the bicycles outnumber the people.
Amsterdam and Beijing too are known for their bicycles, but the Danish capital is where urban planners from around the world have been looking for ways to get their people out of cars and up onto bikes, an effort known as Copenhagenisation.
Klaus Bondam, Copenhagen’s technical and environmental chief, calls himself a “mega cyclist” and says the bike’s popularity stems partly from high taxes on cars which meant working-class Danes could not afford to drive in the 1930s and 40s. “Today you’ll meet everybody on the bicycle lanes --- women and men, rich and poor, old and young,” Bondam said.
The local government has during the last three years invested more than 250 million crowns ($49.42 million) in bicycle lanes and to make the traffic safer for bicyclists. Today around a third of the population drive cars to work or study, another third take public transport, while 37 percent cycle -- a figure the city aims to boost to 50 percent by 2015.
There are many benefits when citizens choose bicycles over cars: pollution and noise decline, public health improves, and more people on bikes or walking creates a sense of safety in the city. Fewer parked cars leaves more space for playgrounds, parks, shopping areas and other useful public places.
54.According to the first paragraph, Copenhagen is better known as __________.
A.a city without cars B.a bicycle-friendly city
C.Denmark’s capital D.the U.N. climate summit
55.We can learn from the second and the third paragraph, _________.
A.there is no path for cars during rainy and snowy days
B.citizens are limited to have only one bike for each person
C.two-thirds of people in Copenhagen cycle to work or school
D.city planners try their best to encourage more citizens to ride bikes
56.Bikes are popular in Copenhagen partly because __________.
A.the citizens are unable to afford to buy a car
B.the rich tend to keep fit by cycling to work
C.young people regard cycling a fashion to follow
D.high taxes were paid for cars in the 1930s and 40s
57.Which of the following is NOT the benefit of cycling?
A.Saving time on the road. B.Declining pollution and noise.
C.Improving public health. D.Creating safety in the city.
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Around 15,000 officials gathered in Copenhagen, trying to map out an effective strategy _____ the battle against climate change.
A.to win B.will win C.winning D.won
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Around 15,000 officials gathered in Copenhagen, trying to map out an effective strategy _____ the battle against climate change.
A. to win B. will win C. winning D. won
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The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers has been named the greenest one in the world by the travel and tourist organization Skaal International, reported the Danish news agency Ritzau on Monday.
The hotel has been awarded the EcoTourism Award for setting an environmental-friendly example to other hotels, said the report.
The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers is located in the Copenhagen suburb of Oerestad and has the largest solar cell facility in the Nordic. This facility delivers energy to the hotel while Danish groundwater supplies cooling and heating in the air condition of the hotel.
The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers
TV and lights in the hotel are all of energy-saving brands. Shampoo bottles, toothbrushes and washing accessories are biologically degradable, which means that the nature can easily absorb the materials.
The hotel restaurant is only buying local goods and the food leftovers are used for bioenergy as well as fertilizer. The fitness facilities also provide a green touch to the hotel, as the training bikes of the fitness center are linked to the power grid(电网) of the hotel, thereby providing free energy if any guest wishes to exercise. People who do contribute free energy this way are supposedly getting a free meal in the hotel restaurant. “It is the first time that a Danish hotel receives this award. I think our throughout green thinking is the reason why we have been awarded. It is all the small details, as well as the big picture,” says Allan Agerholm, the CEO of the hotel, in a press release.
The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers opened its doors last year. Skaal International was founded in 1932 by travel managers and has approximately 20,000 members in 89 nations. It is an organization promoting global tourism.
1.Which of the following is the best title of this passage?
A. Hotel in Copenhagen named world’s greenest
B. Copenhagen-the world’s greenest city
C. Eco Tourism Award in Copenhagen
D. The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers
2.The hotel has been awarded the EcoTourism Award because ________.
A. delivers green energy to the hotels in Nordic
B. is located in the Copenhagen suburb not in the city center
C. has the largest solar cell facility
D. it sets an environmental-friendly example to other hotels
3.The underlined word “degradable” in passage 3 means it can be ________.
A. rejected by people who don’t like it
B. accepted by guests from all over the world
C. absorbed easily by nature
D. recycled by the nature
4. What is so special about the fitness facilities?
A. It is free for those who like to exercise.
B. It uses green power to drive.
C. It generates free electricity while being used.
D. It offers free meal to guests who use it.
5. What is Skaal International?
A. Another name for this green hotel.
B. An organization promoting global tourism.
C. The Danish news agency Ritzau.
D. A branch hotel restaurant in Danmark.
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(Reuters) - A U.N. climate deal due to be agreed in Copenhagen at talks from December 7-18 may fall short of a legally binding(有约束力的) agreement. If Copenhagen fails to live up to hopes of a strong agreement to slow global warming, what are the reasons and who risks blame? The following are some of the candidates:
● Decline in economy distracted(分散) focus from climate change after the world agreed in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007 to work out a new U.N. agreement by December 2009. Rich nations have put billions of dollars into green growth as part of recovery packages but, when unemployment at home is high, find it hard to promise extra money for developing countries. The slowdown in industrial output means a brief fix -- greenhouse gas emissions(排放) are likely to fall by as much as 3 percent this year.
● Many delegates at U.N. talks have given up hope that the United States, the number two emitter after China, will agree legislation(立法, 法律) to limit carbon emissions before Copenhagen. The US is the only industrialized nation outside the Kyoto Protocol(京都协议书) for cutting greenhouse emissions until 2012. Many countries welcomed President Barack Obama's promises of doing more to fight climate change when he took office in January but hoped for swifter action.
● Developing nations accuse the rich of repeatedly failing to keep promises of more aid. Few developed countries live up to a target agreed by the U.N. General Assembly in 1970 to give 0.7 percent of their gross domestic product in development aid. Other plans, such as the Agenda 21 environmental development plan agreed in 1992, have fallen short.
● Most rich nations are promising cuts in greenhouse gas emissions well short of the 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, which are needed to avoid the worst of climate change. Overall cuts promised by developed nations total between 11 and 15 percent. Best offers by countries including Japan, the European Union, Australia and Norway would reach the range.
● More than 90 percent of the growth in emissions between now and 2030 is set to come from developing nations -- with almost 50 percent from China alone, U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said this week. "No country holds the fate of the earth more in its hands than China. Not one," he said. China and India say they are slowing the growth of emissions but raising living standards is more important. So burning more energy is unavoidable -- as industrialized nations have done for 200 years.
● 2008 was the 10th warmest year since records began in the mid-19th century. The warmest was 1998, when a strong El Nino event in the eastern Pacific disrupted(使混乱) weather worldwide. That has led some to argue that global warming is slowing even though the U.N.'s WMO(世界气象组织) says a long-term warming trend is unchanged.
● People have been slow in changing lifestyles to use less carbon. Simple choices like taking more public transport, using less heating or air conditioning, even changing light bulbs can help if millions of people act.(508)
Who's to blame if U.N. climate deal falls short?
Possible candidates | Supporting Details |
___1.___downturn | ● Faced with the______2.____ rising unemployment, rich countries fail to give more aid to developing ones. ●____3._____industrial output brings about a temporary relief from the pressure of greenhouse gas emissions. |
United States | ● It’s the only industrialized country outside the Kyoto Protocol. ● Immediate____4.____ was expected to be taken by President Obama to fight climate change. |
Rich-Poor divide | ● Developed nations are____5.____ by the poor for repeatedly breaking promises of aid. |
Developed nations | ● There is a huge ____6.____between the overall cuts promised by developed nations and those required to avoid climate catastrophe. |
Developing nations | ● The increase in emissions from developing nations ____7.____for 90% between now and 2030. ● Developing nations need to give ___8.____to raising living standards by burning more energy. |
The weather | ● The worldwide disorder caused by El Nino has ____9.____some people into believing that global warming is slowing. |
The public | ● People should be ____10.____ to change lifestyles to use less carbon. |
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China made a commitment to the world in the Copenhagen Summit that by 2020, the carbon-intensity of its economy ______ fall 40% to 45%.
A. shall B. may C. must D. should
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The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator (发电机),The idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity — roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. Guests staying at Plaza Hotel will be given meat tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity. The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.
The plan, a world-first, will start on 19 April and run for a year. Only guests staying at the hotel will be able to take part. Frederikke Toemmergaard, hotel spokeswoman, said, “Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There might be people who will cycle just to get a free meal, but generally I don’t think people will take advantage of our programme,”
Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36% of locals cycle to work each day, one of the highest percentages in the world, according to the website visitcopenhagen.dk. US environmental website treehugger.com recently voted Copenhagen the world’s best city for cyclists. “Because Copenhagen is strongly connected with cycling, we felt the bicycle would work well as a symbol of the hotel’s green profile (形象)."
If successful, the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plaza hotels in the UK, the hotel said in a statement.
1.What is the main purpose of the free meal programme?
A. To promote the hotel's green concept.
B. To make the city known to the world.
C. To attract people to the hotel restaurant.
D. To get guests to stay longer at the hotel.
2.How can a participant get a free meal?
A. By becoming a professional cyclist.
B. By cycling to produce some electricity.
C. By linking a smart phone to a bicycle.
D. By monitoring his or her carbon footprint.
3.Who are most likely to enter for the programme?
A. The poor local people.
B. The environment activists.
C. Health-conscious hotel guests.
D.Visitors fond of Copenhagen food.
4.According to paragraph 3, Copenhagen has one of the world's ________.
A. best chain hotels
B. greenest natural environments
C. longest bike paths
D. highest rales of people cycling to work
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The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator (发电机). The idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity — roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. Guests staying at Plaza Hotel will be given meal tickets worth $ 36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity. The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.
The plan, a world-first, will start on 19 April and run for a year. Only guests staying at the hotel will be able to take part. Frederikke Toemmergaard,hotel spokeswoman, said, “Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There might be people who will cycle just to get a free meal, but generally I don’t think people will take advantage of our programme.”
Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36 % of locals cycle to work each day, one of the highest percentages in the world, according to the website visitcopenhagen. dk. US environmental website treehugger. com recently voted Copenhagen the world’s best city for cyclists. “Because Copenhagen is strongly connected with cycling, we felt the bicycle would work well as a symbol of the hotel’s green profile (形象).”
If successful,the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plaza hotels in the UK, the hotel said in a statement.
1.What is the main purpose of the free meal programme?
A. To promote the hotel’s green concept.
B. To make the city known to the world.
C. To attract people to the hotel restaurant.
D. To get guests to stay longer at the hotel.
2.How can a participant get a free meal?
A. By becoming a professional cyclist.
B. By cycling to produce some electricity.
C. By linking a smart phone to a bicycle.
D. By monitoring his or her carbon footprint.
3.Who are most likely to enter for the programme?
A. The poor local people.
B. The environment activists.
C. Health-conscious hotel guests.
D. Visitors fond of Copenhagen food.
4.According to Paragraph 3, Copenhagen has one of the world’s .
A. best chain hotels
B. greenest natural environments
C. longest bike paths
D. highest rates of people cycling to work
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I visited Copenhagen for the first time last Easter. As a student,I’m always strapped for cash,so I assumed I could only afford to breathe the air — but luckily everything about Copenhagen is breathtaking.
I was staying in an Airbnb, and rented a bike so I could cover more ground. One of the first places I visited was the Rundetaarn, or “round tower” built in the 17th century as an astronomical observatory. It has an equestrian staircase (a wide set of stairs big enough for horses to use) that went on and on. As I was going up, I stopped to visit the tower’s library hall. At the top, there’s a glass platform that gives a view 80-foot straight down, as well as a bell loft. Luckily, the views over Copenhagen from the top were well worth the climb.
After coming down, I hiked up to the Kastellet Fortress to see the famous Little Mermaid statue. Taking a photo with her was almost impossible with all the tourists crowding around—but sitting there and hearing the lapping waves of the deep blue Baltic Sea, waiting for the sun to set, was an unforgettable and calming experience.
The next day, I visited the Glyptotek art museum, exploring the grand exhibits. I looked into the marble eyes of many Roman gods, and walked down dimly lit staircases to see mummies from Egypt.
Before I unwillingly boarded the train back to the airport, I told myself that I must visit again—to experience the thrills of Tivoli Gardens, try more of the street food and everything else from this amazing city.
1.Why did the author rent a bike?
A. Because she loved to ride a bike.
B. Because she didn’t afford to rent a car.
C. Because she found nowhere to rent other vehicles.
D. Because she wanted to see as many attractions as possible.
2.What did the author find difficult at the Kastellet Fortress?
A. Finding a sitting place.
B. Waiting for the sun to set.
C. Listening to the sound of waves.
D. Having a photo taken with a statue.
3.Which of the following didn’t the author visit?
A. Rundetaarn. B. Tivoli Gardens.
C. Glyptotek art museum. D. Little Mermaid Statue.
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To remember a holiday.
B. To introduce a new attraction.
C. To share her travel experience.
D. To show her love of Copenhagen.
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For nearly 100 years, the heartbroken Little Mermaid has sat on a rock looking out over Copenhagen's port but now the sculpture ,based on the famous fairytale, is heading back out to sea, set for China.
The small bronze statue inspired by the tale of author Hans Christian Andersen and unveiled in 1913, is a major tourist attraction in Copenhagen. But her life has not always been easy. She has been beheaded twice, had her arm cut off, was blown off her rock in 2003 and was dressed in a Muslim headscarf two years ago in a protest - but she never left her native country.
This week she was lifted from the harbor, boxed, and shipped to Shanghai where she is the star guest in the Danish Pavilion at EXPO 2010 which runs until October 31. Details over her trip were not revealed due to security issues.
"The Little Mermaid," published in 1837, is a sad story about a mermaid who falls in love with a prince and gives up her life in the sea and her tail for legs.
The fairytale has been adapted many times into stage shows and into a Disney movie.
Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen said in a statement that the loan of The Little Mermaid was part of a cultural exchange between Denmark and China. "I am convinced that she will be an excellent ambassador of Denmark, particularly since the Chinese already are very fond of Hans Christian Andersen and his fairytales," he said in a statement.
Her departure from Copenhagen will not leave the harbor empty. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has created a video installation(设备/装置)to be installed at her spot.
The Little Mermaid's 165 cm (65 inches) tall sculpture, which sits on a granite block, was created in 1913 by Edvard Eriksen.
1.The following statements are true EXCEPT________________.
A.the statue of The Little Mermaid will be given to China as a gift
B.the statue of The Little Mermaid is a major tourist attraction in Copenhagen
C.The Little Mermaid is a famous fairytale written by Hans Christian Andersen
D.the story of The Little Mermaid was once adapted into a Disney movie
2.The underlined word “departure” here means_______________.
A.escaping B.retiring C.arriving D.leaving
3.From the passage, we can infer that ________________.
A.Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has created another Little Mermaid instead
B.the Danish people don’t like the statue of The Little Mermaid
C.the statue of The Little Mermaid will return to Denmark in the future
D.Edvard Eriksen wrote the story of the Little Mermaid
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