Practice 1  Our feverish planet badly needs a cure. It was p

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Practice 1  Our feverish planet badly needs a cure. It was probably always too much to believe that human beings would be responsible stewards of the planet. Yet make a mess we have. If droughts and wildfires, floods and crop failures, collapsing climate-sensitive species and the images of drowning polar bears didn’t quiet most of the remaining global-warming doubters, the hurricane-driven destruction of New Orleans did. This past year was the hottest on record in the US. The deceptively normal average temperature this winter masked record-breaking highs in December and record-breaking lows in February. That’s the sign not of a planet keeping an even strain but of one thrashing through the alternating chills and night sweats of a serious illness.  A crisis of this magnitude clearly calls for action that is both bottom-up and top-down. Though there is some debate about how much difference individuals can make, there is little question that the most powerful players— government and industry—have to take the lead. Still, individuals too can move the carbon needle. Cleaning up the wreckage left by our 250-year industrial bacchanal will require fundamental changes in a society hooked on its fossil fuels. Beneath the grass-roots action, larger tectonic plates are shifting. Science is attacking the problem more aggressively than ever. So is industry. So are architects and lawmakers and urban planners. The world is awakened to the problem in a way it never has been before.
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第1题:

Passage Two

Human needs seem endless. They might be regarded as making up several levels. When there is enough money to satisfy one level of needs, another level appears.

The first and most basic level of needs involves food. Once this level is satisfied, the second level of needs, clothing and some sort of shelter, appears. By the end of World War Ⅱ , these needs were satisfied for a great majority of Americans. Then a third level appeared. It included such items as automobiles and new houses.

By 1957 or 1958 this third level of needs was fairly well satisfied. Then, in the late 1950s, a fourth level of needs appeared: the "life-enriching" level. While the other levels involve physical satisfaction, that is, the feeding, comfort, safety, and transportation, this level stresses mental needs for recognition, achievement, and happiness. It includes a variety of goods and services. Among them are vacation trips, the best medical and dental care, and recreation. Also included here are fancy goods and the latest styles in clothing.

On the fourth level, a lot of money is spent on services, while on the first three levels more is spent on goods.

A fifth level would probably involve needs that can be achieved best by community action. Consumers may be spending more on taxes to pay for government action against disease, ignorance, crime, and prejudice. After filling our stomachs, our clothes closets, our garages, our teeth, and our minds, we now may seek to ensure the health, safety, and leisure to enjoy more fully the good things on the first four levels.

40. According to the passage, man will begin to think about such needs as housing and clothing only when______.

A. he has saved up enough money

B. he has grown dissatisfied with his simple shelter

C. he has satisfied his hunger

D. he has learned to build houses


正确答案:C
40.第二段。根据文中所说,先填饱肚子才能想到保暖:衣物和遮蔽之所。选项 C是正确的。

第2题:

(Four Choices for Young People) Few unspoiled places remain in our world where the escapists can practice plain-living and high thinking.()


参考答案:正确

第3题:

And practice needs great effort and _______ much time.

A. gets

B. spends

C. takes

D. pays


参考答案:C

第4题:

Our starboard derrick boom of hatch No.4 is badly cracked ____ that it has become entirely useless.

A.at its goose neck to such a extent

B.at it’s goose to such an extent

C.at it’s goose neck for such a extent

D.at its goose neck to such an extent


正确答案:D
我们右舷4号舱的起重杆在他的鹅颈头处严重破裂,他一完全无用。

第5题:

We should make our reservations as far ( ) as possible to get the flight we want.

A. in detail

B. in advance

C. in reality

D. in practice


答案:B

解析:句意:为了得到我们想要的航班,我们应该尽可能提前预订。in detail意思是“全面地,详细地”;in advance意思是“提前”;in reality意思是“事实上”;in practice意思是“实际上”。

第6题:

The roof of our house is broken, so it needs _______.

A.repaired

B.repairing

C.being repaired

D.to repair


参考答案:B

第7题:

In the interim, our economy will not have access to all of the credit it needs and may __________, at great cost to our society.

A、undertake

B、overperform

C、overtake

D、overperform


参考答案:B

第8题:

What kind of planet will our children inherit? Will they have room to () air to breathe and food to eat?

A、wonder

B、stay

C、roam

D、play


参考答案:C

第9题:

According to our usual practice we prefer our export shipment to be insured by the People’s Insurance Company of China.(英译中)


参考答案:根据我们的日常习惯,我们宁愿将出口货物交中国人民保险公司保险。

第10题:

It's our duty to preserve the planet for future()

  • A、persons
  • B、generations
  • C、characters
  • D、nations

正确答案:B

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