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A. conditions B. positions C. opinions D. comments 44. What do you know from the last paragraph? A. The author's success inspired a kid.
B. The author's parents were proud of their child. C. The author set a good example to businessmen. D. The author's teacher must have felt ashamed. 45. Which of the following can match the text? A. No pains, no gains. B. Never too old to learn C. Every man has his value. D. Two heads are better than one.
B
Right in front of the Minneapolis Central Library, a row of green bikes sits parked in a special stand. Each bike is designed with the logo “Nice Ride”—the name of the city's bike-share program.
Nice Ride bikes are a lot like the library books that people come here to borrow. To rent a bike, you simply use your membership card at a Nice Ride bike station. Members can rent one of l,200 bikes from 138 stations throughout Minnesota's largest city. People use the Nice Ride bikes to go to work, o go out on business, or just to enjoy the city's many bike paths.
The rise of bike-share programs like Nice Ride is encouraging more people than ever to choose biking over driving. Skyrocketing gas prices and concerns about the environment have also gotten people to dust off their bike helmets, pump air into flat tires, and hit the road.
Why ride? Not only is biking good exercise, but switching from a car to a bike also reduces the amount of pollution in the air. Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas linked to climate change, is one of the many polluting substances that come out of a car's tailpipe.
Bike-share systems are found around the world in cities like London, Paris, Barcelona, and Melbourne, Australia. The largest program—with 70,000 bikes—is in Wuhan,China.
To make roads friendlier to non-motorists, the U. S. Department of Transportation has
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invested more than a billion dollars in cycling and pedestrian projects in recent years. The money went toward building thousands of miles of on-street bike lanes and bike-and pedestrian-only passages called greenways.
46. If one wants to use the bike, it's a must to . A. give away a bicycle B. know Nice Ride well C. pay the cost in advance D. get a membership card 47. Which of the following can people do with the bikes? A. Earn a living. B. Enjoy bikeways. C. Compete in a race. D. Rent them out to others. 48. Paragraph 4 is mainly about .
A. benefits of biking B. pollution caused by cars C. methods to use the bikes D. ways to reduce pollution 49. Which of the following is true of Nice Ride? A. It will take the place of taxi companies. B. China has better public bike systems. C. It attracts more people to choose biking. D. The government lacks money to support it.
50. The author's purpose in writing this text is to .
A. spread bike-share programs B. seek advice for Nice Ride C. compare Nice Ride with libraries D. introduce the public bike system
C
Sean Le Vegan, a dog lover from Manchester, England, will spend over a month in an animal cage to raise awareness about the difficulty of homeless dogs and encourage people to adopt rather than buy pet dogs.
Sean, a 35-year-old web-designer and volunteer, believes spending 35 days and nights in a cage is a good way to direct attention to homeless dogs. lt's also a great way to raise some much-needed funds for the dog shelter, as he plans to broadcast his challenge on the Internet and charge
5( $7.50)per donation. People will be able to watch a human living a dog's life and
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Le Vagan plans to offer them a realistic experience. 35 days is the average stay for a dog at the Manchester-based animal shelter. Just like the dogs brought here, Sean won't eat anything for the first four days and will have to live on with just water and a blanket. After that he will be feeding on vegetarian dog food throughout the whole event. He will only be allowed one hour of freedom per day, to use the toilet and clean up.
“It's going to be really tough. I want to really show people what homeless dogs go through, and experience it for myself,” Sean told Manchester Evening News. “People thought I was absolutely crazy when I first came up with it. The toilet will obviously be a problem so I've cut coffee, salt and sugar out of my diet to limit my water levels. I really want to do this properly. ”The young activist has chosen to begin his cage living experiment on October 5th,when the weather starts to get cold, to show what the animals have to suffer. To follow Sean's progress, check out his website, Kennel 35 and follow him on Twitter.
51. Sean decided to live in an animal cage to . A. experience a lost dog's life B. observe sick dogs' behaviour C. communicate with deserted dogs D. draw attention to homeless dogs
52. The broadcast of Sean's stay in the cage on the Internet is intended for . A. donation B. advertising C. pleasure D. challenge 53. Why did Sean design to stay in the cage for 35 days? A. A homeless dog stays as long. B. It is the limit for him to stand. C. He wants to break a record. D. He is 35 years old.
54. Sean limits his water levels to . A. keep his body healthy B. get rid of fat from his body C. avoid going to the toilet too often D. lessen the amount of food he needs
55. Why did Sean plan to carry out his experiment in cold weather? A. To save more homeless dogs. B. To act exactly like a homeless dog. C. To create a more impressing scene. D. To complete the experiment smoothly.
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D
Experts from nearly 200 countries have spent the past two weeks in Warsaw, Poland. More than 9,000 representatives gathered for a United Nations conference on climate change. Organizers called the meeting to work toward a treaty(条约)to fight rising temperatures on our planet. The treaty would be signed in 2015 and take effect after 2020.
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is leading government efforts to fight climate change. The agency just ended a series of public hearings across the country. The EPA was seeking comments as it considers tightening clean air rules for coal-burning power plants.
David Doniger is a climate policy expert. He says it is the duty of the EPA to control carbon as a pollutant. He wants the agency to establish new rules that would move the United States toward a cleaner energy environment.
“No one is coming up with standards that would knock out all those power plants. We're talking about a shift from the dirtier ones to the cleaner ones, and from all those fossil fuel-powered ones towards renewable and even nuclear sources of energy. ”
He says the government is responsible for protecting clean air, not protecting old and dirty power stations. He says,“That's the only way that we can continue to have the way of life we want without running into the wall on climate change impacts, which in turn will destroy the quality of life we have. ”
The EPA is now considering comments from the nationwide hearings. The agency plans to announce proposed rule changes in June.
56. The United Nations conference was held to . A. call for protection of wildlife B. deal with the warming climate C. make plans for nearly 200 countries D. gather opinions from the representatives
57. What action will the EPA take to fight climate change? A. Accept the opinions of the Americans. B. Develop more nuclear sources of energy. C. Make more strict rules to limit coal power plants. D. Close those power plants which pollute the air most.
58. The underlined phrase“knock out”in Paragraph 4 has the same meaning as . A. blow up B. move away C. break up D. shut down
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