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GreenpeacelaunchesrenewableenergyglobaltourWednesday,june26,hornsrev,denmark:intheleaduptotheearthsummitinjohannesburginaugust,thegreenpeaceship,therainbowwarrior,todaybeganthefirstpartofaglobaljourneytosupportthedevelopmentofrenewableenergyaroundtheworld.Offshorewindinthenorthseaalonecanproducenearlytwicetheelectricityneedsofthenorthseacountries.usingonly20%ofthatwouldsupplyone-thirdofthesecountries’electricity.greenpeacearegoingtochallengegovernmentsandindustrytomakethishappen.Therainbowwarriorsailedtodaytohornsrev,theworld’slargestoffshorewindpark,whichisbeingbuiltoffthecoastofdenmark.anothergreenpeaceship,thearcticsunrise,willbeginthesecondpartoftheglobaltourinsoutheastasianextmonth.
“duringtheseweeks,greenpeacewillbeconductingthisglobaltourwithtwoshipstoshowthatrenewableenergyisreadyandabletoreplacedirtycoal,oil,gasandnuclearpower-notonlyinthefuture,buttoday”,saidagreenpeacespokesperson.Windenergyisreportedtobecompetitivewithcoalandgaspowergenerationandclearlybeatscostlynuclear.theUKgovernment’senergyreviewclaimedthatwindenergywillbethecheapestenergysourceby2020.Nextmonth,thearcticsunrisewillbevisitingthephilippinesandthailand,wherecommunitiesarerejectingdirty,old-fashionedenergytechnologylikecoal-firedpowerstationsanddemandingclean,renewableenergy.
WillEnglishalwaysbethemaininternetlanguageTheInternet’sabilitytoconnectawiderangeofculturesencouragesvariety.However,forthetimebeing,Englishdominatesonlinebecausefromthestartitwasthelinguafrancaofcyberspace.Willthisalwaysbethecase?Currentlyabout70%ofInternetcontentisinEnglish,butonlyabout44%ofInternetusersarenativeEnglishspeakers.Worldwide,nativeSpanishspeakersoutnumbernativespeakersofEnglishonline,andthenumberofnativeChinesespeakersisgreaterthanboththosegroupsputtogether.Statisticsshowthatthesituationischanging.forinstance,threeyearsago75%ofwebpageswereinEnglish,butthatnumberhas
droppedto50%today.Furthermore,Internetuseamongnon-nativespeakersofEnglishisgrowingatafasterratethanthatofnativeEnglishspeakers.By2003,thenumberofnativeEnglish-speakingwebuserswillhavedroppedto29%,accordingtooneestimate.Asaresult,someresearcherssaythattheearlypredominanceofEnglishisgoingtodecline.theysaythatEnglishwillkeepaspecialroleinconnectingcommunitieswhosenativelanguagesaredifferent,butinabout20years’time,Spanish,French,ArabicandChinesewillalsohavetakenonthisconnectingrole.Ifthisistrue,thenmonolingualnativeEnglishspeakersmaybemorelikelytolearnanotherlanguageandalsobecomebilingual,orevenmultilingual
Hello, my name’s Zhao Yuefei. Are you a new student?---- Yes, I am. ( ) Xiao Zhao. I’m Wang Wei. A. How are you? B. I’m fine. Thank you. C. How do you do? D. Nice to meet you
Hello, Bob, I haven’t seen you for ages. How’s everything going?---- ( ) A. Oh, I agree. B. Good for you. C. Just so so. D. That’s right.
( )---- I am terribly busy these days. A. How are you? B. How are things with you, Bill? C. What are you doing? D. How do you do?
Welcome back, Mr. Smith! How about your business trip in Japan?---- ( ) A. Don’t ask me. B. Oh, fantastic! Mr. Mark is so satisfied with our project. C. I don’t like the Japanese food. D. Well, I’m looking forward to seeing you again.
Good night and thanks again.---- ( ) A. You can’t say that. B. Good night. C. How can you say that? D. Oh ,no. It’s what I can do.
The kids are kept( ) tidying up the desk. A. busy with B. busying with C. busy in D. to busy in
The water is too hot ( ). A. to drinking B. to drink C. to be drinked D. for drink
--- Would you ( ) holding the umbrella for me for a while? A. like B. want C. mind D. please
I don’t understand what she said ( ). A. in all B. after all C. at all D. all about
We ( ) in the river near our village when we were little girls. A. used to swim
B. used to swimming C. are used to swimming D. were used to swim
The angry woman stood on the station platform (月台). “The railway shouldpay me ￡14,” she said to Tony Jenks, the man in the booking office. “Myticket was for June 26th, and there was no ship from Jersey that night. Mydaughter and I had to stay in a hotel. It cost me ￡14.” Tony was worried. Heremembered selling the woman a return ticket. “Come into the office,madam,” he said politely. “I’ll just check the Jersey timetable for June 26th.”The woman and her little girl followed him inside. She was quite right, asTony soon discovered. There was no ship sailing on June 26th. How had hemade such a careless mistake? Not knowing what to do, he smiled at thechild. “You look sunburned (晒黑的),” he said to her. “Did you have a niceholiday in Jersey?” “Yes,” she answered shyly. “The beach was lovely. And Icould swim too!” “That’s fine,” said Tony. “My little girl can’t swim a bit yet.Of course, she’s only three......” “I’m four,” the child said proudly. “I’ll soonbe four and a half.” Tony turned to the mother. “I remember your ticket,madam,” he said. “But you didn’t get one for your daughter, did you?” “Er,well......” the woman looked at the child, “I mean — she hasn’t startedschool yet. She’s only four.” “A four-year-old child must have a ticket,madam. A child’s return ticket to Jersey costs — let me see —￡15.50. So ifyou want the railway to pay ￡14 for your hotel, you will have to pay therailway ￡15.50 first. The law is the law, but since the fault was mine......”The woman stood up, took the child’s hand and left the office.
1. A return ticket is a ticket that __________. A. allows a passenger to travel to a place B. one buys when one returns C. must be returned if one wants to get his money back D. allows a passenger to travel to a place and return later
2. The man in the booking office mentioned the child’s ticket in order to__________. A. send the woman away B. get back ￡15.50 C. say sorry to the woman D. make clear the importance of the law
3. According to the railway law, a child __________. A. must have a ticket just like a grown-up B. can not travel without a ticket C. below the age of four can travel without a ticket D. can travel with grown-ups without a ticket
4. At last the woman got __________ from the railway booking office. A. ￡15.50 B. ￡1.50 C. ￡14 D. nothing
5. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. After checking the timetable Tony found there was a ship from Jersey on
June 26th. B. Tony said sorry to the woman and paid her ￡14. C. The woman did not travel at all to Jersey with her daughter to spend herholiday. D. It was clear that the woman was not honest.
Paul Tibbets is a good-natured old man with thick white hair who speaksthoughtfully. The lively 85-year-old was the pilot and commander of thebomber who dropped the first-ever atom bomb on the Japanese city ofHiroshima on August 6, 1945. He is a controversial (争议的) figure in worldhistory but most Americans regard him as a hero. Tibbets never tires ofrecalling the operation that was to shape the rest of his life. More than140,000 people were killed in the atomic explosion and tens of thousands ofothers died from the after-effects of radiation (辐射). “I didn’t realize at thetime what effect dropping the atom bomb would have. Our aim was to doeverything to beat the Japanese. They were our enemies and we were atwar. We wanted to see an end to the killing so that our soldiers could comehome,” said Tibbets. Although Tibbets was following orders he has beenforced to confront the moral impact of the bombing. His name becameknown throughout the world along with that of the plane used to drop theatom bomb. From that day on he is “the man who dropped the atombomb”. “After the war I met President Truman,” said Tibbets. “He told me Ihad done my duty and that if anyone criticized me for dropping the bomb Ishould send that person to see him because he gave me the order to do so.”The retired general has been around the world a lot since then but has nevergone back to Japan.
1. What’s Paul Tibbets well-known for? A. He is famous for his good appearance. B. He is famous for his long life. C. He is known for an excellent pilot.
D. He is known as the commander who dropped the first atom bomb inJapan
2. Paul Tibbets is a person __________. A. who is regarded as a hero by all the people B. who is regarded as a hero by most Americans C. who knows well about Japanese cities D. who knows well about world history
3. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Tibbets tires of recalling the operation. B. This operation affected the rest of Tibbet’s life greatly. C. Fourteen thousand people died from the after -effects of radiation. D. Only tens of thousands of people were killed by the atomic.
4. From the passage, we probably can know that __________. A. Tibbets clearly knew the effect about dropping the atom bomb at first B. Soldiers were eager to end the war as quickly as possible C. Tibbets’ name is well-known throughout the world with that plane D. Tibbets needn’t face the moral complaint of bombing
5. The author’s description about Paul Tibbets is __________. A. glad B. sad
C. objective D. subjective
I’ve worked here since I graduated from university.
“duringtheseweeks,greenpeacewillbeconductingthisglobaltourwithtwoshipstoshowthatrenewableenergyisreadyandabletoreplacedirtycoal,oil,gasandnuclearpower-notonlyinthefuture,buttoday”,saidagreenpeacespokesperson.Windenergyisreportedtobecompetitivewithcoalandgaspowergenerationandclearlybeatscostlynuclear.theUKgovernment’senergyreviewclaimedthatwindenergywillbethecheapestenergysourceby2020.Nextmonth,thearcticsunrisewillbevisitingthephilippinesandthailand,wherecommunitiesarerejectingdirty,old-fashionedenergytechnologylikecoal-firedpowerstationsanddemandingclean,renewableenergy.
WillEnglishalwaysbethemaininternetlanguageTheInternet’sabilitytoconnectawiderangeofculturesencouragesvariety.However,forthetimebeing,Englishdominatesonlinebecausefromthestartitwasthelinguafrancaofcyberspace.Willthisalwaysbethecase?Currentlyabout70%ofInternetcontentisinEnglish,butonlyabout44%ofInternetusersarenativeEnglishspeakers.Worldwide,nativeSpanishspeakersoutnumbernativespeakersofEnglishonline,andthenumberofnativeChinesespeakersisgreaterthanboththosegroupsputtogether.Statisticsshowthatthesituationischanging.forinstance,threeyearsago75%ofwebpageswereinEnglish,butthatnumberhas
droppedto50%today.Furthermore,Internetuseamongnon-nativespeakersofEnglishisgrowingatafasterratethanthatofnativeEnglishspeakers.By2003,thenumberofnativeEnglish-speakingwebuserswillhavedroppedto29%,accordingtooneestimate.Asaresult,someresearcherssaythattheearlypredominanceofEnglishisgoingtodecline.theysaythatEnglishwillkeepaspecialroleinconnectingcommunitieswhosenativelanguagesaredifferent,butinabout20years’time,Spanish,French,ArabicandChinesewillalsohavetakenonthisconnectingrole.Ifthisistrue,thenmonolingualnativeEnglishspeakersmaybemorelikelytolearnanotherlanguageandalsobecomebilingual,orevenmultilingual
Hello, my name’s Zhao Yuefei. Are you a new student?---- Yes, I am. ( ) Xiao Zhao. I’m Wang Wei. A. How are you? B. I’m fine. Thank you. C. How do you do? D. Nice to meet you
Hello, Bob, I haven’t seen you for ages. How’s everything going?---- ( ) A. Oh, I agree. B. Good for you. C. Just so so. D. That’s right.
( )---- I am terribly busy these days. A. How are you? B. How are things with you, Bill? C. What are you doing? D. How do you do?
Welcome back, Mr. Smith! How about your business trip in Japan?---- ( ) A. Don’t ask me. B. Oh, fantastic! Mr. Mark is so satisfied with our project. C. I don’t like the Japanese food. D. Well, I’m looking forward to seeing you again.
Good night and thanks again.---- ( ) A. You can’t say that. B. Good night. C. How can you say that? D. Oh ,no. It’s what I can do.
The kids are kept( ) tidying up the desk. A. busy with B. busying with C. busy in D. to busy in
The water is too hot ( ). A. to drinking B. to drink C. to be drinked D. for drink
--- Would you ( ) holding the umbrella for me for a while? A. like B. want C. mind D. please
I don’t understand what she said ( ). A. in all B. after all C. at all D. all about
We ( ) in the river near our village when we were little girls. A. used to swim
B. used to swimming C. are used to swimming D. were used to swim
The angry woman stood on the station platform (月台). “The railway shouldpay me ￡14,” she said to Tony Jenks, the man in the booking office. “Myticket was for June 26th, and there was no ship from Jersey that night. Mydaughter and I had to stay in a hotel. It cost me ￡14.” Tony was worried. Heremembered selling the woman a return ticket. “Come into the office,madam,” he said politely. “I’ll just check the Jersey timetable for June 26th.”The woman and her little girl followed him inside. She was quite right, asTony soon discovered. There was no ship sailing on June 26th. How had hemade such a careless mistake? Not knowing what to do, he smiled at thechild. “You look sunburned (晒黑的),” he said to her. “Did you have a niceholiday in Jersey?” “Yes,” she answered shyly. “The beach was lovely. And Icould swim too!” “That’s fine,” said Tony. “My little girl can’t swim a bit yet.Of course, she’s only three......” “I’m four,” the child said proudly. “I’ll soonbe four and a half.” Tony turned to the mother. “I remember your ticket,madam,” he said. “But you didn’t get one for your daughter, did you?” “Er,well......” the woman looked at the child, “I mean — she hasn’t startedschool yet. She’s only four.” “A four-year-old child must have a ticket,madam. A child’s return ticket to Jersey costs — let me see —￡15.50. So ifyou want the railway to pay ￡14 for your hotel, you will have to pay therailway ￡15.50 first. The law is the law, but since the fault was mine......”The woman stood up, took the child’s hand and left the office.
1. A return ticket is a ticket that __________. A. allows a passenger to travel to a place B. one buys when one returns C. must be returned if one wants to get his money back D. allows a passenger to travel to a place and return later
2. The man in the booking office mentioned the child’s ticket in order to__________. A. send the woman away B. get back ￡15.50 C. say sorry to the woman D. make clear the importance of the law
3. According to the railway law, a child __________. A. must have a ticket just like a grown-up B. can not travel without a ticket C. below the age of four can travel without a ticket D. can travel with grown-ups without a ticket
4. At last the woman got __________ from the railway booking office. A. ￡15.50 B. ￡1.50 C. ￡14 D. nothing
5. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. After checking the timetable Tony found there was a ship from Jersey on
June 26th. B. Tony said sorry to the woman and paid her ￡14. C. The woman did not travel at all to Jersey with her daughter to spend herholiday. D. It was clear that the woman was not honest.
Paul Tibbets is a good-natured old man with thick white hair who speaksthoughtfully. The lively 85-year-old was the pilot and commander of thebomber who dropped the first-ever atom bomb on the Japanese city ofHiroshima on August 6, 1945. He is a controversial (争议的) figure in worldhistory but most Americans regard him as a hero. Tibbets never tires ofrecalling the operation that was to shape the rest of his life. More than140,000 people were killed in the atomic explosion and tens of thousands ofothers died from the after-effects of radiation (辐射). “I didn’t realize at thetime what effect dropping the atom bomb would have. Our aim was to doeverything to beat the Japanese. They were our enemies and we were atwar. We wanted to see an end to the killing so that our soldiers could comehome,” said Tibbets. Although Tibbets was following orders he has beenforced to confront the moral impact of the bombing. His name becameknown throughout the world along with that of the plane used to drop theatom bomb. From that day on he is “the man who dropped the atombomb”. “After the war I met President Truman,” said Tibbets. “He told me Ihad done my duty and that if anyone criticized me for dropping the bomb Ishould send that person to see him because he gave me the order to do so.”The retired general has been around the world a lot since then but has nevergone back to Japan.
1. What’s Paul Tibbets well-known for? A. He is famous for his good appearance. B. He is famous for his long life. C. He is known for an excellent pilot.
D. He is known as the commander who dropped the first atom bomb inJapan
2. Paul Tibbets is a person __________. A. who is regarded as a hero by all the people B. who is regarded as a hero by most Americans C. who knows well about Japanese cities D. who knows well about world history
3. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Tibbets tires of recalling the operation. B. This operation affected the rest of Tibbet’s life greatly. C. Fourteen thousand people died from the after -effects of radiation. D. Only tens of thousands of people were killed by the atomic.
4. From the passage, we probably can know that __________. A. Tibbets clearly knew the effect about dropping the atom bomb at first B. Soldiers were eager to end the war as quickly as possible C. Tibbets’ name is well-known throughout the world with that plane D. Tibbets needn’t face the moral complaint of bombing
5. The author’s description about Paul Tibbets is __________. A. glad B. sad
C. objective D. subjective
I’ve worked here since I graduated from university.