| 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A.B.C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试 卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话 仅读一遍。 |
| 1. Where are the speakers? |
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| A. At a garage. B. At a car store. C. At a gas station. |
| 2. Why is the woman unable to find Bob Hope? |
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| A. She has mixed up the names. B. She has called the wrong number. C. She has come to the wrong place. |
| 3. What does the man mean? |
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| A. The woman is sure to fail. B. The woman needs help. C. The woman is sure to succeed. |
| 4. What can we learn from the dialogue? |
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| A. The man has to take another bus on the way. B. A No. 22 bus will go directly to the railway station. C. The railway station is at University Street. |
| 5. What music does the man seldom listen to? |
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| A. Rock music. B. Folk music. C. Classical music. |
| 听下面一段材料，回答第1至3题。 |
| 1. Where does the man pick up the weather report? |
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| A. From TV. B. From a paper. C. From the radio. |
| 2. What does the man say about the rain? |
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| A. It will soon stop. B. It will soon start. C. It will last long. |
| 3. What does the woman think of the weather? |
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| A. Pleasant. B. Tiresome. C. Changeable. |
| 听下面一段材料，回答第1至3题。 |
| 1. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? |
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| A. Neighbors. B. Husband and wife. C. Workmates. |
| 2. What does the woman think of Mrs. Smith? |
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| A. Lazy. B. Polite. C. Trustless. |
| 3. How will Mike try to solve the problem? |
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| A. By keeping the dog in B. By persuading Mr. Srnith C. By taking violent action |
| 听下面一段材料，回答第1至3题。 |
| 1. What does the woman ten about her country? |
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| A. Its area and weather. B. Its geography and history. C. Its population and area. |
| 2. How much do most people earn in the woman's country? |
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| A. About 2 000 dollars a week. B. About 12 000 dollars a month. C. About 24 000 dollars a year. |
| 3. What do you you leam about the man's country? |
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| A. More rich people. B. Lower unemployment. C. Less crowded in the north. |
| 听下面一段材料，回答第1至3题。 |
| 1. Why does the man want running shoes? |
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| A. To practice running as a runner. B. To exercise on a sports ground. C. To exercise inside a building. |
| 2. In what aspects are the two kinds of shoes different? |
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| A. Prices and shapes. B. Prices and materials. C. Materials and shapes. |
| 3. Which shoes will the man finally buy? |
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| A. Lightweight shoes. B. High-quality shoes. C. Running-shoe-style shoes. |
| 听下面一段材料，回答第1至3题。 |
| 1. What might the small plane be carrying? |
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| A. Tapes. B. Tents. C. Tourists. |
| 2. Which place might be flooded next? |
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| A. South to Queensland. B. West to Queensland. C. Southwest of Queensland. |
| 3. What is the result of the storms in Europe? |
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| A. Water supply is cut off. B. Power is cut off. C. Communication is cut off. |
| Last month, thousands of workers in that city went on _____ strike, demanding lower taxes and _____ end to cutting staff members. |
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| A. a; the B. a; an C. 不填; an D. 不填; the |
| — He is eager to try something he has never tried before. — Oh, I see. That's _____ he's different from others. |
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| A. when B. where C. how D. what |
| Knowing office rules-whether _____ or not-is critical, especially for young job seekers. |
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| A. written B. writing C. being written D. having been |
| The Expo site should be _____ from anywhere in the city of Shanghai within 90 minutes by bus, subways and special taxis. |
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| A. adoptable B. acceptable C. available D. accessible |
| Don't refer to the dictionary every time you come across a new word as sometimes its meaning may be _____ clearly in a given context. |
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| A. picked out B. ruled out C. brought out D. taken out |
| — How much of the foreign expert's speech have you understood? — Next to nothing. I wish I _____ harder at English. |
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| A. worked B. had worked C. would work D. were working |
| The process of producing electricity may also give out CO2, _____ you heat your house with electricity instead of charcoal. |
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A. even if B. as long as C. as if D. as soon as |
| 一 Where have you been all day? — I _____ some former classmates and I couldn't get back until it was dark. |
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| A. have met B. met C. would meet D. had met |
| I can hardly remember any occasions____I get caught in a traffic jam in our town. |
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A. which B. that C. where D. when |
| 一 Now the weight. Only 115. You'd better put on a few pounds. 一 Wel1, actually I _____ like a horse. |
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| A. ate B. was eating C. have been eating D. will eat |
| To keep safe _____ an earthquake, you should remain at a spot in your room where nothing may fall on you. |
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| A. in search of B. in advance of C. in terms of D. in case of |
| 一 Will it take me long to get to the Sunshine Hotel? — No, it _____ take you long. It's not the rush hour now. |
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| A. shouldn't B. shan't C. mustn't D. needn't |
| _____ along with host families, I believe, language travel students are likely to get enough language practice. |
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| A. Stay B. Having stayed C. Staying D. To stay |
| The policeman told me that I had passed the driving test and never in my life _____ so happy and excited. |
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A. I felt B. did I feel C. I had felt D. had I felt |
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一 You mean the position is still vacant? — Yes, but you must know our job is very demanding. — _____. |
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A. With pleasure B. I don't mind C. Don't mention it D. That's all right |
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| A1ice, my frierld's daughter, goes to an expensive private school where she has a friend, Jane, who is on a full scholarship at this school. Jane has 1 economic resources-her father has been dead for years and her mother works 2 a maid. Although her mother works very hard, she can 3 support the family. Jane is very bright and gifted at 4 and that's how she has got the scholarship, which included a(n) 5 for things like lunch, school uniform and music lessons. Alice became friends with Jane and would 6 talk to her at lunch. She did it that way in order to avoid the other kids 7 her. On her birthday last month, she 8 her new friend to her birthday party, but Jane said she couldn't come. Alice wanted her to be 9 so much that she 10 on her coming. Eventually, the girl said, "I don't have any 11 clothes that I could wear at your birthday party." After a brief pause, the girl remembered, "I have a 12 from my piano perfomance," and asked, "Could I 13 a skirt from you?" Alice was happy that her friend would be 14 to come and hurried home to ask her Mum 15 she could lend her friend one of her skirts. To her surprise, her Mum said, "No." The daughter was very 16 and angrily said to her Mum, " 17 I could, I would give my friend all my clothes." The Mother didn't understand why her daughter should have had such an outburst as she's normally very well 18 . Fimlly, Alice explained to her Mother her friend's 19 . Her Mother immediately changed her mind and said, "Yes." She also encouraged her daughter not to feel like she should secretly be friends with Jane but to feel proud of her 20 with her. So the true friendship seeks to give, not to take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto. | ||||
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| Saving the Planet with Earth-Friendly Bamboo Products Jackie Heinricher's love affair with bamboo started in her backyard. "As a child, I remember playing among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a slight wind, the bamboos sounded really musical." A fisheries biologist, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in the salmon industry in Seattle, where she lived with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, but she found it too competitive. Then her garden gave her the idea for a business:She'd planted 20 bamboo forests on their seven-acre farm. Heinricher started Boo-Shoot Gardens in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to be known to the rest of the world. It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, fumiture, floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen. First she had to find a way to mass-produce the plants-a tough task, since bamboo nowers create seed only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it. Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr, a tissue culture expert, to help her. "People kept telling us we'd never figure it out," says Heinricher. "Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were doing, though, so I just kept going." She was right to feel a sense of urgency. Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up, and a United Nations report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable, as rnany as half of the world's species are threatened with dying out. Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on carbon emissions (排放) and world economies, but only if huge numbers could be pmduced. And that's just what she and Burr figured out after nine years of experiments-a way to grow millions of plants. By placing cuttings in test tubes with salts, vitamins,plant hormones, and seaweed gel, they got the plants to grow and then raised them in soil in greenhouses. Not long after it, Burr's lab hit financial difftculties. Heinricher had rlo experience running a tissue culture operation, but she wasn't prepared to quit. So she bought the lab. Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimillion-dollar company, working on species from all over the world and selling them to wholesalers. "If you want to farm bamboo, it's hard to do without the young plants, and that's what we have," she says proudly. |
| 1. What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely? |
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| A. They didn't have enough young bamboo. B. They were short of money and experience. C. They didn't have a big enough farm to do it. D. They were not understood by other people. |
| 2. What does Heinricher think of bamboo? |
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| A. Fragile and affordable B. Productive and flexible C. Useful and earth-friendly D. Strong and profitable |
| 3. The underlined word "renewable" in Paragraph 6 probably means "_____". |
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| A. able to be replaced naturally B. able to be raised difficultly C. able to be shaped easily D. able to be recycled conveniently |
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| A. Heinricher's love for bamboo led to her experlments in the lab. B. Heinricher's detennimtion helped her to succeed in her work. C. Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing. D. Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream. |
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| If you enjoyed the spring-like sunshine over the weekend and thought the weather has finally turned a comer, you're sadly mistaken. Chilly (寒冷) days and grey clouds are forecast for the week-making it far too early to pack away the winter woollies. Temperatures will struggle to rise above zero at night and fail to make double figures during the day. People enjoy the spring sunshine in Sefton Park, Aigburth, Liverpool. Forecasters have predicted a return to chilly weather this week. Met office forecaster Charlie said. "It was a nice, dry, bright weekend in many parts and Monday is going to be a similar affair for many." "Temperatures will be between 5℃ and 8℃, which is below average for the start of spring." The sun will disappear from the south of the country after today, with dry but cloudy conditions forecast for tomorrow and Wednesday. Wednesday will be warmest of the three, with temperatures peaking at 9℃. But this is still two degrees below the March average for the district. Overnight, temperatures will drop sharply with lows of minus 30℃ for the next three nights. "It will generally stay on the cold side of average," said Mr. Powell. The March misery comes at the end of the coldest winter for more than 30 years. Temperatures in December, January and February struggled to stay above zero, with the UK's average l.5℃, making it the deepest freeze since 1978-79. It claimed there was just a one-in-seven chance of a cold December to February. The agency also sadly predicted a "barbecue summer", saying it was "quite optimistic" that it would be warmer and drier than average. Following the two mistakes, the Met Office has dropped its long-range seasonal forecasts and will instead publish a monthly prediction for Britain, updated once a week. In its defense, it says that while short-term forecasts are extremely accurate, Britain's size and geographical position makes long-term predictions much more challenging. It also points out that it gave warning of any heavy falls of snow this winter. |
| 1. According to the passage, the weather on Tuesday in the south might be _____. |
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| A. dry but cloudy B. sunny but chilly C. sunny and warm D. cloudy and chilly |
| 2. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? |
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| A. British people can put away their winter clothes now. B. The Met Office has shortened its forecast range. C. The weather forecast becomes more and more accurate. D. The agency was quite confident of long-term predictions. |
| 3. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? |
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| A. The big chill isn't over yet B. A warm spring finally arrives C. A heavy snow is on the way D. The Met Office drops forecasts |
| 4. From the passage, we can conclude _____. |
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| A. the weather report is more and more important B. British people become worried about bad weather C. Britain has just experienced a very freezing winter D. the agency can always predict heavy snow falls accurately |
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| Two Earthquakes in Two Months: Comparing the Quakes in Haiti (海地) and Chile (智利) Overview (概要) How do the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti compare? Here, students perform a gallery walk to learn more about the earthquakes from a specific point, and then do a specific research and presentation project or response activity. Finally, they seek answers to their unanswered questions. Materials Print copies of photographs, charts, documents and other visuals to display, as described below; computer(s) with Internet access (optional), research materials, handouts. Warm-up Choose and prepare a "gallery" of photographs, graphics, news reports and other materials to display around the room to enable students to consider the 2010 earthquake in Chile. Depending on course program, choose materials for the gallery that provide a window on the two quakes, through one of the following specific points, or the focus of your choice: Earthquakes through History Putting the 2010 Chilean and Haitian quakes into historical view related to other earthquakes, including the 1960 Chilean quake and the 2004 Asian earthquake and tsunami. Rescue and Aid Considering domestic and international response to the disasters by militaries, governments and aid organizations, including rescue and recovery as well as efforts to provide food, water, health care and shelter to those affected. Related The article Underwater Plate Cuts '400 Mile Gash compares several earthquakes: Mr. Lin figured that the quake on Saturday was 250 to 350 times more powerful than the Haitian quake. But Paul Caruso noted that at least on land, the effects of the Chilean tremor (震动) might not be as bad. For one thing, he said, the quality of building construction is generally better in Chile than in Haiti. And the fact that the quake occurred offshore should also help limit the destruction. In Haiti, the rupture (断裂) occurred only a few miles from the capital, Port-au-Prince. The rupture on Saturday was centered about 60 miles from the nearest town, Chillan, and 70 miles from the country's second-largest city, Concepcion. Read the article using the following questions. Questions For discussion with others and reading comprehension: How does the 2010 Chilean earthquake compare to the 1960 Chilean earthquake? Why do scientists believe that the 2010 Chilean earthquake will not cause the same level of damage as January's Haitian earthquake did? How does the 2010 Chilean earthquake compare to the 2004 Indonesian earthquake? What reasons do scientists give to explain why the Indonesian quake caused so much more damage than the recent Chilean earthquake? |
| 1. Which of the following shows one of the reasons for slighter losses in Chile than in Haiti? |
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| 2. We can infer that the article Underwater Plate Cuts 400 Mile Gash includes _____. |
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| A. the causes of the 2010 Chilean earthquake and the 1960 Chilean earthquake B. the comparison between the 2010 Haitian and the 2004 Indonesian earthquakes C. the reason for the 2010 Chilean quake being more powerful than January's Haitian earthquake D. the reason for less damage in the 2010 Chilean quake than in the 2004 Indonesian earthquake |
| 3. What is the passage most likely to be? |
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| A. A program for research. B. A guide to earthquake study. C. An advertisement for students. D. An introduction to quakes. |
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| Quickly, the picture comes alive with hyperlinks (超链接), offering the names of the buildings, towers and street features that appear in the photo. The hyperlinks lead to information about the history, services and context of all the features in the photo. You have just hyperlinked your reality. That might be a little unbelievable, but the technology exists and is no fevered imagination. This is not a cool small machine invented for the next James Bond movie; this is a working technology just developed by European researchers. It could be coming to a phone near you, and soon. This, as the marketing types say, is a game changer. It develops a completely new interface (界面) that combines web-technology with the real world. It is big and fresh, but it goes much further and has much greater influence. The development of the system is most outstanding because image recognition technology has long been pregnant with promise, but seemed to suffer from an unending labour. Now MOBVIS has not only developed image recognition; it has also developed more applications for the technology; and it has adapted it to the world's most popular technology: the mobile phone. The MOBVIS system completely rewrites the rules for exploration and interaction with your physical environment. The system begins with panoramas (一连串景象). These panoramas form the basis of a city database. It can match buildings, towers, banners and even logos that appear in the panoramas. A user simply takes a picture of the street feature, MOBVIS compares the user's photograph to the panoramas and then identifies the buildings from the picture you take and the relevant links are returned. Then you simply click on the Imks, using a touch-screen phone, and the MOBVIS system will provide information on the history, art, architecture or even the menu, if it is a restaurant, of the building in question. |
| 1. Which is introduced in the passage? |
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| A. A new game software. B A popular mobile phone. C. A cool small machine. D. An image recognition system. |
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| A. It can only be put into use on mobile phones. B. It is a little unbelievable and just a fevered imagination. C. It has taken an unending labor to bring the technology into our lives. D. It will encourage the users to take more pictures of the street features. |
| 3. What is the right order of the operation of MOBVIS? a. A city database forms in the system b. MOBVIS recognizes the picture and links are returned c. A user touches the links on the phone screen d. A user takes a picture of the street feature. e. MOBVIS provides information in question |
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| A. a; e; c; d; b; B. a; d; b; c; e C. d; c; e; a; b D. c; a; e; b; d |
| 4. From the passage, we can infer that _____. |
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| A. MOBVIS has already been widely used all over the world B. the writer is trying to promote the sales of the MOBVIS system C. this new technology will soon be very popular in our lives D. the sales of mobile phones will decrease as MOBVIS comes on market |
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| Waste to Energy-JUST BURN IT! WHY BURN WASTE? Waste-to-energy plants generate (产生) enough electricity to supply 2.4 million households in the US. But, provrding electricity is not the major advantage of waste-to-energy plants. In fact, it costs more to generate electrlcity at a waste-to-energy plant than it does at a coal, nuclear, or hydropower plant. The maior advantage of burning waste is that it considerably reduces the amount of trash going to landfills. The average American produces more than l,600 pounds of waste a year. If all this waste were landfilled, it would take more than two cubic yards of landfill space. That's the volume of a box three feet long, three feet wide, and six feet high. If that waste were burned, the ashes would fit into a box three feet long, three feet wide, but only nine inches high! Some communities in the Northeast may be running out of land for new landfills. And, since most people don't want landfills in their backyards, it has become more difficult to obtain permits to build new landfms. Taking the country as a whole, the United States has plenty of open space, of course, but it is expensive to transport garbage a long distance to put it mto a landfill. TO BURN OR NOT TO BURN? Some people are concerned that burning garbage may harm the environment. Like coal plants, waste-to- energy plants produce air pollution when the fuel is bumed to produce steam or electricity. Burning garbage releases the chemicals and substances found in the waste. Some chemicals can be a threat to people, the environment, or both, if they are not properly controlled. Some critics of waste-to-energy plants are afraid that burning waste will hamper (妨碍, 阻碍) recycling programs. If everyone sends their trash to a waste-to-energy plant, they say, there will be little motive to recycle. Several states have considered or are cons idering banning waste-to-energy plants unless recycling programs are in place. Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York City have delayed new waste-to-energy plants, hoping to increase the level of recycling first. So, what's the real story? Can recycling and burning waste coexist? At first glance, recycling and waste- to-energy seem to be at odds (不一致), but they can actually complement (弥补) each other. That's because it makes good sense to recycle some materials, and better sense to burn others. Let's look at aluminum, for example. Aluminum mineral is so expensive to mine that recycling aluminum more than pays for itself. Burning it produces no energy. So clearly, aluminum is valuable to recycle and not useful to burn. Paper, on the other hand, can either be burned or recycled-it all depends on the price the used paper will bring. Plastics are another matter. Because plastics are made from petroleum and natural gas, they are excellent sources of energy for waste-to-energy plants. This is especially true since plastics are not as easy to recycle as steel, aluminum, or paper. Plastics almost always have to be hand sorted and making a product from recycled plastics may cost more than making it from new materials. To burn or not to burn is not really the question. We should use both recycling and waste-to-energy as alternatives to landfilling. |
Waste to Energy-JUST BURN IT!  |
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| 下图描绘的是现在人类面临的窘境。请你根据对下面这幅漫画的理解用英语写一篇短文， 描述这种现象，说明其产生的原因及后果，并发表你的看法。  注意：1. 仔细品味图中的幽默，要适当发挥想象，不要做简单描述。 2. 词数150左右。开头已经写好，不计入总词数。 3. 作文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。 Nowadays, human beings are faced with an embarrassing situation. ___________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ |
