题目内容
--- How soon will you start your journey?
--- I'm not sure. I haven't decided_______.
A. when shall I ask the boss for leave
B. where I will go to spend the holiday
C. if I would go by train or by plane
D. who should I travel with
B
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| A. Dams hold water to irrigate (灌溉) fields and make power. B. The source (源头) of the Yellow River is drying up because of it. C. It used to carry 32 billion m³ of water a year. D. How does it happen? E. Its source on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原) is drying up. |
March 22nd is World Water Day every year. According to a report from the United Nations in 2006, more than half of the world’s major rivers have serious water loss and are polluted.
The Yellow River, the world’s fifth longest river, watered some of the oldest farms on earth. But now it has a serious problem. 1 In most of the past 35 years, it didn’t reach the sea.
The Nile in Egypt, running 6, 650 kms, is the longest river in the world. 2 Now it is down to 2 billion m³ or so. Australia’s Murray River reaches the sea only every other year. One fifth of America’s Rio Grande has no water, either.
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Mostly, it’s damming (筑坝) and global warming that make rivers dry. 4 Now about 45, 000 of them lie across the world’s rivers. They hold back around 15% of the world’s fresh water from running to the sea.
Global warming is making things worse. Warmer weather takes water away. The glaciers (冰川) are becoming smaller. 5 Global warming has had certain effects on water sources. Droughts (干旱) happening around the world make people pay more attention to this fact.
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Playing with friends, going to a party, having a meal in a restaurant or receiving a birthday gift—as a teenager, you go to different places and meet different kinds of people. Everything you do leaves an impression (印象). So manners are very important.
Arriving 30 minutes late for a date may say: “This isn’t that important to me.” Taking a cell phone call while talking to your friend may say: “The caller is more important than the person standing in front of me.” Failing to show thanks to a gift-giver may say: “I don’t like the gift.”
Is that the message you really want to send? Maybe not. You do not want to be rude, but sometimes what you do makes people think you’re impolite.
How can you change that? First, you should know the proper ways to behave around people. We call this manners. Manners are about being honest, respectful (尊重) and considerate (考虑周到的). Good manners show in small things. Start to make your manners better now!
You could start by adding “please” and “thank you” to your vocabulary and avoiding bad language. You could start by holding a door open for someone after you to go through. You could start by showing up on time instead of letting others wait for you.
Start now! Start a new life and start to be a teenager with good manners!
| Having good manners | |
| The importance of manners | Everything you do leaves an impression. |
| Examples of bad manners | Arriving late may mean the date is not important. |
| Taking a call while talking to a friend may mean your friend is (1) important than the caller. | |
| Not showing thanks to a gift-giver may mean you (2) the gift. | |
| Start to (3) your manners | Use “please” and “thank you” to (4) bad language. |
| Hold a door open for someone (5) you. | |
| Show up on time. |