An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sales of bottled water from Japan. The water, it angrily argues in public, has traveled 10,000 “food miles” before it reached Western customers. Transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK. It is also worrying that we were wasting our fuel by buying prawns from Indonesia (7,000 food miles ) and carrots from South Africa (5,900 food miles).

Counting the number of miles traveled done by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage due to industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient. It should be noticed that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck to a farmers’ market doesn’t necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides, the idea of “food miles” ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana. The difference is that the British ones will have been raised in heated greenhouse and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.

What is the idea of “food miles” does provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World countries from First World food markets. The number of miles traveled by our food should, as I see it, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global trade system, not a sign of damage to the environment.

1.The Food Commission is angry because it thinks that ________.

A. UK wastes a lot of money importing food products

B. some imported goods causes environmental damage

C. growing certain vegetables causes environmental damage

D. people wasted energy buying food from other countries

2. The phrase “food miles” in the passage refers to the distance ________.

A. that a food product travels to a market

B. that a food product travels from one market to another

C. between UK and other food producing countries

D. between a Third World country and a First World food market

3.By comparing tomatoes raised in Britain and in Ghana, the author tries to explain that ________.

A. British tomatoes are healthier than Ghanaian ones

B. Ghanaian tomatoes taste better than tomatoes ones

C. cutting down food miles may not necessarily save fuel

D. protecting the environment may cost a lot of money

4. From the passage we know that the author is most probably ________.

A. a supporter of free global trade

B. a member of a Food Commission

C. a supporter of First World food markets

D. a member of an energy development group

完形填空,阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A, B, C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The first day of school our professor asked us to know someone we didn't know. I turned ________ to find a little lady smiling at me .She said, "Hi handsome. I’m Rose, eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a ________ ?"

I laughed and responded, "Of course you ________!" and she gave me a big squeeze.(挤压)

"Why are you in college at such an innocent(无辜的) ________ ?" I asked.

She ________ replied, " To meet a ________ husband, get married, and have a couple of kids..."

"No seriously," I asked.

"I always ________having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.

After class we talked a lot and became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would ________ class together and then talk nonstop. Actually, she easily ________ friends wherever she went.

________the end of the semester we ________ Rose to speak at our football banquet(宴会).

I'll never forget what she ________ us. As she began to________ her speech, she ________ her cards on the floor. As we laughed she________ her throat(喉咙) and began, "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old________we stop playing. There are four ________ to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find ________ every day. You have to have a dream. When you________ your dreams, you die”.

She ended her ________ by courageously singing "The Rose."(258words)

1.A. round B.on C. off D. away

2.A.gift B. hug C. kiss D. dream

3.A. must B. may C. will D. should

4.A. time B. year C. age D. period

5.A. interestingly B. seriously C. innocently D. jokingly

6.A. tall B. poor C. rich D. small

7.A. waited for B. heard of C. hunted for D. dreamed of

8.A. attend B. leave C. skip D. have

9.A. had B. made C. found D. became

10.A. At B. By C. In D. To

11.A. invited B. required C. demanded D. told

12.A. gave B. taught C. spoke D. asked

13.A. tell B. deliver C. say D. speak

14.A. put B. lay C. left D. dropped

15.A. cleaned B. washed C. cleared D. opened

16.A. as B. so C. because D. if

17.A. steps B. answers C. secrets D. solutions

18.A. stories B. happiness C. dreams D. humor

19.A. find B. realize C. achieve D. lose

20.A. speech B. story C. dream D. song

Since around the later part of the 1950s, society started to realize that tobacco cigarettes caused health problems. As research progressed along with increasing numbers of people that developed lung cancer, emphysema, and other smoking related illnesses, cigarette smoking has become less accepted and popular. Unfortunately, the nicotine contained in cigarettes is one of the most addictive substances on the planet and makes quitting smoking one of the hardest things to do. In 2003, Chinese pharmacist, Hon Lik invented the electronic cigarette as a safer, and cleaner way to breathe in nicotine after his father, a heavy smoker, passed away from lung cancer attributed to smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Hon Lik applied for his first patent on the electronic cigarette in 2003 and afterwards introduced e-cigs to the Chinese market in the following year through his employer, Golden Dragon Holdings. Golden Dragon Holdings later changed the company’s name to “Ruyan” in order to better match the company’s name(Ruyan means “almost like smoke”)to the new product. Since the renaming, the Ruyan company has continued e-cigarette development and grown to be one of the largest global e-cig manufactures.

Dr.Sam Han, CEO of Cixi E-CIG Technology, Inc, Ltd. also has a number of e-cig related inventions, including four patents in the United States and two in China that are electronic cigarette and e-liquid technology related. Similar to Hon Lik’s father. Dr. Han was a heavy smoker for more than 40 years before beginning to work on electronic cigarette technologies in order to help himself and others make the shift to vapor smoking. Dr.Han continues to market and conduct R&D in e-cig related techonologies to this date.

After the successful deployment of Ruyan and Cixi E-CIG electronic cigarettes in China and Asia, the products started to be sold in significant quantities on the Internet.

1.How many years is it since the electronic cigarette was first invented according to the passage?

A. About 5 years. B. About 11 years.

C. About15 years. D.About 20 years.

2.What’s the direct reason why Hon Lik invented the electronic cigarette according to the passage ?

A. Tobacco cigarettes caused health problems.

B. Tobacco cigarettes were too expensive for customers to buy.

C. Quitting smoking became one of the hardest things to do.

D. His father died from lung cancer due to smoking tobacco cigarettes.

3.Since when have Chinese smokers have been able to buy Hon Lik’s electronic cigarettes according to the passage?

A.2000. B.2003. C.2004. D.2005.

4.What’s the correct order of the following events according to the passage?

① Hon Lik applied for his first patent on the electronic cigarette.

② Hon Lik’s father died from lung cancer because of smoking tobacco cigarettes.

③ Hon Lik’s electronic cigarettes were introduced to the Chinese market.

④ The name of the company Golden Dragon Holdings was changed to “Ruyan”.

A. ①③②④ B.①④②③

C.②④①③ D.②①③④

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