By 2012,the world may need to cope with as many as 50 million people who have fled their homeland,not for political or economic reasons but because the environment has been so badly changed that it cannot support life. The statement has been released by the United Nations to mark UN Disaster Reduction Day.
More people are made homeless by environmental disasters than by war,according to the research by the Red Cross. That reality is proved by the earthquake in Pakistan.
The widely publicized disaster has brought aid from the global community,according to Janos Bogardi,director of the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security. “If we can move swiftly in and give them a new start where they are,then they may stay in the area. Otherwise,they become environmental refugees. Environmental­related migrations are most acute in Sub­Saharan Africa,but they also affect millions of people in Asia and India. Meanwhile,the United States is witnessing increased pressure from victims of mismanaged and worsening soil and water conditions in Mexico and Latin America.” he says. Janos Bogardi says these refugees suffer from the impact of gradual environmental change—global warming,sea level rise,air and water pollution and more intense storms,floods and droughts that degrade the land. This is a slow process,but unfortunately a process that is very difficult to go backwards once final damage is done.
Janos Bogardi says they are calling on the global community to recognize the serious situation of environmental refugees and to work together to lessen the impact of environmental disaster.
【小题1】What may be the best title of the passage?

A.50 Million environmental refugees by 2010
B.Environmental refugees—an international problem
C.The cause of environmental disasters
D.Global aid pouring in
【小题2】Janos Bogardi’s attitude towards solving the problem is that of being ________.
A.constructive       B.compromising
C.controversialD.conservative
【小题3】According to the passage,the following are the main reasons for migrations except ________.
A.earthquakeB.water conditions
C.global communityD.worsening soil
【小题4】What is implied in the passage?
A.People all over the world have realized the impact of environmental disasters on refugees.
B.It is time for us to take some measures to solve the problem of environmental refugees.
C.The damaged soil can recover soon if people take care of it.
D.It is good for people to go elsewhere to make a living.

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请阅读下列应用文及相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

以下是演讲会的资料:

A

Are you interested in “Dream of the Red Mansion” (Hong Lou Meng)? Listen to a lecture on this classical novel.

Venue: National Museum of Chinese Modern Literature (Beijing)

Time: 9:30 a.m.

Price: free

Tel: 010 – 84615522

B

“Jiaguwen” is among the oldest pictographic characters in the world.How much do you know about it? Get all the answers at this free lecture.

Venue: Dongcheng District Library (Beijing)

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Price: free

Tel: 010 – 64013356

C

Former United Nations interpreter Professor Wang Ruojin speaks about her experiences at the UN and shares her understanding of the cultural differences between East and West.

Venue: National Library of China (Beijing)

Time: 1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p. m.

Price: free

Tel: 010 – 68488047

D

Qi Baishi, one of China’s greatest modern painters, was also a poet, calligrapher(书法家) and seal-cutter(刻印者). Can you appreciate his works? Then come to spend the time with us.

Venue: Beijing Art Academy

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Price: 10 yuan

Tel: 010 - 65023390

E

It is the year of the Dog, and you can see “Fu” everywhere. But how much do you know about dogs – man’s best friend? What is “Fu” and where does it come from? Why do people hang “Fu” character upside down on the door? Get all the answers from this free lecture.

Venue: Capital Library (Beijing)

Time: 2:00 p. m.

Price: free

Tel: 010 - 67358114

F

About 160 cultural relics from Guangdong, Macao and Hong Kong are on display to April 15th. Meanwhile experts will talk about the important roles these three cities have played in the past two thousand years of Sino–Western exchanges.

Venue: Beijing Art Museum

Time: 2:00 p. m. – 5:00 p. m.

Price: 20 yuan, students 10 yuan

Tel: 010 - 83659337

 

以下是想去听演讲的人员的基本信息,请匹配适合他们的演讲内容。

71. Alice is now studying in Beijing University, and she is especially interested in Chinese writing. In her spare time she enjoys drawing, writing poems and is fond of sharing her pieces with her classmates.

72. Simon comes from Egypt. He is now studying in Beijing Art Academy. He shows great interest in Chinese ancient characters. Now he wants to know much about it.

73. Lora and Peter, visiting professors from Australia, are both crazy about Chinese traditional culture. At weekends they like to call on Chinese families to learn about Chinese festivals as well as their history.

74. Edward is a senior student in Beijing Foreign Language University. He likes traveling very much and has made up his mind to work as an interpreter for some joint–venture enterprises (合资企业).

75. Steve and Mark are both studying in the Chinese Department of China’s Renmin University. They want to do some research on Chinese ancient literature.

 

After moving to the United States, immigrant groups trying to fit in tend to choose high calorie fatty foods in an attempt to appear more American,a new study finds.That's one reason why immigrants approach US levels of obesity within 15 years of moving to America.

    The researchers also did an experiment that measured whether or not the threat of appearing un-American influenced respondents' food choices.After being questioned about their ability to speak English,75 percent of Asian-Americans identified a typical American food as their favorite. Only 25 percent of Asian-Americans who had not been asked if they spoke English did the same.

    When their American identity was called into question during a follow-up study, Asian-American participants also tended to choose typical American dishes,such as hamburgers and cheese sandwiches.In that experiment, 55 Asian-Americans were asked to choose a meal from a local Asian or American restaurant. Some participants were told that only Americans could participate in the study. Those who chose the more typical American fare ended up consuming an extra 182 calories,including 12 grams of fat and 7 grams of saturated fat(饱和脂肪).

"People who feel like they need to prove they belong to a culture will change their habits in an attempt to fit in,"said Sauna Cheryan,an author of the study and assistant professor of psychology at the University of Washington." If immigrants and their children choose unhealthy American foods over healthier traditional foods across their lives,this process of fitting in could lead to poorer health." Cheryan added.

    Social pressures,the study concluded, are at the heart of the problem."In American society today, being American is associated with being white.Americans,who don't fit this image even if they were born here and speak English,feel that pressure to prove that they're American," said Cheryan.

1.The author wants to show that __________.

A. more and more Asians enjoy high-calorie snacks

B. immigrants tend to eat American junk food to fit in

C. most Americans are at the risk of heart disease

D. all the American people have a bad eating habit

2.According to the survey, __________.

A. Asian-Americans care less about their health

B. 25 percent of Americans like junk food

C. choosing food is related to Asian-Americans' situation

D. immigrants are forced to eat junk food

3.The underlined word "fare" in Paragraph 4 most probably means" __________".

A. food offered as a meal                              B. a person taking a taxi

C. money spent on food                           D. an arranged thing to do

4.According to Sauna Cheryan, __________.

A. what immigrants have done is ridiculous 

B. American traditional foods are healthier

C. immigrants risk their health in order to fit in

D. American culture affects immigrants deeply

5.Which of the following should take the blame for the bad eating habit?

A. The situation of employment.                        B. The traditional culture.

C. The American government.                          D. The pressures from society.

 

完形填空。
     In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the
first meeting of an introductory   1   course about 20 years ago.
     The professor   2   the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans (豆), and invited
the students to   3  how many beans the jar contained. After   4   shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor
smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the   5   answer, and went on saying, "You have just   6   an important
lesson about science. That is: Never   7   your own senses."
     Twenty years later, the   8   could guess what the professor had in mind. He   9   himself, perhaps, as
inviting his students to start an exciting  10  into an un- known world invisible (无形的) to the  11 , which can
be discovered only through scientific  12 . But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even  13  the
invitation She was just  14  to understand the world. And she  15  that her firsthand experience could be the
  16 . The professor, however, said that it was  17 . He was taking away her only  18  for knowing and was
providing her with no substitute (替代) "I remember feeling small and  19 ." the woman says, "and I did the
only thing I could do. I  20  the course that afternoon, and I haven't gone near science since."
(     )1. A. art            
(     )2. A. searched for   
(     )3. A. count          
(     )4. A. warning        
(     )5. A. ready          
(     )6. A. learned        
(     )7. A. lose           
(     )8. A. lecturer       
(     )9. A. described      
(     )10. A. voyage        
(     )11. A. professor     
(     )12. A. model         
(     )13. A. hear          
(     )14. A. suggesting    
(     )15. A. believed      
(     )16. A. growth        
(     )17. A. firm          
(     )18. A. ask           
(     )19. A. cruel         
(     )20. A. dropped       
B. history     
B. looked at   
B. guess       
B. giving      
B. possible    
B. prepared    
B. trust       
B. scientist   
B. respected   
B. movement    
B. eye         
B. senses      
B. make        
B. beginning   
B. doubted     
B. strength    
B. interesting       
B. tool        
B. proud       
B. started     
C. science        
C. got through    
C. report         
C. turning away   
C. correct        
C. taught         
C. sharpen        
C. speaker        
C. saw            
C. change        
C. knowledge 
C. spirit         
C. present        
C. pretending     
C. proved         
C. faith          
C. wrong          
C. success        
C. frightened     
C. passed         
D. math         
D. marched into 
D. watch        
D. listening to 
D. difficult    
D. taken        
D. show         
D. woman        
D. served                       
D. rush         
D. light        
D. methods      
D. refuse       
D. waiting      
D. explained    
D. truth        
D. acceptable   
D. connection   
D. brave        
D. missed       

"Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell."

This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an un-known citizen who lived in Rome in AD 52 wrote it.

We all love new invention .They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives.

But have all these developments really improve the quality of our lives?

Picture this: You're rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is get- ting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work.. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How calm and happy do you feel?

Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling stressed and tired .Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have not telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier ? Perhaps because they lead simpler lives.                                      

One family in the UK went back in time "to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin, 10, and Tomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.        

The grandmother, Lyn, said, "It was hard physically, but not mentally.” She believed life was less materialistic."The more things you have , the more difficult life becomes .”She said.The boys said they fought less to fight over, such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a "trendy (时髦的) , beer-drinking granny , to one who cooked things."

Here are some simple ways to beat the stress often caused by our inventions!

Don't be available all the time. Turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day .Don't check your e-mail every day.

Don't reply to somebody as soon as they leave a text message just because you can. It may be fun at first, but it soon gets annoying.

1.The passage is mainly about________.       

    A.problem with technology

    B.improvements of our life with technology

    C.the important roles technology plays in our everyday life

    D.major changes which will be likely to happen to technology

2.The writer quoted (引用) what a citizen in ancient Rome said at the beginning of the story in order to________.

    A.share a truth about life

    B.tell us what life was like long time ago

    C.make us wonder what causes such a thing to happen

    D.point out that you experience some big problems and they may be the same

3.Why did the family choose to spend some time in a 1940's house? Because ________.

    A.they liked to live simple lives

    B.they were curious about how people lived without modern inventions

    C.they were troubled by modern inventions

    D.living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them

4.What do you think the underlined word "available" in the first suggestion offered by the writer mean?

    A.Busy on line.                                B.Free.                       

       C.Be able to.                        D.Be found by others

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