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Edward Snowden—the fugitive （逃亡者） former U．S．intelligence employee —appears to be stuck in Moscow, unable to leave without a valid American passport, according to interviews Sunday with two men who had sought to aid him: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange and Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa．
Snowden, 30, arrived at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport last weekend, after previously taking refuge in Hong Kong． Moscow was only supposed to be a stopover．WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization, had said Snowden was headed on to Ecuador—whose president has been critical of the United States — and that he would seek asylum there．
Now, however, both men said Snowden is unable to leave．
"The United States, by canceling his passport, has left him for the moment trapped in Russia," said Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, on ABC ' s " This Week With George Stephanopoulos"． The United States canceled Snowden' s passport last weekend． Assange criticized the United States, saying: " To take a passport from a young man in a difficult situation like that is a disgusting action．"
President Correa spoke to the Associated Press in Puerto Viejo, Ecuador． For now, he told the AP, Snowden was "under the care of the Russian authorities． "
"This is the decision of Russian authorities． He doesn't have a passport． I don't know the Russian laws, I don' t know if he can leave the airport, but I understand that he can' t," Correa said． He said that the case was now out of Ecuador' s hands． "If Snowden arrives at an Ecuadoran Embassy, we' 11 analyze his request for asylum．"
Snowden traveled from Hong Kong to Moscow on his U．S．passport． Although the U．S．had already revoked it, Hong Kong authorities said they hadn’t received the official request to cancel the passport before Snowden left．
An official at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London had also issued a letter of safe passage for Snowden． But Snowden apparently did not use it for his trip to Moscow．
And it doesn’t appear that the Ecuadoran government would make a similar gesture again．
On Sunday, Correa told the AP that an Ecuadoran official at that embassy had committed "a serious error" by issuing the first letter without consulting officials back home． Correa said the consul would be punished, although he didn’t specify how．
Correa' s tone seemed to have shifted after a conversation with Vice President Biden on Friday．Where Correa had earlier been aggressive and determined, he now voiced respect for U．S．legal procedures．

  1. 1.

    Edward Snowden is a person who once worked in a federal department ______．

    1. A.
      to assist the governor of one state
    2. B.
      to collect information secretly for the US
    3. C.
      to organize overseas promotion campaign
    4. D.
      to educate intelligence employees
  2. 2.

    Which of the following word can take the place of the underlined word in Para．2 ?

    1. A.
      shelter．
    2. B.
      praise．
    3. C.
      position．
    4. D.
      forgiveness．
  3. 3.

    By what means did Edward Snowden leave Hong Kong for Moscow' s Sheremetyevo International Airport?

    1. A.
      A letter of safe passage from the Ecuadoran Embassy．
    2. B.
      Permission from Chinese government
    3. C.
      Invitation of the Russian authorities．
    4. D.
      An American passport．
  4. 4.

    What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

    1. A.
      Edward Snowden will live in Moscow forever．
    2. B.
      Ecuadoran government will provide Edward Snowden protection．
    3. C.
      Through U．S．legal procedures Edward Snowden has been caught．
    4. D.
      Correa hesitated to assist Edward Snowden．
BADD
试题分析：文章大意：本文报道了美国前情报局职员爆料美国政府绝密的PRISM（棱镜）计划，先是到香港避难，然后从香港到莫斯科国际机场，想前往厄瓜多尔共和国，结果护照被取消，滞留在机场的事件。
1.细节题：从第一段的句子：Edward Snowden—the fugitive （逃亡者） former U．S．intelligence employee —appears to be stuck in Moscow, 可知爱德华·斯诺登本来是帮助美国政府秘密收集情报的职员，选B
2.猜词题：从这段的句子：Snowden was headed on to Ecuador—whose president has been critical of the United States — and that he would seek asylum there．可知斯诺登是到寻求政治避难，asylum避难所，庇护，和shelter意思相近，选A
3.推理题：从第三段的句子："The United States, by canceling his passport, has left him for the moment trapped in Russia,"可知美国在斯诺登到俄罗斯的时候撤销了他的护照，也就是他用美国护照从香港到莫斯科的，选D
4.推理题：从最后一段的内容：Correa' s tone seemed to have shifted after a conversation with Vice President Biden on Friday．Where Correa had earlier been aggressive and determined, he now voiced respect for U．S．legal procedures．可知Correa'的态度变了，他现在尊敬美国的法律程序。说明他不愿帮助斯诺登了，选D
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A good listener takes part in the conversation, ______ideas and raising questions to keep the talk flowing.


  1. A.
    realizing
  2. B.
    copying
  3. C.
    offering
  4. D.
    misunderstanding

Electric cars are dirty. In fact, not only are they dirty, they might even be more dirty than their gasoline-powered cousins.
People in California love to talk about “zero-emissions（排放）vehicles”, but people in California seem to be clueless about where electricity comes from. Power plants most all use fire to make it. Apart from the few people who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators（发电机）. Generators are fueled by something--usually coal, oil, but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind farms and geothermal（地热） plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning something.
In other words, those "zero-emissions" cars are likely coal-burning cars. Because the coal is burned somewhere else, it looks clean. It is not true. It's as if the California Greens are covering their eyes—“If I can't see it, it's not happening.”  Gasoline is an incredibly efficient way to power a vehicle; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it. But when you take that gas（or another fuel）and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heat--at the generator, through the transmission lines, etc.
A gallon of gas may drive your car 25 miles. But the electricity you get from that gallon of gas won't get you nearly as far -- so electric cars burn more fuel than gasoline-powered ones. If our electricity came mostly from wind or geothermal, or solar, then an electric car truly would be clean. But for political, technical, and economic reasons, we don't use much of those energy sources.
　　In addition, electric cars' batteries which are poisonous for a long time will eventually end up in a landfill. And finally, when cars are the polluters, the pollution is spread across all the roads. When it's a power plant, though，all the junk is in one place. Nature is very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated, but it takes a lot longer when all the garbage is in one spot

  1. 1.

    What’s the main idea of the passages?

    1. A.
      Electric cars aren’t actually clean
    2. B.
      Electric cars are zero-emissions vehicles
    3. C.
      Zero-emissions vehicles are popular
    4. D.
      Gasoline-powered cars are more efficient
  2. 2.

    Which of the following words can replace “be clueless about” in Paragraph 2?

    1. A.
      Be familiar with．
    2. B.
      Be curious about．
    3. C.
      Fail to understand．
    4. D.
      Show their interest in．
  3. 3.

    The electricity we get from a gallon of gas may make our car run _________

    1. A.
      at least 25 miles
    2. B.
      more than 25 miles
    3. C.
      as far as 25 miles
    4. D.
      less than 25 miles
  4. 4.

    In the author’s opinion, compared with cars using gas, electric cars are more __________

    1. A.
      environmentally-friendly
    2. B.
      expensive
    3. C.
      efficient
    4. D.
      harmful
  5. 5.

    It can be inferred from the passage that __________

    1. A.
      electric cars' batteries are poisonous for a long time
    2. B.
      now electric cars are used more than their gasoline-powered cousins
    3. C.
      zero-emissions vehicles should be chosen to protect our environment
    4. D.
      electric cars are not clean in that we get electricity mainly by burning something

Change Has Come to America
November, 04, 2008, Barack Obama
Hello, Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen.
A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Sen. McCain. Sen. McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.
I congratulate him; I congratulate Gov. Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.
I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.
And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady Michelle Obama.
Sasha and Malia I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the new White House.
To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you've given me. I am grateful to them.
And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe, the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best -- the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.
To my chief strategist David Axelrod who's been a partner with me every step of the way.
To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.
But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you

  1. 1.

    Why did Sen. McCain make a phone call to the writer?

    1. A.
      To inform the writer of something important
    2. B.
      To share his happiness with the writer
    3. C.
      To congratulate the writer on his success
    4. D.
      To give him some good ideas on making a successful speech
  2. 2.

    If Sen. McCain won the election, What would Palin do?

    1. A.
      She would be a governor
    2. B.
      She would be the vice president-elect of the United States
    3. C.
      She would be the nation's next first lady
    4. D.
      She would be the campaign manager of Sen. McCain’s
  3. 3.

    How many people did the writer thank in his speech?

    1. A.
      5
    2. B.
      6
    3. C.
      7
    4. D.
      8
  4. 4.

    What did the writer imply by saying “I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to?”

    1. A.
      He is a failure rather than a success
    2. B.
      He still doesn’t know who this victory truly belongs to
    3. C.
      He thinks highly of his supporters
    4. D.
      He considers his success as people’s victory

Bringing Art into Hospitals
The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to get better.
As part of nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places,　some of the country’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.
These recent movements first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970s.He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society,　and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience(观众).
A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5 000 visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art!　Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out—patient’s waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975.Believed to be Britain’s first hospital artist. Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.
The effect is striking. Now in the passages and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colours, playful images(形象)and restful courtyards.
The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at

  1. 1.

    Some best artists of Britain have been called in to__________

    1. A.
      set up new hospitals
    2. B.
      make the corners of the hospital collect paintings
    3. C.
      bring art into hospitals
    4. D.
      help patients recover from serious illnesses
  2. 2.

    After the improvement of the hospital environment,__________

    1. A.
      patients no longer take drugs to kill their pains
    2. B.
      patients don’t have to stay long in hospital
    3. C.
      patients need fewer pain killers when they suffer from an illness
    4. D.
      patients feel happy in hospital
  3. 3.

    It can inferred from the passage that__________

    1. A.
      the role of hospital environment is important
    2. B.
      hospital artists have done more than doctors
    3. C.
      exhibitions attract more audience in hospitals than in museums
    4. D.
      the hospital is a better place for people

My favorite English teacher could draw humor out of the driest material. It wasn't forced on us either.  He took Samuel Johnson's dictionary, Addison's essays, and many other literary wonders from the eighteenth century and made them hilarious, even at eight o'clock in the morning. The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own some of them seemed dead, but the second time, after his explanation, I couldn't believe that I hadn't seen the humor. The stories and poems and plays were suddenly filled with allusions (典故) and irony (反讽) and hilarious moments. I learned more from him than from any other teacher.
My least favorite English teacher also made people laugh. Some students found him to be funny. Many others did not. He assigned journals over a six week period, to be written every day. At the end of the six weeks I had a notebook full of bits and pieces about my ideas, short stories, reactions to what we had read, and so on. Our teacher announced that we would be grading each other's journals. Mine was passed to Joe, that class clown, who always behaved in a funny or silly way. He saw it fit to make joke of and said, " This writing isn't fit to line (衬垫) the bottom of a birdcage. " Our teacher laughed at that funny remark. It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ever since.
So what makes the difference? Humor is one of the most powerful tools teachers or writers have. It can build up students and classes and make them excited about literature and writing, or it can tear them apart. It is true that humor is either productive or counter-productive and self-defeating

  1. 1.

    The passage mainly discusses ________

    1. A.
      teaching
    2. B.
      literature
    3. C.
      humor
    4. D.
      knowledge
  2. 2.

    The underlined word "hilarious" in Paragraph 1 probably means ________

    1. A.
      funny
    2. B.
      tiring
    3. C.
      inspiring
    4. D.
      brilliant
  3. 3.

    The English teacher the writer disliked most ________

    1. A.
      was not able to make students laugh
    2. B.
      hurt his students' feelings
    3. C.
      didn't let his students do the grading
    4. D.
      had no sense of humor

Getting paid to talk about the World Cup is a great job. I’m not a football commentator(评论员), though-just an English teacher in Japan.
I come to Japan two years ago, and didn’t think I would stay, but Japan has that effect on you. People often end up living here longer than they planned. I think it’s best to teach in a bigger city where there are other foreigners to mix with, rather than a small town where English teachers often complain of feeling like a goldfish in a bowl. Many people choose to live in Tokyo, of course, which is good for the nightlife factor. But I’d say that for general quality of living, cities of neither too large nor too small, like Sapporo where I live, are better choices.
I teach English privately, which means I’m my own boss. If you want to devote yourself to private teaching, it’s well worth doing a TEFL course first, because your lessons will be much better for it. The problem with private teaching is finding students; it took me a year to build up a full schedule(日程表) of private lessons, so I started out teaching in schools part-time.
Most of my foreign friends here work full-time for big English conversation schools. The salary is fine to live on, but whether you can save money depends on how much going out and traveling you do here.
The schools are unwilling to take time off –even teachers with tickets for the England-Argentina game had trouble getting the day off

  1. 1.

    From the passage we know in Japan the writer likes to live in ________

    1. A.
      Tokyo
    2. B.
      a small town
    3. C.
      a city of middle size
    4. D.
      a big city
  2. 2.

    According to the writer, one had better _______ first to do private teaching better

    1. A.
      give a TEFL course
    2. B.
      decide his or her own lessons
    3. C.
      find students
    4. D.
      build up a full schedule
  3. 3.

    The underlined sentence in the second paragraph implies that _______

    1. A.
      there are many foreigners in Japan
    2. B.
      Japan is good for nightlife
    3. C.
      they can teach English privately in Japan
    4. D.
      Japan has something more attractive than expected
  4. 4.

    After reading the passage, we can see _________

    1. A.
      the writer travelled a lot and saved much money in Japan
    2. B.
      the writer teaches English in more than one school as a part-time job
    3. C.
      the writer enjoys watching football games
    4. D.
      the writer spent one year in finding students for his private teaching

The early 1900s were very different from today, when toys were still the delight of children everywhere.
Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency marks the beginning of the “Teddy Bear”. In the year 1902，toy bears were named “Teddy” after the president's nickname. The Teddy Bear became known worldwide and it was only a few years later that the Teddy Bears were mass produced.
In 1913，an item called the Erector Set was invented. It was a steel，motorized toy that children could use to build models of anything. Its creator was A．C.Gilbert，a medical doctor.
Charles Pajeau created a similar wooden set called Tinker Toys in the year 1914.Tinker Toys were made for younger children.
Raggedy Ann dolls first came on the scene after newspaper cartoonist Johnny Gruelle reproduced the doll he made for his daughter. That was in 1915.
The following year，an architect's son named John Lloyd Wright，invented Lincoln Logs，which were interlocked to make structures.
Two years after Mickey Mouse was created，stuffed(填塞)Mickey Mouse dolls were made by Charlotte Clark. This was the start of Disney merchandise.
The yo?yo became popular in the United States after Donald Duncan bought a yo?yo company in 1929.
The View?Master，a three dimensional viewer，was developed by a camera enthusiast named William Gruber. The toy became popular when Gruber licensed Disney characters to make still, 3?D images from Disney movies and television programs.
Finally，in 1940，model airplanes were mass produced. They started out as a way for manufacturers to sell planes to the military，but later caught on as a toy.
The toys that we know and love today have had their roots from these ancient times. Thanks to all these creative man’s efforts, we know otherwise what we may never know

  1. 1.

    Why were toy bears named “Teddy”？

    1. A.
      To be suitable for mass production
    2. B.
      To be easily pronounced by children
    3. C.
      To meet the advertisers' needs
    4. D.
      To memorize President Theodore Roosevelt
  2. 2.

    In which aspect do the toys created by Gilbert differ from those by Charles?

    1. A.
      Shape
    2. B.
      Material used
    3. C.
      Themes
    4. D.
      Price
  3. 3.

    When did the View?Master become popular?

    1. A.
      After William Gruber was born
    2. B.
      After Gruber licensed Disney characters
    3. C.
      Two years after Mickey Mouse was created
    4. D.
      When Disney merchandise was started

“Children who eat less salt and drink fewer sugar-sweetened soft drinks may significantly lower their risks of obesity,” researchers recently reported in the journal Hypertension.
“Sugar-sweetened soft drinks are a significant source of calorie intake in children,” said Feng J. He, a researcher at St George’s University of London, England. “It has been shown that sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption is related to obesity in young people.” They wanted to know whether there is a link between salt intake and sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption.
Dr He and colleagues analyzed data from a 1997 national survey of more than 2,000 people between 4 and 18 in Britain. “We found that children eating a lower-salt diet drank less fluid,” said He. “From our research, we estimated that 1 gram of salt cut from their daily diet would reduce fluid intake by 100 grams per day.”
The researchers also found that children eating a lower-salt diet drank fewer sugar-sweetened soft drinks. From their research, they predicted that reducing salt intake by 1 gram each day would reduce sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption by 27 grams per day, after. “If children aged 4 to 18 cut their salt intake by half, there would be a decrease of about two sugar-sweetened soft drinks per week per child, so each child would decrease calorie intake by almost 250 kilocalories per week,” Dr He said.
In previous studies, researchers found that a low-salt diet lowers blood pressure in children, and prevents the development of high blood pressure later in life. “Both high blood pressure and obesity increase the risk of having strokes and heart attacks,” Dr He said.
Dr He recommends that parents check labels and choose low-salt food products. “Small reductions in the salt content of 10 to 20 percent cannot be detected by the human salt taste receptors (感受器) and do not cause any technological or safety problems,” Dr He said

  1. 1.

    According to the passage, obesity is directly linked to ______

    1. A.
      high-salt foods
    2. B.
      sugar-sweetened soft drinks
    3. C.
      high blood pressure
    4. D.
      strokes and heart attacks
  2. 2.

    Compared with previous studies, the recent one found that ______

    1. A.
      a lower-salt diet may mean less sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption
    2. B.
      a low-salt diet keeps children out of high blood pressure
    3. C.
      children face the risk of having strokes and heart attacks
    4. D.
      low-salt food products do not do harm to people’s health
  3. 3.

    Which of the following statements would Dr He agree to?

    1. A.
      The less salt people eat, the healthier people become
    2. B.
      Children should reduce fluid intake in their daily life
    3. C.
      No high-salt food products will be available in shops
    4. D.
      A low-salt diet may prevent both high blood pressure and obesity
  4. 4.

    After reading the passage, who should take effective action?

    1. A.
      Children
    2. B.
      Parents
    3. C.
      Doctors
    4. D.
      Researchers

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