题目内容
The 30 miles of steep roads that snake through the mountains of Logan Canyon in Utah are enough to make most drivers′hands sweat．But Andersen, a 46-year-old father of four, wasn′t expecting any trouble on the road last New Year′s Eve, when he set off for a ski trip to the Bear River Mountains with nine-year-old daughter Mia, four-old son Baylor, and nine-year-old neighbor Kenya．Andersen had driven through the Canyon hundreds of times over the years．
The weather was fine-but the higher they drove, the more slippery the roads became．Rounding a sharp U-turn at mile marker473, Andersen saw a truck that had skated off the road and immediately tapped his brakes．In an instant, the car was sliding at 25 miles per hour toward the shoulder of the highway, then rolling down a steep ten-foot dam toward the extremely cold Logan River．As it hit the water, the car tipped toward the passenger side, hesitated, and then rolled onto its roof and sank into the river．
There was no time to tell the kids what to do．The crash had broken a few windows, and within seconds, the upside-down car was filled with water． “It was frightening how fast we were completely underwater,”remembers Andersen, a soft-spoken product development manager．“You′re thinking, is this how it′s all going to end？”
Having lost all sense of direction, Andersen began to search the freezing water for the kids．Mia had been right next to him in the front seat; now, in the blackness, he couldn′t find her．“I thought, if I don′t get out, maybe none of us are going to get out．” Andersen got out of his seat belt, swam through a broken window, and, deeply and quickly, breathed air at the surface．That′s when he saw a group of men, about ten in all, appear at the top of the dam．One after another, they raced down into the water．Helping onto safety all the three children, they began to shout at the father,“Who else is in the car？”Andersen says respectfully,“It was like the sight of angels （天使）．”
56．What might be the main reason．For the car accident？
A．The sharp U-turn． B．The steep dam．
C．The sudden brake． D．A truck hitting the car．
57．Andersen didn′t expect any trouble on the road because___________．
A．he was familiar with the road B．he was good at driving
C．his hands didn′t have sweat D．the weather was fine
58．What can be learned from the last paragraph？
A．Andersen lost conciousness in the water．
B．Strangers helped Andersen out of the car．
C．Andersen liked Mia most among the children．
D．Strangers teamed together to save three children．
59．The underlined sentence is to express Andersen′s feeling of being___________．
A．tired B．excited C．doubtful D．grateful
60．Which of the following can be the best title of the text？
A．Stay calm when in trouble
B．Drive rounding a U-turn
C．Miracle rescue from an icy river
D．Mystery of the Bear River Mountains
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阅读快车系列答案Environmentalists said our planet was doomed to die. Now one man says they are wrong.
"Everyone knows the planet is in bad shape," thundered a magazine article last year. Species are being driven to die out at record rates, and the rivers are so poisonous that fish are floating on the surface, dead.
But there's a growing belief that what everyone takes for granted is wrong: things are actually getting better. A new book is about to overturn our most basic assumptions about the world's environment. Rivers, seas, rain and the atmosphere are all getting cleaner. The total amount of forests in the world is not declining. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg, professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, is an attack on the misleading claims of environmental groups, and the "bad news" culture that makes people believe everything is getting worse.
Now the attacks are increasingly coming from left-wing environmentalists such as Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace. The accusation is that, although the environment is improving, green groups — with profits of hundreds of mil-lions of pounds a year — are using scare tactics(谋略)to gain donations. Lomborg's book doesn't deny global warming — probably the biggest environmental threat — but destroys almost every other environmental claim with many official statistics.
The Worldwatch Institute claims that "deforestation(沙漠化) has been accelerating over the last 30 years". But Lomborg says that is simply rubbish. Since the dawn of agriculture the world has lost about 20 per cent of its forest cover, but in recent decades the forest area's depleting has come to a stop. According to UN figures, the area of forests has remained almost steady, at about 30 per cent of total land area, since the 1940s. Forests in countries such as the US, the UK and Canada have actually been expanding over the past 40 years. Despite all the warnings the Amazon rainforest has only shrunk by about 15 per cent.
Nor are all our species dying out. Some campaigners claim that 50 per cent of all species will have died out within 50 years. But other studies show only 0.08 per cent of species are dying out each year. Conservation efforts have been successful. Whales are no longer threatened and the bald eagle is off the endangered list.
Environmental groups claim that many of the improvements are the results of the success of their campaigns. Stephen Tindale, director of Greenpeace UK, said, "There are important examples, such as acid rain and ozone, where things aren't as bad as predicted, and that's because behavior has changed."
【小题1】In his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, what is Lomborg's main argument?
| A．Our planet is in bad shape. |
| B．The world's environment is improving. |
| C．The total amount of forests in the world is not declining. |
| D．Conservation efforts have been successful. |
| A．They scared people into making donations. |
| B．They overturned our basic assumptions about the world's environment. |
| C．They changed their behavior toward the environment. |
| D．They only told people bad news about the environment. |
| A．reducing | B．limiting | C．expanding | D．accelerating |
| A．The total area of forests in the world has increased significantly. |
| B．The effects of global warming are not as bad as first expected. |
| C．It appears that the bald eagle will now survive. |
| D．In the last 50 years the number of whales has increased. |
Environmentalists said our planet was doomed to die. Now one man says they are wrong.
"Everyone knows the planet is in bad shape," thundered a magazine article last year. Species are being driven to die out at record rates, and the rivers are so poisonous that fish are floating on the surface, dead.
But there's a growing belief that what everyone takes for granted is wrong: things are actually getting better. A new book is about to overturn our most basic assumptions about the world's environment. Rivers, seas, rain and the atmosphere are all getting cleaner. The total amount of forests in the world is not declining. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg, professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, is an attack on the misleading claims of environmental groups, and the "bad news" culture that makes people believe everything is getting worse.
Now the attacks are increasingly coming from left-wing environmentalists such as Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace. The accusation is that, although the environment is improving, green groups — with profits of hundreds of mil-lions of pounds a year — are using scare tactics(谋略)to gain donations. Lomborg's book doesn't deny global warming — probably the biggest environmental threat — but destroys almost every other environmental claim with many official statistics.
The Worldwatch Institute claims that "deforestation(沙漠化) has been accelerating over the last 30 years". But Lomborg says that is simply rubbish. Since the dawn of agriculture the world has lost about 20 per cent of its forest cover, but in recent decades the forest area's depleting has come to a stop. According to UN figures, the area of forests has remained almost steady, at about 30 per cent of total land area, since the 1940s. Forests in countries such as the US, the UK and Canada have actually been expanding over the past 40 years. Despite all the warnings the Amazon rainforest has only shrunk by about 15 per cent.
Nor are all our species dying out. Some campaigners claim that 50 per cent of all species will have died out within 50 years. But other studies show only 0.08 per cent of species are dying out each year. Conservation efforts have been successful. Whales are no longer threatened and the bald eagle is off the endangered list.
Environmental groups claim that many of the improvements are the results of the success of their campaigns. Stephen Tindale, director of Greenpeace UK, said, "There are important examples, such as acid rain and ozone, where things aren't as bad as predicted, and that's because behavior has changed."
1.In his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, what is Lomborg's main argument?
|
A．Our planet is in bad shape. |
|
B．The world's environment is improving. |
|
C．The total amount of forests in the world is not declining. |
|
D．Conservation efforts have been successful. |
2.What is Lomborg's main accusation of environmentalists?
|
A．They scared people into making donations. |
|
B．They overturned our basic assumptions about the world's environment. |
|
C．They changed their behavior toward the environment. |
|
D．They only told people bad news about the environment. |
3.The underlined word "depleting" in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to "____".
|
A．reducing |
B．limiting |
C．expanding |
D．accelerating |
4.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
|
A．The total area of forests in the world has increased significantly. |
|
B．The effects of global warming are not as bad as first expected. |
|
C．It appears that the bald eagle will now survive. |
|
D．In the last 50 years the number of whales has increased. |