【题目】An environmental group called the FoodCommission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sales of bottled waterfrom Japan. The water, it angrily argues in public, has traveled 10,000 “foodmiles” before it reached Western customers. Transporting water halfway acrossthe world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty ofwater in the UK. It is also worrying that we were wasting our fuel by buyingprawns from Indonesia (7,000 food miles ) and carrots from South Africa (5,900food miles).
Counting the number of miles traveleddone by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of theenvironmental damage due to industry. Most food is transported around the worldon container ships that are extremely energy efficient. It should be noticedthat a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck to a farmers’ marketdoesn’t necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar producttransported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides, the idea of “food miles” ignoresthe amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your foodmiles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana. Thedifference is that the British ones will have been raised in heated greenhouseand the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.
What is the idea of “food miles” doesprovide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World countries from FirstWorld food markets. The number of miles traveled by our food should, as I seeit, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global trade system, not a signof 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

【题目】How to plan for a perfect holiday

People often dream of a perfect holiday with white sands, blue beaches and so on. But sometimes planning a trip can be difficult. Here are some tips to make your holiday a memorable one.

● Set a budget. Before making a plan for the holiday, the most important thing is to plan how money will be spent. 1

● Plan ahead. The first thing you need to do is to be sure of what you need from this trip. Do you want to experience the local culture or just have fun on those sandy beaches? 2

● Read up before you go. 3. Buy a good guidebook and read up on the culture, history, local attractions of the place. You can also surf the internet for more information. The more you know, the better you can enjoy the place and its traditions.

● Pack light and right. 4 Avoid carrying unnecessary things around. A heavy luggage may sometimes influence your holiday spirit. Carry clothes that are comfortable and right for the season. Try to put everything you need in a single carry-on bag.

5 Unreasonable expectations can lead to a lot of stress. So enjoy each moment, whether good or bad.

A. You had better look for information before visiting an unknown holiday place.

B. All you need is to get away from busy people and the world.

C. Always book your stay.

D. Have realistic expectations.

E. It helps you to plan and enjoy the trip within your limits of money.

F. Pack only the important things.

G. You can plan your trip according to your needs and likes.

【题目】阅读理解
Television has turned 88 years old onSeptember 7, 2015, and it has never looked better. In its youth, television wasa piece of furniture with a tiny, round screen showing unclear pictures oflow-budget programs. In spite of its shortcomings, it became popular. Between1950 and 1963, the number of American families with a television jumped from 9%to 92% of the population.
As the audience got larger, thetechnology got better. Television sets became more reliable through the 1960s.The reception (接收效果)improved. The picture improved. The major networks started broadcastingprograms in color.
Even greater improvements were comingaccording to Sanford Brown, who wrote an article for the Post in 1967.Surprisingly, just about every prediction he made in the article became areality. For example: All sets in the not-distant future will be colorinstruments. He also predicted that TV sets would become smaller, simpler, morereliable and less expensive and may forever put the TV repairman out of work.Smaller sets do not, of course, mean smaller screens. TV engineers expectscreens to get much bigger. However, today’s 3-D TV is even farther away, ifit’s coming at all. There is some doubt whether the public would be eager topay for it, in view of people’s cold reception given to 3-D movies.
But the technology with the greatestpotential, according to Brown, was cable television (有线电视), whichwas still in its early stages then. As he predicted, the future of cabletelevision was highly interactive (互动的). It wasn’t cable television that gaveAmericans their electronic connection to the world, however. It was theInternet. He even foresaw the future office: using picture phones, big-screentelevisions for conferences, and computers providing information at the touchof a button.
Brown ever said, “The future oftelevision is no longer a question of what we can invent. It’s a question ofwhat we want.”
(1)What can we infer about television sets in the 1960s?
A.They were very popular with Americans.
B.The reception showed no improvement.
C.They showed black-and-white pictures.
D.They were out of order now and then.
(2)Which of the followings did Sanford Brown fail to predict?
A.Television’s good quality.
B.The invention of 3-D TV.
C.The future office’s model.
D.The potential of cable TV.
(3)What is the text mainly about?
A.The shortcomings of television.
B.The bright future of television.
C.The development of television.
D.The invention of television.

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