【题目】 Perhaps people have never realized that fashion materials should be one of the worst destroyers on our environment in countries across the world.

Everybody enjoys wearing warm fashionable sweaters, but they never realize how much harm they have done to the environment . Studies suggest that 70 percent of the damage to the grasslands is due to overgrazing(过度放牧).Because of that, tile balance of nature is broken, extreme weather occurs frequently, species are under serious threat, and finally grasslands are becoming desert gradually. The major real cause driving this activity is that human beings demand for cheaper wool to make fashionable clothing.

What you might not know is that the natural fibers for making clothes are often taken from trees in ancient forests or other plants such as bamboo and cotton . This means that the clothes we buy and wear are contributing directly to destroying forests and habitats. In fact, cotton is by no means a fully environmentally friendly crops on the planet. For a start, it uses so much water to. produce, which leads to the freshwater shortage across the globe. It can take 2,700 liters of water to make just one cotton T-shirt. Additionally, growing cotton requires high levels of pesticide and other dangerous chemicals that often pollute waterways and soil. As for man-made fibers, the damage done by them is far worse than other materials.

In recent years, retailers (零售商)have increased the number of fashion collections each season even-each month or week. Throwaway culture is known as "fast fashion" due to low prices . Every year, 100 billion new garments made from new fibers are produced, many of which soon end up in landfill(垃圾填埋场).A dress might cost a few pounds for the consumer, but there is a hidden cost to the wider environment including ecosystems and other species.

1According to the passage, the real destroyer on the grasslands is ___.

A.overgrazingB.unbalanced nature

C.human beings’ needD.change of weather

2Relatively speaking, which fiber does most harm to environment?

A.The cotton fiber.B.The tree fiber.

C.The man-made fiber.D.The bamboo fiber.

3What is the writer's attitude to the "fast fashion,, culture?

A.Opposed.B.Approved.C.Neutral.D.Sympathetic.

4What is probably the best title for the text?

A.Damage to Our Environment

B.Fashion Materials, the Hidden Environment Destroyer

C.Destroying Forests and Habitats

D.Throwaway Culture

【题目】 Recently a new network word “ghost” is popular on line, which refers to a sort of Internet social behavior that your net friends or loved ones don't answer your online messages or phones on purpose as if leaving the earth. Thus you often wonder whether those chatters are ghosts or pretending to be dead. This behavior is called ghosting in the English world, which means “playing with disappearance ”

"Ghost” is better known as a noun referring to spirits of the dead, but "ghost” used as a verb which means "to disappear suddenly like a ghost", or "play with disappearancew is relatively unknown. Finally, owing to its high using frequency on line , this usage has been added to the Oxford Dictionary of Contemporary English.

Playing with disappearance or ghosting also has different grades. Wendy Walsh, a professor of psychology from Boston University told us, There are different grades of ghosting: If you just read on social software but never answer, you are only a lightweight ghosting player if you meet a person several times but try to avoid him , you are an ordinary ghosting player if you let your partner fall in love with you, but you suddenly disappear , which will give the other a heavy blow, you are a heavyweight ghosting player. ”

Why are some people accustomed to this kind of escapist social behavior? The Times reports that ghosting has a lot to do with how comfortable people feel and how they deal with their emotions. When they are in a complex interpersonal relationship, or it is too heavy for their weak mind to carry, they will have to choose to escape.

When you find yourself being ghosted, you may lose your self-respect, question yourself, or even hesitate to start the next friendship or love. How to get out of this emotional trouble? It's important to remember that when you're ghosted, it's the other's fault rather than yours. In addition, its good to risk telling others how you really feel, even if it's not what they want to hear. Have you ever been ghosted? What do you think of this way of dealing with a relationship?

1Which sort of the following Internet social behavior can be described as ghosting?

A.Leaving your friend after a quarrel.

B.Love breaking up after a fight.

C.Not replying to net friends on purpose.

D.Missing after getting friends' money.

2According to professor Walsh, if you just read but never reply online, you are a( n) player.

A.heavyweight ghostingB.non-ghosting

C.ordinary ghostingD.lightweight ghosting

3Which paragraph tells us the reasons why people are used to ghosting?

A.Paragraph 2.B.Paragraph 3.C.Paragraph 4.D.Paragraph 5.

4How should you deal with it when you are ghosted according to the writer?

A.Never blame yourself and pour out your trouble to others bravely .

B.Search out their identification on the Internet and ruin their reputation.

C.Keep the trouble in mind and never tell others about it.

D.Turn to police for help and put them in prison.

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