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①Brain-injured boy set for £ 1.75m payout
A YOUNGSTER who was knocked off his bicycle by a taxi and left with a serious brain injury is set to be awarded £ 1.75 million.
Fourteen-year-old George Currie, from Dalkeith, was living in country Durham with his parents Allister and Paula at the time of the accident in September 1993.
George, who was then three years old, was riding his small tricycle along the pavement when he lost control and swerved on to the road into the path of an on-coming taxi.
The driver's insurance company has now ac cepted responsibility for the accident and New Castle County Court is expected to rule on the payout on Monday.
②Boating accidents reduce
Lee and Collier counties tied at No. 10 for boating accidents in Florida in 2004, an improvement for both.
But because the counties remained in the top 10 among Florida's 67 counties, safety continues to be a concern, officials said.
③Teens react to new law on driving permit
Lawmakers may hope to make teenage drivers drive more safely, but some local teens behind the wheel feel angry following the passing of Senace Bill 36 last week.
SB 36 is a law that limits times new teen drivers can drive and the number of passengers
④Road accidents take costly toll
Traffic accidents kill more than one million people each year, injure tens of millions more and cost developing countries twice as much as they receive in international aid, the leader of a research body said Wednesday.
The figures have led experts to form an international road safety network to choose the most important research areas, inform policy makers and help develop ways to prevent accidents, particularly in poor nations.
pavement: 人行道
swerve: 突然转
insurance: 保险.
TOP 10Florida counties with the most accidents in 2004:
1.Monroe (98)
2.Palm Beach (65)
3.Pinellas (64)
4.Broward (59)
5.Miami-Dade (54)
6.Okaloosa (34)
7.Orange (24)
8.Bay (22)
9.Lee (21)
10.Collier (21)
(1) What does Passage ① tell us about the boy?
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A.He was injured in the head when he was 14.
B.He has waited for the payout for a long time.
C.He has lived in the same place since the accident.
D.He was run over by a taxi when riding on the pavement.
(2) What can we learn about Lee and Collier counties from Passage ②?
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A.They both became safe places.
B.They won the same place in race.
C.They had the same number of accidents.
D.They joined hands in reducing accidents.
(3) Which passage would give more information on the prevention of road accidents?
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查看习题详情和答案>>Some of you must have complained why there are so many English words that you have to 22 every day. However, do you know how many words the English language has exactly? Maybe ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or 23 one million!
Every 98 minutes, there is a new English word being 24 Last time when words were being 25 to the language at this rate was during the 26 of William Shakespeare. The 27 popularity of English has 28 the most fertile period of word creation. About 1.53 billion people speak English as a 29 , a second or a business language. The Global Language Monitor, 30 in the state of Texas in the US, has been recording English word creation since 2003. Now, there are almost one million English words.
Words that are predicted to be the one millionth 31 “defollow”, “defriend”, “noob”, and “greenwashing”. “Defollow” and “defriend” are Internet words, 32 what users do with a person they do not wish to 33 in touch with on the Internet. “Noob” is an offending name for someone new 34 a particular task or community. The word “greenwashing” 35 what companies do to appear 36 friendly. And “chiconomics” means a difficult time in fashion. Of course, there is a 37 that the one millionth word will be a sixth choice. The Global Language Monitor once 38 that the millionth English word would be “imminent” in 2006, but the organization has 39 that expected date 40 once. Other experts have 41 doubts about its methods because they don’t think that there is an agreement about how to classify a word.
22. A.write B.read C.memorize D.copy
23. A.still B.hence C.nevertheless D.even
24. A.inspired B.motivated C.commented D.created
25. A.advocated B.added C.adopted D.acquired
26. A.years B.days C.months D.hours
27. A.appropriate B.fundamental C.widespread D.elementary
28. A.brought B.led C.found D.taken
29. A.primary B.social C.physical D.typical
30. A.lay B.located C.built D.found
31. A.conclude B.consist C.exclude D.include
32. A.saying B.writing C.describing D.accounting
33. A.lose B.pay C.have D.stay
34. A.on B.of C.to D.with
35. A.refers to B.prefers to C.comes to D.sticks to
36. A.continually B.eventually C.environmentally D.constantly
37. A.possibility B.fact C.result D.bond
38. A.published B.declared C.expected D.claimed
39. A.put up B.put off C.put down D.put out
40. A.other than B.more than C.rather than D.less than
41. A.consulted B.instructed C.associated D.expressed
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