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Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families. The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs.
Fox Point is operated by Palladia, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy, people. Palladia received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.
ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael. Bloomberg, New York's mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing.. So he recently announced that the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the city’s supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP’s green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York’s DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.
45. What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?
A. To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people.
B. To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.
C. To show how the environment-friendly building works.
D. To compare old and new boiler rooms.
46. What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?
A. Lower running costs.
B. Costing less in construction.
C. Less air to be lost in hot days.
D. Better prices for homeless people.
47. It can be learned from the text that,
A. New York City is seriously polluted
B. people’s daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City
C. a great number of people in New York City don't have houses to live in
D. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City
48. What is the main purpose of this text?
A. To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.
B. To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.
C. To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.
D. To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.
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... I went snorkelling on the reef offshore this morning. ... Seeing such
1. , I think every cell in my body woke up. ...
The first thing I 2. was all the vivid colours surrounding me—purples,
reds, oranges, yellows, blues and greens. ...
Unit 5
Six months ago Xie Lei said goodbye to her family and friends in China and
3. London. It was the first time 4. her motherland. ...
Lesson 23
People become quite 5. when they try to decide what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten. If you lived in the Mediterranean, for instance, you would consider octopus 6. . You would not be able to
understand why some people 7. . ...
Lesson 27
It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. 8. this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge, ... Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods 9. money, it is extremely difficult to 10. of the services which people perform for us. ... yet we might grudge paying a
surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service.
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The Unit States is well—known for its network of major highways designed to help a driver get from one place to another in the shortest possible time． 1 these wide modern roads are generally 2 and well maintained, with 3 sharp curves and many straight 4 , a direct route is not always the most 5 one．Large highways often pass 6 scenic areas and interesting small towns．Furthermore, these highways generally 7 large urban center which means that they become crowded with 8 traffic during rush hours, 9 the “fast, direct” way becomes a very slow route．However, there is 10 always another route to take 11 you are not in a hurry．Not far from the 12 new “superhighways”, there are often older, 13 heavily traveled roads which go through the countryside． 14 of these are good two lane roads; others are uneven roads 15 through the country．These secondary routes may go up steep slopes, along hilly 16 or down frightening hillsides to towns 17 in deep valleys．Though these are less direct routes, longer and slower, they generally go to places 18 the air is clear and the scenery is beautiful, and the driver may have a 19 to get a fresh, clean 20 of the world．
1．A．Although B．Since C．Because D．Therefore
2．A．rough B．splendid C．smooth D．complicated
3．A．little B．few C．much D．many
4．A．selections B．separations C．divisions D．sections
5．A．terrible B．possible C．enjoyable D．reasonable
6．A．to B．into C．over D．by
7．A．lead B．connect C．collect D．provide
8．A．large B．fast C．light D．heavy
9．A．when B．for C．but D．that
10．A．yet B．still C．almost D．quite
11．A．unless B．if C．as D．since
12．A．relatively B．regularly C．reasonably D．respectively
13．A．and B．less C．more D．or
14．A．All B．Several C．Lots D．Some
15．A．driving B．crossing C．curving D．traveling
16．A．rocks B．cliffs C．roads D．paths
17．A．lying B．laying C．laid D．lied
18．A．there B．when C．which D．where
19．A．space B．period C．chance D．spot
20．A．view B．variety C．visit D．virtue
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Unit 2 English around the world
So why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and 1．________ with each other．At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today．It was 2．________ more on German than the English we speak at present．Then 3．________ between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those 4．________ ruled England spoke first Danish and later French．These new settlers 5．________ the English language and especially its vocabulary．
Unit 2 Education and learning
These days, the Internet has become an 6．________ tool for students．Using the Internet, students are able to get up-to-date information from a 7．________ of sources…Also, students can join on-line discussion groups to talk to 8．________ about subjects they are interested in．Students shouldn’t have to go to a 9．________ library or computer lab to use the Internet．It should be 10．________ to all students at all times．
The hospital burn unit is a popular place on the day after Thanksgiving. I found that out three years ago, when my 18-month-old daughter touched a radiator pipe while playing around our friends' farmhouse. Instead of feasting on leftover stuffing, I rushed my child as she screamed to hospital. Instead of getting a jump on my Christmas shopping, I learned how to take care of second-degree burns.
Our story had a happy ending. With weeks of twice-daily treatments at Mommy and Papa's kitchen-table burn clinic, my daughter's hands healed. But other children we saw at the outpatient burn clinic weren't so lucky. I saw hands _____________________, a mouth that would never smile straight, a scalp that would never grow hair. All the parents had stories of accidents as easy as ours: a cup of tea knocked from a side table, a tumble（摔倒）into a space heater. "Heaters and soup," one veteran nurse told me at the hospital. "That's all it is. Heaters and soup. "
Most of the injuries were to hands and wrists, and most came from contact with hot liquids or from touching hot objects. Not only do small children not realize the danger posed by hot objects; their skin is much thinner than that of adults. They burn more quickly, and the burns tend to be deeper and more severe.
Traditional fire safety education focused on preventing fires. The number of children injured by playing with fire has declined substantially when the Consumer Product Safety Commission required that cigarette lighters be child-resistant. "We know people know about smoke alarms," says Chrissy, program manager for Safe Kids USA, a nonprofit that works to reduce childhood injuries. Now, fire safety experts hope that public education efforts will turn to burns that can be just as terrible as injuries caused by flame.
1. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?
People used to be warned of the fire burns.
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2. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with a proper sentence．（within 10 words）
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3. What is the best title for this passage? （within 10 words）
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4. For what purpose does the author mention “a cup of tea” or “a tumble into a space heater” in Paragraph 2? （within 10 words）
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese．
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