20. A. improvement B. protection C. pollution D. destruction
答案: B 指导：Jane
Goodall想通过自己的演讲提高人们环境“保护”的意识。由常识可排除improvement“改进”；destruction"破坏”不合题意。
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More
than 5 years ago, John Williams gave away all of his belongings and went off to
the mountains to live the way people lived 100 years ago. For 1 traps wild animals and fishes
in the rivers 2 he can. John lives in a cabin he made 3 , out of trees he chopped down with
an axe. 4 he has no relatives that he
knows of, he does have a deer he
5 from a fawn (幼鹿). The deer
lives in the house in winter and goes with John when he goes into the 6 for food. Nobody lives
7 fifty miles of his cabin in
the mountains and John has not been out of the mountains during the entire
forty years. One day last year I hiked in to see 8 John lives in. It was like going 9 . There were no stories, no post offices,
no noise,no pollution, not 10 a road.
11 notable (值得注意的)of
all, there were no people and that's the 12 John Williams wants to keep his part of
the world. But there seems to be something impossible in his story. He is 13
man. He has books and nobody knows how he 14 them. Mostly he reads about his world,
the forest, the animals, the plants, and the 15 . He has seen airplanes flying
overhead but does not want to 16 about them. For him, electricity is 17
, not light bulbs, refrigerators, televisions, or washing machines.
John is 85 years old and has not had a
18 day in his life. He attributes his long
life to the fact that he has nothing to do with people and in or- der that he
might 19
many more years of
health, happiness and solitude(孤独), I will not tell you
20 his kingdom lies. There is no room
there for you or me.