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A factory should offer ________ pleasant working environment．
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A new factory that turns used wine bottles into green sand could revolutionize the recycling industry and help to filter（过滤）the nation's drinking water.
For the last 100 years special high grade white sand quarried（开采）at Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire has been used to filter tap water to remove bacteria and impurities—but this may no longer be necessary.
The green sand has already been successfully tested by water companies and is being used in 50 swimming pools in Scotland to keep the water clean.
Backed by one million pounds from the European Union and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs(Defar),a company based in Scotland is building a factory to turn beverage bottles back into the sand from which they were made.
The idea is not only to avoid using up increasingly scarce sand in Scotland and avoid any further quarrying but also to solve a crisis in the recycles only 750 000 tones of it.
Howard Dryden, the scientist and managing director of the company has spent six years working on what he calls Active Filtration Meadia, or AFM, the recycled glass. He says he needs bottles that have already contained drinkable liquids to be sure that drinking water would not be polluted.
"The fact is that tests show that AFM does the job better than glass, it is easier to clean and reuse and has all sorts of properties that make it ideal for other applications, "he claimed. He also thinks the market will be able to take 250 000 tones of green sand a year. The plan is to build five or six factories in cites in UK where the bottles come from to cut down on transport.
The factory will be completed this month and is expected to go into full production on January 14 next year. Once it is providing a "regular" product, the government's drinking water inspectorate will be asked to perform tests and approve it for general use by water companies.
【小题1】It may no longer be necessary to use high-grade white sand to keep water clean because_____.
| A．there is no need to keep water clean |
| B．A new factory has been set up |
| C．The green sand has been used to keep the water clean |
| D．White sand is being use up |
| A．avoiding using up increasingly scarce sand |
| B．avoiding further quarrying of white sand |
| C．solving the crisis in the recycling industry |
| D．cutting down the cost on transport |
| A．AFM is more efficient than white sand |
| B．AFM is more efficient than glass |
| C．glass is more efficient than AFM |
| D．white sand is more efficient than green sand |
| A．Allowed | B．Opposed |
| C．Supported | D．Forbidden |
| A．Revolution in the Recycling for the Industry. |
| B．Modern Technology an New Markets. |
| C．Revolution in Environmental Protection. |
| D．Unlocking the Benefits of Green Sand. |
—Have you worked here since you graduated?
—No, I ____________at a factory in Beijing for six years.
A. would work B. have worked C. had worked D. worked
Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough，the answer to both these questions is yes. To some extent（程度）our intelligence is given to us at birth，and special education can never make a genius(天才) out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to say that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters，parents and children，usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine that now we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.
1.By using the example that two people closer in blood relationship are closer in intelligence that writer wants to prove _ .
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A．intelligence can be developed by environment |
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B．intelligence is given at birth |
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C．intelligence can be developed by experience |
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D．education plays an important part in the development of education |
2.A child who lives in rich and varied surroundings turns out higher in intelligence because ________.
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A．his family is rich and therefore can afford to develop his intelligence |
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B．he can break the limits of intelligence fixed at birth |
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C．his family is rich and provides him with various healthy food |
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D．these surroundings are likely to help him reach the limits of their intelligence |
3.In the second paragraph “if we take two unrelated people at random from the population．．．” means “if we ____．”
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A．choose two persons who are relative |
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B．take out two different persons |
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C．choose two persons with different intelligence |
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D．pick any two persons |
4.The best title for this passage might be __________.
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A．Birth and Environment |
B．Intelligence |
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C．The Answer to a Question |
D．Intelligence and Education |