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A skyscraper need to be built on a_________ (基础) of solid rock.

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“Eat local.” It’s one way to reduce human effect on the planet. Eating local means to try to buy and consume foods that are grown in places close to home. However, most of the food sold at supermarkets is not locally grown or produced. Trucks and planes deliver these foods from hundreds or thousands of miles away. During the transportation, greenhouse(温室)gases are produced, causing global warming. So the shorter the distance your foods must travel, the less the harm is done to the environment.
But how do you get local food if you live in a large city, hundreds of miles away from farms？Environmental health scientist Dickson Despommier and his students came up with the idea of a “vertical(垂直的)farm”.

A vertical farm is a glass-walled structure that could be built as tall as a skyscraper(摩天大楼). Since the garden is built upwards, rather than outwards, it requires much less space than an ordinary farm. The world is quickly running out of room for ordinary farming. Vertical farms could be a key to this situation. Despommier imagines a 30-story building with a greenhouse on every floor. The walls of the building would be clear, to allow crops to get as much sunlight as possible. Depending on a city’s water resources, Despommier thinks hydroponic(水培的) farming is another method for the vertical farm which needs no soil to grow plants.
Despommier says the hydroponic greenhouses would use a system that would use a city’s waste water and fill it with nutritions to make the crops grow. If this method works, it would provide food to a city and save millions of tons of water.
The idea of a vertical farm has attracted the attention of government officials around the world. Scott Stringer, a government official from New York City, thinks the city is suitable for the vertical farming. “Obviously we don’t have much land left for us,” Stringer said. “But the sky is the limit in Manhattan. ”
Despommier admits that there is still a lot of work to do to make vertical farms a reality. “But I think vertical farming is an idea that can work in a big way,” he says.
【小题1】Why are people advised to eat local?

A．Because it means convenience(方便) to people.
B．Because it can help people save a lot of money.
C．Because local food has more nutrition.
D．Because it is environmentally friendly.
【小题2】Which is one of the vertical farm’s benefits when compared with ordinary farming?
A．It produces healthier food.
B．It does less harm to the cities.
C．It needs less space of the city.
D．It requires less transport costs.
【小题3】By saying “the sky is the limit in Manhattan”, Stringer means _____.
A．people can make full use of vertical space of Manhattan
B．there is a limit for using empty land in Manhattan
C．the height of buildings in Manhattan is limited
D．Manhattan can spread as far as possible
【小题4】What can we learn about the vertical farming in the passage?
A．No soil is needed to grow plants in a vertical farm.
B．It has solved the problem of the food shortage in a big way.
C．It is a 30-story building with a greenhouse on every floor.
D．Crops are mainly grown in the rainwater in a vertical farm.

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【小题1】It is certain that Kong Xiangdong's talent for music is __________ (非凡的). He has performed in more than 40 countries and has scored numerous prizes, including the 1st prize and four other special prizes at the 1992 Sydney International Competition of Australia.
【小题2】Illegal __________ (移民) should be sent back to their own countries.
【小题3】The __________ (美丽)  of Venice consists largely in the style of its ancient buildings. 
【小题4】We raised money for the ____________ (目的) of helping the children in poor areas.
【小题5】During the 3-hour concert, Morissette used a lot of material from her __________ (获奖的) album “Jagged Little Pill”.
【小题6】Everyone’s fingerprints are u_________, which can make it easier for police to find criminals.
【小题7】Martin Luther King’s emotional speech reduced many of the a__________ to tears. 
【小题8】Who is the lady dressed e__________ in the painting drawn by Chen Yifei?
【小题9】Different a__________ have their own opinions of building a skyscraper.
【小题10】On the roof of the Post Office Savings Bank building in Budapest, there are fantastic decorations r___________ waves, flowers, and angels.

根据下列各句句意及所给单词的首字母或汉语提示，用正确形式的单词填空。并把完整单词填写在答题卷相应的位置上。

1.It is certain that Kong Xiangdong's talent for music is __________ (非凡的). He has performed in more than 40 countries and has scored numerous prizes, including the 1st prize and four other special prizes at the 1992 Sydney International Competition of Australia.

2.Illegal __________ (移民) should be sent back to their own countries.

3.The __________ (美丽)  of Venice consists largely in the style of its ancient buildings. 

4.We raised money for the ____________ (目的) of helping the children in poor areas.

5.During the 3-hour concert, Morissette used a lot of material from her __________ (获奖的) album “Jagged Little Pill”.

6.Everyone’s fingerprints are u_________, which can make it easier for police to find criminals.

7.Martin Luther King’s emotional speech reduced many of the a__________ to tears. 

8.Who is the lady dressed e__________ in the painting drawn by Chen Yifei?

9.Different a__________ have their own opinions of building a skyscraper.

10.On the roof of the Post Office Savings Bank building in Budapest, there are fantastic decorations r___________ waves, flowers, and angels.

 

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Course Name      Course Format School

/Trainer          Training Centers             Course Aim

A. CPR First Aid     Classroom     Lewis College

of Business        Detroit,

United States      To prepare students to triage and handle a variety of emergencies from minor ones to the most serious beginning with techniques needed to chart what occurred.

B. First Aid in the workplace       E-learning     Digital Think     San Francisco U.S.A  To empower you with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide basic first aid care in both emergency and non-emergency medical situations in the workplace

C. STCW95 Basic Safety           Blended      Flagship Superyacht Academy    Portsmouth U.K    A 5-day course essential for basic fire fighting training

D. Emergency Life Support and Basic First Aid for speakers of other languages     Classroom    City Lit   London, United Kingdom To recognize and deal with a number of life-threatening first aid incidents and offer support in developing the use of the English language

E. Activity First Aid On-site       City Lit       London, U. K.    To deal with a whole range of injuries. Leads to a practical examination. This course continues from the basic first aid course and will deal with further type.

F. First Aid Intensive Lifesaver & LS Plus           Classroom      City Lit    London U.K.   Starting with important basic first aid skills, such as resuscitation and dealing with unconscious occurrences.

请阅读下面欲参加课程者的个人资料，然后匹配与其适应的急救课程：

1.  John, whose house caught fire one night and was destroyed, was lucky enough to survive after months of treatment in the hospital. He became a homeless orphan and he could never forget the terrible disaster. He wants to learn the first aid so that his misfortune won’t happen to others.

2. Jane works in a large international company, which is on the top floor in a skyscraper in New York. She thinks it’s not so easy for them to get to safety if emergency happens while working.

3. Zhang Ying, a Chinese girl who is studying in London, is curious about learning some basic first aid skills and improving her English.

4. Li Jian is a student of senior Ⅱ and has experienced some accidents. He wants to learn how to deal with not only the simple injuries but also serious ones. He doesn’t want to just sit in the classroom, listening and watching.

5. Wang Yang’s mother is weak in health and often gets tired easily. She even loses her consciousness from time to time. Wang Yang is so worried about her that she wants to learn some first aid to help her mother in case of such situations.

 

A farm planted levels or floors is called a vertical（垂直的）farm. A skyscraper type building can house a vertical farm. Since the garden is built upwards，rather than outwards，it requires much less space than a conventional farm.
The world is quickly running out of room for conventional farming. Vertical farms could be a key to this situation. An 18­story vertical farm could feed as many as 50,000 people，all in an area which is the size of the average city block. Vertical farms in the city could cut down on transportation costs as well. Think about the amount of fuel it takes to transport food from farmland to city. The resources saved would be surprising. Besides saving travel time，food would be delivered in fresher condition and with less damage.
There is a growing concern about the use of pesticides(杀虫剂) in agriculture today. But the vertical farm would be a greenhouse type environment, avoiding the need for a large number of pesticides. Vertical farms can be built in a contained space，therefore they are an excellent solution for living well in an environment far different from our own. Hydroponics(水耕法) could be a big part of vertical gardening. This would reduce the amount of soil needed to grow food. Of course，not all food does well with this type of planting，but there are many crops that actually seem to do better.
In some climates，a lack of sunlight creates a short growing season. The solar power option may not work as well here. The addition of grow lights would make it possible to grow crops in vertical gardens in these areas .In other words，we could grow crops in areas where we never could before.
Vertical farms may just be a concept for now，but they are a concept that will solve many of our problems in the future.

  1. 1.

    According to the passage, a vertical farm________.

    1. A.
      is mainly built outwards
    2. B.
      is dependent on solar power
    3. C.
      is planted on levels upwards
    4. D.
      is only an environmental friendly farm
  2. 2.

    Compared to the conventional farm, the vertical farm can________.

    1. A.
      depend far less on sunlight
    2. B.
      greatly increase the use of soil
    3. C.
      help to protect the limited gardens
    4. D.
      reduce the use of harmful pesticides
  3. 3.

    It can be learned from the passage that vertical farms________.

    1. A.
      have been put into use
    2. B.
      only use hydroponics to grow food
    3. C.
      need less room than conventional farms
    4. D.
      may increase the transportation costs
  4. 4.

    What would be the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      Vertical farms for our future
    2. B.
      Ways to deal with future problems
    3. C.
      Vertical farms and green skyscrapers
    4. D.
      Making Full Use of Our Limited Land

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