a land of large-scale industry and 1. These guerrilla gardeners do their work ______.
A. at the request of the government
B. nearby their house
C. often in return for others' help
D. out of their own free will
B. nearby their house
C. often in return for others' help
D. out of their own free will
2. Richard Reynolds decided to fill the pots with plants in order to ______.
A. plant more flowers in the path
B. beautify the neighborhood
C. attract attention for his ad agency
D. make the plants a feast for his eyes
B. beautify the neighborhood
C. attract attention for his ad agency
D. make the plants a feast for his eyes
3. The guerrilla gardeners often return to their night working places with the purpose of ______.
A. looking after these plants
B. enjoying these beautiful flowers
C. helping plants live through winter months
D. changing the varieties of the plants
B. enjoying these beautiful flowers
C. helping plants live through winter months
D. changing the varieties of the plants
4. It can be inferred from the text that these guerrilla gardeners ______.
A. are mainly from the United Kingdom
B. will later get well paid
C. are still not accepted by the local government
D. become more and more organized
B. will later get well paid
C. are still not accepted by the local government
D. become more and more organized
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| Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be 1 and damaged? Judging from an experiment in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if a baby heard no mother 2 , the experimenter told the nurses to keep silent. All the 3 died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life 4 , the capacity to survive is seriously affected. Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by the experimenter. 5 , some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is 6 to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for 7 skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at right time, but the process is slow and hard once the 8 stage has passed. Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a 9 age, but there are cases where speech has started 10 in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple 11 ; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style 12 grammar. Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the 13 to speak. What is special about man's brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to 14 the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern "toy - bear". And even more 15 is the young brain's ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyse, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways. | ||||
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| Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for eachparagraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.
1. ________________________ A world record is every athlete's dream, but the hard-won records of a few years ago are mostly just today's qualifying times. Roger Bannister's famous four-minute mile of 1956 has been beaten by nearly 15 seconds, while almost an hour and twenty minutes has been taken off the women's marathon since. 1953. 'Faster, higher, stronger', is the Olympic motto, and today's competitors continue to push back the boundaries of what the body can achieve. But one wonders if this can continue. 2. ________________________ The last forty years have seen many important technological advances. For example, since the introduction of strong flexible, fiberglass poles, over a meter has been added to the pole vault record. There have also been important developments in the design of the running shoe. And while a shoe won't actually make someone run faster, modern shoes do mean many more miles of comfortable, injury-free training. 3. ________________________ Pushing back the limits now depends more on science, technology and medicine than anything else. Athletic technique, training programmes and diets are all being studied to find ways of taking a few more seconds off or adding a few more centimetres to that elusive world record. It seems that natural ability and hard work are no longer enough. 4. ________________________ The research to find more efficient ways of moving goes on. Analysis of an athlete's style is particularly useful for events like jumping and throwing. Studies show that long jumpers need to concentrate not on the speed of approach, as once thought, but on the angle their bodies make with the ground as they take off. However, the rules governing each sport limit advances achieved by new styles. For instance only one-footed takeoffs are allowed in the high jump. 5. ________________________ In the future, it should be possible to develop a more individual approach to training programmes. Athletes will keep detailed diaries and collect data to help predict the point when training becomes overtraining, the cause of many injuries. If athletes feed all their information into a database, it may then be possible to predict patterns and to advise them individually when they should cut. |