3. It can be learned from the passage that .
A. the new plan is agreed by most ministers
B. the new plan will waste a lot of money
C. the government has asked for much advice of the new plan
D. the new plan does not necessarily do good to the environment
B. the new plan will waste a lot of money
C. the government has asked for much advice of the new plan
D. the new plan does not necessarily do good to the environment
4. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. English families are limited to 80 bags of rubbish a year
B. English families can't clear away their rubbish
C. English families are angry with their government
D. English government pays no attention to residents' interest
B. English families can't clear away their rubbish
C. English families are angry with their government
D. English government pays no attention to residents' interest
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| The tiny snow leopard cub (雪豹仔) looked across the mountainside for its mother, waiting for her to return. She never did. The cub's mother was 1 , likely killed by a hunter in the steep mountain of Pakistan. Her cub was 2 and alone-without care it was doomed (注定) to starve. 3 a passing herder (牧人) noticed the tiny cub. He took the 4 home and raised it. At first the cub seemed fine. 5 after a week, the herder 6 the snow leopard baby wasn't healthy and that he didn't know 7 to feed it. He sent word to wildlife officials, hoping 8 would arrive in time. As soon as the World Wide Fund for nature Pakistan (WWF-P) in the city of Gilgit 9 about the cub, they sent a staffer to the remote village. The 10 was more urgent than just one animal in danger; snow leopards are endangered species. 11 being hunted for their beautiful thick coats, the wild cats have 12 much of their 13 prey, such as wild mountain goats and sheep, to hunt. The world population of snow leopards in their natural habitat-high mountain in central Aisa-has 14 between 4,500 and 7,000. In Pakistan only about 300 are 15 . The people at the WWR-P didn't want to lose 16 . They loaded the snow leopard into a card board box lined with a towel and grass and drove it to Gilgit for a veterinary (兽医的) exam. 17 the cub was weak, he had no diseases or infections. The vet felt he would 18 with proper care. But since a snow leopard learns survival 19 like hunting from its mother, the cub could never be set free back into the 20 He was sent to a national park and placed in the care of wildlife keeper who often raised wild baby animals. | ||||
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a result of climate change, according to a study of trees in eastern America. The trees appear to have faster growth rates due to longer growing seasons and higher concentrations (浓度) of carbon dioxide in the 1______. Geoffrey Parker, a scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre in Edgewater. Maryland, said that the increase ha the rate of growth was unexpected and might be 2______ to the higher temperatures and longer growing seasons documented in the region. The growth may also be influenced by the significant 3______ in atmospheric CO2, he said. "We made a list of reasons these forests could be growing faster and then excluded half of them," Dr Parker said. Their study suggests that northern forests may become increasingly important in 4______ the influence of man-made CO2 on the climate. Dr Parker and his colleagues have 5______ out a detailed record of the trees on a(n) 6______ basis since 1987. They calculated that due to the global warming the forest is producing 7______ tons of wood each year. The scientists 8______ the land with trees at different stages of growth and found that both young and old trees were showing increased growth rate. More than 90 per cent of the tree groups had grown by between two and four times faster than the scientists had 9______ from estimates of the long-term rates of growth. |