59. The underlined word ~ hi the 6th paragraph is closest in meaning to

　 A. clever　　　　 B. crazy　　　　　 C. honest　　　　　 D. kind

58. Nick was unwilling to sell his Harley Davidson because he thought it was

　 A. lovely　　　　 B. valuable　　　 C. reliable　　　　 　D. old

57. Which of the following did Nick value most?

A. Harley Davidson. 　B. His job.　　 C. His dream to travel.　 D. His car.

56. Harley Davidson here refers to a _________.

　 A. car　　　　　 B. truck　　　　 C. garage　　　　　 D. motorbike

75．Which of the following can help reduce pets’ environmental effect based on the text?

　　 A．Feeding pets on less meat．

　 　 B．Working out eco-footprints of pets．

　　 C．Keeping the goldfish instead of dogs．

　　 D．Getting rid of pets from human life．

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答案：56-60 DCABA　61-65 CADBB　 66-70 CBABD　 71-75 CBDAC　

A

Nick Campbell sat at the side of the road and wondered what to do next. He looked at the second-hand Harley Davidson he’d bought from a back-street garage back home in Miami at the beginning of his trip six weeks before.

For years he had dreams of crossing the United States from east to west by motorbike and he’d finally decided that it was now or never. He’d given up his job, sold his car and set off for the journey of his dreams. He’d been lucky, or so he thought, to find this old Harley Davidson and had bought it for a very reasonable price------it had cost him just $600. But five kilometers from Atlanta, he had run out of luck. The motorbike had broken down.

He pushed the bike into town and found a garage. The young mechanic told him to leave the bike overnight and come back the next day. The following morning, to his surprise, the man asked if the bike was for sale. “Certainly not,” he replied, paid his bill and hit the road.

When he got to Kansas the old machine ran out of steam again. This time Nick thought about selling it and buying something more reliable, but decided to carry on. When the bike was going well, he loved it.

However, in Denver, Colorado the bike broke down again so he decided to take it to a garage and offer it for sale. The mechanic told him to come back in the morning.

The next day, to his amazement, the man offered him $2,000. Realizing the man must be soft in the head, but clearly not short of money, Nick asked for $ 3,000. The man agreed and they signed the papers. Then the mechanic started laughing. In fact it was several minutes before he could speak and when he could he said, “That’s the worst deal you’ll ever make, boy."

　　 He removed the seat. On the underside was the inscription (铭文):

　　 'To Elvis, love James Dean. '

74．Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?

　　 A．The Vales insist that pets should be got rid of．

　　 B．Some pet owners are against the Vales’ point of view．

　　 C．Keeping pets does have a bad effect on the environment．

　　 D．Pets’ carbon footprint should not be neglected．

73．We know from the article that ______．

　　 A．a medium-sized dog eats around 95 kilos of grain and meat a year

　　 B．a medium-sized dog has an annual footprint 5．6 times that of a cat

　　 C．two hamsters burn the same energy as two televisions

　 D．a sports car running 10,000 kilometers requires 0.41 hectares of footprint

72．Reha Huttin’s remark really means that ______．

　　 A．pets should not be kept as a result of consuming much food

　　 B pets are doing no harm to the environment at all

　　 C．people can keep pets by reducing their environmental effect

　　 D．he prefers walking to driving to reduce his loneliness

71．The best title of the article is "______"．

　　 A．Work out our carbon emissions　　　 　　　　　　　 B．Reduce our pets’ meat intake

　　 C．Be careful of keeping our pets　　　　 　　　　　　 D．Mind our pets’ carbon footprint

70．Which of the following helps prevent kidney damage most effectively?

　　 A．Go to see a kidney specialist shortly before dialysis starts.

　　 B．Take enough exercise and make early detection of kidney disease.

　　 C．Try to keep low blood pressure and a stable lifestyle.

　　 D．Go to hospital whenever you find any warning signs.

D

　　 Man’s best friend could be one of the environment’s worst enemies, according to a new study that says that your pet dog’s carbon pawprint(碳足迹) is more than double that of a sports car.

　　 Yet this point of view, made by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale, has angered pet owners who feel they are being picked out as troublemakers.　

　　 The Vales, researchers in sustainable(可持续的) living, looked at popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats about 164 kilos of meat and 95 kilos of grain a year.

　　 Combining that with the energy needed to produce that food, it means a medium-sized dog has an annual footprint of 0.84 hectares(公顷), about twice the 0.41 hectares required by a sports car driving 10,000 kilometers a year, including energy to build the car.

　　 “Owning a dog really is quite an extravagance(奢侈), mainly because of the carbon footprint of mean. Other animals aren’t better for the environment,” the Vales say.

　　 Cats have an eco-footprint of about 0.15 hectares a year, while two hamsters(仓鼠) are the same as a television and even the goldfish burns energy equal to two cellphones.

　　 However, Reha Huttin, president of France’s 30 Million Friends animal rights foundation says pets are too important to human life to be got rid of.

　　 “Everyone should work out their own environmental effect,” Huttin argude. “I should be allowed to say that I walk instead of using my car and that I don’t eat meat, so why souldn’t I be allowed to have a little cat to reduce my loneliness?”

　　 The Vales give some solutions to reduce pets’ environmental effect, including reducing pets’ meat intake. But they said that, as with buying a car ,humans should take the environmental effect of their future compainon into account.