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Each year, an area the size of Beijing plus Shanghai disappears from the Amazon rainforest. On September 30, 2008, Brazil announced that the rate ofdeforestationincreased more than three times in the past year. The Amazon rainforest covers around 4.1 million square kilometers of Brazil, nearly 60 percent of the country. The rainforest supports at least 10 percent of the world's known species. The 17 million people who live in the Brazilian Amazon depend on the land for their homes and livelihoods. Brazil is the world's biggest beef and soy exporter. Farmers need land for crops and to feed their cattle. Some burn patches of forest to clear the land. Others cut down trees for wood. They build roads to transport the wood. Brazil's economy is growing, but that growth comes at a price. In May, Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva, quit her job. For six years, she tried to protect the forest. But she felt she was losing the battle against those who are eager to make money in the Amazon. The Amazon is the planet's largest absorber of carbon dioxide, a gas that can trap heat in the atmosphere. A world Wildlife Found study shows that 55 percent of the Amazon could be gone by 2030. Without those trees, billions of tons of carbon dioxide would stay in the atmosphere. They would speed up global warming. Brazilian researchers say that temperatures in the Amazon region will rise by two to three degrees by 2050. That, and the resulting lower rainfall, could turn 30-60 percent of the forest into grassland with only scattered trees. |
1. The underlined word in the first paragraph probably means _______. |
A. a certain forest station B. the loss of the trees C. the slow growth of trees D. an increase in trees |
2. In the opinion of the writer, the economic growth of Brazil is based on _______. |
A. the development of modern science and technology B. the world's biggest beef and soy export C. the gradual destruction of the Amazon rainforest D. the environmental protection of the Brazilians |
3. It can be inferred from the passage that _______. |
A. Marina Silva had devoted herself to protecting the rainforest before she quit her job B. Marina Silva is determined to fight for the conservation of the rainforest in any case C. Marina Silva began to hold the post of Brazil's environment minister in 2005 D. The majority of Brazilians have joined Marina Silva in protecting the rainforest |
4. What the writer really wants to tell us is that _______. |
A.55 percent of the people in the Brazil Amazon will have to leave their homes by 2030. B. The living standard of the Brazilians has been greatly raised in the past few years. C. The Amazon rainforest is the planet's largest absorber of carbon dioxide. D. The Amazon rainforest is in urgent need of the protection, or global warming will speed up. |
A、response
B、revolution
C、recession
D、resistance
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The rise of the so-called "boomerang generation " is laid bare in official figures showing that almost one in five graduates in their late 20s now live with their parents. By contrast, only one in eight university graduates had failed to fly the nest by the same age 20 years ago, research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. It also found that grown-up sons are twice as likely as their sisters to still be living with their parents in their late 20s. With nearly a quarter of men approaching 30 still living at home, the findings are bound to lead to claims of a "generation of mummy's boys". Rising property prices, mounting student debts and the effects of recession on the job market have forced a wave of young people to move back into the family home at an age when they would normally be moving out. Young professionals in their late 20s or early 30s have been nicknamed the "boomerang generation" because of the trend toward returning to the family home having firstly left to study. Recent research has suggested that young people in Britain are twice as likely to chose to live with their parents in their late 20s than their counterparts(对手们) elsewhere in Europe. But commentators warned that the phenomenon may have more to do with young people facing "dire" prospects(景象) than simply a desire to save money. While the proportion of those of university or college age moving out from the family home has continued to rise in the last 20 years, among those in their mid and late 20s the trend has been reversed(颠倒). Overall 1.7 million people aged from 22 to 29 now share a roof with their parents, including more than 760,000 in their late 20s, the ONS figures suggest. In 1988 22. 7 per cent of men aged 25 to 29 were still living with their parents but last year the proportion was 24. 5 per cent, according to the ONS. |
1. Which of the following is TRUE? |
A. One in five approaching 30 now live with their parents. B. Grown-up sons who are still be living with their parents are twice as likely as their sisters. C. Young people who live with parents now in Britain are less than elsewhere in Europe. D. More and more elder people trend to live independently. |
2. The reason why young generation trends to live with their parents is ____ . |
A. that they want to save money B. that they want to take care of their old parents C. that their parents are badly sick D. that they face miserable phenomenon |
3. According to the passage, people aged from 22 to 29 should _____. |
A. live independently B. now live with their parents C. leave for college D. go to work |
4. According to the passage, we can infer that ____ . |
A. parents in elsewhere in Europe dislike to live with their children B. these prospects have nothing to do with the financial crisis C. more and more young people will live with their parents in the future in Britain D. the government should be responsible for this |
5. What's the best title of the passage? |
A. Generation of Mummy's Boys B. Boomerang Generation C. Living with Their Parents D. Going back |
A、Circular reasoning.
B、Red herring.
C、Straw man.
D、Appeal to ignorance.
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B、The imaginary exponential signalcan be represented as
C、Both the imaginary exponential siganland sine signalcan be linearly represented by the other signal, and thus, they have the same properties.
D、The greater the, the higher the oscillation frequency of the real and imaginary parts of the imaginary exponential signal.
A、both are zero.
B、both are
C、both are
D、
E、-
A、people were not interested in this idea
B、nobody sponsored this project
C、didn't have suitable glass and low-cost electronics for it
D、other reasons
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