She looks a bit m_____ in that suit.( having characteristics..

第1题

Graffiti painting is traditionally a daredevil pursuit. Teenagers dodge security guards to put their names on trains and buses. But over the past decade, graffiti has all but disappeared from Britain's cities. Between 2007 and 2012 the number of incidents of graffiti recorded by the British Transport Police fell by 63%. A survey by the Environment Ministry shows that fewer places are blighted by tags than ever. Graffiti are increasingly confined to sanctioned walls, such as the Stockwell ball courts. In time the practice may die out entirely.The most obvious reason for the decline in tagging and train-painting is better policing. Numerous CCTV cameras mean it is harder to get away with painting illegally. And punishments are more severe. A generational shift is apparent, too. Fewer teenagers are getting into painting walls. They prefer to play with iPads and video games. Some have gone to art school and want to make money from their paintings. The Internet means that painters can win far more attention by posting pictures online than they can by breaking into a railway yard.Taggers and graffiti artists mostly grew up in the 1980s and 1990s. Those men—and almost all are men—are now older and less willing to take risks. Graffiti may eventually disappear. But for now the hobby is almost respectable. The former graffiti artists paint abandoned warehouses at the weekend. It has become something to do on a Sunday afternoon—a slightly healthier alternative to sitting and watching football.

1.Teenagers are not afraid of being caught by security guards when they put their names on trains and buses.（）

2.Less tags can be found in public places nowadays.（）

3.Because of better policing graffiti decreases.（）

4.Some teenagers go to art school in order to learn to paint walls.（）

5.Taggers and graffiti artists are still willing to take risks.（）

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阅读理解。????Environmentalists said our planet was...

阅读理解。

Environmentalists said our planet was doomed to die. Now one man says they are wrong.

"Everyone knows the planet is in bad shape," thundered a magazine article last year. Species are being

driven to die out at record rates, and the rivers are so poisonous that fish are floating on the surface, dead.

But there's a growing belief that what everyone takes for granted is wrong: things are actually getting

better. A new book is about to overturn our most basic assumptions about the world's environment. Rivers, seas, rain and the atmosphere are all getting cleaner. The total amount of forests in the world is not

declining. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg, professor of statistics at the University of

Aarhus in Denmark, is an attack on the misleading claims of environmental groups, and the "bad news"

culture that makes people believe everything is getting worse.

Now the attacks are increasingly coming from left-wing environmentalists such as Lomborg, a former

member of Greenpeace. The accusation is that, although the environment is improving, green groups-with

profits of hundreds of mil-lions of pounds a year - are using scare tactics(谋略)to gain donations. Lomborg's book doesn't deny global warming - probably the biggest environmental threat - but destroys almost

every other environmental claim with many official statistics.

The Worldwatch Institute claims that "deforestation(沙漠化) has been accelerating over the last 30

years". But Lomborg says that is simply rubbish. Since the dawn of agriculture the world has lost about

20 per cent of its forest cover, but in recent decades the forest area'sdepletinghas come to a stop.

According to UN figures, the area of forests has remained almost steady, at about 30 per cent of total

land area, since the 1940s. Forests in countries such as the US, the UK and Canada have actually been

expanding over the past 40 years. Despite all the warnings the Amazon rainforest has only shrunk by

about 15 per cent.

Nor are all our species dying out. Some campaigners claim that 50 per cent of all species will have

died out within 50 years. But other studies show only 0.08 per cent of species are dying out each year.

Conservation efforts have been successful. Whales are no longer threatened and the bald eagle is off the

endangered list.

Environmental groups claim that many of the improvements are the results of the success of their

campaigns. Stephen Tindale, director of Greenpeace UK, said, "There are important examples, such as

acid rain and ozone, where things aren't as bad as predicted, and that's because behavior has changed."

1. In his book,The Skeptical Environmentalist, what is Lomborg's main argument？

A. Our planet is in bad shape.

B. The world's environment is improving.

C. The total amount of forests in the world is not declining.

D. Conservation efforts have been successful.

2. What is Lomborg's main accusation of environmentalists？

A. They scared people into making donations.

B. They overturned our basic assumptions about the world's environment.

C. They changed their behavior toward the environment.

D. They only told people bad news about the environment.

3. The underlined word "depleting" in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to "____".

A. reducing

B. limiting

C. expanding

D. accelerating

4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true？

A. The total area of forests in the world has increased significantly.

B. The effects of global warming are not as bad as first expected.

C. It appears that the bald eagle will now survive.

D. In the last 50 years the number of whales has increased.

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第3题

Meditation helps me achieve e_____ and serenity. (the state of understanding something)

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第4题

The opposition leader accused government ministers of m_____ the statistics to suit themselves. (to control something or someone to your advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly)

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第5题

Australia is large, and r_____ from the great centres of population of the world. (far away in distance)

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Many natural disasters have b_____ that region. (something happens to a person or place, often refers to bad thing)

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第7题

Here we shall find problems r______ with modernity and contemporary savor. (to suggest very strongly that sth unpleasant or suspicious is involved in a situation)

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第8题

It can be said that this is an academic book, and researchers in various fields have listed this book as a m_____ in their own fields. (an important event in the development or history of something or in someone's life)

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She looks a bit m_____ in that suit.（having characteristics that are traditionally thought to be typical of or suitable for men)