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The first strike in the railway industry lasted for four hours, in protest of proposed job cuts, and is expected to halt the whole network on the busiest day of the week for train travel. The bus strike will worsen Londoners' misery.
Bus drivers are protesting against new job practices and pay cuts as the bus system prepares for privatization.
Police saw chaos on the roads as commuters attempted to get to work by ear. Hundreds of thousands of people were expected to stay at home to avoid the crush, likely to be made worse by bad weather. About 2 million people ravel into London every day and most of them use public transport.
Yesterday's strike caused the most confusion for
A.employers.
B.commuters.
C.police.
D.tourists.
(27[B]) The first strike in the railway industry lasted for four hours, in protest of proposed job cuts, and is expected to the whole network on the busiest day of the week for train travel. The bus strike will worsen Londoners' misery.
(26[C]) Bus drivers are protesting against new job practices and pay cuts as the bus system prepares ior privatization.
Police saw chaos on the roads as commuters attempted to get to work by car. Hundreds of thousands of people were expected to stay at home to avoid the crush, likely to be made worse by bad weather. About 2 million people travel into London every day and most of them use public transport.
Yesterday's strike caused the most confusion for ______.
A.employers
B.commuters
C.police
D.tourists
The first strike in the railway industry for four years, in protest of proposed job cuts, is expected to halt the whole network on the busiest day of the week for train travel. The bus strike will worsen Londoners' misery. Bus drivers are protesting against new job practices and pay cuts as the bus system prepares for privatization.
Police forecast chaos on the roads ms commuters attempt to get to work by car. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to stay at home to avoid the crush, likely to be made worse by bad weather. About 2 million people travel into London every day and most of them use public transport.
Miners' leaders hope 10,000 people will join a march through the Yorkshire coal town of Barnsley to protest at government-imposed pit closures which will cost 15,000 miners their jobs.
Prime Minister John Major called the railway workers' action "deplorable" on Thursday. But union leaders say they believe the public, concerned at the inexorable rise in unemployment after two years of recession, understand their action.
Yesterday's strike led to complete confusion for______.
A.tourists
B.commuters
C.employers
D.bus drivers
Next week, as millions of families gather for their Thanksgiving (感恩节) feasts, many other Americans will go without. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, more than 12 million households lack enough food for everyone in their family at some time during the year—including holidays.
Hunger is surprisingly widespread in our country—one of the world's wealthiest—yet the government estimates that we waste almost 100 billion pounds of food each year, more than one-quarter of our total supply.
Reducing this improper distribution of resources is a goal of America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization. Last year, it distributed nearly 2 billon pounds of food to more than 23 million people in need.
America's Second Harvest is a network of 214 inter-connected food banks and other organizations that gather food from growers, processors, grocery stores and restaurants. In turn, the network distributes food to some 50,000 soup kitchens, homeless shelters and old people's centers in every county of every state.
A great deal of work is involved in distributing tons of food from thousands of donors (捐赠者) to hundreds of small, nonprofit organizations. Until a few years ago, America's Second Harvest lacked any effective way to manage their inventory. Without accurate and timely information, soup kitchens were sometimes empty while food was left to spoil in loading places.
In 2000, America's Second Harvest began to use a new inventory and financial-management system—Ceres. It is software designed specifically for hunger-relief operations. It is used by more than 100 America's Second Harvest organizations to track food from donation to distribution.
Ceres has helped reduce the spoiling of food and improve distribution. An evaluation found that the software streamlined food banks' operations by 23 percent in the first year alone.
With more accurate and timely reports, Ceres saves time, flees staff members to focus on finding new donors, and promises more efficient use of donations.
Hunger in America remains a troubling social problem. Technology alone cannot solve it. But in the hands of organizations such as America's Second Harvest, it is a powerful tool that is helping to make a difference—and helping more Americans to join in the feast.
According to the passage, the total supply of food in America every year reaches ______.
A.12 million pounds
B.more than 12 million pounds
C.almost 100 billion pounds
D.about 400 billion pounds
【试题2】
LAST week, Indonesia announced its 43rd human death from bird flu. It has now recorded more fatalities than any other nation, and in stark contrast to all other countries its death toll is climbing regularly. It looks as though things will get worse before they get better.
The Indonesian government claims to be committed to fighting the disease, caused by the H5N1 virus, but it does not seem to want to spend much of its own money doing so. After the international community pledged $900m in grants and slightly more in very soft loans to combat the spread of bird flu globally and to help nations prepare for a possible human flu pandemic[2], Indonesia put in a request for the full $900m—all of it in grants.
A national bird-flu commission was created in March to co-ordinate the country&39;s response but it has yet to be given a budget. Its chief, meanwhile, has just been given a second full-time job—heading efforts to rebuild the part of Java devastated by an earthquake in May.
Observers say that the available money is being mis-spent, with the focus on humans rather than on animals. The agriculture ministry, for example, is asking for less money for next year than it got this year. This is despite hundreds of thousands of hens dying every month, to say nothing of infected cats, quails, pigs and ducks. Farmers are being compensate at only 2,000 rupiah (21 cents) per bird, well below market price, thereby discouraging them from reporting outbreaks. The country&39;s veterinary surveillance services are inadequate. Pledges to vaccinate hundreds of millions of birds have not been met.
The UN&39;s Food and Agriculture Organisation is starting to establish local disease-control centres to cope with the effects of a virulent mutation, should one occur, but reckons that only one-third of the country will be covered by year&39;s end. A bunch of international do-gooders[4] that is trying to plug some of the gaps is finding it hard to raise money.
听力原文:W: Good morning
M: Good morning.
W: Well, what are your predictions about the world? What is it going to be like in the year 2020?
M: Hum, if present trends continue, I'm afraid the world in 2020 will be more crowded and more polluted than the world we live in now.
W: Don't you think we will be able to cope with the increase in world population?
M: I don't think so. Even though production is constantly increasing, the people of the world will be poorer than they are today. For hundreds of millions of the desperately poor, the supply of food and other necessities of life will not be any better. And for many they will be worse, unless the nations of the world do something to change the current trends.
W: What is your estimate of world population in the year 2020?
M: If present trends continue, that is with the number of births by far exceeding the number of deaths. In 2020 the world population could approach 6,500 million people.
W: How many people are born every day?
M: About 250 every minute, but only 100 people die!
W: That's worrying! Will there be enough oil to satisfy our needs in the year 2020?
M: During the 2000s, world oil production will reach the maximum and the price of oil will begin to increase. At the next ten years of the century, the available supplies will not be sufficient for our needs. So, at lest part of these needs will have to be met by alternative sources of energy.
W: Well, that's a warning that we all need to take seriously. And with that warning, we end part one of this week's.
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A.Increase food production.
B.Increase oil production.
C.Birth control.
D.All of above.
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Unpredictable Earthquake
Humans are forever forgetting that they can&39;t control nature. Exactly 20 years ago, a Time magazine cover story announced that "scientists are on the verge of being able to predict the time, place and even the size of earthquakes." The people of quake-ravaged (被地震破坏的) Kobe learned last week how wrong that assertion was.
None of the methods conceived two decades ago has yet to discover a uniform. wanting signal that preceded all quakes, let alone any sign that would tell whether the coming temblor (地震) is mild or a killer.Earthquake formation can be triggered by many factors, says Hiroo Kanamori, a seismologist (地震学家), at the California Institute of Technology. So, finding one all-purpose warning sign is impossible. One reason :Quakes tart deep in the earth, so scientists can&39;t study them directly. If a quake precursor were found, it would still be impossible to ward humans in advance of all dangerous quakes.Places like Japan and California are fiddle with hundreds, if not thousands, of minor faults.
Prediction would be less important if scientists could easily build structures to withstand tremors. While seismic engineering has improved dramatically in the past 10 to 15 years, every new quake reveals unexpected weakness in "quake-resistant" structures, says Terry Tullis, a geophysicist at Brown University. In Kobe, for example, a highway that opened only last year was damaged. In the Northridgeearthquake, on the other hand,well-built structures generally did not collapse.
A recent report in Science adds yet more anxiety about life on the faulty lines. Researchers Fan computer simulations to see how quake resistant buildings would fall in a moderate size temblor, taking into account that much of a quake&39;s energy travels in a large "pulse" of focused shaking. The results: both steel-frame. buildings
and buildings that sit on insulating rubber pads suffered severe damage.
More research will help experts design stronger structures and possibly find quake precursors. But it is still a certainty that the next earthquake will prove once again that every fault cannot be monitored and every highway cannot be completely quake-proofed.
From the first paragraph, it can be safely inferred that__________. 查看材料
A.scientists can never be able to predict the coming of earthquakes
B.the existing power on predicting earthquakes is somewhat exaggerated
C.quite a lot of scientific assertions are groundless
D.earthquake predictions are beyond the reach of scientists
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