第1题
A.been shifted around the country
B.had difficulty being promoted
C.enjoyed a happier life
D.tasted little bitterness of disgrace
第2题
Years ago a divorced man in a company would have ______.
A.been shifted around the country
B.had difficulty being promoted
C.enjoyed a happier life
D.tasted little bitterness of disgrace
第3题
A.scattered
B.ranged
C.implied
D.reflected
第4题
A.undertake
B.understand
C.undergo
D.underline
第5题
The fridge is considered a necessity. (冰箱被认为是一个必需品。)It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label, “store in the refrigerator.”
In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily.The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.
The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast way of well-tried techniques already existed--natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling…
What refrigeration did promote was marketing--marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animal around the globe in search of a good price.
Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated house,while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.
The fridge's effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant. If you don't believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and turn off you fridge next winter. You may miss the hamburgers, but at least you'll get rid of that terrible hum.
1.The statement "In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. "(Para. 2) suggests that ______.
A.the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties
B.the author was not accustomed to using fridges even in his fifties
C.there was no fridge in the author's home in the 1950s
D.the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s
2.Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges?
A.People would not buy more food than was necessary.
B.Food was delivered to people two or three times a week.
C.Food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily.
D.People had effective ways to preserve their food.
3.Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author?
A.Inventors.
B.Manufacturers.
C.Consumers.
D.Travelling salesmen.
4.Which of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridge's negative effect on the environment?
A.Hum away continuously.
B.Artificially-cooled space.
C.Climatically almost unnecessary.
D.With mild temperatures.
5.What is the author's overall attitude toward fridges?
A.Neutral.
B.Objective.
C.Critical.
D.Compromising.
第6题
A.both experiences
B.experiences both
C.experience both
D.experienced both
第7题
1.According to this passage, the answer to the question “Do you prefer coffee or tea? ” might in part be down to your genes.
1.A genetic predisposition to perceiving the bitterness of particular substances makes us always prefer to coffee.
1.The underlined word “prop” in Para. 3 refers to a small object such as a book, weapon etc, used by actors in a play or film.
1.People with an increased perception of the bitterness of caffeine drank a little more coffee.
1.The preference towards tea can be seen as a consequence of absorbing from coffee.
第8题
Leticia Sequra
A.As for me ,it's never too late to learn.
B.Unanticipated occurrence makes my schedule tighter.
C.I admit that I am a fright owl.
D.I taste the bitterness from my sports fever.65. Leticia Sequra
E.I believe that haste makes waste.
F.I have the ability to deal with high pressure.
G.I can make efficient use of my time.
第9题
第二篇
Not content with its doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our own population, the factory farming industry also argues that "hungry nations are benefiting from advances made by the poultry(家禽) industry". In fact, rather than helping the fight against malnutrition(营养不良) in "hungry nations", the spread of factory farming has, inevitably aggravated the problem.
Large-scale intensive meat and poultry production is a waste of food resources. This is because more protein has to be fed to animals in the form. of vegetable matte than can ever be recovered in the form. of meat. Much of the food value is lost in the animal' s process of digestion and cell replacement. Neither, in the case of chicken, can one eat feathers, blood, feet or head. In all, only about 44% of the live animal fits to be eaten as meat.
This means one has to feed approximately 9~10 times as much food value to the animal than one can consume from the carcass. As a system for feeding the hungry, the effects can prove disastrous. At times of crisis, grain is the food of life.
Nevertheless, the huge increase in poultry production throughout Asia and Africa continues. Normally British or US firms are involved. For instance, an American based multinational company has this year announced its involvement in projects in several African countries. Britain's largest suppliers of chickens, Ross Breeder, are also involved in projects all over the world.
Because such trade is good for exports, Western governments encourage it. In 1979, a firm in Bangladesh called Phoenix Poultry received a grant to set up a unit of 6,000 chickens and 18,000 laying hens. This almost doubled the number of poultry kept in the country all at once.
But Bangladesh lacks capital, energy and food and has large numbers of unemployed. Such chicken-raising demands capital for building and machinery, extensive use of energy resources for automation, and involves feeding chickens with potential famine- relief protein food. At present, one of Bangladesh' s main imports is food grains, because the country is unable to grow enough food to feed its population. On what then can they possibly feed the chicken?
In this passage the author argues that______。
A. efficiency must be raised in the poultry industry
B. raising poultry can provide more protein than growing grain
C. factory farming will do more harm than good to developing countries
D. hungry nations may benefit from the development of the poultry industry
第10题
A.They would have enjoyed a happier life.
B.They would have had difficulty being promoted.
C.They would have been shifted around the country.
D.They would have tasted little bitterness of disgrace. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.