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In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental p

roblems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.

Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers and wasters of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120,000 kilowatts—enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New York, for a day.

Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss(or gain) through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insulation board. To lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment, builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels of glass I and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films that reduce glare as well as heat gain. However, mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.

Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city's sanitation(卫生) facilities, too. If fully occupied, the two(former) World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw sewage(污物) each year—as much as a city the size of Stamford, Connecticut, which has a population of more than 109,000. Skyscrapers also interfere with television reception, block bird flyways, and obstruct air traffic. In Boston in the late 1960's some people even feared that shadows from skyscrapers would kill the grass.

Still, people continue to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they always have to build them—personal ambition, civic pride, and the desire of owners to have the largest possible amount of rentable space.

The main purpose of the passage is to ______.

A．discuss the advantages and disadvantages of skyscrapers

B．compare skyscrapers with other modern structures

C．describe skyscrapers and their effect on the environment

D．illustrate various architectural designs of skyscrapers

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发布时间：2020-09-04

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第1题

Soccer' s（）began to grow（）in the late 1960' s.

A.popular,fast

B.popularity,rapidly

C.popular,fast

D.popularity,fast

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第2题

According to the passage, which aspect of skyscrapers were some residents of Boston concer

ned with in the late 1960's？

A．The poor reception of radio and TV signals.

B．The removal of trees and grass from building sites.

C．The harmful effects on the city's plants.

D．The obstruction of air traffic.

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第3题

Japan started to catch up with western technology from ________.A．the 20th centuryB．the ye

Japan started to catch up with western technology from ________.

A．the 20th century

B．the year 1854

C．the late 1960's

D．200 years ago

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第4题

Japan started to catch up with western technology from ______.A．the 20th centuryB．the year

Japan started to catch up with western technology from ______.

A．the 20th century

B．the year 1854

C．the late 1960's

D．200 years ago

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第5题

第一篇Medical bills in the United States have risen violently since 1960's and steps need

第一篇

Medical bills in the United States have risen violently since 1960's and steps need to be taken to reverse this trend or the average American will not be able to afford medical care. The major factor in increasing the cost of medical care has been the dramatic increase in the cost of hospital services. The rise in the cost of hospitalization can be only partly blamed on inflation (通货膨胀)since hospital bills in the last two decades have risen at a considerably higher rate than inflation.

Another factor cited by doctors as a major cause for the increase in the cost of medical care is malpractice(治疗错误). Increasingly large awards for malpractice have caused doctors to increase their rates to cover the higher malpractice insurance. Because of the large malpractice awards, doctors are also prescribing more conservative and more extensive and therefore more costly treatment for patients as a defense against malpractice claims. Whatever the causes of the wild increases in the cost of medical care are, the government needs to take strong action before it is too late for Americans.

The passage is mainly about ______.

A. the increasing cost of malpractice insurance

B. factors causing the increase in U. S. medical bills

C. steps for Americans to take to obtain medical care

D. the dramatic medical profession

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第6题

听力原文：In the past two years, millions of Americans have suddenly embraced the bicycle a

听力原文： In the past two years, millions of Americans have suddenly embraced the bicycle as if it were a startling new invention. Annual bike sales doubled between 1960 and 1970, and there are nearly 70 million bikes in the United States today. That's more than two for every three automobiles.

Of course, the bike has been around for more than 150 years, and this isn't America's first bicycle boom. A wave of bike enthusiasm swept the land in the late 1800s and bicycle production hit two million units in 1897. Then with the coming of the auto, bicycling declined, and for decades remained popular only with children and a few adult faddists.

Now, national preoccupation with air pollution and physical fitness has brought the bike back to the forefront—particularly with adults. More than eight million bikes were sold in the United States last year and a third of them went to adults. The year before, only 15 percent of new bike sales were for adults.

(30)

A．The use of bikes is a new invention in the U.S.

B．Annual bike sales doubled in the 60s in the U.S.

C．The producers made 70 million bikes every year.

D．The number of bikes is two times that of cars in the U.S.

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第7题

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？A．Skyscrapers provide more usa

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？

A．Skyscrapers provide more usable space than other buildings.

B．The skyscrapers first appeared in the late 1960's.

C．Where there are skyscrapers, television reception is poor.

D．The two World Trade Center towers are skyscrapers.

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第8题

听力原文：In the past few years, millions of Americans have become suddenly enthusiastic ab

听力原文： In the past few years, millions of Americans have become suddenly enthusiastic about the bicycle as if it were a great new invention. Annual bicycle sales doubled between 1960 and 1970, and there are nearly 70 million bicycles in the United States today.

Of course, the bicycle has been around for more than 160 years and this isn't America's first bicycle passion. A wave of bicycle enthusiasm swept the land in the late 1800s and bicycle production was up to two million in 18917. Then with the coming of the automobile, bicycle declined, and for decades remained popular only with children and a few adults.

Now, a national concern with air pollution and physical fitness has brought the bicycle back to the forefront, particularly with adults. More than eight million bikes were sold in the United States last year, a third of which bought by adults. But the year before, only 15 percent of new bicycle sales were for adults.

(33)

A．Nearly 7 million.

B．Nearly 17 million.

C．Nearly 70 million.

D．Nearly 77 million.

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第9题

Medical bills in the United States have risen violently since 1960's and steps need to be

taken to reverse this trend or the average American will not be able to afford medical care. The major factor in increasing the cost of medical care has been the dramatic increase in the cost of hospital services. The rise in the cost of hospitalization can be only partly blamed on inflation (通货膨胀)since hospital bills in the last two decades have risen at a considerably higher rate than inflation.

Another factor cited by doctors as a major cause for the increase in the cost of medical care is malpractice(治疗错误). Increasingly large awards for malpractice have caused doctors to increase their rates to cover the higher malpractice insurance. Because of the large malpractice awards, doctors are also prescribing more conservative and more extensive and therefore more costly treatment for patients as a defense against malpractice claims. Whatever the causes of the wild increases in the cost of medical care are, the government needs to take strong action before it is too late for Americans.

The passage is mainly about ______.

A．the increasing cost of malpractice insurance

B．factors causing the increase in U. S. medical bills

C．steps for Americans to take to obtain medical care

D．the dramatic medical profession

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第10题

Women' s Right Movement1．Women's rights are guarantees（保证)of political, social and econo

Women' s Right Movement

1．Women's rights are guarantees(保证)of political, social and economic equality for women in a society that traditionally gives more power and freedom to men．Among these rights are control of property, equality of opportunity in education and employment, right of voting, and freedom of marriage．Today, complete political, economic and social equality with men remains to be achieved.

2．Male control was obvious from the time of the earliest written historical records.probably as a result of men's role in hunting and warfare．The belief that women were naturally weaker and inferior to men was also found in god-centered religions．Therefore,in most traditional societies, women generally were at a disadvantage．Their education was limited to learning domestic skills, and they had no access to positions of power．A woman had no legal control over her person, her own land and money, or her children.

3．The Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution．which caused economic and social progress, provided a favorable climate for the rise of women's rights movement in the late 18th and 19~ eenrury．In 1848, more than 100 persons held the first women's rights convention in New York, and the feminists(女权主义者)demanded equal rights, ineluding the vote.

4．In the late 1960s, women made up about 40 percent of the work force in England,

France, Germany, and the United States．This figure rose to more than 50 percent by the mid-1980s．A commission under the President was established in 1960 to consider equal opportunities for women．Acts of Congress entitled them to equality in education, employment, and legal rights．In 1964, the Civil Rights Act, initially intended only for blacks,Was eXtended to Women．

5．The objectives of the women’s movement included equal pay for equal work，federal support for daycare centers，recognition of lesbian(女同性恋者)rights，making abortion(堕胎)legal，and the focus of serious attention on the problems of forced sex relations。wife and child heating，and discrimination against older and minority women．

A．Goals of Women’s Right Movement

B．History of Women’s Right Movement

C．Start ol Women’s Right Movement

D．Traditional Status Of Wornen

E．Rights of Women

F．Development of Women’s Right Movement

第 23 题 Paragraph 2____.

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