San Francisco, a leader in urban recycling, is preparing to turn dog waste into energy.
Norcal Waste System Inc., the city’s largest garbage company, plans to test collection carts(回收車(chē))and collection bags in a city-center park which is popular with dog walkers.
A city study found that almost 4 percent of all the garbage picked up at San Francisco homes was from animal waste, Norcal Waste spokesman Robert Reid said. San Francisco has about 120,000 dogs.
“The city asked us to start a program to recycle dog waste in order to cut back adding more waste in landfills(廢渣埋填池) “,Reid said.
Dog waste will be poured into a methane digester(沼氣池),and the methane it gives off will be collected and burned to make electricity or to heat homes.
“Dogs and cats in the United States produce about 10 million tons of waste a year,” Will Brinton, an environmental scientist said.
“As much as we love them, our pets leave a lot of fertilizer behind them in yards and on the street but that can be a major source of contamination of groundwater,” Brinton said.
European cities such as Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna are starting biology programs to turn waste into gas ,he said.
San Francisco runs a great program to recycle bottles, cars, paper and other rubbish and now two-thirds of its garbage needn’t be carried to landfills .The city’s goal is a 75 percent drop by 2010 and zero new waste in landfills by 2020.

  1. 1.

    San Francisco will plan to use dog waste for making __________.

    1. A.
      fertilizer
    2. B.
      gas
    3. C.
      electricity
    4. D.
      methane
  2. 2.

    What does the underlined word “ contamination” mean?

    1. A.
      Increase
    2. B.
      Reduction
    3. C.
      Flow
    4. D.
      Pollution
  3. 3.

    What can we infer from the passage?

    1. A.
      San Francisco is short of electricity
    2. B.
      San Francisco has done a lot of in rubbish recycling.
    3. C.
      Fewer people will keep dogs as pets in San Francisco
    4. D.
      There will be no rubbish by 2010 in San Francisco
  4. 4.

    The passage is mainly about_______.

    1. A.
      San Francisco ‘s new policy for pet keepers
    2. B.
      San Francisco ‘s new plan for recycling
    3. C.
      how to keep a city clean
    4. D.
      how to deal with rubbish
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When most people think of giant pandas, the pictures of the cute, black-and-white bears from China that eat bamboo will immediately jump into their mind. Scientists from Mississippi State University, however, are interested in what they leave behind: their poop(排泄物). At a recent meeting in Denver, Professor Brown at the university presented her research showing how panda poop could inspire a new way to obtain energy from plants, which are a renewable energy source. Usually, plants can be called biomass(有機(jī)燃料) when they are used as an energy source.
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    1. A.
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    1. A.
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    1. A.
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    Humans may live longer in the future because _________.

    1. A.
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    1. A.
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    1. A.
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  1. 1.

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  3. 3.

    The best title for the passage is ______.

    1. A.
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Students often want to practice their English outside class. One of the best ways to practice your English is to speak to a foreigner. You may ask, “Is it okay to try to talk to foreigners I see in the street?”
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  1. 1.

    It is the best way to practice your spoken English with ______.

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    From the second paragraph we can get to know that ______.

    1. A.
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    1. A.
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    4. D.
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    The writer suggests to us that we should ______.

    1. A.
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    2. B.
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    4. D.
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After years of study, I have known there are only two types of people in this world: those who get to the airport early and those who arrive when the plane is about to take off.
If there were any justice（公正）in this world, early-airport people would be rewarded for doing the right thing. And late-airport people would be punished. But early-airport people get ulcers（潰瘍）, heart attacks and bite their fingernails to the bone. Late-airport people almost don’t realize they are flying.
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Another strange thing: No matter how early I showed up, I was always told that someone had called two or three years ahead of me and asked for the best seat. I thought it was a trick. I thought there was someone in America who called every airline every day and said: “Is that wimp Simon flying somewhere today? If he is , give me his seat.”
After a lifetime arguing with my wife over whether I really have to pack 24 hours in advance and set the alarm clock four hours ahead, I have learned another fact about early-airport people and late –airport people:
They always marry each other.

  1. 1.

    We can learn from the passage that     .

    1. A.
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    3. C.
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    4. D.
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    Paragraph 5 mainly wants to tell us that      .

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    4. D.
      the service of airlines is very bad
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    This passage is written in order to     .

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      express the writer’s anxiety about taking a plane
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    It could be inferred that the writer’s wife is     .

    1. A.
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    4. D.
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If you dream in color, you’re not alone: the majority of people today claim to have colorful dreams. But it wasn’t always thus. Research conducted in the early part of the last century consistently found that people reported dreaming most often in black and white.
According to Eva Murzyn at the University of Dundee, there are at least two possible explanations for this strange situation.
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The second explanation has to do with black and white television and film. It's possible that the sudden increase in black and white film and television during the first half of the last century either affected the form of people’s dreams at that time, or affected their beliefs about the form dreams generally take.
According to Murzyn’s findings, it’s the explanation based on media exposure that carries more weight. She used both questionnaire and diary methods to study the dreams of 30 older (average age 64) and 30 younger people (average age 21).
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Another finding was that older participants reported black and white dreams and colorful dreams to be of equal clearness. By contrast, the younger participants reported that the quality of black and white dreams was poorer. This raises the possibility that the younger participants didn’t really have any black and white dreams at all, but were simply regarding poorly remembered dreams as black and white.

  1. 1.

    We learn from the text that ______.

    1. A.
      people in the first half of the last century never had colorful dreams
    2. B.
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    3. C.
      the dreams of younger people are always colorful
    4. D.
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    What did Murxyn do to find out the explanations for the colors in people’s dreams?

    1. A.
      She applied both questionnaire and diary methods to study people’s dreams.
    2. B.
      She used diary methods to record people’s dreams.
    3. C.
      She chose 60 people to answer her questions about their dreams.
    4. D.
      She woke people up to record the colors of their dreams.
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    What does the underlined expression “carry more weight” in paragraph 5 mean?

    1. A.
      be heavier
    2. B.
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    3. C.
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    4. D.
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    From Murxyn’s findings we can infer that ______.

    1. A.
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    2. B.
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    3. C.
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    4. D.
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