The snow on top of the mountains _____ away under the sun.
A. melted
B. washed
C. broke
D. flew
A. melted
B. washed
C. broke
D. flew
第1题
When he came back, the road was clean and the snow from it was not on the trees, or the fence, or the street. Mr Smith was very pleased ___24___ he opened the garage to get out his car. The garage was full to the top with all the snow from the road, and his car was somewhere ___25___ it.
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A.harm
B.angry
C.until
D.under
E.paid
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A.harm
B.angry
C.until
D.under
E.paid
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A.harm
B.angry
C.until
D.under
E.paid
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A.harm
B.angry
C.until
D.under
E.paid
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A.harm
B.angry
C.until
D.under
E.paid
第2题
A.Dawn on the Su Causeway in Spring
B.Winery Yard and Lotus Pool in Summer
C.Lingering Snow on the Broken Bridge in Winter
D.Orioles Singing in the Pine
第5题
Why You Can't Ignore the Changing Climate
— by Eugene Linden
PARADE Magazine (June 25, 2006)
As we learned last year in New Orleans, weather can be a weapon of mass destruction. With the 2006 hurricane season now upon us, scientists say the climate is changing in ways that could produce many more superhurricanes, as well as extreme floods, droughts and heat waves that could threaten our way of life.
Still, it's easy to ignore the signs of global warming because we've always had crazy weather. Unfortunately, many of the predicted changes have begun, and they already affect our health and pocketbooks. Here's what we know:
Look Outside: The Weather Already Is Changing
Every year since 1997 has been in the Top 10 list of hottest years, and 2005 set a record. The Earth has warmed about 1.4°F since the late 19th century, and the warming has accelerated during the past four decades.
That increase sounds small, but it has been sufficient to make weather records fall by the thousands. Studies by Kerry Emmanuel at MIT and others have documented that hurricanes are getting more intense. Extreme storms like the one that flooded New England with more than 10 inches of rain in May are becoming more frequent too. Birds are migrating earlier. Trees are blooming, and flowers and crops are popping up unseasonably early across the country.
The warming has produced clear winners: pests. Mosquitoes love the warmer weather and are celebrating by bringing infectious diseases to new places. A recent Duke University study found that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has led to out-of-control growth of poison ivy (常春藤), as well as increased levels of allergy-producing pollen (引起过敏的花粉). Beetle populations have exploded in evergreen trees. Why should we care about beetles? It was beetles that killed the trees in Southern California, which provided the dry fuel for the wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes in 2003.
Higher temperatures also are causing glaciers (冰川) to melt fast. Mount Kilimanjaro (乞力马扎罗山— 非洲的最高山峰), for instance, has been topped with ice for at least 11,700 years. Within the next 15 years, however, its summit might be ice-free, according to Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University. The fastest warming is taking place in the far north, where glaciers are receding. You may think this isn't relevant to those of us farther south, but snow and ice play a big role in balancing Earth's climate by reflecting sunlight back into space. Melting snow and ice could push climates everywhere past a tipping point: As the Earth warms, melting snow and ice expose dark surfaces such as land and oceans, and the switch from heatreflecting to heat-absorbing surfaces could turbo-charge further warming.
We're Making It Worse
"I'm changing the climate! Ask me how" reads a bumper sticker that activists have been plastering on SUVs. Their point is that gas-guzzlers (耗油量大的车) contribute to climate change. In a more sober way, the great majority of scientists are saying the same thing: Burning gas or oil in engines and furnaces has pushed carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere far above where they've been for hundreds of thousands of years, and the debate has ended over whether these emissions are making the planet hotter. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 1,500 scientists from 60 countries, asserts that some portion of the recent warming is the result of human activities.
Last year, the world's leading scientific j
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第6题
Why does the author say "spring cleaning can't wait"?
A.Because there will be more activities when it gets warmer
B.Because the air is fresher and the breeze is lighter.
C.Because the whole family is full of energy at spring time.
D.Because the snow is melting and the ground is thawing.
第7题
A.I don't think we have had much snow
B.The storm won't last too long .
C.It's going to be very cold and cloudy
D.We are to be caught in a heavy rain
第9题
This illusion is created by changing fashions. Over the year, the great majority of men have successfully resisted all attempts to make them change their style. of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year a few so-called top designers in Paris or London lay down the law and women in the whole world over rush to obey. The decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial. This year, they decide in their arbitrary fashion: skirts will be short and waists will be high; zips are in and buttons are out. Next year the law is reversed and far from taking exception, no one is even mildly surprised.
If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they shudder at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are annually black-mailed by the designers and the big stores. Clothes, which have been worn, only a few times have to he discarded because of the dictates of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.
Changing fashions are nothing more than the deliberate creation of waste. Many women squander vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women, who cannot afford to discard clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Hem-limes are taken up or let down; waist-lines are taken in or let out; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.
No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability. They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, providing they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn't at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shivering in a flimsy dress on a wintry day, or delicately picking her way through deep snow in dainty shoes.
When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashions of women's clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of fickleness and instability? Men are too sensible to let themselves be bullied by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability? That is for you to decide.
The main idea of this passage is ______.
A.new fashions in clothes reflect the qualities of women
B.new fashions in clothing are created solely for commercial exploitation of women
C.the top designers seem to have the right to creating new fashion
D.men have the basic quality of reliability