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By "only two-thirds as bad as the ones on at the moment" the author means_____.
A．better than
B．as bad as
C．worse than
D．as good as
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According to a survey conducted in May, how much is the average starting salary for MBA graduates？
A．92,000 dollars.
B．91,000 dollars.
C．90,000 dollars.
D．93,000 dollars.
A．When the number one rated washing machine was submitted for stress and durability testing, 96 out of 100 machines were still functioning at the end of the test.
B．Because of the extreme stress of the testing process, any model that has more than two-thirds of its machines functioning at the end of the test process is considered sufficiently durable for the consumer market.
C．Most consumers will tolerate a washing machine that functions only 64 times out of 90 attempts.
D．Although the model tested is less durable than other models on the market, its projected price is considerably lower than that of the most durable models.
E．The electrical failure that brought down most of the 26 washing machines that ceased functioning could probably be avoided if the machine were redesigned.
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Earth is the only 21 we know of in the universe that can support human life.22 human activities are making the planet less fit to live on. As the western world 23 on consuming two-thirds of the world" s resources while half of the world" s population do so 24 to stay alive we are rapidly destroying the 25 resource we have by which all people can survive and prosper.
Everywhere fertile soil is 26 built on or washed into the sea. Renewable resources are exploited so much that they will never be able to recover 27 We discharge pollutants 28 the atmosphere without any thought of the consequences. As a 29 the planet" s ability to support people is being 30 at the very time when rising human numbers and consumption are 31 increasingly heavy demands on it. The Earth" s 32 resources are there for us to use. We need food， water， air， energy， medicines， warmth， shelter and minerals to 33 us fed， comfortable， healthy and active. If we are sensible in how we use the resources they will 34 indefinitely. But if we use them wastefully and excessively they will soon run 35 and everyone will suffer.
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Explorer of the Extreme Deep
Oceans cover more than two-thirds of our planet. Yet, just a small fraction of the underwater world has been explored. Now, Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts are building an underwater vehicle hat will carry explorers as deep as 6,500 meters (21,320 feet). The new machine, known as a manned submersible or human-operated vehicle (HOV), will replace another one named Alvin which has an amazing record of discovery, playing a key role in various important and famous undersea expeditions. Alvin has been operating for 40 years but can go down only 4,500 meters (14,784 feet). It's about time for an upgrade ,WHOI researchers say.
Alvin was launched in 1964. Since then, Alvin has worked between 200 and 250 days a year, says Daniel Fornari, a marine geologist and director Of the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute at WHOI. During its lifetime, Alvin has carried some 12,000 people on a total of more than 3,000 dives. A newer, better versions of Alvin is bound to reveal even more surprises about a world that is still full of mysteries, Fornari says. It might also make the job of exploration a little easier. "We take so much for granted on land. " Fomari says. "We can walk around and see with our eyes how big things are. We can see colors, special arrangements. "
Size-wise, the new HOV will be similar to Alvin. It'll be about 37 feet long. The setting area inside will be a small sphere, about 8 feet wide, like Alvin. It'll carry a pilot and two passengers. It will be just as maneuverable. In most other ways, it will give passengers more opportunities to enjoy the view, for one thing. Alvin has only three windows, the new vehicle will have five, with more overlap so that the passengers and the pilot can see the same thing.
Alvin can go up and down at a rate of 30 meters every second, and its maximum speed is 2 knots (about 2.3 miles per hour), while the new vehicle will be able to ascend and descend at 44 meters per second. It'll reach speeds of 3 knots, or 3.5 miles per hour.
What is Alvin？
A．A research institute.
B．A transporting vehicle.
C．A submersible.
D．A scientist.
“ The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric human __1__
ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing with animal foods __2__
An analysis of 58 societies of modern hunter-gatherers, including the Kung of
southern Africa, revealed that one-half emphasize gathering plants foods,one-third concentrate on fishing, and only one-sixth are primarily hunters,
Overall, two-thirds and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from __3__plants. Detailed studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University
of London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food than is hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 edible __4__calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240. __5__
Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung diet, and no __6__one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if they escape fatal infectionsor accidents, these contemporary aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence __7__of medical care. They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high blood pressure, no heart disease, and their blood cholesterol levels are very low (about half of the average American adult). __8__If no one is suggesting that we return to an aboriginal life style, we certainly __9__could use their eating habits as a model for healthier diet. __10__
Explorer of the Extreme Deep
Oceans cover more than two-thirds of our planet．Yet，just a small fraction of the underwater world has been explored．Now，Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution（WHOI）in Massachusetts are building an underwater vehicle that will carry explorers as deep as 6，500 meters（2l，320 feet）．The new machine，known as a manned submersible or human-operated vehicle（HOV），will replace another one named Alvin which has an amazing record of discovery，playing a key role in various important and famous undersea expeditions．Alvin has been operating for 40 years but can go down only 4，500 meters（14，784 feet）．It’s about time for an upgrade，WHOI researchers say.
Alvin was launched in 1 964．Since then，Alvin has worked between 200 and 250 days a year，says Daniel Fornari，a marine geologist and director of the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute at WHOI．During its lifetime，Alvin has carried some 12，000 people on a total of more than 3，000 dives．
A newer，better versions of Alvin is bound to reveal even more surprises about a world that is still full of mysteries，Fornari says．It might also make the job of exploration a little easier．“We take so much for granted on land，”Fornari says．“We can walk around and see with our eyes how big things are．We can see colors，special arrangements．”
Size-wise．the new HOV will be similar to Alvin．It'll be about 37 feet long．The setting area inside will be a small sphere，about 8 feet wide，like Alvin，it'll carry a pilot and two passengers．It will be just as maneuverable．In most other ways，it will give passengers more opportunities to enjoy the view，for one thing．Alvin has only three windows，the new vehicle will have five，with more over-lap so that the passengers and the pilot can see the same thing．
Alvin can go up and down at a rate of 30 meters every second，and its maximum speed is 2 knots（about 2．3 miles per hour），while the new vehicle will be able to ascend and descend at 44 meters per second．It'll reach speeds of 3 knots，or 3．5 miles per hour．
第 31 题 What is Alvin？
A．A research institute．
B．A transporting vehicle．
C．A submersible．
D．A scientist．
When I lost my notebooks, I was devastated; all the ideas I'd had over the past two years were contained within their pages. I could remember only a few of them, but had the impression that those I couldn't recall were truly brilliant. Those little books were crammed with the plots of award-winning novels and scripts for radio comedy shows that were only two-thirds as bad as the ones on at the moment.
That's not all, though. In my reminiscence, my lost notebooks contained sketches for many innovative and incredible machines. In one book there was a design for a device that could turn sea water into apple cider; in another, plan for an automatic dog; in a third, sketches for a pair of waterproof shoes with television screens built into the toes. Now all of these plans are lost to humanity.
I found my notebooks again. It turns out they weren't in the bike pannier at all, but in a carrier bag in my spare room, where I found six months after supposedly losing them. And when I flipped through their pages, ready to run to the patent office in the morning, I discovered they were completely full of rubbish.
Discovering the notebooks really shook me up. I had firmly come to believe they were brimming with brilliant, inventive stuff--and yet clearly they weren't. I had deluded myself.
After surveying my nonsense, I found that this halo effect always attaches itself to things that seem irretrievably lost. Don't we all have a sneaking feeling that the weather was sunnier, TV shows funnier and cake-shop buns bunnier in the not-very-distant past？
All this would not matter much except that it is a powerful element in reactionary thought, this belief in a better yesterday. After all, racism often stems from a delusion that things have deteriorated since "they" came. What a boon to society it would be if people could visit the past and see that it wasn't the paradise they imagine but simply the present with different hats.
Sadly, time travel is impossible.
Until now, that is. Because I've suddenly remembered I left a leather jacket in an Indonesian restaurant a couples of years ago, and I'm absolutely certain that in the inside pocket there was a sketch I'd made...
By "only two-thirds as bad as the ones on at the moment", the author means"______".
A．better than
B．as bad as
C．worse than
D．as good as
According to an EU poll published recently, ______ of those polled believe foreign language skills are useful.
A．71 percent
B．72 percent
C．69 percent
D．70 percent
The survey was carried out by the British Council, the council for international education, and Universities UK, an organization supporting the work of all the country's universities.
The survey revealed only 7 percent of the students said most of their friends were from the UK; 32 percent said they had a mixture of UK and international student friends; and 59 percent said their only friends were international.
Some student leaders say one reason fox' the trend is that overseas students are dedicate to their courses instead of their social lives.
In addition, many foreign students weren't interested in the pub-centered drinking culture on British campuses, according to Will MacFarlane, student union general secretary of the London School of Economies. This prevented some students who didn't pay regular trips to pubs from making new friends.
Some students think that MacFarlane's explanation is true.
"I have only one year to adapt to the new all-English environment and dealing with a full study workload. The time is so limited that I have little time to make friends with foreign students." Said one Peking University grad student who is at Oxford University.
She also admitted that an important reason for the lack of interaction is that Chinese students are usually shy, and don't take the initiative to make new friends.
MacFarlane also came forward with some suggestions on how to improve the situation. "It may be helpful if we can provide a cultural shift in university activities away from the drinking culture, and provide more activities for more groups," he said.
The survey showed that ______.
A．the number of overseas students is reduced in recent years
B．overseas students are not willing to make friends with British students
C．no overseas students have time to go to pubs in spare time
D．most overseas students have few British friends
Most of these megacities are in developing countries that are struggling to cope with both the speed and the scale of human migration. Estimates of the future spread of urbanization are based on the observation that in Europe, and in North and South America, the urban share of the total population has stabilized at 75%-85%. If the rest of the world follows this path it is expected that in the next decade an extra 100 million people will join the cities of Africa, and 340 million the cities of Asia: the equivalent of a new Bangkok every two months. By 2030 nearly two-thirds of the world's population will be urban.
In the long run, that is good news. If countries now industrializing follow the pattern of those that have already done so, their city-dwellers will be both more prosperous and healthier. Man is gregarious species, and the words" urbane" and "civilized" both derive from the advantages of living in large settlements.
History also shows, though, that the transition can be uncomfortable. The slums of Manchester were, in their time, just as awful as those of Nairobi today. But people moved there for exactly the same reason: however nasty conditions seemed, the opportunities of urban life outstripped those of the countryside. The question is how best to handle the change.
If there is one thing that everybody agrees on, it is that urbanization is unstoppable. Migrants attempting to escape poverty, and refugees escaping conflict, are piling into cities in what the executive director of UN-HABITAT, Anna, Tibailjuka, describes as" premature urbanization,"
Dr Tibaijuka believes it might be possible to slow the pace of migration from the countryside with policies that enhance security and rural livelihoods. There is room for debate, though, over whether better rural development in any form. can seriously slow the pace of urbanization-- or even whether such a slowdown would be a good thing.
Michael Mutter, an urban planning adviser at the British government' s Department for International Development (DFID), says that the relevant indicators suggest that in many countries the effective" carrying capacity" of rural areas has been reached. As happened in Europe in the 18th century, population growth and technological improvements to agriculture are creating a surplus population. That surplus has to go somewhere to earn its living.
Indeed, some people go so far so to argue that governments, international donors and aid agencies spend too much on rural development and neglect the cities. Most countries have a rural development policy, but only a few have urban ones. DFID, for example, spends only 5% of its budget directly on urban development. Moreover, these critics point out that, although rural areas often have worse sanitation, illiteracy and homelessness than cities, such figures are deceptive. Being illiterate, homeless or without access to a flush toilet are far more serious problems in a crowded city than in the countryside.
Of the many lessons being learnt from past urban-development failures, One of the most important is that improvements must involve local people in a meaningful way. Even when it comes to the poorest slum-dwellers, some governments and city authorities are realizing that people are their own greatest assets. Slumdwellers International is a collection of "grassroots" federations of people living in slums. Its idea is simple. Slum-dwellers in a particular place get together and form. a federation to strengthen local savings and credit schemes, and to lobby for greater co-operation with the authorities. Such federations are having a big impact on slum-upgrading schemes around the worl
A．the side effects of urbanization.
B．megacities in developing countries.
C．the causes behind immigration to cities.
D．ways to slow down the pace of immigration
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