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The division into two parties grew out the establishment of a Protestant Church of England in the 16th century. Because of a purely religious difference of opinion, the Puritans were separated from the broad body of the Anglican Church. The non Puritan Anglicans were on the side of the King and Church, and their supporters were called by their opponents “Tories.”The Puritans were for Parliament and trade, and their supporters were called by the “Tories”“Whigs”. The Tories and the Whigs were in power by turns for a long time. In 1833,the Tory party split into two and its name was changed to Conservative. In the 1860s the Whigs became Liberals. From that time on, the Liberals and the Conservatives were in office by turns until 1922.The policies they put into effect were sometimes different, but they were both controlled by the rich.
The working class became more and more unwilling to follow the Conservatives and the Liberals. They wanted to have their own party. So the Labor party was formed by the trade unions. After 1922 the Labor Party gradually replaced the Liberal Party to become one of the two major parties in Great Britain.
C-25.What does “it” stand for in Para 1 with underline?
A、The two party system.
B、The state machine.
C、The Parliament.
D、The capitalist state.
C-26. We can learn from what P.S Tregidgo once said that ____.
A、if there are parties in Britain, none of them will be strong enough to have control in the government
B、the more patients there are, the more likely it is that they will have the decisive say in the government
C、the two party systems contributes to the establishment of a powerful and long lasting government
D、if there are only two parties in Britain, it will be easy for the government to control them
C-27. What can we infer from the forming of the Tory Party and the Whig Party?
A、These two parties originally believed in different religions.
B、These two parties were established under the influence of different religious believes.
C、The British King and the Parliament supported different religions because they were for the two party system.
D、The British King and the Parliament were supported by different parties for political reasons.
A、responses
B、reviews
C、respects
D、regrets
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Environmentalists said our planet was doomed to die. Now one man says they are wrong. "Everyone knows the planet is in bad shape," thundered a magazine article last year. Species are being driven to die out at record rates, and the rivers are so poisonous that fish are floating on the surface, dead. But there's a growing belief that what everyone takes for granted is wrong: things are actually getting better. A new book is about to overturn our most basic assumptions about the world's environment. Rivers, seas, rain and the atmosphere are all getting cleaner. The total amount of forests in the world is not declining. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg, professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, is an attack on the misleading claims of environmental groups, and the "bad news" culture that makes people believe everything is getting worse. Now the attacks are increasingly coming from left-wing environmentalists such as Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace. The accusation is that, although the environment is improving, green groups-with profits of hundreds of mil-lions of pounds a year - are using scare tactics(谋略)to gain donations. Lomborg's book doesn't deny global warming - probably the biggest environmental threat - but destroys almost every other environmental claim with many official statistics. The Worldwatch Institute claims that "deforestation(沙漠化) has been accelerating over the last 30 years". But Lomborg says that is simply rubbish. Since the dawn of agriculture the world has lost about 20 per cent of its forest cover, but in recent decades the forest area'sdepletinghas come to a stop. According to UN figures, the area of forests has remained almost steady, at about 30 per cent of total land area, since the 1940s. Forests in countries such as the US, the UK and Canada have actually been expanding over the past 40 years. Despite all the warnings the Amazon rainforest has only shrunk by about 15 per cent. Nor are all our species dying out. Some campaigners claim that 50 per cent of all species will have died out within 50 years. But other studies show only 0.08 per cent of species are dying out each year. Conservation efforts have been successful. Whales are no longer threatened and the bald eagle is off the endangered list. Environmental groups claim that many of the improvements are the results of the success of their campaigns. Stephen Tindale, director of Greenpeace UK, said, "There are important examples, such as acid rain and ozone, where things aren't as bad as predicted, and that's because behavior has changed." |
1. In his book,The Skeptical Environmentalist, what is Lomborg's main argument? |
A. Our planet is in bad shape. B. The world's environment is improving. C. The total amount of forests in the world is not declining. D. Conservation efforts have been successful. |
2. What is Lomborg's main accusation of environmentalists? |
A. They scared people into making donations. B. They overturned our basic assumptions about the world's environment. C. They changed their behavior toward the environment. D. They only told people bad news about the environment. |
3. The underlined word "depleting" in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to "____". |
A. reducing B. limiting C. expanding D. accelerating |
4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? |
A. The total area of forests in the world has increased significantly. B. The effects of global warming are not as bad as first expected. C. It appears that the bald eagle will now survive. D. In the last 50 years the number of whales has increased. |
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