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The dams① aimed at saving Venice from the waves have been backed greatly. After eight years of argument, it plans to build 79 gates across three channels connecting the lagoon around Venice with the Adriatic Sea. The gates would be open most of the time but would be closed if there is a danger to the city.
The project, though, has run into fears that it could worsen Venice’s problems. The city throws waste into the lagoon, and environmentalists fear the dams will cause this pollution to become worse if there is no tide to wash it out regularly. But if there is a tide, the flow can wash away about 550 million cubic meters of the lagoon in a single day, which means that by leaving the dam open for only a few hours, the waste should be cleaned out.
Another piece of good news is that British scientists are confident that the dams will be able to face an expected rise in sea levels caused by global warming. The gates are designed to stand a 22-centimetre rise in sea levels, but many scientists expect a global rise in sea levels of 31cm by 2100.
However, Trevor Davies and Isabel Trigo from University of East Anglia believe the dams are unlikely to broken. Climate change will weaken the local storms in the Adriatic that are the main cause of flood risk. Floodwaters are also a seasonal danger in Venice, usually because of a combination of spring tides and strong winds.
Venice, which rests on wooden piles driven into boggy③ ground, has been sinking for centuries, worsening the encroachment by the sea.
Notes:
① dam n. 大坝
② lagoon n. 泻湖
③ boggy adj. 泥泞的
④ encroachment n. 蚕食
Choose the best answers according to the above:
1. Which of the following is the main idea of the text?
A. Venice will not disappear into the sea.
B. Dams are designed to protect Venice.
C. Venice are facing dangers from the tides.
D. Global warming makes Venice worse and worse.
2. If the project comes into use, the waste in the lagoon ______.
A. will be washed away by the tides B. will be sent to the higher places
C. will be carried away by workers D. will have to be reused by humans
3. According to the idea of Trevor Davies, the dams won’t be broken because ______.
A. the dams are higher than the buildings in Venice
B. there will be no tides or floods in the future
C. the climate all over the world will soon be cold
D. the storms in the Adriatic will be weaker in the future
4. According to the text, we can infer that Venice ______.
A. has been sinking for hundreds of years
B. may suffer from spring tides and strong winds
C. will be under the sea sooner or later
D. will be a city with dams around except 78 gates
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
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Shanghai is the first city in the world ____a high-speed maglev train, from the city to Pudong Airport.
A、to build B、to be built C、to have built D、to have been built
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013届湖北省高三秋季期中联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
We live in a technological society where most goods are mass-produced by unskilled labor. Because of this, most people think that craft no longer exists.
One of the ways these people wrongly support their view is by pointing to 100-year-old homes which are still solid, and arguing that it is the craftsmanship that is responsible for their durability. “Homes in those days were well-built,” they say. No doubt these homes were well-built, but what these people have done is mix up the quality of material used in the house with the quality of the craftsmanship.
Homes today could be built to last just as long as those old homes if people were willing or able to pay the price. For example, most people can no longer afford solid oak stairways, although they were once fairly common in older homes. Nor can they afford the high labor cost of employing a carpenter to build the stairway. Yet if someone can pay the high cost, there are still plenty of carpenters around able to make those stairways. And not only would these carpenters know how to build them, they would probably do a better job than carpenters of old.
One thing the modern carpenter has which enables him to do a better job is much more advanced tools. Such tools as laser beams and powerplanes help them lay out a house better and make more precision cuts on the wood. Also, it is not uncommon say more to find carpenters with college degrees and carpenters with a solid knowledge of mathematics, which would enable them to deal with more difficult house designs.
The problem of modern quality, then, really boils down to the problem of material, for the modern carpenter is just as able to produce craftsmanship as the carpenter of fifty years ago, but only if given proper material.
1. Compared to the carpenters in the past, modern carpenters are .
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A．more successful |
B．more learned |
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C．more imaginative |
D．more hardworking |
2. What does the underlined work “they” (paragraph 2) refer to?
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A．Carpenters who are fond of oak stairways. |
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B．Carpenters who have college degrees. |
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C．People who think highly of carpenters of old. |
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D．People who think that modern material is of low quality. |
3.What does the third paragraph mainly discuss?
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A．People in the past preferred to use oak to build stairways. |
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B．It is now expensive to employ a carpenter. |
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C．Modern houses last as long as the old ones. |
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D．Good carpenters still exist in modern times. |
4. What would be the best title for the text?
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A．Is Craft Dead? |
B．Craft, Back to Life? |
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C．History of Craftsmanship |
D．Carpenters Today and Yesterday |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011-2012学年广东省高三上学期10月月考英语试题 题型：阅读理解
There are many older people in the world and there will be many more. A little-known fact is that over 60 percent of the older people live in developing countries. According to the World Health Organization, by 2020 there will be 1 billion, with over 700 million living in developing countries.
It is a surprising fact that the population ageing is particularly rapid in developing countries. For example, it took France 115 years for the rate of older people to double from 7 percent to 14 percent. It is estimated to take China a mere 27 years to achieve this same increase.
What are the implications of these increased numbers of older folk? One of the biggest worries for governments is that the longer people live, the more likelihood there is for diseases and for disability. Attention is being paid to the need to keep people as healthy as possible, including during old age, to lessen the financial burden on the state.
Another significant problem is the need for the younger generations to understand and value the older people in their society. In some African countries, certainly in Asia, older people are respected and regarded as the ones with special knowledge. Yet traditions are fading away daily, which does not make sure the continued high regard of older people. As society changes, attitudes will change.
Much needs to be done to get rid of age discrimination in employment. Life-long learning programs need to be provided to enable older people to be active members in a country's development.
Social security policies need to be established to provide adequate income protection for older people. Both public and private schemes are vital in order to build a suitable safety net.
1.The rate of older people________.
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A．is bigger in developed countries than in developing countries |
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B．is one-seventh of the population in developing countries |
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C．will increase much faster in China than in France |
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D．will be sixty percent in developing countries by 2020 |
2.According to passage, which of the following are governments most worried about
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A．Thediseasesanddisabilityofolderpeople. |
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B．Thelongerlifeandgoodhealthofpeople. |
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C．Thelossoftaxesonolderpeople. |
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D．Theincreasingrespectforolderpeople. |
3. It is stated directly in the passage that older people should ________.
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A．be treated differently in different cultures |
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B．enjoy a similar lifestyle |
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C．be ignored as society changes |
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D．be valued by the yonger generations |
4.Which of the following measure is NOT mentioned to solve the population ageing problem?
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A．Getting rid of age discrimination in employment. |
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B．Supplying life-long learning programs to older people. |
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C．Making sure adequate income protection for older people. |
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D．Providing free health care for sick older people. |
5.The author concludes in the last paragraph that ________.
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A．governments have spent lots of time in solving the ageing problem |
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B．population ageing is a hard problem, but it needs to be solved urgently |
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C．people are too busy to solve the population ageing problem |
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D．much time and effort will be lost in solving the ageing problem |
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