42. What can we infer from Paragraph2?

A. China lacks wind and solar energy

B. China is the leader of the low-carbon market

C. High-speed trains are a low-carbon development

D. Palm oil is made at the cost of valuable forests

41. The traditional business model is harmful because of all the following EXCEPT that____.

A.it makes the world warmer

B. it consumes natural resouces

C. it brings severe damage to future

D. it makes growth hard to continue

3.(2011·广东卷)D

In a world with limited land, water and other natural resources(资源), the harm from the traditional business model is on the rise. Actually, the past decade has seen more and more forests disppearing and the globe becoming increasingly warm. People now realize that this unheathy situation must be changed, and that we must be able to develop in sustainable(可持续的)ways. That means growth with low carbon or development of sustainable products. In other words, we should keep the healthy while using its supply of natural resources.

Today, sustainable development is a popular trend in many countries. According to a recent study, the global market for low-carbon energy will become three times bigger over the next decade. China, for example, has set its mind on leading that market, hoping to seize chances in the new round of the global energy resolution. It is now trying hard to made full use of wind and solar energy, and is spending a huge amount of money making electric cars and high-speed trains. In addition, we are also seeing great growth in the global markets for sustainable products such as palm oil(棕榈油), which is produced without cutting down valuabe rainforest. In recent years the markets for sustainable products have grown more than 50%.

Governments can fully develop the potential of these new markets. First, they can set high　 targets for reducing carbon emissions(排放) and targets for saving and reusing energy. Besides, stronger arrangement of public resouces like forests can also help to speed up the development. Finally, governments can avoid the huge public expenses that are taking us in the wrong direction, and redirecting some of those expenses can accerlarate the change from the traditional model to a sustainable one.

The major challenge of this century is to find ways to meet the needs of a growing population within the limits of this single planet. That is no small task, but it offers abundant new chances for sustainable product industries.

62. What is the final dream an Edinburgh and Midlothian Country?

A. To open a new landfill nearby

B. To close the powder hall landfill in 2015

C. To set up a plan for burning waste

D. To persuade people to deduce their waste.

[答案]ABDC

61. The city council of Edinburgh rejected the suggestion to open a huge landfill site near Portobello because　　 .

A. a name from a private company

B. the comelier was not interested in it

C. it was not supports by EU

D. the local poodle was waist it

60. The five councils worked out a plan to build an incinerator plant to　　　 .

A. reduce the roast of burying waste

B. meets the EU requirements

C. speed up waste recycling

D. tempter landfill sites

59. The main way of handling waste in a green manmer in Edinburgh is　　　 .

A. recyeling　　 B. restoring　 C. burying　 D. burning

2.(2011·湖北卷)C

In today’s throw away society, dealing with the city’s growing mountain of waste is an inereasing challenge for the city countil(市议会)。

　 Recently. Edinburgh is faced with the problem of dssposing of(处理)about250,000

Million tons of waster a year . Despite different ways to dispose of much of it in a green manner---largely through encouraging tecycling---its aging facilities such as the Powderhall landfill do not have the ability to deal with it.

　 The European Union(EU) has issued a new policy, regulating how such mountains of waster are to hr disposed of. The five councils (Edinburgh. East Lothian. West Lothian. Midlethian and Borders) face fine around $18million a year from 2013 it they don’t inerease recycling levels and rely less on landfill. With this in mind, the coumlls got together with the idea of building a lage incinerator plant (垃圾焚烧厂)to burn half of the waste produced in their districts. But the plan fell apart after the change of target levels by a new UK government waste policy which required that no more than 25% of the city’s waste should be disposed of in this way by 2025.

After the plan was abandoned, a private company which already transported millions of tons of the city’s wast by train to a landfill site near Dunbar, offered an alternative soution when it suggested opening a huge waste site near Portobello.

Since Powderhall is supposed to close in 2015, it seemed necessary for the members of the Edinburgh Council to accept the suggestion. But soon they turned it down-after 700 local objections reached them-because it would have meant hundreds of lorries a day making loud noise through heavily populated areas.

That still leaves eth council with a problem. By 2013,only50%of 1995 levels of waste will benllewed to be sent to landfill. Even if recveling large are met, there will still be a large amount of rubbish to be burnt up. Due build an Edinburgh and Midlothian councils have now decided to work together to build an ineinerator plant as time to find a solution is fast running out.

75.C.主旨大意题。本文是新闻文体，因此要关注首段的中心，由首段的第二句话“Brain-computer interface(BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines.”推断选C。

74.B．细节推断题。见最后一段“to prove that this is a technology they can benefit from.”，证明他们可以从中获得的好处。