1.There are more than 30 member nations in the OECD

B. In Italy, men can spend more time relaxing than women .

C. Spaniards are fond of sports most in the world.

D. Cultural differences have nothing to do with the way people spend their leisure time.

D

Throw out the bottles and boxes of drugs in your house．A new theory suggests that medicine

could be bad for your health．This new theory argues that healing(the process of becoming healthy and strong again)is at our fingertips：we can be healthy by doing Reiki on a regular basis．

Supporters of medical treatment argue that medicine should be trusted since it is effective and scientifically proven．They say that there is no need for spiritual methods such as Reiki，Yoga，Tai Chi．These waste our time，something that is quite precious in our material world．There is medicine that can kill our pain and x-rays that show us our broken bones．We must admit that these methods are very effective in the examples that they provide．However，there are some “everyday complaints” such as back pains，headaches，which are treated currently with medicine．When you have a headache，you take an Aspirin；when you cannot sleep，you take Xanax without thinking of the side effects of these．When you use these pills for a long period，you become dependent on them；you cannot sleep without them．We pay huge amounts of money and but never get better．How about a safer and more economical way of healing? When doing Reiki to yourself，you do not need anything except your energy so it is very economical．Also，there are no side effects and it is scientifically explained．

They also claim that serious illnesses such as HIV／AIDS and cancer cannot be treated without drugs．They think so because these patients spend the rest of their lives in the hospital taking medicine．How can Reiki make these people healthy again? It is very unfortunate that these patients have to live in the hospital losing their hair and weight because of the side effects of the medicine they take．　 Actually，instead of drugs which arc expensive and have many side effects，

you can use your energy to overcome the hardships of life，find an emotional balance，leave the stress of everyday life and let go of the everyday worries．

Some people may still hold that in our material world，everything depends on time．How would it be possible to find time to do Reiki? In fact，Reiki does not require more than 15 minutes of our time．It is less time consuming than medicine if we think of all the time we spend taking medicine for some complaints and taking some more for the side effects as well．

52. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

B. A long piece of furniture on which more than one person may sit.

C. An ordinary member of the OECD.

D. A person sitting on the couch often spends much time watching TV.

51. How many OECD's records do the French hold from the report of the OECD?

A. three　 B. two　 C. four　　 D. 　five

49. In which country do people spend the shortest periods sleeping according to the survey of the OECD?

A. America　 B. 　France　 C. 　Korea　 D. Japan

B. 50. What's the meaning of the underlined part "the couch potatoes" in the passage?

48. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. The average surface temperature of the earth has risen to 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900.

B. The climate change will not stop from now on.

C. Carbon dioxide can prevent some of the resulting heat from radiating back out into space.

D. Sea levels are likely to rise between 7 to 23 inches in 93 years' time.

C

When he won the presidential election two years ago, Nicolas Sarkozy urged the French to get up early and work more to earn more.

A study released Monday suggests they missed the wake-up call.

France is the industrialized country where people spend the longest periods sleeping, according to a series of surveys on social habits conducted by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development.

The French sleep a daily average of 530 minutes, compared with 518 for Americans and 469 for Koreans -- the OECD's 'most awake' nation, according to the study.

In an era of globalization, the amount of time spent at work has been declining gradually in the OECD's 30 member nations over the past three decades, according to the surveys, which were conducted in 2006.

The report shows, however, that sharp cultural differences remain in how people spend their time when they don't work.

True to the cliché,(老生长谈)the French spend more than two hours eating every day -- about twice the time Americans devote to swallowing their breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Who are the couch potatoes of the OECD?

Mexicans spend 48% of their leisure time watching television or listening to the radio, compared with 44% for Americans and 28% for German people, the OECD report shows.

In contrast, Spaniards are the most addicted to sports: They spend 12% of their leisure time practicing sports, compared with 5% for Americans and 2% for Turks. When they don't sleep or eat, the French hold another OECD record: They have 30 annual days of mandatory(强制性的)paid leave. That compares with 20 in the U. K. and 10 in Japan.

There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U. S.

As for overall leisure, Norwegian men and women have about the same amount of free time each day.

In Italy, however, men have nearly 80 daily minutes more leisure time than women. On an annualized(年度总计)basis, that means 444 hours or 18. 5 days.

‘Much of the additional work of Italian women is apparently spent cleaning the house,' according to the report.

47. According to the latest report from the climate panel, the global climate will rise between 3. 5 and 8 degrees Fahrenheit if the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is up to ________ .

46. We can infer from the third paragraph that _______________ .

A.the atmosphere has grown warmer slowly.

B. the greenhouse effect has done great harm to life.

C. life on the earth partly results from the greenhouse effect.

D. to develop industrial economies, larger amounts of carbon dioxide must be needed.

3.The greenhouse　 effect　 contributes　 to　 climate　 change

B. Gases like carbon dioxide and methane results in climate change.

C. What people have been doing on the earth plays a central role in climate change.

D. More sunlight has reached the earth over the last 50 years.

45. What is the main reason that causes Climate Change from the passage?

44. The underlined part "Safe Passage" in the seventh paragraph is____________ .

A. a program B. a　 school　 C. an　 organization　 D. a road

B

On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is "unequivocal," and that human activity has "very likely" been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had "likely" played a role.

The addition of that single word "very" did more than reflect mounting scientific evidence that the release of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases from smokestacks, tailpipes and burning forests has played a central role in raising the average surface temperature of the earth by more than 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900. It also added new momentum(动力；势头)to a debate that now seems centered less over whether humans are warming the planet, but instead over what to do about it. In recent months, business groups have banded together to make unprecedented calls for federal regulation of greenhouse gases. The subject had a red-carpet moment when former Vice President Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," was awarded an Oscar; and the Supreme Court made its first global warming-related decision, ruling 5 to 4 that the Environmental Protection Agency had not justified its position that it was not authorized to regulate carbon dioxide.

Read More... The greenhouse effect has been part of the earth's workings since its earliest days. Gases like carbon dioxide and methane(沼气)allow sunlight to reach the earth, but prevent some of the resulting heat from radiating back out into space. Without the greenhouse effect, the planet would never have warmed enough to allow life to form. But as ever larger amounts of carbon dioxide have been released along with the development of industrial economies, the atmosphere has grown warmer at an accelerating rate: Since 1970, temperatures have gone up at nearly three times the average for the 20th century.

The latest report from the climate panel predicted that the global climate is likely to rise between 3. 5 and 8 degrees Fahrenheit if the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reaches twice the level of 1750. By 2100, sea levels are likely to rise between 7 to 23 inches, it said, and the changes now underway will continue for centuries to come.