虎门服装批发II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales. He became a___41___voice in the year before the Civil War.
A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS)___42___Douglass's birth and Black History Month with the reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a ___43___site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass's personal possessions, had undergone a three-year___44___. (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don't have to live in the nation's capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)
He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he never knew. Douglass grew up to become the first black___45___to bold a government office —as US minister and consul general (总领事) to Haiti.
As a youth, be never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so be___46___taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.
In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system___47___up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the ___48___, housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.
He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass witnessed the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution(美国宪法修正案), which___49___African-Americans the right to vote.
笔画Keys: 41-49 JACIE DBGF
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section B
奥特十兄弟Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. contents
B. taking
C. carefully
D. plastic
E. packaging
F. declined
G. freely
H. typical
I. contracts
J. registered
If the package looks pretty, people will buy just about anything. So says an advertising executive in New York, and he has proved his point by selling boxes of rubbish for the price of an expensive bottle of wine.
Justin Gignac,26, has sold almost 900___41___presented plastic boxes of rubbish from the street of Big Apple at between ＄50 and ＄100 each. Buyers from 19 countries have paid for the souvenirs（纪念品）. The idea has been so successful that he is thinking of promoting it around the world.
适合做手机铃声的81首歌It all began when Mr Gignac was at a summer workshop, “We had a discussion about the importance of___42___,”he recalls.” Someone said packaging was unimportant. I disagreed. The only way to prove it was by selling something nobody would ever want.”
He searches the streets of Manhattan and typical___43___include broken glass, subway tickets, Starbucks cups and used___44___forks. “Special editions” are offered at a high price. He charged ＄100 for rubbish from the opening day of the New York Yankees’ stadium.
Mr Gignac denies___45___his customers for fools: “They know what they’re getting. They appreciate the fact that they’re taking something nobody would want and finding beauty in it.”
Some___46___customers include people who used to live in the city and want a down-to-earth souvenir. He claims he has even sold to art collectors.
Realizing that the concept appears to be a real money-maker, Mr Gignac has___47___a company and is employing his girlfriend as vice president. He___48___to discuss his profit margins: “It’s actually quite a lot of effort putting them together-but yes, garbage is free.”
Mr Gignac is considering more varieties of souvenirs. He maintains that he has signed___49___with people interested in similar projects from as far as Berlin and London.
Keys: 41-49 CEADB HJFI
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Forests in the northern half of the globe could be growing faster now than they were 200 years ago as a result of climate change, according to a study of trees in eastern America. The trees appear to have faster growth rates due to longer growing seasons and higher concentrations (浓度) of carbon dioxide in the___41___.
Geoffrey Parker, a scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre in Edgewater. Maryland, said that the increase ha the rate of growth was unexpected and might be___42___to the higher temperatures and longer growing seasons documented in the region. The growth may also be influenced by the significant___43___in atmospheric CO2,he said.
"We made a list of reasons these forests could be growing faster and then excluded half of them," Dr Parker said. Their study suggests that northern forests may become increasingly important in___44___the influence of man-made CO2 on the climate.
Dr Parker and his colleagues have___45___out a detailed record of the trees on a(n)___46___basis since 1987. They calculated that due to the global warming the forest is producing___47___tons of wood each year.
The scientists___48___the land with trees at different stages of growth and found that both young and old trees were showing increased growth rate. More than 90 per cent of the tree groups had grown by between two and four times faster than the scientists had___49___from estimates of the long-term rates of growth.
安全保卫工作方案Keys: 41-49 FGJHI CAED
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
How would you like to wear the same underwear (内衣裤) for weeks? Owing to the work that has gone into developing intelligent materials, this may not be as___41___as it sounds. Self-cleaning clothes have now been created, and these new materials provide___42___resistance to dirt as well as water. As a result, they require much less cleaning than traditional materials.
The creation of self-cleaning clothes provides an example of how nature helps scientists develop better products. This self-cleaning nature is known as the “lotus effect”. The name comes, of course, from the lotus leaves, which are famous for growing in muddy lakes and rivers while remaining almost___43___clean. By observing nature, scientists are___44___the qualities of the lotus leaves to the materials they have engineered. Because of this, some remarkable new products have been___45___. Among them are special windows that are resistant to dirt and water. A special___46___on these windows not only prevents dirt from sticking to their surfaces, but also allows dust to be easily washed off by the rain. In fact, these new windows have already been ___47___to some cars. Even when traveling at high speed through rain, these cars never have to use their windshield wipers (雨刮器).
Although we have already seen some practical applications, even more dramatic___48___will be made in the future, and they will, perhaps, change our world completely. Undoubtedly, technology is an important development, and it will have an even bigger___49___on our lives.
Keys: 41-49 BIHCA FGJE
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Filmgoers should be told how many calories there are in the popcorn, ice cream and soft drinks that they buy in cinemas, according to the Food Standard Agency.
Smaller popcorn buckets and drink cups should also be made___41___, the nutrition inspector said.
Tim Smith, chief executive of the agency, told The Times that cinemas should help to deal with the country's overweight___42___.
"There is a misbelief that popcorn is calorie-free, but that is not the case. It is a___43___to us," he said. "Portion sizes are also a big issue, and there seems to be increasingly big packs on sale."
He spoke as a number of food chains such as Pret A Manger, Wimpey and The Real Greek___44___to put calorie counts on all their menus.
A trial scheme（试行方案）with 21 food companies took place last summer, and___45___are that consumers altered their buying habits when they realised the number of calories in a product.
A consultation(征询意见) on the trial ends next month but Mr Smith is already planning the second drive for American-style calorie counts and is___46___to win support from cinemas and other entertainment places, from football grounds to concert halls.
Government___47___suggest that two thirds of adults and a third of children are overweight. If trends are not___48___, this could rise to almost nine in ten adults and two thirds of children by 205春节祝福语短信
0, putting them at___49___risk of heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
Keys: 41-49 IGFHC EDJB
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