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1、1. like dog's poop on city pavements, rubbish left behind by tourists at natural sites is disgusti ng.the funny thing is nobody likes seeing such mess in the places they are visiting but it seems only few really care enough to keep the place tidy. the obvious result is that garbage has become a

2、common sight in forests which attract tourists.we are certain that in many places park rangers espite their small numbers, incomparable to the tremendous tourist troops-are already doing the best they can sometimes, however, we believe things could still be better.take the thi-lor-su waterfall in ta

3、k province for instance one of the things about thi-lor-su which we would like to talk about today is the commendable method of rubbish control at the waterfall.there, food and drinks in commercial packaging are prohibited the ban is enforeed by requiring that each and every visitor heading from the

4、 camping ground to the waterfall has to pass through a checkpoint where their bags are inspected and potential garbage is seized the results have been amazing despite thousands of visitors, the l.5-kilometre trail to thi-lor-su, as well as the waterfall itself, is almost free of garbage.however, wit

5、hin the same forest, along the 16 kilometers of rough road from the pha luead checkpoint to the camping ground, the situation is completely different both sides of the road are littered with rubbish, from candy wrappers to styrofoam food boxes to plastic water bottles.one contributing factor to the

6、mess is that several tour operators use ordinary pick-up. trucks to transport their dients in and out of the forest the ordinary trucks often get stuck and tourists are forced to walk the rest of the distaneewhich call be several kilometers and, as you would expect, there are more incon siderate tou

7、rists than con scie ntious ones along the way, people eat and throw rubbish.one solution to this problem is to encourage tour operators to use proper vehicles either that or put off traveling into the forest until the road is really dry and passable.1) . how does the writer feel about the fact that

8、people hate to see rubbish but still throw it carelessly?aa. their behavior is ridiculousb. their behavior is immoralc their behavior is foolishd. their behavior is illegal2) . what is the writer's comment on park rangers1 work? ca. they are slack in their workb. they should make more effortsc.

9、they are devoted to their workd. they need to reorganize their work3) . we can learn that, while visiting the thi-lor-sti waterfall, visitors ba. are rewarded for taking garbage awayb. are forbidden to take packaged food and drinksc. are punished heavily if they throw garbage carelesslyd. are preven

10、ted from taking a vehicle even if they are tired4) . the contrast of the situations in the two sections of thi-lor-su road to the waterfall implies that we should aa. make roles and regulations for rubbish controlb. realize that environmental protection is an idealc. encourage environment-friendly p

11、ackagingd. raise the environmental awareness of tourists5) . as regards putting an end to people's littering in the forest, the writer feels_d_. a con fusedb. doubtfulc. worriedd. hopeful2. when his plane touched down at montreaps international airport, david laroche collected his luggage and he

12、aded for the airport parking garage, where he left his brand-new car three weeks earlier. but the car wasn't there. laroche found a police officer, who gave him the bad news： his audi a6 most likely had been absorbed into a vast black car market somewhere in eastern europe of africa.laroche, who

13、 flies out of montreal because it is the closest major airport to his northern vermont home, is not alone. countless u. s. travelers use montreaps airport because of its convenient location and competitive prices, which it promotes in radio ads in new england not surprisingly, the ads don't ment

14、ion that more than 200 cars are stolen every year from the airporfs parking lots.professional thieves search the airport's longterm parking garages for cars that are relatively free of dust and have u s 1 icense platesa lack of dust means that a car was parked recently, and americans often trave

15、l for weeks on end. says a canadian car一theft investigator： "that gives the bad guys a lot of time to do whatever they want with the car. ”what they do, typically, is take the stolen cars to montreaps harbor, where they are concealed in side huge containers to be taken overseas. in little more

16、than a week, the cars are on the street in russia or countries in africa of asia. police assert that canada's most powerful car-theft rings are con trolled by russian crime organizations airport officials down play the problem. "you have to put things in perspective.whe n you have so many c

17、ars parked at your airport every yearsays montreaps director of airport protection. ulfs not a major problem. ,?but the montreal airports car-theft problem-police recorded 220 stolen cars last yearis far worse than other international airports in north america. last year, for example, only 65 cars w

18、ere stolen from parking lots at los angeles's airport； boston's logan airport had only four reported thefts so now david laroche will head to logan, his next- closest major airport. ifs a i on ger drive, but that5 s ok if it saves his new car”.1) . many american travelers use montreal intern

19、ational airport becausec_a it offers good passenger serviceb. it provides free parking lotsc. it is n ear and in expensived. it is widely advertised2) . professional car thieves are interested in dustfree american cars becausea.a they have enough time to dispose of the stolen carsb. they have a spec

20、ial interest in american carsc. american cars are popular among the dealersd. american cars are usually new and expensive3) . car thefts go smoothly becaused.a. the police have got involved in themb. the stolen cars sell well in the word marketc. the thieves are familiar with the parking garagesd. t

21、hey are promoted by some international cooperation4) . the text indicates that the canadian airport officials seem to havec.a. taken effective measures to solve the car-theft problemb. overestimated the seriousness of the car-theft problemc. failed to give proper attention to the car-theft problemd.

22、 realized the seriousness of the car-theft problem5) . now mr. laroche chooses to use log a n airport in stead of montreal airport becauseb.a. the former is cheaper in serviceb. the former gives more care to car theftc. the former is more convenient for parkingd. the former shows more concern for pa

23、ssengers3. the next big breakthrough in artificial intelligence could come from giving machines not just more logical capacity, but emotional capacity as well.feelings aren11 usually associated with inanimate machines, but rosalind picard, a professor of computer technology at mit, believes emotion

24、may be just the thing computers need to work effectively. computers need artificial emotion to understand their human users better and to achieve self-analysis and self-improvement.the more scientists study the "wetware” model for computing-the human brain and nervous system-the more they concl

25、ude that emotions are a part of intelligenee, not separate from it. emotions are among the tools that we use to process the tremendous amount of stimuli in our environment. they also pay a role in human learning and decision making. feeling bad about a wrong decision, for instance, focuses attention

26、 on avoiding future error. a feeling of pleasure, on the other hand, positively reinforces an experienee."if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent, to adapt to us, and to interact naturally with us, then they will need the ability to recognize and express emotions, to have emotions, and

27、 to have what has come to be called ' emotional intelligence,n, picard says.one way that emotions can help computers, she suggests, is by helping keep them from crashing today* s computers produce error messages, but they do not have a hgut feeling” of knowing when something is wrong or doesn11

28、make sense. a healthy fear of death could motivate a computer to stop trouble as soon as it starts. on the other hand, self-preservation would need to be subordimate to service to humans. it was fear of its own death that prompted hal, the fictional computer in the film 2002: a space odyssey, to kil

29、l most of its human associatessimilarly, computers that could hreadm their users would accumulate a store of highly personal information about us-not just what we said and did, but what we likely thought and felt''emotions not only contribute to a richer quality of interaction, but they dire

30、ctly impact a person's ability to interact in an intelligent way,h picard says “emotional skills, especially the ability to recognize and express emotions, are essential for natural communication with humans. ”1) . in the future computers will tend to be made _ba fictionalb. humanizedc economica

31、ld. operational2) . emotional intelligenee is important because _d_a it can increase the logical capacity of the computerb. it can raise the mechanic capacity of the computerc it can eliminate all the defects of the computerd. it can improve user-computer communication3) . hself-preservationh (line

32、5, para. 5) means _c_a. self-controlb. self-analysisc self-protectiond. self-improvement4) . according to the text, the emotional computer _a_a has a promising prospectb. is financially unaffordablec is technically impracticabled. has a specialized user group5) . it is implied that the emotional com

33、puter _a_.a may be a danger to human beingsb. no ion ger n eeds hardware upgradi ngc may be a threat to the life of its designerd. no longer worries about the fear of death4. in recent years scientists have found that the laser has a wide variety of applications, making it one of the most importa nt

34、 in ventions for improving our quality of life.one important field in which the laser has many applications is communications. scientists have found that the laser beam can transmit human voices； as a result, telephone companies are now using laser light signals to transmit teleph one calls through

35、extremely small cables that ale capable of carryi ng many more tran smissions than the standard teleph one cables an additi onal advantage is that these systems using the laser light signals are also able to transmit video telephone conversations.another, perhaps less-known, field in which lasers ar

36、e helping improve the quality of life is metrology一the science of measurement the extremely straight, narrow laser beam can be used to put the parts of a structure being built into the correct position to each other. the laser beam has also been used to measure remote distances, for example, the pre

37、cise distance from the earth to the moon. and finally, the laser can be used to measure the drifts of the earth's plates this measurement, along with other data, can help in the prediction of the earthquakes.probably the most vital application of the laser is in the field of medicine. scientists

38、 have developed a laser knife that surgeons can use for operations. these knives ale now used widely because they cut sharply and because the beam seals off the blood vessels that it cuts, thus reducing blood loss considerablywhen dr. theodore got the first laser to work in july 1960, what uses it w

39、ould have were unknown； in fact he called it a multimillion-dollar solution in search of a problem. as we have seen, the uses of the laser are numerous- it is being used in the fields of medicinei communications, and metrology. there are many, many more applications, such as in the areas of defense

40、and space travel. what should be apparent by now is that there are many problems the laser is helping to solve, and that the laser, if used wisely, can be a life-saving device1) . according to the text, the laser can_d_.a stan dardize teleph one cablesb. remove communications jamsc. improve the qual

41、ity of human voicesd. in crease the capacity of communications2) . from the text we learn that the laser canc.a cut a structure from a right positionb. design parts of a complex structurec. measure the distance between planetsd. predict the movement of earth's plates3) . the writer thinks the mo

42、st imports nt use of the laser is in the field ofa.a. medical treatmentb. national defensec. space traveld. metrology4) . from the last paragraph we can see that the uses of the lasera. are yet to be simplifiedb. remain an ideal in imaginationc. are expanding all the timed. remain an issue beyond so

43、lution5) . the best title of the text might bea.a. the laser： a scientific & technological wonderb. the laser： a powerful tool for communicationsc. the laser： a solution to life-saving problemsd. the laser： a multimillion dollar invention5. paula：there is no safe cigarette and no safe level of c

44、onsumption. some smokers think that switching from stronger to milder cigarettes makes smoking safer, but this isn5t true. for smokers usually swallow the smoke deeper, or they often smoke the cigarettes to the shortest length. so，even if you do make the switch but don't make these changes, the

45、health benefits are very small when compared to the benefits of quitting.jenny：anyone who smokes is at a risk of being harmed physically. as you continue to smoke, your body learns to depend on cigarettes and you call smoke more and more. just three cigarettes a day can spark potentially fatal heart

46、 disease, and women are particularly at risk. it is never too early for cigarettes to cause damage; it can start with the first cigarette.joanne:there are many shortterm health effects of smoki ng. a major con sequence is decreased lung function this often leads to shortness of breath, constant coug

47、h and tiring easily during exercise. smoking also reduces the ability to smell and taste and causes early ageing of skin. often people don't realize that a smoking-related disease could be developing for years before it is detected. a “smoker's cough” or shortness of breath are early signs o

48、f problems which can be fatal.jocelyn：for women, cigarette smoking increases the risk of a number of sex-specific health problems. smoking women can experience irregular periods. smokers that are on the pill have a greater risk of heart attack, stroke and other diseases. whafs more, stroke doesn'

49、;t only affect elderly people people in their 20s and 30s also die from strokes caused by smoking.amanda：many young women regard their smoking as short term, and don't believe they will develop the iong-term health effects of smoking. often there's a sense that you can just quit sometime in

50、the future. however, your current smoking is doing you damage, and it won't be easier to quit at a later stage. the time to quit smoking is sooner rather than later. smoking women in the family way can have difficulties during childbirth now match the name of each person(1 to 5) to the appropria

51、te statement.note： there are two extra statements.1) . paulaba. smoking affects all, though it is more damaging to womenb. smoking is always damaging regardless of what cigarettes to be smokedc. the ion ger you smoke, the more difficult you will give it up.d. damage can be done as soon as you start

52、smoking.e. smoking will cause the early ageing of the women in the family way.f. people often overlook the early signs of the deadly problems resulting from smoking.g male smokers are more likely to develop smokingrelated diseases than female smokers2) . jennyda. smoking affects all, though it is more damaging to women.b. smoking is always damaging regardless of what cigarettes to be smoked.c. the ion ger you smoke, the more difficult you will give it up.d. damage can be done as soon as you start sm