简答题Despite globalization, different markets still have ________ tastes and demands. A、divert B、diversity C、diverse D、diversion简答题In order to eliminate nuclear threat, it is necessary to completely _________ and thoroughly destroy nuclear weapons. A、promote B、inhabit C、prohibit D、propose简答题Some of the most efficient refrigerators ________ 70 percent less electricity than traditional models. A、assume B、presume C、resume D、consume简答题A _______ of the British diet has revealed that a growing number of people are overweight. A、survey B、surgery C、surge D、survival判断题A. abundantB. complicatedC. conflictD. confrontedE. distributedF. environmentG. highlightH. innovationsI. intensifiedJ. outcomeK. rateL. reliableM. replaceN. sourcesO. subsequentWater is life. We depend on it to keep us and the (1) _______ healthy. Nonetheless, many people take water as a natural resource for granted. Today, the situation has changed. As the population of the world increases, and with it the demand for water, there is growing concern that our water supplies will not be as (2) _______ as we think. Eighty countries now have water shortages and 2 billion people lack access to clean water. One billion people lack enough water to simply meet their basic needs. While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. This tiny amount of fresh water available on the planet has remained fairly constant over time and is (3) _______ unevenly around the world. The growth of the world population, therefore, (4) _______ competition for a clean supply of water every year. Worse still, humans are not efficient users. According to the United Nations, water use has grown at more than twice the (5) _______ of population increase in the last century. The reality is that an increasing number of regions are (6) _______ with water scarcity. By 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population may face water shortages. An adequate and (7) _______ water supply is essential to the future of every country. To increase and conserve supplies of fresh water, many countries have been working at technological (8) _______ , one of which is in the process of desalination. New filtration systems have been developed to (9) _______ traditional heating methods. Thus the expected (10) _______ can be achieved: lower costs.简答题More than 100,000 people could fall ill after drinking ________ water. A、contaminated B、animated C、terminated D、alternated简答题Britain is ______ its effort to secure the release of the hostages. A、densifying B、intensifying C、identifying D、classifying简答题Never assume that your society is too advanced to experience water shortage. (Para.16) A、You should never think that your society will not suffer from water shortage because it is advanced enough to solve all water problems. B、Don’t assume that only the advanced society will experience water shortage.简答题As we were __________ giving up hope, a letter arrived. A、on the point of B、for the point of C、to the point of D、in the point of简答题The problems _______ the new government are enormous. A、conforming B、conferring C、affronting D、confronting简答题After a ______ debate, members of the committee finally voted to approve the funding. A、contentious B、abstentious C、contented D、contended简答题If you understand a problem, you are in a better position to have a solution. (Para.14) A、If you understand a problem, you will find a good place to solve the problem. B、If you understand a problem, it would be easier for you to solve the problem well.简答题There is a high chance that people reading this do not live in water deprived areas, and may think it is not their problem. (Para.13) A、It is very likely that people who read the article do not live in areas without water, and may think it is not their problem. B、It is very likely that people who read the article do not live in water-deficient areas, and may think water shortage is not a problem for them.简答题We should care because a lot of the factors such as population expansion, urbanization, pollution and climate change that cause water scarcity are broadening and becoming more complex and uncontrollable. (Para.5) A、We should care about water problem because the factors like population expansion, urbanization, pollution and climate change are broadening and becoming more complex and uncontrollable, which makes water shortage a bigger problem for many places. B、We should care because a lot of the factors such as population expansion, urbanization, pollution and climate change lead to water scarcity, therefore water problem is broadening and becoming more complex and uncontrollable.简答题A _________ number of groups and individuals are among the global leaders in their specialties. A、substance B、substantial C、substantiate D、substantive简答题She ________ to temptation and had another chocolate even though she was going on a diet. A、yielded B、gave C、responded D、reacted判断题A Thousand Bottles a Second A) Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy and open up a plastic bottle of commercially produced water, and every second of every day in the United States, a thousand plastic bottles are thrown away. Eighty-five million bottles a day. More than thirty billion bottles a year at a cost to consumers of tens of billions of dollars. And for every bottle consumed in the U.S., another four are consumed around the world. B) How did water go from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years? What does it mean for us to bottle and sell our most basic necessity? The story of bottled water is a story with big numbers: billions of gallons or liters sold; billions of bottles produced, used, and thrown away; tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in sales; billions of tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants produced. But it is also a story that should be understood in a broader context (背景). It is also about a billion people worldwide without access to safe and affordable drinking water, and billions of illnesses and millions of deaths every year -- mostly among small children -- from preventable water-related diseases. C) People usually say they buy bottled water for four major reasons: fear of their tap (水龙头) water, convenience, taste, and style. The news is filled with stories about water contamination and so we start to fear that our tap water is polluted by things we cannot see or smell. We seek the convenience of little packages of water that are available (可获得的) wherever and whenever we want them because we can no longer find a clean, working water fountain. Sometimes we really don’t like how our tap water tastes. And we’re misguided by intensive advertising and believed that this or that brand of commercial water will make us healthier, skinnier, or more popular. D) So we’ve turned to the bottle, believing that paying a thousand times more for individually packaged plastic throwaway containers of water than for readily available tap water is a reasonable decision rather than economic, environmental, and social blindness. Here we seem to lose sight of the fact that while we turn away from the tap, the poorest people in the poorest countries of the world, who have neither safe tap water nor money to buy bottled water, drink whatever is available, get sick, and often die. This sharp contrast leads to a strange reality: Suburban shoppers in America carry cases of plastic water bottles from the store back to homes supplied with unlimited piped drinkable water in a sad and unintentional parody (滑稽模仿) of the labor of girls and women in Africa, who spend countless backbreaking hours carrying containers of dirty water from distant contaminated sources to homes with no water at all. E) I have to admit having conflicting feelings about bottled water. On rare occasions I will buy and consume bottled water. The problems of the entire bottled water industry are so clear and obvious that they deserve attention. Yet bottled water is neither the cause of, nor the solution to, our larger water problems. If the sale of bottled water were to magically disappear tomorrow or somehow be forbidden in our stores, our global water problems and the need to pursue the path of sustainable water management and use would still remain. The bottled water companies argue that the problems and concerns that cause people to buy bottled water are not the fault of the industry; rather, they say the industry is responding to a demand due to problems in our water system, which they did not cause and cannot fix. This argument cannot be dismissed lightly. There are many places on this planet where tap water is unsafe or unavailable because of the failure of governments to meet the basic needs of their people. F) But the bottled water companies cannot be held completely blameless -- some of them are no better than old-time snake-oil salesmen selling "magic" oil. At times, they have cleverly and even openly worked to speak negatively about tap water and to raise fears of unseen contamination in order to increase their own sales. They have pressed hard to prevent effective plastic recycling programs. And they have used the regular advertising and marketing tools of fear, style, and image to drive people toward their product and away from the tap. G) What’s really being risked? In the end, the arguments for and against bottled water are more than simply environmental or economic. The arguments have deeper psychological, philosophical and political implications (含义) in the human right to water, free markets, the appropriate role of governments, and conflicting visions of the future. Contrasting forces are also at work, including the anti-globalization movement, the growing effort to be "green," and the newly awakened concern about climate change and its root cause -- our energy use. H) It is possible that we will look back in a few decades at a short-lived bottled water craze and wonder what we were thinking. But if we don’t address our growing water crisis, we could just as easily look back sadly at the years of safe, cheap, and reliable tap water as a golden age when, for a little while, we could just turn on the tap and drink as much as we can. _______ 1. Programs for recycling plastic bottles have not been successful because bottled water companies have tried hard to prevent them. _______ 2. The bottled water industry has problems, but it is governments, not bottled water, that should be blamed for global water problems. _______ 3. It is necessary to deal with water crisis so that drinkable tap water will be in continuous, abundant supply. _______ 4. Bottled water is an issue made complicated by its political, environmental, economic and psychological impact. _______ 5. People around the world consume bottled water four times the amount consumed in the US. _______ 6. When we choose bottled water, we actually have neglected the fact that people in poor countries have no access to safe and clean water for survival. _______ 7. The advertisements used by bottled water companies have the purpose of causing fear of contaminated tap water in people who then have to choose their product. _______ 8. Bottled water is, in fact, an issue of water access and disease prevention for children in many countries. _______ 9. The bottled water companies defend themselves by arguing that they are trying to solve problems in the water system. _______ 10. News stories and advertisements have a strong influence on our choice of bottled water over tap water.多选题1.China’s water problem mainly lies in two aspects: water contamination and water shortage. _______ 2. In China, people are paying special attention to water quality because of man-made pollution and natural contamination. _______ 3. Before we find out a long-term solution to water problem, we can use water filtration devices to make sure we are consuming safe and clean water. _______ 4. According to a research conducted by the Ministry of Water Resources, 20 percent of China’s rivers were so seriously contaminated that even coming in contact with them would be dangerous. _______ 5. Chinese government has spared no effort to supervise closely exploitation of underground water, further protect sources of drinking water, and maintain the balance of aquatic ecological system. _______ 6. The report published in 2012 by The Ministry of Water Resources shows that nearly two-thirds of China’s cities are lacking water. _______简答题You can _______ them of many things, but you can never rob them of their spirit. A、derive B、divide C、deprive D、depress简答题I’m feeling a little depressed at the moment, but I’m sure good times are ______. A、in the corner B、at the corner C、around the corner D、on the corner