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第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A Chicco Red Bullet Balance Training Bike Price: $32.99 & FREE Shipping ($49.99) Soft tires of the Training Bike help the child gain balance. Recommended for ages 3+years. Seat Pets Car Seat Toy Price: $19.22& FREE Shipping on orders over $35 ($19.99) Seat Pets are seat belt attachments that provide comfort and support to your child’s neck and head. Each Seat Pet has three pockets, designed to store all of the things that kids need when they’re in the car. Seat Pets are 21” long and are made of high-quality machined-washable material. Easily attaches to seat belts. Fisher-price Infant to Toddler Swing in Red Price: $19.97 & FREE Shipping on orders over $35 ($29.97) The Infant to Toddler Swing is an outdoor swing that spans the development of a child from infant to toddler. The tray holds toys or snacks and lifts up out of the way for easy in and out. This swing is as friendly to parents as it is to kids and now it can be reclined (斜躺) for use with infants as young as six months. Laugh & Learn Crawl Around Car Price：$ 44.88 & FREE Shipping(You Save $ 59.88) The Laugh & Learn Crawl Around Car helps your little ones develop gross motor skill by encouraging babies to crawl around the car. In addition, babies will enjoy busy activities and sing-along songs(跟唱歌曲). Stationary car encourages babies to sit up, crawl, pull up, stand and move all around. Introduce babies to letters, numbers, colors, first words, greeting & more. For ages 6-36 months old.

56. If you buy a Chicco Red Bullet Balance Training Bike and two Laugh & Fisher-price Infant

to Toddler Swing in, you can save _______. A. $32 B. $37 57. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Seat Pets has two pockets to protect children’s necks and heads. B. Soft tires of the Training Bike help keep the balance of the bike. C. It is easy for children to lift up the tray of the Fisher-Price swing. D. Babies can enjoy music through Laugh & Learn Crawl Around Car.

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C. $109.87 D. 122.75

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B

The Great Barrier Reef is more than worthy of its name. Coral of all shapes, sizes and colors cover more than 130,000 sq. mi. off the coast of Australia, making it the world’s largest reef system and supporting a surprising variety of marine (海上的) life.

But today the Great Barrier Reef is dying. The temporary warming effect of a major El Nino event—combined with ongoing climate change—has heated the waters around the reef to nearly unprecedented levels. That warming has in turn driven a mass bleaching(漂白；使变白) that has sucked the color—and the life—out of the coral. And the Great Barrier Reef isn’t alone. “This is the longest bleaching event ever recorded,” says David Kline, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist. “It’s truly global, and it’s looking very severe.”

Bleaching occurs when ocean disruptions—warm water, pollution, algae overgrowth—drive away the symbiotic organisms that live on the coral and give it color. Within weeks, the reef could die, leaving behind a forest of lifeless, bone white coral. Scientists believe the bleaching now under way may kill more than 15% of the world’s coral.

It’s not just a matter of aquatic aesthetics. Reefs act as natural barriers that protect coastal communities from storms and flooding. Marine life depends on coral reefs as habitats, while coastal towns depend on them as tourist draws.

But a bigger worry may be what the bleaching suggests about future climate change. The rapid death of coral reefs demonstrates that climate change is irreversibly affecting the world right now, even as policymakers treat warming as something to be dealt with in the future. “Climate change may be slow sometimes, but other times it takes great leaps forward,” says Steve Palumbi, an ocean scientist at Stanford University. “This is one of those leaps.”

Local solutions—like reducing fishing and cleaning up pollution—can help slow reef loss, but scientists say a global problem requires a global solution. Nearly 200 countries agreed last year to work to keep global temperatures from rising more than 3.6°F by 2100, but that goal will be tough to reach. And if governments fail, coral reefs will be only the first victims.

58. Which of the following is accounting for the Great Barrier Reef’s dying fortune ?

A. bleaching has little impact on a global scale B. the waters around the reef are extremely heated C. El Nino event induces influential climate change

D. the color and the life of the coral has been sucked by bleaching 59. The reef loss can effectively be slowed by _______.

A. reducing fishing and cleaning up pollution

B. achieving the goal of global temperature rising ceiling C. attaining the goal of global temperature falling lower limit D. avoiding damaging coral reefs physically and artificially

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60. What is the best title of the passage?

A. El Nino and the Great Barrier Reef B. The Barrier of the Great Barrier Reef C. Bleaching and the Great Barrier Reef

D. How to Solve Problems the Great Barrier Reef Faces

C

Reducing food waste around the world would help curb emissions of planet-warming gases, reducing some of the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather and rising seas.

Agriculture is a major driver of climate change, accounting for more than 20% of overall global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010. Avoiding food loss and waste would therefore avoid unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions and help slight climate change. Up to 14% of emissions from agriculture in 2050 could be avoided by managing food use and distribution better.

Between 30% and 40% of food produced around the world is never eaten, because it is spoiled after harvest and during transportation, or thrown away by shops and consumers.

The share of food wasted is expected to increase quickly if emerging economies like China and India adopt western food habits, including a shift to eating more meat. Richer countries tend to consume more food than is healthy or simply waste it.

As poorer countries develop and the world’s population grows, emissions associated with food waste could soar from 0.5 gigatonnes (GT) of carbon dioxide equivalent per year to between 1.9 and 2.5 GT annually by mid-century.

It is widely argued that cutting food waste and distributing the world’s surplus food where it is needed could help tackle hunger in places that do not have enough — especially given that land to expand farming is limited. But the potential for food waste curbs to reduce emissions should be given more attention.

The researchers found that while global average food demand per person remains almost constant, in the last five decades food availability has rapidly increased — hiking the emissions related to growing surplus food by more than 300%.

The researchers did not look at how food waste could be shrunk, but initiatives to tackle the problem are already on the rise in both developed and developing countries. In January, for example, 30 company heads, government ministers, and executives with foundations, research groups and charities launched a coalition to work towards cutting food waste by half and reducing food loss significantly by 2030.

The aims are in line with the new global development goals that took effect this year.

“Champions 12.3” — named after the food-waste goal number — includes the bosses of Tesco, Nestle, Rabobank, Unilever, Oxfam America, WWF International and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Andrew Steer, another coalition member who heads the World Resources Institute, noted then that if food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world.

“Food loss and waste hurts people, costs money and harms the planet,” he said in a statement. “Cutting (it) is a no-brainer.”

61. The climate change can be eased by the following measures except _______.

A. to ensure the management of food use and distribution

B. to develop good eating habits such as sticking to eating less meat C. to carry out the plans of shrinking food waste designed by researchers D. to prevent food loss and waste after harvest and during transportation 62. What could happen to emissions related to food waste by 2050?

A. Emissions of carbon dioxide can rise by up to 5 times yearly. B. Emissions related to growing surplus food will increase by 300%. C. Reducing emissions related to food waste can solve hunger problems. D. An maximum of 14% of emissions from agriculture is avoidable without fail. 63. What does the underlined word “hiking” in Paragraph 7 probably mean?

A. pushing

B. raising

C. adding

D. moving

64. What can we infer from the passage?

A. 30%—40% of food produced across the world goes bad and is unfit to eat. B. It will beat one’s brains out to cut food loss and waste to avoid climate change. C. Food loss and waste were the first largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world. D. Cutting food waste by half by 2030 is consistent with the new global development goals.

D

What does home really mean? Is it the people around you who make a place familiar and loved, or is it the tie to land that’s been in your family for generations? Anna Quindlen’s new novel investigates both, seen through the eyes of Mimi Miller, who narrates the story of her life — and of the strike to the people and to the land she loves — from her 1960s girlhood to the present day.

The book begins with the summer Mimi is 11 and everything around her is about to change in Miller’s Valley. She lives with her parents, her older brothers — rakish Tommy and practical Eddie — and her Aunt Ruth, her mother’s sister, who keeps a terrible secret, and who never leaves the confines of her small house behind Mimi’s. The farm has been in their family for almost 200 years, and Mimi can’t imagine life beyond it.

The land has always been wet, it seems to Mimi. There’s always a sump pump(抽污泵) running in Mimi’s house, and when it storms, mud comes right up to the front porch. But then, the government steps in, deciding to flood “6,400 acres of old family farms and small ramshackle(摇摇欲坠的) homes

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