湖北剩州中学2018-2019学年高二英语上学期第一次双周考试卷【word版】.doc

Knowing basketball rules and statistics

Students interested in working for the Athletic Department should contact the Athletic

Coordinator at their respective(各自的)

campuses.

TP/SS Athletic Coordinator, Michael Simone, 240-567-1308 Rockville Athletic Coordinator, Jorge Zuniga, 240-567-7589 Springfield Athletic coordinator, Gary Miller, 240-567-2273 Germantown Athletic Coordinator, Gauri Chavan, 240-567-6915

21. When will the job start? A. In May 2016. C. In September 2017.

22. Who is more likely to get the job?

A. Sam, English major, member of the college basketball team. B. Judy, IT staff with night classes, children’s basketball team coach. C. Ted, computer major, basketball fan, free on evenings and weekends. D. Molly, part-time programmer, high school basketball player, new mother. 23.Whom should you contact if you want to apply for the job in Rockville? A. Michael Gary

B

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B. Jorge

C. Gauri D.

B. In May 2017. D. In September 2016.

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. D. ￡70.

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C

El Ni?o, a Spanish term for “the Christ child”, was named by South American fishermen who noticed that the global weather pattern, which happens every two to seven years, reduced the amount of fishes caught around Christmas. El Ni?o sees warm water, collected over several years in the western Pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes the other way round.

The weather effects, both good and bad, are felt in many places. Rich countries gain more from powerful Ni?os, on balance, than they lose. A study found that a strong Ni?o in 1997 - 98 helped American’s economy grow by $15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvests: farmers in the Midwest gained from extra rain. The total rise in agricultural incomes in rich countries is greater than the fall in poor ones.

But in Indonesia extremely dry forests are in flames. A multi-year drought(干旱) in south-east Brazil is

becoming worse. Though heavy rains brought about by El Ni?o may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.

The most recent powerful Ni?o, in 1997 - 98, killed around 21 000 people and caused damage worth

$36 billion around the globe. But such Ni?os come with months of warning, and so much is known about how they happen that governments can prepare. According to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards. This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.

Simple improvements to infrastructure(基础设施) can reduce the spread of disease. Better sewers(下水

道) make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach. Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods. According to a paper in 2011 by Mr Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is linked to El Ni?o’s harmful effects—and the poorer the country, the stronger the link. Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepare for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people. Since the poorest are least likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to El Ni?o, reducing their losses needs to be the most important thing.

28. What can we learn about El Ni?o in Paragraph 1?