Britain’s east midlands were once the
picture of English countryside, alive With flocks, shepherds, skylarks and
buttercups--the stuff of fairytales. In 1941 George Marsh left school at the age
of 14 to work as a herdsman in Nottinghamshire, the East Midlands countryside
his parents and grandparents farmed. He recalls skylarks nesting in cereal
fields, which when accidentally disturbed would fly singing into the sky. But in
his lifetime, Marsh has seen the color and diversity of his native land fade.
Farmers used to grow about a ton of wheat per acre; now they grow four tons.
Pesticides have killed off the insects upon which skylarks fed, and year-round
harvesting has driven the birds from their winter nests. Skylarks are now rare.
"Farmers kill anything that affects production, "says Marsh. "Agriculture is to
A. cherishes his adolescence memories.
B. thinks highly of the efficiency of agriculture.
C. may not have happy memories of past time.
D. cannot remember his adolescence days.
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Britain’s east midlands were once the
picture of English countryside, alive With flocks, shepherds, skylarks and
buttercups--the stuff of fairytales. In 1941 George Marsh left school at the age
of 14 to work as a herdsman in Nottinghamshire, the East Midlands countryside
his parents and grandparents farmed. He recalls skylarks nesting in cereal
fields, which when accidentally disturbed would fly singing into the sky. But in
his lifetime, Marsh has seen the color and diversity of his native land fade.
Farmers used to grow about a ton of wheat per acre; now they grow four tons.
Pesticides have killed off the insects upon which skylarks fed, and year-round
harvesting has driven the birds from their winter nests. Skylarks are now rare.
"Farmers kill anything that affects production, "says Marsh. "Agriculture is to
A. They reported the results of the surveys to the government.
B. There were no such comprehensive surveys done before.
C. The surveys show there are more plant species extinct.
D. Other ecologists will do more surveys based on theirs.
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Britain’s east midlands were once the
picture of English countryside, alive with flocks, shepherds, skylarks and
buttercups—the stuff of fairytales. In 1941 George Marsh left school at the age
of 14 to work as a herdsman in Nottinghamshire, the East Midlands countryside
his parents and grandparents farmed. He recalls skylarks nesting in cereal
fields, which when accidentally disturbed would fly singing into the sky. But in
his lifetime, Marsh has seen the color and diversity of his native land fade.
Farmers used to grow about a ton of wheat per acre; now they grow four tons.
Pesticides have killed off the insects upon which skylarks fed, and year-round
harvesting has driven the birds from their winter nests. Skylarks are now rare.
"Farmers kill anything that affects production," says Marsh. "Agriculture is too
A. cherishes his adolescence memories.
B. thinks highly of the efficiency of agriculture.
C. may not have happy memories of past time.
D. cannot remember his adolescence days.
[单项选择]{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}}
The Middle East has called a "museum of
religious and linguistic history." The origin and growth of the Copts in the
Nile valley show the truth of this statement. The present Coptic language is the
latest stage in a long evolutionary process beginning with the language of the
Pharaohs influenced by many conquering tongues, such as Greed, brought to the
Nile Valley twenty-three hundred years ago by Alexander the Great.
The Copts axe a mixture of the oldest known inhabitants of the Middle East
with every successive conqueror. Today they number four million in what is now
the Arab Republic of Egypt, a country of almost forty million. The word Egypt
itself comes from "Copt", the Greek way of saying Ha-Ka-Ptah, or "the land where
the God Ptah is worshiped." Coptic continued as a language and a nationality
when Egypt became the bre
A. in about 400 B．C．
B. in about 300 B．C．
C. C．in about 400 D．
D. D．in about 300 D．
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Part B
Directions: In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For questions 41--45, choose the most suitable one from the list A--G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There is one extra example which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
We don’t see or hear them, but every day they quietly go about their work--filtering and cleansing our rivers and streams. And if we don’t act soon, they’ll disappear from the workforce just when we need them most. I am talking about pigtoes, monkeyface, pink heelsplitter and purple wartyback--freshwater mussels (贻贝) with funny names that belie the seriousness of their labors. (41) .
One mussel alone can cleanse as much as a gallon of water per hour. Add up the work of a whole mussel community, and you get a virtual water treatment plant. According to Ethan Nedeau, an expert on the freshwater mussels of Ne
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