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1970 was World Conservation Year. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in danger. They hoped that governments would act quickly in order to "conserve" nature. Here is one example of the problem. At one time there were 1,300 different plants, trees and flowers in Holland. But now only 866 remain. The others have been destroyed by modern man and his technology. We are changing the earth, the air and water, and everything that grows and lives. We can’t live without these things either. If we continue like this, we shall destroy ourselves.
What will happen in the future Perhaps it is more important to ask "What must we do now" The people who will be living in the world of tomorrow are the young of today. A lot of them know that conservation is necessary. Many are helping to save our world. They plant trees, build bridges across rivers in forests, and so on. In a small town in the United States a large group of girls cleaned th
A. governments
B. modern technology
C. our rivers and forests
D. the United Nations

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1970 was World Conservation Year. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in danger. They hoped that governments would act quickly in order to "conserve" nature. Here is one example of the problem. At one time there were 1,300 different plants, trees and flowers in Holland. But now only 866 remain. The others have been destroyed by modern man and his technology. We are changing the earth, the air and water, and everything that grows and lives. We can’t live without these things either. If we continue like this, we shall destroy ourselves.
What will happen in the future Perhaps it is more important to ask "What must we do now" The people who will be living in the world of tomorrow are the young of today. A lot of them know that conservation is necessary. Many are helping to save our world. They plant trees, build bridges across rivers in forests, and so on. In a small town in the United States a large group of girls cleaned th
A. the danger of our world
B. the importance of conservation
C. that we’re destroying ourselves
D. that we are changing our world

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M: United World Colleges. Can I help you
W: Yes, I’d like some information about the college, please.
M: What would you like to know
W: My name’s Julia Harris and I have a friend in Spain who’s interested in applying for a place at one of the colleges. There are one or two questions that she’d like me to ask you.
M: Go ahead.
W: Thanks. What language is used for most lessons
M: Well, the main language of instruction in all the college is English. But at Pacific College in Canada some subjects are taught in French.
W: Right. Is it expensive to go to one of the colleges
M: Students’ parents don’t have to be rich, if that’s what you mean. There are scholarships for all colleges, but we do ask the parents to pay what they can afford. It’s $ 2400 per year.
W: Good. Now she wants to know something about getting into a college. Does she have to get high marks in her ex
A. English
B. French
C. Spanish
D. D. BothandB.

[填空题]Which of the following is the world’s oldest national newspaper

• A. The Times.
• B. The Guardian.
• C. The Observer.
• D. The Financial Times.

[填空题]The United Nations World Food Program says ______ could push one hundred million people into hunger.

[单项选择]When the United Nations and world leaders made universal primary education one of their eight millennium development goals, more than 100 million children were not in school. They aimed to bring that number down to zero by 2015.
This week, marking the halfway point, ministers, donors, and others are meeting in Dakar to assess their progress. Ronald Siebes is co-president of the US-based Fast Track Initiative, an organization aimed at channeling extra funding from partners including the World Bank, the United Nations, and the European Union to the poorest countries to help them achieve the education goals. "We are really making progress," he said. "There are huge challenges, but progress is being made to achieve this important goal."
After a slow start in the 32 countries funded by the Fast Track Initiative, their annual report says by 2010 most will have 100 percent of kids starting first grade. An official with the same organization, Desmond Berming
A. 14 years.
B. 15 years.
C. 16 years.
D. 20 years.

[单项选择]Farmers in the United States and around the world are likely to face serious challenges in the coming decades as new kinds of weather test their ability to bring us the food we all depend on. The weather, of course, has never been exactly dependable—farmers have always been at the mercy of the vagaries of sun and rain. But general weather patterns have at least been broadly predictable, allowing farmers to know when to sow their seed, when to transplant, when to harvest. As weather patterns become less reliable, growers will be tested to develop new rhythms and systems for growing crops.
Climate change is likely to impact different parts of the world in vastly different ways, climatologists and agronomists say. Scientists at a recent international conference in London reported that warming temperatures could lead to substantial harvest reductions in major food crops such as wheat, soy and rice. And for years the World Bank and others have been warning that climate change will be e
A. farmer’s ability to produce food.
B. the environment’s capacity to absorb pollution.
C. agricultural system’s capacity of innovation.
D. human’s ability to respond to emergency.