第19关
BUT前面都是浮云——逻辑关系
【牛刀小试】
Practice 1
Last night’s meteor（流星）shower left many people in the community dissatisfied and demanding answers. According to Gabe Rothsclild, Emerald Valley’s mayor, people gathered in the suburbs of the city, carrying heavy telescopes, expecting to watch the brightly burning meteors passing through the sky. What they found instead was a sky so brightened by the city’s lights that it darkened the light of the meteors passing overhead.
It happened last night that ___.
A. the city’s lights affected the meteor watching B. the meteors flew past before being noticed
C. the city light show attracted many people D. the meteor watching ended up a social outing
Practice 2
Camping wild is a wonderful way to experience the natural world and, at its best, it makes little environmental influence. But with increasing numbers of people wanting to escape into the wilderness. It is becoming more and more important to camp unobtrusively（不引人注目地）and leave no mark.
Wild camping is not permitted in many places, particularly in crowded lowland Britain. Wherever you are, find out about organizations responsible for managing wild spaces, and contact them to find out their policy on camping and shelter building. For example, it is fine to camp wild in remote parts of Scotland, but in England you must ask the landowner’s permission, except in national parks.
You needn’t ask for permission when camping in ___.
A. national parks in England B. most parts of Scotland
C. crowded lowland Britain D. most parts of England
Practice 3
In 1978, I was 18 and was working as a nurse in a small town about 270 km away from Sydney, Australia. I was looking forward to having five days off from duty. Unfortunately, the only one train a day back to my home in Sydney had already left. So I thought I’d hitch a ride（搭便车）.
The author had to hitch a ride one day in 1978 because___.
A. her work delayed her trip to Sydney B. she was going home for her holidays
C. the town was far away from Sydney D. she missed the only train back home
【初露锋芒】
In today’s throw away society, dealing with the city’s growing mountain of waste is an increasing challenge for the city council（市议会）.
Recently, Edinburgh is faced with the problem of disposing of （处理）about 250,000 million tons of waste a year. Despite different ways to dispose of much of it in a green manner—largely through encouraging recycling—its aging facilities such as the Powderhall landfill do not have the ability to deal with it.
The European Union（EU）has issued a new policy, regulating how such mountains of waste are to be disposed of. The five councils（Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Midlothian and Borders）face fines around $18 million a year from 2013 if they don’t increase recycling levels and rely less on landfill. With this in mind, the councils got together with the idea of building a large incinerator plant（垃圾焚烧厂）to burn half of the waste produced in their districts. But the plan fell apart after the change of target levels by a new UK government waste policy which required that no more than 25% of the city’s waste should be disposed of in this way by 2025.
After the plan was abandoned, a private company which already transported millions of tons of the city’s waste by train to a landfill site near Dunbar, offered an alternative solution when it suggested opening a huge waste site near Portobello.
Since Powder hall is supposed to close in 2015, it seemed necessary for the members of the Edinburgh Council to accept the suggestion. But soon they turned it down—after 700 local objections reached them—because it would have meant hundreds of lorries a day making loud noise through heavily populated areas.
That still leaves the council with a problem. By 2013, only 50% of 1995 levels of waste will be allowed to be sent to landfill. Even if recycling targets are met, there will still be a large amount of rubbish to be burnt up. Due to this, Edinburgh and Midlothian councils have now decided to work together to build an incinerator plant as time to find a solution is fast running out.
1. The main way of handling waste in a green manner in Edinburgh is ___.
A. recycling B. restoring C. burying D. burning
2. The five councils worked out a plan to build an incinerator plant to ___.
A. reduce the cost of burying waste B. meet the EU requirements
C. speed up waste recycling D. replace landfill sites
3. The city council of Edinburgh rejected the suggestion to open a huge landfill site near Portobello because ___.
A. it came from a private company B. the council was not interested in it
C. it was not supported by EU D. the local people were against it
4. What is the final decision of Edinburgh and Midlothian Councils?
A. To open a new landfill nearby. B. To close the powder hall landfill in 2015.
C. To set up a plan for burning waste. D. To persuade people to reduce their waste.
第20关
女孩的心思男孩你别猜——猜词与指代
【解题点拨】
指代——指代前面的名词。
猜词——依据上下文，具体可以通过对比、定义、描述、概括及近义词提示等确定意思。
【牛刀小试】
Practice 1
The advanced EP also heats the room evenly, wall to wall and floor to ceiling. It comfortably covers an area up to 350 square feet. Other heaters heat rooms unevenly with most of the heat concentrated to the center of the room. And they only heat an area a few feet around the heater. With the EP, the temperature will not vary in any part of the room.
The underlined word “evenly” probably means ___.
A. continuously B. separately C. quickly D. equally
Practice 2
When I was 12, all I wanted was a signet（图章）ring. They were the “in” thing and it seemed every girl except me had one. On my 13th birthday, my Mum gave me a signet ring with my initials（姓名首字母）carved into it. I was in heaven.
The underlined word “in” probably means “___”.
A. fashionable B. available C. practical D. renewable
Practice 3
The light from the campfire brightened the darkness, but it could not prevent the damp cold of Dennis’s Swamp（沼泽地）creeping into their bones. It was a strange place. Martin and Tom wished that they had not accepted Jack’s dare. They liked camping, but not near this swamp.
The underlined word “dare” is closed in meaning to ___.
A. courage B. assistance C. instruction D. challenge
Practice 4
On a stormy day last August, Tim heard some shouting. Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea.
Two 12-year-old boys, Christian and Jack, rowed out a boat to search a football. Once they’d rowed beyond the calm waters, a beach umbrella tied to the boat caught the wind and pulled the boat into open water. The pair panicked and tried to row back to shore. But they were no match for it and the boat was out of control.
What does “it” refer to?
A. The beach. B. The water. C. The boat. D. The wind.
Practice 5
However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.
The underlined word “that” refers to___.
A. being good at something B. setting a practical goal
C. putting in more time D. succeeding in life
Practice 6
Stay away from the Station
If traveling to your destination by train, you may want to find a good base close to the station, but you could end up paying more for the sake of convenience at the start of your holiday.
Don’t be too choosy about the part of town you stay in. Booking two months in advance, the cheapest room at Travelodge’s Central Euston hotel in London for Saturday 22 September was £95.95. A room just a tube journey away at its Covent Garden hotel was £75.75. And at Farringdon, a double room cost just £62.95.
“Farringdon” is most probably ___.
A. a hotel away from the train station B. the tube line to Covent Garden
C. an ideal holiday destination D. the name of a travel agency
Practice 7
Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as “bracketing”. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.
The phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” probably means ___.
A. preparing a topic list first B. focusing on one’s own mind
C. directing the talk to the desired results D. experiencing the speaker’s inside world
Practice 8
My son could not follow the teacher’s directions, he told me, and thus, Scola was disrupting the class. Didn’t he know my son did not speak English yet?
What does the underlined word “disrupting” probably mean?
A. Breaking. B. Following. C. Attending. D. Disturbing.
Practice 9
“People are ruder today because they are rushed and more ‘time poor’ than ever before,” says Patsy Rowe, “Manners have fallen off the radar（雷达）.” Due to our strong attraction to electronic equipment, it is a wonder more people don’t wake up each morning and greet the singing birds with a complaint（抱怨）about the noise. Here are some examples of rudeness.
What can be inferred from the underlined sentence?
A. People can tell good from bad behavior. B. Radar is able to observe human behavior.
C. People care little about their behavior. D. Radar can be used to predict human behavior.
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