.阅读理解The United States of Americas is the most culturally diverse country in the world in terms of culture,religion,ethnicity and sexual orientation.A
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1、.阅读理解The United States of Americas is the most culturally diverse country in the world in terms of culture,religion,ethnicity and sexual orientation.As a combination of various races and cultures,America is home to all.The culture here is so unique that citizens can be just as proud of their original cultural heritage as they are to be Americans.What is now the US was initially inhabited by native people until the land was settled by various European groups and African slaves.Since the 20。
2、.阅读理解In Singapore,most of us love windowshopping while some others enjoy having a picnic at East Coast Park or Changi Beach on sunny days. Singaporeans are never bothered by the occasional thunderstorm.However,we know that if it rains for long continuous periods,there will be more serious effects.Just recently the main shopping street of Orchard Road was flooded and some part of Bukit Timah was impassable to traffic.People reacted by writing in to the newspaper to complain about this! W。
3、.阅读理解Five years ago, I went with my family to Aruba,a Caribbean island.We spent the first few days of our vacation on the beach and in the swimming pool.And then we went to a place called “The Love Tunnel”We didnt know anything about that place,but we found out there was a cave and people could walk through it.My mother was the first one to say that she didnt want to go in the cave.The people who were there gave us a lantern and told us to follow the signs to go through the cave.Nobody 。
4、.阅读理解AWhen Washington manicurist (美甲师) Lidia Schaefer returned to her native village in Ethiopia,she was troubled by what she saw: children walking three hours each day to attend classes held not in a school,but under a tree.When she learned in 1998 that one of the girls shed metMedhinehad been killed by a wild dog after falling behind other children during the long walk home from school,Schaefer knew she had to act.“That really pushed me to do it, ”she says, “to build a school so。
5、.阅读理解AFour common bad habits combinedsmoking,drinking too much,inactivity and poor dietcan age you by 12 years,sobering new research suggests.The findings are from a study that tracked nearly 5,000 British adults for 20 years,and they highlight yet another reason to adopt a healthier lifestyle.Overall,314 people studied had all four unhealthy behaviors.Among them,91 died during the study, or 29 percent.Among the 387 healthiest people with none of the four habits,only 32 died,or about 。
6、.阅读理解AWhen Allison Winn was eight and her family adopted a dog named Coco,they had no idea how much it would change her life.“Coco helped me feel better, ” says Allison,who was recovering from 14 months of treatment for brain cancer at the time.“She would stay close to me when I didnt want to play.”Allison loved Coco so much that she told her parents she wanted to help other sick kids find the same kind of comfort.She started small,raising money by selling drinks and homemade dog bis。
7、.阅读理解AFor years,the giant squid(大王乌贼) had remained a modern mystery.Living in the dark depths of the ocean,the creature is difficult for scientists to observe directly.It had also managed to avoid all attempts to film it.That changed last July:for the first time ever,scientists were able to catch the giant squid on video in its natural habitat.They were amazed by what they saw.The scientists filmed the squid in the North Pacific Ocean,south of Tokyo,Japan.They followed it down to a。
8、. 阅读理解For Alison Rollinson,picking out the best experiences from her volunteer work is a major challenge.“There are so many to choose from, ”said Rollinson,who has spent more than one year doing disaster volunteer work after Hurricane Katrina.“The best parts are having the opportunity to be in an environment where you can meet the needs of people and know that your time is being used in a good way, ”she said.After spending her first few months working as a volunteer,Rollinson was hi。
9、.阅读理解AThere are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art.Washington,D.C.has the National Gallery of Art;Paris has the Louvre;London has the British Museum.Florida International University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see.And it does so without a building,or even a wall for its drawings and paintings.FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States.You dont have to visit the university to see the art.You just need 。
10、.阅读理解ACompanies with female board members are more likely to make decisions that benefit everyone from investors to staff,a study showed.Business school researchers said the findings show that having women in the boardroom is not just good for equality but good for business,too.The study surveyed 600 board directors about their approaches to decision making and other company problems.It found that when there are conflicting interests,women board members tend to make fairer decisions than 。
11、.阅读理解AJellyfish have drifted along on ocean currents for millions of years,even before dinosaurs lived on the earth.They are common in cold and warm ocean water,in deep water,and along coastlines.Jellyfish have tiny cels in their tentacles(触手) to paralyze(麻痹) their prey before they eat them.There are many types of jellyfish in the ocean.These jellylike creatures move along on ocean currents.Inside their bellshaped body is an opening and that is their mouth.They eat and let off waste f。
12、. 阅读理解Mother managed to buy me some more paint brushes,along with one or two drawing books and a pencil.This,of course,broadened my range of expression and allowed me to have a greater choice of subjects.After the first few weeks of uncertainty and awkwardness,I settled down contentedly with my new pastime.I painted every day upstairs in the back bedroom,completely by myself.I was changing.I didnt know it then,but I had found a way to be happy again and to forget some of the things tha。
13、.阅读理解AIn the early days of sea travel,seamen on long voyages lived exclusively on salted meat and biscuits.Many of them died of scurvy,a disease of the blood which causes swollen gums,livid white spots on the flesh and general exhaustion.On one occasion,in 1535,an English ship arrived in Newfoundland with its crew desperately ill.The mens lives were saved by Iroquois Indians who gave them vegetable leaves to eat.Gradually it came to be realized that scurvy was caused by some lack in the。
14、.阅读理解What do you know about the sea? You may have seen it.Some of us have swum or bathed in it.It looks beautiful on a fine sunny day and it can be very rough when there is a strong wind.What other things do we know about it? Of course,the sea is very large.In the world there is more sea than land.The sea covers three quarters of the earth.The sea is also very deep in some places.It is not deep everywhere;some parts of it are very great.At one spot,near Japan the sea is nearly 11 kilometr。
15、.阅读理解AA recent announcement by scientists that they have successfully cloned the first human embryo has caused much debate and has shocked many people around the world.On the one hand,some scientists point out that if you clone an embryo,you can produce valuable tissues and organs that could be used to save human lives.On the other hand,many people,including some scientists,disagree and fear that if mankind interferes with nature in this way,they may be on their way to producing a real。
16、.阅读理解Authors Kyle Kurpinski and Terry DJohnson pretty much have me convinced that human cloning is quite possible and is a future certainty.Kurpinski and Johnson are both bioengineering experts; unlike similar scientists you have seen in the movies,they both have a sense of humor.What surprises me is that Kurpinski and Johnson are able to take something as complicated as DNA and make it understandable.The book How to Defeat Your Own Clone teaches us what is now known as DNAencode。
17、.阅读理解ALet me begin by saying what I think this crisis is not.It is not a financial crisis.It is a systemic crisis whose first serious symptom happened to be finance.But this crisis has its economic roots and its effects in manufacturing, services,and,to be sure,finance.It grows out of the relation of wages to profits across the economy.It has profound social roots in Americas households and families and political roots in government policies.The current crisis did not start with finance。
18、.阅读理解AHas it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients bedside?Not exactly,but some doctors have found a way to use a robot to check on patients while theyre miles from the hospital.One is at Baltimores Sinai Hospital.Equipped with cameras,a screen and microphone,the robot is guided into the rooms of Dr.Alex Gandsas patients where he speaks to them as if he were right there.“The system allows you to be anywhere in the hospital from anywhere in the world, ” s。
19、.阅读理解AA 1.6meter tall robot may soon become the best friend for lonely elderly people,as Chinese scientists are making the final sprint (冲刺) toward its market launch (投放),said a senior researcher on the robot project on Saturday.“We are working on testing the exact functions and ways to reduce the cost in preparations for an expected market launch of the robot in two to three years, ” said Li Ruifeng,a member of the project.He said the team hoped to reduce the cost so that the robo。
20、. 阅读理解TOKYOIf you grow old in Japan,you may expect to be served food by a robot,ride a voicerecognition wheelchair or even possibly hire a nurse in a robotic suitall examples of cuttingedge technology to care for the countrys rapidly graying population.With nearly 22 percent of Japans population already aged 65 or older,businesses here have been rolling out everything from easyentry cars to remotecontrolled beds,fueling a caretechnology market worth some $1.0。