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回答题<br>Spoilt for Choice<br>Some research which was recently carried out in Britain has confirmed what many ordinary shoppers have suspected for quite a long time. Having a _____(51)selection of goods to choose from is not necessarily a _____(52)to consumers. The average supermarket in Britain has around 40,000 different products on sale at any one time and if you"re _____(53)of buying a car, then there are actually around 1,600 different _____(54)on the market.<br>In one sense, choice is a good thing because it _____(55)use to buy those products which best suit our needs. But choice can also _____(56)something of a problem. With over 400brands of shampoo on the market, how does the consumer _____(57)hold of the information necessary to choose between them?For some people the solution is to buy only well-known brands, whilst others are happy to be _____(58)by advertising. There is evidence, _____(59), that for some people the _____(60)of choice available to them in Britain"s consumer society is actually a _____(61)of anxiety and stress. One man interviewed by the researchers admitted that he had _____(62)out to buy his girlfriend a mobile phone for her birthday, but was so _____(63)by the number of different types on offer in the shop that he _____(64)up and decided to buy her a bundle(束)of flowers _____(65)!<br>_____ 查看材料

A. deep
B. wide
C. long
D. tall

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请根据短文内容,回答题。<br>Earth Angels<br>(1) Joying Brescia was 8 years old when she noticed that cigarette butts (烟头) were littering her hometown beach in Isle of Palms, South Carolina. When she learned that it takes five years for the remains of a cigarette to disintegrate, she decided to take action. Joying launched a "No Butts on the Beach" campaign. She raised money and awareness about the need to keep the beaches clean. With the help of others, Joying also bought or received donations of gallon-size plastic ice-cream buckets. The buckets were filled with sand and placed at all public-access areas of the beach. The buckets allowed people to dispose of their cigarettes before hitting .the beach. Two years later. Joying says the buckets are full and the beach is nearly free of cigarette debris (残片).<br>(2) People who live in or visit Steamboat Springs, Colorado have Carter Dunham to thank for a new state wildlife refuge that preserves 20 acres of marshland and many species of wildlife.<br>Carter and other students wrote a management plan for the area around the Yampa River. The plan was part of a class project when Carter was a freshman at Steamboat Springs High School. Working with the Colorado Division of Wildlife, Carter and his classmates mapped the area and species of animals living there. They also made decisions about, among other things, where fences and parking areas should be built.<br>(3) Barbara Brown and her friends collect oil. It started as a project for their 4H Club after one of the girls noticed her father using motor oil to kill weeds on their farm in Victoria, Texas. They did some research and discovered that oil can contaminate ground water, a real danger in rural areas, where people live off the water on their land. The girls researched ways to recycle oil and worked with a local oil-recycling company on the issue. Now, the "Don&39;t Be Crude" program runs oil collection sites--tanks that hold up to 460 gallons--where people in the community can dispose of their oil.<br>(4) Five years ago, 11-year-old Ryan Hreljac was a little boy with a big dream: for all the people in Africa to have clean drinking water. His dream began in the first grade when he learned that people were dying because they didn&39;t have clean water, and that as little as $70 could build a well. "We really take water for granted," says Ryan, of Kemptville, Ontario, in Canada. "In other countries, you have to plan for it." Ryan eamed the first $70 by doing extra chores (零工) , but with the help of others, he has since raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.<br>(5) His efforts led to the start of the Ryan&39;s Well Foundation, which raises money for clean water and health-related services for people in African countries and developing countries.<br>Paragraph 1 __________ 查看材料

A. Provide clean water
B. Dig oil wells
C. Save clean water
Don"t litter
E. Don"t be crude
F. Protect wildlife

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请根据短文内容,回答题。<br>Spacing in Animals Flight Distance<br>Any observant person has noticed that a wild animal will allow a man or other potential enemy to approach only up to a given distance before it flees. "Flight distance" is the terms used for this interspecies spacing. As a general rule, there is a positive relationship between the size of an animal and its flight distance- the larger the animal, the greater the distance it must keep between itself and the enemy. An antelope will flee when the enemy is as much as five hundred yards away. The wall lizard&39;s flight distance, on the other hand is about six feet. Flight is the basic means of survival for mobile creatures.<br>Critical Distance Critical distance apparently is present wherever and whenever there is a flight reaction.<br>"Critical distance" includes the narrow zone separating flight distance from attack distance. A lion in a zoo will flee from an approaching man until it meets a barrier that it cannot overcome. If the man continues the approach, he soon penetrates the lion&39;s critical distance, at which point the cornered lion reverses direction and begins slowly to stalk the man.<br>Social Distance Social animals need to stay in touch with each other. Loss of contact with the group can be fatal for a variety of reasons including exposure to enemies. Social distance is not simply the distance at which an animal will lose contact with his group -- that is, the distance at which it can no longer see, hear, or smell the group- it is rather a psychological distance, one at which the animal apparently begins to feel anxious when he exceeds its limits. We can think of it as a hidden band that contains the group.<br>Social distance varies from species to species. It is quite short--apparently only a few yards--among some animals, and quite long among others.<br>Social distance is not always rigidly fixed but is determined in part by the situation. When the young of apes and humans are mobile but not yet under control of the mother&39;s voice, social distance may be the length of her reach. This is readily observed among the baboons in a zoo.<br>When the baby approaches a certain point, the mother reaches out to seize the end of its tail and pull it back to her. When added control is needed because of danger, social distance shrinks. To show this in man, one has only to watch a family with a number of small children holding hands as they cross a busy street.<br>Which of the following is the most appropriate definition of Flight Distance? 查看材料

A. Distance between animals of the same species before fleeing
B. Distance between large and small animals before fleeing
C. Distance between an animal and its enemy before fleeing
Distance between certain animal species before fleeing

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请根据短文内容,回答题。<br>Eruptions of Mount Saint Helens<br>On March 27, the US Government scientists made a decision after they predicted the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. They telephoned all state and local officials in the area and told them that a serious eruption was possible at any time. Roads were closed to every one except scientists and forest keepers struggled to keep curious visitors away from the mountain.<br>Shortly afternoon on March 27, Mount Saint Helens erupted for the first time in 123 years.<br>People living north of the mountain heard a loud boom that shook their windows, and airline pilots flying near the volcano soon afterwards described a thick black column of ash and steam shooting more than 2,100 meters into the sky.<br>Later, scientists found that the explosion had made a new crater (大坑) in the top of the mountain, not far from the old crater. The north side of the peak now had a huge bulge (凸出部分)where rock and ice had been pushed out by the eruption.<br>A second eruption shook the mountain on March 28. It, too, sent up a column of black ash high into the sky. By March 29, scientists flying over the mountain saw that a second crater formed about 9 meters from the first one. Strange blue flames flickered (闪烁) inside the crater and sometimes jumped from one crater to the other.<br>By April the mountain had erupted several more times and the snow on the north slope of the peak was black with ash. Ash carried by the wind had fallen on towns as far as 240 kilometers away from Mount Saint Helens.<br>During the first week of April, Mount Saint Helens gave scientists something new to worry about: harmonic tremors (振动) recorded by scientists showed a big eruption would happen. All during April and into May Mount Saint Helens continued to shudder (振动 ) and shoot out ash. By April 8, two craters had merged to from a vast hole nearly a half of a kilometer wide and 250 meters deep.<br>Scientists&39; main worry during this time was the growing bulge of rock and ice on. the north face of the mountain. By May 7 scientists feared the worst. Their warnings led Washington Governor to set up safety zones around the mountain. The inner "red" zone was open to scientists only. The outer "blue" zone was open only to people who got special permits. But in spite of these warnings, some people got past the road barriers and risked their lives trying to get close to the volcano.<br>American scientists predicted that Mount Saint Helens was to erupt soon. 查看材料

A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

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请根据短文内容,回答题。<br>Generation M (多媒体的一代)<br>Being able to multitask is considered by most people as a welcome skill, but not according to a recent study which claims that young people between the ages of eight and eighteen of the so-called Generation M are spending a considerable amount of their time in fruitless efforts as they multitask. It argues that, in fact, these young people are wasting away as much as half of their time again as they would if they performed the very same tasks one after the other.<br><br>Some young people are juggling an ever larger number of electronic devices as they study. At the same time that they are working, young adults are also surfing on the lnternet, or sending out emails to their friends, and / or answering the telephone and listening to music on their iPods or on another computer. As some new device comes along, it too is added to the list rather than replacing one of the existing devices.<br><br>Other research has indicated that this multitasking is even affecting the way families themselves function as young people are too wrapped up in their own isolated (孤立的,隔绝的 )worlds to interact with the other people around them. They can no longer greet family members when they enter the house nor can they eat at the family table.<br><br>All this electronic wizardry (魔力,法术 ) is also seriously affecting young people&39;s performance at university and in the workplace. When asked about their perception (看法,见解 )of the impact of modem gadgets (小巧的机械装置 ) on their performance of tasks, the overwhelming majority of young people gave a favourable response.<br><br>The response from the academic and business worlds was not quite as positive. The former feel that multitasking with electronic gadgets by children affects later development of study skills, resulting in a decline in the quality of writing, for example, because of the lack of concentration on task completion. They feel that many undergraduates now urgently need remedial (补救的) help with study skills. Similarly, employers feel that young people entering the workforce need to be taught all over again, as they have become deskilled (失去技能) .<br><br>While all this may be true, it must be bome in mind that more and more is expected of young people nowadays; in fact, too much. Praise rather than criticism is due in respect of the way today&39;s youth are able to cope despite what the older generation throw at them.<br>According to a recent study, what is probably true about the multitasking Generation M? 查看材料

A. They are highly commended for being so effective and efficient
B. They waste more time than they should save, contrary to common assumptions
C. They should prioritize and focus on the most important tasks on hand
D. They need to improve their organizational skills so as to complete all their tasks

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