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Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.An office tower on Miller Street in Manchester is completely covered in solar panels. They are used to create some of the energy used by the insurance company inside. When the tower was first __1__ in 1962, it was covered with thin square stones. These small square stones became a problem for the building and continued to fall off the face for 40 years until a major renovation was __2__ . During this renovation the building's owners, CIS, __3__ the solar panel company, Solar century. They agreed to cover the entire building in solar panels. In 2004, the completed CIS tower became Europe's largest __4__ of vertical solar panels. A vertical solar project on such a large __5__ has never been repeated since.Covering a skyscraper with solar panels had never been done before, and the CIS tower was chosen as one of the "10 best green energy projects". For a long time after this renovation project, it was the tallest building in the United Kingdom, but it was __6__ overtaken by the Mill bank Tower.Green buildings like this aren't __7__ cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy __8__ through fossil fuels. As solar panels get __9__ , the world is likely to see more skyscrapers covered in solar panels, collecting energy much like trees do. Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of __10__ , but rather one to collect the most solar energy.A)cheaperB)cleanerC)collectionD)competedE)constructedF)consultedG) dimensionH)discoveredI)eventuallyJ)heightK)necessarilyL)productionM)rangeN)scaleO)undertaken

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Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Since the 1940s, southern California has had a reputation for smog. Things are not as bad as they once were but, according to the American Lung Association, Los Angeles is still the worst city in the United States for levels of __1__ . Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze (霾). Nor is the state's bad air __2__ to its south. Fresno, in the central valley, comes top of the list in America for year-round pollution. Residents' hearts and lungs are affected as a __3__ . All of which, combined with California's reputation as the home of technological __4__ , makes the place ideal for developing and testing systems designed to monitor pollution in __5__ . And that is just what Aclima, a new firm in San Francisco, has been doing over the past few months. It has been trying out monitoring stations that are __6__ to yield minute-to-minute maps of __7__ air pollution. Such stations will also be able to keep an eye on what is happening inside buildings, including offices.To this end, Aclima has been __8__ with Google's Street View system. Davida Herzl, Aclima's boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco's transit workers went on strike and the city's __9__ were forced to use their cars. Conversely, "cycle to work" days have done their job by __10__ pollution lows.A) assistedB)collaborating C)consequence D)consumersE)creatingF)detailG) domesticH)frequentlyI)inhabitantsJ)innovationK)intendedL)outdoorM)pollutantsN)restrictedO)sum

Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Millions die early from air pollution each year. Air pollution costs the global economy more than $5 trillion annually in welfare costs, with the most serious 1occurring in the developing world.The figures include a number of costs 2with air pollution. Lost income alone amounts to $225 billion a year.The report includes both indoor and outdoor air pollution. Indoor pollution, which includes 3like home heating and cooking, has remained 4over the past several decades despite advances in the area. Levels of outdoor pollution have grown rapidly along with rapid growth in industry and transportation.Director of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Chris Murray 5it as an “urgent call to action.” “One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little 6,”he said.The effects of air pollution are worst in the developing world, where in some places lost-labor income7nearly 1% of GDP. Around 9 in 10 people in low-and middle-income countries live in places where they‍8experience dangerous levels of outdoor air pollution.But the problem is not limited 9to the developing world. Thousands die prematurely in the U.S. as a result of related illnesses. In many European countries, where diesel(柴油) 10have become more common in recent years, that number reaches tens of thousands.

Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please fill the corresponding letter for each item in the blank.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Have you ever used email to apologize to a colleague? Delivered a 1 to a subordinate (下属) with a voice-mail message? Flown by plane across the country just to deliver important news in person? The various communication options at our fingertips today can be good for 2and productivity—and at the same time very troublesome. With so many ways to communicate, how should a manager choose the one that's best— 3when the message to be delivered is bad or unwelcome news for the recipient? We've 4business communication consultants and etiquette (礼仪) experts to come up with the following guidelines for 5using the alternative ways of delivering difficult messages.First of all, choose how personal you want to be. A face-to-face communication is the most 6.Other choices, in descending order of personalization, are: a real-time phone call, a voice-mail message, a handwritten note, a typewritten letter, and the most 7is email. Some of these may change order according to the 8 situation or your own preferences; for example, a handwritten note might seem more personal than voice-mail. How do you decide on the best choice for the difficult message you've got to deliver? “My 9 concern is: How can I soften or civilize this message?” says etiquette expert Dana Casperson. “So when I apologize, I usually choose in-person first, or a phone conversation as my top alternative, and maybe a handwritten note next. Apologizing by email is something I now totally10 .”

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