(2013·江西，D)
One might expect that the evergrowing demands of the tourist trade would bring nothing but good for the countries that receive the holidaymakers. Indeed, a rosy picture is painted for the longterm future of the holiday industry. Every month sees the building of a new hotel somewhere. And every month another rockbound Pacific island is advertised as the ‘last paradise (天堂) on earth’.
However, the scale and speed of this growth seem set to destroy the very things tourists want to enjoy. In those countries where there was a rush to make quick money out of seaside holidays, overcrowded beaches and the concrete jungles of endless hotels have begun to lose their appeal.
Those countries with little experience of tourism can suffer most. In recent years, Nepal set out to attract foreign visitors to fund developments in health and education. Its forests, full of wildlife and rare flowers, were offered to tourists as one more untouched paradise. In fact, the nature all too soon felt the effects of thousands of holidaymakers traveling through the forest land. Ancient tracks became major routes for the walkers, with the consequent exploitation of precious trees and plants.
Not only can the environment of a country suffer from the sudden growth of tourism. The people as well rapidly feel its effects. Farmland makes way for hotels, roads and airports; the old way of life goes. The onetime farmer is now the servant of some multinational organization; he is no longer his own master. Once it was his back that bore the pain; now it is his smile that is exploited. No doubt he wonders whether he wasn't happier in his village working his own land.
Thankfully, the tourist industry is waking up to the responsibilities it has towards those countries that receive its customers. The protection of wildlife and the creation of national parks go hand in hand with tourist development and in fact obtain financial support from tourist companies. At the same time, tourists are being encouraged to respect not only the countryside they visit but also its people.
The way tourism is handled in the next ten years will decide its fate and that of the countries we all want to visit. Their needs and problems are more important than those of the tourist companies. Increased understanding in planning worldwide tourism can preserve the market for these companies. If not, in a few years' time the very things that attract tourists now may well have been destroyed.
What does the author indicate in the last sentence of Paragraph 1?
| A．The Pacific island is a paradise. |
| B．The Pacific island is worth visiting. |
| C．The advertisement is not convincing. |
| D．The advertisement is not impressive. |
The example of Nepal is used to suggest ________.
| A．its natural resources are untouched |
| B．its forests are exploited for farmland |
| C．it develops well in health and education |
| D．it suffers from the heavy flow of tourists |
What can we learn about the farmers from Paragraph 4?
| A．They are happy to work their own lands. |
| B．They have to please the tourists for a living. |
| C．They have to struggle for their independence. |
| D．They are proud of working in multinational organizations. |
Which of the following determines the future of tourism?
| A．The number of tourists. |
| B．The improvement of services. |
| C．The promotion of new products. |
| D．The management of tourism. |
The author's attitude towards the development of the tourist industry is ________.
| A．optimistic | B．doubtful |
| C．objective | D．negative |
Making email easier is a task that several applications and email customers have tried and failed at SaneBox, like many add-ons, aims to make your digital life easier without forcing you to change your email platform.
To be sure, you can apply various priority (优先处理) classes and groupings using SaneBox. What really makes SaneBox worth checking out is its ability to ensure unimportant and low-priority emails don’t take up even a second of your day.
When you apply SaneBox to your email client (客户端), it spends a good deal of time scanning your entire inbox, including ones you’ve already read. This helps the add-on determine which emails are most important to you. From then on you’ll only see emails that SaneBox determines are must-reads, with all others falling into a “Later” folder which you can read at your spare time.
Each day --- or however often you want it --- SaneBox will produce a report of all the low-priority emails it has collected for you, like a secretary gathering all the odds and ends for a short daily report. If you find an important email has been flagged as low-priority, you can adjust the settings so it never happens again.
SaneBox works with all IMAP, WebDAV and OWA email customers including Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, MS Exchange and others. The program also supports OS X’s Mail customers, though it requires a bit of adjusting POP-only email services are not supported.
You can try out SaneBox for two weeks with no charge and after that point 3 options of subscriptions (订阅) are available, ranging from US$2 to $20 per month.What does the underlined word “add-ons” most probably mean?
| A．Extra programmes. | B．Email-boxes. |
| C．Additional machines. | D．Other email clients. |
The most important function of SaneBox is ________.
| A．to clear your mail box when it is full |
| B．to scan your inbox faster than others |
| C．to classify your emails to your preference |
| D．to gather all the odds and ends for you |
If an important email falls into the wrong collection, you can correct it ________.
| A．by putting it aside |
| B．by changing the settings |
| C．by flagging it as low-priority |
| D．by adding the right information |
What is the main purpose of this passage?
| A．To promote SaneBox. |
| B．To explain how to use SaneBox. |
| C．To compare email clients. |
| D．To introduce new email platforms. |
Sweetest Day in America is always the third Saturday in October. This holiday is much more important in some regions than in others (Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo being the biggest Sweetest Day cities). It is a holiday that is gaining in popularity every year throughout the country.
Sweetest Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in October as a day to make someone happy. It is an occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember not only the sick, aged, and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and associates whose helpfulness and kindness we have enjoyed.
Over 60 years ago, a man in Cleveland, believing that the city’s orphans and shut-ins (卧病在床的人) too often felt forgotten and neglected, thought of the idea of showing them that they were remembered. He did this through the distribution of small gifts. With the help of his friends and neighbors, he distributed these small remembrances on a Saturday in October. During the years that followed, other Clevelanders began to participate in the celebration ceremony, which came to be called “Sweetest Day”. In time, the Sweetest Day idea of spreading cheer to the underprivileged was broadened to include everyone, and became an occasion for remembering others with a kind act or a small remembrance. And soon the idea spread to other cities all over the country.
Sweetest Day is not based on any single group’s religious affection or on a family relationship. It is a reminder that a thoughtful word or deed enriches life and gives it meaning.
Because for many people remembering takes the form of gift-giving, Sweetest Day offers us the opportunity to show others that we care, in a practical way.We can learn from the first paragraph that Sweetest Day is ________.
A. sometimes the third Saturday in October
B. hardly celebrated in Detroit
C. of equal importance in every part of the USA.
D. getting increasingly popular in the USASweetest Day was originally intended to remember ________.
| A．the young and disabled | B．friends and relatives |
| C．orphans and shut-ins | D．the sick and aged |
We can infer from the passage that the birthplace of Sweetest Day is ________.
| A．Detroit | B．Cleveland |
| C．Buffalo | D．Washington |
Now on Sweetest Day gifts are given to those ________.
| A．we care | B．we admire |
| C．in need of help | D．in trouble |
Almost every person has a sweet tooth. Even if you love sugar really much it is now time to learn a very important but also very little known truth regarding sugar. Sugar really has no benefits for your health and the only actual benefits from it are that it sweetens your taste buds and satisfies your sweet tooth. Sugar is not a natural substance and is produced through a special industrial process called refining(炼制) the sugar cane. Sugar cane has a lot of health benefits but in the refining process it loses all its vitamins, proteins, minerals and other nutrients which are essential. Therefore, you end up consuming empty calories only. Moreover, your body gets all the sugar it needs from the consumption of regular food such as bread, vegetables, fruits and so on. No added sugar is really needed. However, most people love sugar and simply feel like they need to eat food high in sugar.
The latest researches show that the recommended intake of sugar which is healthy for your body on daily bases for children, men and women is as follows:
·children-- 12 grams, which equals 3 teaspoons;
·men-- 36 grams, which equals 9 teaspoons;
·women-- 20 grams, which equals 5 teaspoons.
The sugar intake when it comes to diabetics(糖尿病人)is a lot different based on the type of diabetes. It is best to consult your doctor in order to find out about your personal requirements for the intake of sugar before you follow the guidelines mentioned earlier.
When we speak about the recommended daily intake of sugar, it does not mean only simple sugars that we consume in the form of desserts and sodas but also sugars that come from complex carbohydrates and also fruit. You should not exclude all of the sugar from your diet but you should make up for all the extra sugar you eat by exercising. It is not really simple to calculate your sugar intake but you can still control it if you try and you can also get a bigger amount of exercise in order to regulate the sugar amount that is being taken in and then digested by your body.The passage mainly talks about__________
| A．the benefits and harm of taking in sugar |
| B．the process of refining the sugar cane |
| C．the causes of different types of diabetes |
| D．the proper intake of sugar for different people |
The underlined phrase “has a sweet tooth” means__________.
| A．has tooth problems | B．prefers sweet food |
| C．has a sweet mouth | D．is always lying |
Which of the following statements is true?
| A．Sugar cane has no benefits to physical health. |
| B．We also take in sugar from fruit and food |
| C．The recommended intake of sugar applies to all. |
| D．Many people know about the proper intake of sugar. |
As for diabetics, __________.
| A．they can never take in any sugar in their diet |
| B．they can take in no more than 20 gram of sugar every day |
| C．they needn’t ask their doctors for advice about their diet |
| D．the sugar intake varies depending on the type of diabetes |
Taking a picture of your tongue with a mobile phone could soon instantly tell you how healthy you are.
Researchers believe the images could reveal important information about a patient’s health—and even give them early warning of serious illness. A team at the University of Missouri is developing a system that can analyze pictures using a 5,000-year-old Chinese principle. It is based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body, and uses the tongue as a key to the physical health, or “zheng”, of a person. “Within a year, our ultimate goal is to create an application for smartphones that will allow anyone to take a photo of their tongue and learn the status of their zheng.”
The software analyses images based on the tongue’s color and coating to distinguish between tongues showing signs of ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ zheng. Shades of red and yellow are associated with hot zheng, whereas a white coating on the tongue is a sign of cold zheng. “Hot and cold zheng doesn’t refer directly to body temperature,” said Xu, “Rather, it refers to a series of symptoms associated with the state of the body as a whole.”
For the study, 263 gastritis(胃炎) patients and 48 healthy volunteers had their tongues analyzed. The gastritis patients were classified by whether they showed infection by a certain bacteria, known as Helicobacter pylori(幽门螺旋杆菌), as well as the intensity of their gastritis symptoms. In addition, most of the gastritis patients had been previously classified with either hot or cold zheng.
This allowed the researchers to prove the accuracy of the software’s analysis.
“Our software was able to classify people based on their zheng status,” said study co-author Ye Duan, associate professor of computer science at MU.
“As we continue to work on the software we hope to improve its ability,” Duan said. “Eventually everyone will be able to use this tool at home using webcams or smartphone applications”.
“That will allow them to monitor their zheng and get an early warning about possible ailments.”According to Chinese medicine, zheng refers to__________.
| A．the color and coating of one’s tongue |
| B．one’s body temperature |
| C．the physical health of a person |
| D．the possible illness of a person |
The study led by Dong Xu proves__________.
| A．the greatness of Chinese medicine |
| B．the effects of the software |
| C．the software’s great prospect |
| D．the advancement of smart phones |
The underlined word “ailments” can be replaced by__________.
| A．analysis | B．illnesses |
| C．effects | D．applications |
It can be inferred from the passage that__________.
| A．the software still needs improvement |
| B．the software has been in market for a year |
| C．the subjects in the study are all gastritis patients |
| D．the subjects in the study are classified by age |
English is fast becoming the only language of a new generation of educated Arabs.
This isn't a good thing for the region or the rest of the world. The journalism school at the AUD(迪拜美国大学)is the only modern program in the Middle East that allows students to study in Arabic. Still, many students arrive with poorly written Arabic and the formal spoken language and require refresher Arabic language courses.
Literacy(识字能力) in the Gulf States is 98%, according to UNESCO. But that literacy is increasingly in English, not Arabic.
This English bias(偏爱) starts early, with children in private "model" schools in the United Arab Emirates studying all their subjects, including math and science, in English. But the trend appears to be taking hold regionwide. In Saudi Arabia, many upper-middle-class families speak English at home -- not just at work .
One Arabic official told me his own children do not speak Arabic fluently. He said he put them in English schools to help ensure they'd have great career prospects. But now he says he regrets that his children don't feel comfortable speaking the language of their forefathers.
Why is there the anxiety among these elites? I am continually told that what I've experienced anecdotally is true: The wealthier the family, the less likely its members speak Arabic at home. If people in the same country don't speak the same language, how can they work across class lines to solve the problems of high unemployment that affect even oil-rich Saudi Arabia?
For executives(行政主管) trying to build local businesses, the English bias is a challenge. The dean of the AUD's school of journalism, Ali Al Jaber, told me, "If you can't address your own people, then you can't be successful."
Sure, English is the world's business language. More Chinese are learning English right now than there are Americans in the U.S. But China has struck a bilingual balance. Its research universities teach some of the world's brightest minds in Chinese. Professor Wardeh finds much for Arab nations to admire in this model.The passage mainly tells us_____________.
| A．English is the world’s business language |
| B．the English bias in Saudi Arabia |
| C．the school education in Saudi Arabia |
| D．the bilingual balance in China |
Many Arabic parents prefer their children to speak English because__________.
| A．they think it’s a symbol of class |
| B．English is the world’s business language |
| C．they consider Arabic hard to learn |
| D．they believe it’s an advantage in their future careers |
The underlined phrase “this model” refers to__________
| A．the education system in China |
| B．the popularity of English in Saudi Arabia |
| C．to popularize English in upper-class families |
| D．to improve literacy in Arabic countries |
We can know from the passage that__________.
| A．the popularity of English in Saudi Arabia is a good thing |
| B．there is no problem of unemployment in Saudi Arabia |
| C．the poor in Saudi Arabia are more likely to speak Arabic |
| D．the English bias doesn’t affect the local business |