阅读理解A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own A) Getting around a city is one thing and then theres the matter of getting from one city to another

阅读理解 A petition to save Arlington County's David M. Brown Planetarium is 800 signatures strong and there are more than 3,000 fans on the related Facebook page, but the facility is still cut from the proposed school's budget. 'There are a couple of weeks before the public school's budget is final,' said James Gartner, a member of the organization working to save the 40-year-old planetarium before the April 29 cutoff date. Patrick K. Murphy, Arlington school's superintendent, said during remarks updating his budget figures last week that school officials are 'in a dialogue' with planetarium supporters. 'I would encourage us to continue to keep this dialogue open, evaluate positions...and think about a window of time ranging anywhere from 12 to 18 months to see whether the community can raise enough money to keep the institution open,' Murphy said. The planetarium's $230,000 operating budget is cut from the proposed fiscal 2011 budget because the facility is outdated and requires about $500,000 in upgrades. School officials have said the money is needed elsewhere in the system. Gartner said a core group of supporters is becoming a nonprofit, but he fears that without the School Board's support, the planetarium could still be closed by July. 'If we don't get that other year, we believe any fundraising activities would be sabotaged if the planetarium is already closed,' he said. Last week, the School Board presented the Arlington County Board with a $439.8 million budget, $2.3 million less than what Murphy proposed in February, primarily because of less state funding. The new budget figures include several English as a second language specialists who were previously cut, thanks to updated student enrollment numbers and adjustments made by the state to the required retirement accounts for school employees. 'School-based substitutes, many transportation cuts and higher sports fees also were reinstated,' Murphy said. Students and teachers from the Langston and Arlington Mill continuing education programs spoke at the board's meeting last week requesting no changes to the programs. 'The system has proposed to reduce the continuing education teachers' salaries by 17 percent, add days to their school year and cut instructional time so the program is more consistent with high school schedules. The adjustments allowed all of the teachers to keep their jobs and put the program in a better position for future initiatives,' said Betty E. Hobbs, assistant superintendent of personnel.

阅读理解Passage 1 Since 1992, the U

阅读理解Section 2 Directions: There is I passage in this section. Read the passage and complete the outline below it(No.46 to No. 50) You should write your answers briefly (in no more than three words) on the Answer Sheet correspondingly. Booster Seats(幼儿保护座椅) are more than a good idea. It is the law. Until children are 8 years old or 4.9 feet tall, they can be too big for a child car seat but too small for a safety belt. A booster seat makes safety belts fit properly and reduces the risk of injury in a crash. Which seat should I use? Either a proper-fitting child safety seal or booster seat installed (安装) correctly will meet the requirements of Michigan's new law for children under the age of 8 or not yet 4.9 feet tall. This includes using a booster seat with both a lap (膝部) and shoulder belt. Where do I get a booster seat, and how much do they cost? Booster seats are available at many stores. They cost between $15 and $100 depending on the style. Important: All booster seats are safest when used in the back seat and with both the car's lap and shoulder belt. Never use a lap belt only.  Booster Seats Purposes: used for children under 46_______ or 4.9 feet tall Advantages: 1. making safety belts fit properly 2. reducing the risk of 47_______ in a crash Places to buy: available at 48_______  Prices: between 49________  Proper way of use: with both a lap and 50_______ belt 

阅读理解 For many environmentalists, all human influence on the planet is bad. Many natural scientists implicitly share this outlook. This is not unscientific, but it can create the impression that greens and environmental scientists are authoritarian tree-huggers who value nature above people. That doesn't play well with mainstream society, as the apparent backlash against climate scientist revels. Environmentalists need to find a new story to tell. Like it nor not, we now live in the antropocent (人类世)—an age in which humans are perturbing many of the planet's natural systems, from the water to the acidity of the oceans. We cannot wish that away we must recognize it and manage our impacts. Johan Rockstrom, head of the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden, and colleagues have distilled recent research on how Earth systems work into a list of nine 'planetary boundaries' that we must stay within to live sustainably. It is preliminary work, and many will disagree with where the boundaries are set. But the point is to offer a new way of thinking about our relationship with the environment—a science-based picture that accepts a certain level of human impact and even allow us some room to expand. The result is a breath of fresh air: though we are already well past three of the boundaries, we haven't trashed the place yet. It is in the same spirit that we also probe the basis for key claims in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report on climate impacts. This report has been much discussed since our revelations about its unsubstantiated statement on melting Himalayan glaciers. Why return to the topic? Because there is a sense that the IPCC shares the same anti-human agenda and, as a result, is too dangerous of unverified numbers. While the majority of the report is assuredly rigorous, there is no escaping the fact that parts of it make claims that go beyond the science. Above all, we need a dispassionate view of the state of the planet and our likely future impact on it. There is no room for complacency: Rockstrom's analysis shows us that we face real dangers, but exaggerating our problems is not the way to solve them.

阅读理解Is it possible that the ideas we have today about ownership and property rights have been so universal in the human mind that it is truly as if they had sprung from the mind of God? By no means. The idea of owning and property emerged in the mists of unrecorded history. The ancient Jews, for one, had a very different outlook on property and ownership, viewing it as something much more temporary and tentative than we do. 　　The ideas we have in America about the private ownership of productive property as a natural and universal right of mankind, perhaps of divine origin, are by no means universal and must be viewed as an invention of man rather than a decree (order) of God. Of course, we are completely trained to accept the idea of ownership of the earth and its products, raw and transformed. It seems not at all strange; in fact, it is quite difficult to imagine a society without such arrangements. If someone, some individual, didn''t own that plot of land, that house, that factory, that machine, that tower of wheat, how would we function? What would the rules be? Whom would we buy from and how would we sell? 　　It is important to acknowledge a significant difference between achieving ownership simply by taking or claiming property and owning what we tend to call the "fruit of labor". If I, alone or together with my family, work on the land and raise crops, or if I make something useful out of natural material, it seems reasonable and fair to claim that the crops or the objects belong to me or my family, are my property, at least in the sense that I have first claim on them. Hardly anyone would dispute that. In fact, some of the early radical workingmen''s movements made (an ownership) claim on those very grounds. As industrial organization became more complex, however, such issues became vastly more intricate, It must be clear that in modern society the social heritage of knowledge and technology and the social organization of manufacture and exchange account for far more of the productivity of industry and the value of what is produced than can be accounted for by the labor of any number of individuals. Hardly any person can now point and say, "That--that right there--is the fruit of my labor. "We can say, as a society, as a nation--as a world, really--that what is produced is the fruit of our labor, the product of the whole society as a collectivity. 　　We have to recognize that the right of private individual ownership of property is man-made and constantly dependent on the extent to which those without property believe that the owner can make his claim stick.

阅读理解Passage 2  Being your own boss is the dream of most people, but it comes with a price. Since you do not have to answer to someone else, you have to be responsible for your own business. In this sense, the business becomes the new boss. Here are some tips for you to observe. Work-life balance: Staring a business will consume a lot of time and energy. Not letting the business prevent you from having personal time is a challenge. The failure to manage a work-life balance can lead to health problems and lost relationships with family and friends. Making decisions: Since you are the owner, you have the final decision. This can be a tough challenge because you know that you alone have to bear the consequences of your decisions. Self-doubt and criticism: In the beginning, customers and competitors will not take you seriously. Everyone will be quick to share their opinions on what you are doing wrong and why it will not work.  With all this, self-doubt will start to occur. Maybe they are all right. Maybe starting this business was a bad ideA、If you have done your homework, this is the moment to overcome the fear of failure and have the confidence in yourself to keep going. According to the first paragraph. being your own boss means that you should _______. 

阅读理解Passage A These days we hear a lot of nonsense about the great classless society‟

阅读理解When a tsunami happens,the best course of action for people is to_______ .

阅读理解Passage One A 3-year-old boy who was lost in the woods for two days is now safe at home

阅读理解 When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up. Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company.” Broadcasting his ambition was “very much my decision,” McGee says. Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29. McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run. It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his aspirations. And McGee isn't alone. In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post. As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don't get the nod also may wish to move on. A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations. As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net. In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research. As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders. The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional. For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached. Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey:” I can't think of a single search I've done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.” Those who jumped without a job haven't always landed in top positions quickly. Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO. It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange. Robert Willumstad left Citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO. He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later. Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers. The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one. “The traditional rule was it's safer to stay where you are, but that's been fundamentally inverted,” says one headhunter. “The people who've been hurt the worst are those who've stayed too long.”

阅读理解Passage 4 may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged, and other problems may be solved if human cloning and its technology are not forbidden. With cloning, infertile couples could have children. Current treatments for infertility, in terms of percentages, are not very successfully. Couples go through physically and emotionally painful procedures for a small chance of having children. Many couples run out of time and money without successfully having children. Human cloning could make it possible for many more infertile couples to have children than ever before. We should be able to clone the bone marrow for children and adults suffering from leukemia This is expected to be one of the first benefits to come from cloning technology. We may learn how to switch cells on and off through cloning and thus be able to cure cancer. Cloning technology can be used to test for and perhaps cure gene-related diseases. The above is just a few examples of what human cloning technology can do for mankind This new technology promises unprecedented advancement in medicine if people will release their fears and let the benefits begin. Heart attacks can be treated with human cloning technology by___________. 

阅读理解 In some ways, the United States has made spectacular progress. Fires no longer destroy 18,000 buildings as they did in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, or kill half a town of 2,400 people, as they did the same night in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Other than the Beverly Hill Supper Club fire in Kentucky in 1977, it has been four decades since more than 100 Americans died in a fire. But even with such successes, the United States still has one of the worst fire death rates in the world. Safety experts say the problem is neither money nor technology, but the indifference of a country that just will not take fires seriously enough. American fire departments are some of the world's fastest and best-equipped. They have to be. The United States has twice Japan's population, and 40 times as many fires. It spends far less on preventing fires than on fighting them. And American fire-safety lessons are aimed almost entirely at children, who die in disproportionately large numbers in fires but who, contrary to popular myth, start very few of them. Experts say the fatal error is an attitude that fires are not really anyone's fault. That is not so in other countries, where both public education and the law treat fires as either a personal failing or a crime. Japan has many wood houses; of the estimated 48 fires in world history, that burned more than 10,000 buildings, Japan has had 27. Penalties for causing a severe fire by negligence can be as high as life imprisonment. In the United States, most education dollars are spent in elementary schools. But the lessons are aimed at a too limited audience; just 9 percent of all fire deaths are caused by children playing with matches. The United States continues to rely more on technology than laws or social pressure. There are smoke detectors in 85 percent of all homes. Some local building codes now require home sprinklers. New heaters and irons shut themselves off if they are tipped.

阅读理解Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage?

阅读理解Text Four According to sociologists, there are several different ways in which a person may become recognized as the leader of a social group in the United States

阅读理解It you follow an 8-hour sleep schedule, you are more likely to______.

阅读理解The passage is mainly about _______.

阅读理解B Nancy wanted to make good use of her spare time

阅读理解Is language，like food，a basic human need?Judging from the result of the violent experiment by a German King，Frederick II，in the 13th century，it may be

阅读理解Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage