(l)Just when Transport for London (TfL) thought the bike hire scheme provided an answer to London's carbon emissions problem, they found a snag—bikes cannot be provided without producing emissions. (2)TfL uses Serco contractors to move hire bicycles around London, so there are enough in each dock to meet demand, while ensuring there is space for users to drop theirs off. Included in the fleet of vehicles are Alke electricity-powered cars, used to tow trailers of bikes. (3)The vehicles are narrower than the trailers of bikes, which critics say has led to accidents involving cyclists. A Freedom of Information request by the bike blog reveals that 24 road accidents have involved Serco transport vehicles since the scheme's launch last summer, including four which also involved a cyclist (4)In November, David Ellis, a 37-year-old cyclist was knocked off his bike by one of the vehicles. He said the trailers were a danger to cyclists because their width is greater than that of the tow truck. None of the recorded Serco/cyclist collisions were fatal. Compare this with 13 cyclist deaths caused by HGVs in London last year. (5)The vehicles used by Serco produce on average 1884g/km C02 a day in transporting the 862 bikes they're capable of moving daily, meaning around 431kg C02 has been emitted so far. (6)But what level of emissions has been prevented by the scheme? Not much so far, it seems. One of TfL's aims was to reduce overcrowding on the bus and tube networks, not to remove buses from the road, and there is no indication that the number of buses being used has dropped as a result of the scheme. (7)In a survey of bike scheme users it was found that 35% are tube converts, 29% used to walk and 23% have switched from bus rides. That leaves only a possible 13% who previously drove around the capital. TfL's target of 50,000 people a day using hire bikes should widen the gap between emissions caused by Serco vehicles and emissions abated (减少) by the onset of the scheme. (8)There are 5,000 bikes available, which at times have struggled to cope with the 94,500 bike hire members. For the 50,000 mark to be reached by March Serco will need a more organised pattern of distribution, to limit the number of their vehicles on the road. (9)The scheme's users have a role to play. If London's cyclists want to keep their journey down to within 30 minutes so as to pay just ￡1 (which they do, TfL research has found) there will always be too many people trying to jam their two-wheeler into the busiest; docks. But if attitudes changed and people became more flexible about paying slightly more, or walking a bit further to complete their journey, there would be less congestion around the hubs and, by default, fewer Serco vans would be needed to shift them from one to another. And that would mean fewer accidents and emissions too.
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You will be ______ of your driver's license if you continue to break the traffic rules.
Hotel guests are requested to _____ their rooms by twelve noon.
It is necessary that something urgent______ to combat smuggling.
Yard Sales Yard sales【T1】______. One family,【T2】______, can hold a yard sale. People【T3】______they no longer want and put them in the yard【T4】______. They might also place handmade signs【T5】______to direct people to the sale. Yard sales are【T6】______for people without much money【T7】______. But even people with a lot of money【T8】______.【T9】______might also go to yard sales. If they【T10】______, they can re-sell it for more.
Everything _____very different if your father were still alive.
Read carefully the following excerpt on the trend of graduate entrepreneurship and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then comment on whether it is a good way for the graduates to start up their own business right after graduation. You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. From Graduates to Entrepreneurs College graduates across the country are once again on the hunt for jobs. Job seekers flocked to a job fair held at the China International Science and Technology Convention Center. While fairs are filled with job seekers, another type of employment opportunity is flourishing among graduates. In order to relieve pressure on the labor market, the Chinese Government announced a string of policies over the past year encouraging people to start up their own businesses. Ye Xiaoying, a student who will graduate from Beijing Forestry University this year, now has a part-time job at a western-style restaurant in north Beijing named Hou Hui You Qi, which literally means See You Again. It was created and is operated by several college students. According to Ye, most of these students will graduate this year and plan to continue working here after graduation. Ma Yao, one of the restaurant's founders, said that the restaurant was initially financed through crowdfunding. In fact, the 2 million yuan in start-up funds received all came from crowdfunding, and about 80 percent of it was contributed by college students. Li Xiaolin, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), also supported entrepreneurship but gave his own suggestions. "By starting up their own businesses, college students can realize their ideals and values. It's a good thing, not to mention that such actions can also help create more job opportunities."
My finances are on the rocks just now. The underlined part means ______.
Is this novel ______ Mr. Zhang referred to last week?
It's getting late, I'd rather you ______ now.
As the mountains were covered with a _____ of cloud, we couldn't see their tops.
A. what B. deserve C. turning into D. unlike E. virtually F. endangered G. safe H. decline I. remember J. standards K. combining L. sense M. ideally N. rules O. that Polar bears, rhinoceroses and elephants are all on the immediate critical list. The rhino is doomed due to increasingly cash-rich Asia's belief【C1】______ its horn has some kind of Harry Potter magical power. The beast's【C2】______ is an object lesson in the dangers of giving idiots money. But it is not only our friends in the animal kingdom who are being destroyed by economic forces beyond their control. The world's thinkers are now also a gravely【C3】______ species. And yet,【C4】______ the conceited creatures who share their fate, there is not even the most hasty plan in place to protect them. Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also【C5】______ disappeared. No one under 40 can be expected to【C6】______ the prevalent abundance of pure thought that once characterised our culture. It has disappeared gradually, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were. Today, all our universities are【C7】______ book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as customers who【C8】______ to see an investment return in the form of increased living【C9】______ and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. We are unconvinced as to the actual practical value of rhinos, but we have a 【C10】______ that it reflects badly on us if these things are allowed to disappear on our watch. The same is true of thinkers.
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Video Game Addiction1. A global and serious problemAddiction occur more likely at【T1】【T1】______【T2】of video gamers addicted【T2】______2 hours more per day:【T3】of gaming【T3】______The effect of video gamingTaking over your lifeSudden【T4】【T4】______2. Signs of video game addiction【T5】to get it off【T5】______Always thinking about itSpending too much time on itIrritated when forcing to stop gaming3.【T6】to correct and prevent video game addiction【T6】______Advice from credible【T7】professionals【T7】______【T8】treatment【T8】______Group therapy, individual counseling and a game-free environment4. How to treat a video game addicted friend or family member【T9】as important virtue【T9】______【T10】by the community【T10】______
A. fighting B. subjects C. certainly D. question E. result in F. further G. appearance H. average I. tighten J. root in K. struggling L. without M. higher N. relax O. normal At school we went over our social networking guidelines. Besides the obvious—don't be inappropriate with students through texting and Facebooking—we were【C1】______ directed to "always think and write like an educator" and "never use a blog to comment about your job duties" and "never blog or write about extremely personal【C2】______". The handout told us that any Facebook pictures that show "the use of alcohol or anything students are prohibited from doing," could【C3】______ discipline. All of this is because "community members may hold you to a【C4】______ standard of conduct than the【C5】______ person." It is also advised that teachers should refrain from "discussion or revealing to students personal matters about their private lives" making me【C6】______ every piece of writing I have ever shared with my students. Educators have been expected to be superheroes for a while now,【C7】______ poverty, dysfunction, immense curriculums, and time. But now we are expected to be the faultless and faceless 【C8】______ opinions or personal lives. I understand the Public Face and I have gotten pretty good at wearing it And I【C9】______am not forgiving inappropriate behavior with or around children. But with policies like this, I am afraid to buy beer at the grocery store or wear clothes that break dress code out in public on hot days. But while the rest of the population gets to【C10】______ into their averageness(even President Obama can drink beer in public without losing his job), teachers are expected to live their average lives behind closed doors.
The animal has a brain which is nearest _____.
Believe me, this dress may be expensive but it's worth it because it'll give you a real _____ in the interview.
All the following sentences contain a transferred negation structure (否定转移结构) EXCEPT
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