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单选题Study Helps Predict Big Mediterranean Quake Scientists have found evidence that an overlooked fault in the eastern Mediterranean is likely to produce an earthquake and tsunami every 800 years as powerful as the one that destroyed Alexandria in AD 365. Using radiocarbon dating techniques, simulations and computer models, the researchers recreated the ancient disaster in order to identify the responsible fault. "We are saying there is probably a repeat time of 800 years for this kind of earthquake," said Ms. Beth Shaw, an earthquake scientist at the University of Cambridge, who led the study. Scientists study past earthquakes in order to determine the future possibility of similar large shocks. "Identifying the fault for the AD 365 earthquake and tsunami is important for the tens of millions of people in the region," Ms. Shaw said. "The fault close to the southwest coast of Crete last produced a big enough quake to generate a tsunami about 1,300, which means the next powerful one could come in the next 100 years," she added in a telephone interview. Ms. Shaw and her colleagues calculate the likely intervals by measuring the motion of either side of the fault to find how often such large earthquakes would have to occur to account for that level of motion, she said. Their computer model suggested an 8 magnitude quake on the fault would produce a tsunami that floods the coastal regions of Alexandria and North Africa, the southern coast of Greece and Sicily all the way up the Adriati to Dubrovnik. "This would he similar to the ancient quake in AD 365 that caused widespread destruction in much of Greece and unleashed a tsunami that flooded Alexandria and the Nile Delta, likely killing tens of thousands of people," she said.

单选题 What Is Globalization? It was the anti-globalization movement that really put globalization on the map. As a word it has existed since the 1960s, but the protests against this allegedly new process, which its opponents condemn as a way of ordering people's lives, brought globalization out of the financial and academic worlds and into everyday current affairs. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the business model called the "globalize" financial market came to be seen as an entity that could have more than just an economic impact on the parts of the world it touched. Globalization came to be seen as more than simply a way of doing business, or running financial markets--it became a process. From then on the word took on a life of its own. So how does the globalize market work? It is modern communications that make it possible; for the British service sector to deal with its customers through a call centre in India, or for a sportswear (运动服) manufacturer to design its products in Europe, make them in southeast Asia and sell them in north America. But this is where the anti-globalization side gets stuck in (关注). If these practices replace domestic economic life with an economy that is heavily influenced or controlled from overseas. Then the creation of a globalize economic model and the process of globalization can also be seen as a surrender of power to the corporations, or a means of keeping poorer nations in their place. Not everyone agrees that globalization is necessarily evil, or that globalize corporations are running the lives of individuals or are more powerful than nations. Some say that the spread of globalization, free markets and free trade into the developing world is the best way to beat poverty the only problem is that free markets and free trade do not yet truly exist. Globalization can be seen as a positive, negative or even marginal process. And regardless of whether it works for good or ill, globalization's exact meaning will continue to be the subject of debate among those who oppose, support or simply observe it.

单选题Patricia stared at the other girls with resentment .

单选题Children and families enjoy play Indian games.

单选题The No Child Left Behind Act pushed by President George W. Bush unintentionally exacerbated the problem. It required each state to ensure that its students achieve" universal proficiency" in reading and math—but allowed each to define what that meant. The result was that many states made their job easier by setting their bar lower. This race to the bottom resulted in a Lake Wobegon world where every state declared that its kids were better than average. Take the amazing case of Mississippi. According to the standards it set for itself,89% of its fourth - graders were proficient or better in reading, making them the best in the nation. Yet according to the random sampling done every few years by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, a mere 18 % of the state's fourth- graders were proficient, making them the worst in the nation. Even in Lake Wobegon that doesn't happen. Only in America. The ThomasB. Fordham Institute, led by reformer Chester Finn Jr. , has been analyzing state standards for more than a decade and concludes, "Two - thirds of U. S. children attend schools in states with mediocre standards or worse. " In order to meet the requirement set the No Child Left Behind Act, every stateA. set lower assessment standards for students.B. worked extremely hard to help its students.C. assessed its students by way of sampling.D. focused all attention on reading and mat

单选题In order to show his boss what a careful worker he was, he took {{U}}extra{{/U}} trouble over the figures.

单选题We"ve seen a marked shift in our approach to the social issues.

单选题What dreadful weather we have these days!A. terribleB. wonderfulC. niceD. cold

单选题We"ve seen a marked shift in our approach to the social issues.

单选题They had a far better yield than any other farm miles away around this year.

单选题{{B}}第二篇{{/B}} Ancient Egypt Brought Down by Famine Even ancient Egypt's mighty pyramid (金字塔) builders were powerless in the face of the famine (饥荒) that helped bring down their civilization around 2180 B.C. Now evidence collected from mud deposited by the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of kilometers to the south was ultimately to blame—and the same or worse could happen today. The ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile's annual floods to irrigate their crops. But any change in climate that pushed the African monsoons (季风) southwards out of Ethiopia would have reduced these floods. Declining rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant fewer plants to stabilize the soil. When rain did fall it would have washed large amounts of soil into the Blue Nile and into Egypt, along with sediment (沉积) from the White Nile. Blue Nile mud has a different isotope (同位素) signature from that of the white Nile, so by analyzing isotope differences in mud deposited in the Nile Delta, Michael Krom of Leeds University worked out what proportion of sediment came from each branch of the river. Krom reasons that during periods of drought, the amount of Blue Nile mud in the river would he relatively high. He found that one of these periods, from 4500 to 4200 years ago, immediately came before the fall of the Egypt's old Kingdom. The weakened waters would have been disaster for the Egyptians. "Changes that affect food supply don't have to be very large to have a ripple (波浪) effect in societies, "says Bill Ryan of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. Similar events today could be even more devastating, says team member Daniel Stanley, A scientist from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D. C. "Anything humans do to shift the climate belts would have an even worse effect along the Nile system today because the populations have increased dramatically. "

单选题It is always praiseworthy to admit one"s errors and rectify them without delay.

单选题{{B}}第二篇{{/B}} {{B}}One-room Schools{{/B}} One-room schools are part of the heritage of the United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague longing for "the way things were." One-room schools are an endangered species, however. For more than a hundred years, one-room schools have been systematically shut down and their students sent away to centralized schools. As recently as 1930 there were 149,000 one-room schools in the United States. By 1970 there were 1,800. Today, of the nearly 800 remaining one-room schools, more than 350 are in Nebraska. The rest are scattered through a few other states that have on their road maps wide-open spaces between towns. Now that there are hardly any left, educators are beginning to think that maybe there is something yet to be learned from one-room schools, something that served the pioneers that might serve as well today. Progressive educators have come up with progressive-sounding names like "peer-group teaching" and "multi-age grouping" for educational procedures that occur naturally in the one-room schools. In a one-room school the children teach each other because the teacher is busy part of the time teaching someone else. A fourth grader can work at a fifth-grade level in math and a third-grade level in English without the stigma associated with being left back or the pressures of being skipped ahead. A youngster with a learning disability can find his or her own level without being separated from the other pupils. In larger urban and suburban schools today, this is called "mainstreaming." A few hours in a small school that has only one classroom and it becomes clear why so many parents feel that one of the advantages of living in Nebraska is that their children have to go to a one-room school.

单选题The shrapnel maimed the young soldier.

单选题In the background was that eternal hum.

单选题Look on the Bright Side Do you ever wish you were more optimistic, someone who always (51) to be success- ful? Having someone around who always (52) the worst isn't really a lot of (53) . We all know someone who sees a single cloud on a sunny day and says, "It looks (54) rain. " But if you catch yourself thinking such things, it's important to do something (55) it. You can change your view of life, (56) to psychologists. It only takes a little effort, and you'll find life more rewarding as a (57) Optimism, they say, is partly about self-respect and confidence, but it's also a more positive way of looking at life and all it has to (58) Optimists are more (59) to start new projects and are generally more prepared to take risks. Upbringing is obviously very important in forming your (60) to the world. Some people are brought up to (61) too much on others and grow up forever blaming other people when anything (62) wrong. Most optimists, on the (63) hand, have been brought up not to (64) failure as the end of the world--they just (65) with their lives.

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