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59. In the first news item, which country is NOT covered in the research? A. Britain. B. France. C. Sweden. D. Spain. 60. Why will Russian school students have basic military training? A. To get ready for a military parade. B. To learn to protect themselves. C. To gain some military knowledge. D. To be the only way to develop their love for the country. 61. About Florida High School, which of these facts is true? A. Some of the students have to attend classes at home instead of in the school. B. There are altogether 250 students who take classes in the classrooms. C. As the state’s only online school, it has 250 students who take classes by computer. D. Students can’t take classes in algebra, American government, chemistry, computer and so on. 62. What is the second news item mainly about? A. J.K.Rowling will have an Internet interview. B. Children will meet Harry Potter’s mother. C. The Harry Potter book will be available on the Internet. k@s@5@u D. The Harry Potter book will arrive in China in early June. C When building houses, people used to think about not only the climate of the areas but also the building materials and the fashions for their houses. However, since electricity became more and more expensive, people began to pay much more attention to the energy they could get for their houses and the new ways they could find to protect their houses from both cold and heat. Now, houses of an old yet new type have been widely built. In some parts of the world, people share their houses with their livestock(家畜).During cold weather, they gather their cows, goats, or other animals and keep them on the first floor of their houses. The reasons are that the animals can be protected from the cold and that they can help to heat the houses as well. The body heat given off by the animals rises to the second floor of the houses, where people live. By sharing their houses with their livestock, people gain a source of heat. People who live in or near cities do not usually keep livestock. However, home builders use the fact that heat rises. This natural law can be used in building houses in these areas. Instead of keeping livestock on the first floor, builders fill it with large rocks. As they are open to the sun’s rays during cold weather, these rocks take in heat. They also give off the heat, and, of course, the warm air rises into the living areas of the houses. So these houses are energy-saving. House-building becomes a great challenge to building designers and energy engineers. They try to meet this challenge by learning from old traditions and by using modern technology. And someday in the future, people will be able to live in more energy-saving houses. 63. What did people begin to consider as electricity was no longer cheap? A. The climate of their areas.B. The energy for their houses. C. The fashions for their houses.D. The building materials for their houses. 64. People in some areas gain a source of heat by _________. A. keeping their livestock downstairsB. protecting their livestock from the cold C. sharing their houses only with their cows D. living on the second floor with their livestock 65. The underlined words “natural law” in the third paragraph refer to the fact that ________. A. heat raises the temperature in the houses B. heat goes in the upward direction C. heat goes up if temperature is raised D. heat increases the temperature of rocks k@s@5@u 66. From the passage, we can conclude that __________. A. people will no longer consider building materials in the future B. energy-saving buildings will become more popular in the future C. almost all people will move into the houses heated by large rocks D. energy engineers will devote themselves only to modern technology D I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my job stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today. So here’s what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house . Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure (休闲), it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted. It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all: I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. (责任编辑：admin) |