To help the environment, many Americans have made the change from paper and plastic bags to reusable grocery bags. But a report by a Florida newspaper says that reusable grocery bags sold by some supermarkets contain high levels of lead(鉛). Lead is a metal that can be harmful to humans, especially young children, Now, Senator Charles Schumer is asking the US government to investigate(調(diào)查) the use of lead in reusable shopping bags.
“When our families go to the grocery store looking for safe and healthy foods to feed their kids, the last thing they should have to worry about is poisonous bags.” Schumer said, “A quick investigation will allow everyone to make informed, timely decisions.” Schumer added.
Lead in the bags is not likely to rub off (因摩擦而粘在……上面)on food. But over time, paint on the bags can chip and the bags can wear out. When this happens, lead can be released(釋放).
The Tampa Tribune newspaper said certain bags sold at Publix and Winn-Dixie supermarkets had lead levels that were a concern to health officials. The affected bags were found in Florida. But Publix has more than 1,000 stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Sough Carolina and Tennessee. Publix says that all of its bags are under current laws about lead content, but that they have asked the makers of the bags to reduce the lead levels in the product.
The bags with the highest levels of lead had fancy designs and many pictures. Plain reusable bags without decoration were found to contain little lead. Consumers worried about lead levels in reusable bags can change to cloth or string bags. Paper bags are also a good choice, since paper can be recycled(回收).
Since 2007, Publix supermarkets have sold more than 13 million reusable bags. The store says because shoppers have made the change to reusable bags, it has saved more than 1 billion paper and plastics bags.
【小題1】 The shopping bags containing high levels of lead ______.
| A．have been reported by a newspaper |
| B．have been stopped by the government |
| C．have stopped people from using reusable bags |
| D．have caused serious health damage to customers |
| A．reusable bags do little harm to kids’ health |
| B．people have shown much concern for the reusable bags |
| C．people will be informed of the facts about the reusable bags |
| D．people should refuse to buy things from supermarkets |
| A．dependable | B．convenient | C．harmful | D．popular |
| A．with colorful designs | B．with fancy pictures |
| C．made of plastic | D．made of paper |
| A．caused Publix a lot of trouble | B．saved Publix much money |
| C．cost Publix plenty of money | D．been proved a wrong decision |
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In 1989 an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened America, killing over 30,000 people in less than four minutes. In the middle of complete damage and disorder, a father rushed to the school where his son was supposed to be, 36 that the building was 37 .
After the unforeseeable shock, he 38 the promise he had made to his son: “No matter 39 , I’ll always be there for you!” And tears began to 40 his eyes. As he looked at the pile of ruins , it looked hopeless, but he kept remembering his 41 to his son. He rushed there and started 42 through the ruins.
As he was digging, other helpless parents arrived, 43 : “It’s too late! They’re all dead!
44 , face the reality, there’s nothing you can do!” To each parent he responded with 45 : “Are you going to help me now?” No one helped. And then he continued to dig for his son, stone by stone.
Courageously he went on alone because he needed to know 46 : “Is my boy 47 or is he dead?” He dug for 8 hours...12 hours...24 hours...36 hours...then, in 48 hour, he pulled back a large stone and heard his son’s 49 . He creamed his son’s name, “ARMAND!” He heard back, “Dad! It’s me, Dad! I told the other kids not to worry. I told them that if you were alive, you’d 50 me and 51 you saved me, they’d he saved. You promised, ‘No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you!’ You did it, Dad!”
“What’s going on in there?” the father asked.
“There are 14 of us 52 53 33, Dad. We’re scared, hungry, thirsty and thankful you’re here. When the building collapsed, it made 54 , and it saved us.”
“Come, out, boy!”
“No, Dad! Let the other kids out first, 55 I know you’ll get me! No matter what happens, I know you’ll always be there for me!”
A．only discovering B．only to discover
C．only realizing D．only to realize
A．a(chǎn)s flat as a pancake B．a(chǎn)s high as a mountain
C．a(chǎn)s strong as an ox D．a(chǎn)s weak as a kitten
A．memorized B．forgot C．kept D．remembered
A．what B．what happen C．which D．who
A．fill B．fill in C．come D．burst
A．picture B．promise C．present D．encourage
A．digging B．digging through C．digging out D．digging into
A．to say B．said C．a(chǎn)nd saying D．saying
A．Come out B．Come again C．Come on D．Come off
A．one word B．one sound C．one row D．one line
A．for himself B．of himself C．by himself D．to himself
A．live B．living C．a(chǎn)live D．lively
A．38 B．the 38 C．38 th D．the 38 th
A．sound B．voice C．noise D．tone
A．will save B．would save C．save D．would have saved
A．when B．because C．even if D．thought
A．remained B．missing C．left D．gone
A．for B．behind C．out of D．over
A．a(chǎn) promise B．space C．room D．a(chǎn) triangle
A．because B．though C．when D．even though
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Father Maurice Chase used a special way to celebrate his 90th birthday. The Catholic priest（神父） took $ 15,000 in cash to Los Angeles’ Skid Row (貧民區(qū)) and gave it away. Twenty wheelchair – bound peop
le received $100 bills, while the rest received $1to $ 3 each．
“I come out here to tell them that God loves them and I love them and that some one is concerned about them,” Chase said．
Chase has given away cash and blessings every Sunday at the same corner for 24 years．Several hundred people wait for him every week．
He makes a point of coming on Thanksgiving and Christmas, too, but this is the first year he spent his birthday in the downtown neighborhood where people live mainly in shelters and on dirty sidewalks．
“ It’s the place that makes me the happiest．I just love it,” said Chase. “I look forward to coming here.”
The money comes from donations he receives from rich and famous people he met during his work as assistant to the president of Loyola Marymount University．
The crowd broke into choruses of “Happy Birthday” several times. Some people presented him birthday cards, to his delight．
Travis Kemp, a 51 – year – old disabled man with long black hair, was one of the lucky 20 to receive $ 100. He said he had no special plans for spending the money. “He has a lot of respect from me,” Kemp said. “I know I couldn’t do it.”
【小題1】On his 90 th birthday, Chase ．
| A．handed out cash to the needy |
| B．collected money for poor people |
| C．visited poor people’s homes with gifts |
| D．held a party at Los Angeles’ Skid Row |
| A．Celebrating his birthday with his neighbours． |
| B．Working in Loyola Marymount University． |
| C．Celebrating Christmas with the people he has helped． |
| D．Going to Los Angeles’ Skid Row to help people there． |
| A．All his savings． |
| B．His earnings as a Catholic priest． |
| C．Donations from the wealthy and celebrities(名人)． |
D．Donations from Loyol a Marymount University． |
| A．he was the luckiest person on that day |
| B．the disabled need to be taken care of |
| C．Chase is greatly appreciated by the needy |
| D．even old people came to celebrate Chase’s birthday |
| A．Every recipient could get $100 in cash from Father Maurice Chase． |
| B．Father Maurice Chase gave the cash away not only on his birthday but also on other occasions． |
| C．Although Father Maurice Chase gave the cash away on his birthday, he didn’t receive anything in return． |
| D．Father Maurice Chase earned a lot of money as assistant to the president of Loyola Marymount University． |
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Father Maurice Chase used a special way to celebrate his 90th birthday. The Catholic priest（神父） took $ 15,000 in cash to Los Angeles’ Skid Row (貧民區(qū)) and gave it away. Twenty wheelchair – bound people received $100 bills, while the rest received $1to $ 3 each．
“I come out here to tell them that God loves them and I love them and that some one is concerned about them,” Chase said．
Chase has given away cash and blessings every Sunday at the same corner for 24 years．Several hundred people wait for him every week．
He makes a point of coming on Thanksgiving and Christmas, too, but this is the first year he spent his birthday in the downtown neighborhood where people live mainly in shelters and on dirty sidewalks．
“ It’s the place that makes me the happiest．I just love it,” said Chase. “I look forward to coming here.”
The money comes from donations he receives from rich and famous people he met during his work as assistant to the president of Loyola Marymount University．
The crowd broke into choruses of “Happy Birthday” several times. Some people presented him birthday cards, to his delight．
Travis Kemp, a 51 – year – old disabled man with long black hair, was one of the lucky 20 to receive $ 100. He said he had no special plans for spending the money. “He has a lot of respect from me,” Kemp said. “I know I couldn’t do it.”
1.On his 90 th birthday, Chase ．
A．handed out cash to the needy
B．collected money for poor people
C．visited poor people’s homes with gifts
D．held a party at Los Angeles’ Skid Row
2.Which of the following makes Chase feel the happiest?
A．Celebrating his birthday with his neighbours．
B．Working in Loyola Marymount University．
C．Celebrating Christmas with the people he has helped．
D．Going to Los Angeles’ Skid Row to help people there．
3.What’s the source of the money Chase used to help people?
A．All his savings．
B．His earnings as a Catholic priest．
C．Donations from the wealthy and celebrities(名人)．
D．Donations from Loyola Marymount University．
4.Travis Kemp is mentioned in the text to show ．
A．he was the luckiest person on that day
B．the disabled need to be taken care of
C．Chase is greatly appreciated by the needy
D．even old people came to celebrate Chase’s birthday
5.Which statement is CORRECT according to the passage?
A．Every recipient could get $100 in cash from Father Maurice Chase．
B．Father Maurice Chase gave the cash away not only on his birthday but also on other occasions．
C．Although Father Maurice Chase gave the cash away on his birthday, he didn’t receive anything in return．
D．Father Maurice Chase earned a lot of money as assistant to the president of Loyola Marymount University．
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To tweet, or not to tweet?
A guide to the social networking/ microblogging service Tewitter
SINCE its creation in 2006, Twitter, the social networking service, has taken cyber space by storm. At first glance it might seem like Facebook, but Twitter is in a league of its own, connecting people with fast-paced updates. It has become a place for activities, celebrities, businesses and everyday people to let others know about videos, opinions, interesting news, advertisements-and, yes what they are eating for lunch.
Twitter: n. a free social networking service that connects users through fast-paced status updates.
Twitter-er: n. one who uses Twitter.
Tweet: n. short updates or messages, of 140 characters or less, wh ich are posted on your profile and sent to your followers.
Retweet (RT): n. unofficial Twitter feature that indicates a re-posting of a tweet from another user. Often uses the text RT@username (of the original source) before the post.
Follower: n. one who receives another user’s updates on his or her Twitter profile.
Direct message: n. a private message sent from one Twitter-er to another.
The phenomenon includes a host of new vocabulary terms and concepts that every self-respecting Twitter-er should know. Here’s a quick course on Twitter.
So you’ve finally been swept up by the techno-tide and gotten a Twitter account. But what to write? Who knew 140 characters could be so overwhelming?
Darren Rowse of the TwiTip blog(www.twitip.com) recommends a two- step tweeting process: figure out what your follows want, and then give it to them. Some combination of cool links, conversation- starting quotes or questions , retweets and photos works well, Rowse writes.
Keep in mind that Twitter doesn’t directly offer photo hosting. You will need to use a third-party site like TwitPic (www.twitip.com) to upload your photos. Other sites, like TwitVid (tweetdeck.com/beta) can be used to post videos.
If you th ink the Twitter Web Site too complicated, try a Twiiter client—Tweetdeck(tweetdeck. Com/beta) and the Mac-only Tweetie(www. stebits. com)are popular, and both also are available as iPhone apps(應(yīng)用程序).
Even without an iphone, you can update you Twitter on the go. After adding your phone number to your Twitter account, you can text updates to 40404(check Twitter’s Web site for numbers to use outside the United States)
But no matter how you tweet, remember that people can see what you post, and Twitter might not be the best place to complain about your boss, even if you make your Twitter private, your followers may not share your sense of discretion.
Twitter is crowded with celebrith accounts. The famous , who once avoided the media in their private lives, are posting everything on Twitter for all the cyber world to see, gathering followers in the millions. Who’s leading the celebrity pack? TwitterCounter(www.twittercounter.com), a site that tracks the most popular Twitter users, lists Ashton Kuntcher and former fashion model, as the nost popular Twitter-er with, as of our publication date, 2,691,112 followers.
Title: To tweet, or not to tweet?
| Introductionto Twitter | (71) in 2006, twitter, the soclal networking service, has enjoyed(72) among the cyber world. |
| Basic Twitter(73) | ●twitter-er ●tweet ●retwwet |
| (74) to tweet your tweets | ●Follow a two-step tweeting process, according to the (75) of Darren Rowse. ●Use a third-party site to upload your photos and post videos. ●Try Twitter clients to help you (76) Twitter, among which the Tweet-deck and the Mac-only Tweetie are well (77) . ●Add your phone number to your Twitter account if you don’t have an iPhone. ●Be(78) of what you post even if your twitter is made private |
| Celebrity twitter-ers | Celebrties now are (79) about tweeting, among whom Ashton Kutcher is the most popular, (80) by the largest number of twitter users. |
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To tweet, or not to tweet?
A guide to the social networking/ microblogging service Tewitter
SINCE its creation in 2006, Twitter, the social networking service, has taken cyber space by storm. At first glance it might seem like Facebook, but Twitter is in a league of its own, connecting people with fast-paced updates. It has become a place for activities, celebrities, businesses and everyday people to let others know about videos, opinions, interesting news, advertisements-and, yes what they are eating for lunch.
The phenomenon includes a host of new vocabulary terms and concepts that every self-respecting Twitter-er should know. Here’s a quick course on Twitter.
So you’ve finally been swept up by the techno-tide and gotten a Twitter account. But what to write? Who knew 140 characters could be so overwhelming?
Darren Rowse of the TwiTip blog(www.twitip.com) recommends a two- step tweeting process: figure out what your follows want, and then give it to them. Some combination of cool links, conversation- starting quotes or questions , retweets and photos works well, Rowse writes.
Keep in mind that Twitter doesn’t directly offer photo hosting. You will need to use a third-party site like TwitPic (www.twitip.com) to upload your photos. Other sites, like TwitVid (tweetdeck.com/beta) can be used to post videos.
If you th ink the Twitter Web Site too complicated, try a Twiiter client—Tweetdeck(tweetdeck. Com/beta) and the Mac-only Tweetie(www. stebits. com)are popular, and both also are available as iPhone apps(應(yīng)用程序).
Even without an iphone, you can update you Twitter on the go. After adding your phone number to your Twitter account, you can text updates to 40404(check Twitter’s Web site for numbers to use outside the United States)
But no matter how you tweet, remember that people can see what you post, and Twitter might not be the best place to complain about your boss, even if you make your Twitter private, your followers may not share your sense of discretion.
Twitter is crowded with celebrith accounts. The famous , who once avoided the media in their private lives, are posting everything on Twitter for all the cyber world to see, gathering followers in the millions. Who’s leading the celebrity pack? TwitterCounter(www.twittercounter.com), a site that tracks the most popular Twitter users, lists Ashton Kuntcher and former fashion model, as the nost popular Twitter-er with, as of our publication date, 2,691,112 followers.
Title: To tweet, or not to tweet?
| Introductionto Twitter | (71) in 2006, twitter, the soclal networking service, has enjoyed(72) among the cyber world. |
| Basic Twitter(73) | ●twitter-er ●tweet ●retwwet |
| (74) to tweet your tweets | ●Follow a two-step tweeting process, according to the (75) of Darren Rowse. ●Use a third-party site to upload your photos and post videos. ●Try Twitter clients to help you (76) Twitter, among which the Tweet-deck and the Mac-only Tweetie are well (77) . ●Add your phone number to your Twitter account if you don’t have an iPhone. ●Be(78) of what you post even if your twitter is made private |
| Celebrity twitter-ers | Celebrties now are (79) about tweeting, among whom Ashton Kutcher is the most popular, (80) by the largest number of twitter users. |
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