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The Grand Prairie Area Demonstration Project seemed, at first, a fine idea. The Grand Prairie is the fourth-largest rice-bowl in the world, with 363,000 acres under paddies. But it is running out of water, with farmers driving wells deeper and deeper into the underlying aquifer. The new project, dreamed up around a decade ago, would tap excess water from the White river when it floods and pumps it, at the rate of about one billion gallons a day, to storage tanks on around 1000 rice farms.
Unfortunately, it would also divert water from the region's huge, swampy wildlife refuges, home to black bears and alligators and the pallid sturgeon. Tiny swamp towns like Clarendon and Brinkley, which are heavily black and almost destitute, rely on nature tourism for the little economic activity they have. In Brinkley, the barber offers an "ivorybill" haircut that makes you look like one.
The project has some powerful local backers. They include Blanche Lincoln, the state's senior senator, who grew up on a rice farm in Helena, and Dale Bumpers, a former four-term senator and governor of Arkansas. Mr. Bumpers, long an icon of the environmental movement and prominent in the efforts to establish the refuges, now believes the water project is important for national security in food and trade, and that it will not damage the forests he has worked to protect.
Opponents worry that the project, apart from its environmental risks, will overwhelm the innovative water conservation methods that rice-farmers are already using, and give the biggest water users an unfair advantage. They also object that it means using subsidised pumps to provide subsidised water for a crop that doesn't pay. Rice is one of the most heavily assisted crops in America; rice payments cost taxpayers almost $10 billion between 1995 and 2004, and rich farmers round Stuttgart in Arkansas County (an efficient and politically shrewd group) took in $21.2m in subsidies in 2004 alone.
It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ______.
A．an ivory-billed woodpecker was shot by a lone kayaker two years ago.
B．the ivory-billed woodpecker was accustomed to living among cypress trees.
C．the irrigation project is probably broken off by the ivory-billed woodpecker.
D．the appearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker may make the irrigation project terminated.
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第2题
1、How many homes altogether (总共) were damaged in the storm？()
A.Fourteen
B.Twenty-one
C.Twenty-nine
D.Thirty-six
2、Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began？()
A.He was in bed
B.He was inside the house
C.He was outside the house
D.He was on the roof
3、Mrs. Woo and her family didn’t get hurt because ______.
A.her husband knew there would be a storm
B.they were all outside the house when the storm became worse
C.she felt the house was moving
D.the welfare department helped her
4、The underlined word “shelter” in this passage means ______.
A.something to eat
B.something to wear
C.somewhere to study
D.somewhere to stay
5、Which of he following may be the best title for this passage？()
A.Terrible Storm
B.A Lucky Woman
C.Good Soldiers
D.Clever People
第3题
阅读材料，回答题。
Trees are useful to man in three important ways: they provide him with wood and other products; they give him shade; and they help to prevent droughts and floods.
Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerness to make money from trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And besides, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear.
This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious for where there are trees, their roots break up soil allowing the rain to sink in and also bind the soil, thus preventing it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain fall son hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich topsoil. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.
Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It set up the empire but, without its trees, its soil became poor and it grew weak. When the empire fell to pieces, the home country found itself faced with floods and starvation.
What is the most important service of trees to man according to the passage？ 查看材料
A.They help him make money
B.They give him wood and other products
C.They help him prevent droughts and floods
D.They give him shade
第4题
51～65 Importance of the Public Image
Public image refers to how a company is viewed by its customers。suppliers,and stockholders(股东),by the financial community,by the communities in which it operates,and by the federal and local governments.Public image is controllable to a________ (1)extent,just as the product,price,place.and promotional efforts are.
A firms public image________ (2)a vital role in the attractiveness of the firm and its products to employees,customers,________ (3)to such outsiders as stockholders,suppliers,creditors(债权人),government officials。as well as________ (4)special groups.With some things it is impossible to satisfy all the diverse publics：for example,a new highly automated plant may meet the________ (5)of creditors and stockholders,but it will undoubtedly find resistance from employees who see their________ (6)threatened.On the other hand,high-quality products and service standards should bring almost complete approval,________ (7)low quality products and false claims would be widely looked down upon.
A firm's public image,________ (8)it is good,should be treasured and protected It is a________ (9)asset that usually is built up over a long and satisfying relationship of a film with its publics.If a form. has________ (10)a quality image, this is not easily countered or imitated by competitors.________ (11) an image may enable a firm to charge higher prices,to Woo(追求)the best distributors and dealers,to attract the best employees,to________ (12)the most favorable creditor relationships and lowest borrowing costs.It should also allow the firm's stock to command a higher price-earnings ratio than other firms in the same industry________ (13)such a good reputation and public image.
A number of factors affect the public image of a corporation.________ (l 4)include physical facilities,contacts of outsiders with company employees,product quality and dependability, prices________ (15)competitors,customer service,the kind of advertising and the media and programs used,and the use of public relations and publicity.
第 51 题 请选择（1）处的最佳答案
A．consistent
B．considerable
C．considerate
D．free
第5题
when we cut down the rainforests , we destroy these forest people , too .in 1900, there were 1,000,000 forest people in the amazon forest .in 1980, there were only 200,000.
the yanomami live along the rivers of the rainforest in the north of brazil .they have lived in the rainforest for about 10,000 years and they use more than 2,000 different plants for food and for medicine .but in 1988, someone found gold in their forest , and suddenly 45,000 people came to the forest and began looking for gold .they cut down the forest to make roads .they made more than a hundred airports .the yanomami people lost land and food .many died because new diseases came to the forest with the strangers .
the yanomami people tried to save their forest , because it was their home .but the people who wanted gold were stronger .
many forest people try to save their forests chico mendes was famous in brazil becaus he wanted to keep the forest for his people “ i want the amazon forest to help al of u - forest people , brazil , and al the earth ,” he said .a few months later , in december 1988, people who wanted to cut down the forest killed chico mendes .
in borneo , people were cutting down the forest of the penan people to sel the woo the penan people tried to save their rainforest .they made blockades（障碍）across the roads into the forest .in 1987, they closed fifteen roads for eight months .no one cut down any trees during that time in panama , the kuna people saved their forest .they made a forest park which tourists pay to visit .
the gavioes people of brazil use the forest , but they protect it as wel .they find and sel the brazil nuts which grow on the forest trees .
44.The number of the people living in the Amazon forest in 1980 was（）of that in 1900.
A.half
B.one - third
C.two - fifths
D.one - fifth
45.（）have destroyed the rainforest of the Yanomami .
A.the people who picked fruits and kill animals to eat
B.the people who use plants for food and medicine
C.The people who have lived there for about ten thousand years
D.the people who made the roads and the airports
46.Which of the folowing is WRONG ?（）
A.The Penan people closed 15 roads with blockades to save their forest .
B .The Penan people were cutting down the trees to sel the wood .
C.The Penan people didn ＇ t want other
D.Those who wanted to cut down the trees were stopped at the road blockades .
47.In Panama , visitors have to（）before they enter the forest park of the Kuna people .
A.buy brazil nuts
B.plant trees
C.pay for the tickets
D.pay for the gold
48.From the passage we learn that（）.
A.we need wood to build houses , so we have to cut down trees
B.the rainforest people have done something to protect their home
C.to people , gold is more important than trees
D.we mustn 't cut down any trees or kil any animals
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