查看材料A.They have unrealistic expectations about the other half．B.They may not be prepar

A.they don"t know how to use computers

B.they think computer newspapers take too much time to read

C.they think the new technology is bad

D.they have been trained to write for traditional newspapers

A.A.They had been in there for about 5 minutes.

B.B.It’s the other man I’m talking about，

C.C.I thought you said there were three men？

D.D.Are there any witnesses on the spot？

A.They are riding to Spain．

B.They are going to book the room．

C.They are driving to the south of Spain．

A.They are talking about an Italian High-tech Exhibition.

B.They are talking about the train tickets.

C.They are talking about Tianjin University.

A.They left home and went home．

B.They drank coffee and stared at the black screen．

C.They began to talk to each other．

D.None above．

A.they depended on the potato

B.they were forced to move to America

C.the weather conditions in Ireland were not fit for growing the potato

D.the potato harvest was bad

A.They often had to set the sails in bad weather.

B.So they had less courage

C.They were happy to be swept overboard in a strong wind

D.A 70-day-journey across the Atlantic was their happiest thing

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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

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Most of you would probably say that what makes you truly happy is your family and the loveyou share in your relationships, and I couldn&39;t agree more．But money comes into play inthose relationships．

When I talk about money this way to a group, there is always someone who comes up to meand says, "Suze, you are so wrong．Money isn&39;t the key to life--this is!" At which point their wal-let flies open and they show me a photo of their family．

That&39;s when things get interesting, because I start asking them questions: Did you take thatphoto with your own camera？ It looks like a beautiful beach, was the photo taken on a family va-cation？ Do you hope to help those beautiful boys and girls go to college？

As their answers are"yes", I ask them how they provide all of that for their．family．That&39;swhen they understand that I had it fight．

I totally agree that family and friends are of great importance to our well being；without mean-ingful relationships, there&39;s no chance of ever being truly happy．That&39;s why, every Saturdaynight, I end my CNBC show with the following words:" People first．Then money．Then things．"

How we deal with the money we have also plays into our happiness．Over the past few decades (十年), the percentage of Americans who say they&39;re happy hasn&39;t changed much, while at thesame time the average income has doubled．So we have more money, but we&39;re not much happieron average．

A paradox(悖论) ？ Far from it．My sense is that while we&39;re making more money, we arent&39;tmaking more of the money we make．We have to pay for a lot of things, and we have to worry a-bout saving for retirement(退休) in a way that our parents and grandparents never did．And as man-y of you know, it&39;s really hard to increase your happiness when you&39;ve got a lot of money worries．

Do you agree, or am I way off base？ I&39;d love to know what do you think about the money/happiness connection．

Why do people often show the author their family photos？ 查看材料

A.They hope to show money is very important．

B.They want to prove they can afford a holiday．

C.They think a good family makes them truly happy．

D.They believe a happy person considers people first．

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Increasingly, over the past ten years, people--especially young people--have become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed food, is not good for the health. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in natural foods. Foods which do not contain chemical additives(添加剂) and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers, widely used in farming today.

Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic (有机的) matter. In simple terms, this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the amount--but not the quality--of foods grown in commercial farming areas.

Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy pastures(牧场). Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry: there are farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food, they also lay eggs which lack important vitamins.

There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually a non-essential food! Although a natural alternative, such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if it is necessary, we can in fact do without it. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But it does seem to be addictive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all it does is to provide us with energy, in the form. of calories. There are no vitamins in it, no minerals and no fiber.

It is significant that nowadays fiber is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet. In white bread, for example, the fiber has been removed. But it is present in unrefined flour and of course in vegetables. It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively rare. Hence the emphasis is placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by modern experts on "healthy eating".

People have become more interested in natural foods because __________. 查看材料

A.they are more health conscious

B.they want to taste all kinds of foods

C.natural foods are more delicious than processed foods

D.they want to return to nature