What drew the garden's owner's attention to the field again（）

A.reviews

B.reasons

C.rewards

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A.bring

B.give

C.take

D.e-mail

A、should take their hobbies seriously

B、should decide quickly what hobby to take up

C、should cultivate a garden

D、should change their hobbies regularly

A.The word “fruit” is an example of pun, which refers to the fruit itself but also suggests the beautiful Garden of Eden.

B.The word “fruit” is an example of pun, which refers to the fruit itself but also suggests the fruitful life in the heaven.

C.The word “fruit” is an example of pun, which refers to the fruit itself but also suggests the happy life in the Garden of Eden.

D. The word “fruit” is an example of pun, which refers to the fruit itself but also suggests the “fruit” of sin, the consequent loss of Eden.

A.It refers to Adam and Eve’s eating the sweetest fruit in the Garden of Eden which God forbade them to eat.

B.It refers to Adam and Eve’s eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God forbade them to eat.

C.It refers to Adam and Eve’s eating the valuable fruit in the Garden of Eden which God forbade them to eat.

D.It refers to Adam and Eve’s eating the fruit of the tree of life which God forbade them to eat.

“To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”(John Milton, Paradise lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God？

A、By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.

B、By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.

C、By removing God from His throne.

D、By corrupting man and woman created by God.

regulate corporate governance were futile because of differences in national culture. He drew particular attention to

the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and International Corporate Governance

Network (ICGN) codes, saying that they were, ‘silly attempts to harmonise practice’. He said that in some countries,

for example, there were ‘family reasons’ for making the chairman and chief executive the same person. In other

countries, he said, the separation of these roles seemed to work. Another delegate, Alliya Yongvanich, said that the

roles of chief executive and chairman should always be separated because of what she called ‘accountability to

shareholders’.

One delegate, Vincent Viola, said that the right approach was to allow each country to set up its own corporate

governance provisions. He said that it was suitable for some countries to produce and abide by their own ‘very

structured’ corporate governance provisions, but in some other parts of the world, the local culture was to allow what

he called, ‘local interpretation of the rules’. He said that some cultures valued highly structured governance systems

while others do not care as much.

Required:

(a) Explain the roles of the chairman in corporate governance. (5 marks)

A rain garden is not very different from a traditional garden. It is just a far more eco-friendly garden. Usually it is built lower than the ground. Rain gardens make smart use of rain and storm water by temporarily holding water from rain and storms and letting it soak(渗透) slowly into the ground before it runs into streams or enters the public drinking water supply.

Thus, a rain garden keeps the water，allowing it to be used as needed by plants in the rain garden, rather than flowing immediately into nearby streams and going unused. The water will soak slowly into the ground within a day or two. This creates an advantage that the rain garden does not allow mosquitoes to breed. This is a simple, attractive, and eco-friendly “green” way to treat storm water.

What’s more, planting a rain garden helps reduce pollution and improve the environment. Without using expensive machinery and chemicals, rain gardens remove harmful chemicals in the rainwater and cut down on the amount of pollution reaching streams and rivers by up to 30%.

Native plants are recommended for rain gardens because they are more used to the local climate, soil, and water conditions. They may attract local wildlife such as native birds. Water your rain garden immediately after planting and once a week, unless you have had at least an inch of rain during the week. Once native plants establish the necessary root system，they will require little care.

Often，local governments and private businesses develop large rain gardens in their yards and in public parks as a way to improve the environment and solve flooding problems. However, you don’t need to be a professionally environmental engineer to create a rain garden. As long as you’re eco­conscious homeowners，you can help the environment by building smaller rain gardens in your yards.

B-21.Which of the following is NOT true for the function of rain gardens？

A、They are good for living conditions.

B、They increase pollution.

C、They can beautify the community.

D、They improve the environment.

22阅读B-21题干中Passage Two材料，完成本题。

B-22. Which of the following is the eco-friendly function of rain gardens discussed in Paragraph 4？

A、They can help reduce the pollution problem.

B、They can keep the rain and storm water.

C、They can be healthy for the people around.

D、They can make the environment more beautiful.

Gardening

The technology of beauty

Now, gardening was driven by three main trends: technological change, plant prospecting and fashion. Of these, the most important was technology, whose advances made it possible for the middle classes to enjoy what had once been affordable only to the very rich.

The most dramatic example of popularizing technology was surely the invention of the lawnmower. Nothing was more labour-intensive, in the 18th century, than maintaining a large lawn. It would take three men with scythes (大镰刀) a whole day to cut an acre (two-fifths of a hectare) of grass; they would be followed by lawn women whose task was to gather up the cuttings.

Just one man went to mow

Then, in 1830, Edwin Beard Budding realised that the rotary blade used in the cloth industry to produce an even pile on textiles could be used on grass. The rotary lawnmower meant that suburban homes could afford the neat greensward (草皮) previously available only to the rich.

The other technology that transformed Victorian gardening was the development of the art of growing plants under glass. Importing plants from countries as distant as Australia became a commercial possibility once they were sealed in wooden boxes with glass tops. From the 1830s on, Victorian gardens, private and public, used masses of bedding plants. In 1877, 2 million plants were bedded out in London's parks, often in elaborate geometric designs. Growing them under glass protected them both from frost and from pollution.

In the past century, technology has once again transformed and simplified gardening. Among the most significant advances is the growing of plants in containers. Instead of ordering plants grown in open fields and dug up bare-rooted for planting in autumn, gardeners now typically buy plants which, because they have been grown in containers, can be transplanted at almost any time of year. Container growing has in turn become possible largely because of the development of lighter composts.

Other men's flowers

The past two centuries have seen an immense increase in the range of garden plants. Native species have been refined and developed; and explorers have brought back plants from all parts of the world. The passion for plant collecting sprang partly from the expansion of Catholic religious orders (神职) abroad in the 16th century, looking for medicinal plants as well as souls to convert. Many early plant-hunters are commemorated in plant names, such as the Tradescants, father and son; Sir Joseph Banks, who sailed with Captain Cook and brought home 3500 species from Australia.

Fashion is every bit as important in determining what people grow as in what they wear. The geometry, gravel and bedding plants of the mid-19th-cenmry town-house garden had given way, by the century's end, to a passion for informality and English cottage gardens, fostered by two of the great designers of the age. Their influence has proved enduring. "All over the world, people want to rival English gardens, often in a climate that makes it very difficult," says Sarah Bond, an enthusiastic amateur gardener in Manhattan.

A growing business

Both gardening and looking at gardens are developing rapidly. Give people a piece of ground and they will buy something to put in it. Mark Bhatti and Andrew Church of Brighton University in England point to the fact that people now seem to spend far more on machinery and chemicals, and more again on benches, barbecues, pots and sun-loungers, than they spend on plants themselves.

Moreover, the range of places where people can buy gardening supplies has expanded. Supermarkets and general stores frequently carry plants and other gardening necessities. On the contrary, Britain's Garden Centre Association says that around 12% of the typical turnover of a garden centre now comes from the cafe. A trip to a ga

A．Y

B．N

C．NG