Part II Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)
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1. As the landfill sites are filling up,the waste experts are trying to __
A) invent robots to clean places up
B) move the waste into other planets
C) put effort into landfill mining
D) persuade people to reduce the waste
2. What was the purpose of Hiriya garbagedump in Israel?
A) To recover the mineral fine-particle.
B) To burn waste to generate energy.
C) To recycle steel from waste.
D) To enlarge local fruit farms.
3. The pilot programme in Edinburg in the1980s was found to be __
A) practical
B) profitable
C) inefficient
D) economical
4. The prospects of digging up the dump are now more promising because __
A) the recycling industry becomes bigger
B) the waste recycling technology has been improved
C) more attention are paid to the wasteproblem
D) the government puts more funds for the project
5. It is estimated that the aluminumAmerican throw into landfill every year totally worths __
A) 680,000
B) 2,700
C) 1.83 billion
D) 18 million
6. Eddy current magnets a e used to ____
A) separate metals from the waste
B) sort different types of plastics
C) recycle aluminum from the dump
D) prevent metals from entering the dump
7. What's the controversy over waste burning?
A) It is not effective enough.
B) It may release poisonous substances.
C) Lots of funds have to be put into it.
D) The technique is not fully-developed.
8. The Alcoa spokesman Kevin Lowrey thoughtso far digging metals up from the dump is not ____
9. Reid Lifset shared the opinion that thebenefits from landfill mining didn't _________ the costs.
10. Advocates of landfill mining believethat if planned with more imagination and sober assessments, landfill miningcan be ________
PartIV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
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47. Solar panels and windmills are commonlyreported as symbols of _______
48. The massive industrial plant fittedwith special equipment to recycle energy can reduce power costs as well as_______,
49. Instead of producing more energy, theUnited States could compensate the future projected growth in electricity demandby _______.
50. The equipment added by Recycled EnergyDevelopment is used to trap the heat to produce stream from _______.
51. According to Casten, whatdifferentiates the method of waste energy recycling from some other cleanenergy options when dealing with CO2 emissions?
Section B
Passage One
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52. What is taken as fatal by ProfessorJonathan Grigg?
A) Exposure to vehicle exhausts.
B) Airborne pollutants.
C) Breathing difficulty.
D) Pneumonia.
53. According to the passage, the idea thatparticles pollution causes pneumonia in children __
A) is not fuly confirmed
B) is theoretically proven
C) is quite impossible
D
) is absolutely definite
54. The link between car exhausts and heartdisease was revealed
A) by an unknown research team
B) by the Health Effects Institute
C) in the study conducted in Vietname
D) in Professor Jonathan Grigg's study
55. Professor Steve Field thinks that Jonathan Grigg's research __
A) helps convince people of the problems ofair pollution
B) helps draw common concern to theproblems of air pollution
C) provides new insights into how to treatpneumonia in children
D) explains the cause of pneumonia inchildren from a new perspective
56. Which of the following is most probablysuggested by Steve Field to solve the problems of air pollution?
A) Public transport should be promoted.
B)People should move away from main roads.
C) Transport should take the environment into account.
D)People should be aware of the significance of public health.
PassageTwo
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57. Karpinski and Duberstein find that __
A) Facebook users are inclined to bedistracted
B) Facebook users get lower GPAs thannon-users
C) distraction is the major cause ofstudents' low GPAs
D) students' low GPAs are resulted from Facebookusing
58. What does John Kamin think about theidea that Facebook is a distraction?
A) He admits it.
B) He denies it.
C) He is doubtful.
D) He is uncertain.
59. Susan Greenfield points out that socialnetworks like Facebook and Bebo are ____
A) meaningless
B) unoriginal
C) distractive
D) addictive
60. Gary Small is most likely to agree thatsocial networks result in the users' __
A) inability to commanicate in real-life
B) over-sensitivity to digital technology
C) lower GPAs than nonusers
D) diminished mental ability
61. What do the "experts" do withthe studies of Internet use, as it is mentioned in the last paragraph?
A) They decide to give up doing suchstudies.
B) They take it meaningless to study Internet use.
C) They don't think my such studies areperfect.
D) They don't want their studies to be interfered with.