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     BUKHANNON, West Virginia- Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path in Monday
night to the site of a coal mine explosion that trapped 13 miners, who had not been heard from since the
early morning accident.
     Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered, waiting for
updates(最新報道) on the rescuers' progress.
     The miners were trapped at about 6:30 a.m. and many families weren't informed of the accident until
about 10 a.m.-more than three hours after it happened. "It's very upsetting, but you've got to be patient, I
guess," said John Helms, whose brother, Terry, was trapped in the mine.
     The trapped miners were about 260 feet underground and about 10000 feet from the Sago Mine's
entrance, said Roger Nicholson, general counsel from International Coal Group.
     At a late night news conference, Nicholson said one team had advanced about 4800 feet in the four
hours since entering the mine just before 6 p.m. Another team entered the mine about 30 minutes later.
     He said the crew was very experienced, with some members having worked underground for 30 to 35
years. The miners were equipped with about one hour of breathable oxygen each. The company has not
released the names of the miner.
     The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect (remove) the power to the phones
they use to communicate with the surface before doing that. "We don't want to be energizing anything if it's
in an atmosphere with burnable gases," Kips said.
     The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. High level of carbon monoxide were detected
shortly after the explosion, which delayed rescue efforts, but those levels have since subsided(減退),
authorities said.
1. According to the passage, we can infer that _____.      
A. all the miners who were trapped underground were still alive
B. communication with the trapped miners was cut off
C. the two rescue teams entered the mine at the same time
D. the rescue started as soon as the accident happened
2. If the first team advanced at an average speed, they could dig about _____ per hour.
A. 1000 feet                          
B. 2400 feet
C. 1200 feet                          
D. 4800 feet
3. Where can the passage be seen?
A. In a magazine.                      
B. In a newspaper.
C. In a science book.                  
D. In an advertisement.
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     Throughout each year, many special events are held at St. Croix Lutheran High School. Here is some
information on four events.
Starlight Dinner Concert
    It begins at 5:00 pm on October 8, 2009 with a meal served by student volunteers and beautiful
dinner music performed by students.
    Tickets are $20 each, advance sales only. Tables may be reserved for 6 to 16 people per table.
To buy tickets, complete the reservation form and return it to the school office, e-mail us at Starlight
reservations, or call 651-455-1521, ext. 351.
Grandparents Day
    Grandparents are very special people at St. Croix Lutheran, and we will celebrate them with activities
on campus (校園) on Thursday, September 24, and Friday, September 25, 2009.
    Our students invite their grandparents to join them either of these days to share with them in their
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Auction
    St. Croix's 17th annual auction is scheduled for Saturday, November 7, 2009, with the theme
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    Please contact (聯(lián)系) the Mission Advancement Office at 651-455-1521, ext. 106, if you would like
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Chapel
    Chapel is a special event that takes place every school day at St. Croix Lutheran High School. We
come together as a family to worship the Lord. We come with open hearts and open ears to hear the
word of God and leave refreshed and renewed in our faith.
1. We learn that on Grandparents Day, _____.
[     ]
A. no meals will be served at school
B. grandparents can have a tour around the school
C. students won't have to attend classes
D. the president of the school will not be at school
2. If you are interested in St. Croix's 17th annual auction, what should you do?
[     ]
A. Complete a reservation form.
B. Call 651-455-1521, ext. 351.
C. Call 651-455-1521, ext. 106.
D. Send an e-mail to Starlight reservation.
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[     ]
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     Imagine, one day, getting out of bed in Beijing and being at your office in Shanghai in only a couple of
hours, and then, after a full day of work, going back home to Beijing and having dinner there.
     Sounds unusual，doesn't it? But it's not that unrealistic，with the development of China's highspeed
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     China is negotiating to extend its own highspeed railway network to up to 17 countries in 10 to 15
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     China has proposed three such projects.The first would possibly connect Kunming with Singapore
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     If China's plan for the highspeed railway goes forward, people could zip over from London to Beijing in under two days.
     The new system would still follow China's highspeed railway standard.And the trains would be able to
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     China's bullet train (高速客車), the one connecting Wuhan to Guangzhou, already has the world's
fastest average speed.It covers 1,069 kilometers in about three hours.
     Of course, there are some technical challenges to overcome.There are so many issues that need to be
settled, such as safety, rail gauge (軌距), maintenance of railway tracks.So，it's important to pay attention to every detail.
     But the key issue is really money.China is already spending hundreds of billions of yuan on domestic
railway expansion.
     China prefers that the other countries pay in natural resources rather than with capital investment.
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     It'll be a winwin project.For other countries, the railway network will definitely create more
opportunities for business, tourism and so on, not to mention the better communication among those
countries.
     For China，such a project would not only connect it with the rest of Asia and bring some muchneeded resources, but would also help develop China's far west.We foresee that in the coming decades, millions of people will migrate to the western regions, where the land is empty and resources unused.With highspeed
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Central Asian and Eastern European countries.
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A．China will get muchneeded resources and develop its western regions
B．China and the countries involved will benefit from the project in various ways
C．China will develop its railway system and communication with other countries
D．the foreign countries involved will develop their railway transportation, business and tourism
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B．safety of the system
C．financial problems
D．maintenance of railway tracks
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A．Critical.  
B．Reserved.
C．Doubtful.  
D．Positive.
4．Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
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B．Big Railway Dreams
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     The high-protein, low-carbohydrate (碳水化合物) diets many people turn to for weight loss might have
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     Diets relatively high in protein and lower in carbs have been shown to help heavy people lose weight. "People
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     The findings are based on 17 overweight men who followed three short-term diets: a one-week menu plan
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suggest that people should be cautious about consuming too much protein and too little fiber over a long period.
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1. What is the best title of the text?
A Plan a Healthy Diet
B. Take Care of Your Colon
C. How to Lose Weight
D. How to Protect against Cancer
2. The underlined word "colon" in Paragraph 1 probably refers to "_____".
A. an organ
B. intelligence
C. a habit
D. behaviour
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A. affect your mood
B. lower cancer risks
C. harm your body
D. keep your figure
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B. weight problems are hard to solve
C. it is better to follow a low-carb diet
D. people should be cautious to lose weight
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     Scientists placed more than 200 earthquake recorders in the earth to measure the movement. They
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     A real earthquake happened on February 28, 2001 in Seattle. The Nisqually earthquake was 6.8 on
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     A British train station has put up a no kissing sign to stop lovers going full steam ahead with their
overamorous farewells.
                                                 
     Commuters have been told:if you want to get up to that kind of business,do it in the car park.
     The sign has been put up at the dropoff point (落客處) at Warrington Bank Quay station in the town of Warrington,between Liverpool and Manchester in northwest England.
   A similar sign,this time permitting kissing,has been put up elsewhere in a zone where kissing is considered
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     "We have not banned kissing in the station," said a spokesman for operators Virgin Rail.
     "But we have put the sign up at the dropoff point because it is not a very big area and it often gets busy.
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     The busy station links the town with the major cities London,Birmingham,Glasgow,Edinburgh,Liverpool
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relationships start with a glance and even,in the case of our Marylebone station last November where one
passenger will propose (求婚) to another over the public address system."
     "So our passengers are more than welcome to share a kiss in our stations."
1．The train station has put up a no kissing sign in order to________.
A．ban kissing in the station
B．get passengers to walk quickly
C．a(chǎn)void embarrassment
D．prevent illegal practice
2．The underlined word "it" here refers to________.
A．rescuing love from the tracks  
B．banning kissing in the station
C．kissing at the dropoff point  
D．kissing in the car park
3．We learn that in High Wycombe________.
A．kissing is encouraged
B．kissing is forbidden
C．kissing is intolerable
D．kissing is limited to a certain time
4．We can infer that________.
A．the dropoff point is not a safe place
B．the dropoff point is a quiet place
C．the dropoff point is a romantic place
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     BEIJING - After a night of wining and dining with 50 of China's richest people, Warren Buffet and
Bill Gates told the journalists on Thursday that the biggest difference between eating with Chinese
tycoons (企業(yè)界大亨) and Western ones was the food.
     "I was amazed last night, really, at how similar the questions and discussions and all that were to those
in the dinners we had in the U.S.," said Mr. Buffett.
     Mr. Buffett and Mr. Gates, two of the best known Westerners here, announced in September, 2010
that they planned to invite 50 wealthy Chinese tycoons to dinner in Beijing to encourage philanthropy (慈善事業(yè)) among China's new rich.
     On Thursday, the two men pronounced the dinner a great success, saying that two-thirds of those
invited had shown up, and that more than half of them had offered their own ideas on how Chinese
philanthropy should work.
     The guest list wasn't made public, but the Chinese news media reported that it included Jet Li, the
movie star; Niu Gensheng, the founder of a Chinese dairy business; and Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, who
control the SOHO China real estate (房地產(chǎn)) empire.
     As with four earlier dinners held in the United States, Mr. Buffett and Mr. Gates said, no one at the
Beijing event was asked to donate money or to promise to engage in charity. "Bill and I won't be calling
anybody. What happens in China will depend on what the Chinese people feel about a project of this
sort," said Mr. Buffett.
     China is widely reported to be second only to the United States in the number of dollar billionaires.
Mr. Gates and Mr. Buffett said the nation was unique because its wealthy class had arisen almost wholly
in the past 30 years, so the philanthropic practices established among European and American dynasties
are new here, and open to change.
     The two said the dinner wasn't a long planned matter, but an offshoot (衍生事物) of a trip that Mr.
Buffett had already scheduled to Guangdong and Hunan Provinces, where BYD Company, a maker of
clean-energy automobiles, has factories. Mr. Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, holds a 10%
stake (股金) in the company.
     But Mr. Gates suggested that their philanthropic trip wasn't yet over. "We may do an event in India,"
he said.

1. What is the text mainly about?

   A. A brief analysis of future philanthropy.
   B. The development of Chinese philanthropy.
   C. An introduction on Mr. Buffett and Mr. Gates' trip in China.
   D. A charity dinner held in Beijing by Mr. Buffett and Mr. Gates.

2. According to the first two paragraphs, Mr. Buffett really wanted to say that _____.

   A. the dinner was quite a success
   B. the food in the dinner was very delicious
   C. Chinese tycoons are similar to Western ones
   D. it was pleasing to discuss with Chinese tycoons

3. We can learn from the text that __________.

   A. China has the largest number of dollar billionaires in Asia
   B. many people have promised to donate money at dinner
   C. Beijing will be the last stop of their philanthropic trip
   D. the Chinese news media published the complete guest list of the dinner

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     WASHINGTON(Reuters)-Federal Government Agencies in the capital region will remain closed
for a second day on Tuesday as residents trying to clean up the weekend storm that shocked the area
with two feet of snow.
     Another big winter storm was expected to hit the U.S. mid-Atlantic on Tuesday and last through
Wednesday, the National Weather Service forecast on Monday. Projected snowfall is ranged from
10 to 20 inches, it said. The new storm was expected to hit other big cities along the East Coast,
including Baltimore and Philadelphia, which is still extending into New Jersey and New York. It would
pile on to the 32 inches of snow that fell in suburban Washington in the biggest snowfall to hit the city
in decades.
     The Office of Personnel Management announced on Monday evening that Federal Government
Offices in the Washington area would be closed on Tuesday. Emergency employees were expected
to report for work in time, but non-emergency employees were excused. The Federal Government
was closed on Monday, though President Barack Obama still held meetings at the White House.
Schools and most businesses in the region also were shut.
     In the county, about 80,000 people lost power on Saturday, and some customers still had no
electricity or heat on Monday. Many schools said classes would be canceled through Tuesday, even
before the latest storm warning.
     On Monday, winter sunshine bathed the nation's capital and the surrounding region, where people
dug out their driveways and sidewalks to finally start to clear streets in some residential neighborhoods.
Bus service on Monday was limited to just a small number of routes in the Washington, D.C.
     Cold and snow blanketed much of the central United States this winter, slowing weight gain in cattle
and pigs, delaying livestock(牲畜)sales, and increasing feed costs for producers.
     The new storm might also hit the Northeast, the nation's largest market for heating fuel. The weekend
blast largely bypassed that region.
1. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. Another Big Winter Storm Hit the West Coast of the USA
B. Weather Closes Government Offices a Second Day
C. A Big Snowstorm on the Way to America
D. More Cities Govered by Snow in America
2. The underlined word "projected" in the second paragraph means"                 "
A. desired  
B. estimated
C. melting  
D. planned
3. From the passage we can infer that                    .
A. New Jersey has suffered the big snow
B. a big snow hit the capital region on Monday
C. Washington was stricken by a big snow last weekend
D. Federal Government Agencies will have a holiday on Wednesday
4. According to the National Weather Service forecast,                  .
A. the new snowfall will reach 32 inches around Washington
B. the snowstorm will hit more big cities along the West Coast
C. the snowstorm will make 80,000 people live in darkness
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     LONDON: What could possibly be wrong with planting trees? The benefits are obvious; they
firm the soil, take in extra water and take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. However, it now
turns out that planting trees could add to global warming.
     Tree roots do a great job of keeping soil firmly on the ground and out of the wind's power. The
problem is that some of those dust clouds play an important part in soaking up carbon dioxide.
     Huge dust storms blow out over the oceans from dry parts of North Africa and central Asia.
Tons of dust are lifted as a thin film over the oceans surface. The dust fuels oceanic life.
     Dust from China is carried east and left in the Pacific Ocean. If a tree-planting program there is
successful and the dust supply reduced, the net result may be that less carbon dioxide gets locked
away in the ocean.
      Andy Ridgwell, an environmental scientist from the University of East Anglia, has spent the past
few years studying dust and says his work "shows clearly the complexity of the system and the
importance of not tinkering (粗劣地修補(bǔ)) with it without understanding the results. For this reason
the need is to focus on cutting carbon dioxide giving off rather than monkeying (瞎弄) about with the
land surface."
     An American scientist, Robert Jackson, has shown that when native grassland areas are invaded
(侵入) by trees, carbon is lost from the soil. "We are studying why the soil carbon disappears, but
one theory is that trees do a lot more of their growing above ground compared to grasses, so less
carbon goes directly into the soil from trees." says Jackson.
      In wet areas of the world, the gain from trees absorbing carbon dioxide above ground seems to
be outweighed by the loss of carbon from the soil below ground. Countries that plan to combat global
warming by planting trees may have to think again.
     Solutions to environmental problems are often more complex than they first appear, and
understanding the Earth's climate is a very great challenge.
1. According to this report, dust from storms can do the following except ________.
A. harm the earth's climate    
B. take in carbon dioxide  
C. feed the life in the ocean    
D. keep carbon dioxide locked in the ocean
2. Andy Ridgwell believes that _____________.
A. dust plays a more important part than trees
B. trees shouldn't have been planted in the past
C. carbon dioxide is harmful to everything on the earth
D. environmental problems are far less simple than expected
3. Robert Jackson's experiment proves that ____________.
A. grassland areas should be covered by forests
B. carbon can turn grass into dust
C. trees hold more carbon than grasses
D. less carbon can make trees grow faster
4. The underlined word "combat" in the last but one paragraph means ________________.
A. learn about      
B. live with        
C. fight against        
D. give up

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