1 It was held on the last Saturday of March, which asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Based on an idea successfully executed(執(zhí)行) in Thailand in 2005, it was pioneered by WWF Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, and achieved worldwide participation in 2008. 2
Earth Hour 2007
Earth Hour was held in Sydney, Australia at 7:30 pm, local time.
Earth Hour 2008
The official website for the event, earthhour.org, received over 6.7 million unique visitors in the week leading up to Earth Hour.3
According to a Zogby International online survey 36 million people participated in Earth Hour 2008. The survey also showed there was a 4 percentage point increase in awareness of environmental issues such as climate change, directly after the event. (However a search of Zogby's website and archive fails to produce any such survey or reference to the event)
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Earth Hour 2009 is from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time, March 28 2009. Currently, 82 countries and more than 2100 cities are committed to Earth Hour 2009, a huge increase from people participating in 35 countries for Earth Hour 2008.
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A. Earth Hour 2009
B. Other websites took part in the event, with Google's homepage going :"dark" on the day.
C. Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the WWF .
D. The aim of Earth Hour is to call on the public to save energy.
E. People are invent to provide blogs and short video clips on how they spend their time.
F．The time for Earth Hour is the same all the time．
G．Earth Hour will next take place on Saturday，March 28，2009 at 8：30 pm，local time．
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You have probably heard of homing pigeons, which usually appeared in war. From 3,000 B．C．to the present, homing pigeons have 1 as postmen. They have been especially useful for carrying messages 2 war. The telegraph is not 3 to carry about. Sometimes only the little pigeon can take a message where it ought to go.
In 1870, when the Prussians surrounded the city of Paris, the city was cut off from all the 4 means of communication. The people 5 many different ways of sending news. One way was to let go small balloons carrying mail.
6 of course, they only drifted 7 the wind carried them. Often they landed inside the enemy’s lines. Even balloons large enough to carry a pilot could hardly be well controlled.
It was pigeons that in the end. solved the 8 . Homing pigeons were brought into 9 . Soon they were carrying letters far and wide. The enemy bought 10 to catch pigeons, but the little postmen could fly faster than their 11 . Strangely enough, pigeons played an important 12 in war.
During World War I every army unit had a group of pigeons 13 . Many of them wore honored. Among them 14 an American pigeon with a French name Char Ami, which meant “dear friend”. A group of U.S. soldiers were surrounded by the enemy. They had no food and no bullets. They nearly died of 15 . There was little hope for them. Cher Ami made his way 16 the bullets and succeeded. At once planes 17 to drop food and ammunition (軍火) to them. With their strength 18 , the soldiers fought back to their own army and got saved.
19 can pigeons carry the message? There were various methods. Usually the message is put into a little glass tube. The tube is tied to the leg or hidden under 20 or hung around the neck.
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科目：高中英語 來源：英語完形填空天天練 高一同步 題型：054
You have probably heard of homing pigeons (鴿子), which usually appeared in war. From 3,000 B．C．to the present, homing pigeons have 1 as postmen. They have been especially useful for carrying messages in time of war. The telegraph is not 2 to carry about. Sometimes only the little pigeon can take a message where it ought to go.
In 1870, when the Prussians surrounded the city of Paris, the city was cut off from all the 3 means of communication. The people 4 many different ways of 5 news. One way was to let go small balloons carrying mail. 6 of course, they only drifted 7 the wind carried them. Often they landed inside the enemy's lines. Even balloons large enough to carry a pilot could hardly be well controlled.
It was pigeons that in the end solved the 8 . Homing pigeons were brought into 9 . Soon they were carrying letters far and wide. The enemy bought 10 to catch pigeons, but the little postmen could fly faster than their 11 . Strangely enough, pigeons played an important 12 in war.
During World War I every army unit had a group of pigeons 13 . Many of them were 14 . Among them was an American pigeon with a French name Cher Ami, which meant “friend”. A group of U.S. soldiers were surrounded by the enemy. They had no food and no bullets. They nearly died of 15 There was 16 hope for them. Cher Ami made his way 17 the bullets and succeeded. At once planes set out to drop food and ammunition (軍火) to them. With their strength 18 , the soldiers fought back to their own army and got saved.
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閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個選項(xiàng)中選出能填入相應(yīng)空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。
About a month ago I was present at a solemn occasion--the reading of a will. I can remember one passage that particularly struck me. It ran something 1 this:“And I direct that ￡500 be 2 to old William B, whom I have wished to help for many years, 3 always put off doing so.”
It was the Voice of Opportunity 4 written by Beyond. But the story doesn't 5 there. When the lawyers came to 6 out the bequest (遺贈), they discovered that old William B had 7 too, and so the 8 deed was lost.
I felt rather 9 about that. It seemed to me a most regrettable 10 that William would not have had his ￡500 just 11 somebody kept putting 12 giving it to him. And from 13 accounts, William could have done with the 14 . But I'm 15 that there are thousands of kindly little deeds waiting to be 16 today, which are being put off“ 17 later”.
George Herbert, in praise of good intentions, 18 that“One of these days better than 19 of these days.”But I say that 20 is better than all.
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C．a(chǎn)lthough D．a(chǎn)nd
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C．thing D．a(chǎn)ccident
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C．if D．when
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C．some D．a(chǎn)ll
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C．until D．toward
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科目：高中英語 來源：2013屆山西省太原五中高三下學(xué)期5月月考英語卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解
In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what "keeping up with the Joneses" is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They had to move back to an apartment in New York City. Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it "Keeping up with the Joneses” because "Jones" is a very common name in the United States. "Keeping up with the Joneses" came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand's series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are "Joneses" in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
【小題1】Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ______.
| A．want to be as rich as their neighbors |
| B．want others to know or to think that they are rich |
| C．don't want others to know they are rich |
| D．want to be happy |
| A．live outside New York City |
| B．live in New York City |
| C．live in apartments |
| D．live with many neighbors |
| A．Negative. | B．Positive. | C．Supportive. | D．Objective. |
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