高考英语一轮复习限时阅读训练23.doc

2014届高考英语一轮复习限时阅读训练23atuvalu, north of fiji, is a tiny country in the pacific ocean.storms and huge waves are a constant threat and none of tuvalus nine little islands is more than five metres above sea level. salt water is already entering the countrys drinking water supply, as well as damaging plants that produce fruit and vegetable. it fears it will be swallowed up by the sea. without urgent help, the countrys days are numbered.but tuvalu is not the first place to face sinking into the sea. venice, a historic city in italy best known for its canals, has sunk about 24cm over the past 100 years. experts say that it will have sunk another 20-50cm by 2050.a century ago, st. marks square, the lowest point in the city, flooded about nine time a year. nowdays it happens more than 100 times.while venice is slowly sinking into the mud on which it stands, tuvalus rising sea level is caused by global warming.the average global temperature has increased by almost 0.5 centigrade degree over the past century; scientists expect it to rise by an extra 1-3 degrees over the next 100 years.warmer weather makes glaciers（冰川） melt, adding more water to the ocean. the warmer temperatures also make water expand, so it take up more space, causing the sea level to rise. the sea level has risen about 10-25cm in the last 100 years.people have been increasing the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as co2, through burning coal, oil and gas. this adds to the power of the greenhouse effect, making the planet even warmer.many scientists believe that, if the warming is not stopped, there will be huge climate changes. the sea level could rise by one metre this century.should this come true, millions of homes would be swallowed up by the sea and the world will be flooded with climate refugees looking for somewhere else to live.57we can infer from paragraph 2 that .atuvalu is in danger of being swallowed up by the seaball tuvalu islands are about five meters above the sea levelcdrinking water in tuvalu has been destroyeddtuvalu is often flooded by storms and waves58the author uses tuvalu and venice as examples in order to explain . ait is first places sinking into the seabit is sinking into the mud where they standcit will disappear in the futuredits trouble is caused by global warming59what does the underlined word refugees (in the last paragraph)mean?apeople forced away from their homelandbsudden changes caused by world climatecanimals closely connected with weatherdbad effect of climate changes60which of the following is not true according to the text?athe main cause of global warming is human pollutionbthe average global temperature has risen by 1-3 over the past century.cthe warmer temperature causes the sea level to risedthere will be huge climate changes unless the warming is stopped57-60adab第二节：下面为五封crazy english杂志的读者来信片段（第6165题）。请从以下选项（a、b、c、d、e和f）中，为每封来信选取最佳的回信。选项有一项是多余项。61i am a reader of cr. recently i found students translate some articles of cr. i appreciate your offering an opportunity to us beginners to practise using english. so i want to ask how they can obtain these articles and translate them for you, and what qualities you require. thank you. 62i love your crazy english reader magazine! it provides valuable data for work in our english teaching. my wife and i are teaching conversational english so ive been giving you a bit of a plug at our middle school. i told the students to “get a copy”. its good stuff! fantastic!63im one of yaos fans from guangzhou. i have read some articles about yao ming in no. 7 crazy english reader. i want to know his correspondence address and the official website. could you please tell me? thank you very much indeed.64first of all, i must say thank you very much to all the cr reader editors who gave us a really good english magazine. secondly, i want to give you a piece of advice. in each passage, you gave us some new words with their chinese translation. however, as far as my knowledge, i think you should give us not only the chinese meaning but also the english meaning so as to know the words more accurately.65im an editor of the english monthly of our school. i have a question, that is, how to say the position of the paper e.g. , 编辑; 责任编辑and so on. i hope you can help me to tell me the word in english. the more the better. thank you so much! i love the book very much. now i do this work. i need to study more information about this work. if you have time, please email me. thank you.a. thank you for your suggestion. we may try that in some future issues of cr. i think the best way to improve your reading vocabulary is to be able to guess the meaning of the word from the other words around it. also, if you have an english dictionary, it is good to look up the words and them mark them down in a notebook and review them later on. then if you really want to learn how to use the words, try using them in conversation or in writing. hope this helps.b. the best way for you to learn the different positions in a newspaper or magazine is to get a copy of an all english magazine or newspaper and then copy down the different positions. there are also titles such as managing editor, reporter, copy editor, photo editor and layout editor. i hope this helps. if you have some more specific questions, you can send them to me and ill try to answer. c. the best way to reach yao directly is through his home team, the shanghai sharks. you can write to him at 2570 xietu road, shanghai. for more information on yao, you can look at the sports section in sina. com. i hope this helps. another idea is that you can try to write to yao while he is living and playing in houston. you can try to reach yao in the us at: yao ming compaq center 10 houston, tx 77046.d. thank you for being such a cheerful reader of cr. yes, youre right we made a mistake in the writing of that chinese word. each issue we try to read very carefully each article and its translation to make sure there are no mistakes, but unfortunately a few mistakes always get by. b