2012届高考英语专题复习精选资料集（六十）

用心 爱心 专心 1 20122012 届高考英语专题复习精选资料集 六十 届高考英语专题复习精选资料集 六十 A You need to be of a certain age to understand why so many people in Hollywood are caring about the possible closing down of Metro Goldwyn Mayer 米高梅电影公 司 For the past 40 years its output has been good but now it is on the ropes with debts of 3 7 billion and will have to sell off its most valuable assets 资产 In its golden time MGM stood for something If Warner Brothers meant social dramas and gangster movies and Disney meant cartoon films then MGM was healthy fantasy This business model found its most glorious expression in its musicals 音乐剧 of the post war era It also featured such many famous stars as Fred Astaire Frank Sinatra Gene Kelly and Judy Garland But MGM had always put its hopes on the quality of stars it could attract From the time MGM became a company in 1924 the studio and his associate proved themselves good at creating big names For 35 years this worked well enough but the growing power of television disturbed Hollywood MGM continued to throw money into making gorgeous looking musicals but despite some big successes audiences gradually started to drift away Throughout the sixties MGM s decline set in Things went from bad to worse In 1973 MGM stopped distributing its own films Since then the Lion s roar has been reduced to a whimper 呜咽 How far MGM has fallen can be shown by its recent releases This was a studio that for years offered a reliable supply of first class films Yet last year its total output was three To make it worse all were co produced with other studios And this year Only one so far and maybe the last What now MGM will probably be sold though recent buyers have been cautious about a price thought to be around 2 billion 1 MGM is becoming the focus in Hollywood because it A has more supporters B has produced good films C might be closed down D has lost all its assets 2 What can we learn about MGM from the text A It has been sold out for around 2 billion B The Internet was a factor causing its decline C It only produced three films by itself last year D It made a wrong decision for its development 3 What s the main idea of the text A The past glories of MGM B The musicals made by MGM C The decline of MGM D A historical decision by MGM B 1 Six Hours Free Parking If you spend 100 or more in our stores you will receive six hours of free parking When you have spent 100 or more just take this coupon and your 用心 爱心 专心 2 receipt to the customer service desk on level 4 They will stamp your parking ticket to allow 6 hours of free parking Offer here until November 14 2 Win a 1000 CD Collection Win your choice of 1000 worth of CDs from JB Music Store Just buy any two CDs and your name will go into the competition Select your own prize from our wide variety of rock pop jazz and classical music Competition ends November 14 Prize drawn on November 21 Check store for more information 3 Buy One Get One Free Buy one shirt or tie at Daniel s Menswear and get another shirt 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at the damaged Fukushima Dai Ichi Nuclear Power Station in northern Japan has raised worries about radiation risks We spoke Tuesday with Jonathan Links an expert in radiation health sciences He is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland Professor Links says workers within the nuclear plant are the only people at risk of extremely high doses of radiation JONATHAN LINKS Of course we don t know what doses they ve received but the only persons at risk of acute radiation effects are the workers For other people he says there may be a long term worry People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing radiation the kind released in a nuclear accident Professor Links says scientists can use computers to quickly model where radioactive material has blown and settled Then they measure how large an area is contaminated He says if the situation is serious enough officials could take steps like telling people not to eat locally grown food or drink the water JONATHAN LINKS But that would only be the case if there was a significant release and because of wind direction the radioactive material was blown over the area and then settled out of the air into and onto water plants fruits and vegetables The reactors at Fukushima are on the Pacific coast But Professor Links says people should not worry about any radioactive material leaking into the ocean JONATHAN LINKS Even in a worst case scenario accident the sea provides a very high degree of dilution So the concentration of radioactivity in the seawater would still be quite low Japan is the only country to have had atomic bombs dropped on it That memory from World War Two would create a stronger psychological sensitivity to radiation exposure Professors Links says Next month is the twenty fifth anniversary of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine The nineteen eighty six event was the world s worst accident in the nuclear power industry A new United Nations report says more than six thousand cases of thyroid cancer have been found These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus Russia and Ukraine The report says that by two thousand five the cancers had resulted in fifteen deaths The cancers were largely caused by drinking contaminated milk The milk came from cows that ate grass where radioactive material had fallen To get the latest updates go to Contributing James Brooke 用心 爱心 专心 4 1 The passage mainly tells us A What measures the Japan Government takes to solve the nuclear crisis B Worries and influences caused by the nuclear crisis C With great efforts of scientists the Japan Government has put the nuclear crisis under control D To explain that the nuclear crisis has less effect on its neighboring countries 2 Which of the following is NOT the influences caused by the leak of Fukushima Dai Ichi Nuclear Power Station A Workers at the nuclear station are suffering the risk of death B People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing radiation the kind released in a nuclear accident C The radioactive material may be blown over the area causing the pollution to water D The concentration of radioactivity in the seawater can not be diluted 3 What s the meaning of the underlined word dilution A chemical B salt C dissolutionD elimination 4 According to the passage which of the following is not TRUE A Water people drink food and vegetables people eat may be polluted by nuclear radiation B Japan is the only country to have had atomic bombs dropped on it C You can go to to get the latest news D The nuclear accident in Japan is the worst in the nuclear power industry D It is pretty much a one way street While it may be common for university researchers to try their luck in the commercial world there is very little traffic in the opposite direction Pay has always been the biggest deterrent as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job For some industrial scientists however the attractions of academia 学术界 outweigh any financial considerations Helen Lee took a 70 cut in salary when she moved from a senior post in Abbott Laboratories to a medical department at the University of Cambridge Her main reason for returning to academia mid career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions Some areas of inquiry have few prospects of a commercial return and Lee s is one of them The impact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career Guy Grant now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge spent two years working for a pharmaceutical 制药的 company before returning to university as a post doctoral researcher He took a 30 salary cut but felt it worthwhile for the greater intellectual opportunities Higher up the ladder where a pay cut is usually more significant the demand for scientists with a wealth of experience in industry is forcing universities to make the transition 转换 to academia more attractive according to Lee 用心 爱心 专心 5 Industrial scientists tend to receive training that academics do not such as how to build a multidisciplinary team manage budgets and negotiate contracts They are also well placed to bring something extra to the teaching side of an academic role that will help students get a job when they graduate says Lee perhaps experience in manufacturing practice or product development Only a small number of undergraduates will continue in an academic career So someone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far m