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To start with, people have been cutting down tress for building, causing some animals to lose their habitats. Besides, farmers use too much pesticide, which endangers the lives of some animals. In addition, to make money, some people have been killing rare wild animals.

Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车). They will, in a lifetime, push thechrome-plated contraptionsmany miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.

Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging(吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.

One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.

On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.

But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.

After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.

But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony(假冒的) customers.

As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.

Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.

One afternoon just before Christmas, an old gentleman was wandering through the city center. The shops were all filled with good things and crowded61____shoppers. The children were looking at all the toys on display in windows, and62____old man suddenly saw a boy63____(sit) on the ground and crying bitterly. When the kind old man asked him64____he was weeping, the little boy told him that he lost a ten penny coin that his uncle had given him.65 ____(hear) this, the old man handed to the child a shiny new ten penny coin66____he pulled out from his pocket.

“Thank you very much, ” said the little boy, drying his eyes. He cheered up at once.

An hour or so later, the old man was making his way back home by the same road. What made him feel67____(surprise) was that he saw the dirty little boy in the same spot, crying just as68____(sad) as before. He went up to the boy69____asked him if he had lost the second ten penny piece he had just given him as well. The boy told him that actually he had not lost the second coin, he still could not find the first 70____. “If I could find my own piece, ” he said tearfully, “I would have twenty pence now.”

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66．______　67.______　68.______　69.______　70.______

Are Bees Happier in Cities?

　　We often think of them as living happily in wildflower meadows （草地） and rolling fields. But new research suggests Britain’s bees are happier near towns and cities.

　　A new study of wildlife sites across four English counties has found that most are home to fewer species of bees today than they were in the past. It found that the expansion of farmland has actually been more damaging to Britain’s bee population than the concreting over （铺设混凝土） of the countryside for housing. For instance, meadows near Milton Keynes now boast more species of bee than sites in more rural areas.

　　Reading University researcher Dr Deepa Senapathi believes intensive agriculture is to blame. Climate change could be destroying the relationship between bees and plants. That’s according to a study that said warmer springs can change the life cycles of bees, which can throw them out of the plants they rely on. The research is the first clear example of the potential for climate change to destroy such critical relationships between species.

　　While the gardens, parks and churchyards of towns and cities provide bees with a variety of plants to rely on and an extended flowering season, popular crops such as oilseed rape only bloom for a few weeks.

　　Dr Senapathi said, “While concreting over the countryside may appear to be bad news for nature, we’ve found that progressive urbanization may be much less damaging than intensive agriculture.”

　　Urban areas may benefit bees more than farmland by providing a wide variety of flowering plants and an extended flowering season, according to the researcher.

　　“Over the past century, rural landscapes in Britain have become increasingly dominated by large amounts of monoculture—the growing of a single type of plant, which has helped encourage crop production,” she said. “But without a mixture of habitat and food sources, rural areas can sometimes be little better than green deserts for biodiversity （生物多样性）.”

　　Scientists around the country are trying to work out why populations of bees and other insects are falling. Pesticides, climate change and disease may, like intensive farming, be playing a role.

（Note：Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.）

OLIVER: Well, go on.

HENRY: Oh, yes. __（1）____ It was all my fault. I didn't know whether I could survive until morning. ____（2）______

OLIVER: And it was the ship that brought you to England.

HENRY: Yes. __（3）___ I went to the American embassy to seek help, but ... (The brothers smile at each other.)

RODERICK: Well, you mustn't worry about that. It's an advantage.

HENRY: I'm afraid I don't quite follow you, sir.

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   Their friend, Danny Lin, was waiting at the airport. He was going to take them and their baggage to catch "The True North", the cross-Canada train. On the way to the station, he chatted about their trip. "You're going to see some great scenery. Going eastward, you'll pass mountains and thousands of lakes and forests, as well as wide rivers and large cities. _（4）____ Here in Vancouver, you're in Canada's warmest part. People say it is Canada's most beautiful city, surrounded by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and sailing in the harbour make Vancouver one of Canada's most popular cities to live in. Its population is increasing rapidly. The coast north of Vancouver has some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world. ___（5）_______"

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when a friendly man informed him that the printer probably needed only to be cleaning. Because the store charged 50 yuan for so cleanings, the young man advised my father try the job himself. Pleasant surprised by the man’s honest reply, my father asked on a loud voice, “Does your boss know that you discourage business?” “Actually, it’s his boss’s idea,” the employee reply. “We usually make more money on repairs unless we let people try to fix things themselves first.”

请根据上下文内容，将文中划线部分译成汉语或者英语，并将答案转写到答题卡上。

(1) Healthy eating along with regular exercise is probably the only way to become fit. Diets are useless in the long term, (2)yet approximately 20% of teenagers say they have tried going on a diet and skipping meals to control their weight. If you eat properly and exercise regularly, you will lose weight, keep fit and feel great.

(3) As a teenager, it is important to give your body the energy it needs. If you skip meals, you don’t get enough energy, and then you feel tired. For a healthy diet, (4)你应该主要吃米饭、面包、蔬菜和水果. You also need to drink a lot of water--six to eight glasses a day. Water helps keep your system clean. (5)喝足够的水会改善你的皮肤and give you healthy hair.