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Dancing in the Streets
If there is one thing certain to get Brazilians on their feet，it is the Rio Carnival(狂欢节)．
Held in Rio de Janeiro．the country’s biggest city．the carnival began on February 20 when the mayor gave key of the city to Rei Momo—the Lord of Misrule(无序之皇)
On his orders，each year people turn the city into a paradise of dance and music．The
following six days are so fun of parades，street dancing，fantastic clothes and partying(聚会)that
many people forget about eating and sleeping
“It was the passion of the carnival that attracted me to Brazil and made me settle down in
Rio．”said Bob Nadkarni．a British man who has lived in the city for several years For many
Brazilians．the centrepiece of the carnival is samba(桑巴舞)，a typical Brazilian dance．Every
year,tens of thousands of visitors and locals show off their passion and energy iu the streets．
following the beat(节拍)of the Latin music．
The climax to this street party is the float(彩车)parade，in which floats decorated with tons
of fresh flowers by various samba schools and local communities move through the city．On the
top of each float stands the candidate for the Drum Queen，who is chosen at the end of the party．
while most people are free to enjoy the celebrations。Rio’s police officers have to keep a
clear head．Following the murder of three offlcers in a gunfight early last week，the Brazilian
Government has tightened security in Rio．The street fighting，robbery and crimes that
accompany the carnival are very difficult to police．
Carnivals began in ancient Rome as a celebration at which people fed wild wolves，in honour of the city’s founder who was said to have been raised by a she—wolf．Brazil gave new life to this tradition and so．despite the troubles．the carnival will remain a symbol of the country’s culture．
36 According to the passage．during the Carnival people in Rio did all of the following
EXCEPT
A.
dancing in the streets．
B.
putting on colorful clothes
C.
eating a lot of food．
D.
holding exciting parades．
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C.
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A.
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B.
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C.
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D.
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E.
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F.
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G.
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H.
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I.
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J.
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A.
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B.
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A.
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B.
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A.
people hate the inconvenience of working on night shifts.
B.
your life is disturbed by changing from day to night routines and back.
C.
not all industries work at the same hours.
D.
it is difficult to find a corps of good night workers.
【单选题】第二篇Shopping at Second-hand Clothing StoresWhen Barth was a college student, he often shopped at thrift shops（） A．to save money B．to save energy C．to help the environment D．to make friends with poor pe...
A.
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B.
Shopping at Second-hand Clothing Stores
C.
When 33-year-old Pete Barth was in college, shopping at second-hand clothing stores was just something he did—"like changing the tires on his car." He looked at his budget and decided he could save a lot of money by shopping for clothes at thrift shops.
D.
"Even new clothes are fairly disposable(用后即丢掉的) and wear out after a couple of years," Barth said. "In thrift shops, you can find some great stuff whose quality is better than new clothes."
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F.
Pat Akins, an accountant at a Florida Salvation Army(SA)(救世军)thrift shop, said that, for her, shopping at thrift shops is a way to help the environment.
G.
"When my daughter was little, we looked at it as recycling," Akins said. "Also, why pay 30 dollars for Et new coat when you can get another one for a lot less"
H.
Akins said that the SA has shops all over the US—"some as big as department stores. "All of the clothes are donated(损赠) ,and when they have a surplus(盈余) ,they’ll have "stuff a bag" specials, where customers can fill a grocery sack with clothes for only 5 or 10 dollars.
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【单选题】第二篇 The Net Cost of Making a Name for Yourself Companies are paying up to $10,000 to register a domain name on the Internet even though there is no guarantee that they will get the name ...
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The amount of money covering the basics.
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The registration, fee for a domain name on the Internet.
C.
The amount of money for the construction of a network in a company.
D.
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A.
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B.
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【单选题】第二篇 The word “devastating” in the last paragraph could be best replaced by（） A．“frustrating”． B．“damaging”． C．“defeating”． D．“worrying”．
A.
第二篇
B.
Ancient Egypt Brought Down by Famine Even ancient Egypt’s mighty pyramid(金字塔)builders were powerless in the face of the famine(饥荒)that helped bring down their civilization around 2180 B．C．．Now evidence collected from mud deposited by the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of kilometers to the south was ultimately to blame--and the same or worse could happen today． The ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile’s annual floods to irrigate their crops．But any change in climate that pushed the African monsoons(季风)southwards out of Ethiopia would have reduced these floods． Declining rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant fewer plants to stabilize the soil．W．1len rain did fall it would have washed large amounts of soil into the Blue Nile and into Egypt，along with sediment(沉积)from the White Nile． Blue Nile mud has a different isotope(同位素)signature from that of the white Nile．So by analyzing isotope differences in mud deposited in the Nile Delta．Michael Krom of LeedsUniversity worked out what proportion of sediment came from each branch of the river． Krom reasons that during periods of drought，the amount of Blue Nile mud in the river would be relatively high．He found that one of these periods，from 4500 to 4200 years ago。immediately came before the fall of the Egypt’s old Kingdom． The weakened waters would have been disaster for the Egyptians．‘‘Changes that affect food supply don’t have to be very large to have a ripple(波浪)effect in societies，”says Bill Ryan of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in New York． Similar events today could be even more devastating，says team member Daniel Stanley．ascientist from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D．C．“Anything humans do to shift the climate belts would have an even worse effect along the Nile system today because the populations have increased dramatically．”
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