Besides containing attractive flowers, trees and other plants that beautify the community, eco-friendly rain gardens are healthy for the environment and the people living and working nearby.
A rain garden is not very different from a traditional garden. It is just a far more eco-friendly garden. Usually it is built lower than the ground. Rain gardens make smart use of rain and storm water by temporarily holding water from rain and storms and letting it soak（浸人）slowly into the ground before it runs into streams or enters the public drinking water supply.
Thus, a rain garden keeps the water, allowing it to be used as needed by plants in the rain garden, rather than flowing immediately into nearby streams and going unused. The water will soak slowly into the ground within a day or two. This creates an advantage that the rain garden does not allow mosquitoes to breed. This is a simple, attractive, and eco-friendly “green” way to treat storm water.
What’s more, planting a rain garden helps reduce pollution and improve the environment. Without using expensive machinery and chemicals, rain gardens remove harmful chemicals in the rainwater and cut down on the amount of pollution reaching streams and rivers by up to 30%.
Native plants are recommended for rain gardens because they are more used to the locals climatem, soil, and water conditions. They may attract local wildlife such as native birds. Water your rain garden immediately after planting and once a week, unless you have had at least an inch of rain during the week. Once the native plants establish the necessary root system, it will require little care.
Often, local governments and private businesses develop large rain gardens in their yards and in public parks as a way to improve the environment and solve flooding problems. However, you don’t need to be a professional environmental engineer to create a rain garden. As long as you’re eco-conscious homeowners, you can help the environment by building smaller rain gardens in your yards.
小題1:Which of the following is the eco-friendly function of rain gardens discussed in Paragraph 4?
A．They can keep the rain and storm water.
B．They can help reduce the pollution problem.
C．They can be healthy for the people around.
D．They can make the environment more beautiful.
小題2:One of the main reasons why native plants are recommended is that           .
A．they cost less and are much easier to get
B．they may attract local wildlife to come
C．they require little care from the local gardeners
D．they are more used to the local growing conditions
小題3:What do we know about rain gardens?
A．They need little water after all the plants are planted.
B．They usually need at least an inch of rainwater a week.
C．They may attract local birds and change the locals climate.
D．They may reduce the water pollution problem by 70%.
小題4:Who are the intended readers of the passage?
A．Homeowners.B．Governors.C．Engineers,D．Educators.

小題1:B
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小題1:A
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Ever wondered how one person could save the planet from the effects of climate change?
A British-made computer game on trial release on Monday creates different ways of doing just that．
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Created by Oxford-based games developer Red Redemption, the game is different from other mainstream action games mainly by using data from real climate models and advice from scientists and economists．
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小題1:“Fate of the World” in the passage refers to                      ．
A．a(chǎn) book on computer gamesB．a(chǎn) company developing computer games
C．a(chǎn) computer game on climate changeD．a(chǎn) player in charge of computer games
小題2:What makes the climate computer game different from the other games?
A．It uses data from real climate models and advice from experts．
B．It is the only computer game about climate．
C．It can save the planet from the effect of climate change．
D．It aims to affect the global culture．
小題3:It can be concluded from the passage that                        ．
A．games on sustainability and human rights are very popular among young players
B．the game increases players’ awareness of environmental protection
C．only computer experts can play the new climate computer game
D．a(chǎn)fter a three-month feedback period from players, the new game is on sale now
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A．Challenging the climate change in an unreal world
B．Understanding what a sustainable future looks and feels like
C．Enjoying the power to decide the earth’s fate
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B．China is the third country in Asia to make human spaceflight．
C．By now, 5 astronauts have made successful spaceflight by Shenzhou spaceship．
D．The launching of Chang'e 1 became the third landmark in China's space achievements．
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C．first circumlunar satelliteD．unmanned Shenzhou spaceflight
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C．China's scientists are researching into techniques for soft lunar landing
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This scientist remarked that it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid to make mistakes. 小題5:  
Wouldn’t it be great if all parents would respond the way Robert’s mother responded to him?
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B．Well, the damage has already been done.
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This is another reason for some of the mystery about nuclear radiation. Serious damage can be done without the knowledge of the person at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated(放射治療) and feel fine, then die of cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. A child can be born weak or easy to get serious illness as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents.
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B．because the killed cells can’t be replaced
C．if it damages a few cells
D．unless the damaged cells can reproduce themselves
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　　In an editorial published this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Elin EkblomBak of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences suggested that authorities rethink how they define physical activity to highlight the dangers of sitting.
　　While health officials have issued guidelines recommending minimum amounts of physical activity, they haven’t suggested people try to limit how much time they spend in a seated position.
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　　Still, in a study published last year that tracked more than 17,000 Canadians for about a dozen years, researchers found people who sat more had a higher death risk, independently of whether or not they exercised.
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小題1:What is the best title for the text?
A．Not Sitting Too Much While WorkingB．How To Avoid Sitting Too Much
C．Sitting Too Much Could Be DeadlyD．More And More People Sit Too Much
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A．the more time you spend in exercising in a single bout, the healthier you will be.
B．those who often sit too much are sure to grow fat or suffer from a heart attack.
C．regular exercise is effective to get rid of the side effect of sitting too much.
D．you had better not sit for more than four hours in a single bout.
小題3:How does the danger of sitting too much affect the human body?
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B．It increases glucose and fat in the body.
C．It makes a person unable to exercise long enough in a day.
D．It causes the gene to fail to balance the glucose and fat in the body.
小題4:In the opinion of Ekblom-Bak, you’d better have a rest in the office by________.
A．sending your friends e-mails
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For example, imagine that you and your friends are arguing about who are the most popular music or movie stars, you can decide the argument by writing the names in the Googlefight boxes. Let’s say that you are arguing about Jackie Chan and Jet Li. You will quickly discover that Jet Li is mentioned 16 million times on Google pages, whereas Jackie Chan is mentioned a mere 12 million times! In this unscientific way, you can claim victory for one Star over another.
But teachers have come up with ways of using Googlefight which are much more useful from an academic point of view, particularly when it comes to studying languages. You can, for example, find out the frequency of two words with the same meaning, and deduce (推斷) from the answers which one is more common. For example, let’s take the words “buy” and “purchase”, which mean the same thing (although “buy” is only a verb and “purchase” is both a verb and a noun). It is immediately clear from Googlefight that “buy” is much more commonly used, with a massive three and a half billion hits, compared to only one billion occurrences for the more formal word.
But the real value of Googlefight to the language learner is in determining which is the more common of two phrases. For example, “raining cats and dogs” is an old-fashioned English expression about the weather. Do English speakers still use it? Or are they more likely to say “pouring down”? Googlefight suggests the latter. “Pouring down” has 898,000 Google hits, whereas “raining cats and dogs” only has 326,000.
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B．A way to make sure you win an argument.
C．A website showing how many hits two different things have.
D．A list of all the websites on Google.
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A．there are a lot of words on Googlefight
B．it can tell them which of the two words with the same meaning appears more often
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D．common words have a billion hits
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A．Make sure they mean be same thing.
B．Make sure they are different.
C．Remember to put quote marks round the phrase.
D．Don’t put quote marks round the phrase.
小題4:Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?
A．Googlefight is effective to determine the more common of two phrases.
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C．Quote marks can make the search more accurate.
D．Googlefight is invaluable to help win arguments.

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