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What would have happened,______as far as the river bank?
People have been burying the dead at Salem’s Hope Cemetery since 1833. The place is filled with old gravestones and gothic mausoleums(哥特式陵墓), the spirits of the dead hanging over the land like an early morning fog. Keeping watch, a few steps from the road with her skirt over the pedestal (基座), is Goldie Belle Taylor, her face weathered but otherwise in good condition. On this day, she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers. Someone makes sure of that. “And she has had fresh flowers in her hands for the last 150 years.” Karen Biery lives in Damascus, about five miles west of Hope Cemetery. She’s written a book based on the legend of Goldie Belle Taylor titled Believe. In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning. She was the love of her dad’s life, and he was so upset that he sold the family farm to buy the Italian made statue, which today marks her grave. At first, it was her father who brought the flowers and laid them in her hands. When he died in 1896, the flowers kept coming. Her flowers are different per season. Why do the flowers keep miraculously appearing? People have tried to find out by having camped by the statue, but not even the groundskeepers have been able to catch the criminal. It’s said that a fairy arrives at Hope Cemetery looking for the grave of her birth mother. She comes across Goldie Belle’s statue.
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The underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 probably refers to________.
A.
her face in good condition
B.
her bunch of pink roses
C.
Goldie Belle Taylor is holding pink roses
D.
Goldie Belle Taylor always holds flowers
2.
It can be inferred from the third paragraph __________.
A.
her father was poisonous
B.
the iron kettle was poisonous
C.
elderberry juice was poisonous
D.
it was her father that hated her
3.
After her father died, the flowers in the hands of Goldie Belle Taylor_______.
A farm planted levels or floors is called a vertical（垂直的）farm. A skyscraper type building can house a vertical farm. Since the garden is built upwards，rather than outwards，it requires much less space than a conventional farm. The world is quickly running out of room for conventional farming. Vertical farms could be a key to this situation. An 18story vertical farm could feed as many as 50,000 people，all in an area which is the size of the average city block. Vertical farms in the city could cut down on transportation costs as well. Think about the amount of fuel it takes to transport food from farmland to city. The resources saved would be surprising. Besides saving travel time，food would be delivered in fresher condition and with less damage. There is a growing concern about the use of pesticides(殺蟲(chóng)劑) in agriculture today. But the vertical farm would be a greenhouse type environment, avoiding the need for a large number of pesticides. Vertical farms can be built in a contained space，therefore they are an excellent solution for living well in an environment far different from our own. Hydroponics(水耕法) could be a big part of vertical gardening. This would reduce the amount of soil needed to grow food. Of course，not all food does well with this type of planting，but there are many crops that actually seem to do better. In some climates，a lack of sunlight creates a short growing season. The solar power option may not work as well here. The addition of grow lights would make it possible to grow crops in vertical gardens in these areas .In other words，we could grow crops in areas where we never could before. Vertical farms may just be a concept for now，but they are a concept that will solve many of our problems in the future.
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According to the passage, a vertical farm________.
A.
is mainly built outwards
B.
is dependent on solar power
C.
is planted on levels upwards
D.
is only an environmental friendly farm
2.
Compared to the conventional farm, the vertical farm can________.
A.
depend far less on sunlight
B.
greatly increase the use of soil
C.
help to protect the limited gardens
D.
reduce the use of harmful pesticides
3.
It can be learned from the passage that vertical farms________.
Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you’re doing your holiday shopping online, make sure you’re holding a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation(感覺(jué)) of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions—those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist John A. Bargh. Psychologists have known that one person’s perception(感知) of another’s “warmth” is a powerful determiner in social relationships. Judging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a “cold” person may be more capable. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies’ conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth “mother” rather than one made of wire, even when the wire “mother” carried a food bottle. Harlow’s work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills. Feelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universal. Although no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm” or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries. To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college students. A research assistant who was unaware of the study’s hypotheses(假設(shè)), handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form: The drink was then handed back. After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of “Person A” based on a particular description. Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink. “We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly,” says Bargh.
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According to Paragraph 1, a person’s emotion may be affected by ______.
A.
the visitors to his office
B.
the psychology lessons he has
C.
his physical feeling of coldness
D.
the things he has bought online
2.
The author mentions Harlow’s experiment to show that ______.
A.
adults should develop social skills
B.
babies need warm physical contact
C.
caregivers should be healthy adults
D.
monkeys have social relationships
3.
In Bargh’s experiment, the students were asked to ______.
A.
evaluate someone’s personality
B.
write down their hypotheses
C.
fill out a personal information form
D.
hold coffee and cold drink alternatively
4.
We can infer from the passage that ______.
A.
abstract thinking does not come from physical experiences
B.
feelings of warmth and coldness are studied worldwide
Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span. "I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生)," said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. "I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate". At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology（納米技術(shù)）make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. "There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years," he said. "Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years." However, many scientists who specialize in ageing are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death. Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. "It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?" said Leonard Pooh, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology(老齡學(xué)) Center. "At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all."
1.
By saying "we are knocking at the door of immortality", Michael Zey means ________
A.
they believe that there is no limit of living
B.
they are sure to find the truth about long living
C.
they have got some ideas about living forever
D.
they are able to make people live past the present life span
2.
Donald Louria's attitude towards long living is that ________
A.
people can live from 120 to 180 years
B.
it is still doubtful how long humans can live
C.
the human body is designed to last about 120 years
D.
it is possible for humans to live longer in the future
3.
The underlined "it"（paragraph 4）refers to ________
