edge. Marine transport through the Arctic is expected to increase as ice melts and new shipping routes become ___8____. The length of the navigation season along the Northern Sea Route is projected to increase to about 120 days by 2100, up from the current 20-30 days. While this could have ___9____ economic effects, some observers worry about the environmental ___10___that might accompany increased ship access to Arctic waters. 1 A. piling B. thickening C. thinning D. enlarging 2 A. existed B. appeared C. developed D. sunk 3 A. faster B. less C. easier D. lower 4 A. bear B. seal C. mammal D. human 5 A. screams B. remains C. returns D. pushes 6 A. link B. risk C. access D. reaction 7 A. dependent B. extinct C. . popular D. reliable 8 A. disagreeable B. acceptable C. memorable D. available 9 A. positive B. exact C. personal D. destructive 10 A. ruins B. costs C. plans D. profits 2 Ice is melting everywhere---and at a faster rate. Rising global temperatures are lengthening melting seasons, ___1___ ice caps and glaciers that in some cases have ___2___ for thousands of years. These changes are raising sea level ___3___ than earlier projected by scientists, and threatening both ____4____ and wildlife populations.
The Arctic melting season has lengthened by 10-17 days, shrinking the amount of ice buildup that ___5____ from year to year. Coastal communities face more violent and less predictable weather, rising sea levels, and less ____6____ to food sources. Polar bears, unable to cross thin or nonexistent ice to hunt seals, will soon face a severely reduced food source. Scientists fear that with continued melting, the bears may become ____7____ by the end of century. Seals, walruses, and seabirds will also lose key feeding and breeding grounds along the ice edge. Marine transport through the Arctic is expected to increase as ice melts and new shipping routes become ___8____. The length of the navigation season along the Northern Sea Route is projected to increase to about 120 days by 2100, up from the current 20-30 days. While this could have ___9____ economic effects, some observers worry about the environmental ___10___that might accompany increased ship access to Arctic waters. 1 A. piling B. thickening C. thinning D. enlarging 2 A. existed B. appeared C. developed D. sunk 3 A. faster B. less C. easier D. lower 4 A. bear B. seal C. mammal D. human 5 A. screams B. remains C. returns D. pushes 6 A. link B. risk C. access D. reaction 7 A. dependent B. extinct C. . popular D. reliable 8 A. disagreeable B. acceptable C. memorable D. available 9 A. positive B. exact C. personal D. destructive 10 A. ruins B. costs C. plans D. profits Claire Messud has always been one for surprises. Whereas many novelists start out writing
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autobiographies, Ms. Messud, at the age of 28, ___1___ a novel called When the World was Steady, about two middle-aged British sisters who ___2___ that they are not at all the people they thought they were. When she finally got around to writing her coming-of-age ___3___ , The Last Life, it was not her own but that of a French teenager trying to deal with the ___4___ situation after her family are forced to escape from Algeria.
Ms. Messud's new novel is ___5___ a surprise---a comedy of manners set in the months immediately before and after the September 11th 2001 attacks and ___6___ three bright youngsters who work in the media in New York. As the judges of the Man Booker Prize recognized when they placed The Emperor's Children on the long list for the 2006 ___7___, the surprise here is that such an obvious cliche can be transformed into so intelligent a piece of fiction. In the months between March and November 2001, the ___8___ of these characters---like those of so many in the city---are turned inside out. Ms. Messud fluently ___9___ their fears and their secrets. She excels at describing the neurotic uncertainties of people who know they are privileged but feel sorry for themselves anyway. But it is the finesse with which she satirizes these people but still ___10___ you caring what happens to them that is the book's great achievement. 1 A. built up B. brought out C. cared about D. picked up 2 A. expect B. complain C. discover D. argue 3 A. letter B. essay C. story D. paper 4 A. exciting B. magnificent C. international D. unpleasant 5 A. not at all B. at last C. once D. again 6 A. involving B. praising C. freeing D. disturbing 7 A. award B. novels C. youth D. manners 8 A. looks B. lives C. lucks D. loss 9 A. masters B. exposes C. controls D. restores 10 A. watches B. finds C. advises D. leaves After he saw the way deaf people communicated, Dr Stokoe, professor of Gallaudet University became interested in sign language, which was the way most students at Gallaudet communicated. Dr Stokoe was ___1___. He was a hearing person, and signs were new to him.
Dr Stokoe decided to propose a study of sign language. Many other teachers were not interested, though, and thought he was ___2___ to think about studying sign language. ___3___ deaf teachers were not very interested in the project then. But Dr Stokoe did not give up. Instead, he ___4___ the Linguistics Research Program in 1957. Together with two assistants, both deaf, he worked on this project during the summer and after school. They made films of deaf people signing, who actually didn't understand what the research was about ___5___ were just trying to be nice to the researchers. Many people thought the whole project was silly. Dr Stokoe and his ___6___ analyzed the films and tried to see patterns in the signs. The results were ___7___. They found that the signs followed specific rules, which were linguistic rules used by all of the signers.
Dr Stokoe was the first linguist to test American Sign Language as a ___8___ language. It passed all of the tests! He published the ___9___ in 1960 and he was the only linguist who ___10___ that sign language was more than gestures and it was not just another form of English but a language of its own. 1 A. fascinated B. experienced C. upset D. astonished 2 A. wise B. crazy C. smart D. unable 3 A. However B. Therefore C. Then D. Even 4 A. invented B. avoided C. started D. blamed 5 A. or B. while C. and D. moreover
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6 A. supporter B. school C. people D. team 7 A. confusing B. surprising C. costly D. secret 8 A. real B. foreign C. native D. funny 9 A. results B. tests C. forms D. fictions 10 A. wished B. regretted C. denied D. believed The American language has less regard than the British for grammatical form, and will happily push forward its way across distinctions rather than steer a path between them. American English will ___1___ use one form of a word for another, for example ___2___ nouns into verbs or verbs and nouns into adjectives. In Britain, a disrespect for grammatical rules, particularly among the ___3___ classes, would immediately reveal you to be \___4___ about grammatical mistakes made by news presenters! Among ___5___ British people, this is not necessarily the case. British teenagers have long been ___6___ of being poorly educated by politicians, parents and employers since they have little regard for grammar in their speech. As a consequence of American culture and speech patterns being ___7___ on children's television programmes in the UK, I have noted that most young ___8___ children of my acquaintance now play with their toys in an American accent with the attendant syntax and grammatical structures. American teenagers have taken this disregard for grammatical form one step ___9___ and have almost abandoned syntax altogether. For example, a teenage girl might ___10___ the first time she met her new boyfriend by saying \ 1 A. excitedly B. casually C. carefully D. hurriedly 2 A. pushing B. fixing C. introducing D. turning 3 A. first B. middle C. language D. working 4 A. chat B. complain C. cheer D. think 5 A. rich B. learned C. male D. young 6 A. accused B. expected C. informed D. reminded 7 A. common B. abnormal C. unusual D. narrow 8 A. American B. innocent C. British D. naughty 9 A. only B. nearer C. further D. upward 10 A. describe B. notice C. preview D. proceed The concluding pages of the final Harry Potter book are likely to be stained with muggle tears, it emerged on Monday, as JK Rowling dropped her broadest hint yet that the boy wizard Harry Potter might be killed off in the seventh book in the ___1___.
The author, who has made a ___2___ estimated at more, than US $1 billion from the six Harry Potter books, ___3___ that she had slightly rewritten the concluding chapter, ___4___ drafted in 1990 when she was an unemployed single mother.
Children and adults are expected to rush to buy the ___5___ Harry Potter novel in their tens of millions when it is complete, and if the publication of the sixth book is anything to go by, secrecy surrounding the plot will be tight. She said she ___6___ the feelings of Agatha Christie, who killed off her detective Hercule Poirot so that other writers would not be able to ___7___ his stories after her death. \to kill him off before the end of book seven, because I always planned seven books and that's ___8___ I want to go,\
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after I'm dead and gone they won't be able to ___9___ the character\
However, she promised to keep fans of the books, which are ___10___ to have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. 1 A. episodes B. series C. excerpt D. index 2 A. decision B. chance C. fortune D. living 3 A. declared B. pretended C. broadcast D. revealed 4 A. originally B. naturally C. carelessly D. regularly 5 A. sixth B. best C. final D. initial 6 A. hated B. hid C. kept D. shared 7 A. retell B. continue C. understand D. copy 8 A. where B. what C. whom D. why 9 A. think of B. account for C. bring back D. build up 10 A. determined B. estimated C. concerned D. remarked The new figures are the result of detailed research that gives the most accurate assessment of the disease that kills at least a million people a year. Scientists now believe there are about 515 million ____1___ of malaria out of 2.2 billion people who are at risk---about a third of the world's ___2___.
Malaria has never captured the ___3___ imagination as AIDS has done, even though children are its chief ___4___. Malaria is old and AIDS is new. Most important, malaria is not a disease that ___5___ the West---except for those fortunate enough to holiday in the tropics---while AIDS ____6___ us all. The parasite was transmitted by the mosquito. The scale on which the parasite kills is shocking. Six years ago the WHO set a ___7___to halve the number of deaths by the year 2010, but instead the number has risen by at least a quarter, and in some areas by as much as 50 percent, ___8___ victims have not had the right drugs. Hundreds of thousands of children have died needlessly and the disease has gone virtually unnoticed in the West. Malaria has been a cause of great ___9___ for humanity since ancient times and although it is largely preventable with the use of mosquito nets and insecticides it remains one of the biggest ___10___ of children under five. 1 A. cases B. kids C. viruses D. elements 2 A. amount B. diseases C. population D. figures 3 A. proper B. potential C. public D. pure 4 A. friends B. victims C. witnesses D. samples 5 A. covers B. harm C. flutters D. affects 6 A. kills B. threatens C. attacks D. bothers 7 A. standard B. rule C. time D. target 8 A. because B. therefore C. though D. yet 9 A. strength B. suffering C. success D. spirit 10 A. enemies B. obstacles C. killers D. difficulties Humans have been making their mark for thousands of years. Some cave drawings of animals and people are at least 25,000 years old. Making your mark with pen, ink, and paper is much more ___1___, though. The first pens were probably ___2___ sticks or bones. But it wasn't until about 700 AD that a particularly ___3___ writing tool came to be used. It was such a great tool, in fact, that it dominated the ___4___ word for more than a thousand years after that: the quill pen.
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