坚强英文浙江英语高考模拟题

2021年1月7日发(作者：黄继光)
Fresh water life itself, has never come easy in the Middle East. Ever since the Old
Testament(旧约圣经) God punished man with 40 days and 40 nights of rain, water
supplies here have been dwindling. The rainfall only comes in winter, Inshallah -----
Good willing –and drains quickly through the semiarid land, leaving the soil to
bake and to thirst for next November.
The region’s accelerating population, expanding agriculture,
industrialization, and higher living standards demand more fresh water. Drought and
pollution limit its availability. War and mismanagement squander it. Says Joyce
Starr of the Global Water Summit Initiative, based in Washington, D.C.” Nations
like Israel and Jordan are swiftly sliding into that zone where they are suing all
the water resources available to them. They have only 15 to 20 years left before
their agriculture, and ultimately their food security, is threatened.”
I came here to examine this crisis in the making, to investigate fears that
“water wars “are imminent, that water has replaced oil as the region’s most
contentious commodity. For more than two months I traveled through three river
valleys and seven nations -----from southern Turkey down the Euphrates River Syria,
Iraq, and on to Kuwait; to Israel and Jordan, neighbors across the valley of the
Jordan; to the timeless Egyptian Nile.
Even amid the scarcity there are haves and have – notes. Compared with the United
States, which in 1990 had a freshwater potential of 10000 cubic meters(2.6 million
galloons) a year for each citizen, Iraq had 5 500, Turkey had 4 000, and Syria had
more than 2 800. Egypt’s potential was only 1 100. Israel had 460, Jordan a meager
260. But these are not firm figures, because upstream use of river water can
dramatically alter the potential downstream.
Scarcity is only one element of the crisis. Inefficiency is another, as is the
reluctance of some water – poor nations to change priorities from agriculture to
less water – intensive enterprises. Some experts suggest that if nations would share
both water technology and resources, they could satisfy the region’s population,
currently 159 million. But in this patchwork of ethnic and religious rivalries, water
seldom stands alone as an issue. It is entangled in the politics that keep people
from trusting and seeking help from one another. Here, where water, like truth, is
precious, each nation tends to find its own water and supply its own truth.
As Israeli hydrology professor Uri Shamir told me :” If there is political will
for peace, water will not be a hindrance. If you want reasons to fight, water will
not e a hindrance. If you want reasons to fight, water will give you ample
opportunities.”
“for next November” (para.1)? Because________.
ing to the Ole Testament fresh water is available only in November
ll comes only in winter starting form November
g water systems will not be ready until next November
is a custom in that region that irrigation to crops is done only in November
is the cause for the imminent water war?
of water resources of rainfall
cient use of water the above
way for the region to use water efficiently is to _______
p other enterprises that cost less a plan of irrigation for
the various water from water – rich wars of any sort
for good and all
Shamir’s viewpoint is that ________.
s in that region are just fighting for water
there are thirsty for peace instead of water
is no problem as long as there is peace
nations have every reason to fight for water
author’s tone in the article can be described as ______-.
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Drunken driving--sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of
murder--has become a national epidemic. Every hour of every day about
three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to
an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol
content or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk
within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the
American macho image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the
drunken slaughter has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies,
especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so
tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a
trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18,
the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled,
so the state recently upped it back to 21.
Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little
effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people
to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to
resist peer pressure to drink.
Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas
already, to a marked decline in fatalities. Some states are also
penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern in
Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a
customer who “obviously intoxicated” and later drove off the road,
killing a nine-year-old boy.
As the fatalities continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans
are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national prohibition
of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the “ noble
experiment.” They forgot that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking,
but encouraged political corruption and organized crime. As with the
booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.
n driving had become a major problem in America because ___.
Americans are heavy ans are now less shocked by
road nts attract so much publicity.
ng is a socially accepted habit in America.
has public opinion regarding drunken driving changed?
e detailed statistics are now available.
e the news media have highlighted the problem.
e judges are giving more severe sentences.
e drivers are more conscious of their image.
tics issued in New Jersey suggested that ___.
drivers were not of legal drivers were often bad
level of drinking increased in the 1960s.
legal drinking age should be raised.
recently introduced in some states have ___.
d the number of ed in fewer serious
ted bars from serving drunken ied
the amount drivers can drink.
is the problem of drinking and driving difficult to solve?
e alcohol is easily obtained.
e drinking is linked to organized crime.
e legal prohibition has already failed.
e legislation alone is not sufficient.
For four lonely years, Evelyn Jones of Rockford, Illinois, lived friendless and
forgotten in one room of a cheap hotel. “I wasn’t sick, but I was acting sick,”
the 78-year-old widow says. “Every day was the same—I would just lie on my bed
and maybe cook up some soup.” Then, six months ago, she was invited to “The Brighter
Side”—Rockford’s day care center for the elderly. Every weekday morning since
then, she has left her home to meet nine other old people in a church for a rich
program of charity work, trips, games, and—most important of all—friendly
companionship.