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上海金山高三英语二模
I.
Listening
Comprehension
Section A
Directions
:
In
Section A, you will hear ten short conversations
between two speakers. At the
end
of
each
conversation,
a
question
will
be
asked
about
what
was
said.
The
conversations
and the
questions
will be spoken only once. After you hear a
conversation and the question about
it,
read
the four possible
answers on your paper, and decide which one is the
best answer to the
question
you have heard.
1. A. In a hospital.
B. In a school.
C. In a kindergarten.
D. In a tourist office.
2. A. Improving her cooking
skills.
B. Tasting the food
made by Tom.
C. Having a
picnic.
D. Showcasing her talents to
Tom.
3. A.
Supportive.
B.
Hesitant.
C.
Indifferent.
4.
A. In January.
B. Until
winter vacation.
C. During
Christmas season.
D. Right
now.
5. A. The
foundation of the theatre.
B. A change to the theatre.
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D.
Disapproving.
C. The removal
of the seats.
D. The figure of the
audience.
6. A.
It can help to find the patients easily
B. It can record patients'
conditions.
C. It gives
patients medical advice.
D.
It makes records available to doctors and
nurses.
7. A. He
doesn't want to draw.
B. He
prefers to make the labor division
himself.
C. He is good at
drawing.
D. He is happy
because he doesn't have to draw.
8. A. The key to the
woman's success.
B. The
changes on the market.
C.
The management of the woman's company.
D. The feeling of being a
manager.
9. A.
To paint the doors.
B. To
paint the ceiling.
C. To
continue his job.
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D.
To take the job home
10. A.
Because she is accustomed to the food
there.
B. Because the food
is better there than at the school dining
hall.
C. Because it is a
quiet place.
D. Because they
can't go to the school dining hall.
Section B
Directions
:
In
Section
B,
you
will
hear
several
passages
and
longer
conversations,
after
each
passage
or
conversation,
you
will
be
asked
several
questions.
The
passages
and
the
conversations
will be read twice, but the questions
will be spoken only once. When you hear a
question, read the
four possible answers on your paper and
decide which one is the best answer
to
the question you
have
heard.
Questions 11 to 13
are based on the following passage.
11. A. Factors determining
intelligence.
B. A story of
identical twins.
C. The
importance of intelligence.
D. How to get a higher IQ.
12. A. Because only one could enter
college.
B. Because they
were abandoned by their parents.
C. Because their parents died when they
were only babies.
D. Because
the psychologists did an experiment researching
human intelligence.
13. A.
John got a better education than his identical
brother. Peter.
B. Children
growing up in wealthy families are
smarter.
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C.
Environment is important to the development of
one's intelligence.
D. An
isolated community has more educational
opportunities.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on
the following
passage.
14. A. Unwrapping a new
album.
B. Having a newly-
bought car.
C. Entering a
newly-purchased house.
D.
Having access to an online account.
15. A. It is nice to share the account
on Amazon.
B. The sharing
economy makes full use of cars.
C. Consumers consider ownership more
important than access.
D.
The sharing economy makes clear relationship
between consumers and products.
16. A. The sharing economy develops car
manufacturing.
B. It is good
for environment to increase the usage of
goods.
C. The sharing
economy reshapes the market and benefits
people.
D. In the sharing
economy, companies bridge the gap between people
and resources.
Questions 17 and 18 are based on the
following
conversation.
17. A. Products.
B. Locations.
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C.
Coffee making techniques.
D.
Staff quality.
18. A. She
made a questionnaire.
B. She
talked with customers.
C.
She wrote a handbook for the employees
D. She applied for a job at
Starbucks.
19. A. Customers
are especially concerned about the service of a
cafe.
B. The more expensive
the coffee beans and milk, the better the coffee
is.
C. Customers want more
varieties of coffee.
D.
Customers rely on the brand image when they are
making choices.
20. A.
Because the manual will be the latest
version.
B. Because it will
tell customers detailed product
information.
C. Because it
includes important policies and
procedures.
D. Because
employees enjoy reading it.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions:
After reading
the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the
passage coherent and
grammatically
correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in
each blank with the proper form of
the
given word; for the other blanks, use one word
that best fits each blank.
A ban on distracted walking
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You can’t walk down the street without
passing so-called “smart-phone
zombies
（僵尸）
.”
They are too absorbed in their screen
(21) _________ (watch) where they are going.
Almost four in
ten people admit having
suffered a technology-related small accident (22)
_________ they pay more
attention to
their electronic device than to the pavement.
Now the city of Honolulu,
Hawaii, has decided it’s time to take immediate
action and make it
illegal to cross the
road while using a mobile phone. Those (23)
_________ (catch) using phones,
tablets
or other electronic devices at crossing points
could face a fine of up to $$ 100.
Honolulu is the first major U. S. city
to ban (24) _________ is called “distracted
walking.” It
comes after a study found
there (25) _________ (be) more than 11,000
injuries in the United States
resulting
from phone-related distraction while walking in
the past few years.
To
explain the decision, mayor Kirk Caldwell said,
“We hold the unfortunate honor of being a
major city (26) _________ more
pedestrians are hit in crosswalks than almost any
other city in the
country.”
Under the fine systems. (27) _________
breaks this law for the first time will get a fine
of $$15
to $$35. People breaking the law
for a second or third time will get a $$99 fine.
The law, which is called
the Distracted Walking Law, does permit an
exception. Pedestrians
(28) _________
use such devices in the street to call emergency
services and rescue workers, such
as
firefighters and police officers.
If you still want to text while
walking, you could avoid (29) _________ (fine) in
Honolulu by
using a voice-controlled
digital assistant such as Siri or Google
Assistant. Or you could just wait
(30)
_________ you are again, safely, off the street.
Section
B
Directions:
Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from
the box. Each word can be used only
once. Note that there is one word more
than you need.
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A.
parental
B. balance
C. declined
D.
deposit
E. downloaded
F. engaging
G. financial
H. immediately
I. listing
J. deliberately
K. purchases
Giving kids allowances in the smart-
phone
Allowances are a
constant. No matter how much technology interferes
with the parent-child
relationship,
kids still want money and parents still want to
impart
（赋予）
a basic work
ethic. But
putting stickers on
chore
（日常事务）
charts and
dropping coins in piggy banks don’t cut it with
the smart-phone generation.
Parents in search of more _____31_____
ways to teach children the value of money are
turning
to allowance-tracking apps,
where kids can see their ______32______ rise and
fall in real time.
Bonnie
Koon,
a
mother
of
three
in
Crawfordville,
Fla.,
used
to
post
a
calendar
on
her
refrigerator
_____33______ her kids chores, to the
embarrassment of her 16-year-old twins. After
seeing a Facebook ad for the app Green-
light, she ____34_____ it.
Green-light links to parents’ bank
accounts so that the payout can be seamless.
Parents can
encourage saving by paying
interest on the money that isn’t spent ____35____
-- interest out of the
parents’ own
pockets, of course.
It’s
the
first
taste
of
____36____
freedom
for
many
kids,
and
it’s
set
in
a
relatively
safe
environment. Parents can determine
spending limits and choose the
retailers
（零售商）
where a
child can make _____37_____. If a child
attempts to buy something at an unapproved store
or to
spend more than the limit, the
transaction
（交易）
is
_____38_____ and parents get a notification.
And if a kid loses the card, parents
can immediately cancel it from the app.
One of Ms. Koon’s twins.
Brenna, works part time at a restaurant. She’s
putting half of her pay
check into a
car-insurance savings fund she set up in the app,
whit the goal of saving $$450 by July.
With each _____39______, the app gives
Brenna a progress update.
Some parents might worry that relying
on apps to get kids to do chores only encourages
them
to be on their phones more. But
parents who have chosen this approach argue that
they are meeting
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their kids where they are and that it
takes the _____40_____
nagging
（唠叨）
out of the
equation.
The real-time look at their
accounts makes the concepts of saving and spending
more tangible than
reviewing a bank
statement.
III.
Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions:
For each blank
in the following passage there are four words or
phrases marked A, B,
C and D. Fill in
each blank with the word or phrase that best fits
the context.
If you like to
take a walk in the woods in the United States or
you prefer to decorate a tree at
Christmas,
you
should
know
that
climate
change
is
making
both
of
those
activities
a
lot
more
____41____.
Looking at two ____42____ and
economically important species -- the Douglas fir
and the
Ponderosa pine -- scientists
found that fires and drought _____43_____ by
climate change make
new growth
difficult, especially in low-elevation forests,
according to a study published Monday in
the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences.
Some
forests
in
four
regions
in
California,
Colorado,
the
Northern
Rockies
and
the
southwestern part of the United States
have crossed “a(n) ____44____ climate
tipping
（转折）
point
for post-fire tree generation,” the
study says.
Climate
conditions over the past 20 years have
_____45_____ changes that would have taken
decades or even centuries to ____46____
across broad regions of the country. This is
leading to the
sudden _____47_____ of
trees and making these lands increasingly
unsuitable for tree regeneration.
“Climate changes is _____48_____ our
forests now, not just in some distant future.
Maybe in
areas
where
there
are
really
_____49_____
seed
sources,
there
could
be
some
trees,
but
it
is
becoming really hard to
get these trees back due to climate change,” said
study co-author Kim Davis.
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The problem probably won’t get any
better, as climate change is making intense
wildfires much
more
_____50_____. Western
foresters
say
there
used
to
be
a
fire
season.
But
devastating
and
____51____ fires have become a reality
all year long. In 2018, fire cost California more
than $$9.05
billion, according to the
USA insurance commissioner, the deadliest and most
destructive wildfires
season in the
______52______ history.
A
higher number of fires and low seed availability
means a high probability that these trees in
these regions won’t come back, Davis
said. This study _____53______ on the driest and
hottest
areas of the Western forests,
but researchers will next try to focus on how much
will be impacted.
_____54____,
there
are
some
things
people
can
do
to
ease
some
of
this
problem.
Forest
management
plans
that
reduce
high-severity
burns
can
help.
Increasingly,
forest
managers
are
considering
allowing
some
fires
to
burn
under
more
moderate
conditions,
Davis
said,
Forest
_____55_____.
41.
A. convenient
B. difficult
C. encouraging
D. frustrating
42. A. ecologically
B.
apparently
C. physically
D. financially
43. A. destroyed
B. worsened
C. extended
D. established
44. A. necessary
B. enormous
C. critical
D. invisible
45. A. accelerated
B.
delayed
C. eliminated
D. strengthened
46. A. transform
B. spread
C. preserve
D. escape
47. A. extinction
B.
decline
C.
tragedy
D. increase
48. A. sustaining
B.
abandoning
C. facilitating
D. endangering
49. A. sufficient
B. limited
C. moderate
D. approximate
50. occasional
B.
common
C.
essential
D. temporary
51.
A. astonishing
B. hopeless
C.
costly
D. irreversible
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52. A. world
B. state
C. human
D. forest
53. A. concentrated
B. depended
C.
insisted
D. commented
54.
A. As a result
B. For example
C. In fact
D. What’s more
55. A. savers
B. managers
C. researchers
D.
advocates
Section B
Directions:
Read the
following three passages. Each passage is followed
by several questions or
unfinished
statements. For each of them there are four
choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the
one that fits best according to the
information given in the passage you have just
read.
(A)
EU members’
states have agreed to ban a toxic substance widely
found in clothing because it
poses
an
“acceptable
risk”
to
the
environment.
Countries
voted
in
favor
of
extending
existing
restrictions on
nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE) to imports to
clothing and other textile products.
The measure is intended to protect
species in water. Use of NPE in textile manufature
in Europe
was banned over 10 years ago
but the substance is still released into the water
environment through
imported textiles
being washed.
NPE
degrades
in
the
environment
into
substances
including
nonylphenol
(NP),
which
accumulates in the
bodies of fish and disturbs their hormones,
harming fertility, growth and sexual
development.
NPE
is used in textile manufacture as a cleaning and
dyeing agent. The EU decision notes that
several studies have found NPE to be
present in textile items.
A
2011 study by Greenpeace found NPE in two-thirds
of clothes tested, including items sold
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by
big-name
brads
such
as
Adidas,
H&M,
Lacoste,
and
Ralph
Lauren.
The
NGO
(Non-
Governmental
Organizations) argued that although concentrations
of NPE found in the clothes were
low,
the chemical’s existence in the environment posed
a risk.
The new ban on
textiles containing NPE in concentrations equal to
or greater than 0.01% will
enter into
force five years after it is adopted by the
European Commission, which is likely to happen
in September.
In
comments submitted to ECHA (European Chemicals
Agency), clothing and textile firms
have warned that obeying the
restriction will be difficult because NPE
ubiquitous in the supply chain
and has
numerous uses.
The
new
restriction
will
not
apply
to
second-hand
goods
or
recycled
textiles
because
it
is
assumed
that these will already have been washed several
times so they contain negligible
（微不
足道的）
amounts of NPE.
EU countries must eliminate pollution
of water bodies by NP as it is a priority
substance under
the Water Framework
Directive. A 2013 study by the UK environment
agency warned that emissions
from
textiles
could
prevent
progress
towards
this
objective.
It
found
29%
of
imported
cotton
underwear contained NPE, which was
released during the first two washes by the
consumer.
56. The 2011
study by Greenpeace found _________.
A. 29% of imported cotton underwear
contained NPE
B. NPE had
limited effects on aquatic species
C. NPE was widely present in textile
products
D. clothes of good
quality had no concentrations of NPE
57. What’s the possible meaning of the
underlined part “is ubiquitous” is Paragraph
7?
A. is legally protected
B.
is not easy to be found
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C.
seems to be every where
D. is uncommon
58. What can we learn from the
text?
A. The original ban on
use of NPE was very effective.
B. Recycled textile contain less NPE.
C. The new ban on imports
of textile has come into force.
D. The UK environment agency is
optimistic about the new ban.
59. Which section of the website does
the text come from?
A.
lifestyle
B. technology.
C.
Business.
D. Environment.
(B)
Letters
Comments
on the March Issue
40 Smart
Ways to Save at the Supermarket
Your
caution
not
to
fall
for
fake
sales
Trapped Inside a Glacier
Reading
about
John
All
’
s
experience
on
reminded
me
of
when
I
was
a
stock
boy
at
my
Mount
Himlung was very inspiring to me. A man
neighborhood grocery in the 1950s. One
time, we
with
15
broken
bones
and
bleeding
internally
got
a
delivery
of
off-band
vegetables.
I
priced
being able to climb
up a 70-foot wall of ice and
them at
ten cents a can. I don
’
t
think we sold more
survive for 18 hours
at 20,000 feet is something
than
six
cans
--
until
I
put
up
sign
that
said
that I would have
though to be impossible. I am
“
Special: Nine for
$$1.
”
I set them out Thursday
16 years old and a lifelong reader. Out
of all the
evening,
and
by
noon
on
Saturday
they
were
great content in
Reader
’
s Digest, stories
like his
gone.
are the ones I enjoy the most.
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Edward Deckerd,
Perrywille, Missouri
Bill
’
s Last, Best
Gift
Track
Grant
’
s article
resonated
（与……产
Sam Kieffer,
Richardson, Texas
Dishes
Professional
Chefs
Cook
in
the
Microwave
生共鸣）
deeply with me. Twelve
years ago, my
Microwaving
live lobsters in inhumane and
husband,
Don, was diagnosed with terminal brain
cruel. Because lobsters feel pain,
Switzerland has
cancer.
As
his
caregiver,
I,
too,
learned
to
recently
outlawed
the
practice
of
boiling
them
appreciate the people and things around
me and
live. A similar law was passed
in Italy, where it is
not to sweat the
small stuff, and in the long run, I
now
illegal to put lobsters on ice before cooking
became a much better person. Don also
gave me
them. I hope you provide an
update to your story
his last, best
gift of love and peace.
Antia Lawrence,
San Diego, California
promoting humane practices instead of
cruel and
violent ones.
Janet Toole,
Phoenixville, Pennsylavnia
60. How did Antia Lawrence react to her
husband’s diagnosis?
A. She
felt very painful.
B.
She gained some life lessons.
C. She paid more attention to her own
health.
D. She showed deep
sympathy for her husband.
61. According to Sam Kieffer’s letter,
what can be learn about John All?
A. He is an expert in mountaineering
B. He wrote the article
entitled Trapped Inside a Glacier.
C. Not all people could survive in the
same situation as he did.
D. His story is the best one that Sam
Kieffer has ever read in Reader’s Digest.
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62. Who is likely to disagree with what
is said in the commented article?
A. Edward Deckerd.
B. Antia Lawrence.
C. Sam Kieffer.
D. Janet Toole
(C)
What makes us
love some things and hate others? We know that
sometimes even the tiniest
change can
result in a huge difference in how we perceive
something, so is there any rhyme or
reason to our tastes and preferences?
Here are three factors which play a role.
1. Conforming to
expectation
In London a few
years ago, two talented rappers called Silibil N’
Brains took to the stage to
perform at
a music industry show for unsigned bands. They
were an instant hit. Their outrageous
West Coast - American style, brilliant
rap lyrics and couldn’t - care - less attitude had
the music
industry’s talent spotters
falling over themselves to sign the pair. In a
short space of time, Silibil N’
Brains
had a deal with a top management company, a
contract with a major record label and an
advance of $$70,000 -- and they hadn’t
even made a record. Before long, they were on tour
with
Eminem and out partying with
Madonna. They were living the dream.
But two years ago the same two rappers
were laughed off stage by the same talent spotters
for
singing the same sons. So what was
the difference? Amazingly, it was their accent.
You see, Silibil
N’ Brains weren’t, in
fact, from West Coast U. S. A. at all. They were
from Dundee in Scotland.
During the
first audition they had used their Scottish
accents when rapping and it had not gone down
well. “They just laughed at us,”
recalled Brains. “We were heartbroken. We went
back to Scotland
with our tail between
our legs”. The lesson for them was that to
succeed, you have to conform to
expectations and at that time everyone
expected rappers to be American.
2. The benefit of hindsight
Some people are simply ahead of their
time. It’s common knowledge that Vincent van Gogh
sold only one painting in his lifetime
-- the other 900 or so were unknown and unloved
until after
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his death. Monet’s paintings. at least
in his early career, was considered incomplete and
ugly by
critics at
the time,
while Vermeer, the painter of Girl With a Pearl
Earring, even had to use his
mother-in-
law as a guarantor when he borrowed money -- so
unable was he to sell any of his work!
Now that public taste has caught up
with these artists, more or less anything they
touched has an
astronomical price tag
attached to it. Perhaps the reason is that it just
takes a while to get used to
something
-- after all, not all beauty is obvious at first
sight.
3. A reassuring
price tag
In a world where
the range of products on offer can be completely
bewildering, we often look
to price as
an indication of quality. We may think we prefer
the expensive wine to the cheap one,
but we may simply be influenced by the
price tag. Even professionals can make the
mistake. A
researcher from the
University of Bordeaux in France took an average
bottle of red wine and poured
it into
two empty bottles, on with an expensive label and
the other with a cheap one. Then he invited
57 wine “experts” to taste the wine.
Forty of them recommended the wine from the
expensive bottle,
describing it as
“agreeable”, “complex”, “balanced” and “rounded.”
while the same wine from the
expensive
bottle,
describing
it
as
“agreeable”,
“complex”,
“balanced”
and
“rounded,”
while
the
same wine from the cheap
bottle was described as “weak” and “flat”, with
only 12 of the experts
recommending it.
The study made the researcher unpopular with the
French wine tasters, but he did
prove
that price has a significant impact on taste.
63. Which of the following
statements about Silibil N’ Brains is
true?
A. Talent spotters
fell in love with them at first sight.
B. They are from the West
Coast of America
C. Their
success was attributed to behaving and sounding
like American rappers.
D.
They were friends with famous stars like Madonna
even before they succeeded.
64. The underlined phrases “with our
tail between our legs” indicates that _________.
A. their first audition
proved a failure
B. they felt proud of their
performance
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C.
they learned a valuable lesson
D. being humble might
contribute to their future success
65. We an infer from the second factor
that ________.
A. some
artists are better known when they are alive than
when they are dead
B. public
taste usually falls behind famous artists
C. beauty at first sight
lasts much longer
D. Monet’s
paintings are priceless because of their
incompleteness
66. What can
we learn from the last paragraph?
A. A price tag always fails to indicate
the quality of a product.
B. A price tag is less likely to
confuse customers than the packaging.
C. Low price will make the wine
unpopular with tasters
D. A
price tag will cloud a person’s judgement of
something.
Section C
Directions:
Read the
following. Fill in each blank with a proper
sentence given in the box. Each
sentence can be used only once. Note
that there are two more sentences than you need.
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A.
Between
August
and
April,
they
sought
food
in
low
elevations
（海拔）
on
China
’
s
Qinling
Mountains.
B. Scientists think the
research show that pandas are very clever.
C. Pandas eat bamboo all
day long except when they are sleeping or playing.
D. The gene for their
“
umami taste
receptors
”
became inactive.
E. They fed on them until
they went back down the mountain and started
eating Bashania fargesii
leaves again.
F. Scientists have
conducted many studies on
pandas
’
eating habits.
Are Bamboo-
Eating Pandas Really Herbivores?
On the outside, giant pandas look like
herbivores
（食草动物）
. They spend
nearly all of their
waking hours eating
bamboo. But on the inside, they’re built like
carnivores
（食肉动物）
. About
half of the calories they eat come from
protein, according to a new study.
The ancestor of giant pandas were
omnivorous
（杂食的）
. They are
both animals and plants,
and had the
digestive system and gut bacteria to
metabolize
（使发生新陈代谢）
them.
They had
“umami taste receptors,” to
appreciate the flavors of meat.
However, about 2.4 million years ago,
things began to change. _____67_____ Their jaw and
teeth evolved to help them crush
bamboo, and their wrist bone became capable of
grasping the stalks
（杆）
of
their favorite plant. Scientists think pandas
switched to eating bamboo partly because they
didn’t have to fight with other animals
to get it. Bamboo is high in fiber but has a low
concentration
of nutrients, so pandas
have to eat 20 to 40 pounds of the plant every day
just to get by.
David
Raubenheimer, a nutritional ecologist at the
University of Sydney, and his colleagues
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put
GPS
trackers
on
two
giant
pandas
and
followed
their
movement
throughout
the
year. They
discovered that the pandas followed the
protein. _______68______ At the start of the
cycle, they
ate Bashania fargesii
leaves until they got the chance to feast on young
shoots, which contained
more protein.
The more the shoots grew,
the more their protein was
diluted
（冲淡）
by fiber. That
caused the
pandas to move to higher
ground, where Fargesia qinlingensis grew. First,
they ate the shoots, but
these,
too,
went
from
being
protein
-
rich
to
fiber-
rich
as
they
grew.
The
panda
responded
by
switching to the leaves. ______69______
The researchers found that about half of the
calories the
pandas ate were in the
form of protein.
_______70_______ “They can know exactly
where to go, and when to go, so they can get the
most of the nutrients that their
ecosystem can provide,” said Silvia Pineda -
Munoz, who was not
involved in the
study.
The work also shows
that classifying an animals as herbivore or
carnivore is more complex
than one
might sassume. “It’s not whether you’re eating
plants but what of the plants you’re eating,”
said Pineda - Munoz.
IV
. Summary
Writing
Directions:
Read the
following passage. Summarize the main idea and the
main point(s) of the
passage in no more
than 60 words. Use your own words as far as
possible.
71.
Herbal Medicine
Herbal medicine, which has been used
for medicinal purposes, is the use of plants to
treat
diseases. Many herbalists use the
entire plant, from the flowers, stems, leaves, and
roots, in the form
of everything from
teas to pills. These plants contain natural,
chemical things that can treat the body
for a variety of diseases, such as
allergies, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, migraine,
chronic fatigue,
and cancer, among
others.
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