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. D) Quite a number of young adults attend local schools. 3. One of the disadvantages of young adults returning to stay with their parents is that ________. A) there will inevitably be inconveniences in every day life B) most parents find it difficult to keep C) the young adults tend to be overprotected by their parents D) public opinion is against young adults staying with their parents 4. The word “hassles” in the passage (Line 3, Para. 3) probably means ________. A) agreements B) worries C) disadvantages D) quarrels 5. According to the passage what is the best for both parents and children? A) They should adjust themselves to sharing the family expenses. B) Children should leave their parents when they are grownup. C) Adult children should visit their parents from time to time. D) Parents should support their adult children when they are in trouble.1小題、【正確答案】:A2小題、【正確答案】:B3小題、【正確答案】:A4小題、【正確答案】:D5小題、【正確答案】:C【參考解析】:無第2題:The word conservation has a thrifty (節(jié)儉) meaning. To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good condition that others may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials。 most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish idea that the treasures were “l(fā)imitless” and “inexhaustible”. Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about the plicated and delicate system that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be harmful to all the others. Fifty years ago nature study was not part of the school work。 scientific forestry was a new idea。 timber was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands。 soil destruction and river floods were not national problems。 nobody had yet studied longterms climatic cycles in relation to proper land use。 even the word “conservation” had nothing of the meaning that it has for us today. For the sake of ourselves and those who will e after us, we must now set about repairing the mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should, therefore, be made a part of everyone’s daily life. To know about the water table (水位) in the ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic arithmetic formulas. We need to know why all watersheds (上游源頭森林地帶集水區(qū)) need the protection of plant life and why the running current of streams and rivers must be made to yield their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the importance of big, mature trees, because living space for most of man’s f