【正文】 cy is also appealing, but automotive fueleconomy has barely made any progress in 10 years. Alternative fuelssuch as natural gas, burned in internalbustion engines, could beintroduced at relatively low cost, but they would lead to only marginalreductions in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions (especiallybecause oil panies are already spending billions of dollars everyyear to develop less polluting types of gasoline).11. It can be learned from the passage that the increased use of cars will __________.A. consume half of the oil produced in the worldB. have serious consequences on the wellbeing of all nationsC. impose an economic burden on residents of large citiesD. widen the gap between the developed and developing countries12. America has to solve the problems arising from vehicle use because __________.A. few Americans are reluctant to switch to public transportationB. the present level of oil prices is considered unacceptableC. it should take the lead in conserving natural resourcesD. other countries are unsatisfied about its large greenhouse emissions13. According to the author, America’s contribution to global climate change is __________.A. increasingB. decreasingC. fluctuatingD. stabilizing14. Which of the following is the best solution to the problems mentioned in the passage?A. The designing of highly efficient car enginesB. A reduction of vehicle use in citiesC. The use of less polluting fuelsD. The development of electric cars15. What does “host” in Line 17 mean?A. Person who serves people as guestsB. Anchor of a television program, etc.C. Large number of somethingD. Caretaker of an inn16. What is the meaning of “carpooling” in Line 20? A. People riding together in one car B. A number of cars used by a pany’s salesmen C. A person who owns many cars D. Cars owned by an organization for the use of its members17. According to the passage, after World War II many people in the . __________.A. only used railwaysB. preferred their own cars for travelC. always used public transportationD. insist on carpooling18. Which of the following is practical but only makes a small contribution to solving the problem of greenhouse emissions?A. Slowing down fuel economyB. The use of fuels other than gasolineC. Reducing car use by carpoolingD. The introduction of less polluting driving systems19. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. The decline of public transportation accounts for increased car use in Western EuropeB. Cars are popular in Western Europe even though fuel prices are fairly highC. Western Europe oil panies cannot sustain the cost of developing newtype fuelsD. The reduction of vehicle use is the only sustainable option in densely populated Western Europe20. The word “they” in Line 28 refers to __________.A. internalbustion enginesB. marginal reductionsC. alternative fuelsD. greenhouse emissions篇章3 當(dāng)前題號(hào)：第2130題，總題數(shù)：50題；Line Cancer has always been with us, but not always in the same way. Itscare and management have differed over time and have its identity.visibility, and meaning. Pick up the thread of history at its most distant5 end and you have “cancer the crab”—so named because its pain is likethe pinch of a crab’s claw. Premodern cancer is a lump that sometimesbreaks through the skin in ulcerations producing foulsmellingdischarges. The ancient Egyptians knew about many tumors that had abad oute, and the Greeks made a distinction between benign tumors10and evil ones. In the second century ., Galen reckoned that the causewas systemic, an excess of sadness or black bile, one of the body’s four“humors” brought on by bad diet and environmental circumstances. Ancient medical practitioners sometimes cut tumors out, but the prognosis was known to be grim.15 The experience of cancer has always been terrible, but, until moderntimes, its mark on culture has been light. In the past, fear came frominfectious and epidemic diseases, strokes, heart attacks, and tuberculosis.The agonizing manner of cancer death was dreaded, but that fear was notcentrally situated in the public mind — as it now is. This is one reason20why the medical historian Roy Porter wrote that cancer is “the moderndiseasepar excellence”. At one time, it was thought that cancer was a “disease ofcivilization,” belonging to much the same causal domain as“neurasthenia” and diabetes, the former a nervous weakness believed to25be brought about by the stress of modern life and the latter a conditionproduced by bad diet and indolence. In the eighteenth and nineteenthcenturies, some physicians attributed cancer to psychological andbehavioral causes. William Buchan’s wildly popular eighteenthcenturytextDomestic Medicine judged that cancers might be caused by30“excessive fear, grief, and religious melancholy”. In the nineteenthcentury, reference was repeatedly made to a “cancer personality”, and, insome versions, specifically to sexual repression. As Susan Sontagobserved, cancer was considered shameful, even obscene. “It seemsunimaginable”, Sontag wrote, “to aestheticize” cancer.21. According to the passage, the ancient Egyptians __________.A. were able to tell benign tumors from evil onesB. knew about a lot of cancerous tumorsC. found out the cause of cancerD. looked at cancer as the crab22. According to Galen, cancer is triggered by all of the following EXCEPT _______.A. the excess of s