【文章內容簡介】 oney, he even follows me into the country．Well，perhaps next time he won’t warn me bywriting a letter!”56．The young man said “Oh，dear” to express his ． A．disappointment B．sadness C．surprise D．a(chǎn)nger57．This story is about a man ．A．who was very much loved by his nephews B．whose nephew went to visit him at the hotelC．whose nephew is always asking him for help D．who was not willing to meet his nephew58．When his nephew came to the hotel，Mr．White ． A．took the train back to London B．left to visit a sick relative C．went to pick up a telegram D．hid himself in the kitchen59．Mr．White didn’t like his nephews because ． A．they always follow him around B．they frequently disturb their relativesC．they won’t write to him often D．they usually visit him in hotelsBYou might think that “global warming” means nothing more than a rise in the world’s temperature But rising sea levels caused by it have resulted in the first evacuation（撤離）of an island nation—the citizens of Tuvalu will have to leave their homeland. During the 20th century, sea level rose 8—12 inches. As a result .Tuvalu has experienced lowland flooding of salt water which has polluted the country’s drinking water. Paani Laupepa, a Tuvaluan government official ,reported to the Earth Policy Institute that the nation suffered an unusually high number of fierce storms in the past ten years. Many scientists connect higher surface water temperatures resulting from global warming to greater and more damaging storms. Laupepa expressed dissatisfaction with the United States for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement calling for industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions（導致溫室效應的氣體排放）,which are a main cause of global warming. “By refusing to sign the agreement ,the US has effectively taken away the freedom of future generations of Tuvaluans to live where their forefathers have lived for thousands of years,” Laupepa told the BBC. Tuvalu has asked Australia and New Zealand to allow the gradual move of its people to both countries . Tuvalu is not the only country that is vulnerable （易受影響的）to rising sea levels. Maumoon Gayoon, president of the Maldives ,told the United Nations that global warming has made his country of 311,000 an “endangered nation”.60．The text is mainly about .A．rapid changes in earth’s temperature B．bad effects of global warmingC．moving of a country to a new place D．reasons for lowland flooding61．According to scientists ,the DIRECT cause of more and fiercer storms is .A．greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized nationsB．higher surface water temperatures of the sea C．continuous global warming D．rising sea levels62．Laupepa was not satisfied with the United States because it did not .A．a(chǎn)gree to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions B．sign an agreement with TuvaluC．a(chǎn)llow Tuvaluans to move to the US D．believe the problems facing Tuvalu were real63．The country whose situation is similar to that of Tuvalu is .A．Australia B．New Zealand C．the Maldives D．the United StatesCBarack Obama In the past hundred years, the . presidency has turned more and more to the left – not in policy, but in handedness. Barrack Obama is the latest to join a long list of left – handed presidents from the 20th century: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Henry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George . Bush and Bill Clinton were all southpaws.What makes lefties so electable? Some experts think lefthanded people have a greater ability for language skills, which may help them craft the rhetoric necessary for political office. And as for the bout of recent lefthanded presidents, some think it’s because teachers only recently stopped working to change lefties to rightist at an early age.Bill GatesClaiming the nation’s richest man among their number is a source of considerable pride for America’s society of southpaws. In fact, the Microsoft titan and philanthropist(巨頭兼慈善家) is one of a surprising number of . business moguls(巨頭) to be lefthanded, including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and former IBM head Lou Gerstner. But the club seems to be a guysonly organization — research suggests that while lefthanded men tend to earn more than their righthanded colleagues（同事）, there is no similar advantage for women. A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research raised the idea that lefthanded men favor divergent thinking, a form of creativity in which the brain moves from conventional(常規(guī)的) knowledge into unexplored association. Maybe that’s what it takes to develop a net worth valued at $ 57 billion.Oprah WinfreyThe talkshow queen doesn’t need much more to set her apart from the rest — what with her valued $ billion fortune and a magic ability to sell books just by glancing at them — but she also has the distinction(名譽) of being a member of the lefthanded club. Since men are more likely to be lefthande