【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 n to give up the 2004 race probably helped his party39。s chances in the general election against President George ,Democrats said.Many did not want to see BushGore Ⅱ.“The last campaign was an extremely difficult one,” Gore told CBS TV show “60 Minutes”on Sunday.While saying he still had the energy and drive to run again,Gore recognied,“There are a lot of people within the Democratic Party who felt exhausted(by the 2000 race)…who felt like,OK,‘I don39。t want to go through that again.’And I39。m frankly sensitive to that feeling.”In nearly two doen interviews after Gore announced his plans,Democrats dutifully claimed their party had lost a top candidate,but one after another,they praised Gore for taking an early exit from a primary race he could have won,sparing them a repeat.Gore,54,said he was making his decision“in the full understanding that it probably means that I will never have another opportunity to run for president.”Party activists(激進(jìn)主義分子)blamed Gore for losing despite a booming economy and eight years of a Democratic even lost his home state of Tennessee,a victory there would have given him the White House. of the following can be the best title for this passage? Was Criticized Decides Not to Fight Bush in 2004 US Vice President Al Gore Gore and Gorge Bush2. Why do you think Gore has decides not to run in 2004 according to this passage? he is quite old. many people are against him. he quite understands the feelings of a lot of Democratic members. he doesn39。t want to be President of US. was Gore39。s feeling when he made his decision?. . . .Passage 6Priscilla—Ouchida39。s “energyefficient”house turned out to be a horrible she and her engineer husband married a few years ago,they built a $ 100,000,threebedroom home in sealed to prevent air leaks,the house was equipped with small doublepaned(雙層玻璃) windows and several other energy saving began as soon as the couple moved in,39。s eyes throat was constantly suffered from headaches and could hardly was as though she had suddenly developed a strange illness.Experts finally traced the cause of her level of formaldehyde(甲醛) gas in her kitchen was twice the maximum allowed by federal standards for chemical source of the gas? Her new kitchen cabinets and wall to wall carpeting.The Ouchidas are victims of indoor air pollution,which is not given sufficient attention partly because of the nation39。s drive to save problem itself isn39。t new.“The indoor environment was dirty long before energy conservation came along，”says Moschandreas,a pollution scientist at Geomet Technologies in Maryland.“Energy conservation has tended to accentuate the situation in some cases.”The problem appears to be more troublesome in newly constructed homes rather than old in the days when energy was cheap,home builders didn39。t worry much about unsealed of such leaks,the air in an average home was repaced by fresh outdoor air about once an a result,the pollutants generated in most households seldom built up to dangerous levels.1. It can be learned from the passage that the Ouchidas39。 house—— well worth the money spent on its construction almost faultless form the point of energy conservation to meet energy conservation standards designed and constructed in a scientific way2. What make the Ouchidas39。 new house a horrible dream? of fresh quality of building materials. leakage in the kitchen. newly painted walls.3. The word“accentuate”() most probably means“.————“ were cracks in old houses not a big concern? indoor cleanliness was not emphasized. energy used to be inexpensive. environmental protection was given top priority. they were technically unavoidable. passage is most probably taken from an article entitled ———— conservation Building Crisis Pollution Indoors in Building Construction Passage 7More and more private schools are being set up in China these days,ending the state monopoly of the country39。s educational private schools are still on the experimental stage and are much more expensive as pared with the public schools,there is no lack of application for enrollment.People wele private schools for good of all,those schools are relieving our government of part of the burdens of financing so many ,parents are willing to send their only child to better schools even if it costs having more money than the governmentfunded public schools,those private schools can attract better can also offer better environments including superior living facilities and more advanced teaching ,adequate money doesn39。t guarantee good not well guided and properly disciplined,the privileged young children might turn out to be new aristocrats,and therefore unfit for our highly petitive modern society.1. The private schools indeed have something better than the public schools but not—— condition teaching equipments2. Which are the reasons for people wele the private school? ————a the government. break the traditional educational system. money is connected with higher quality of teaching. don39。t need to take charge of children so much like before hope their children act more wonderful.,b,c　,c,d　,b,e　,c,e3. The writer is likely to talk about———— in the next paragraph schools have more advantages than we imagine the private schools guide student to the right way are some disadvantages in the private schools the public schools pete with the private schoolsPassage 8A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of he goto home,he went upstairs to his living room and put them found that they were about two inches too long.He went downstairs,where his mother and his two sisters were washing up the tea things in the kitchen.“These new trousers are too long,” he said.“They need to be cut short by about two one of you mind doing this for me,please?”His mother and