【正文】 ) this kind of trading is quite normal and should not be surprising 7. When the former culture secretary Smith said that It won39。re talking pennies, really. (para. 5) he was telling us that _______. (A) the Treasury should be fully responsible for the collection and maintenance of such literary artifacts (B) the function of the Treasury will be like that of an arm and a leg (C) the Treasury should take strict and severe financial policies in dealing with the issue (D) the Treasury will not have any difficulty giving such funding and support 8. Salman Rushdie, the author of the Satanic Verses,_______. (A) is the representative of British literary people (B) sold his papers including the publication of his first novel in 1975 (C) was once protected with the taxpayers39。s money to buy back the papers. 10. Which of the following gives the main idea of the passage? (A) The price of British writers39。 literary papers. (D) The British are trying to stop the flow of writers39。s a miracle material. Indeed, more than a ton “ 英語客棧 ” 網(wǎng)址： 友情提供：英語客棧 第 7 頁 共 14 頁 of concrete is produced each year for every man, woman and child on Earth. Yet concrete is generally ignored outside the engineering world, a victim of its own ubiquity and the industry39。t work like we want it to. We39。re not durable, we release more emissions, says Victor Li, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Michigan. Dr, Li has created a concrete suffused by synthetic fibers that make it stronger, more durable, and able to bend like a metal. Li39。t have to put rebar in there, or structural beams, says Van Oss. You can have things shooting off into space at odd angles. Many possibilities are opened up. A more directly green concrete has been developed by the Australian pany TecEco. They add magnesium to their cement, forming a porous concrete that actually scrubs carbon dioxide from the air. The pla39。re in charge, and we need to do the same. We can literally 39。 carbon in our own built environment. Another modification to the built environment is the carbon fiberreinforced concrete of Deborah Chung, a materials scientist at the State University of New York at Buffalo. By running an electrical current through concrete, Dr. Chung says, tiny deformations caused by minute pressures can be detected. You can monitor room occupancy in realtime, controlling lighting, ventilation, and cooling in relation to how many people are there, says Chung. While experts agree that these new concrete will someday be widely used, the timetable is uncertain. Concrete panies are responsive to environmental concerns and are always looking to stretch the utility of their product, but the construction industry is slow to change. When you start monkeying around with materials, the governing bodies, the building departments, are very cautious before they let you use an unproven material, Meyer says. In the next few decades, says Van Oss, building codes will change, opening the way for innovative materials. But while new concretes may be stronger and more durable, they are also more expensiveand whether the tendency of developers and the public to locus on shortterm rather than longterm costs will also change is another matter. 11. When cement specialist Hendrik van Oss argues that 20th century can be viewed as the concrete age, he most probably means that _ (A) the traditional building material concrete is the only manmade miracle (B) concrete is indispensable in the development of modem construction industry (C) pared with other inventions, concrete is more practical and useful (D) concrete, as a building material, can be mixed with any other materials 12. What does the author mean by saying that concrete is a victim of its own ubiquity and the industry’s conservative pace of development‖() (A) Concrete suffers from its own unique features as well as the slow development of building industry. (B) Concrete is not appreciated because of its dull color and other drawbacks, with little improvement as a “ 英語客棧 ” 網(wǎng)址： 友情提供：英語客棧 第 8 頁 共 14 頁 building material. (C) Slow progress of building industry does harm to the application and popularity of concrete. (D) Concrete is ignored because it is conventional with little advance in its technology. 13. According to the passage, concrete is also a climatechange villain mainly because (A) sand or gravel has to be used as an aggregate in the process of mixing (B) the materials which are used to make concrete are not durable (C) recycling of concrete is quite difficult when concrete breaks down (D) chemical reaction in manufacturing cement emits carbondioxide (worldwide) 14. The new green concrete has all of the following advantages EXCEPT that ____ (A) it will greatly reduce the cost of production and construction (B) it will bee stronger, lighter and climatefriendly (C) it will give architects and builders more freedom in designing and construction (D) it will require little reinforcement in preparation , 15. When Van Oss says that Whether the tendency of developers and the public to focus on shortterm rather than longterm costs will also change is another matter, it probably shows that_______. (A) he has full confidence in the developers and the public in using new concrete (B) he is quite pessimistic about the future development of greener concrete (C) he is hostile to the attitudes of developers and the public (D) he feels that people should be patient to wait for the change of the public attitude Questions 1620 We live in an age when everyone is a critic. Criticism is all over the lnter, in blogs and chat rooms, for everyone to access and add his two cents3