Important: Registration for the Parenting Talk & Balloon Sculpturing Workshop starts on 3 Nov. Parenting Talk-Four 1-hour long sessions, last session commences at 3:15 p.m. Warning: The Haunted Houses at the CCA Rooms are not meant for the faint-hearted! Time: 9 a.m. -3:30 p.m. Coupons are available at Raffles Girls' School, 21 Hillcrest Road, General Office Starting from 4 Aug from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Every $20 purchase of coupons entitles you to a chance at our lucky dip. All income will go into RGS Community InvoNement Programme Fund(CIPF). For details, please require at 98763321 or visit our website at www.rgs.moe.edu

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59. All the events and activities are available at the carnival except . A. Musicals B. Gardening

C. Parenting Talk D. Balloon Sculpturing Workshop 60. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. We get to barbecue the food that we buy in the RGS General Office. B. You can choose to dunk any teacher in the school at the 'Slam Dunk' stall. C. You will have two chances at the lucky dip if you purchase $40 worth of coupons.

D. You can win attractive prizes if you try your hand at the game machines in the Arcade Comer.

61. The main aim of the RGS Carnival is to A. select the best RGS activity B. showcase the pupils' musical talent

C. test hearts of participants with haunted houses D. raise funds for the school's CIPF (3)

The amazon is the largest and most diverse rain forest in the world-about 10 percent of all known species on earth dwell there. But it wasn't until recently that researchers were about to see the 'big picture' of the vast rain forest.

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The new findings? Almost 400 billion trees belonging to 16,000 different types grow in the

Amazon. More than 100 experts analyzed data from 1,170 surveys to come up with the figures.

The vast size and difficult terrain (地形) of the Amazon basin has historically restricted studies of tree communities to a local or regional level, making it difficult to see the big picture. This lack of

information has hindered science and conservation efforts, according to experts. The new findings, published in the journal Science, provide the first estimates of the abundance, frequency and distribution of many thousands of Amazonian trees. Extrapolations based on the data, collected over 10 years, suggest that greater Amazonia is home to around 390 billion individual trees. The area covered includes the amazon Basin and the Guiana Shield, spanning an area roughly the size of the 48 adjoining U.S. States.

While around 16,000 types of trees are believed to exist in the Amazon, half the total number of

the types are thought to belong to just 227 species, including Brazil nut, chocolate and rubber. \

very valuable information for further research and policy making,\co-author Dr. Hans ter Steege, from the Netherlands.

The study also offers insights into the rarest tree species in the Amazon. According to a

mathematical model used in the study, roughly 6,000 Amazonnian tree types have populations of fewer than one thousand. This would automatically qualify them for inclusion in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species(CNRLTS)-if they could be found and identified.

U.S. ecologist and co-author of the study, Professor Miles Silman said,\too rare to find account for much of the planet's biodiversity. It's a real problem for conservation that the species at the greatest risk of extinction may disappear before we ever find them. It's a concem for the whole human race.\62. The underlined word hinder is closest in meaning to

A. generated B. blocked C. sponsored D. improved 63. According to the passage, what made the collection of species information so difficult?

A. The lack of experienced professionals in the field.

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B. The dangers of certain types of species.

C. The big area and complicated geographic situation. D. The unfavourable government law in the field. 64. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The amazon rain forest covers 10 percent of the world's dry land. B. The conservation of amazon has been done well. C. About 8000 types of trees belong to over 220 species. D. About 6000 Amazonnian tree types have died out. 65. The species conservation was made difficult by A. the negative climate of the amazon land B. the possibility of dying of rare species C. the lack of conservation fund D. the human beings' lack of concern VI．Translation(]0％)

Directions：Translate the following sentences into English，using the word or phrase given in the brackets．

1．很难相信他在这么艰苦的环境中活了下来。 (it) 2。学校采取行动增加学生每天的运动时间。 (take) 3．有人绑架了他们的女儿，令那对夫妻焦急万分(which) 4．我相信每天吃鸡蛋对健康有益处。(believe)

5．Jack收到很多大学的邀请去做关于健康饮食的演讲． (receive) VII。Guided Writing(15％)

现今，很多中学生关注于学习和娱乐，很少在家里做家务。就此现象，写一篇100至120字 的作文，谈谈你的看法。

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