He has also promised to turn his nation into a model for the rest of the world by becoming “carbon neutral” by 2020. His plan involves ending fossil fuel use and powering all vehicles and buildings from “green” sources such as burning coconut husks.

1. Why do you think Mohamed Nasheed chose Dutch Docklands?

A. Because it has experience in building floating structure.

B. Because it has a good fame throughout the world.

C. Because it charged much less than other companies.

D. Because it supports building floating structures in the world.

2. The Hulhumale was built with the purpose of .

A. attracting more visitors B. making it a new capital

C. making the capital less crowded D. fighting against climate change

3. According to the last two paragraphs, Nasheed is a person who .

A. has succeeded in buying land abroad B. is more than well-known

C. has thought more for his nation D. has stopped using fossil fuel

4. The underlined word “vowed” in paragraph 3 can be replaced by .

A. ended B. promised C. failed D. weighed

【参考答案】1—4、ACCB

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较难题目特训：节能环保类

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

PLAYA GRANDE, COSTA RICA? This resort town was long known for Leatherback Sea Turtle (棱皮龟) national Park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. However, on a beach where dozens of turtles used to nest on a given night, scientists spied only 32 leatherbacks all of last year.

With leatherbacks threatened with extinction (灭绝), Playa Grande’s turtle museum was abandoned three years ago and now sits among a sea of weeds. And the beachside ticket office for turtle tours was washed away by a high tide in September. “We do not promote that as a turtle tourism destination any more because we realize there are far too few turtles to please,” said Alvaro Fonseca, a park ranger (管理员).

Even before scientists found temperatures going up over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and Costa Ricans interest in eating turtle eggs. But climate change may cause the most serious harm to an animal that has lived in the Pacific for 150 million years.

Sea turtles are sensitive to numerous effects of warming. They feed on reefs, which are dying in hotter seas. They lay eggs on beaches that are being covered by rising seas and more violent waves.

More uniquely their gender (性别) is determined, not by genes but by the egg’s temperature during development. Small rises in beach temperatures can result in ail-female populations, obviously problematic for survival. If the sand around the eggs hits 30 degrees Celsius, the gender balance shits to females: at about 32 degrees they are all female. Above 34, you get boiled eggs.

On some nesting beaches, scientists are artificially cooling nests with shade or irrigation and trying to protect broader areas of coastal property from development

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to ensure that turtles have a place to nest as the seas rise.

1. Why does the resort town stop promoting it’s turtle tourism?

A. It decides not to disturb the turtles’ normal life.

B. Tourists have lost interest in watching turtles.

C. There are only very few turtles now.

D. The turtle museum was destroyed by a high tide.

2. Which of the following is the major factor in the turtles endangerment?

A. The locals eating habit. B. Drift net fishing.

C. Beach development. D. Global warming.

3. We learn from the last paragraph that scientists .

A. are doing research on the sea rise B. are moving turtles to new homes

C. are protecting turtles’ nests D. are getting rid of sea weeds

4. The passage intends to .

A. introduce a special kind of sea turtle

B. explain the mystery of turtles’ eggs

C. show the dangers a certain kind of turtle is facing

D. attract more visitors to a sea turtle museum

【参考答案】1—4、CDCC

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2016高考训练题。阅读理解。

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

My oldest child, Emma, just returned to campus after a long holiday break to finish up her last period of college. These days, friends and family have begun flooding me with one question: What is she going to do after graduation?

The job market is, after all, awfully tough. Just this month the Federal Reserve Bank published a study showing that “recent graduates are increasingly working in low-paid jobs or working part-time.” The bright spot, according to the study, is for students who majored(主修) in STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — areas in which recent graduates “have tended to do relatively well”.

But Emma is a student of the humanities(人文) at a small college. She’s an American Studies major with a focus on the politics and culture of food. For quite a while, I think her field of study is so fashionable right now that I’m not the least bit worried she will find a good job. Yet the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve decided to be honest. “I’m not sure what Emma is going to do,” I now say. “But she’s gotten a great education and has really found her interest. — and I know those things will serve her well over the course of her life.”

Nowadays, more and more universities and colleges are being measured by the salaries of their recent graduates. In this climate, encouraging your kid to study the humanities, seems, at best, unwise or, at worst, unconcerned with earning a living. But a college is not a vocational(职业) school. And promoting STEM subjects should not be society’s only answer to helping the next generation grow in a competitive world.

From the beginning, we never urged Emma to pick a college or a major with an eye on its expected return on money, as more and more families are doing. To Emma, what really matters will be something that we may not be able to measure for quite a long time: Emma’s contribution to the world and how happy she is in it. 1. The author’s friends and family_________. A. are worried about Emma’s safety

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