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They warn that a health gain should not be understood as permission to bully.
Mr. Copeland says bullying is a serious childhood experience that is no longer found only at schools and on playgrounds. Online or cyber bullying can make even a child's home feel unsafe. Some children who are bullied have killed themselves. Sometimes bullies even kill their victims. I hope we can make efforts to stop bullying whether in the real world or on the Internet. Questions ：
11. What problem will adults who were bullied as children have? 12. Why may bullies have lower CRP levels? 13. What makes a child feel home is unsafe? Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
The negative impacts of natural disasters can be seen everywhere. In just the past 30 years, the world has witnessed the destructive power of earthquakes in Indonesia% typhoons in the Philippines, and the destructive sea waves near Samoa, killing more than
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two million people and causing more than $ 1. 5 trillion in economic losses.
One of the UN weather experts says that is the bad news. “Over the last 50 years， economic losses have increased by 2%. That sounds pretty terrible, but the loss of life has decreased by 10%, simply because we are getting better at warning people. We are making a difference. Extreme events, however, will continue to occur. But the message is that they need not be disasters.\
The expert also says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or water-related extremes. These include droughts，floods, windstorms, strong tropical winds and wildfires. Though extreme events will continue, he believes that extreme events become disasters only when people fail to prepare for them. “Many of the remedies are well-known. From an early-warning perspective, make sure the warnings go right down to the community level. Build community action plans.，’
He also points to Cuba as an example of countries that have successfully reduced the loss of life caused by
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natural disasters by taking preventive action.
It says tropical storms formerly claimed dozens? if not hundreds of lives, each year in Cuba. But the development of an early-warning system has reversed that trend. In 2008, Cuba was hit by five successive hurricanes, but only seven people were killed. Questions
14. What is the talk mainly about? 15. How can we stop extreme events from turning into disasters?
16. What does the example of Cuba serve to show? Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation. W: Hello，I’m here with Tom. Now Tom, you went to university in Canada? M： Yeah, that's right. W： OK, and you have very strong views about universities in Canada. Could you please explain? M： Well, we don't have private universities in Canada. They're all public. All the universities are owned by the government, so there is the Ministry of Education in charge of creating the curriculum for the
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universities and so there is not much room for flexibility. Since it’s a government operated institution, things don’t move very efficiently.
W： Oh, it's really beyond my expectation. M： Yes, however, there are certain advantages of public universities, such as the fees being free. You don’t have to pay for your education. But the system isn't efficient, and it does not work that well. W： Yeah, I can see your point. But in the United States we have many private universities, and I think there are a lot of rules also. Maybe people don't act that much differently, because it's the same thing working for a private university. They get paid for their job. I don't know if they're that much more motivated to help people. Also, we have a problem in the United States that usually only wealthy kids go to the best schools, and it's kind of a problem actually.
M： I agree with you. I think it's a problem because you’re not giving equal access to education to everybody. It's not easy, but having only public universities also might not be the best solution. Perhaps we can learn from Japan where they have a system of
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