The English are also knowingly polite when it comes to language. Whereas many other nations are more direct in their communication, the English prefer a more indirect form of asking for things. For example, an American who wants to talk to a colleague might say, “Got a minute?”; however an English person will often use a more indirect means might of requesting the chat, “Sorry to bother you, but would you possibly have a minute or so to have a quick chat if you don’t mind, please?”
68. Which of the following contributing to manners of the English are NOT mentioned?
A. Books. B. Magazines. C. Schools. D. Olympics.
69. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Queuing was once an Olympic sport, and the English won it.
B. When it comes to being polite, the English are the champions.
C. The English wish that queuing would become an Olympic sport.
D. Queuing must become an Olympic sport some day.
70. What does George Mikes mean by saying “an Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one”?
A. The English are interested in queuing. B. When an English is alone, he has to queue.
C. The English form a good habit of queuing. D. Not queuing is illegal in England.
71. Which of the following can reflect manners of the English?
A. Wanting to talk to a workmate, he might say “Got a minute?”
B. School children often crowd their way onto the bus.
C. “Excuse me, would you possibly tell me how to get to the bank?”
D. When he is alone, he can’t form an orderly queue.
(D)
Global warming threatens Antarctica and its tuxedoed inhabitants(穿礼服的居民，指南极的企鹅), whose numbers have plummeted more than 80% since 1975, a new book says.
Author and journalist Fen Montaigne chronicles(记录) his five months studying Antarctica's penguins and climate change’s impact at a research station with ecologist Bill Fraser. His book says Antarctica’s midwinter temperature has risen 11°F in the past 60 years.
In Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica (Henry Holt, $26), released this week, Montaigne shows the otherworldly beauty of one of Earth’s wildest place, its mysterious quality to explorers such as Sir Ernest Shackleton and the impact of rising temperatures.
Here’s King George Island at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where Montaigne in the three-plus decades of Fraser’s landmark research, this western region of Antarctica has warmed faster than almost any other place on the planet, causing sea ice to disappear and glaciers to retreat. The Adelie penguins depend on sea ice for survival. They use it as a platform from which they feed on krill larvae and silverfish eggs, the supply of which has been reduced because of scant sea ice. Their numbers near Fraser’s research station have plummeted from about 33,000 breeding pairs in 1975 to 5,600.
“It seems that their endless instinct and their natural intelligence can take them only so far,” writes Montaigne, senior editor of the online magazine Yale Environment 360. “Today, in at least one corner of Antarctica, the continent's iconic penguin is starting to falter(衰弱).”
Montaigne first visited Antarctica in 2004 to cover Fraser’s research for National Geographic, spending a month with him near his base at Palmer Station, one of three U.S. research centers on Antarctica. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation to return for five months beginning in October 2005.
He says the saga of the Adelies is a “cautionary tale” and calls Fraser a “sentinel(哨兵), working in a part of the planet that most of us will never visit and bearing witness to rapid changes that foreshadow(预示) our own futures.” For more pictures of his time in Antarctica, visit Montaigne's website or read his article in New Yorker magazine.
72. The underlined word “plummeted” in Paragraph 1 probably means .
A. increased quickly B. fell suddenly C. stopped suddenly D. changed rapidly
73. Who wrote the book Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctic?
A. Sir Ernest Shackleton B. Bill Fraser C. Fen Montaigne D. The author of this article
74. Where do you guess this article comes from?
A. A magazine B. A radio station C. A newspaper D. A website
75. From the last paragraph we can conclude that .
A. global warming will not influence man’s life in the future
B. global warming will lead to the extinction of penguins
C. global warming will certainly affect man’s life greatly
D. global warming will be stopped by man in future
(E)
In the early 1950s, researches found that people scored lower on intelligence tests if they spoke more than one language. Research in the sixties found the opposite. Bilingual (说双语的) people scored higher than monolinguals, people who speak only one language.
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