A coal-fire stove（炉灶）provided heating for Zhao Yaoqin's courtyard bungalow in a Beijing hutong all her life. This winter, however, the stove has disappeared from the 66-year-old's life, and an electric radiator takes its place beside her bed, a product of a government to use clean energy in the national capital.
With the Olympics to be staged in Beijing next August, the city is determined to eliminate the use of coal within the Third Ring Road that circles the city before the Games. The project to replace the stoves with electric radiators has been part of the effort. When the city's four-month long heating season started on Thursday, coal-fired stoves, known as a big source of pollution in the big city, have disappeared from some 20,000 local households like Zhao's bungalow in the inner city "hutong" -- traditional alleyways（小巷） that date back centuries. "We used to boil water or bake bread on the stove," said Zhao, sounding sentimental（伤感） to the disappearance of the coal furnace from her life.
Late in the 1990s, Beijing's air quality monitoring office found that the emissions（排放） of sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide from the hutong areas have been higher than the city's average in winter, mainly because of the coal stoves. With the project to switch to clean energy for heating launched in 1999, the emission level of the two poisonous substances decreased by 42 percent and 44 percent, respectively, this year from 2001 levels.
Zhao said the fee for electrical heat for the entire winter was usually around 2,400 yuan （US$323） per household. With the government's subsidy（补贴）, however, she only needed to pay about 500 yuan, nearly the same price as that for coal.
1． Zhao Yaoqin’ example in the passage is to tell us that_______.
A．people in Beijing are using electric radiators to welcome the Olympics.
B．people in Beijing are doing something to protect the environment.
C．hutongs in Beijing have a long history.
D．people pay more money to use electric radiators than before.
2．The underlined word eliminate in the second paragraph probably means________
A．cut down. B．increase. C．get rid of. D．replace
3．We can infer from the passage that ______
A．Zhao Yaoqin has a strong and deep emotion with the use of coal-fire stove.
B．The government will pay most of the fee.
C．The air of Beijing has been badly polluted since 1990s.
D．The people do not use coal eight months in one year.
4．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A．The clean air is important when the Olympics Games are held in Beijing.
B．The success of the Olympics Games depends on the clean air.
C．The government spares no effort to make the environment better.
D．The emission level of poisonous substances will be low in 2008.
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Most great inventors often met with much trouble in their work. Before they could 1 , they had to overcome thousands of difficulties which were put in their 2 . The following is one of such examples.
George Stephenson (1781－1848), a famous British inventor, made the first train in 1825, 3 a steam engine. When he was experimenting with the engine on the train, he met with 4 from the government, the newspapers and the gentlemen in the 5 . They said that the 6 and the smoke would kill cows, horses and sheep, that the engine would 7 or that the hot coals from it would set fire to their 8 . People believe what they said.
George Stephenson 9 the people that the train could go on small rails, could 10 carriages full of goods and 11 and that there was no great 12 to them. It was a very difficult matter for him to make them 13 However, after some time, he was 14 to do it, and the first train that was driven by Stephenson himself 15 what he had said. On the train there was a new steam engine. It was invented by him, and was proved a complete success.
The first day when the train ran on the rails, people along the way heard the noise of the train 16 , and saw it running quickly to them. They 17 it was terrible. They ran quickly back home for 18 and closed their doors tightly. They did not dare to come out 19 it had passed. A week later an old woman 20 said that her hen had been so frightened that it hadn't laid any eggs for these days.
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Way back in 1662，John Evelyn，a brilliant Englishman known for his detailed diaries，wrote about disastrous effects of coal-burning on the city of London .In it,he described an infernal scene of smog．air filled with “Columns and Clouds of Smoke’’given out by small industries and residences that burned coal for fuel．
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? Davis writes that even today in this country ,we still have not completely absorbed the lessons of similar events．Sixty years the killer fog lifted in London，people are dying preventable deaths and suffering life．changing illnesses，simply because they must breathe the air of the cities where they live
1.The passage is written to ???
A. warn people of the danger from air pollution????
B. introduce London’s Great Smog of l952
C. blame the government for the smog??? ???????
D. explain the reasons for air pollution
2.The underlined word‘‘infernal” in the first paragraph probably means“??? ”
A．imaginary??? B .adventurous??? C. unbelievable?? D .annoying
3.One of the reasons for the Great Smog of l952wasthat——
A .people burned wood for fuel?????? ?
B. a forest fire created a black cloud over the city
C．the government ignored the smog??
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Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally binds the inhabitants of small villages together. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. But country life has disadvantages too. While it is true that you may be among friends in a village, it is also true that you are cut off from the exciting and important events that take place in cities. There’s little possibility of going to a new show or the latest movie. Shopping becomes a major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go on an expedition to the nearest large town. The city-dweller who moves to the country is often oppressed by a sense of unbearable stillness and quiet.
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