ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials.  Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael. Bloomberg, New York’s mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing.  So he recently announced that the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the city’s supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP’s green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York’s DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.
45. What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?
A. To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people. 
B. To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.
C. To show how the environment-friendly building works.
D. To compare old and new boiler rooms.
46. What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?
A. Lower running costs.                                    B. Costing less in construction.   
C. Less air to be lost in hot days.                        D. Better prices for homeless people.
47. It can be learned from the text that,           
A. New York City is seriously polluted
B. people’s daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City
C. a great number of people in New York City don’t have houses to live in
D. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City
48. What is the main purpose of this text?
A. Tocall on people to pay more attention to housing problems.
B. To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.
C. To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.
D. To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.
C
Alex London Research Laboratory (ALRL) is part of Alex Co., Ltd., a major Australian medicine-making company. Opened in 1992, ALRL specialises in the development of new medicines for the treatment of heart diseases.
A position is now open for a Research Operations Manager (ROM) to support our growing research team at the new laboratories in Hatfield,due to open in the autumn of 2010.
Reporting to the Director,you will help set up and run the technical and scientific support services of our new laboratories now under construction. You will be expected to provide expert knowledge about and be in charge of all areas of ALRL’S Health and Safety, and to communicate (沟通) with support employees at ALRL’S laboratories based at University College London. Working closely with scientists and other operations and technical employees, you will manage a small number of research support employees providing services to help with the research activities to be carried out at the new laboratories.
Candidates (申请人) will have experience of both management and research support／technical services. Knowledge of research operations and excellent communication skills are necessary. Education to degree level is also desirable.
If you are interested in this position, please send your CV (简历) to Alex London Research Laboratory, University College London, Hatfield, London, W1E 6B7 or by email to ALRL@alex.co.uk.
For more Information, please visit www.alex.co.uk.
49. What can be learnt about the new laboratories from the text?
A. They have not yet been set up.
B. They are in Hatfield, Australia.
C. They belong to University College London.
D. They are new workplaces for Australian researchers only.
50. What are the duties of a ROM,according to the text?

a. To carry out research activities. b. To be in charge of ALRL’s Health and Safety. c. To help run the technical and scientific support services. d. To manage a small number of research support employees.

A. a, b, c.                         B. a, b, d.                            C. b, c, d.                         D. a, c, d.
51. What does the fourth paragraph mainly talk about?
A. The technical skills of a would-be ROM.
B. The practical experience of a would-be ROM.
C. The personal information of a would-be ROM.
D. The necessary requirements for a would-be ROM.
52. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To describe the job of a ROM.
B. To provide information about ALRL.
C. To announce an open position at ALRL.
D. To make known the opening of the new laboratories.
D
Somali pirates (海盗) robbed three Thai fishing ships with 77 sailors on board nearly l, 200 Miles off the Somali coast, the farthest-off-shore attack to date, an officer said Tuesday.
Pirates have gone farther south and east in answer to increased patrols (巡逻) by warships off the Somali shore. The robbing of the three ships Sunday was about 600 miles outside the normal operation area for the international force, said a spokesman.
The spokesman said the attack so far out at sea was a clear sign that the international patrols against pirates were having a “marked effect on pirate activity in the area”.
“Once they start attacking that far out,you’re not even really talking about the Somali basin or areas of water that have any connection with Somalia,” said an officer, Roger Middleton. “Once you’re that far out, it’s just the Indian Ocean, and it means you’re looking at trade going from the Gulf to Asia, from Asia to South Africa.”
  “This is the farthest robbing to date. They are now operating near the Maldives and India,” said another officer.
  The three ships — the MV Prantalay l1, 12, and l 4 — had 77 members on board in total. All of them are Thai, the spokesman said. Before the Sunday robbing, pirates held l l ships and 228 sailors.
Pirates have increased attacks over the past year in hopes of catching more dollar payments. Because of increased patrols and defenses on board ships, the success rate (率) has gone down, though the number of successful attacks has stayed the same year over year.
53.   The pirate attack reported in the text happened            .

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