A. Last year's tour winner. B. A cyclist being interviewed.
A. Last year's tour winner.
B. A cyclist being interviewed.
C. President of the Ottawa Bicycle Club.
D. A sports reporter for a local news show.
A. Last year's tour winner.
B. A cyclist being interviewed.
C. President of the Ottawa Bicycle Club.
D. A sports reporter for a local news show.
W:Well,Peter, it's an event that's open to anybody who'd like to ride a bicycle through the streets of Montreal. The tour covers a standard distance of 65 kilometers, but the route's quite different every year; so even people who have already done it might enjoy doing it again.
M: How long does it take to go the whole distance?
W:It varies.Cyclists are free to go as fast or as slow and do as much or as little of the course as they like.
M:Well,what's the typical pace for a participant?
W: Between 12 and 30 kilometers per hour. Some cyclists stop along the way and don't cross the finish line until early evening. But the whole point is that there's no rush—it's not a race.
M: I understand last year's tour had 45,000 cyclists. That was the largest mass cycling event in the world. How many do you expect this year?
W: The same as the last year. And since we regularly have so many participants, can I take this opportunity to remind our listeners to sign up early? We filled up quickly last year, and we had to refuse lots of applications.
M: Before we close, any other tips for prospective cyclists?
W: Yes. Take water with you. It is available at the relay supply. ,And pack a d pack a good lunch with plenty of fruit for energy. Candy and chocolate don't do the trick。
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A.How to increase one's speed in a bicycle race.
B.Major Canadian bicycle races.
C.The contribution of cycling event.
D.An annual cycling event.
W: Well. Peter, it's an event that's open to anybody who'd like to ride a bicycle through the streets of Montreal. The tour covers a standard distance of 65 kilometers. But the route is quite different every year. So even people who've already done it might enjoy doing it again.
M: How long does it take to go the whole distance?
W: It varies. Cyclists are free to go as fast or as slow and do as much or as little of the course as they like.
M: Well, what's the typical pace for a participant?
W: Between 12 and 30 km per hour. Some cyclists stop along the way and don't cross the finish line until early evening. But the whole point is that there is no rush. It's not a race.
M: I understand last year's tour had 45 thou 'sand cyclists and it was the largest mass cycling event in the world. How many do you expect this year?
W: The same as last year. And since we regularly have so many participants, can 1 take this opportunity to remind our listeners to sign up early? We filled up quickly last year and we had to refuse lots of applications.
M: Before we close, any other tips for prospective cyclists?
W: Yes. Take water with you. It is available at the relay stations but it helps to have an additional supply. And pack a good lunch with plenty of fruit for energy. Candy and chocolate don't do the trick.
(20)
A.How to increase one's speed in a bicycle race.
B.Major Canadian bicycle race
C.The contributions of cycling to health.
D.An annual cycling event.
A.Last year’s tour winner.
B.A cyclist being interviewed.
C.President ofthe Otmwa Bicycle Club
D.A sports reporter for a local news show.
"The number and variety of wild animals in urban areas is increasing," says Gomer Jones, president of the National Institute for Urban Wildlife, in Columbia, Maryland. A survey of the wildlife in New York's Central Park last year tallied the species of mammals, including muskrats, shrews and flying squirrels. A similar survey conducted in the 1890s counted only five species. One of the country's largest populations of raccoons(浣熊) now lives in Washington D.C., and moose(驼鹿) are regularly seen wandering into Maine towns. Peregrine falcons (游隼) dive from the window ledges of buildings in the largest U.S. cities to prey on pigeons.
Several changes have brought wild animals to the cities. Foremost is that air and water quality in many cities has improved as a result of the 1970s' pollution-control efforts. Meanwhile, rural areas have been built up, leaving many animals on the edges of suburbia. In addition, conservationists have created urban wildlife refuges.
The Greater London Council last year spent $750,000 to buy land and build 10 permanent wildlife refuges in the city. Over 1,000 volunteers have donated money and cleared rubble from derelict lots. As a result, pheasants now strut in the East End and badgers scuttle across lawns near the center of town. A colony of rare house martins nests on a window ledge beside Harrods, and one evening last year a fox was seen on Westminster Bridge looking up at Big Ben.
For peregrine falcons, cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings. By 1970 the birds were extinct east of the Mississippi because the DDT had made their eggs too thin m support life. That year, ornithologist Tom Cade of Cornell University began rising the birds for release in cities, for cities afforded abundant food and contained none of the peregrine's natural predators.
"Before they were exterminated, some migrated to cities on their own because they had run out of cliff space," Cade says. "To peregrines, buildings are just like cliffs." He has released about 30 birds since 1975 in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Norfolk, and of the 20 pairs now living in the East, half are urbanites. "A few of the young ones have gotten into trouble by falling down chimneys and crashing into window-glass, but overall their adjustment has been successful."
The first paragraph suggests that ______.
A.environment is crucial for wildlife
B.tour books are not always a reliable source of information
C.London is a city of fox
D.foxes are highly adaptable to environment
What do we learn about last year's Miss Indonesia?
A.She was criticized in the media.
B.She was brought up in America.
C.She had difficulty with Indonesian.
D.She came from a poor family.
A.difficult
B.trouble
C.issue
D.hard
A.wasn't it
B.was it
C.isn't it
D.is it
Last year's robot race in Nevada was a great success.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
A.last year's performance
B.competitors' outcomes
C.desired standards
D.last month's efforts
E.management opinion
According to NHTSA, last year on the highways______.
A.approximately two thirds of drivers were killed by road rage
B.road rage remained the No. 1 killer and took 41,907 people's lives
C.more people were killed by aggressive driving than by drunk driving
D.drunk driving was a problem more serious than aggressive driving