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[简答题]PassageB
By2050,forthefirsttimeinhistory,therewillbemorepeopleintheworldoverage65thanunderage14.TheGlobalCityIndicatorsFacility(GCIF)inTorontohaspartneredwithPhilipsintheNetherlandstoreleaseanewreportonCitiesandAging.Thispolicysnapshotoutlinesstrategiesforaddressingtheneedsofouragingurbanpopulation,andshowshowinternationallystandardizedindicatorsof“age‐friendlycities”canbeusedtobenchmarkandpredictscenariosforbetter‐informeddecision‐making.Thereport,andGCIF’songoingresearch,willinformandguidecityleadersonhowtobetterconfrontthechallengesassociatedwithanagingpopulation.
Globally,peopleovertheageof65willincreaseby183percentby2050.InpartsofAfrica,theincreaseisastartling366percent.Atthesametime,urbanizationhasbecomeadefiningphenomenonofthe21stcentury,anditisprojectedthat70percentoftheworld’spopulationwillliveincities.Giventhesetwocriticalpopulationshifts,thisrapidlyagingworldsignifiesrapidlyagingcities.
Municipalpolicydecisionsarebecomingincreasinglyvitaltothestateofthewor
A. A．There will be a kind of population explosion in cities.
B．More and more young people prefer to live in the countryside.
C．Most of the resources will be transferred into cities to satisfy people’s needs.
D．There will be a kind of re‐distribution of population in different continents of the globe.
[填空题]A
What is to happen about transport Evidently there are huge and important changes in prospect. A decade or so from now, there will have been yet another transformation in the way in which people and their goods are moved from place to place. Old techniques are being faced with attenuation or even extinction, sometimes because better methods of traveling have come along but sometimes simply because the old methods have become intolerable.
B
The development of recent decades most obviously likely to be continued is the tendency for alternative methods of traveling to coexist, and so to offer potential travelers a choice. Within large cities, underground transport is usually an alternative to several ways of traveling on the surface. Roads, railways and airlines are in competition, and there are still people who cross the North Atlantic by sea. (Most freight goes that way, of course.)
C
Oil tankers could decisively affect the pattern of petroleum dis
[单项选择]How may Olympic employees and volunteers were there in 23rd Olympics
A. More than 40,000.
B. 12,000.
C. 103,000.
D. 43,000.
[单项选择]
Passage Four
For more than 10 years there has been a
bigger rise in car crime than in most other types of crime. An average of more
than two cars a minute are broken into, vandalized (破坏) or stolen in the UK. Car
crime accounts for almost a third of all reported offences with no signs that
the trend is slowing down.
Although there are highly
professional criminals involved in car theft, almost 90 percent of car crime is
committed by the opportunist. Amateur thieves are aided by our carelessness.
When the Automobile Association (AA) engineers surveyed one town centre car park
last year, 10 percent of cars checked were unlocked, a figure backed up by a
Home Office national survey that found 12 percent of drivers sometimes left
their cars unlocked.
The vehicles are sitting in petrol stations
while drivers pay for their fuel. The AA has dis
A. is preferable for safe parking
B. is now a common practice
C. takes longer than necessary
D. aids a car thief in a way
[填空题]How many exits were there in the restaurant
There were ______ exits in the restaurant.
[填空题]Children play snow happily on the ground.
There are children ______ snow happily on the ground.
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