[简答题]Do the Argentinean really believe that because eleven of their men proved the most skilful at football, their nation is in every way better than all others

[填空题]Because the air in the country is really dean, we ought to live
there much as possible. Since, however, a great deal of the world’s (1) ______
work must be done indoor in cities, it is important that we take every (2) ______
precaution to ventilate our houses properly. Some people have
thought that night air is injurious. But careful study shows that night
air is identical with that we breathe during the day. In fact, the (3) ______
proper ventilation of a bedroom is one of the first necessity for good (4) ______
health. Since the exhaled air is usually warmer and lighter than the
inhaled air, it rises to the top of the room. Therefore, it is better to
open a window both at the top to let the warm up air out and also at (5) ______
the bottom to admit the fresh air in. Of course, this does not mean (6) ______
that one should sleep in a strong draft. In many places it is feasible to
sleep out-of-the-doors on

[单项选择]You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century—when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all—and ask ourselves. What were we thinking How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth, climate, natural resource and population redlines all at once "The only answer can be denial," argues Paul Gilding, an Australian environmentalist, in a new book called The Great Disruption. "When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required."
Gilding cites the work of the Global Footprint Network, an alliance of scientists, which calculates how many "planet
A. both growth and tapping of nature have reached their limits.
B. one way of breaking the loops is making better use of the technology.
C. the current situation is not as bad as the G. F. N. scientists state it.
D. improved productivity will eventually help raise the employment rate.