[填空题]The rising rate of house prices is usually faster than that of inflation and so the American government sometimes adjusts the property taxes to make it exceed the rate of inflation.

[填空题]The rising rate of house prices is usually faster than that of inflation and so the American government sometimes adjusts the property taxes to make it exceed the rate of inflation.

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Rising Prices Cause House "Apartheid"
涨价导致房屋的“种族隔离”
The Government has admitted that soaring house prices have left people on average incomes, such as teachers and nurses, locked out of buying their first homes across large parts of southern England, including London and most of the South East.
A spokeswoman for the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, admitted last night that there was now an effective "housing apartheid", with people in their own homes pulling further and further away from those yet to get on the property ladder.
With house prices rising at between 15 and 20 percent a year, incomes, which are rising at between 5 and 10 percent a year, cannot keep up.
"Increasing housing supply is a national priority. In large areas of the wider South East, house purchase remains out of reach for families with average household incomes," the official said．

A. houses are only built in specific places
B. houses in some places become too expensive for people to buy
C. black people and white people live in different houses in a place
D. regulations are enforced on house pricing

[单项选择]Young people are moving to cities at a faster rate than the rest of the population, according to a new Survey. It also shows the employment rate of young people is declining.
The Contemporary China Youth Population Development Studies Report was released last November by the China Teenagers Research Center and China’s Population Development Studies Center at Renmin University. The report shows that, although urban birthrates are declining, the percentage of young Chinese living in cities and towns is rising faster than that of the rest of the population. This is a result of migration from the countryside to the cities.
Lu Yilin, Dean of the Department of Youth Work at Beijing Youth Politics College says the cities can draw on fresh blood for future growth; the youth have a better chance to develop themselves and be in touch with new ideas. However there are also hidden difficulties. According to Lu, the urban youth who don’t have a registered permanent residence might f
A. the urban birthrates are rising
B. the urban death rates are declining
C. more aged people are migrating from the cities to the countryside
D. more young people are moving from the countryside to the cities

[填空题]Ecotourism is growing at a faster rate than any other type of travel.

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A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as in English, and the general principles apply to any language. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbookbut you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage (百分比) gained will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned with.
The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for your stage of instruction. They are all about five hundred words long. They are about topics of general interest which do not require a great deal of specialized knowledge. Thus they fall between the kind of reading you might find in your textbooks and the much less demanding kind you will find in a newspaper or ligh
A. only in your reading of a physics textbook
B. improve your understanding of an economics textbook
C. not only in your language study but also in other subjects
D. choose the suitable materials for you to practice reading

[单项选择]House prices might be declining suddenly and car sales dwindling but one sector is bucking the global economic trend: the video games industry has never had it so good. According to figures released this month, British gamers bought a record 82.8m titles in 2008. That’s a 26% increase on the previous year, making the UK the second-biggest games market in the world behind America. Analysts from Gfk Chart-Track, the British research company that published the report, say that as consumer hunker down at home, 2009 is likely to be another good year. Britain isn’t alone in experiencing a gaming boom. In 2008 global revenue from games software added up to an estimated $32 billion (￡22.2 billion ) —enough to overtake DVD sales for the first time.
The reasons for this growth aren’t hard to fathom. Just as cinema audiences grew during the Great Depression of the 1930s when people sought out good-value entertainment, so the recession is making gaming all the more attractive.
Games desi
A. A．2) could be best replaced by______. take advantage ofB. invest inC. have advantage overD. buck