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[单项选择] Just outside the northern Italian town of Bra, there rises a church tower with a clock that is a half hour slow. In Bra, that’’s close enough to being right on time. Though not far from the industrial city of Turin, Bra smells of roses, and leisure is the law. It is both the home of an international movement that promotes "slow food" (the opposite of American fast food) and one of 31 Italian municipalities that have joined a sister cause, the "slow cities. " These cities have declared themselves paradises from the accelerating pace of life in the global economy. In Bra, population 27,866, the town fathers have declared that all small food shops be closed every Thursday and Sunday. They forbid cars in the town square. All fruits and vegetables served in local schools must be organic. The city offers cut-rate mortgages to homeowners who do up their houses using a local butter-colored material and reserves choice commercial real estate for family shops selling handmade chocolates or s
A. industrial development
B. slow movement
C. global economy
D. city growth
[单项选择]Buford is the smallest town in the US. The town is high in the mountains and it lies on the road between New York and California. The town has a beautiful view(景色) of the Rocky Mountains. It also has very cold winters and a lot of wind. In the past, the town had almost 2,000 people. Now it is well-known in the US because it has a population(人口) of one person, Don Sammons.
Don works in his own shop ten hours per day and he is also head of the town. Almost 1,000 people visit his shop every day in summer. But in winter, he has only about 100 visitors a day. Don has lived in the town for 32 years but he has decided to leave it now. His house and shop are for sale(出售) now. The post office and school house are for sale, too.
You can know more about this town in a TV program. In the program, Don tells the story about the little town and welcomes everyone to Buford.Buford is a town in the mountains.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Doesn"t say
[单项选择]What new research reveals about the adolescent brain—from why kids bully to how the teen years shape the rest of your life. They say you never escape high school. And for better or worse, science is lending some credibility to that old saw. Thanks to sophisticated imaging technology and a raft of longitudinal studies, we’re learning that the teen years are a period of crucial brain development subject to a host of environmental and genetic factors. This emerging research sheds light not only on why teenagers act the way they do, but how the experiences of adolescence—from rejection to binge drinking—can affect who we become as adults, how we handle stress, and the way we bond with others.
One of the most important discoveries in this area of study, says Dr. Frances Jensen, a neuroscientist at Harvard, is that our brains are not finished maturing by adolescence, as was previously thought. Adolescent brains "are only about 80 percent of the way to maturity," she said at the annual m
A. have become fully developed
B. are mainly affected by environmental and genetic factors
C. are particularly sensitive to activities such as drinking
D. remain immature
[单项选择]Mayfield College
Italian for Business
5×three-hour lessons
twice weekly
beginning Tuesday 28 September
Each lesson will last
A. 2 hours.
B. 3 hours.
C. 5 hours.
[填空题]
APPOINTMENTS
YOUNG Italian girl, student, speaks English and French and seeks post in a school or family, giving lessons or looking after children. —Write Box L. 1367, The Daily—, London, E. C.4.
YOUNG man, once an officer, tired of uninteresting office work, is willing to go to any part of the world and to do anything legal ; speaks several languages ; drives all makes of cars ; exciting work more important than salary.—Write Box F. 238, The Daily—, London, E. C.
MARRIED couple wanted gardener; country house 2 miles from Oxford, good bus service; family three adults, five children; wages ￡9; comfortable rooms with central heating. Write Box S. 754. The Daily—, London, E. C.
What foreign languages does the Italian girl know She knows ______.
