[填空题]It’s an annual occurrence in the dry season: a smoky, hazardous haze blankets southern Malaysia and Singapore. This year it was so bad that in some affected areas there was a 100 percent rise in the number of asthma cases. Hundreds of schools were closed, and the government of Malaysia (36) gas masks.
The source of the pollution lies across the Malacca Strait in Indonesia where (37) burning of forests to clear space for palm oil plantations continues unabated.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono offered a public (38) for what has happened and asked for the understanding of Singapore and Malaysia.
The Indonesian president promised to prosecute anyone (39) in illegal slash-and-burn activities. Eight Southeast Asian companies are reportedly under (40) .
But the ongoing deforestation seems to contradict past promises. In 2009, President Yudhoyono pledged to reduce by 26 percent greenhouse gas (

[填空题]It was the dry season and everything was ready to catch fire.

[单项选择]What’s the season now
A. Summer.
B. Spring.
C. Winter.

[填空题]For the sake of personal health, he’s stopped (smoke) ______.

[简答题]Some was collected by this season’s plants as carbon compounds. Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago. (Passage 3)

[简答题]Some was collected by this season’ s plants as carbon compounds. Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago. (Passage 3 )

[填空题]No wonder it’s so difficult to kick the habit, smokers who watch movie stars light up cigarettes on screen simultaneously activate the parts of the brain needed for the same task.
Previous studies have shown that watching screen smoking activates parts of the brain involved in aspiration and reward, but the new research is the first to show that priming for the physical act of lighting up becomes automatic too.
"What’s particularly novel about these findings is that viewing movie smoking activated regions involved in understanding and planning actions," says lead author Dylan Wagner of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Wagner used an fMRI (功能性磁共振成像术)to scan the brain of 17 smokers and an equal number of non-smokers while they viewed scenes from the film Matchstick Men, which included several clips of actors lighting up. The volunteers were unaware that their reactions to smoking were being analysed.
Only in smokers did Wagner see activation of par