Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space. For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet. Recycling Paper The process of recycling paper can help to reduce deforestation and energy consumption on a significant scale. There are many different reasons why we should recycle paper products, and some of these are【C1】______in the paragraphs below. Energy consumption will always be on the【C2】______as population levels grow, and so any manufacturing processes which help to reduce energy consumption are【C3】______ The Energy Information Administration(EIA)claim that there can be as【C4】______as a 40% energy saving when recycling paper over producing paper【C5】______the direct raw material. Although recycling paper has many【C6】______, it also has its drawbacks. One of these drawbacks is that we cannot recycle the【C7】______paper product for eternity, as the fibers contained within the paper degrade over time,【C8】______their strength and length. On【C9】______, an individual paper fiber can only be recycled a【C10】______of six times. Although this is a significant drawback, the six time recycling process will help to【C11】______a great deal of energy when you consider【C12】______much paper there is to be recycled. If paper fibers can be recycled up to 6 times, and we recycled all paper products, this could help to【C13】______the intensity of deforestation for paper products up to a factor of 6. With paper production said to【C14】______around 40% of harvested wood, and paper said to【C15】______around 90% wood, you can see how recycling paper is an important process for the【C16】______of our forests. Today, the use of recycled paper products is on the increase, as more and more people begin to recycle paper【C17】______products around the home. Although there are slight differences in the recycling processes of different【C18】______of paper products(e.g. corrugated, mixed paper, newspaper products), we are able to recycle just about any type of paper product around today. The recycling logo helps to【C19】______a recyclable product and can also sometimes help to identify if the product contains any recycled material, in the form of a percentage. This helps a consumer to identify the【C20】______of recycling various products.
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1. The football fans got jackets with the club badges on them.
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Questions 9-13 ᄋYou will hear a passage about "Surviving Cultural Shock". ᄋFor questions 9-13, choose from the list A-F the five stages of cultural shock. ᄋUse the letters only once. There is one extra letter, which you do not need to use. 9. Stage 1 ______ 10. Stage 2 ______ 11. Stage 3 ______ 12. Stage 4 ______ 13. Stage 5 ______ A. The Re-entry B. The Rejection C. The Acceptance D. The Honeymoon E. The Regression F. The Non-Party
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Crash-Prone? The Solution Could Be Windows XP; But does It Make Sense to Upgrade Your Operating System? You can hardly turn on the television or click on a Web page without seeing a colorful ad for Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system, which launched on Oct. 25. So, now that the long-awaited XP is here, what are you going to do about it? Should you upgrade, and if you do, how hard is it and what are the potential drawbacks? The decision is pretty easy if you really need a whole new Windows PC. They all come with XP preloaded, and in my tests of a few such models, they seemed to work well. I'm writing this on my own new personal computer, a Dell that came preloaded with Windows XP, and it worked great right out of the box. The only downside is that if you're keeping older printers, scanners and other peripherals, you may have to download new "drivers" — the small programs that allow a PC and a peripheral to interact. XP contains many of the drivers for recent-model printers and the like, sparing you from even digging out the disks that came with them. But if you have older equipment, you may have to download new drivers, because the original software that came with the hardware might not work with Windows XP. It's harder to decide what to do about XP if you have a PC that doesn't need replacing. If you're happy with the way things are working, don't upgrade. It's never a trivial thing to change operating systems, and you shouldn't do it without a reason. However, there are two big limitations in prior versions of Windows that XP does fix, and that might make an upgrade worthwhile. These are stability — that is, the ability not to crash, or at least to do so rarely — and compatibility. Windows 98 and Windows ME, the previous consumer versions, had wide compatibility with consumer software and peripherals, but lousy stability. Windows 2000, the prior business version, had great stability, but limited compatibility with consumer software and add-on hardware. Windows XP is designed to combine the stability of Windows 2000 (with which it shares underlying code) with the compatibility of Windows 98 and Windows ME, and in my experience, it does a good job at that. So if you need more reliability or compatibility than your current version of Windows supplies, an upgrade may be in order. But there's a catch. Microsoft says that an XP upgrade will really be sensible only if your PC is two years old or less — built after 1999. And you need at least a 300MHz processor and 128 megabytes of memory, though I recommend at least 192MB, and 256MB is even better. Also, you'll need a roomy hard disk — Windows XP alone will suck up 1.5 gigabytes. So there are only a limited number of PCs for which upgrading makes sense, and you may have to invest in beefing yours up first. Not only that, but you must have Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows 2000 on your current system to upgrade. If you have Windows 95 and somehow still have a new enough machine to qualify, you have to buy a very expensive, "full" version of Windows XP, basically wipe out your whole hard disk and start from scratch with XP, losing all your installed programs and settings. If you're good to go, you next have to decide which upgrade version of XP is right for you — the $99 Home Edition or the $199 Professional. The differences between them are surprisingly small, and 95 percent of home and small-business users will be fine with the home version. Buy the pro version only if you are running more than a modest network or need special security features. Note that if you have Windows 2000, or NT 4.0, you can upgrade only to Windows XP Professional, not the Home Edition. If you have Windows 98 or ME, you can choose either flavor of XP. In my tests, which included five PCs running all the main older versions; the Windows XP upgrades, both home and pro, went very smoothly. The process took about an hour in each case, and the installation software was friendly and clear in its instructions and progress reports.
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18. He had a strong constitution and seldom caught a cold.
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I have lived near the railway for so long now that I"ve grown ______ to the noise of the trains.
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We take our skin for granted until it is burned ______ repair.
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3. China abounds with silk.
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______ receiving financial support from family, community or the government is allowed, it is never admired.