别动世界上最美的那朵花

①温丝莱特是一个美丽的英国小姑娘。她有着一头金黄的卷发，粉嫩的脸蛋上长着一双大大的蓝眼睛，长长的睫毛忽闪忽闪的。她的噪音柔婉甜美，非常动听。她一笑起来脸上就像绽开了一朵花。街区的人都亲切地称她为“雷丁市的安淇儿”。

②雷丁市是伯克郡的一个辖区，那里花木繁盛，风景如画，气候舒适宜人。经常有外地人来到这里定居。这年春天，温丝莱特家的左邻新搬来了一位老妇人——珍妮芙太太。她是一个孀妇，无儿无女，只有一个侄子，也不在身边，因而显得非常孤单。大人们都很忙，没有人愿意在她家门前驻足片刻。老妇人却吸引了温丝莱特的注意，因为她跟老妇人一样孤寂。温丝莱特的父母都是职业演员，忙碌是他们的生活常态。每天放学后，温丝莱特就会到老太太那里去，和她玩一会儿。她给老妇人讲幼儿园的趣事，老妇人给她讲好听的童话故事。尤其是周末，老少两人常常在一块儿共享快乐的时光。

③这个春天，珍妮芙太太感觉异常明媚。

④有一次，珍妮芙太太问起了温丝莱特长大后最想做什么。温丝莱特毫不犹豫地回答，像爸爸妈妈一样做演员。不过，她要成为大明星，拿奥斯卡奖。珍妮芙太太一边为小女孩梳头，一边赞许地点点头。

⑤在早春的花草开始卖弄风姿的时候，不如意也悄然降临了。温丝莱特的脖子上长出了一个肿块儿，足有鸽子蛋大小。父母急忙把她送到伯克郡最好的医院治疗。医生说那是一个良性肿瘤，尚处在早期，只要一个手术问题就解决了。不过，主刀医生的手术排得太满，温丝莱特的手术要在

下一周进行。

⑥温丝莱特回到家中，变得沉默自闭了。她不愿去幼儿园，也不再去珍妮芙太太那儿了，她害怕手术。一个黄昏，珍妮芙太太来到了温丝莱特的家。她问了问关于手术的一些情况，摸了摸温丝莱特的头，鼓励她坚强一些。接下来的两天，珍妮芙太大再也没有来过。温丝莱特有点儿想她了。可是，珍妮芙太太家的门一直紧闭着。

⑦温丝莱特的手术很成功。她在医院疗养了一周后，回到了自己的家。可是，她依然没有见到珍妮芙太太。两天后的傍晚，温丝莱特放学回家后，欣喜地发现珍妮芙太大家的门敞开着！她三步并作两步跑了进去。可是，她没有见到珍妮芙太太。在房间忙着收拾东西的，是一个男子。仔细看，竟是马休医生——她手术时的主刀医师！温丝莱特惊奇地问：“您怎么会到这里来？”马体医生说他是珍妮芙太太的侄子。温丝莱特于是急切地同珍妮芙太太到哪儿去了。马体医生的眼神黯淡下去，他轻声说道：“她去世了！”

⑧原来，当珍妮芙太太得知是自己的侄子为温丝莱特主刀后，便赶往柏克郡，找到了马休。她向马休提出一个建议，一定要按颈部皮肤的纹路横向切口。因为温丝莱特脖子上的肿块儿是竖着长的，马休原本的方案是纵向切口，那样手术难度最低，风险最小。所以他显出了为难的样子。可姑妈不依不饶，非要他改变方案不可。她说：“如果刀口是纵向切的，那么将来就会留下一道醒目的疤痕，她做大明星的梦想也就被这一刀给割掉了。”马休医生答应了。可就在次日，珍妮芙太太在回雷丁市的路上不幸遭遇了车祸。

⑨温丝莱特听着，哭成了一个泪人??

⑩时光的脚步永不停歇。转眼，温丝莱特出落成了一个亭亭玉立的美貌女孩儿，顶利地成为一名演员。凭借世纪之作《泰坦尼克号》中女主角罗丝这一角色，她创造了电影史上的一个神话，并一举获得第81届奥斯卡影后的桂冠。

1．为什么珍妮芙太太感觉这个春天“异常明媚”？（2分）

2．选文第②段加线句子属于什么描写？有什么作用？（3分）

3．结合具体语境，分析下列加着重号(线)词语和句子的表达效果。(4分)

（1）在早春的花草开始卖弄风姿．．．． 的时候，不如意也悄然降临了。

（2）温丝莱特听着，哭成了一个泪人．．．．．．．??

4．第8段运用了那种记叙顺序？其作用是什么？（4分）

。

5．结合选文内容，为温丝莱特写一个简短的获奖感言。（3分） 。

好好活着就是爱 （李晓）

①21年前的3月26日凌晨，一个年轻男人躺在了山海关的铁轨上，一辆呼啸的火车碾压过一个中国田园诗人的身体。那天，正好是他25岁的生日。

② 这个男人，就是写过《面朝大海，春暖花开》的海子。

③一个年轻的生命就在这春意浓浓的季节里消逝了。春天是生机勃发的美好季节，海子却走了，走在这春暖花开的季节里。

④然而，这个原名叫做査海生的孩子，他在另一个世界不会知道，在他生日的那天早晨，母亲已经在乡下的炊烟中熬好了一锅红米粥，以这样一种传统的方式，为在异乡的儿子默默祝福。

⑤在那个雨水滴答的乡村三月，这个叫做査海生的男人的骨灰，被送到了母亲居住的查湾村，就在房门前三百多米的树林下，垒起一座土坟。

⑥从此，母亲的视线一天也没有离开过儿子的土坟。陪同儿子入眠的，是母亲的灵魂。在20年乡下的风雨声里，母亲哭她的儿子海生，哭坏了眼睛。

⑦海生15岁时考进了北京大学，一个村子沸腾了，一个县城也轰动了，母亲挨家挨户发送她深夜蒸好的白糕。这个儿子毕业以后，在北京成了一个诗人。第一次去北京看见儿子留那么长的头发，母亲只是笑眯眯．．．地说：“海生，去剪了吧！”母亲走的那一天，这个贫

穷诗人找人借了三百元钱，执意揣进了母亲的包里。母亲的那个包，装了家里的五十个鸡蛋，母亲在乡下为儿子养着一群小鸡。经过几天几夜的颠簸，到了北京，居然一个也没有破。母亲一直把装满鸡蛋的布包搂在怀里，因为她相信，儿子每吃下一个鸡蛋，那个叫做诗人的儿子，他苍白的脸色就会多一丝红润。

⑧儿子塞给她的那三百元钱，听说，至今还在80岁的母亲的怀里掖着。母亲说，等她去世以后，用儿子的这三百元钱送她上路就够了。

⑨海子自杀后，很多人惊呼，这是一颗彗星的陨落；更有人叹息，他的诗歌是惊雷。然而，

在母亲的眼里根本没有彗星，只有连着她心房的一个生命，更没有惊雷的声音在母亲的耳畔响起，在耳畔响起的，只有一个孩子在梦呓里的啼哭。一个国家，可以没有诗人，而一个母亲，根本不能失去孩子。海子，他把最疼痛的一首诗，没有写进他颂歌的土地里，而嵌进了一个母亲疼痛的血脉里、心房中。

⑩ 所以，我总觉得，在春天里怀念这样一个诗人，其实对母亲来说，更是一种剜肉剔骨的残酷。浩瀚无际的天空，它对广袤无垠的大地，如何表达深沉的爱意与温柔的呢喃？我认为，那是密集的、轻盈的雨水和雨丝。那么，一个孩子对于母亲，如何表达最深的爱呢？我想，答案只有一个，好好活着，就是对母亲的爱。

1．从全文看，第①段运用了什么记叙顺序？说说其作用。（3分）

2．结合语境，谈谈你对“第一次去北京，看见儿子留那么长的头发，母亲只是笑眯眯．．．地说‘海生，去剪了吧！’”中加点词“笑眯眯”的理解。（2分）

3．从“从此，母亲的视线一天也没离开过儿子的土坟，陪同儿子入眠的，是她的灵魂。”这个句子中你读出了什么？（3分） 4．从内容和修辞两方面对第⑩段中划线句子作简要赏析。（4分） 5．文中哪一个细节最让你感动，为什么？（3分）

6．结合文章题目及生活实际，谈谈你读了这篇文章后的感悟。（3分）

 

第二篇：阅读资料5

President Obama is walking a fine line in his 2011 budget. He is seeking $100 billion to tackle unemployment, while moving to trim the federal budget deficit.

It means to steer a risky and difficult course between two policies... to be so near the edge of one that you risk falling into another less desirable one.

If you have to walk a fine line, you have to be very careful not to annoy or anger people or groups that are competing. ('Walk a thin line' is an alternative.)

Can you put the following sentences into Chinese?

1. There's a fine line between boastful and confident. And you need to learn it.

2. She wished he would stop talking like that, but Minmei knew she was walking a fine line again.

3. Luxury-goods executives must walk a fine line when cutting prices.

4. "With his current policy approach towards Iraq, President Bush walks a fine line between the interests of national security and those of warmongering."

Climate change will threaten global food production

Higher temperatures and changing rainfall patterns resulting from global climate change will threaten food production in many parts of the world - especially regions in the tropics already struggling with food security, according to a new report.

How climate change affects you depends on more than just how it affects your local weather. It also depends on how much the weather matters to your livelihood, and how well you can cope with the changes.

Philip Thornton, with the International Livestock Research Institute, is one of the authors of the new report, a joint effort by a group of international agricultural research centers. Thornton and his colleagues wanted to find what they called “hotspots” of future food insecurity: places with the greatest exposure to climate change, highest sensitivity to its impacts, and the least ability to cope with them.

Other studies have looked at the effect of climate change on growing conditions in certain regions. But Thornton says figuring out how that interacts with other factors affecting food security is a challenge.

"It's very difficult to look directly at things like sensitivity(vulnerability) of the food systems to climate change impacts, or even the coping capacity of populations to address the impacts.

And so we used proxies."

They used a region's cropland area as a proxy for sensitivity to climate change because changes in the weather would have bigger impacts on areas with more farmland. To examine coping capacity, they looked at national data on

They combined this data with climate change models that predict the impacts on temperature and rainfall by 2050 to come up with maps of the most vulnerable areas of the tropics.

'Double whammy'

For example, higher temperatures are expected to shorten growing seasons in the tropics. The report looks at areas expected to lose more than 5 percent of the growing season and finds about 370 million people highly vulnerable to this impact.

That area includes much of South Asia, especially India; Nigeria, Niger, Mali and other parts of West Africa; and parts of Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia and other areas of East and Southern Africa.

These are regions, Thornton notes, where hunger is already a problem. "It's almost like a , if you like."

Other criteria give smaller impacts. But the basic outlines are the same.

Kansas State University professor Chuck Rice was a member of the 2007 U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change（联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会）. He notes that some of the countries most sensitive to climate change and least able to cope with it, also have among the highest rates of population growth, which puts yet another strain on their food security.

"I think that really pushes the need for increasing funding, not only for research but for outreach efforts , but also ."

Experts say those strategies include switching to more drought- and heat-tolerant crops, better water management techniques and insurance for crops and livestock to help farmers cope with the climate changes expected during the coming decades.

obile Scams: Kidnapping, Extortion, Forgery

A few months ago while in Beijing I received a short message on my cell phone, in Chinese, informing me that my kids had been kidnapped and telling me the first steps I should take on getting them back by paying a ransom.

I was shocked although not alarmed, because as it happened, I knew this was not true. Later I mentioned it to various local friends and colleagues, all of whom had the same reaction: this kind of mobile phone scam happens to them fairly often.

Then there was the extraordinary news a month or so ago about unprecedented cooperation in an international police investigation which resulted in the arrest of some 600 alleged crooks in a variety of Southeast Asian countries.

This well-organized gang had targeted wealthy mainlanders by phones（推销垃圾短信） and trying out a variety of phony explanations of how the called party was in big trouble with the law and needed to remit funds to get out of trouble.

It may sound unlikely when you read about it, but they were expert in catching people off guard and verbally intimidating

I know someone who was scammed in this way, and apart from the lost funds, it was a very scary, unpleasant and unsettling experience. These folks were very well-organized, and it’s good they got nabbed.

The latest new twist I learned about today is an SMS offer to sell fake qualification certificates. For RMB 6,000 (20% in advance, please), they offer to produce a certificate real-lookingenough for you to get a job, as, for example, a doctor. They claimed their fake doctors’ certification looks just like the ones issued by China’s Ministry of Health.

They also have a variety of other certificates available for you to choose from: teacher, airline pilot, engineer, etc.

That’s a pretty scary thought. Even allowing for the fact that it would normally take more than just a certificate to get a job as a brain surgeon or jet pilot, opening the door to this kind ofmisrepresentation by imposters is hugely risky.

My wife called the number offering the fakes which was texted to her mobile phone, and obtained some more information. Her next call was to the police, who were very appreciative of the tip.

How much do you know GM food? Is it safe?

Top 10 Genetically Modified Food Products

Top 10 Genetically Modified Food Products

By Diana Bocco

Like humans, all organisms have genetic material. When scientists alter genetic material, or DNA, it's called genetic modification (GM). In some cases, GM foods help conserve natural resources, because the altered version might require less water or energy for processing.

The first genetically modified food to reach our tables was the Flavr Savr tomato. Grown in California, the Flavr Savr tomato received Food and Drug Administration approval in 1994, after two years of testing and assessment. Mounting costs made the crop unprofitable, however, and production ceased in 1997. Creation of the Flavr Savr opened the doors for other GM foods tomake their way into our kitchens.

In the U.S., genetic modification has expanded into almost every area of food production. Scientists can introduce some sort of modification into the genes of crops, dairy products and animals. For example, ranchers and dairy farmers normally feed cattle a GM diet, which is in turn passed on to you when you drink milk or eat beef. Do you need to worry about what's on your family's dinner table? And are there some surprising benefits to GM foods? As you'll see, this subject is one hot potato.

This won't hurt a bit. As corny as it sounds, genetically modified foods have upset the apple cart. Science can alter foods to add desired qualities, but who's to say it's safe?

10. Sugar Beets（甜菜）

The sugar beet is one of the newest GM foods and one under severe scrutiny. Researchers produced an herbicide-resistant crop of GM sugar beets that was approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2008 but banned in August 2010. The genetic modification was meant to improve production because beets grow slowly and tend to battle for light and nutrients with nearby weeds. In 2010, however, federal judge Jeffrey S. White revoked the USDA（U.S. Department of Agriculture）approval of genetically-modified sugar beets based on the USDA's failure to present an Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS"). Until an EIS is conducted, planting, harvesting and processing of GM sugar beets has been halted.

[Safety and Labeling of GM Foods

Regulation of GM foods varies from country to country. As of 2010, 35 nations around the world (including most of Europe) require labeling of GM foods if the food contains more than 0.9 percent of GMOs (genetically modified organisms). In the U.S. and Canada, labeling is not mandatory. This makes identifying GMs much more difficult. The two easiest ways to avoid GM foods are: Look for packaging that has a clear non-GM label on the front or buy organic.]

9. Potatoes

In 1991, the World Health Organization challenged scientists to look for a way to make vaccines accessible to everyone. This would mean that children in impoverished areas of the world wouldn't have to travel for hours to a nearby village to get a shot. The scientists succeeded faster than expected, creating a cholera vaccine-like component by injecting a series of genes into a potato. These genes prompt the human immune system to produce its own cholera antibodies or "vaccine.". The "anti-cholera potatoes" have not made it to the market yet; scientists need to figure out how to package the potatoes to easily distribute and market them.

Protecting potato crops is important too. Researchers are working on a way to produce potatoes that are resistant to disease caused by Phytophthora infestans. Phytophthora infestans can kill entire crops rapidly and was the cause of the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s.

People eat only 25 percent of the potatoes grown around the world today. The rest are used to feed livestock and in the starch industry. Scientists also are trying to find ways to make the potato easier to process so it can be of more use in the production of glue and lubricants. These potatoes would not be available for human consumption.

8. Corn

Bt-corn (named after the Bacillus thruringiensis bacterium) is a form of sweet corn that has been genetically modified to include an insect-killing gene. This means the farmer doesn't have tospray with pesticides, because the insects die from eating the corn. No spraying means less harm to the environment and the workers handling the toxic spray. The move has caused debate, however. The same gene that attacks corn predators also appears to kill the Monarch butterfly(帝王蝶).

According to the USDA, farmers in every state in the U.S. are growing at least some GM corn at any given time. The numbers are higher in the Southern and Midwestern regions, but South Dakota , lending 47 percent of its corn crops to GM varieties. Because the U.S. is the largest producer of corn in the world, these numbers have a significant impact beyond the American borders.

Most of the corn eaten by families in the U.S. is genetically modified. It helps farmers and the environment, but does it help your kids?

7. Tomatoes

Although tomatoes were the first genetically modified food to reach the market, they have since been altered for only one reason: to make them last longer. GM tomatoes don't rot as quickly asregular tomatoes, so they can tolerate longer periods of transportation. GM tomatoes also can be left to mature on the plants, rather than being picked green. This results in a more tasty tomato that doesn't need to be stored until ripening.

The original GM tomatoes were resistant to antibiotics. This raised concerns that the gene might

be passed on to humans, making us more resistant to antibiotics and in turn less capable of fighting infectious diseases. New forms of GM tomatoes don't contain these genes, however. Lematos

A team of Israeli scientists successfully combined a tomato and a lemon (actually, the gene known as ocimum basilicum geraniol synthase, which gives lemons their smell and taste) in 2007, creating what they called a lemato. The lemato is slightly red and has a mild, fruity smell. A panel of 82 testers identified the smell as "lemongrass" or "rose-like perfume." The lemato has a longer shelf life than tomatoes and is more resistant to pests. However, the lemato doesn't have the same high content of antioxidant lycopene that a tomato has. The lemato is not planned for production anytime soon. The team simply wanted to see if it was possible to change the aroma of a vegetable or fruit to make it more appealing.

6. Squash

Squash is more prone than some crops to viral diseases, which is why it was genetically modified to ensure crop survival. The original purpose was achieved, but the modification backfired in an unexpected way. It seems cucumber beetles that carry bacterial wilt disease like to feed on healthy plants, like the GM squash. After visiting unhealthy plants, they land on the nice, healthy GM squash plant and pig out, wounding the leaves and leaving open holes on them. When the beetles' feces fall on the leaves, they're absorbed into the stem and cause bacterial wilt disease.

Experts also believe that the GM squash may have already found its way into the wild by accident. GM foods are meant to be grown under controlled environments, in well-tended fields. If they're introduced and mixed with wild varieties of the same species, a number of unpredictable environmental issues could occur, such as gene transfer or the plants becoming more vulnerable to bacterial diseases.

Squash is easy to grow and nutritious to eat. But it gets diseases easily. So easily in fact, that genetic modification to cure one disease seemed to bring on another.

5. Golden Rice

Golden rice was first created to fight vitamin A deficiency, which affects 250 million people around the world and can cause blindness and even death. Rice is one of the most common foods on Earth. In fact, almost half of the world's population survives on a single daily bowl of rice. Because getting vitamin supplements to every single person on the planet would be impossible, scientists believed that the answer was to create a grain of rice that already had vitamin A in it. And so golden rice was born. Its name came from the bright golden glow added beta-carotenecauses. The body converts beta carotene into vitamin A.

Scientists now are working on a new GM rice. This new variety would have an iron gene, causing the grain of rice to become an important source of iron. Iron-deficiency causes low-birth-weight babies and anemia, both of which can be fatal. It hasn't been possible to combine both vitamin A and iron in the same grain, but scientists are hopeful that this will be possible at some point in the

future.

4. Soybean

As of 2004, 85 percent of the soybeans grown on U.S. soil have been genetically modified. Because soy is widely used in the production of other items (including cereal, baked products, chocolate and even ice cream), chances are everybody in the U.S. is eating GM soy. It might be worth noting, however, that tofu and soy sauce are usually made from non-GM soybeans, a variation from most other soy products, which likely are GM-based. The bulk of the soybean crop is not destined to human consumption but instead used for livestock feed. For those who aren't vegetarians, this becomes another source of GM foods, as the gene is passed on through the meat.

The soybean seems so natural, and many products made from it are. But GM soybeans are big, and are added to all sorts of food products you eat every day.

3. Oils

We don't normally think of oils as part of our food list, but the truth is that they're not only for cooking and flavoring, but show up as an ingredient in a large number of prepackaged foodswe eat on a regular basis.

The U.S., India and China are the world's largest producers of GM cottonseed oil. As a result, it's hard to avoid this GM food, even if you don't buy it bottled. In the U.S., GM-modified oils are sold as cooking oils, but also commonly used for frying snacks such as potato chips and also used in the production of margarine. Canola or rapeseed oil became an important crop only after being genetically modified. Before that, the oil was too bitter to be used in foods. The modification did away with the bitterness and also increased rapeseed's resistance to herbicides. This allows crops to be sprayed with weed-control products without running the risk of affecting the actual crops.

2. Animal feed

A large percentage of animal feed is made up of crops such as soybeans. The world's three largest producers and exporters of soybeans, the U.S., Argentina and Brazil, all grow mostly GM soybeans. This means the chances of livestock eating GM feed is very high, no matter where in the world you live. While not all corn is genetically modified, it is simply cheaper and more efficient to feed livestock the crops that are GM. The same is true of GM rapeseed oil used in the production and processing of animal feed.

A large part of the GM presence in animal feed does not come from foodstuff but instead from additives aimed at making food more nutritious. Animal feed is commonly enhanced with vitamins, amino acids, enzymes and even coloring. These additives are passed on to the animal's system and eventually make their way into your body when you consume meat, eggs or dairy products. Traces of GM cannot, however, be detected in animal by-products, so it's impossible to know if an animal was raised on GM-enhanced feed. Unless you buy organic meat and dairy

products, it might be impossible to determine what you're eating.

[Coming Soon to Your Table -- Whether You Want It or Not

Genetic modification of animals is not as simple and clear-cut as you might imagine. In 2002, a number of female pigs were injected with cow genes to increase their milk production and improve milk digestion, causing their piglets to grow faster. The piglets that were supposed to be destroyed were instead sold to livestock brokers and processed for meat. There was no control or follow-up on those specific animals, so although they ended up in grocery stores fried up as bacon, it's impossible to know who ate them and where.]

1. Salmon

Genetically engineered food from animals might not be on the market yet, but a few already have been approved. GM salmon is, as we speak, on its way to our dinner table. Wild salmon matures slowly, taking up to three years to reach its full size. GM salmon, on the other hand, not only will grow faster but also should reach about twice the size of its wild cousin. The creators of the GM salmon, a private company called AquaBounty, promises to harvest the salmon before it reaches its full size, thus preventing "giant" versions. The GM salmon, known as AquAdvantage, is meant to be grown in fish farms. According to proponents of the modification, this would reduce fishing of wild salmon, in turn protecting both the wild population of fish and the environment from human intrusion.

Ironically, the major concern in the production of GM salmon is its impact on the environment. Although the genetically engineered fish is supposed to be sterile, experts believe there's no way this can be ensured, because DNA tends to mutate over time.