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"Terms and conditions of group reservations are subject to change without notice."

Miss Joan‘s good mood was now history. ……

31. How many dollars did Miss Joan hand to Mr. Greenly?

A. 20 B. 40 C. 60 D. 18

32. The phrase ―subject to change without notice‖ suggests ______.

A. Mr. Greenly could change the terms at will.

B. the customers should read the brochure carefully.

C. Mr. Greenly could determine what apples to be picked.

D. the customers should be informed beforehand.

33. The students could not pick as many apples as they would like because ______.

A. they were children.

B. there were not enough apples.

C. they had made a group reservation.

D. they would eat up too many apples.

34. "Miss Joan‘s good mood was now history?" (the last paragraph) means ______.

A. Miss Joan had been happy until that moment

B. Miss Joan was no longer interested in history

C. Miss Joan taught her students the history of the orchard.

D. Miss Joan was good at concealing her feelings

35. What can we 1earn about Miss Joan from the story?

A. She did not read the brochure carefully.

B. She made a reservation after seeing the brochure

C. She lost her temper in the end.

D. She didn‘t know how to complain

Both civilization and culture are fairly modern words, having come into prominent use

during the 19th century by anthropologists（人类学家）, historians, and literary figures. There

has been a strong tendency to use them interchangeably as though they mean the same thing，but

they are not the same.

Thus civilization, in its most essential meaning, is the ability of people to live together

harmoniously in cities, in social groupings……

The word culture is derived from the Latin verb colere, till the soil. But colere also has a wider

range of meanings. It may, like civis, mean inhabiting a town or village. But most of its

definitions suggest a process of starting and promoting growth and development. One may

cultivate a garden; ……

One of the basic and best-know features of civi1ization and culture is the presence of

tools. But more important than their simple existence is that the tools are always being improved

and enlarged upon, a result of creativity. It took thousands of years to get from the first whee1 to

the 1atest, most advanced model of automobile.

It is the concept of humans as toolmakers and improvers that differentiates them from

other animals. A monkey may use a stick to knock a banana from a tree, but that stick will never,

through a monkey‘s cleverness, be modified into a hook or a ladder. ……

36. What does the author think of the words ―civilization‖, and ―culture‖?

A. They are identical.

B. They are different concepts.

C. They can often be 1used interchangeable.

D. They are defined differently by different people.

37. According to the author the word ―civilization‖ originally refers to ______.

A. people‘s way of life in cities.

B. people‘s ability to live together in cities.

C. a type of social organizations

D. an advanced level of social life

38. The Latin verb colere originally means ―______‖

A. live in a city.

B. develop oneself

C. promote growth

D. cultivate the land

39. The author believes that creativity ______.

A. is a unique feature of civilized beings

B. brings forth the improvement of tools

C. is the result of human development

D. helps the advance of culture

40. The author mentions monkeys in the last paragraph to show that ______.

A. monkeys are the same as birds

B. people once 1ived in caves like monkeys

C. monkeys can never develop into human beings

D. man is different from other animals such as monkeys

The huge growth of global "ecotourism" industry is becoming an increasing concern for

conservationists with mounting evidence that many wild species do not respond well to contact

with human beings. overexposure to tourists has been linked to stress, abnormal behavior and

adverse health effects in species such as polar bears, dolphins and gorillas（大猩猩）, says a

report in New Scientist.

While regulated ecotourism can help conservation efforts by encouraging people to

manage endangered species and their habitats, many projects are poorly designed and

unregulated, its says. ―Many ecotourist projects are unaudited, unauthorized and merely hint

they are based on environmentally friendly policies and operations‖

While regulated ecotourism can help conservation efforts by encouraging people to manage

endangered species and their habitats, ―many projects are poorly designed and hint they are

based on environmentally friendly policies and operations.‖

Ecotourism is growing by 10 to 30 percent a year and an estimated 20 percent of tourists

are thought to visit a conservation-based project. Philip Seddon, of the University of Otago in

New Zealand, said that although most tourist projects conformed to basic guidelines on land use

and not scaring wildlife, their full impact was rarely considered.

In Africa, gorillas have picked up parasites introduced to their habitat by tourists and

mongooses（蠓）have caught lung diseases from human beings. Experts said that the answer to

the problems was better regulation and supervision of ecotourism. The Galapagos Islands,

where visitor numbers are strictly controlled, is a good model.

41. Ecotourism is meant to ______.

A. have tourists help in the conservation of wildlife

B. have wild species respond well to contact with humans

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