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C

THE U government has announced plans to tacle sources of air pollution, including popular wood-burning stoves, but its Clean Air Strategy, which was unveiled last wee, fails to address the real problem.

Although pollution from woodburning stoves is a relatively new problem for the U, it has long been a major one in countries such as Canada and New ealand. And the tae-home message from them as to controlling the release of harmful particulates in the air is simple ban wood burning.

“There does not seem to be a limit below which there is no impact on health,” says Gary Fuller at ing’s College London, whose team has shown that wood burning is now the source of a third of particulate pollution in U cities.

As New Scientist reported last year, families with wood burners are liely to be eposed to the highest levels of pollution and their neighbours are net in the firing line, given that the particulates produced can easily escape from homes. Despite this, the U government isn’t planning a ban. Instead, it wants “to prohibit the sale of the most polluting fuels”, such as wet wood. What’s more, lots of people with wood burners don’t buy wood from shops. Instead, they scrounge it from wherever they can, with building waste one popular source. This is a disaster in pollution terms as treated or painted wood can release highly toic chemicals when burned. The plan is also to “ensure that only the cleanest stoves are available for sale by 2022”. But even the cleanest stove produces eight times as much pollution as a diesel truc, says Fuller.

Some cities actually required old wood stoves to be replaced with cleaner new ones. That has helped, but wood burning remains a major source of pollution, says Fuller. In most cases, conventional gas central heating plus properly insulating (使隔热) your home is less harmful in global-warming terms than switching to a wood burner.

Finally, there are separate but related EU laws that set limits on the maimum allowable concentrations of specific pollutants in the air at individual locations. The U frequently breaches these London’s Oford Street often hits its annual limit within the first wees of each year. As a result, the U government has lost a series of court cases brought by the environmental organiation ClientEarth. Separately, on 17 May, the U and five other countries were referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union for their repeated failures to eep to these limits. If the government

really wants to clean up the U’s air, it has a lot more wor to do. 61. What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. The British authorities.

B. Countries lie Canada and New ealand. D. Citiens in woodburning countries.

C. Details of Clean Air Strategy.

62. Why does the author thin the U government is doing a stupid job in terms of handling wood

burning?

A. It is not worthwhile bothering to deal with wood burning. B. It is impractical to get all the families to give up wood burning. C. The government has failed to aim its policies at proper targets. D. Citiens are forced to collect and burn treated or painted wood.

63. According to the author, to stay warm in winter, a Londoner had better ________.

A. turn to a cleaner stove C. stic to central heating

B. put on more clothes

D. redecorate the house

64. What can be a suitable title for the passage? A. No More Stoves

C. Clean Air Strategy

D

I will absolutely be the first person to romanticie libraries. I come from a home with thirty-two boocases, a count that does not include the several doen boes of boos in the attic labeled “wor” and “etra.” All these boos are courtesy of my parents, both of whom were English majors in their day and in whose footsteps I never hesitated to follow. My childhood dream was of a house with a claw-foot bathtub, stained glass, and (most importantly) an enormous library made of built-in shelves, a sliding ladder, and window seats in every window. As a high school girl, I began woring at the county library near my house, following up on two summers of volunteering with their summer reading program. I was all starry eyes and romantic visions of alphabetiing the classics and discovering gems among the new arrivals. What I found instead was that the life of a library was nothing lie my daydreams, but far more important than I could have imagined.

There is no library that is only a library anymore. Modern libraries can’t afford and don’t try to be only a receptacle for free boos. They offer classes, boo groups, Internet access, resume and ta help, tutoring, and multimedia resources for anyone who might wander in. Librarians are equipped to help

B. Say Good-bye to Pollution D. Why Not Central Heating

with research and give recommendations. Most libraries have access to interlibrary loans, maing the acquisition of nearly any piece of material merely a matter of time. What maes libraries so unique and important, however, is none of the diversity of resources and opportunities for community that they most certainly provide.

____________________________________. Every building one enters today comes with some epectation of spending money. Restaurants require paying for service. Shops require the intention of purchasing something. Houses require rent. Anyone who has lived near the poverty line, whether or not they have actually been homeless, has felt the threatening pressure toward ependiture that permeates the public spaces of modern Western culture. Even a free restroom is becoming difficult to find, especially as growing cities eperience ever-increasing space restrictions.

In a library, no one is ased to pay anything simply to sit. For those with few resources besides time, this is a godsend. Libraries are unofficial playgrounds for low-income families on rainy days, homeless shelters in cold months, reprieves from broen homes for grade-school-age children. They are the last bastions of quiet and calm where nothing is ased of one but to eist. Many arguments have been made about how the library is an outdated institution offering outdated services—that in the twenty-first-century how-to boos on building sheds and daily newspaper copies are obsolete and the funding used for libraries ought to be reallocated to other programs. I can only assume that those who mae such arguments are people who have always been comfortable with the ependitures it taes to move through the world. For those people, libraries can be about boos. But not everyone has the luury of seeing past the space.

Libraries, as they eist in the twenty-first century, are the only remaining public domain. In a library, anyone of any wal of life can come and go as they choose, and so long as they remain respectful of the space they can remain as long as they wish. Libraries welcome everyone, offering a place to be and easily accessible resources to the most vulnerable populations, whether in downtown Chicago or small-town Olahoma. My childhood romantic vision of the library is still close to my heart, but the very real wor that public libraries do today is so much more critical than a leather-bound edition of Homer or a graphic novel fresh off the press. Those are the things the library gives me, but libraries are for everyone.

65. What can we infer from Paragraph 1?

A. The author has a vivid memory of her childhood life.

B. The author had an appetite for reading long before. C. The author’s early romantic visions proved untrue. D. The author’s parents deliberately triced her into reading.

66. Why does the author tal about the diverse services modern libraries provide?

A. Modern libraries mae reading more enjoyable than before. B. People nowadays come to libraries for different purposes. C. The core essence of public libraries remains unchanged. D. Technological changes become a must in modern libraries.

67. Which of the following sentences will best suit the missing part in Paragraph 3?

A. Libraries are a place in every town and city for people to have inner peace. B. Libraries are the last place in every town and city that people can simply eist. C. Libraries are temporary shelters in every town and city for people to escape reality. D. Libraries are free restrooms with much spare space in every town and city. 68. According to the author, who are most liely to frequent libraries? A. Rich businessmen faced with huge pressure.

B. Young adolescents loaded with school wor.

C. School children coming from broen homes. D. Senior citiens looing for old companions. 69. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 imply?

A. Libraries provide them with no more than boos. B. Boos plus diverse services should be provided. C. They don’t have to go to libraries to read boos. D. The boos and services in libraries are outdated. 70. The author wrote the passage to ________.

A. epress deep affection for public libraries C. call on more people to read in libraries

B. describe problems libraries are faced with D. illustrate the necessity of public libraries

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