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lost enough sleep over this,” says David Cox, the company’s Western region vice president and that was before the hospital mentioned the tree’s distinguished origin. Before the heavy lifting began, the team assessed the root system and dug a five-foot-deep cylinder, measuring 40 feet in diameter, around the trunk to protect all essential roots. After encapsulating the root ball in wire mesh, the movers allowed the tree to adapt to its new situation for seven months before relocating it. The illustration details what followed. Leslie Nemo
1. Mark A. Merit and his team at Environmental Design installed underneath the root ball a platform of seven-inch-diameter, 44-foot-long steelbars and, just below the rods, a first set of uninflated airbags (shown in gray). The team also dug a shallow ramp.
2. In roughly 15 minutes, the movers inflated the airbags to about three feet in diameter to raise the root ball to the surface of the hole.
3. By underinflating the front bags, the team allowed the platform carrying the tree to roll up the ramp and out of the hole while staying level. A trailer hauled the tree along as team members removed the airbags from the back of the
platform and replaced them in the front. They repeated the process until the tree arrived at the edge of its new home.
4. There a second set of partially inflated bags (shown in white) waited inside the hole. Soil surrounding the sequoia in its original location was relocated as well, because trees are more likely to survive a transplant when they move with their original soil.
5. Using the first set of airbags, the movers rolled the platform into the new hole.
6. The bags waiting there were then inflated further to take the weight of the sequoia while the transportation bags were deflated and removed from under the tree.
7. The white bags were then deflated in about half an hour to lower the sequoia’s root ball to the bottom of its hole. The bags were removed, but the metal bars were left with the tree because they rust and degrade over a number of years.
8. For the next five years the local park service will monitor and maintain the tree in its new home. 60. Which of the following words can be used to replace the words underlined “stood in the way of”? A. Resisted. B. Balanced. C. Blocked. D. Promoted. 61. What is the reason for the relocation of Sequoia trees?
A. Because the Scooping and lifting technology should be put into use. B. Because it blocks local hospital expansion plans.
C. Because it corresponds to government’s plan of Environmental Design. D. Because sequoia trees are over a hundred years old. 62. How will the migrated sequoia trees be dealt with?
A. They will be given new soil in the new living environment.
B. Metal rods used to move sequoia trees will not be left on the trees. C. They will be kept in transport bags all the time.
D. They will be managed by specialists in the next five years.
C
Understand the Economic Concept of a Budget Line
The term “budget line” has several related meanings, including a couple that are self-evident and a third that is not.
The Budget Line as an Informal Consumer Understanding
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The budget line is an elementary concept that most consumers understand intuitively without a need for graphs and equations it’s the household budget, for example.
Taken informally, the budget line describes the boundary of affordability for a given budget and specific goods.
Given a limited amount of money, a consumer can only spend that same amount buying goods. If the consumer has X amount of money and wants to buy two goods A and B, she can only purchase goods totaling X. If the consumer needs an amount of A costing 0.75 X, she can then spend only 0.25 X, the amount remaining, on her purchase of B.
This seems almost too obvious to bother writing or reading about. As it turns out, however, this same concept one that most consumers make many times each day with reflecting on it is the basis of the more formal budget line concept in economics, which is explained below. Lines in a Budget
Before turning to the economics definition of “budget line”, consider another concept: the line-item budget. This is effectively a map of future expenditures, with all the constituent expenditures individually noted and quantified. There’s nothing very complicated about this: in this usage, a budget line is one of the lines in the budget, with the service or good to be purchased named and the cost quantified. The Budget Line as an Economics Concept
One of the interesting ways the study of economics relates to human behavior generally is that a lot of economic theory is the formalization of the kind of simple concept outlined above a consumer’s informal understanding of the amount she has to spend and what that amount will buy.
In the process of formalization, the concept can be expressed as a mathematical equation that can be applied generally.
A Simple Budget Line Graph
To understand this, think of a graph where the vertical lines quantify how many movie tickets you can buy and where the horizontal lines do the same for crime novels. You like going to the movies and reading crime novels and you have $150 to spend. In the example below, assume that each movie costs $10 and each crime novel costs $15. The more formal economics term for these two items is budget set. If movies cost $10 each, then the maximum number of movies you can see with the money available is 15. To note this you make a dot at the number 15 (for total movie tickets) at the extreme left-hand side of the chart. This same dot appears at the extreme left above “0” on the horizontal axis because you have no money left for books the number of books available in this example is 0.
You can also graph the other extreme all crime novels and no movies. Since crime novels in the example cost $15 and you have $150 available, if you spend all the available money crime novels, you can buy 10. So you put a dot on the horizontal axis at the number 10.
You’ll place the dot at the bottom of the vertical axis because in this instance you have $0 available for movie tickets.
If you now draw a line from the highest, leftmost dot to the lowest, rightmost dot you’ll have created a budget line. Any combination of movies and crime novels that falls below the budget line is affordable. Any combination above it is not.
63. Which sentence about the budget line is NOT TRUE?
A. It is a limitation of affordability for a given budget and specific goods. B. Most costumers will be confused with this concept because of its complex. C. It is the effectively a map of future expenditures. D. It can be expressed as a mathematical equation. 64. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To tell us any concept can be expressed as a mathematical equation. B. To help us figure out the meaning Budget Line. C. To tell us we should budget before we buy goods.
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D. To give an instruction of drawing a budget Line.
65. Assume that each movie costs $10 and each crime novel costs $15, you have $150. Which is RIGHT according to this passage?
A. The maximum number of movies you can see is 10.
B. The maximum number of crime novels you can buy is 15. C. You can buy 7 crime novels and see 5 movies. D. You can buy 7 crime novels and see 4 movies. 66. What is the best title of this passage?
A. Do we really know the economic concept of a budget line? B. The Budget Line as an Economics Concept
C. The Budget Line as an Informal Consumer Understanding D. The Complex Concept Budget Line Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. The format of magazines enables children to be exposed to a wide variety of subjects. B. Magazines and newspapers provide adults with critical news. C. Being exposed to magazines and newspapers benefits you a lot. D. Keep interesting magazine pictures to give children story ideas. E. Magazines are valuable assets for many people, but in particular to children. F. Magazines and newspapers are expensive now but out of style.
Magazine Articles: More Valuable Than You May Think
Parents are often surprised when teachers suggest their children read magazines. Read on to learn about the benefits that reading magazines offers to young readers and how to introduce your children to the medium.
Magazine Benefits
Magazine articles can provide reluctant readers with a lively, breezy writing style that can inspire them to read more.
The articles in magazines are generally short, which allows a child to finish reading a feature article without losing interest due to a short attention span. The writing in magazines also tends to be easy to read, especially if it is a children’s publication.
By allowing your child to read magazines at an early age, you are encouraging development of a useful skill. 67 Getting into the habit of reading periodicals as a child will foster the habit of reading news articles that may continue into adulthood.
68 Magazine articles challenge students to think about issues they may have never considered or cause them to rethink their world view. Information is available in a wide variety of reading levels because magazines are written for every audience imaginable. Many publications cover the same material in different writing styles that might make it easier for your child to comprehend. Magazine Activities
Reading magazines as a family can be used to introduce each other to the various interests that each family member possesses. When your children are finished with their magazines, encourage them to pass their issue on to a sibling or other family member.
Once each family member has finished reading each magazine, you can use them for art and writing projects. These projects are for family members of all ages:
1. Cut out pictures to help your preschool and kindergarten children learn their alphabet, numbers, and colors.
2. 69 Paste the picture at the top of a page and have them write a story about what is happening
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or what the picture represents.
3. Clip pictures to create a collage. Many teenagers love using their artistic talents to collage.
70 The skills that students utilize and strengthen when reading magazines can be applied to higher level reading and other academic subjects. Encouraging your child to read by giving them a magazine subscription could cause them to take the leap from being a reluctant reader to a voracious page-turner.
IV. Summary Writing
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Becoming an Attractive Employee
The 2008 financial crisis created an unstable job market. Fast-forward to the present, and the economy has not fully recovered. Thus, it’s of vital importance for job seekers to carefully strategize their approach to job application. And it’s especially important for those new to the work force. They should look at making themselves as attractive as possible to employers.
For young people, information technology skills will play an increasing role in the future. As the generation to have grown up in the Information Age, they are quite confident when it comes to showing off their interests and skills in this field. This makes them a natural fit for companies seeking expertise (专业技能) in technology, marketing and networking. They should emphasize these skills when applying for jobs that require the ability to multitask.
Another attractive quality is experience. It’s important that an applicant’s resume list any activities that involved teamwork and goal-driven responsibilities. Membership in a sports or social club and participation as a volunteer are good examples of this. These activities involve goal management and planning along with the ability to focus while competing on a team. When hiring committees see this, they see a candidate who is capable of working in a variety of environments.
Finally, an attractive quality when job-hunting is a great attitude toward a potential job. Young job seekers are known to be overconfident because they have been praised for everything they have done. But they must realize that the employment market is about how an employee will be a good fit for a company, not the other way around.
In fact, in an interview, an important question to ask is: “What would be expected of me as an employee?” In today’s tough job market, young job seekers need to provide a potential employer with good reasons to hire them.
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72. 我看到他换上徒步鞋，走向草坪。(make for) 73. 他们当中有人可能担任过排球教练吗? (may)
74. 妈妈设置了六小时响一次的闹钟，提醒自己给宝宝量体温。(reminder)
75. 在这个村落，人们通常吃到八分饱，但这个健康的饮食习惯最初是为了应对食物短缺的困境。(until)
VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是明启中学的高三学生卢平。学校《英语报》向高三学生进行征文，题目为my teachers。卢平也想投稿。具体要求是： 1. 请你将认识的老师进行分类; 2. 具体描述每一类老师的特征。
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