41.Christmas Day is known as the most important time of the year in many Western countries.Green trees are put up and d(1)
with colorful tinsel(金箔紙) and lights.And p(2)
are put under the tree. Now I live in Beijing,China,I'm far away from my family.So we have to use modern methods to w(3)
each other a happy holiday.Two weeks before the big day,my family posted Christmas cards to make sure they reached me on time.As my dad is very talkative,I'm sure he'll find it difficult to write e(4)
he wants on a little card!Some of my friends in Beijing r(5)
boxes of food,which included a lot of British chocolate!They'll get a t(6)
of the winter holiday. In a(7)
,I will get to talk with family m(8)
by video calling them.W(9)
an 8-hour time difference,they'll be sitting down to a big lunch at noon,as I'll be e(10)
42.Treece,Kansas,is a poisoned town.Only one house remains.Tim and Della Busby are the only residents there today.And they say they're staying there.Even if it's poisoned,Treece is still their home. This tiny community in southeast Kansas used to be a busy mining town-with a school,hundreds of homes and bars. But,the mines that turned Treece into a boomtown(新興小鎮) finally left it lifeless and abandoned(荒廢的). It's a poisoned town now.All but two residents left when the federal government offered help to the 138 people who stuck around after the mines shut down,the Kansas City Star reports. The Environmental Protection Agency says decades of zinc(鋅) and lead mining have left the soil,water and air polluted.Piles of poisoned mining debris(碎屑),called chat,litter the streets.The mines that were dug below the town are turning the ground into Swiss cheese,as many sink holes develop throughout the town-many big enough and deep enough to swallow(吞沒) a man whole. However,the EPA tried to save Treece.Only one child out of 16 in the town was tested for having dangerously high levels of lead. But as the damage in Treece was already done,the residents no longer believed it was safe to live there.
根據短文內容判斷正(T)誤(F). (1)Treece is a rich and smooth town with many mines.
(2)In Treece there will be no people because of pollution.
(3)The government helped the residents there to move away although it is still safe to live there.
(4)The town's water and soil are polluted because some resources are mined too much.
(5)From the passage,we can learn that everything should be done under the control,or beyond it,it will bring about bad effects for our humans.