2007 年真题
For reasons of safety and ease of maintenance, Washington and dozens
of other communities are building rubber sidewalks made 76 ground-up
tires of cars and bikes.
The rubber squares are up to three times more expensive than concrete
squares but 77 longer, because tree roots and freezing weather won't crack
them. That, 78 , could reduce the number of slip-and-fall complaints made
79 uneven pavements. The shock-absorbing surface also happens to be
easier on the joints of slow runners and more forgiving when someone slips or
falls. And the rubber sidewalks are considered more environmentally friendly.
They 80 a way to recycle some of the estimated 290 million tires 81 out
each year in the United States, and they do not restrict tree roots the way
concrete squares 82 . Since 2001, a company, Rubber sidewalks, has been
grinding thousands of old tires into small pieces, 83 sticky substances and
baking the material into sidewalk sections that weigh less than eleven pounds
a square foot, or a quarter of the weight of concrete. The rubber squares are
how 84 in two colors of gray and orange. The District of Columbia has spent
about $ 60,000 to replace broken concrete with the rubber squares here and
there in a residential 85 northeast of the Capital.
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2008 年真题
If you feel have a closer relationship with your grandmother on your
mother’s side than on your father’s side, it is no surpise researchers at the
univetsities of Newcastle and Antwerp.
76 on studies in the Netherlands, they ciaim that matemal
grandparents(外祖父母) are likely to make grater efforts to maintain frequent
contact 77 their grandchildren than patemal grandparents(祖父母).
They 78 that psycholocgical behaviors related to human evolution are
unvoed: women are always sure of their relationship to their sons or
daughters, 79 men can never be wholly certain they are their children’s
biological fathers.
Furthenore matemal grandparents are always more certain than paternal
grandparents 80 a grandchild is related to them :”Thus maternal
grandparents may go the extra mile to visit their grandchildren.”