CHICAGO-For working parents and heavily scheduled school kids, family mealtime is out of fashion. But supermarkets are trying to attract families back to the dinner table.
There is a cost if family members have meals apart: research shows that teenagers who don’t eat with their parents face a greater risk of drug and alcohol problems.
“The more often kids have dinner with their parents, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs.” said Joseph Califano Jr. head of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse which did the research.
Stores are familiar with the idea and will start telling shoppers about the findings and encouraging them to share meals together at home, instead of separately or at restaurants.
The food marketing Institute will give $25.000 to the center and help stores promote the center’s Family Day in September.
Many stores have grab-and-go dinners and recipe cards. Some have kiosks where people can taste a main dish, then pick out side dishes.
“Our members have worked hard to try to have easily prepared food either ready to eat or ready to take home,” said Tim Hammonds, the institute’s president and chief executive.
Los Angeles-based Contessa Premium Foods makes frozen delicious meals, which a family can heat in 10 minutes to 12 minutes. “That’s nearly as fast as a TV dinner,” said president and chief executive John Z.Blazevich, “but is healthier and makes people feel like they actually cooked.”
“The preparation is the hardest part, so we try to combine a variety of tastes and flavours from around the world and make it fast and easy,” he said.
“Eating at home helps keep meals healthy and teaches kids how to eat right. If we can get people back to having family dinners, parents back to being engaged with their kids, it will have a surprising impact,” he said.
1. The reasons why family mealtime is out of fashion are the following EXCEPT ________.A.the parents are busy with work |
B.the children have a little spare time |
C.the children are not fond of family meal |
D.It will take much time to cook and eat at home |
A.gains | B.a sum of money |
C.advantage | D.something you lose |
A.telling the parents the disadvantages of having dinner separately |
B.offering various prepared food to make family cooking fast and easy |
C.taking part in Family Day activities in September |
D.helping housewives prepare their meals at homeI |
A.The efforts that are being made to get people back to having family dinners. |
B.The benefits of having family dinners together. |
C.The changes in American family dinners. |
D.A research done by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. |
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【推荐1】Britain faces social problems as lots of people are set to lose their jobs in technological revolution, Bank of England’s chief economist warned.
Andy Haldane said the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution will make the machine replace humans to do thinking things. The dark side of the change could be a much bigger breakdown of employment than in Victorian times, with professions such as accountancy (会计) among those at risk.
A report by the accountancy firm PwC last month warned that more than 7 million jobs in Britain had been lost over the next 20 years as technological change sweeps though workplaces.
The majority of these are in jobs in the retail, transport and manufacturing industries. However, other traditional professional sectors could also be at serious risk.
Economists treat the arrival of increasingly intelligent computers and robots as the fourth industrial revolution. The first was the shift from agricultural to urban societies, the second saw the widespread use of electricity and steel, and the third was the digital revolution when computers, the Internet and mobile phones were developed.
Mr Haldane said the hollowing-out (空洞化) experienced in the past years could be on a greater scale in the future so it is important to learn the lessons of history and ensure that people are given training to take advantage of new opportunities.
“Jobs were effectively taken by machines of various types, there was a hollowing-out of the jobs market, which left many people for a long period out of work and struggling to make a living,” Haldane added, “That heightened social and financial tensions, and led to a rise in inequality. This is the dark side of technological revolution.”
“That hollowing-out is going to be potentially on a much greater scale in the future, when we have machines thinking and doing the cognitive and technical skills of humans.” Mr Haldane said professions like accountancy could be among those hardest hit by the rise of AI. But he suggested economists could escape.
1. What is the dark side mentioned in the text?A.The hollowing-out has become a major social problem. |
B.Less and less people have the desire to learn accountancy |
C.Intelligent computers and robots decrease good workers. |
D.The technological revolution causes people to lose jobs. |
A.The study about economy is at a low level. |
B.Economists work on a traditional professional job. |
C.There is no machine that can work as an economist. |
D.Economists have the chance to avoid technological revolution. |
A.To call for people to devote more to studying history. |
B.To teach people to grasp the chances technological revolution brings about. |
C.To warn people not to work on transport and manufacturing industries. |
D.To ask workers to develop and think as the intelligent computers and robots do. |
A.Positive. | B.Aggressive. |
C.Critical. | D.Worried. |
【推荐2】For the past three weeks, students across India’s capital have been attending a new course: happiness. The Delhi government introduced “happiness classes”.
“We have given best-of-the-best talents to the world,” Sisodai said, according to The Washington Post. “
The Washington Post says children came out of their first happiness class with some excitement. “We should work happily,” 11-year-old Aayush Jha, a seventh grader at a public school in Delhi, told the paper. “When you work sadly, your work will not be good.”
Sisodai hopes to deliver these tools to help students live more happily inside and outside of the classroom, whether or not they’re achieving their academic standards. “I don’t know if happiness can be learned, but yes, it can be practised,” he says. “
One in four Indian children aged 13 to 15 struggles with low spirits, the World Health Organization reported last year. As journalist Susan Brink reported, “The government has made changes after noticing that some young people under great stress to do well in school tended to commit suicide (自杀) if they felt they did poorly.” “In South India, they observed higher suicide rates after exam periods among schoolchildren who failed,” Alexandra Fleischmannn, a project coordinator for the WHO’s Preventing Suicide report, told Brink. “
A.Many Indian students are facing a very tough life |
B.We have given best-of-the-best professionals to industry |
C.Then they introduced the possibility of taking the exams again |
D.It is used to decide whether an Indian student is excellent or not |
E.Delhi’s Education Minister Manish Sisodai is in charge of making the changes |
F.Once you start practising living with happiness, then it can become part of your life |
G.It tried to change the country’s academic focus from student achievement to emotional well-being |
Children seem to care so much about their names. A study showed that 25% of young children feel they couldn’t live any more if you took away their name. Another study shows that about one third of all young people wish their parents had given them a different name.
Some people choose to change their names when they grow up. Many people in show business don’t use the names their parents gave them. Have you ever listened to Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta? No? The answer could be “yes” if we called her Lady Gaga instead! You may never heard of Margaret Hookham. But if we re-name her Margot Fonteyn, you might know her as a famous dancer.
In many cultures, there are special ideas about how to choose a name. For example, many people choose a name that has been in their family for many years. It tells the child where he or she has come from.
Choosing a good name isn’t easy. Many parents search books that tell them the meanings of names. They could choose a name that carries a message. For example, Edith means “valuable gift”. Amanda means “love”. And Fara means “joy”.
Names like these tell family and friends how happy they are with their new baby. Other names can say something about the events during the birth of the child. In Africa, a first born son may have the name Mosi and the name Ama means “born on Saturday”.
But can our names influence our lives? Some experts say that they can but others disagree. Is every girl called Malak like an angel? Is every boy called Curitis polite? And is every girl called Mahira quick and full of energy? No parent can tell what kind of person their child will grow up to be. Just because parents name a boy Fahim, it doesn’t mean he will be clever. All they can do is hope.
1. What’s the second paragraph mainly about? (no more than 5 words)2. What is Lady Gaga’s name that her parents gave her? (no more than 5 words)
3. What does the underlined word “valuable” in Paragraph 4 mean in English? (no more than 5 words)
4. What may the parents hope the baby will be like if they name their baby Fahim? (1 word)
5. Do you think names can influence our lives? Why or why not? (no more than 25 words)
【推荐1】The beautiful monarch butterfly is facing an unprecedented decline (前所未有的减少) and Utah State University (USU) wants to make sure that doesn’t happen.
To help the struggling butterfly, USU students have been capturing and tagging (给……贴标签) monarch butterflies in the Uintah Basin.
Tagging butterflies will allow researchers to know their migration path and protect their feeding grounds. Every year, monarch butterflies start “3,000-mile migration, traveling south to Mexico each fall and back up Canada in the spring,” according to the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).
Because of habitat loss and increased pesticide (杀虫剂) use, monarch butterflies have experienced a population decline upwards of 90%, according NWF.
“Monarch butterflies are facing a large historical decline over the last 40 years,” says USU senior Carson Liesik, a student on the project. “The population, as of the beginning of 2020, was about 30,000 monarchs in the Western United States, which is about a 99% drop as compared to information from the 1980s. We are hoping to learn how to help the monarch butterfly population recover from its historical decline. This project is an important step.”
When tagging the butterflies, students record information about each one including its wing condition and location of discovery. Then students map migration path as well as habitat use and activity. They tag each butterfly with unique number so that if it is recaptured at a later date, they can know growth stage. With the collected information students get an idea of where these monarch butterflies are and how they are using the resources around them.
Researchers say the public can help protect the monarch butterfly population, too. “The best way is by growing milkweed plants wherever you may have space. Milkweed is the main food source that monarch butterflies depend on. If you plant milkweed in your yard, you might be lucky enough to see monarchs stop and breed (繁殖).” says the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR).
1. Why do the students mark monarch butterflies?A.To study their migration path. |
B.To research their social behavior. |
C.To find the difference in their feeding habits. |
D.To know the number of them in both Mexico and Canada. |
A.They were first discovered in the 1980s. |
B.They are facing serious survival problems. |
C.They have been well protected since 2020. |
D.They changed the way researchers think about butterflies. |
A.The results of the project. | B.The importance of the project. |
C.How USU supports the project. | D.How the students carry out the project. |
A.By stopping the use of farm chemicals. | B.By making their yards clean and open. |
C.By planting milkweed in their yards. | D.By raising money for NWF. |
【推荐2】We are all busy taking about and using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet?
Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, information could be sent through another part. In this way, computer network system would keep on working all the time.
At first the Internet was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it, too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, computers had become cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing” the Internet more convenient.
Today it is easy to get online and it is said that millions of people use the Internet everyday. Sending email is more and more popular among students.
The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people’s life.
1. The Internet has a history of around ______ years until the year of 2020.A.ten | B.twenty | C.sixty | D.seventy |
A.break down the whole network |
B.make computers large and expensive |
C.make computers cheaper |
D.make itself keep on working all the time |
A.the government | B.scientists | C.schools | D.hospitals and banks |
A.Scientists | B.Information | C.Software | D.Computers |
【推荐3】Artificial light should be treated like other forms of pollution, research says. Human illumination (照明) of the planet is growing in range and intensity by about 2% a year, creating a problem that can be compared to climate change, according to a team of biologists from the University of Exeter. Hormone levels, breeding cycles, activity patterns and vulnerability to predators are being affected across a broad range of species, they write in a paper published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.
From reduced pollination (授粉) by insects and trees budding earlier in spring, to seabirds flying into lighthouses and sea turtles mistakenly wandering inland to bright hotels in search of the dawn sun, their study brings together 126 previous papers to assess the extent of the impact.
In all the species examined, they found reduced levels of melatonin — a hormone that regulates sleep cycles — as a result of artificial light at night. Rodents (啮齿动物), which mostly search for food at night, were active for a shorter duration, while birds started singing and searching for worms earlier in the day. However, the outcomes were not purely negative. Owing to night-time light, some plants grew faster and some types of bats thrived. But the overall effect was disruptive, particularly to the insects drawn to hot bulbs or fast-moving car lamps.
“What stands out is how ubiquitous the effects are. The effects are found on microbes, invertebrates (无脊柱动物), animals and plants,” said the lead author, Kevin Gaston, a professor at the university's Environment and Sustainability Institute. “We need to start thinking about lighting in the way we think of other big systemic pressures like climate change.”
According to Gaston, there has been an increase in studies in the past five to ten years as the amount of lighting in the world has increased and the effects have become more evident. Satellite images of the Earth at night show how rapidly the problem is expanding geographically, and lights are also becoming more intense as expensive bulbs with yellow light are replaced by greater numbers of cheap bright white LEDs. This is biologically problematic because the white light has a wider spectrum, like sunlight.
Gaston urged governments, companies and individuals to be more discriminating. “At the moment, we just take lighting for granted. But we need to think in terms of using it only when we need it, where we need it and how we need it,” he said. “It is another pollutant.”
Unlike the climate crisis, however, he said solving the lighting problem would save rather than cost money. If people use fewer lights, it would mean lower costs, less electricity and lower emissions.
“At the heart of this is a deep-rooted human need to light up the night. We are still in a sense afraid of the dark,” he said. “But the ability to turn the night-time into something like the daytime is something we have pursued for beyond the necessity of doing so.”
1. Why is artificial light a pollutant according to the biologists?A.It has a serious impact on nature. |
B.It shortens the growing time of plants. |
C.It contributes to other forms of pollution. |
D.It threatens the existence of human beings. |
A.It can be used to act as the dawn sun. |
B.It can regulate the sleep cycles of animals. |
C.It can prevent all species developing properly. |
D.It can disturb behavior patterns in some species. |
A.Normal. | B.Common |
C.Powerful. | D.Special. |
A.It is worth the cost. | B.It is time-consuming. |
C.It requires a change of attitude. | D.It needs to be discussed globally. |
【推荐1】Many seniors feel pressured to go straight from high school to college, but Camden Olson, who graduated from the Latin School of Chicago in the US last year, didn’t give in. She decided to spend a gap year-taking a year off before college-raising a guide dog for Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Maine. The non - profit provides trained guide dogs to blind and visually - impaired (视力障碍的) people. “This is something I’ve always wanted to do.” Olson said.
It is becoming more and more popular among American teenagers to have a gap year. Some students use the year off to figure out what they want to do: travel the world or save money for college.
Olson is using her time to follow a passion she’s had since 7th grade. For years, she kept an eye on guide dog services until she came across the opportunity at Guiding Eyes. With support from her friends, family and teachers, Olson went for it. Olson’s volunteer work centers around Derby, a one-year-old black dog.
“My job is to raise him to be well-mannered and socialized,” she said. “Guide dogs can’t be distracted. They go everywhere with their visually-impaired owner. They give a blind person a lot of support, too.”
Of course, there’s an end in sight for Derby and Olson’s close bond. When Derby celebrates his own graduation, Olson will have to say goodbye to him.
“No doubt there will be tears, but, if he passes, I will be so happy for him to become a working dog,” she said.
While some do not agree that gap years are a good choice, Olson said she’s seen major success. In fact, she’ll be attending Princeton University soon and is thinking about majoring in biology.
“I think I’m already so much more mature than I was,” she said. “So many kids come back from gap years a lot more focused and prepared.”
1. Why did Camden Olson decide to spend her gap year working for Guiding Eyes?A.Because her parents talked her into doing it. |
B.Because many of her peers had already chosen to do so. |
C.Because it had been her dream for a long time. |
D.Because it would help her to make her experienced in work. |
a. not be easily distracted
b. be well-mannered and easy-going
c. know how to play some tricks for their owners
d. give their visually impaired people support
e. protect their blind people from all possible dangers
A.a, b, c | B.a, b, d |
C.b, c, e | D.b, d, e |
A.Quite happy. | B.Sad but glad. |
C.Regretful and sad. | D.Nervous and disappointed. |
A.It makes people better prepared for the future. |
B.Whether it’s good or not depends on the person. |
C.Its negative side outweighs its positive side. |
D.It makes sure of a student’s success at college. |
【推荐2】Sawyer Current’s first visit to Isla Mujeres, a small island off the coast of Cancun, Mexico, was meant to be a getaway. But instead of relaxing on white sand beaches, Current was disappointed at the number of unwanted animals wandering the streets. “Dogs were everywhere, coming out of the bushes and along the sides of the road,” she recalls of that trip 25 years ago. “They were dirty and covered with fleas and scars.” “It was sad,” she says. “I just couldn’t stand to watch it.”
Current decided to help fix it. She built a second home on Isla Mujeres in 2000, and beginning with a skinny, toothless cat she rescued from the streets, she went on to find homes for more than 2,000 dogs and cats. Today, thanks to Current’s efforts, the island no longer has a wild-dog problem, and “people are more aware of their pets’ needs,” says Marcelino Velazquez, 34, a property manager from Isla Mujeres. “They vaccinate them and don’t abandon them on the streets. The way of thinking has changed.”
For Current, it was a hard-fought transformation. “At first I was angry and thought it was horrible,” Current says of the conditions on the island when she began her work. “But these weren’t bad people. They were people without resources.” When she first arrived, the community had no small-animal vet, and animal control consisted of a team of government workers who’d round up street dogs in a truck and kill them. “I used to follow the truck, and when they’d go for lunch, I’d let the dogs out,” she says. “One time I let the air out of their tires.”
At one point she was caring for more than 65 rescued dogs in her home, and she estimates she has spent about $1 million of her own savings on her efforts. “It was exhausting,” she admits. Now Isla Animals has an on-site shelter with a small staff, and many volunteers and donors among the island’s tourists. Each year the group re-homes more than 170 pets, many of which fly with volunteers to families in the U.S. and Canada.
“There’s nothing in the world like finding a starving dog, nursing it back to good health and finding it a loving home,” Current says.
1. What made Current feel disappointed with the island?A.Insects biting people. | B.People without resources. |
C.Houses in poor conditions. | D.Animals abandoned in the streets. |
A.To show the local people how to solve their problems. |
B.To draw public attention to what she was doing. |
C.To stop the workers from killing the animals. |
D.To help the government punish bad people. |
A.Loving. | B.Ambitious. | C.Intelligent. | D.Cautious. |
【推荐3】Fantastic Magazines for Learning English
Digital Photogra pher
Perfect if you like: taking pictures with your camera or phone.
What you’ll find inside: This magazine is full of colorful photos and very pleasing to look at. There are many tips and guides on how to take great pictures, and they are written in simple and easy-to-understand English though there are some technical camera terms. You feel like the writers are tolking to you! You can impress your friends with your irnproved English and your new photography skills!
Fast Company
Perfect if you like: business and learning how successful companies work.
What you’ll find inside: Fast Company is one of the most approachable magazines about business and companies. It has many interviews of successful people, as well as general news about interesting new companics. It does use a higher level of writing than what is usual for magazines, so give it a try first to make sure you can understand the articles.
Cricket and Cicada
Perfect if you like: excellent literature and short stories.
What you’ll find inside: Cricket and Cicada are literary magazines aimed at teenagers. Each issue is full of wonderful short stories and poems, and beautiful illustrations. Even though these are technically children’s magazines, they are perfect for learning English because they have high quality writing.
Mental Floss
Perfect if you like: interesting trivia and facts.
What you’ll find inside: What does outer space smell like? Why isn’t cat food mouse-flavored? If you’re the kind of person who asks yourself these questions, you’ll love Meriful Floss, Each issue is full of bite-sized trivia and mostly short articles with really interesting facts that you’ll want to share with others.
While the print edition of the magazine stopped publishing in 2016, you can still read Mental Floss online. Click here to get more information.
1. Which magazine tells something about business and companies?A.Digital Photographer. | B.Fast Company |
C.Cricket. | D.Menial Floss. |
A.They focus on drawing skills | B.They can only be bought online. |
C.They are intended for teenagers. | D.They are full of colorful pictures. |
A.On a website. | B.In a newspaper. |
C.In an English textbook. | D.From a science magazine. |
【推荐1】Shipwrecked Prayers
A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men aboard were able to swim to a small, desert-like island. Not knowing what else to do, the two survivors agreed that they had no alternative but to pray to God.
However, to find out whose prayers were more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.
The first thing they prayed for was food. The next morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the island, and he was able to eat its fruit. But the other man’s parcel of land remained barren.
After a week, the first man became lonely and decided to pray for a wife. The next day, another ship was wrecked and the only survivor was a woman who swam to his side of the island. But on the other side of the island, there was nothing.
Soon thereafter the first man prayed for a house, clothes and more food. The next day, like magic, all of these things were given to him. However, the second man still had nothing.
Finally, the first man prayed for a ship so that he and his wife could leave the island, and in the morning he found a ship docked at his side of the island.
The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave the second man on the island, considering the other man unworthy to receive God’s blessings since none of his prayers had been answered.
As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from Heaven booming, “Why are you leaving your companion on the island?”
“My blessings are mine alone since I was the one who prayed for them,” the first man answered. “His prayers were all unanswered and so he doesn’t deserve anything.”
“You are mistaken!” the voice rebuked him. “He had only one prayer, which I answered. If not for that, you would not have received any of my blessings.”
“Tell me,” the first man asked the voice, “what did he pray for that I should owe him anything?”
“He prayed that all your prayers would be answered.”
For all we know, our blessings are not the fruits of our prayers alone, but those of another praying for us. So what you do for others is more important than what you do for yourself.
1. The first man’s wife is _____.A.a swimmer who got to the island by accident |
B.an angel sent by God to keep him company |
C.a survivor from another wrecked ship |
D.a native person on the desert-like island |
A.isolated | B.unproductive | C.fertile | D.dry |
A.He didn’t deserve any blessing from God. |
B.None of his prayers was answered by God. |
C.He is not brave enough to tell God his needs. |
D.His prayer helped his companion get out of trouble. |
A.Never judge a person by appearance. |
B.Don’t lose heart in trouble. |
C.Helping others is helping ourselves. |
D.Greed is the root of all evil. |
【推荐2】Separate lives, similar dreams
As we know, some children live in the countryside, and some live in the city. Their lives are a little different, but they also have many of the same dreams.
In the countryside | In the city | |
Travel to school | On foot | By bus or car |
Classroom facilities (设施) | Recorders and radios. | Multimedia classrooms, VCD, DVD, TVs, recorders, radios, loud-speakers. |
Ways of learning | Classes only, without many reference books. | Many extra classes, tutor, lots of reference books. |
Eyesight | Less than 45% are near-sighted (近视的). | About 75% are near-sighted. |
After-class activities | Playing with balls. | English corners and other school clubs. |
Homework | Homework can usually be finished at school. | Homework never ends. |
Chores to do | Washing, cleaning, farming, looking after younger sisters or brothers, cooking. | Usually no chores. |
Family members | Big families with three generations. | Small families with three members. |
Ideal jobs | Teachers, drivers, scientists, nurses, secretaries. | Scientists, professors, doctors, computer programmers, managers, university presidents, the UN chief. |
1. The survey was done among the _________ between in the countryside and the city.
A.teachers. | B.students. | C.parents. | D.adults |
A.55%, 25% | B.55%, 75% | C.45%, 75% | D.45%, 25% |
A.Ideal jobs. | B.After-class activities. |
C.Results of tests. | D.Ways of learning. |
A.Children in the countryside often go to school on foot. |
B.Children in the city often have too much homework to do. |
C.Children in the countryside often have lots of chores to do. |
D.Children in the city are difficult to find ideal jobs. |
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
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A city without cars would be very strange, right? But Venice is such a city.
Venice is in the northeast of Italy. It wasn’t built on land, like Beijing or Shanghai, but on more than 110 islands. Seawater is everywhere around the city.
Even so, travel isn’t difficult. The waterways have always been the best way to get around. There are 117 waterways and more than 400 bridges that can guide you where you want to go. People in Venice move from place to place by boat.
Water makes the city special, but it is also a big problem. Sometimes tourists will have such strange experiences. One moment they walk across the Rialto Bridge, and there’s nothing special. But when they come back to the bridge an hour later, it’s underwater and everyone is wearing rain shoes.
Once, people used too much underground water. This made the city get lower little by little. Now the city has gone down by 23 centimeters. Another problem is the rising seawater. The temperature has risen over the years. This has made the ice of the Arctic Ocean (北冰洋) melt (融化). Every year, high waters hit the city in autumn and winter. When a lot of water comes, more than half of the city is underwater.
Scientists are trying different ways to stop the city from getting even lower. The Italian government has asked some of Italy’s biggest companies to build the MOST project, which was planned to be built under the seawater to stop the rising water. Anyway, this project is helping solve the problem.
1. Which is the best way to travel in Venice?
A.The waterways. | B.Taxis and cars. |
C.400 bridges. | D.Boats and rain shoes. |
A.The ice of the Arctic Ocean melt. |
B.Seawater is everywhere around the city. |
C.People used too much underground water |
D.The temperature has become higher over the years. |
A.Venice is sure to stop getting lower. |
B.High waters won’t hit Venice any more. |
C.Scientists can solve the problems easily. |
D.Some possible ways help to solve the problem. |
A.The History of Venice |
B.The MOST Project of Venice. |
C.The Places of Interest of Venice |
D.The Specials and Problems of Venice |