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1、浙江省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（92）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。AHow often do you travel by plane?How much electricity do you use? These days everyone is worried about the size of their carbon footprintIn order to reduce global warming we need to make our carbon footprints smallerBut how much CO2 are
2、 we responsible for?A new book by Mike Berners Lee （a leading expert in carbon footprint） might be able to helpHow bad are bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything looks at the different things we do and buy, and calculates the amount of CO2 all of the following created: the ingredients, the elec
3、tricity used in the brewery, the equipment, the travel and commuting of the beer, and the packagingIts amazing how many different things need to be included in each calculationAnd its frightening how much carbon dioxide everything producesBut all of this can help us decide which beer to drinkFrom Be
4、rners-Lees calculations, its clear that a pint （568ml） of locally-brewed beer has a smaller carbon footprint than a bottle of imported beerThis is because the imported beer has been transported from far away, and it uses more packagingThe local beer only produces 300g of CO2, but the imported beer p
5、roduces 900g! So, one pint of local beer is better for the environment than three cans of cheap foreign lager from the supermarketBerners-Lee has even calculated the carbon footprint of cycling to workNothing is more environmentally-friendly than riding a bike, surely? Well, it depends on what youve
6、 had to eat beforeTo ride a bike we need energy and for energy we need foodSo if we eat a banana and then ride a kilometer and a half, our footprint is 65g of CO2However, if we eat bacon before the bike ride, its 200gIn fact, bananas are good in general because they dont need packaging, they can be
7、transported by boat and they grow in natural sunlightSo, does this mean that cycling is bad for the environment? Absolutely not, for a start, if you cycle, you dont use your car, and the fewer cars on the road, the fewer traffic jamsAnd cars in traffic jams produce three times more CO2 than cars tra
8、veling at speedCycling also makes you healthy and less likely to go to a hospitalAnd hospitals have very big carbon footprints!So maybe its time for us all to start making some changesPass me a banana and a pint of local beer, please1According to Berners-Lee, which of the following produces the most
9、 carbon dioxide？AA pint of local beer we drink BA pint of imported beer we drinkCA banana we eat before a bike rideDThe bacon we eat before a bike ride2The underlined word “brewery” in Paragraph 3 most probably means “_”Aa factory where beer is made Ba machine which makes beerCa container where beer
10、 is stored Done of the things from which beer is made3To make our carbon footprints smaller, we should often _Acycle to work Bdrink more local beerCcalculate the amount of CO2Dbuy cheap things from the supermarkets4Whats the most suitable title for the passage?ABikes, Beer and Bananas BStarting to M
11、ake ChangesCHow Big Is Your Carbon Footprint? DThe Carbon Footprint of EverythingBIt is easy for us to tell our friends from our enemiesBut can other animals do the same? Elephants can! They can use their sense of vision and smell to tell the difference between people who pose a threat and those who
12、 do notIn Kenya, researchers found that elephants react differently to clothing worn by men of the Maasai and Kamba ethnic groupsYoung Maasai men spear animals and thus pose a threat to elephants; Kamba men are mainly farmers and are not a danger to elephantsIn an experiment conducted by animal scie
13、ntists, elephants were first presented with clean clothing or clothing that had been worn for five days by either a Maasai or a Kamba manWhen the elephants detected the smell of clothing worn by a Maasai man, they moved away from the smell faster and took longer to relax than when they detected the
14、smells of either clothing worn by Kamba men or clothing that had not been worn at allGarment color also plays a role, though in a different wayIn the same study, when the elephants saw red clothing not worn before, they reacted angrily, as red is typically worn by Maasai menRather than running away
15、as they did with the smell, the elephants acted aggressively toward the red clothingThe researchers believe that the elephants emotional reactions are due to their different interpretations of the smells and the sightsSmelling a potential danger means that a threat is nearby and the best thing to do is run away and hideSeeing a potential threat without its smell means that risk is lowTherefore, instead of showing fear and running away, the elephants express their anger and become aggressive5According to the passage, which of the following statements is true about Kamba and Maasai people? A
