1. Seven Steps to a More Fulfilling Job（）

1. According to the recent “Plans for 2004” survey, most people are unhappy with their current jobs. (N)
2. Mary Lyn Miller’s job is to advise people on their life and career. (Y)
3. Mary Lyn Miller herself was once quite dissatisfied with her own work. (NG)
4. Many people find it difficult to make up their minds whether to change their career path. (Y)

5. According to Mary Lyn Miller, people considering changing their careers should commit themselves to the pursuit of those things that they love most.
6. In the job market, job seekers need to know how to sell themselves like products. 名词性成分
7. During an interview with potential employers, self-honoring or self-love may help a job seeker to show more confidence. 名词性成分
8. Mary Lyn Miller suggests that a job seeker develop a vision that answers the question “what do I really want to do?”
9. Many people are too scared to pursue their dreams because they are unwilling to give up/risk. 动词性成分
10. What ultimately holds people back from attaining their ideals is the lack of action. 名词性成分

2. Space Tourism（）

1. Lance Bass wasn’t able to go on a tour of space because of health problems. (N)
2. Several tourism companies believe space travel is going to be a new profitable industry. (Y)
3. The space agencies are reluctant（不情愿的，勉强的） to open up space to tourists. (Y)
4. Two Australian billionaires have been placed on the waiting list for entering space as private passengers. （NG）
5. The prize for the winner (获胜者的奖励) in the fall 2001 NBC TV game show would have been a trip to the Mir Space Station. 名词性成分
6. Hilton Hotels believes it won’t be long before it is possible to build a space hotel.
7. In order for space tourists to walk around and function normally, it is necessary for the space city to create a small gravitational pull. 名词性成分
8. What makes going to space the most expensive vacation is the enormous cost involved in the fuel of spacecraft.
9. Each year 500,000 space tourists could be flying into space if ticket prices could be lowered to $50000.
10. Within the next two decades, space travel could be as common as intercity air travel.

3. Rainforests（）

1. Virtually all plant and animal species on Earth can be found in tropical rainforests. (N)
2. There is not much change in the weather in the tropical rainforests all the year round. (Y)
3. The largest number of rainforests in the world are located on the African continent. (NG)
4. Below the canopy level of a tropical rainforest grows an overabundance of plants. (N)

5. New tree seedlings will not survive to reach the canopy level unless some old trees die.
6. Epiphytes(附生植物), which form much of the under story of the rainforest, get all their water and nutrients(营养的) from the canopy layer.
7. Stranglers are so called because they kill the host tree by blocking the sunlight and competing for the nutrients.
8. Since rainforest bacteria and trees depend on each other for life, the relationship they form is termed symbiotic(共生的).
9. Plant species are dispersed over a large area with the help of insects and birds.
10. As we are still ignorant of millions of unique life forms in the rainforest, deforestation can be compared to the destruction of an unknown planet.

4. Landfills（）

1. 【解析】Y本文主要叙述了垃圾掩埋法的过程和用途，这正是全文主旨所在，因此是正确的。
　　2. 【解析】Y本题答案可见文章第二段。Some gets recycled or recovered and some is burned, but the majority is buried in landfills.由此可见，大部分的垃圾都是被掩埋了。
　　3. 【解析】N由文章第四段可见本题是错误的。The United States ranks somewhere in the middle of the major countries in landfill disposal.美国出于这些国家的中间位置。
　　4. 【解析】N由文中这一句可以看本题错误的。A landfill is not like a compost pile, where the purpose is to bury trash in such a way that it will decompose quickly. 可见，垃圾掩埋并不像混合肥料堆那样。
　　5. 【解析】Y大多数国家垃圾掩埋的地址都是有规定和规则的。从文中这句话可以看出这句话是正确的。In most parts of the world, there are regulations that govern where a landfill can be placed and how it can operate.
　　6. 【解析】N在副标题为proposing the landfill部分的第二段说到In the United States, taking care of trash and building landfills are local government responsibilities.由此可见，在美国垃圾掩埋是地方政府的责任，与联邦政府无关，因此答案是错误的。
　　7. 【解析】NG危险垃圾在被掩埋之前是否经过处理这一信息在文中并未提到。
　　8. 【解析】municipalities and construction companies在副标题为how is a landfill operated部分中第一段就给出了答案。
　　9. 【解析】$10 to $40在副标题为how is a landfill operated部分中第三段第三句话。
　　10.【解析】drop off stations在副标题为how is a landfill operated部分中第四段的第一句话。

5. Highways（）

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