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     Anyone who has ever run a marathon knows how difficult it is to complete the distance.Now imagine

running 142 of them, back to back-a feat that Minnesota resident Steven Knowlton has just completed.

     Mr.Knowlton began his run on July 30th from Seattle, Washington.From there he ran his way through Oregon, Idaho and then on to the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming and Colorado.He then jogged his way

through Kansas and Missouri, before continuing east and south through Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.On Saturday, November 13th, after 100 days, 3,715 miles and six pairs of

sneakers, he finally reached his destination-Key Largo, Florida.

     While that in itself is incredible, what is even more so is the fact that he did it without taking a day of

rest and with no support or backup vehicle.Instead, he wheeled along a baby stroller(婴儿车), filled with drinks, snacks and an extra pair of shoes.The 45yearold man says that he ran through painful shin splits

(胫部开裂), extreme tiredness and bad weather, because if he took a break, he would lose his courage

and be tempted to take many more!

     Having completed over 43 marathons and 2 ultramarathons(double the distance), with his earliest one

at the age of nine, Mr.Knowlton is no stranger to longdistance runs.However, this brilliant one was done

for a cause-to raise funds for and awareness of Crohn's disease, something he has suffered from since he was 17.

     Mr.Knowlton who is currently enjoying some welldeserved rest on the beautiful beaches of Florida,

says the run will be  memorable for many reasons, not the least of which is the kindness  of strangers who offered him food, money and even shelter along the way.His biggest issue?Police officials stopped him

especially when he was running across highways, because they believed he was endangering a baby in his

stroller!

1. We can learn about Mr.Knowlton that________.

A. he completed about 142 marathons in half a year

B. he is a person living in the state of Minnesota

C. he arrived at his destination on a Saturday in July

D. he began his first marathon when he was seventeen

2. Which is the RIGHT time order for Mr.Knowlton running across the following places?

A. Washington - Kansas - Kentucky - Idaho - Georgia - Florida

B. Washington - Kansas - Idaho - Kentucky - Georgia - Florida

C. Idaho - Washington - Kansas - Georgia - Florida - Kentucky

D. Washington - Idaho - Kansas - Kentucky - Georgia - Florida

3. The most striking fact of his feat is that________.

A. he finished such a long run in a shortet time than expected

B. he took a baby along with him during the long journey

C. he ran through painful shin splits and extreme tiredness

D. he ran nonstop,, providing himself with all necessities along the way

4. Mr.Knowlton did such an extremely long run partly because________.

A. he was fond of running marathons

B. he had long been dreaming of running across the country

C. he wanted to make people know more about Crohn's disease

D. he wanted to collect money to cure his Crohn's disease

5. From the passage,, we can infer that________.

A. help from strangers impressed Mr.Knowlton

B. Mr.Knowlton was once arrested by the police

C. taking a rest in the long run would make Mr.Knowlton braver

D. Mr.Knowlton valued his health more than his goal

答案

1-5: BDDCA

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It’s a safe bet that the millions of Americans who have recently changed their minds about global warming--deciding it isn’t happening, or isn’t due to human activities such as burning coal and oil, or isn’t a serious threat--didn’t just spend an intense few days poring over climate-change studies and decide, holy cow, the discrimination of continuous equations in general circulation models is completely wrong! Instead, the backlash (an 18-point rise since 2006 in the percentage who say the risk of climate change is exaggerated, Gallup found this month) has been stoked by scientists’ abysmal communication skills, plus some peculiarly American attitudes, both brought into play now by how critics have spun the "Climategate" e-mails to make it seem as if scientists have pulled a fast one.
Scientists are lousy communicators. They appeal to people’s heads, not their hearts or guts, argues Randy Olson, who left a professorship in marine biology to make science films. "Scientists think of themselves as guardians of truth," he says. "Once they have spewed it out, they feel the burden is on the audience to understand it" and agree.
That may work if the topic is something with no emotional content, such as how black holes forms, but since climate change and how to address it make people feel threatened, that arrogance is a disaster. Yet just as smarter-than-thou condescension happens time after time in debates between evolutionary biologists and proponents of intelligent design (the latter almost always win), now it’s happening with climate change. In his 2009 book, Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style, Olson recounts a 2007 debate where a scientist contending that global warming is a crisis said his opponents failed to argue in a way "that the people here will understand. " His sophisticated, educated Manhattan audience groaned and, thoroughly insulted, voted that the "not a crisis" side won.
Like evolutionary biologists before them, climate scientists also have failed to master "truthiness" (thank you, Stephen Colbert), which their opponent--climate deniers and creationists--wield like a shiv. They say the Intergovemmental Panel on climate Change is a political, not a scientific, organization; a climate mafia (like evolutionary biologists) keeps contrarian papers out of the top journals; Washington got two feet of snow, and you say the world is warming’
There is less backlash against climate science in Europe and Japan, and the U. S. is 33rd out of 34 developed countries in the percentage of adults who agree that species, including humans, evolved. That suggests there is something peculiarly American about the rejection of science. Charles Harper, a devout Christian who for years ran the program bridging science and faith at the Templeton Foundation and who has had more than his share of arguments with people who view science as the Devil’s spawn, has some hypotheses about why that is. "In America, people do not bow to authority the way they do in England," be says. "when the lumpenproletariat are told they have to think in a certain way, there is a backlash," as with climate science now and, never-endingly, with evolution. (Harper, who studied planetary atmospheres before leaving science, calls climate scientists "a smug community of true believers. ")
Another factor is that the ideas of the Reformatio--no intermediaries between people and God; anyone can read the Bible and know the truth as well as a theologia--inform the American character more ply than they do that of many other nations. "It’s the idea that everyone has equal access to the divine," says Harper. That has been extended to the belief that anyone with an Internet connection can know as much about climate or evolution as an expert. Finally, Americans carry in their bones the country’ s history of being populated by emigrants fed up with hierarchy. It is the American way to distrust those who set themselves up-even justifiably--as authorities. Presto: climate backlash.
One new actor is also at work. the growing belief in the wisdom of crowds (Wikis, polling the audience on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire). If tweeting for advice on the best route somewhere yields the right answer. Americans seem to have decided, it doesn’t take any special expertise to pick apart evolutionary biology or climate science. My final hypothesis, the Great Recession was caused by the smartest guys in the room saying, trust us, we understand how credit default swaps work, and they’re great. No wonder so many Americans have decided that experts are idiots.

1.What is the "Climategate" What is the recent debate about global warming

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