到乌蒙山区的昭通;从甘肃中部的定西，到内蒙古边陲的阿尔山，看真贫、知真贫，真扶贫、扶真贫，成为“花的精力最多”的事;“扶贫先扶志”“扶贫必扶智”“实施精准扶贫”Unit 4 Astronomythe science of the stars. 阅读理解 Environmentalists said our planet was doomed to die. Now one man says they are wrong.“Everyone knows the planet is in bad shape,” thundered a magazine article last year. Species are being driven to die out at record rates, and the rivers are so poisonous that fish are floating on the surface, dead.But theres a growing belief that what everyone takes for granted is wrong: things are actually getting better. A new book is about to overturn our most basic assumptions about the worlds environment. Rivers, seas, rain and the atmosphere are all getting cleaner. The total amount of forests in the world is not declining. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg, professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, is an attack on the misleading claims of environmental groups, and the “bad news” culture that makes people believe everything is getting worse.Now the attacks are increasingly coining from left-wing environmentalists such as Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace. The accusation is that, although the environment is improving, green groupswith profits of hundreds of millions of pounds a yearare using scare tactics(谋略) to gain donations. Lomborgs book doesnt deny global warmingprobably the biggest environmental threatbut destroys almost every other environmental claim with many official statistics.The Worldwatch Institute claims that “deforestation has been accelerating over the last 30 years”. But Lomborg says that is simply rubbish. Since the dawn of agriculture the world has lost about 20 percent of its forest cover, but in recent decades the forest areas depleting has come to a stop. According to UN figures, the area of forests has remained almost steady, at about 30 percent of total land area, since the 1940s. Forests in countries such as the US, the UK and Canada have actually been expanding over the past 40 years. Despite all the warnings the Amazon rainforest has only shrunk（缩小）by about 15 percent.Nor are all our species dying out. Some campaigners claim that 50 percent of all species will have died out within 50 years. But other studies show only 0.08 percent of species are dying out each year. Conservation efforts have been successful. Whales are no longer threatened and the bald eagle is off the endangered list.Environmental groups claim that many of the improvements are the results of the success of their campaigns. Stephen Tindale, director of Greenpeace UK, said, “There are important examples, such as acid rain and ozone, where things arent as bad as predicted, and thats because behavior has changed.”1.In his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, what is Lomborgs main argument?AOur planet is in bad shape.BThe worlds environment is improving.CThe total amount of forests in the world is not declining.DConservation efforts have been successful.2.What is Lomborgs main accusation of environmentalists?AThey scared people into making donations.BThey overturned our basic assumptions about the worlds environment.CThey changed their behavior toward the environment.DThey only told people bad news about the environment.3.The underlined word “depleting” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to “_”.AReducing BlimitingCExpanding Daccelerating4.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?AThe total area of forests in the world has increased significantly.BThe effects of global warming are not as bad as first expected.CIt appears that the bald eagle will now survive.DIn the last 50 years the number of whales has increased.Putting together lunches that your children will enjoy can seem like a difficult task, as you struggle to meet the tastes of your kids with all of the food in the world. There are some tips for you to complete this and give your kids a healthy treat at the same time.5 Have your kids select their own lunchboxes or lunch bags. This will let them express their personal style and will allow them to make a choice. They can give the presentation of their lunch a personal touch that will make it more attractive. Most older kids prefer plain brown bags.6Buy a frozen ice pack or freeze the juice boxes you plan to include. 7 In this way, he or she doesnt end up with soggy sandwiches and other lunch problems. Containers are likely to “sweat”a little when they thaw, so wrap them up well to avoid any sogginess soaking through.Try to include a good combination of your childs favorite snacks and healthy choices. If you include a bland sandwich and a pile of carrot sticks, your child may end up putting the lunch on the trading block. But if you pack lunches with delicious treats and healthy choices, kids are more apt to eat everything in the bag and look forward to lunch the next day.8Packing school lunches is