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【文章內容簡介】 of the most useful tools in use today. A. being B. to be C. be D. have been45. Never _____ faith in himself, James Watt went on with his experiment. A. losing B. to lose C. lost D. to be lost plastics, the machine is light in weight. A. To make of B. Having made C. To be made of D. Made of lecture was so _____ that everyone went to sleep. A. boring B. bored C. tiring D. tired teacher’s lecture on the past participle was three hours long and Frans felt very ____. A. boring C. boredom D. Bore forgot about ____ them to join us for lunch. A. us to ask B. us asking C. our asking D. we asking really appreciate ____ to help me, but I am sure that I will be able to manage by myself. A. you to offer B. your offering C. that you offer D. that you are offeringPart Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (30 points)Task 1Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A,B, C and D. You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. People all over the world today are beginning to hear and learn more and more about the problem of pollution. Pollution is caused either by man’s release of pletely new and often artificial substances into the environment, or by releasing greatly increased amounts of a natural substance, such as oil from oil tankers into the sea. The whole industrial process which makes many of the goods and machines we need and use in our daily lives, is bound to create a number of waste products which upset the environmental balance, or the ecological balance as it is also known. Many of these waste products can be prevented or disposed of sensibly, but clearly while more and more new and plex goods are produce there will be new, dangerous wastes to be disposed of, for example, the waste products from nuclear power stations. Many people, therefore, see pollution as only part of a larger and more plex problem, that is the whole process of industrial production and consumption of goods. Other again see the problem mainly in connection with agriculture, where new methods are helping farmers grow more and more on their land to feed our everincreasing populations. However, the land itself is gradually being worn out as it is being used, in some cases, to heavily, and artificial fertilizers cannot restore the balance. Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused could be controlled if only panies, individual and governments would make more efforts. In the home there is an obvious need to control litter and waste. Food es wrapped up three of four times in packages that all have to be disposed of, drinks are increasingly sold in bottles or this which cannot be reused. This not only causes a litter problem, but also is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, metals and paper. Advertising has helped this process by persuading many of us not only to buy things we neither want nor need, but also to throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste bine to be a problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying, excess consumption and careless disposal of the products we use in our daily lives. main cause of pollution is ______________. A. the release of artificial or natural substance into the environmentB. the production of now industrial goodsC. increased amounts of a natural substanceD. our ev