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The Cold Places
The Arctic is a polar region.It surrounds the North Pole.
Like Antarctica,the Arctic is a land of ice and snow.Antarctica holds the record for a low temperature reading-125 degrees
Fahrenheit below zero. Reading of 85 degrees below zero is common in both the Arctic and Antarctica.Winter temperatures average 30 degrees below zero in the Arctic .At the South Pole the winter average is about 73 degrees below zero.
One thing alone makes it almost impossible for men to live in Antarctica and in parts of the Arctic .This one thing is the low temperature-the killing chill of far North and the polar South.
To survive,men must wear the warmest possible clothing. They must build windproof shelters .They must keep heaters going at all times.Not ever for a moment can they be unprotected against the below-zero temperatures.
Men have a way of providing for themselves.Polar explorers wrap themselves in warm coats and furs .The cold makes life difficult. But the explorers can stay alive.
What about animals?Can they survive?Do we find plants?Do we find life in the Arctic and in Antarctica?Yes,we do. There is life in the oceans.There is life on land.
Antarctica,as we have seen,is a cold place indeed.But this has not always been the case.
Expedition scientists have discovered that Antarctica has not always been a frozen continent. At one time the weather in Antarctica may have much like our own.
Explorers have discovered coal in Antarctica. This leads them to believe that Antarctica at one time was a land of swamps and forests.Heat and moisture must have kept the trees in the forests alive.
Despite the hostile environment,both animals and plants can be found in the oceans and on land in polar areas.
A: Right
B: Wrong
C: Not mentioned
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D: interview a South Korean official if they wanted to apply for work permits
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As part of the efforts to ease the discontent（不满）,the South Korean Ministry of Justice has granted a three-month grace period for current E-2 visa holders to prepare the necessary docu- ments.
It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that before the visa regulations were revised,foreign teachers have to______.
A: sign new contracts if they wanted to continue to work
B: go through any formalities if they wanted to stay a bit longer
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and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research(MCEER)headquartered at UB
traveled to ground zero as part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation.Visiting the site as
part of an MCEER reconnaissance visit,they spent two days beginning the task of formulating ideas about
how to design such structures arid to search for clues on how to do so in buildings that were damaged but still
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remains standing,but was badly damaged."This building is many meters away from the World Trade Center
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column became a missile that shot across the road,through the window arid through the floor."
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framing system in one of the adjacent buildings was quite rugged,allowing floors that were pierced by tons of
falling debris to remain intact. " Highly redundant ductile（有延展性的）framing systems may provide a sim-
pie,but robust strategy for blast resistance,"he added.Other strategies may include providing alternate paths
for gravity loads in the event that a load一bearing column fails."We also need a better understanding of the
mechanism of collapse,"said A.Whittaker."We need to find out what causes a building to collapse and how
you can predict it."
A.Reinhorn,Ph.D.noted that"Earthquake shaking has led to the collapse of many buildings in the
past.It induces dynamic response and extremely high stresses and deformations in structural components.So-
lutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may be directly applicable to blast engineering and
terrorist-resistant design.Part of our mission now at UB is to transfer these solutions and to develop new ones
where none exist at present."
A surprising discovery made by the investigators during their visit to ground zero is that________.
A:floors in the adjacent building remain undamaged
B:some floor framing systems demonstrate resistance to explosion
C:simple floor framing systems are more blast resistant
D:floors in one of the adjacent buildings were pierced by tons of debris
第一篇
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solve a question that a month ago would have been completely unthinkable:Can buildings be designed to
withstand catastrophic blasts inflicted by terrorists?
Ten days after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers,structural engineers from the University at Buffalo
and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research(MCEER)headquartered at UB
traveled to ground zero as part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation.Visiting the site as
part of an MCEER reconnaissance visit,they spent two days beginning the task of formulating ideas about
how to design such structures arid to search for clues on how to do so in buildings that were damaged but still
are standing.
"Our objective in visiting ground zero was to go and look at the buildings surrounding the World Trade
Center,those buildings that are still standing,but that sustained damage,"said M.Bruneau,Ph.D."Our im-
mediate hope is that we can develop a better understanding as to why those buildings remain standing,while
our long-term goal is to see whether earthquake engineering technologies can be married to existing technolo-
gies to achieve enhanced performance of buildings in the event of terrorist attacks,"he added.
Photographs taken by the investigators demonstrate in startling detail the monumental damage inflicteed
on the World Trade Center towers and buildings in the vicinity.One building a block away from the towers
remains standing,but was badly damaged."This building is many meters away from the World Trade Center
and yet we see a column there that used to be part of that building,"explained A.Whittaker,Ph.D."The
column became a missile that shot across the road,through the window arid through the floor."
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framing system in one of the adjacent buildings was quite rugged,allowing floors that were pierced by tons of
falling debris to remain intact. " Highly redundant ductile（有延展性的）framing systems may provide a sim-
pie,but robust strategy for blast resistance,"he added.Other strategies may include providing alternate paths
for gravity loads in the event that a load一bearing column fails."We also need a better understanding of the
mechanism of collapse,"said A.Whittaker."We need to find out what causes a building to collapse and how
you can predict it."
A.Reinhorn,Ph.D.noted that"Earthquake shaking has led to the collapse of many buildings in the
past.It induces dynamic response and extremely high stresses and deformations in structural components.So-
lutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may be directly applicable to blast engineering and
terrorist-resistant design.Part of our mission now at UB is to transfer these solutions and to develop new ones
where none exist at present."
A surprising discovery made by the investigators during their visit to ground zero is that________.
A:floors in the adjacent building remain undamaged
B:some floor framing systems demonstrate resistance to explosion
C:simple floor framing systems are more blast resistant
D:floors in one of the adjacent buildings were pierced by tons of debris