If gathering dead wood is permitted, go on a firewood-hunting journey and bring in a good supply of wood for your campsite, pile the wood safely away from the campfire ring and where no one will trip over the wood or hurt his or her legs on sharp branches.
Being a responsible camper requires that you follow the rules of the campground. Do not burn food or plastic in your campfire. Make sure that you leave your campsite in good condition for the next campers. Just before leaving the site, make a final check to be certain that your campfire is completely out. Pour water on the ashes just to be safe!
26. As is suggested by the aurhor, you should practice setting up your tent ______. A. before the weather turns bad B. before your first camping up C. after having selected your campsite D. once you have decided where to go
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27. What is the first thing you should do after choosing a campsite? A. Gather firewood.
B. Spread a tarp on the ground. C. Set up the tent.
D. Remove sticks and rocks from the tent area.
28. You can gather firewood only ______. A. after you are sure that it is permitted B. after you are certain that no one will get hurt
C. if there is no camp store nearby
D. if firewood is out of stock in a camp store 29. The last thing you should do before leaving your campsite is ______. A. burn all the trash B. clean the campsite C. pour water on the ashes D. collect all the rubbish
30. The passage is mainly about ______.
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A. safety measures a camper should take B. problems you may face as a camper C. what you need to know about camping D. what you need to bring along for camping Passage Four
Every country has secret services to help protect it against serious threats from terrorists, major criminals or even from other countries. People who threaten to harm a country always plot in secret, so the intelligence agencies have to work in secret to find out what is being planned before it happens, so that it can be prevented. They do that in many different ways – by secretly listening to their targets talking on the phone, by planting microphongs to overhear meetings, by watching the targets as they move from place to place and by recruiting some of the targets to act as double agents to report on what is going on.
For most of my career I worked in one of the
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UK’s three intelligence services, MIS, the domestic security service. I first joined in the 1970s, in the middle of the Gold War, when the war was divided into two armed camps, the Soviet Union(苏联) and its allies on the one side and Western Europe, America and their allies on the other. The Gold War never became a fighting war. It was an intelligence war, with intelligence officers from both sides trying to find out what the other side was doing, what kind of weapons they had, when and if they might start a war and what their plans were. Both sides were secretly working in each other’s countries.
Nowadays one of the biggest threats to the world, comes from terrorists. Intelligence officers from many differenct countries are working together to find out who they are., where they are and what they are planning. Today’s MIS officers get their intelligence in
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much the same way as we did during the Gold War, but their task is even more difficult and urgent because most terrorists want to kill people. Many terrorist attacks that are planned and prepared never happen, and we never know anything about them because the intelligence services find them out and prevent them. 31. What is the first paragraph mainly about? A. The tasks of intelligence agencies. B. The contributions of intelligence agencies. C. The equipment used by intelligence agents. D. The recruitment of intelligence agents. 32. The biggest security threats for Britain in the 1970s were from ______. A. international terrorists B. the Soviet Union and its allies C. major criminals within the country D. agents working for both camps 33. What is true about the Gold War? A. Both camps were planning to start a war.
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