Complaints about noise reasonable or not - are at record levels in country areas. Environmental health officers say this is partly because of an increase in noisy activity. However, a significant number of complaints come from newcomers to the countryside.

　　There are many sources of rural noise._______________(3) Mechanised grain driers, usually switched on for three weeks in September, can produce a maddening low-frequency hum. Mike Roberts, chief environmental health officer at Vale of White Horse, said noise often sounded worse in the countryside than in cities. With less background sound, unwelcome noises can seem louder and travel further.

　　The oddest complaints, however, are the ones council officials can do nothing about. Vale of White Horse officials have been asked to silence not only nesting rooks. Pigeons and pheasants (雉鸡) have also caused concern, In Kent, council officials have been asked to silence baby lambs._______________(4) Another insisted he could hear an alien spaceship landing over the garden fence.

　　"We get regular complaints. They usually come from retired people who have just moved into the country. We send them a polite letter."

　　And the lady who complained about the rooks? She was politely told she would have to put up with it. "　(5)" said Mr Roberts. "In the end, she accepted there was nothing much she could do - except move out." It is not recorded who won, the lady or the rooks.

　　A　Mr Stead said they were only doing what comes naturally.

　　B　We asked her what we were supposed to do, shoot the birds, or chop the trees down?

　　C　They have heard every kind of complaint.

　　D　One man rang to say he was kept awake by the splashing of a fountain in the garden next door.

　　E　The council will ask the farmer to move it.

　　F　Farm machinery is a common cause.
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　　Margaret Sanger and Birth Control

　　Margaret Sanger, an American nurse, was the first to start the modern birth control movement in the United States. In 1912 she (1) publishing information about women's reproductive (生殖的) concerns through articles and books. In 1914 Sanger was charged (2) violation of, the Comstock Law, which federal legislation had passed in 1873 forbidding the mailing of sexy material (3) information about birth control and contraceptive (避孕的) devices. Though she was put in jail for these activities, Sanger (4) to publish and spread information about birth control. She and her sister Ethel Byrne opened the first of several birth control clinics in America on October 16, 1916, in Brooklyn, New York.

　　The Comstock Law was rewritten by Congress in 1936 to (5) birth control information and devices. Many states had laws forbidding distribution or use of contraceptive devices but the constitutionality (合宪性) of these laws was increasingly (6). In 1965, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that married people have the right to practice birth control without government intervention. In 1972, the court (7) that unmarried people have the same right.

　　Today there are more birth control options (8), but overpopulation and unwanted pregnancies remain worldwide (9). Having more children than one can support may lead (10) poverty, illness, and high death rates for babies, children, and women.

　　The problem of teenage pregnancy is (11) worse in the United States (12) in almost any other developed country. Studies show that birth rates for women under 20 are higher in the United States than in 29 other (13) countries. A detailed study suggested that the problem of teenage pregnancy in the United States may be (14) to less sex education in schools and lower availability (可获性) of contraceptive services and supplies to young people. This study (15) the view of people in the United States who argue that sex education or making contraceptive supplies available to school-age children promotes sexual activity.

　　1　A offered B refused C began D took

　　2　A with B of C for D to

　　3　A denying B including C linking D understanding

　　4　A stopped B started C kept D continued

　　5　A include B spread C forbid D exclude

　　6　A questioned B accepted C confirmed D favored

　　7　A permitted B knew C held D suspected

　　8　A than never before B than before ever

　　C than ever before D than before never

　　9　A problems B beliefs C gossips D doubts

　　10 A on B at C to D by

　　11 A more B adequately C enough D considerably

　　12 A as B than C for D over

　　13 A developed B developing C poor D acceptable

　　14 A concerned B popular C loyal D related

　　15 A regards B suggests C counters D supports

参考答案

　　01. A02. B03. B04. D05. A

　　06. C07. D08. D09. D10. D

　　11. A12. C13. B14. B15. A

　　16. B　 17. A　 18. A　 19. C　 20. A

　　21. B　 22. C

　　23. C　 24. F　 25. A　 26. D　 27. C

　　28. B　 29. F　 30. D

　　31. B　 32. A　 33. B　 34. D　 35. B

　　36. B 37. D 38. C 39. D　 40. D

　　41. B　 42. D　 43. A　 44. D　 45.A

　　46. C　 47. A　 48. F　 49. D　 50. B

　　51. C　 52. A　 53. B　 54. D　 55. D

　　56. A　 57. C　 58. C　 59. A　 60. C

　　61. D　 62. B　 63. A　 64. D　 65. C