The January fashion show, called Future Fashion, exemplified how far green design has come. Organized by the New York-based nonprofit Earth Pledge, the show inspired many top designers to work with long-lasting fabrics（織物） for the first time. Several have since made promise to include organic fabrics in their lines.

The designers who undertake green fashion still face many challenges. Scott Hahn, co-founder with Gregory of Rogan and Loomstate, which uses all-organic cotton, says high-quality long-lasting materials can still be tough to find. “Most designers with existing labels are finding there aren’t comparable fabrics that can just replace what you’re doing and what your customers are used to,” he says. For example, organic cotton and non-organic cotton are virtually indistinguishable once woven into a dress. But some popular synthetics, like stretch nylon, still have few eco-friendly equals.

Those who do make the switch are finding they have more support. Last year the influential trade show Designers & Agents stopped charging its participation fee for young green entrepreneurs (企業(yè)家) who attend its two springtime shows in Los Angeles and New York and gave special recognition to designers whose collections are at least 25% sustainable. It now counts more than 50 green designers, up from fewer than a dozen two years ago. This week Wal-Mart is set to announce a major initiative aimed at helping cotton farmers go organic: it will buy transitional (過渡型的) cotton at higher prices, thus helping to expand the supply of a key sustainable material. “Mainstream is about to occur,” says Hahn.

Some analysts (分析師) flare less sure. Among consumers, only 18% are even aware that eco-fashion exists, up from 6% four years ago. Natalie Hormilla, a fashion writer, is an example of the unconverted consumer. When asked if she owned any sustainable clothes, she replied: “Not that I’m aware of.” Like most consumers, she finds little time to shop, and when she does, she’s on the hunt for “cute stuff that isn’t too expensive.” By her own admission, green just isn’t yet on her mind. But—thanks to the combined efforts of designers, retailers and suppliers—one day it will be.

1. What is said about Future Fashion?

A. It inspired many leading designers to start going green.

  B. It showed that designers using organic fabrics would go far.

  C. It served as an example of how fashion shows should be organized.

  D. It convinced the public that fashionable clothes should be made durable.

2. According to Scott Hahn, one big challenge to designers who will go organic is that ____.

A. much more time is needed to finish a dress using sustainable materials

B. they have to create new brands for clothes made of organic materials

C. customers have difficulty telling organic from non-organic materials

D. quality organic replacements for synthetics are not readily available

3. We learn from the Paragraph that designers who undertake green fashion ____.

A. can attend various trade shows free

B. are readily recognized by the fashion world

C. can buy organic cotton at favorable prices

D. are gaining more and more support

4. What is Natalie Hormilla’s attitude toward eco-fashion?

A. She doesn’t seem to care about it.    B. She doesn’t think it is sustainable.

C. She is doubtful of its practical value.  D. She is very much opposed to the idea.

5. What does the author think of green fashion?

A. Green products will soon go mainstream.  B. It has a very promising future.

C. Consumers have the final say.      D. It will appeal more to young people.

【小題1】A

【小題2】D

【小題3】D

【小題4】A

【小題5】B

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“I had an app that had pre-downloaded all this information about treating wounds. So I  looked up excessive bleeding and I looked up compound fracture(斷裂),” Woolley told CNN.

The application on his iPhone is filled with information about first aid and CPR from the American Heart Association. “So I knew I wasn’t making mistakes, ” Woolley said. “That gave me confidence to treat my wounds properly.”

Trapped in the ruins of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, he used his shirt to bandage his leg, and tied his belt around the wound. To stop the bleeding on his head, he firmly pressed a sock to it. Concerned he might have been experiencing shock, Woolley used the app to look up what to do. It warned him not to sleep. So he set his phone alarm to go off every 20 minutes.

Once the battery got down to less than 20 percent of its power, Woolley turned it off. By then, he says, he had trained his body not to sleep for long periods, drifting off only to wake up within minutes.

With his injuries tended to, he wrote a note to his family in his journal: “I was in a big accident, an earthquake. Don’t be upset at God. He always provides for his children even in hard times. I’m still praying that God will get me out, but he may not. But even so he will always take care of you.”

After more than 60 hours, Woolley was pulled from the rubble.

“Those guys are rescue heroes,” he said to the crew that pulled him out.

Which of the following best summarizes the passage?

A. How to deal with the wound.

B. Try to get in touch with outside.

C. How to stay awake under the ground.

D. An unforgettable experience in the earthquake.

Woolley set his phone alarm to go off every 20 minutes because_____.

A. he tried his best to communicate with rescuers

B. he was forced to stay awake to check his wounds

C. he was afraid that sleep might do harm to him

D. he needed to use the app to look up what to do

The underlined sentence suggests that_________.

A. he turned off his iPhone to save power    B. the battery of his IPhone lasted long

C. he didn’t want his iPhone to disturb him   D. his iPhone went off because of lack of power

What Woolley wrote his journal showed _______.

   A. he expected his family to lend a hand     B. he didn’t lose heart in hard times

   C. he cared more for his family than his life   D. his children made him upset

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THIS was the year the Earth struck back.
Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, snow storms, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter of a million people in 2010 – the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined.
"It just seemed like it was back-to-back and it came in waves," said Craig Fugate, who heads the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. It handled a record number of disasters in 2010.
And we have ourselves to blame most of the time, scientists and disaster experts say.
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Climate scientists say Earth's climate also is changing, bringing extreme weather, such as heat waves and flooding.
In the summer, one weather system caused oppressive heat in Russia, while farther south it caused flooding in Pakistan that inundated 161,200 square kilometers, about the size of Wisconsin. That single heat-and-storm system killed almost 17,000 people, more people than all the worldwide airplane crashes in the past 15 years.
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A．Natrual disasters.B．Terrorist attacks.
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【小題2】According to Andreas Schraft,             .
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B．earthquakes are causing more damage because of human beings
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D．Port—au—Prince is now overpopulated
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B．give the details of some natural disasters of 2010
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C．a(chǎn)ffect the shopsD．find the shops
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A．January SalesB．Sales in London at Christmas
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B. pulling an all­nighter leads to sleep problems

C. Thacher's doubt about all­nighters

D. all­nighters influence students' grades

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A. one can think more clearly

B. one has his/her best memory

C. one can't learn efficiently

D. one's brain falls into a period of deep sleep

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A. Thacher's study is not convincing enough.

B. He believes in Thacher's study.

C. Thacher's study makes no sense.

D. Thacher should take exceptions into consideration.

 

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