江西省抚州市20xx-20xx学年高二英语下学期期中试题

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and something else, The Kenya Tea Development Authority supervises(治理 ) Kenya’ s 66 tea factories. Makomboki is the only one that does not use firewood in tea production. The factory is deep in central Kenya’ s hilly and fertile teagrowing Muranga County. The employees feed the factory’ s boilers with briquettes of plants and rice husks— the dry outer covering of the seeds — mixed with sawdust(锯屑 ). John Gitau, manager at the factory, expressed excitement about their change in fuels. They haven’ t used a single cubic meter of firewood in the last six months. In 2020, the International Trade Center started a training project. It aimed to teach Kenyan tea makers new production methods to help limit the release of climate change gases. Since then, Makomboki Company has increased its use of optional fuels and stopped depending on firewood. Taylors of Harrogate is a Makomboki customer. The British tea and coffee pany helped the Kenyan factory change fuels. It connected Makomboki with the Living Earth Foundation. The nongovernmental group donated the machines to make the briquettes. The husks for the briquettes e from other factories within Muranga and Kiambu counties. The sawdust es from factories near the tea factory. John Gitau said it takes the factory six months to produce about million kilograms of tea. During that time, their boilers would use up to 10,000 cubic meters of wood— or about 30,000 trees worth. Furthermore, the factory used to spend $542,000 a year on firewood. Now, the introduction of briquettes has cut the energy bill to $295,600. John Gitau said representatives from other factories have visited Malomboli to learn more about the optional fuel. He hopes more factories will follow his pany’ s lead in 2020. 28. Malomboki use optional fuels mainly for ________. A. economic benefits B. quality of the products C. the foreign assistance D. environmental protection 29. Malomboki Company might not have changed its fuel if_______. A. it hadn’ t enough money for it B. Taylors hadn’ t helped it C. Harrogate hadn’ t offered it machines D. it were not located in Muranga county 30. What do the factories mentioned in Para. 3 probably do? A. They have fuel processing B. They have rice processing C. They have wood processing D. They carry out tea production 31. Which of the following is NOT true? A. There are only 66 tea factories in Kenya and they are all environmentally friendly factories B. Now Makomboki has saved 246,000 dollars on energy a year C. John thinks highly of the briquettes as an environmentally friendly fuel in tea production D. Makomboki is a tea factory that doesn’ t use firewood to produce tea D According to , a website about video marketing, there are more than 2 million cat videos on YouTube. People have watched these videos more than 25 billion times, which equates to an average of 12,000 views per cat video. I couldn’ t help but wonder: Who is so drawn to this type of content? And what effects do catrelated media have on viewers? These questions encouraged my initial search to gather data on the Inter cat phenomenon. I scoured academic databases to see what the literature could tell me but found no existing data about why people watched so many cat videos online or what effects these videos might have on us. So I decided to find out myself. My neighborhood Inter celebrity feline(猫 )— the adorable Lil Bub, who happens to also live in Bloomington, Indiana— shared the link on her website after I launched an online survey. With Bub’ s help, the survey quickly got nearly 7,000 respondents. The results from this study suggested that certain people are more likely than others to view large amounts of Inter cat videos. It also showed that cat videos can positively influence the emotions of viewers. According to my study, if you currently own or have previously owned a cat, of if you’ ve volunteered to assist pets in the past years, you’ re more likely to watch cat videos. Cat video viewers also spent more time online than other participants, tended to be more agreeable and shy, and felt they had adequate emotional support in their lives. The data also revealed information about the nature of audience interactions with online cat media. Threequarters of respondents did not actively seek out cat content. Instead, they happened upon it in the course of their daily Inter use, Still, online cat videos aren’ t all about passive consumption. Many people also produce their own catrelated med。