人们一向认为，电动汽车更为环保，将是21世纪的新宠，但是研究证明，如果用煤发电，将严重污染大气，电动汽车其实不如汽油做燃料的汽车环保。

在肯尼亚，因为干旱，牧民不得不放弃游牧生活，而转为农民生活。尽管，牧民在当地人眼中是较为尊敬的职业，但越来越多的人还是成了农民。

随着中国的日益强大，越来越多的外国人开始学习汉语，但汉语要超过世界第一语言英语，还有一段很长的路要走。

野生大象攻击喀麦隆村庄，破坏农民的庄稼、攻击当地居民、甚至还杀死了几个人。当地村民对攻击他们的大象进行猎杀，而为了保护种群，野生动物组织呼吁禁止伤害大象。

    威尼斯城决定于2015年5月起实施一项被认为古怪的旅游新规：即禁止游客使用滑轮行李箱，违者将罚款500欧元。成群结队的游客一起在石桥上拖动滑轮行李箱，噪音很大，当地居民常常被吵醒。市政厅颁布这项新规是为了减少噪音污染给水城带来的影响。

      研究发现，流言对于人们的自尊来说有积极意义。积极的小道消息让人们意识到社会竞争的激烈，有利于他们促进自身发展和提高，而消极的流言则让他们对这个糟糕的社会环境警醒，增加他们的自我保护意识以免成为流言的受害者。

 “聪明人”调查中心通过研究发现，苹果直板电脑已经成为6至12岁的孩子们的最爱，已经超过了他们对迪士尼乐园，麦当劳快餐的喜爱。平板直板电脑为孩子们提供游戏，电子书，电视节目，视频，作业等，成为他们童年生活中的必备品牌。

白宫特勤处处长皮尔森因为最近白宫安保方面连续出现失误宣布辞职。9月15日，冈萨雷斯翻越门廊进入白宫，如入无人之境。奥巴马总统访问亚特兰大时，一位有前科的保安人员竟携带枪支与总统一同乘坐电梯。这一连串的失误说明特勤处内部管理的混乱。陷入舆论漩涡的皮尔森不得不做出辞职的决定。

为表彰为中国经济及社会做出贡献的外国友人，中国在北京人民大会堂给外国友人授予“友好奖”。

【语篇解读】本文属于报告类说明文，介绍了国际非营利组织ORBIS给盲人所做的帮助和贡献，进而来宣传ORBIS，且呼吁人们为ORBIS捐款来帮助更多的盲人。       Close your eyes foe a minutes and imagine what life would be like of you had a hundred dollars less. Also imagine what it would be like spending the rest of your life with you eyes closed. Imagine having to read this page, not with your eyes but with your finger-tips.With existing medical knowledge and skills, two-thirds of the world’s 42 million blind should not have to suffer. Unfortunately, rich countries posses most of this knowledge, while developing countries do not.ORBIS is an international non-profit organization which operates the world’s only flying teaching eye hospital. ORBIS intends to help fight blindness worldwide. Inside a DC-8 aircraft, there is a fully-equipped teaching hospital with television studio and classroom. Doctors are taught the latest techniques of bringing sight back to people there. Project ORBIS also aims at promoting peaceful cooperation(合作) among countries.       ORBIS tries to help developing countries by providing training during three-week medical programs. ORBIS has taught sight-saving techniques to over 35,000 doctors and nurses, who continue to cure tens of thousands of blind people every year. ORBIS has conducted 17 plane programs is Chinaso far. For the seven to ten million blind in China ORBIS is planning to do more for them. At the moment an ORBIS is working on a long-term plan to develop a training center and to provide eye care service toShanxiProvince. ORBIS needs your help to continue their work and free people from blindness.       For just US $38,you can help one person see; for $380 you can bring sight to 10 people; $1,300 helps teach a doctor new skills; and for $13,000 you can provide a training programme for a group of doctors who can make thousands of blind people see again. Your money can open their eyes to the world. Please help ORBIS improve the quality of life for so many people less fortunate than ourselves.