英国政府采取燃油新政，对于使用柴油汽车者征收10磅空气污染税。而十年前，英国政府鼓励人们购买柴油汽车，一方面可以提高燃油功率，另一方面也有利于保护环境。而如今，上千万司机不得不选择汽油。否则，将会面临经济处罚。政府忽左忽右的做法让人们感觉受到了欺骗和误导。

自2013年9月以来，9/11事件中的受害者中发现罹患癌症的人数出现成倍增长。这些受害者因为吸入有毒粉尘，多年之后发生病变，常见的是皮肤癌，甲状腺癌，胰腺癌。尽管这些受害者得到了客观的补偿金，但是他们却饱受病痛的折磨。

苹果公司在日前的新产品发布会上透露，将于今年秋季发布“苹果6”。为解决用户的安全快捷支付，尤其是提高用户在实体店的支付效率，苹果公司将推出存储用户指纹信息的“移动钱包iWallet”，与“苹果6”一起上市。

    7月11日，印度著名电影演员，老寿星Zohra Sehgal因心脏病去世，享年102岁。社会名流纷纷表示哀悼。Zohra于20世纪40年代从艺，在话剧表演方面有很高的造诣。1962年到英国进修影视剧表演，并出演了多部英国电影。她于20世纪90年代回到印度，甚至在95岁高龄还出演角色。曾荣获Padma Vibhushan。

研究表明，两千多年前，亚马逊地区还是一片茫茫草原。但是湿润的气候使该地区逐渐丛林化。哥伦布航行大西洋成功，欧洲人进入亚马逊流域，从欧洲带来的疾病使很多土著居民死于非命。而农耕的弱化在一定程度上加快了热带森林的生长。

巴西世界杯合作伙伴Ray Whelan因为涉嫌参与倒卖门票被捕。警方已经将一个十一人的跨国黄牛团伙捣毁，缴获的东西包括现金、电脑、门票、手机和一些文件。这个团伙已经参与了连续四届世界杯的倒票活动，仅一场比赛就能牟利90万美元。

毕业季到来之际，英国的出国热开始升温，70%的毕业生都有选择到国外发展的意向，寻找更好的就业机会。多数人表示，他们到国外发展是中长期的。人们担心，这种潜在的人才流失不利于本来就不景气的英国经济的恢复。

EYour teenage son looks like a grown man. He’s inches taller than his father, and his voice has turned deep. But his behavior is another matter. He makes hasty decisions, drives cars too fast and tends to make his parents annoyed.That’s because his brain is developing more slowly than the rest of his body. Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health and UCLA conducted a decade-long study of normal brain development. They found that the frontal lobe, the area responsible for understanding future consequences, making wise decisions and controlling impulses（冲动）, has not become mature （成熟的）until the early 20s.Immature brains have fast-growing synapses（突触） and sections that remain unconnected. As a result, they’re easily influenced by the environment and susceptible to unexpected behavior.This may explain the puzzling contradiction of adolescence. Teens are at their physical prime. Yet their death rates rise sharply. Study shows that rates of death by injury for people between the ages of 15 and 19 are six times those seen in kids ages 10 to 14. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports that teens are four times more likely than older drivers to be involved in a car crash and three times more likely to die in one. Adolescents also are more susceptible to the effects of drugs and alcohol. Rates of drug and alcohol abuse are high when compared with other age groups. Frances Jensen and David Urion, doctors at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, discovered that adult brain cells recovered more quickly from alcohol exposure than younger brain cells. Jensen said in Harvard Magazine: “For a teenager, what he drank on the weekend is still with him during that test on Thursday.”The implications for parents are clear. Teens aren’t making trouble on purpose. They desire independence, but they are still tender. They’re still forming into the adults they’ll eventually be. And, of course, they won’t be this age forever. Finally, they will grow up and become rational and wise adults.

第一部分  情景对话 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项多余选项。—  1  We’re doing a survey on books and reading. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?—   2  —What are you reading at the moment?—An online newspaper.—  3 —Every day more orless.—So, what kind of books do you like to read?—Biographies, historicalnovels, travel books... that sort of thing.—And last question, when do you read?—Well, I often read the newspaper in my coffee break at work.   4 —OK. That’s great.Thanks a lot.—  5  A. Sometimes I read a book before going to sleep.B. Excuse me, Sir.C. My pleasure.D. Sure, go ahead.E. No, thanks.F. It doesn’t matter.G. And how often do you read?

DForget humane removal. Scientists studying the giant Burmese pythons（蟒蛇） that invaded Florida have discovered the snakes can find their way home even when taken up to 20 miles away.The snakes homing ability is "previously undocumented for any snake species," said Shannon Pittman, a scientist at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C.Researchers at Davidson and the U.S. Geological Survey caught six Burmese pythons in Florida and placed radio transmitters（发射器） in them. They then took them 13 to 20 miles away and released them. The snakes immediately headed back, taking "direct and striking" routes, instead of moving randomly across the wetlands, said Kristen Hart, a research ecologist with the USGS in Gainesville, Fla. It took the snakes 94 to 296 days to return but eventually they navigated to within 3 miles of their original capture locations in Everglades National Park. No one knew Burmese pythons were capable of homing. Researchers don't know how the snakes do it. It could be by sight or smell or even the Earth's magnetic field.The research shows that moving the snakes won't work as a control strategy. "You can't move them. Quite honestly, they're going to move back to where they came from," Hart said.Burmese pythons are one of the world's largest snakes. They are hard to spot in the grass even when tracked with transmitters. Native to southern Asia, the snakes began to appear in south Florida in the late 1990s, probably released by pet owners. They have since colonized hundreds of square miles in southern Florida, including most of Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve.While more than 2,000 Burmese pythons have been removed from the area since 2002, the National Park Service estimates that represents only a small part of the total population. "There are records of snakes up nearly to Lake Okeechobee," said Michael Dorcas, a biology professor at Davidson College. "Most scientists agree that they are likely well north of Alligator Alley now."The snakes are devastating invaders, eating a wide variety of animals including deer and even crocodiles. "They're eating through the food chain," Hart said.