Passage One Whenever I hear a weather report declaring it’s the hottest June 10 on record or whatever, I can’t take it too seriously, because "ever" really means "as long as the records go hack," which is only as far as the late 1800s. Scientists have other ways of measuring temperatures before that, though — not for individual dates, but they can tell the average temperature of a given year by such proxy measurements as growth marks in corals, deposits in ocean and lake sediments, and cores drilled into glacial ice. They can even use drawings of glaciers as there were hundreds of years ago compared with today. And in the most comprehensive compilation of such data to date, says a new report from the National Research Council, it looks pretty certain that the last few decades have been hotter than any comparable period in the last 400 years. That’s a blow to those who claim the current warm spell is just part of the natural up and down of average temperatures — a frequent assertion of the global-warming-doubters crowd. The report was triggered by doubts about past-climate claims made last year by climatologist Michael Mann, of the University of Virginia (he’s the creator of the "hockey stick" graph A1 Gore used in "An Inconvenient Truth" to dramatize the rise in carbon dioxide in recent years). Mann claimed that the recent warming was unprecedented in the past thousand years — that led Congress to order up an assessment by the prestigious Research Council. Their conclusion was that a thousand years was reasonable, but not overwhelmingly supported by the data. But the past 400 was — so resoundingly that it fully supports the claim that today’s temperatures are unnaturally warm, just as global warming theory has been predicting for a hundred years. And if there’s any doubt about whether these proxy measurements are really legitimate, the NRC scientists compared them with actual temperature data from the most recent century, when real thermometers were in widespread use. The match was more or less right on. In the past nearly two decades since TIME first put global warming on the cover, then, the argument against it has gone from "it isn’t happening" to "it’s happening, but it’s natural," to "it’s mostly natural" — and now, it seems, that assertion too is going to have to drop away. Indeed, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, the New York Republican who chairs the House Science Committee and who asked for the report declared that it did nothing to support the notion of a controversy over global warming science — a controversy that opponents keep insisting is alive. Whether President Bush will finally take serious action to deal with the warming, however, is a much less settled question. What is "proxy measurement" in Paragraph 1 likely to refer to
A. Studying the characteristics of glaciers.
B. Measuring the growth signs of aquatic organism.
C. Taking advantage of previous pictures.
D. Using clues left from the past.
甲公司与乙公司在某市吉庆三路合建了一栋10层的写字楼,双方签订了如下协议:“该写字楼属于甲、乙双方共同所有,但以甲的名义办理登记,第1—5层由甲使用,第6~10层由乙使用。任何一方不得将该楼抵押,否则该楼全部权益即转归另一方所有。”该楼前面有一学校丁,为提升写字楼价值,甲、乙公司与丁学校达成如下协议:丁在10年内不得在学校内兴建10层以上的建筑,甲、乙公司一次性支付100万作为补偿。协议签订后,双方到登记部门办理了地役权登记手续(以甲公司的名义)。后甲、乙公司分别将该写字楼租给5家公司作为办公场所,并签订了5年的租赁合同。两年后,甲公司因资金困难,向丙银行贷款3000万元,甲丙双方签订了抵押合同,约定以该写字楼作为抵押物,甲丙到登记机关办理相关的抵押登记手续。随后不久甲公司又与何某签订房屋买卖合同一份,将该房屋卖给何某(何某不知道甲乙公司之间的约定),随后,何某领取了该房的产权证。何某准备将此楼房作为开办宾馆之用,要求5家公司一个月之内搬离。乙公司得知该情况后,将甲公司诉至法院。不久,甲到期无力偿还银行借款本息,丙要求对该写字楼行使抵押权,但遭到何某的拒绝。而此时,丁学校招生规模持续扩大,为改善教学条件,丁学校拟在校内建造一座15层的高楼。 [问题] 1.丙对该写字楼是否享有抵押权为什么 2.乙是否已经取得该楼的所有权为什么 3.本案中谁是地役权人为什么 4.甲公司转让该写字楼的行为是否有效为什么 5.假如甲公司与何某的买卖合同是合法有效的,何某能否取得该楼的所有权为什么 6.何某能否有权解除租赁合同为什么 7.何某是否有权禁止丁在校内建造一座15层的高楼
Passage One Whenever I hear a weather report declaring it’s the hottest June 10 on record or whatever, I can’t take it too seriously, because "ever" really means "as long as the records go hack," which is only as far as the late 1800s. Scientists have other ways of measuring temperatures before that, though — not for individual dates, but they can tell the average temperature of a given year by such proxy measurements as growth marks in corals, deposits in ocean and lake sediments, and cores drilled into glacial ice. They can even use drawings of glaciers as there were hundreds of years ago compared with today. And in the most comprehensive compilation of such data to date, says a new report from the National Research Council, it looks pretty certain that the last few decades have been hotter than any comparable period in the last 400 years. That’s a blow to those who claim the current warm spell is just part of the natural up and down of average temperatures — a frequent assertion of the global-warming-doubters crowd. The report was triggered by doubts about past-climate claims made last year by climatologist Michael Mann, of the University of Virginia (he’s the creator of the "hockey stick" graph A1 Gore used in "An Inconvenient Truth" to dramatize the rise in carbon dioxide in recent years). Mann claimed that the recent warming was unprecedented in the past thousand years — that led Congress to order up an assessment by the prestigious Research Council. Their conclusion was that a thousand years was reasonable, but not overwhelmingly supported by the data. But the past 400 was — so resoundingly that it fully supports the claim that today’s temperatures are unnaturally warm, just as global warming theory has been predicting for a hundred years. And if there’s any doubt about whether these proxy measurements are really legitimate, the NRC scientists compared them with actual temperature data from the most recent century, when real thermometers were in widespread use. The match was more or less right on. In the past nearly two decades since TIME first put global warming on the cover, then, the argument against it has gone from "it isn’t happening" to "it’s happening, but it’s natural," to "it’s mostly natural" — and now, it seems, that assertion too is going to have to drop away. Indeed, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, the New York Republican who chairs the House Science Committee and who asked for the report declared that it did nothing to support the notion of a controversy over global warming science — a controversy that opponents keep insisting is alive. Whether President Bush will finally take serious action to deal with the warming, however, is a much less settled question. What does the report from NRC indicate
A. The earth will become warmer.
B. It is somewhat suspicious of Michael Mann’s assertion.
C. The earth reaches the highest temperature in the history.
D. The proxy measurements are reliable.
[听力原文]W: How are you getting on with your experimentM: In spite of my continuous failure, I have already made some progress. What can we learn about the man’s experiment()
A. It is going on well.
B. It has not progressed smoothly.
C. It will soon be finished.
D. It may have to be stoppe