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题源 The Guardian 卫报 ( Saturday issue , December 17, 2022) 有删减
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TREASURES OF TRANSYLVANIA(Romania)
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1. Which country can be visited at any time of year?
A. Portugal
B. Costa Rica
C. Egypt
D. Romania
2. Which tour do you prefer if you want to be clo with nature?
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B. CENTRAL AMERICA'S GARDEN OF EDEN
C. THE 600-MILE NILE
D. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DOURO
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B. ￡1395
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D. ￡4695
B
Insulate Britain stopped traffic with their sit-down protests and小偷家族 caud chaos on motorways. Wearing orange jackets, the campaigners sat on the road and unfolded banners that read INSULATE BRITAIN(隔绝不列颠). Others handed out leaflets to motorists explaining the group’s demand: that the government fund the insulation of all social housing by 2025, and that it t out a “legally binding national plan” for a low energ
y and low carbon retrofit（翻新）of all homes in Britain by 2030.
The activists may have felt calm, but the reaction was anything but. One video clip posted online that day shows a driver in Hertfordshire shouting, “Get out of the fucking way!” as he tries to drag a protester off the road. The protesters apologized for the inconvenience but explained that it was important they stayed put. By the end of the day, more than 78 protesters had been arrested. This t off two months of rolling road shutdowns, scores of arrests and near-blanket media coverage, during which Insulate Britain was deemed the most hated protest group in Britain. Comment pieces argued that Insulate Britain was wrong to target ordinary people.
Long before the cost of living crisis and the war in Ukraine brought our energy system to its knees, Insulate Britain was making the point that home insulation was something the government could quickly act on. This could not be more urgent; Britain has some of the least energy-efficient homes in Europe and around a quarter of people in the UK say they cannot afford to heat their homes at all this winter.
Insulate Britain’s protests formally stopped on 4 November, when 62 protesters blocked the roads around parliament. To members of Insulate Britain, this proved their point: the only way to get attention was to cau rious disruption. Holding placards and signing petitions was not going to cut it.
It was on 17 November, that chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced £6 bn funding for home insulation. For Insulate Britain’s campaigners, it was something of a vindication. “We wouldn’t be expressing the energy crisis through a lens of insulation had we not been out there on the streets,” Ford, a campaigner says. But there is still a n of frustration: the funding 烂脚丫pales in comparison with oil company profits. “It’s just wholly inadequate,” Ford says. “Time and again politicians demonstrate that they fail to grasp the verity of the situation.”
1. 最难的7字绕口令Why did the campaigners conduct INSULATE BRITAIN protests?
A. To demand a yearly salary ri
B. To urge the government funds for the收到红包的感谢语 home insulation
C. To cry for a light traffic on motorways
D. To demand a retrofit 鸭的英文of their homes
2. Why was Insulate Britain considered the most hated protest group in Britain?
A. It always dragged drivers off the road
B. It led more than 78 protesters to be arrested.
C. It targeted ordinary people and caud the inconvenience
D. It resulted in near-blanket media coverage
3. Which of the following is correct according to the passage?
A. Insulate Britain insisted that the home insulation was the most urgent
B. The protests formally stopped on 17 November
C. Insulate Britain proved that holding placards and signing petitions were effective.
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D. Over a half of people in the UK cannot afford heating their homes
