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15、t-looking but wholly impractical cane chairs,and once,while interview.ing the actress Jenny Seagrove,snapped the stnngs of ahammock-type chair in her garden.It is not eas;y to get your interviewee to takeyou seriously after your vasr bulk has beerL plunged suddenly on to theirmanicured lawn.l.The be
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22、miracle material(and a joint Nobel Prize in Physics in 20i0).Now,of course,the race is on to put graphene to use.Even the more soberpredictions read like science fiction.From cheap desalination filters to solve theworlds creeping water crisis,to next-generation electronics with foldabletouch-screens
23、 and ultra-speedy biodegradable pr,rcessors,to super-strong butsuper-lightweight cars and airplanes,if just a fraction of graphenes potential isfulfilled it will change the world.And that is wir:hout even considering eitherthe biomedical or the military possibilities.Nor are researchers hanging back
24、;in2012 alone,some 10,000 papers were published orL the subject.Britain may be the birthplace of graphene,but we will still have to workhard to hang on to our global lead as scientists and enffepreneurs across theworld dash for competitive advantage.The good news is that real efforts arebeing made t
25、o bridge the long-standing gap benveen university research andcommercial products that so often leaves the UK lagging behind,for example,the US.The Government has given more than f 60m,and graphene researchcenters are under construction in both Manchester rlnd Cambridge.But there are already signs o
26、f progress.-esterday,Applied GrapheneMaterials-a spin-off from Durham Univer:sity-became the secondmanufacfurer of the material to list successfully on the stock market this year.Both its founders ambitions and investors belief in them are wholly iustified.Graphenes potential is limited only by our
27、imaginittions.5.The article is written mainly toA.urge Britons to hold the lead in grapheneB.introduce the new material graphene to readr:rsC.inform readers of the limitless potentials of grapheneD.report the construction of UKs graphene res;earch centres6.Which is NOT a property of graphene accordi
28、ng to the passage?A.It is the thinnest and strongest substance.B.It is a superb conductor of gas.C.It is one of the most stretchable materials.D.It is a special kind of carbon.J.It can be inferred that the past graphene research in the UK wasA.put to dash for competitive advantageB.far ahead of the
29、U.S.in marketingC.turned into a lot of science fictionD.isolated in universitv experiment labs英语联考试卷第3页(共12页)8,There are good reasons forinvestors to beiieve in the founders ambitionsfor graphene becauseA.human imaginations can go as far as they ctrnB,there is no gap between research and produr:tsC.
30、the stock market in the UK is successfulD.the new material has huse room for orofitQuestions 9-12 are based on the following passage:it has long been recognized that the immigrarLt generation often arrives in aneu land as pioneers with dreams of making a better life for themselves as wellas for thei
31、r children.The objectives of f,rrst generation are relatively clear:get ajob,earn money,learn a new language.rf possibie offer an education to thechildren.and in general improve their lot in life.Family reunification is anotherpowerful motive driving many nerv arrivals.Sorne new immigrants.perhapsmo
32、re than the current anti-immigration lobby may realize,often wish eventuallyto return home to settle there once financial considerations allow it.The obvious difficulties that most migrants face include languageinadequacies,a general unfamiliarity with the customs and expectations of thenew country(
33、what anthropoiogists refer to as cuhural discontinurties).limitedeconomic opportunities,poor housing conditions.discrimination,xenophobia,and what psychologists teffn the stresses of acculturation.Despite these obstacles.in man)/cases immisrants experience their lot asbeing better than it was in their country of ongin.Because of a perception ofrelative material improvement.many migrants may fail t
