Fresh green grass. Hundreds of colorful wild flowers. Water running into little pools. Birds making their homes in boxes. The 9, 500-square-metre Augustenborg Botanical Garden may look just like any other well-organized park but there's a difference. It lies on the roofs (屋顶) of industrial and office buildings in the city of Malmo in Sweden.

Green roofs are not a new invention. And now they are getting popular again. The common roofs of a modem city have endless black surfaces with no life or water. Perhaps that's why a garden on a roof becomes such a perfect choice for more and more people.

Green roofs are not just pretty. They also help to moderate the city temperature. The high temperatures on common roofs in the summer can make top floor flats uncomfortably hot. What is more, they play a part in making the cities hotter than the countryside around them, causing the "urban heat-island effect". On a green roof, however, with its plants and water, temperatures change only a little, as they do in a park. This can greatly cut the costs of heating and cooling in the building below.

Also, a green roof takes in rain water, and protects the city drainage(排水) system. ________. And small animals and birds can make their homes on it. Thanks to this, the city may become part of nature, rather than something completely separate from it.

While the cost of building such a roof can still be higher, it can be cheaper in the long term as a result of energy savings. And wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to walk out into a garden high above the city's noise and traffic, whether you're at school or in an office or just at home in a ten-floor block.

1.The underlined word "moderate" in Paragraph 3 is the closest in meaning to "________".

A.raise B.control C.record D.check

2.Which of the following is the best sentence to fill in the blank in Paragraph 4?

A.A green roof is alive B.A green roof stops pollution

C.A common roof is noisy D.A common roof increases the cost

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.The Augustenborg Botanical Garden is the same as any other well-organized park.

B.Green roofs are now getting popular though they are a new invention.

C.It is worth building green roofs because it costs little.

D.Green roofs can help cut the costs of heating and cooling in the building below.

4.The purpose of the passage is to ________.

A.discover the problems with green roofs B.introduce the change of green roofs

C.describe the advantages of green roofs D.show the amazing beauty of green roofs

One of my favourite books is That Guy Was Cool. It's a wonderful book for children, I think. But parents and teachers love it, too. It can teach them something about the language of today's children.

So lots of people, young and old, wan to know about tho book’s writer, a Korean girl Guiyeoni.

"This book is near to us and goes to our hearts., When I read it, I laughed and cried." said Liang Zi, a girl from Jiangsu.

The book tell an unusual story of love between two students, The girl is sweet, but she's very common, The boy is good— looking and has everything, but he is often unhappy because his father died when the boy was very young, They become close and help each other to be happy. In the end, they fall in love.

“The girl in the book is like me. She's simple." said Guiyeoni.

Guiyeoni's book doesn't only use words. It also uses things like emotions. Emotions are small icons(符号), like smiling faces, and she uses them to show emotions. Children know what these things mean, because they often use them when they talk on the Internet or send messages with mobile phones.

1.Guiyeoni is ________.

A.a girl who falls in love with her classmate B.a young sister

C.the writer of That Guy Was Cool. D.one of the emotions

2.Which of the following may not be an emotion?

A.8— ) B.:— ( C.See you D.:(

3.Guiyeoni is a(n) ________girl.

A.simple B.outgoing C.friendly D.short and fat

4.Guiyeoni uses emotions to write the book because ________.

A.she really likes them B.she can't draw pictures

C.pictures can say lots of things  D.young readers are interested in them

5.Which of the following is true?

A.Teachers don't like That Guy Was Cool.

B.That Guy Wag Cool is near to students and goes to their heats.

C.Guiyeoni doesn't like emotions very much.

D.The boy in the book loves the girl because she looked nice.

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