In the 13th century, the famous Italian traveler, Marco Polo, traveled a long way to China. During his stay in China, he saw many wonderful things. One of the things he discovered was that the Chinese used paper money. In Western countries, people did not use paper money until the 15th century. However, people in China began to use paper money in the 7th century.
A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2000 years ago. He made it from wood. He took the wood from trees and made it into paper. He then put these pieces of paper together and made them into a book.
Now paper still comes from trees. We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth. If there are no trees, there will be no paper. Every day, people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting nearly 48,000 trees every day. Since it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow, we must start using less paper now. If we don’t, we will not give enough time to grow more trees to take the place of those we use for paper.
So how can we save paper? We can use both sides of every piece of paper, especially then we are making notes. We can choose drinks in bottles instead of those in paper packets. We can also use cotton handkerchief and not paper ones. When we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the shop assistant does give us a paper, we can save it and reuse it later.
Everyone can help to save paper. If we all think carefully, we can help protect trees. But we should do it now, before it is too late.
【小题1】 When he was in China, Marco Polo ________.

A.saw many wonderful things
B.read a lot of books
C.discovered Cai Lun invented paper
D.learned to make paper
【小题2】About ________ tons of paper are thrown away every day in our city.
A.48,000B.1,700C.2,000D.2,800
【小题3】Which of the following is NOT the way of saving paper?
A.To use cotton handkerchiefs instead of paper ones.
B.To grow more trees.
C.To use both sides of very piece of paper.
D.To use the paper bags from shops more than once.
【小题4】Which of the following is NOT true?
A.About 48,000 trees can be used to make 2,800 tons of paper.
B.If we keep on wasting paper, we will have no paper to use.
C.The Chinese used paper money much earlier than the people in western countries.
D.It is never too late to plant trees for paper.
【小题5】Which is the best title of the passages?
A.Cotton Handkerchiefs Back Again
B.Cai Lun, the Great Inventor
C.Saving Paper
D.The history of Paper

A young father was visiting an old neighbor. They were standing in the old man’s garden, and talking about children. The young man said,“How strict should parents be with their children?”
   The old man pointed to(指着)a string (细绳) between a big strong tree and a thin young one.
  “Please untie (解开) that string.” said the old man. “But first pull the string tight so that(以便于)the young tree is straight again.” The young man did so. He untied the string and only found that the young tree bent(弯)over to one side.
  Then the old man said,“There, it is the same with children. You must be strict with them. But sometimes you must untie the string to see how they are getting on. If they are not yet able to stand alone,you must tie the string tight again. But when you find that they are ready to stand alone,you can take the string away.”
【小题1】The story is about ____________.
      A. how to take care of young trees    
B. how strict parents should be with their children
C. how the young father should get on with his old neighbor
【小题2】 The young man untied the string ________________.
      A. in order to throw it away    
B. so that both of the trees wouldn’t grow straight
      C. and found that the young tree bent over to one side
【小题3】When could the string be taken away?
      A. When the old man left.     
B. When the young man untied it next time.
     C. When the young tree grew strong enough.
【小题4】 At last the old man told the young man ________________.
      A. that he should be strict with his children if they could not 
stand alone
      B. that he should always be strict with his children
      C. that he should be hard on his children
【小题5】We learn that the big strong tree and the thin young one are like _________.
A. the young father and the old neighbor     
B. parents and their children
       C. the old neighbor and the children of young father

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