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Rebecca is a wildlife camerawoman from the UK. She was filming a documentary (纪录片) for the BBC in the Pacific Ocean when she saw something that made her ________: hundreds of dead birds. They died because they accidentally ate some of the ________ that is thrown into the sea each year. The beaches on the Pacific islands should have been some of the most ________ places in the world. But they were covered with plastic bottles, pens--every plastic thing you can think of. Because of this, the ________ were becoming dirtier and dirtier.

Plastic bags were used everywhere in Britain. Britain used nearly 17 billion plastic bags each year. And the ________ can take hundreds of years to break down. Each year, the sea and the environment became more and more ________.

Rebecca decided she had to do something. In her hometown Modbury, she asked local shopkeepers if they could do something to help. She asked them to ________ using plastic bags in their shops.

To Rebecca’s surprise, the shopkeepers ________ and Modbury became the first plastic bag-free town in Britain.________, shoppers offered reusable bags. Other towns followed Mobury’s example and more________ around Britain, such as London, Cambridge are becoming plastic bag-free.

Now the “bag for life” is part of the national culture. And since October 2015, all shoppers must pay money for each plastic bag, no matter how much their spending is! It’s not enough, but it’s a start.

1.A.move B.cry C.smile D.dream

2.A.corn B.rice C.plastic D.rubber

3.A.beautiful B.changeable C.difficult D.boring

4.A.crops B.scissors C.windows D.beaches

5.A.mails B.bowls C.dishes D.bags

6.A.polluted B.enjoyable C.relaxing D.magical

7.A.continue B.stop C.consider D.remember

8.A.refused B.explained C.agreed D.separated

9.A.Instead B.However C.Unluckily D.Anyway

10.A.villages B.towns C.cities D.countries

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For many people the subject of hiccups (嗝) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different.

His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week, Harry's parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure his attack.

Harry, who is now back at school, described what happened to him.

“When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn't do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn't work either.”

After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of his chest but they couldn't find anything wrong.

“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”

Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.

1.Harry's hiccups lasted ____.

A.a week B.fourteen days

C.twenty-eight days D.one month

2.His hiccups started after he ____.

A.drank a glass of water B.went to hospital

C.ate an Indian meal D.finished his homework

3.His parents decided to take him to hospital when he ____.

A.hiccupped for four seconds

B.held his breath

C.hiccupped at night

D.couldn't stop hiccupping

4.His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor ____.

A.gave him some medicine

B.took an X-ray of his chest

C.gave him a shock

D.let him drink cold drinks

5.What does “shock” in this passage mean?

A.震惊 B.休克 C.喷嚏 D.哈欠

It is not always easy to discover yourself. From a young age, I had a strong sense of who I would become—but an accident changed everything.

To me, skating was more important than anything else in the world. Nothing else filled my heart with so much happiness. I spent 24 hours a week developing my skills. I had no social life or interests other than skating. But I got first place in nearly every competition.

Unluckily, during one competition last year, I fell and was badly hurt. The doctor told me that I couldn’t skate any more. The pain in my back was hard to bear and even basic daily tasks became difficult. My passion (激情) had been taken away. I lost heart and had no idea what I would become. After eight months of suffering, something had to change. Instead of sitting around and wasting my days, I began to work with local community service projects. By volunteering as a swimming teacher for kids, I got an idea of who I wanted to become. After a few months, I found a new interest. Little by little, I stepped out of the pain and rebuilt my confidence.

Sometimes, challenges (挑战) in life will get in our way. We can choose to stay behind or try to get past these challenges. My accident was a challenge that failed to stop me from reaching success.

1.At first the writer thought skating was the _________ in her life.

A.most important B.most painful C.least expensive D.least useful

2.The writer spent 24 hours a week _________.

A.getting past many challenges B.developing her skating skills

C.volunteering as a swimming teacher D.finishing some basic tasks

3.During one competition last year, the writer _________.

A.got the first place B.lost heart and confidence

C.fell and was badly hurt D.sat around and wasted time

4.The writer rebuilt her confidence by _________.

A.finding a new interest B.working with another coach

C.asking for help from others D.entering another competition

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