Women's fashions(时装)change more quickly than men's. In the early 1990s, all women wore their skirts to the ankle (踝). Today some women wore even longer than before, but some are very short. Women's shoes have also gone through all sorts(类别)of changes in the last ninety-five years. For example, boots for women were very common at the beginning of the century. Then for years, they were not thought fashionable. Today they are back again in all colours, lengths(长度). and materials(布料).

  In fact today's women can wear all types of clothes in any occasion(场合). While all of these changes were taking place in women's fashions, men's clothing remained(保留)almost the same as it was a few years ago. And in fact, most men are still dressed in the kinds of clothes they used to wear.

(1)Today women like to wear __________ skirts.

[  ]

Ashort

Bneither long nor short

Clong

Dboth long and short

(2)Boots are thought _________ now.

[  ]

Aunfashionable

Bfashionable

Cfit for girls most

Duncommon

(3)When today's women attend the party, they wear __________.

[  ]

Ared long boots

Blong shirts and short boots

Cskirts down to the ankle

Dany types of clothes they like

(4)Men's fashions ___________.

[  ]

Aremain unchanged

Bchange as women's fashions do

Chave also changed

Dchange any types of clothes

(5)The passage tries to tell us __________.

[  ]

Awomen's shoes are back again in all colours, lengths, etc.

Bboots for women have been thought fashionable since 1900

Cwomen's fashions for clothes, shoes and so on always change

Dtoday men are dressed in the kinds of clothes they used to wear

The world’s population has reached 7 billion(十亿)according to the United Nations(联合国)by 2011. It comes just 12 years since the total reached 6 billion - with official estimates saying the population will top 8 billion in 2025 and 10 billion before the end of the century.
And it is most likely that the 10-billionth baby will be born in the Asia-Pacific region - where the population growth rate is higher than anywhere else in the world.
Of the 2.3 billion people, the United Nations believes will be added by 2050, more than 1 billion will live in sub-Saharan Africa. The Indian subcontinent(次大陆)will add some 630 million people.

With more people to feed, more houses & medical care to provide, experts say the world’s resources(资源)will face more strain than before.
【小题1】According to the picture, the population of the world reached 6 billion in ________.
A. 1987                     B. 1999                     C. 2011
【小题2】We know that more than 1 billion will live in  _______ by 2050.
A. sub-Saharan Africa
B. Indian subcontinent
C. the United States
【小题3】According to the picture, _______ will have the largest population in 2050.
A. China                        B. India                        C. Nigeria
【小题4】The underlined word “strain” in the last paragraph(段落)means “_________”.
A. 破坏                     B. 关闭                     C. 压力
【小题5】The population of the world grows ________ according to the picture.
A. slower and slower
B. faster and faster
C. smaller and smaller

In the 13th century, the famous Indian traveller, Marco Polo, travelled a long way to China. He saw many wonderful things. One of the things he discovered was that 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 2,000 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 have 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 when we are making notes. We can also use cotton handkerchiefs(手帕) and paper ones. When we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the shop assistant does give us a paper bag, we can save it and refuse(拒绝)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.

1.When he was in China, Marco Polo __________ .

   A. discovered Cai Lun invented paper         B. learned to make paper

   C. saw many wonderful things             D. read a lot of books

2. People in western countries first used paper money in the _________ century.

   A. 17th               B. 15th          C. 13th              D. 7th

3. About ________ tons of paper are thrown away every day in our city.

   A. 1,700         B. 2,000            C. 2,800            D. 48,000

4. Which of the following is the way of saving paper?

A. To use both sides of every piece of paper.  

B. To use the paper bags from shops more than once.

C. To use cotton handkerchiefs and paper ones.  D. All of the above.

5.Which is the best title(题目) of the passage?

A. Saving paper.                      B. The history of paper.

C. Cotton handkerchiefs back again.      D. Cai Lun, the great inventor.

 

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