You want to help the environment. You want to teach your children to protect the earth. You can do both easily by making family activities environmentally-friendly. Planning activities around the natural world can be fun, and educational for all members of the family.

Make recycling a part of everyday chores (家务活儿).

Even the youngest children can help with recycling chores. For instance, a preschooler can help an adult or older child sort recyclables. You can use the opportunity to teach the difference between glass, plastic, paper, and other materials.1.

2.

Many age-appropriate choices exist for environmentally-related school clubs. For example, an explorers club that learns about a new rainforest or desert each week works for preschool or kindergarten. Primary and middle school classes may enjoy a gardening or recycled craft(手工工艺) projects club.

Plan green vacation activities.

Include your green activities in your weekend vacations.3.The family can volunteer together, and then enjoy a picnic afterward. You can also take your children to a natural science museum nearby. While there, discuss environment and conservation with them.

Plant a garden together.

Work together and grow organic(有机的)produce.4.The website. Kids Gardening, provides getting started guidance and suggestions for parents to help their children get into gardening and other associated activities.

Craft with recyclables.

Teach children arts and crafts using recyclables. Children can turn toilet paper rolls, paper plates, glass bottles and many other recyclables into useful household things like pencil holders or desk organizers.5.

A. Help start a green club at your children's school

B. Arrange your beach trip on the beach clean-up day.

C. It’s also a good opportunity to teach colors and counting.

D. Use these five activities as starting points for a greener family life.

E. You’ll protect the earth, beautify your garden and cut your grocery bill.

F. Use bits of nature, like small stone or dry leaves for decorative projects.

G. Clubs promote friendships based on common interests and encourage fun learning.

When Jeanne Calment entered the world in 1875, telephones and automobiles still lay in the future. Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso were not yet born. The Eiffel Tower was 14 years from being built. As a teenager, she met Vincent Van Gogh, near her home in Arles, in the south of France. He was “very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick—I forgive him, they called him loco (精神失常的)”, she recalled. When she died last week at age 122, she was the world’s eldest person. (There are others who claimed to the title, but only Calment had the official documents to prove her age.)

Each February 21, her birthday, she would share the secrets of long life. Some years it was “a sense of humour”, others it was “keeping busy”. “God must have forgotten me,” she once explained. The truth probably was that her mother reportedly lived to be 86 and her father 94.

Her life had its sadness: she outlived her husband, her only daughter and her grandson. According to a friend, she was imperturbable. “If you can’t do anything about it,” she reportedly said, “don’t worry about it.”

In her last years she was nearly blind and deaf, but her health remained good. She ate a few bars of chocolate each week and continued smoking until a few years ago, when she could no longer light her own cigarettes. She never lost her sense of humour. On her 110th birthday, she commented, “I’ve only ever had one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it. “Her longevity made her famous; her spirit made her eternal (永恒的).

1.Why does the author mention Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and the Eiffel Tower?

A. To show that Calment had seen famous people and things.

B. To emphasize that Calment was born a long time ago.

C. To indicate that Calment is just as famous.

D. To admire the knowledge that Calment had.

2.The author believed that Calment’s longevity is mainly due to ______.

A. a sense of humor B. being kept busy

C. belief in God D. good genes

3.What is the meaning of the underlined sentences?

A. She paid much attention to the wrinkle.

B. She felt sad for the wrinkle.

C. She just put the wrinkle aside.

D. She sat down and some one helped her deal with the wrinkle.

17.For my brother and I,mowing(割草) yards during the summer is a good way to earn pocket change.Dad was our salesman.He traded our service to neighbors at a low price they could not refuse.My brother and I got 10peryard.However,Ilaterfoundoutourcompetitorswerecharging 20or more for the same amount of work.
One afternoon we were cutting our neighbor's yard.When I was finishing up,I was tired and sweaty.I pictured the tall glass of icy drink I would have to cool down soon.I was just about to cut off the lawn mower when I saw Dad pointing to one piece.I thought about the poor change I was getting paid for cutting grass so high that it almost broke the mower.I ignored him and kept walking.Dad called me out,"You missed a piece."
I frowned (皱眉),hoping he would let me slide and go home.He kept pointing.So angry,I went back to cut that piece of grass.I said to myself,"That one piece isn't hurting anyone.Why won't he just let it go?"
But when I became an adult,I understood his message:When you are running a business,the work you do says a great deal about you.If you want to be seen as a businessman with honesty,you must deliver a quality product.That single piece of grass meant the job was not done.
Other neighbors took notice of the good work we did and we soon got more business.We started out with one client(客户),but by the end of the summer we had five.
The lesson my dad taught me stayed with me:If you say you are going to perform a job at a certain time,keep your word.Give your customers the kind of service you would like to receive.It shows how sincere you are and how much pride you take in your work.

51.Which of the following statement is true?C
A.His father was not a good businessman.
B.His father charged more for his service.
C.His father's service was good but cheap.
D.His neighbors thought their service was poor.
52.When Dad asked the writer to go back,the writer feltD.
A.doubtful          B.surprised         C.terrified       D.annoyed
53.What did Dad teach the writer?A
A.To do your work as well as possible.
B.To earn as much money as possible.
C.To get as more business as possible.
D.To ask for a higher price for your good service.
54.The best title for the passage may beB.
A.The Memory of My Childhood       B.The Lesson from My Dad
C.The Yard of Our Neighbor         D.The Grass Cutting days.
18.[1]William Butler Yeats,a most famous Irish writer,was born in Dublin on June 13,1865.His childhood lacked the harmony (和睦) that was typical of a happy family.Later,Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered"little of childhood but its pain".In fact,he inherited (继承) excellent taste in art from his family-both his father and his brother were painters.But he finally settled on literature,particularly drama and poetry.
[2]Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements.He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s.His early theatrical experiments,however,were not received favorably at the beginning. He didn't lose heart,and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama.
[3]Compared with his dramatic works,Yeats's poems attract much admiring notice.The subject matter includes love,nature,history,time and aging.Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms,he brought modern sensibility to them.As his literary life progressed,his poetry grew finer and richer,which led him to worldwide recognition.
[4]He had not enjoyed a major public life since winning the Nobel Prize in 1923.Yet,he continued writing almost to the end of his life.______________,he would probably now be valued as a minor (不重要的) poet,for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who produces his greatest works between the ages of 50 and 75.After Yeats's Death in 1939,W.H.Auden wrote,among others,the following lines:
        Earth,receive an honored guest:
        William Yeats is laid to rest.
        Let the Irish vessel (船) lie
        Emptied of its poetry.
76.What does the first paragraph mainly tell us?(no more than 9 words )Brief introduction to his childhood.
77.Explain the underlined sentence in paragraph 2.( no more than 10 words)His theatrical ideas were not well received at first.
78.What does the underlined word"them"in paragraph 3 refer to?( no more than 3 words)traditional forms
79.Fill in the blanks in the last paragraph with proper words (no more than 10 words)Had Yeats stopped writing at age 58.
80.What can you learn from Yeats as a writer?(no more than 8 words)To succeed,we need faith,persistence..

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