Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.

The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.

Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.

But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But is also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.

There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realise just how much unnecessary material are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.

1. What does the underlined phrase “over-consumption” refer to?

A. Using too much packaging.

B. Recycling too many wastes.

C. Making more products than necessary.

D. Having more material than is needed.

2. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show _______.

A. the tendency of cutting household waste

B. the increase of packaging recycling

C. the rapid growth of super markets

D. the fact of packaging overuse

3. According to the text, recycling ______.

   A. helps control the greenhouse effect

   B. means burning packaging for energy

   C. is the solution to gas shortage

   D. leads to a waste of land

4. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?

   A. Unpackaged products are of bad quality.

   B. Supermarkets care more about packaging.

   C. It is improper to judge quality by packaging.

   D. Other products are better packaged than food.

5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

   A. Fighting wastefulness is difficult.

   B. Needless material is mostly recycled.

   C. People like collecting recyclable waste.

   D. The author is proud of their consumer culture.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Once, there lived a young short monk in a temple on top of a hill, caring for his vegetable garden. He had one daily task of carryingtwo   1   of water up the hill from a cold stream. Rain or shine, he never     2   a day carrying water up the mountain to the temple. One day, a thin and tall    3   monk passed the temple and the young monk invited him to     4   . Since they would share the water, they went down the mountain together to fetch water. But the carrying pole is only     5   enough for one bucket. The two monks were unable to     6    the shared load on their carrying pole without shaking the contents of the two buckets all over the short monk. They     7  to retain（保留） only a small     8   of water that the young monk would have carried on his own, not mentioning to    9   the garden. When the young monk began to see his guest as     10  , the other monk began to see his host as unreasonable. Then a     11   monk came. The     12   of the third monk urged everyone to expect that someone else would take on the chore. As a result, no one fetched water though everybody was     13   . One night, a rat jumped and knocked the candleholder（烛台）, leading to a devastating(毁坏性的)    14    in the temple. The three monks finally united together to put out the fire. Since then they understood the old saying "unity is strength" and begin to live a     15       life. The temple never lacks water again.

4.A. help        B stay.             C. live             D. carry

5.A. short       B. straight         C long.             D. strong

完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该将涂黑。

It was the night of the full moon,a time which always drives Java’s young people mad with excitement.

Fireworks were lit long before the moon_  36 .The big noise brought people out   37   

the warm night to enjoy the interesting scene.Everywhere,there were the paper remains of   38   

fireworks lying on the ground.Little boys 39__more and covered their ears as they waited    40     

for the explosions.

The moon appeared above the horizon(地平线):huge,   41   ball high above the city,and the 42__filled with people,as Java began to enjoy one of the year’s greatest     43    :‘the Night of the Full Moon’,a festival(节日)that is especially popular   44  young people.

More and more young Javanese  45 together and walked slowly through the  46  . Joking and chatting,they moved towards the mountain   47  the city.They continued to climb   48  they reached the old temple(寺庙)at the   49  of the mountain.

After they were   50  the temple,they drank their water and ate their moon-cakes—delicious home-made ones,   51  of dried fruit and nuts.Outside,on the mountain,young people

    52  cross-legged in circles,chatting and telling each other jokes.And   53  ,in their hundreds,more young people continued to make their way up the mountain to   54  the brightly shining moon.

By midnight,the fireworks had stopped shooting up from the   55  city in the valley below them.But during the night,the sound continued to be heard from the distance.

36.A.let out                  B.gave out                    C.came out                   D.set out

37.A.into                      B.at                             C.of                             D.from

38.A.burning                B.used                          C.exploding                  D.broken

39.A.lit                        B.bought                      C.piled                         D.removed

40.A.patiently               B.calmly                     C.worriedly                  D.excitedly

41.A.silver                   B.new                          C.colorful                     D.gold

42.A.mountains             B.valleys                      C.streets                       D.shops

43.A.games                  B.meetings                   C.sports                        D.events

44.A.for                       B.to                             C.with                          D.in

45.A.danced                 B.gathered                    C.drank                        D.shouted

46.A.village                  B.scene                        C.night                         D.ground

47.A.on the edge of                                                 B.on the way to

C.in the center of                                             D.in the direction of

48.A.while                   B.until                         C.unless                       D.though

49.A.tip                       B.back                         C.top                           D.bottom

50.A.inside                   B.near                          C.off                            D.across

51.A.fond                     B.little                         C.full                           D.free

52.A.jumped                 B.sat                            C.stood                        D.bent

53.A.so                        B.even                         C.yet                            D.still

54.A.follow                  B.show                         C.notice                       D.admire

55.A.clean                    B.gray                          C.peaceful                    D.empty

Most tourist destinations around China are witnessing travel peaks during the eight-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays that run through Sunday. In Beijing, the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, attracted 182, 000 tourists on Tuesday, the biggest number on a single day, as millions of visitors arrived in the national capital. “We saw absolutely nothing but people’s heads,’’ said Guo Zhijun, 42, of Henan province. “We wanted our 11-year-old son to learn something from the trip, but we only ended up very tired. ”

Earlier, from Sunday noon to midday Monday, garbage collected at Tian’anmen Square in the heart of the city amounted to 7.9 tons, a quarter more than that in the same period of last year.

In the eastern coastal city of Qingdao, its top five major tourist sites attracted more than 200, 000 visitors on Tuesday.

Yesterday, thousands of cars jammed two 20-kilometer mountain roads winding to and out of the Lushan Mountain scenic area in the eastern province of Jiangxi. The area, with about 3, 000 car parking spaces, was unable to contain at least 8, 000 inbound cars, said head of the Lushan Mountain public security bureau.

The Lushan Mountain tourism administration temporarily stopped selling entrance tickets to prevent the traffic from growing on Tuesday afternoon. Similar measures could be taken during the rest of the holidays, a police officer said.

Emergency measures have been taken at other scenic sites. Crowded visitors overwhelmed the capacity（承载量）of the cable cars at Huashan Mountain, in Shaanxi province, leaving tens of thousands stuck at the peak late into Tuesday night. According to China Central Television, restless visitors demanded refunds from the tourism committee, and a lot of visitors had to give up and walk down the mountain.

Chen Li, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department, said on his micro blog that more than 300 policemen and government officials climbed up the mountain to help trapped visitors. Fearing that tourist sites might become too crowded, many people are staying at home, going shopping or making short suburban trips. A resident Mr. Wang in Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi, canceled long-distance travel plans after learning of heavy traffic on many highways during the first two days of the holidays. Instead, Wang, his wife and son went fishing in the suburbs before having a picnic.

1.What happened in the Forbidden City that Tuesday?

A．There were far more visitors coming than expected.

B．A large number of zones were opened to the visitors.

C．Over 7.9 tons of garbage was collected.

D．More than 200, 000 visitors gathered there.

2.What does the underlined word “overwhelmed” mean in paragraph 6?

A．showed up        B．added to          C．reached beyond    D．filled in

3.The writer wrote this article to________________.

A．advise traveling to different places to learn something

B．warn people not to climb those mountains on holidays

C．encourage people to change the travel plans according to the traffic

D．suggest we stay at home or go shopping during those holidays

4.Which of the following might be the best title?

A．Experiences from Different Travel Plans

B．Travel Peaks in China's Tourist Sites

C．Floods of People to the Forbidden City

D．Problems with Travelling on Holiday

In Yemen, you always see one type of vehicle on the road: the water truck.They travel mountain roads and cross deserts to bring Yemenis the goods more valuable than oil.It is one that only the rich can afford, with the supply regularly being cut off.Others must rely on scarce rain or charity to  fight thirst.

Experts say Yemen is going to be the first country in the world to run out of water.The capital, Sanaa, will run out of drinking water as early as 2025，says a report by the World Bank.

Hannan, an 18­year­old from Lahej, said that only the rich could prepare for cuts in supply.“In a good week we’ll have a water supply all week but then the following week there will be water only for a day or two, ” she said.

She and her husband, a factory worker, pay 3,000 riyals (99 yuan) for a week’s supply of water from a touring water truck when the taps run dry.With an income of only 20,000 riyals (660 yuan) a month，this means the family often spend half their money on water.

“There are a lot of people who can’t afford it and they have to rely on their neighbors to help，” she said.

The average person in Yemen survives on one­fifth of what the World Health Organization considers to be enough water.

In Taiz, in the south，tap water is available only once every 45 days.In the mountainous Malhan district in the north，women and children climb a 1,500­m mountain to collect water from a spring, often in the small hours to avoid long queues.

Yemen is located in Southwest Asia，bordering the Arabian and Red Sea.Yemeni people have lived on scarce water supplies for thousands of years but that problem has been made serious by conflict in the area，the fast­growing population and the use of water to grow a drug called qat.With one of the world’s highest rates of population growth—3.46 percent, Yemen is the poorest Arab country.

The government is considering desalinating (淡化) seawater，but this would be expensive and it may now be too late.The only other solution is to cut down on farming, but that means importing even more food.

1.The passage aims to________.

A．analyze the reasons why Yemen lacks water

B．suggest some solutions to the water issue in Yemen

C．present how serious the water problem is in Yemen

D．encourage the world to help Yemenis who are suffering from water shortages

2.When Hannan said that only the rich could prepare for cuts in supply，she meant that________.

A．rich people drank more water than the poor

B．rich people could buy water from the water trucks if there was a water supply cut

C．she had a rich neighbor who often helped her during water supply cuts

D．the rich were not affected by water supply cuts

3.Which of the following may be a reason why Yemen is short of water?

A．The country has had no rain for a long time.

B．The population of Yemen is growing fast.

C．The government has failed to reduce farming.

D．People can’t afford the water from government water trucks.

4.The best title for the passage is “________”．

A．Never take water for granted

B．The water truck—the commonest sight in Yemen

C．The first country to run out of water in the world

D．No water for Yemen