Why do we like drinking water from plastic bottles? Some people think it is healthy and clean. Others drink bottled water because it’s easy — you can carry it around with you. In hot countries, like Greece, we often buy bottles of cold water in the summer.

However, making lots of plastic is not a good idea for many reasons. First of all, we need a lot of oil for plastic products. We usually use oil as a source(资源) of energy. If we reduced the number of bottles we made, we wouldn’t need so much oil. Plastic bottles also pollute the environment. If we recycled all our plastic bottles, we wouldn’t need so much space for rubbish dumps. But in Greece, we don’t recycle much of the plastic we use. In 2006, Greeks recycled only about 10% of plastic waste. The rest became rubbish on land and in rivers and sees.

So next time you want to throw away a plastic bottle in the litter bin, stop and think. If you recycled it, you would help the environment. But what can you do when there isn’t a recycling bin near you? Well, there are loes of useful ways that you can use your bottles again. For example, an empty bottle makes a great piggy bank for your pocket money, and if you cut a bottle in half, you will have a plant pot. Go green! You can make a difference.

1. What is not mentioned about bottled water in this passage?

A. It’s healthy.          B. It’s clean.                     C. It’s easy.                      D. It’s expensive.

2. Plastic products are made from         .

A. energy                  B. oil                           C. rubbish                 D. plants

3.          of plastic waste became rubbish in Greece in 2006.

A. 10%                       B. 50%                        C. 80%                       D. 90%

4. Which is the best way to deal with used plastic bottles?

A. To recycle them.                                     B. To make a piggy bank.

C. To make a plant pot.                                           D. To drop them into the river.

5. The underlined part in this passage tells us “        ”.

A. To make a different life, you’d better go outside.

B. To look different, you’d better wear green clothes.

C. To protect the environment, you can do something.

D. To go green, you should use plastic products.

阅读理解

阅读下面A、B两篇短文，根据短文内容，从短文后面每小题所给的四个选项中选择最佳答案。

Emily and Alex were happy when their family moved to a house with a very big garden. They could climb up trees, grow flowers and even play badminton. They liked to watch the birds flying among the trees in the garden. They even started to put food out to attract more birds.

Everything was fine for a few days until one afternoon there was a strange bumping noise on a window. Emily went outside and found a small bird dead on the grass. Its neck seemed to be broken.

“It must have flown into the window,” Alex said when his sister Emily called him to have a look. “Ah, yes, look here. You can see the mark where it hit the window. There are a couple of tiny feathers stuck(粘贴) on the window.”

“Poor thing!” Emily said.

During the next month, five more birds died in the same way. “Why would they fly to the windows?” they wondered. Finally they found out the truth. When the birds were flying, they couldn’t see into the rooms. All they saw was the reflection(反射) of the garden. They thought that they were flying into trees because they saw trees reflected by the window.

“Something has to be done to save the birds.” the parents decided.

At first, he family tried keeping curtains（窗帘）across the windows, but this made the room dark. Then they bought some strong black paper and cut out the shape of a hawk. They made six hawks – one for each window. They stuck the hawks to the windows. They looked pretty and did not keep out much light. When the birds saw the hawks, they would fly away.

After that, there were no more dead birds. The family were much happier.

1. They put food out to attract birds because they         .

A. had a special garden for birds

B. wanted to see more birds flying in the garden

C. had too much bird food to feed the birds

D. wanted to catch some birds in the garden

2.          birds died in the garden.

A. 4                            B. 5                            C. 6                            D. 7

3. The birds flew to the windows because they         .

A. found the windows very clean

B. fought for more food

C. thought there were more trees ahead

D. wanted to go into the room

4. The underlined word “hawk” means         .

A. 鹰                           B. 丛林                       C.山脉                        D.燕子

5. The story is mainly about         .

A. why the birds died in the garden                B. the family were good at paper-cutting

C. the family had a very big new house               D. how the family saved the birds in the garden

 Alice, do you know          tomorrow?

A. what will we do                                      B. when we will start

C. where they went                                   D. how will they go there

There          a great concert in the theater next Saturday evening.

A. will be            B. will have               C. has          D. is going to have

 —Alan! Why are you so late?

—Sorry! When I          home, I met one of my old friends.

A. went              B. am walking          C. has gone       D. was walking

 You didn’t know          I wanted to see you. It’s a year since I last saw you.

A. how often             B. how long              C. how much           D. how far

—When will Diana arrive?

—Oh, she         . She is in the meeting room now.

A. arrives            B. is arriving               C. arrived           D. has arrived

 —Tom! I looked for you everywhere at the party last night.

—Oh, I          to the party.

A. am invited            B. was invited    C. am not invited    D. wasn’t invited

 Why not look up the new word in a dictionary          you don’t know it?

A. if              B. that         C. though          D. whether

Can you hear someone          in the classroom? It is Mary.

A. sing          B. sings         C. singing          D. sang