Tennis has been called a gentleman’ s sport. At first, tennis was a sport of only kings in France and England. It was played differently from today. In 1874, the first tennis club was opened. Since then, there have been more and more tennis clubs and games in many countries. 61Now tennis is one of the most popular games in the world.

There are three main kinds of courts depending on the materials used for the court surface: clay courts, hard courts and grass courts.

The clay court is the most common in Europe. The French Open is played on this kind of court.

The grass court is the traditional tennis court. The most famous tennis game, Wimbledon (England), is played on grass courts.

The U.S. Open and the Australian Open use hard courts. Hard courts can vary(变化)in speed, although they are faster than clay courts but not as fast as grass courts.

At tennis games, we find young boys or girls who rush into the court to collect balls during a game. They are called ball boys or girls. They are chosen from applicant(申请人),and then trained before the game begins.

62It is an honor for kids to be in a big game. They are often given a lot of free things, like clothes, caps, even shoes, and the most important is the chance to be near tennis stars. They will learn a lot from the stars. Many tennis stars were ball boys or girls when they were younger.

A.根据短文内容简要回答问题。

Which court is the fastest of the three kinds of courts?

(1)1.

What are ball boys and girls?

(2)2.

B.将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。

(3) 3.

(4)4.

C.请给短文拟一个适当的标题。

(5)5.

It is reported that some developed countries have shipped broken parts of computers to China. Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken computers, TVs and phones sent from Japan.

Things like these are called electronic waste, or e?waste. Dealing with them is not an easy job. Every time an old computer breaks down, it needs to be dealt with safely. What is worse, at present, broken computer parts are usually buried.It may be hundreds of years before they are really gone in the earth.

Many places in China are polluted by e?waste. Guiyu in Guangdong Province is one of them. This town is named as “the e?waste capital of the world”.It has to deal with 1.5 million kilograms of e?waste each year, from which it makes 75 million yuan. But it comes at a cost. Many of the poison in e?waste find their way int o the environment. An environmental group has found the air, the earth and the rivers in Guiyu badly polluted.

Luckily, the Chinese government wants the country to change the situation. This year, China passed a new environmental protection law. Computer companies like Lenovo and Dell will be asked to take back their old computers. Hopefully, the problem with e?waste will be solved in the near future.

1.The e?waste found in Hong Kong last month was from ________.

A. France B .Japan C.Germany

2.The underlined word “buried” probably means ________ in the passage.

A. 焚烧 B. 降解 C. 掩埋

3.The town of Guiyu in Guangdong Province ________.

A. is the e?capital of the world

B. has serious e?waste pollution

C. deals with e?waste safely

4.This year, the Chinese government ________.

A. closed some computer companies

B. asked people to hand in their old computers

C. made a new environment protection law

5.The passage is mainly about ________.

A. the e?waste problem in China

B. the cost of burning e?waste

C. the ways to deal with e?waste

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