Learning about the environment is very important. There are many good books that will help you learn. To get started, ask your teacher or your friends for some advice. You can also look at some good websites with information about the environment and climate change. Climate change may be a big problem, but there are many little things we can do to make a difference.

Driving a car or using electricity is not wrong. We just have to be smart about it. Some people use less energy by sharing a car. For example, four people can ride together in one car instead of driving four cars to work. Whenever we use electricity, we put greenhouse gases into the air. By turning off the lights, the television, and the computer when they aren’t needed, you can help a lot.

Don’t buy products (产品) that use too much energy. Some products, like certain cars, are made specially to save energy. These cars can travel longer on less gasoline (汽油). They don’t pollute as much, either. Products like computers, TVs and VCRs with the ENERGY STAR label (标签) are made to save energy. Buying products with these labels will help protect the environment.

    Buy recyclable (可循环再用的) products instead of non-recyclable ones. Recyclable products are usually made out of things that have already been used. It usually takes less energy to make recyclable products than to make new ones. So when you go shopping, look for the recycle mark on the package. The less energy we use, the better.

1.The passage is mainly about ________________.

A. some suggestions about cars

B. an advertisement

C. the changes to the climate

D. the ways to protect the environment

2.From the passage, we can learn that ________________.

A. turning off the electricity when it isn’t needed can do good to the environment

B. electricity won’t cause great trouble to our environment

C. cars using less energy will not put greenhouse gases into the air

D. recyclable products are marked with the ENERGY STAR label

 

D

Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people even try to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people sometimes have their names recorded(记录)in the Guinness Book of Records.

Often it takes a group of people to do something unusual. One such team paddled(用桨划)a bathtub(浴缸)145 kilometers for 24 hours. This group had 13 members. They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28 and 29. 1983. A month later, a racing team of hospital bed pushers in Avon, Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes! However, the distance(距离)record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Bruntsfield Bedding Center. This team from Edinburgh pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometers in 1979. It took the team 35 days to cover the distance.

Another group of record makers held the highest dinner party in the world. Nine people from Sydney,Australia, climbed Mountain Huascaran on June 28, 1989. The climbers carried a dinner table. chairs, and a meal up the mountain. When they reached the top, they all put on warm suits for dinner.

People all over the world are trying hard to do something unusual to make a record. It should be understood, however, that now not all the records will be kept in the Guinness Book of Records.

1. According to the passage, what record was made near Ashford in May, 1983?

A.A record for paddling a bathtub.

B.A record for climbing a mountain.

C.A record for pushing a hospital bed

D.A record for swimming across a river.

2.The word cover in the passage means _______.

A.start             B.go through         C.keep             D.know

3.What was unusual about the highest dinner party held by the nine people in the passage?

A.The people who held the dinner party all came from Sydney.

B.Only nine people held the highest dinner party.

C.They had a meal on the mountain.

D.They carried a dinner table and chairs up the mountain to hold the dinner party.

4.Which of the following shows the right order(顺序)of what happened in the passage?

a. A group of 13 members paddled a bathtub on a river near Ashford.

b. A team from Edinburgh made a distance record for hospital bed pushing.

c. A group of nine people from Sydney had a dinner party on the top of Mountain Huascaran.

d. A racing team pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes in Avon.

A.a-b-c-d           B.d-b-c-a            C.a-d-b-c           D.b-a-d-c

5. Which of the following is mentioned(提及)in the passage?

A.Hospital bed pushing was a popular sport in Edinburgh.

B.People living in Ashford usually used a bathtub to carry things.

C.Two different records for hospital bed pushing were given.

D.Hospital bed pushing was held twice a year in Avon, Great Britain.

 

用所给动词的适当形式填空。(10分)

When Jane was a little girl, she liked 1.__ (keep) pets. She had many books about animals and there were many pictures and stamps on the walls of her bedroom. She often said that she ___2.__(work) in a zoo when she grew up.

Most of Jane’s pets were quite small— parrots, cats, dogs and so on. But one day she met something quite big.

That afternoon, Jane’s mother was surprised _3.___ (see) a big animal with long hair in the kitchen. He _4.____ (wear) a T-shirt and sitting on a chair, trying to put on a pair of glasses and making faces at her. In front of him, on the table, were a basket of fruits and a glass of wa­ter. “Jane, where are you?” the mother shouted. Then suddenly she __5.______(remember) that a few days before a young gorilla(大猩猩)_6.__ (call) Gor had run away from the zoo.

“I found him in the city square,” Jane said. “He seemed so lonely. I talked to him. We became friends at once and he followed me home.”

“Well, you know you can’t (keep) him,” her moth­er said. “He must _7.__(send) back to the zoo. You’d better_8.____ (phone) the police.”

Soon a policeman came and also a truck from the zoo. Nobody was angry with Jane when she told her story. The policeman knew Jane loved animals. And the zoo-keeper said, “Thank you for your kindness. I can see Gor _9.___ (like) you, but we need him back.” Jane agreed. She hugged Gor and said that she would go and see him at weekends. These days Jane _10.___(stop) collecting animals. But you can still find her with her friend Gor at the zoo on Saturdays and Sundays!

 

任务型阅读。
    Abraham Lincoln said. "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother!" (a)Mothers not only give
us lives and spend their lives taking care of us
, they also are our first teachers. 
                                                            
    Write a "love letter" to Mom on Mother's Day. You can change your words on the (1)____________
a lot of times. AIso, she can (2)_____________ your letter over and over again.
    (b)These steps can help you write a warm letter to Mom:
    (d)1.Relax-This "love-letter" is a talk between you and Mom and there are no rules. Even if you make a
mistake, is Mom going to be (3)_____________?
2. Collect Your Thought-Take some time to think about your years growing up.
3. Write from Your Heart-Write your letter as if you were there talking to Mom face
to face. Tell her how much you (4)____________ her. Your "love letter" to Mom on Mother's Day will
make her very (5)____________.
    (c) 金钱决不能买到! It is sure to be cherished (珍爱), saved and read many times over. It is the best
way to (6)___________ your love to Mom!
根据上文,完成下面的任务。
1. 根据短文内容,将下面的的词语填写到短文中(1)-(6)处。
    show,love,happy,letter,angry,read
2. 把(a)处划线句子翻译成汉语。
    ____________________________________________________________________________
3. 完成(b)处划线句子的同义句。 
    These steps can help you write _____________ ______________ warmly.
4. 把(c)处划线句子翻译成英语。
    ____________________________________________________________________________
5. 用(d)处划线句子中的词组改写下列句子。
    Lucy sits behind me.Jim sits in front of me.
    I sit ______________ Lucy ______________ Jim..

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