Moon Cake Box Recycling Campaign (运动)

People in Hong Kong throw away about three million moon cake boxes every year. These boxes weigh (重) up to 750 tons and can fill up about a hundred 50-metre-long swimming pools. They are going to become garbage (垃圾) and end up in the landfills (垃圾填埋地).

Let’s have a green Mid-Autumn Festival this year!

Bring your moon cake boxes.

Show that you care!

Date: September 28, 2012 ~ October 14, 2012

Time: 9:00 am ~ 9:00 pm

Collection point: G/F, Sunshine Shopping Centre

Please keep the moon cake boxes clean.

We will sell all moon cake boxes to recycling companies.

We will hold a tree-planting campaign with the money collected.

Save Our Earth (HK)

An organisation for environmental protection

Telephone: 2123 1234

Website: www.saveourearth.org.hk

E-mail: info@saveourearth.org.hk

1.How many moon cake boxes do people in Hong Kong throw away every year?

A. About 1,000,000. B. About 1,500,000.

C. About 3,000,000. D. About 1,300,000.

2.How long will the Moon Cake Box Recycling Campaign last?

A. One week. B. Half a month.

C. 17 days. D. One month.

3.Who will buy the moon cake boxes?

A. Recycling companies. B. Moon cake factories.

C. Moon cake box companies. D. Sunshine Shopping Centre.

4.Which organization holds this campaign?

A. Green Leaf. B. Save Our Earth (HK).

C. Save Ourselves (HK). D. Save Our Earth (UK).

5.Which of the following is TRUE according to the reading above?

A. The moon cake boxes will be collected in the landfills.

B. The money the campaign can get will be used to help poor children.

C. The moon cake boxes will be used to fill up swimming pools.

D. People should keep the moon cake boxes clean when bringing them to the collection point.

 

American boys and girls love to watch television. Some children spend six hours a day in school and four to six hours a day in front of the television set. Some even watch television for eight hours or more on Sunday. Televisions are like books or films. A child can leam bad things and good things from them. Some shows help children to understand the news and places from other countries or other times in history. With television a child does not have to go to the zoo to see animals or to the ocean to see a ship. Boys and girls can see a play, a concert or a game at home. Television brings many places and events into our homes. Some programs show crime and other things that are bad for children,so parents sometimes help them to find other interesting things to do.

1.Children usually spend ______ a day in school.

A. six hours B. more than eight hours

C. only a few hours D. four hours

2. Some children spend eight hours or more ______ on Sunday.

A. studying B. playing

C. watching TV D. helping their parents

3.On television children can see ______.

A. Games B. big animals

C. oceans D. almost everything

4.“Television brings many places and events into our homes. " means ______

A. television makes things happen on homes

B. we can know places and events without going to see them

C. we can see houses and buildings on TV

D. we can find them easily

5.Parents sometimes help their children find other things to do when there is ______ for children.

A. a bad program B. an animal

C. a game D. an uninteresting film

 

One day, there was a blind man called John sitting on the bench with a hat by his feet and a sign that read, "I am blind. Please help me. "

A creative publicist( 广告员) named Tom was walking by the blind man and stopped to see that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat. Without asking for permission(许可), he took the sign, turned it around and wrote a new message. Then he put the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left.

Later that afternoon the publicist returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was almost full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized(识别) his footsteps and asked if it was he who had changed his sign. He also wanted to know what the man wrote on it. The publicist said, "I just wrote the message a little differently. " He smiled and went on his way.

The new sign read, “ Spring has come, but I can't see anything. “

1.What's the blind man's name?

A. Tom. B. John.

C. Tony. D. Sorry, I don't know.

2.Who wrote a new message?

A. The blind man. B. The teacher.

C. The publicist . D. The farmer.

3. How did the blind man recognize the publicist?

A. By his sign. B. By his footsteps.

C. By his voice. D. By his coins.

4.When did the story happen?

A. In spring. B. In summer.

C. In autumn~ D. In winter.

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Publicists are always friendly and helpful.

B. We can get more money by changing a sign.

C. The blind man is very stupid, so he has little money.

D. The power(力量) of language is great

 

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