Exploit your parking space

An unused parking space or garage can make money. If you live near a city center or an airport, you could make anything up to £200 or £300 a week. Put an advertisement(广告)for free on Letpark or Atmyhousepark.

Rent(出租)a room

Spare room? Not only will a lodger(房客)earn you an income, but also, thanks to the government-backed “rent a room” program, you won’t have to pay any tax on the first £4500 you make per year. Try advertising your room on Roomspare or Roommate easy.

Make money during special events

Don’t want a full-time lodger? Then rent on a short-term basis. If you live in the capital, renting a room out during the Olympics or other big events could bring in money, Grashpadder can advertise your space.

Live on set

Renting your home out as a “film set” could earn you hundreds of pounds a day, depending on the film production company and how long your home is needed. A quick search on the Internet will bring up dozens of online companies that allow you to register your home for free—but you will be charged if your home gets picked.

Use your roof

You need the right kind of roof, but some energy companies pay the cost of fixing solar equipment(around£14,000), and let you use the energy produced for nothing. In return, they get paid for unused energy fed back into the National Grid. However, you have to sign a 25-year agreement with the supplier, which could prevent you from changing the roof.

1.If you earn £5000 from renting a room in one year, the tax you need to pay will be based on ______.

A. £500 B. £800 C. £4500 D.5000

2.Where can you put an advertisement to rent out a room during a big event?

A. On Letpark. B. On Grashpadder.

C. On Roomspare. D. On Roommateeasy.

3.If you want to use energy free, you have to_____.

A. sign an agreement with the government

B. pay around £14,000 for the equipment

C. keep the roof unchanged for within 25 years

D. sell the roof to some energy companies

4.For whom the text most probably written?

A. Lodgers. B. Advertisers.

C. Online companies D. House owners.

The earth is dying before us yet we sit and watch. If the TV or the game system breaks, we run off to the stores to get it fixed immediately no matter what the cost. Why aren’t we willing to fix our earth? Are our televisions and game systems more important to us than where we live? Where shall we continue to live, until the end of time?

The earth is our home and cannot be replaced. We must take care of it. We have come up with so much technology that limits us instead of helping us. Take that game system we run to repair. What does it do? It occupies kids’ time! The earth has already given kids plenty of entertainment in the forms of fields and hills, forests and plains, water and land. However, instead of using what the earth has given us, and helping kids by giving them exercise as they run around, we decide to ruin kids’ minds with game systems that glue them to the screen for hours, and make them ignore their homework and chores. We have polluted this earth by making these things which do not even help in any way!

We have already messed up this world, we have ruined the air, water, and animals that it has so willingly provided for us. We need to stop this destruction of life and bring back the world we had before. It will not be easy, but everybody can help! What about something as simple as turning the lights off when you leave a room? Recycling what can be recycled? Picking up litter? Donating money to an environmental organization? None of these things are very hard. We can’t just always say, “Oh, the earth is a mess. Ah, well, those big companies that are polluting so much can stop and fix it.” Instead, we need to help out. It’s not only those big companies; it’s everyday things that we do too that are ruining the earth. So stop and think about what you can do to make a difference to our world!

1.Why does the author mention televisions and game systems in Paragraph 1?

To make people better aware of the urgency to the protection of the earth.

B. To explore the great harm done to the earth by too much technology waste.

C. To show the relationship between overuse of those things with early death.

D. To remind people to spend less on them and use the saved money in a wiser way.

2.It can be inferred from the second paragraph that the author .

thinks we must take care of our irreplaceable home-----the earth

B. thinks running around in fields occupies too much of kids’ time

C. takes an extremely negative attitude to things like game systems

D. takes it for granted that technology gives kids plenty of entertainment

3.We can clearly feel that the author wrote this passage with deep_____

A. anger B. emotion C. sadness D. Regret

4.What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To criticize those big companies that ruin the earth

B. To ask people to save kids from the harm done by pollution.

C. To give kids plenty of entertainment in a clean environment

D. To call on people to stop ruining the earth

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