Last Sunday when I was walking along the street, I caught ___ of a tall man with a pair of glasses.

A. view    B. site      C. sight    D. vision

It’s your ___ that we’re late for school again.

A. fault   B. mistake    C. problem    D. trouble

The Loisels did what they could ___  the debts.

A. to pay off   B. to pay for    C. paid off    D. paid for

Low-carbon lifestyle is of great benefit to improve the world environment．________can be enjoyed from it until you have a deep understanding of it, however．

   A．Something             B．Nothing               C．Few                D．Much

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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It was no wonder I was not looking forward to entering ninth grade. High school is well-known for being a battleground, where everyone seems to be  36  through physical changes, emotional mood swings, and low self-respect. For me,  37  was my punishment.

I had always felt insecure and out of 38 as one of the  39  members of my class, standing a head above the other girls and bending at the  40  of the line to avoid sticking  41 .

I especially hate being around large groups of people, like during the social hour after services at my church.  42  the prayers were finished, I would leave as quickly as possible so I could  43  other well-meaning congratulations, "Ruthie! Look how tall you' re getting!"

My grandfather would watch me  44  increasingly uncomfortable, but he did not  45  at my self--consciousness or try to comfort me.  46 , he would remind me. "Stand straight and tall," he would say, as I unsuccessfully tried to shrink (使缩小) myself. Moreover, each time, I would embarrassedly obey. Even at age 15, I understood that his advice was about  47  than just feet and inches.

My grandfather grew up in war-torn Europe. When German soldiers  48  his hometown, he wound up joining the Soviet army to fight  49  his country's freedom. "Stand straight, stand tall," meant something else back then.

_50  the war, he boarded a boat for  51  , and on January 27, 1947, he stepped onto the dock in Manhattan. He was hungry and  52  from seasickness. All alone in a new country, he was  53  about his future. Still, he marched head-on into the streets of New York. Soon he met  54  European immigrants, each of them trying to find his or her own way. If they could do it, why couldn't he? "Stand straight, stand tall," he would remind himself. He felt his faith  55 . When he walked into the church that first time, he walked in proudly.

36. A. going                  B. getting             C. looking             D. putting

37. A. age                     B. sex                   C. height               D. face

38. A. place                 B. order              C. control             D. date

39. A. younger                B. shorter                   C. fatter              D. taller

40. A. head                 B. bottom             C. back               D. side

41. A. to                   B. out                C. with                D. off

42. A. Until                B. Unless             C. Once               D. Before

43. A. avoid                B. receive              C. accept              D. refuse

44. A. change               B. grow               C. sense               D. make

45. A. look                 B. stare               C. stay                D. laugh

46. A. Instead               B. Besides              C. However            D. Therefore

47. A. other                 B. more             C. less                D. rather

48. A. fought                B. developed         C. occupied            D. marched

49. A. against                       B. for                      C. with                D. to

50. A. Before               B. During             C. Without              D. After

51. A. German              B. Australia            C. America            D. Canada

52. A. coming              B. learning            C. suffering            D. differing

53. A. frightened             B. excited             C. serious              D. sorrowful

54. A. few                 B. more               C. most               D. other

55. A. increasing             B. returning             C. gaining              D. disappearing

London: What could possibly he wrong with planting trees? The benefits are obvious: they firm the soil, absorb extra water and take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

However, it now turns out that planting trees could add to global warming. Tree roots do a great job of keeping soil firmly on the ground and out of the wind's power. The problem is that some of those dust clouds play an important part in taking in carbon dioxide.

Huge dust storms blow out over the oceans from dry parts of North Africa and central Asia. Tons of dust are lifted and left as a thin film over the ocean surface.

Dust from China is carried east and left in the Pacific Ocean. If a tree-planting program there is successful and the dust supply reduced, the final result may be that less carbon dioxide gets locked away in the ocean.

Andy Ridgwell, an environmental scientist from the University of East Anglia, has spent the past few years studying dust and says his work shows clearly the complexity of the system and the importance of not working uselessly with it without understanding the results. For this reason the need is to focus on cutting carbon dioxide giving off rather than dealing with the land surface aimlessly.

An American scientist, Robert Jackson, has shown that when native grassland areas are occupied by trees, carbon is lost from the soil. "We are studying why the soil carbon disappears, but one theory is that trees do a lot more of their growing above ground compared to grasses, so less carbon goes directly into the soil from trees. " said Jackson.

In wet areas of the world, the gain from trees absorbing carbon dioxide above ground seems to be outweighed by the loss of carbon from the soil below ground.

Countries that plan to combat global warming by planting trees may have to think again. Solutions to environmental problems are often more complex than they first appear, and understanding the Earth's climate is a very great challenge.

64. People usually hold the opinion that _______.

A. huge dust storms can destroy carbon dioxide

B. huge dust storms can destroy the oceans on the earth

C. planting trees could reduce global warming

D. planting trees is the only way to control huge dust storms

65. Andy Ridgwell, the environmental scientist, believes that _______.

A. environmental problems are more complex than expected

B. trees shouldn't have been planted in dry places

C. dust plays a more important part than trees

D. carbon dioxide is harmful to everything

66. Robert Jackson's experiment proves that _______.

A. carbon can turn grass into dust

B. trees hold more carbon than grass

C. less carbon can make trees grow faster

D. grassland areas should be covered by forests

67. The underlined word "combat" in the last paragraph means _______.

A. learn about        B. give up             C. live with        D. fight against

Disposing (处理) of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities, the waste-disposal problem becomes increasingly difficult.

During the eighteenth century, it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select faraway spot as a dump site. Residents or trash haulers (垃圾拖运者) would transport house hold rubbish, rotted wood, and old possessions to the site. Periodically (定期的) some of the trash was buried and the rest was buried .Me unpleasant sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by.

Factories, mills, and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted remains into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem.

Several facts make these choices unacceptable to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps, which are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose. Property is either too expensive or too close to residential (住宅区的) neighborhoods. Long-distance trash hauling has been a common practice, but once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere, cheap land within trucking distance of major city areas is almost nonexistent.

Awareness (意识) of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers, ground water, land and air is a price people can no longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste, however, continues to grow.

Recycling efforts have become commonplace, and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs, however, can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a city's reusable waste.

The most suitable title for this passage would be

A．Places for Disposing Waste　　　　　 B．Waste Pollution Dangers

C．Ways of Getting Rid of Waste　　　　 D．Waste Disposal Problem

During the 18th century, people disposed their waste in many ways EXCEPT for__________.

A．burying it　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．recycling it.

C．burning it　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．throwing it into rivers

What can be inferred from the fourth paragraph?

A．Farm areas accept waste from the city in modern society.

B．There is cheap land to bury waste in modern society.

C．It is difficult to find space to bury waste in modem society.

D．Ways to deal with waste in modem society stay the same.

The main purpose of writing this article is to________.

A．draw people's attention to waste management

B．warn people of the pollution dangers we are facing

C．call on people to take part in recycling programs

D．tell people a better way to get rid of the waste

Parents will surely     their children.

A. make no effect on                B. have some effect on   

C. have no effect on                 D. make some effect on

—Shall I help you with the cleaning?

      , but thank you just the same

A. Yes, please.      B. No, you can      C. No, Tom. I can manage    D. No, I’m pleasedC

—Have you thought of a topic for your speech yet?

 —No, I______a lot about it, but I haven’t decided.

A. will think     B. have been thinking    C. had thought       D. was thinking