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The first No Car Day in China was in Chengdu in 2001. Other cities including Taipei, Shanghai and Wuhan, also support the day.
In Beijing, more and more people are taking part in the activity. It asks drivers to leave their cars at home for one day each month and walk or ride a bike to work. It also calls on Beijingers not to use cars on June 5th (World Environment Day). The slogan(口号) for the day is, “ If we drive for one less day, we can have one more nice day.”
So far, more than 200,000 drivers have shown their support. “We can’t control the weather, but we can choose not to drive,” said Wu Zhonghua, a car club chairman. Beijing is trying to have 238 blue sky days this year. In the first quarter of 2007, Beijing only had 52 blue sky days. This was 11 days less than the number for the same period last year. Much of the dust comes from the desert, but cars cause most of the air pollution. We must do more for No Car Day.
【小题1】No Car Day was started _______.
| A.to save money | B.to control the weather |
| C.to make the air cleaner | D.to keep out dust from the desert |
| A.to work hard to get fewer blue sky days |
| B.not to work on World Environment Day |
| C.to ride a bike or walk instead of driving to work once a month |
| D.to leave their cars at home for a week each month |
| A.On July 5th. | B.On June 5th. |
| C.On September 22nd. | D.On February 2nd. |
| A.It was started in France in September, 1998. |
| B.It was first started in China in 2001. |
| C.It is supported by over 1,000 cities around the world. |
| D.It was first started by a car club chairman in Beijing. |
| A.More and more people in Beijing are joining car clubs. |
| B.People will have one more World Environment Day each month. |
| C.More and more people won’t drive on No Car Day in Beijing. |
| D.The car club chairman Wu Zhonghua won’t drive any more. |
Many desserts are covered in sand. But some have mountains, rocks, or lakes that have dried up in the heat. The Great American Dessert has cliffs(悬崖) that have been made into amazing and beautiful shapes by the wind. The Sahara Desert in Africa is mostly sand. The Australian Desert has red sand.
Sometimes it does not rain for a whole year in the desert. But there is water deep under the ground and some plants have roots that go very deep to find it. Other plants have roots that spread out(延伸) a long way so they can suck up the rain as soon as it falls.
One desert plant is the cactus, which has long, spreading roots. The cactus stores water inside its hard skin. This skin protects it from heat and cold.
Camels are a bit like cactus plants! They store water too—inside their bodies. They have special fur which protects them from the sun during the day and keeps them warm at night.
Some other animals live in deserts, too. They have to be very good at seeing and hearing because most of them only come out at night. This is why many desert animals have extra big eyes or ears.
A desert fox has bigger ears than a normal for. A gerbil has huge eye, so that it can see at night. It stays cool in the day by staying underground, like most desert animals.
Some people live in the desert but they always make their homes near an oasis. An oasis is where water comes from an underground river. Near an oasis, people can grow lots of plants and keep animals.
Life is hard in the desert, for people, animals and plants. But desert people like to live there.
【小题1】A desert is very dry because__________.
| A.it is sandy | B.there is so little rain |
| C.the wind is strong | D.there is no water deep under the ground |
| A.围堵 | B.讨好 | C.释放 | D.吸收 |
| A.the sunlight is too strong in the day | B.they need to see and hear well at night |
| C.it is very cold at nigh | D.they store water in them. |
| A.storing water in side their bodies | B.drinking water as much as they can |
| C.staying underground | D.growing lots of plants |
| A.Desert people like to live in the desert though life is hard. |
| B.People in the desert usually fry eggs on the ground. |
| C.Camels have special fur to store water. |
| D.All the deserts are covered in sand. |
Number one is a sign with the number thirty on it. When drivers see this sign , they must not go at more than thirty kilometers can hour. We see this sign when we are getting near a town. Number two is a sign that we're near a crossing. We must drive carefully. Number three is a sign that there is a bend in the road. Again, we must drive slowly and carefully. It is not safe to go round a bend very fast. Number four is a sign that there is another road coming in from the right. There is a junction at this place. Number five is a sign that there is a hill and number six is a sign that the road gets narrow. Drivers must go slowly and carefully. Number seven has the word “ SCHOOL” on it. This is a sign that there is a school at the side of the street or the road. Perhaps there are children going to or leaving school. So drivers must look carefully and go slowly. Number eight is a sign with the letter “ P ” on it. The letter “ P ” means “ Parking ”. At some places, there're the signs “ No parking ” or “ No waiting”. If a driver leaves his car near one of these signs, a policeman may come and write down the number of his car.
【小题1】At the places where you see Sign 1, .
| A.you are already out of a town |
| B.you still have thirty kilometers to go |
| C.there must be many houses and buildings not far away |
| D.there must be a town thirty k8ilometers away |
| A.traffic | B.subway |
| C.turning | D.danger |
| A.each of the eight signs |
| B.either of Signs 2 and 3 |
| C.all of Signs 2, 4, 6 and 7 |
| D.any of Signs 3, 5, 6 and 7 |
| A.teach drivers lesson |
| B.make drivers even safer |
| C.stop cars going there |
| D.learn another kind of language |
| A.Another language. |
| B.On the road. |
| C.What to do. |
| D.Traffic signs. |
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized(听出)his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”
What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day; I can not see it.”
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply sign the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective (有效的)?
【小题1】The boy in the passage can not .
| A.see | B.walk | C.hear | D.speak |
| A.He gave the boy a lot of money. |
| B.He brought the boy back to his home. |
| C.He wrote some new words on the sign. |
| D.He sent the boy to a special school. |
| A.阻碍 | B.举着 | C.承受 | D.坚持 |
| A.The boy still got a few coins in the hat. |
| B.The boy got much more money. |
| C.No one gave the boy coins any more. |
| D.No one gave the boy coins any more. |
| A.Time can we learn from the story? |
| B.You should be brave even thought you’re blind. |
| C.Treating a thing differently brings a different result. |
| D.If we want to be rich, we should be honest.(结果) |
A sign is another kind of language. Here are some of them that you see on the roads.![]()
Number one is a sign with the number thirty on it. When drivers see this sign , they must not go at more than thirty kilometers can hour. We see this sign when we are getting near a town. Number two is a sign that we're near a crossing. We must drive carefully. Number three is a sign that there is a bend in the road. Again, we must drive slowly and carefully. It is not safe to go round a bend very fast. Number four is a sign that there is another road coming in from the right. There is a junction at this place. Number five is a sign that there is a hill and number six is a sign that the road gets narrow. Drivers must go slowly and carefully. Number seven has the word “ SCHOOL” on it. This is a sign that there is a school at the side of the street or the road. Perhaps there are children going to or leaving school. So drivers must look carefully and go slowly. Number eight is a sign with the letter “ P ” on it. The letter “ P ” means “ Parking ”. At some places, there're the signs “ No parking ” or “ No waiting”. If a driver leaves his car near one of these signs, a policeman may come and write down the number of his car.
【小题1】At the places where you see Sign 1, .
| A.you are already out of a town |
| B.you still have thirty kilometers to go |
| C.there must be many houses and buildings not far away |
| D.there must be a town thirty k8ilometers away |
| A.traffic | B.subway |
| C.turning | D.danger |
| A.each of the eight signs |
| B.either of Signs 2 and 3 |
| C.all of Signs 2, 4, 6 and 7 |
| D.any of Signs 3, 5, 6 and 7 |
| A.teach drivers lesson |
| B.make drivers even safer |
| C.stop cars going there |
| D.learn another kind of language |
| A.Another language. |
| B.On the road. |
| C.What to do. |
| D.Traffic signs. |