You may have known several kinds of police --- traffic police, fire police and street police. But have you ever heard of energy-saving(节能) policeman?
A group of 22 energy-saving policemen went to work last week in Beijing. They go around the city to see the use of energy in hotels, office buildings, shopping centers and other public places. One of their aims is to make sure that these places have set their air conditioning(空调) no cooler than 26℃.
They also set up a special phone line so that people can tell them which buildings fail to follow the rule.
“If everyone sets their air conditioning at 26℃, Beijing will save 400 million kilowatthour of electricity in one summer. That’s one-third of all the usages of the city in the season,” said a TV advertisement.
Other Chinese cities, like Wuhan in Hubei Province and Yangzhou in Jiansu Province, are going to follow Beijing’s steps in setting up a similar police team.
As one of the fastest developing countries, China is using a lot of energy. This has a great effect on the country’s environment and limited(有限的) energy.
From 1986 to 2005, the country experienced 20 warm winters continuously(连续). Numbers show that Chinese cities have to spend billions of yuan solving environmental problems every year.
At the beginning of this month, China made its first action plan to fight pollution. It aims to reduce energy usage by 20% and increase renewable(可更新的) energy up to 10% from 7% by 2010.
To introduce the public to a green life, last week Beijing held a show on energy-saving technology and productions. Environment-friendly machines, such as a vending machine that helps collect used bottles, have attracted lots of attention. “We want to tell people that there are certain ways to protect the environment. Each of us can find effective ways to do it on our daily lives,” said Liu Qianguang, an environmental engineer in Beijing. The job of the energy-saving policemen is ______.
| A．to set up a special phone line |
| B．to set the air conditioning cooler |
| C．to check the use of energy in public places |
| D．to make sure that more energy will be produced |
Beijing uses ______ million kilowatt-hour electricity in summer.
| A．1200. |
B．800. |
C．400. |
D．133. |
Which of the following years’ winters were all warm in China?
| A．1968—1988. |
B．1999—2003. |
C．2002—2006. |
D．2005—2009. |
In the year 2010 China’s energy usages is going to be cut by ______.
| A．7%. |
B．10%. |
C．17%. |
D．20%. |
According to Liu Qianguang, ______.
| A．there are few ways to protect the environment |
| B．it’s difficult to find good ways to save energy |
| C．it’s easy for one to do something good for the environment |
| D．it’s difficult for one to do something good for the environment |
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| Symbol |
Name |
Date |
Country |
 |
Spring Festival |
January or February |
China |
 |
Mother’s Day |
The second Sunday in May |
the USA |
 |
Boys’ Day |
May 5th |
Japan |
 |
Christmas Day |
December 25th |
Western countries |
Mother’s Day often comes on______.
| A．the second Saturday in January |
| B．the third Saturday in December |
| C．the second Sunday in May |
| D．the fifth Sunday in May |
Of all the festivals in the form(表格)，______ comes last in a year.
| A．Christmas Day | B．Boys’ Day |
| C．Mother’s Day | D．Spring Festival |
The symbol of Spring Festival is______.
| A．flowers | B．fish |
| C．trees | D．dumplings |
Americans may celebrate______ festival(s) in the form.
| A．1 | B．2 | C．3 | D．4 |
The festival for boys is only celebrated in _______.
| A．China | B．the USA |
| C．Japan | D．Canada |
We all know who Benjamin Franklin was. He was a very famous American statesman. He was also the first man to discover electricity. Franklin liked to study and to learn about new things. One day he heard from a friend that something black in colour holds the heat better than something white in colour. Franklin wanted to find out if this was true or not.
There was snow on the ground at the time. So he put two large pieces of cloth over the snow. One piece of cloth was black in colour, the other piece was white. Then he waited until the sun began to shine. After several hours he looked under the pieces of cloth and saw that the snow under the black cloth melted(融化) much faster than the snow under the white cloth. This proved to him that the black cloth held the heat better than the white cloth.
Soon after this, people began to wear white hats and white clothes during the summer because they were cooler.
Judge the following statements True (T) or False (F)Benjamin Franklin was only a scientist.
One day a friend of his told him something about the relation(关系) between colour and heat.
Something black in colour holds heat better than something white in colour.
This story happened in summer.
People wear white clothes in summer because they know it is cooler.
1.Our school is in the south of New York City. It’s not big but it’s clean and beautiful.
2.As we go into the school ,we can see there is a playground to our left and a small garden to our right. In the center of the school is our teaching building. When we go into the teaching building, we can see the Head Teacher’s Room on the left and the offices on the right. There are thirty-five classrooms and library in our school. The library has books on every subject.
3.We have to wear uniforms to school. Boys wear white shirts,blue trousers,black shoesand white scoks.Girls in Grade1-3 wear white shirts and blue skirts and girls in Grades4-6 wear white shirts and brown skirts.
4.Our head teacher teaches us maths. He is a very strict man. If we don’t obey the school rules, _______. But he is also very friendly. When we have problems, he always tries to help us.
5. Our other teachetrs teach us English, history and science. They are friendly, too. They gave us interesting lessons, check our homework carefully and often help us.
6.I like our school very much.在文中找出与下面所给句子意思最相近的一句话。
Our teaching building is in the middle of the school._____________________________________将第2段中画线的句子译成汉语。______________________________________________
回答问题
If Mary is in Grade 5 in the school, what color is her uniform skirt?________________________在第四段空线处填入一个适当的句子，使全句完整。______________________________
回答问题：
What does Paragraph 5 mainly talk about?_____________________________________
Practising yoga is a helpful, popular way to keep fit. It has many followers around the world. There are many kinds of yoga. You may have heard of “hot yoga” before. Now, in India, a new kind of yoga, water yoga, is becoming more and more popular among the local people.
In the city of Agra, people practice yoga in water. It is more difficult to practice yoga in water than on land. But practicing yoga in water can be good for your flexibility.(灵活性)
Harish, a lawyer, teaches people water yoga for free---- even the poor people can learn from him. “Water yoga can become more popular than other kind of yoga, because the body doesn’t get tired quickly,” he said. ”Everybody can learn to swim, but if they learn yoga at the same time, they will never feel tired.”
“The level of Oxygen(氧气) is very high in water, and you will not have any breathing problem,” he added.
Harish believes that water yoga really helps people to keep away from illness. He mainly trains children. He has classes at the swimming pool of a local sports room regularly. Many children are interested in it and come to learn from him.
“Harish is very good at performing yoga in water,” said Sudhir, a water yoga student. “He is teaching children free of cost and that is a very good thing.”What is Harish?
| A．A teacher | B．A lawyer |
| C． A doctor | D．A swimmer |
The underline phrase for free in the passage means _____
| A．快乐地 | B．自由地 |
| C．免费地 | D．规律地 |
Why is water yoga more popular than others?
A. Because you can learn to swim at the same time.
B. Because you don’t get tired so quickly.
C. Because it can keep people fat
D. Both A and B.There are more _____ than _____ in Harish’s yoga class.
| A．children; adults | B．adults; children |
| C．women; men | D．olds; adults |
What can be the best title of the passage?
| A． Ways to keep fit |
| B． Water yoga in India |
| C． Hot yoga in the world |
| D． Harish and his classes |
World War II lasted from1939 to 1945. Life changed for everybody, including women and children because of the war. Millions of people lost their lives during the war. The Diary of a young girl was a record of that time. The book was written by a girl named Anne Frank.
Anne Frank was born in Germany in June 1929. Because the German Nazis(纳粹) hated the Jew(犹太人) and wanted to kill them, her family had to move to another country. In July 1942, they went into hiding in a secret place in her father’s office. During that difficult time, Anne kept writing diaries until she and her family were discovered by Nazis in August 1944. They were caught and sent to a Nazis camp. The next year, her mother died. In the same year, she and her elder sister died of illness, before the war ended.
After the war, her father collected her diaries and the book The diary of a young girl came out in 1947. It has been read by people all over the world. In her diary, Anne wrote down her thoughts, her feelings, her hopes and her dreams for the future, “I want the diary to be my friend, and I’m going to call this friend KITTY.” “I can’t spend all day complaining because it’s impossible to have any fun!...Every day, I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me. With all that, why should I be sad?”
The diary of a young girl has also become a symbol of the greatness of the human spirit. It is called one of the wisest and most moving records on war.In which year did Anne die of illness?
| A．in 1939 | B．in 1942 |
| C．in 1944 | D．in 1945 |
According to the passage, KITTY is _____ .
| A．her diary | B．her elder sister |
| C．her mother | D．her hiding place |
Which of the following is true?
| A．Anne was lazy, sad and complained all day |
| B．The book is mainly about Anne’s school life |
| C．Anne loved life though she was in difficult time. |
| D．The book has been put into nearly 30 languages |
Where did Anne hide?
| A．in her father’s office | B．in a library |
| C．in church | D．on a farm |
From the passage, we can infer(推断) ______?
| A．Anne was born in Germany |
| B．Anne was a Jew |
| C．Anne’s father collected the diaries |
| D．Anne was a Nazis |