Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Products (产品) arc not produced in a "green" way and people haven’t realized the importance of buying and using environmentally-friendly products. These lead to the pollution problem. One result is that millions of tons of waste like glass, paper and plastics is produced (生产). The waste problem is difficult to deal with.
However, today, more and more people are choosing “green” and expecting that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. Before they buy a product, they ask questions like these: “Will this soap be bad for the environment” “Can this metal container be reused or can it only be used once?”
Over 20,000 people took part in a web survey (调查) on buying environmentally-friendly products. Among them, 8129 people say that they now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. That is to say, companies must change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that the products are “green”.
A few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in supermarkets, but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket products carry labels to show that they are green. Some companies have made the clean and safe products their main selling point in advertisements.
The growing need for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink how they do business. The public will no longer accept the old idea of “buy it, use it, throw it away, and forget it”. As a result, the companies have to take action.Is it easy to deal with the waste problem?
What do more and more people consider before they buy products?
In the survey, how many people prefer green products in the supermarket now?
Is it possible or impossible to get green products in the supermarket now?
Why do the companies have to rethink how to do business and take action?
Three travelers, Allan, Carl and Paul were sitting on the chairs in a train station. They were waiting for a train that was very late.
To pass the time, they began talking to each other.
At first, they talked about the weather and their work. Then Paul said, "Tell me—what would you most like to do if your doctor tell you that you have only three months to live?"
The other two men thought about this for a while, then Carl spoke.
“Well,” he said, “if I have only three months to live, I’ll take all my money out of the bank and go to foreign countries for holidays with my best friend, Erik. I'd like to travel to the places in the world as many as possible. And I'll stay at the best hotels and then eat the best food. I think I'll have a wonderful time.”
“That's very interesting.” Paul said.
With these words, he turned to the other man, saying, “And what about you?”
“I'll tell you a secret,” Allan said. “I always want to be a racing driver. So if I have only three months to live, the first thing I'd like to do is to sell my house. With the money I’ll buy the fastest car in the world. Maybe I can enter all the big motor races.”
Then he laughed, "I might even end up (以……而告终) world champion.”
“Now it's your turn,” Allan went on, “If your doctor tell you the bad news, what would you most like to do?”
“Oh,” said Paul with a smile. “I’ll go and see another doctor.” The three men were talking _____________.
| A．in the post office | B．in the waiting room |
| C．on the train | D．on the chairs in their office |
The men began to talk about the weather and the work because they __________.
| A．didn't know anything new |
| B．wanted to pass the time quickly |
| C．had nothing to do |
| D．were very interested in each other's work |
"I might even end up world champion." Here the word "champion" means ________in Chinese.
| A．名人 | B．赛车手 | C．大款 | D．冠军 |
Life in the future will be different from life today.But what will the changes be? The population(人口) is growing fast . There will be many people in the world and most of them will live to over 100 years old .
Computer will be very small and useful,and there will be computers in every home .Travelling will be very cheap and easy.
And many people will go to other countries for holidays. There will be changes in our food ,too. There will not be much room for cows and sheep, so meat will be very expensive .Maybe no one will eat it every day .They will eat many fruits and vegetables .Maybe people will be quite healthy . Work in the future will be different, too. Robots will do hard work .So many people will not have enough work to do.
根据短文内容，判断句子正（T）误 （F）All the people in the world will have long life in the future.
Life in the future won’t be the same as life today.
Travelling is very cheap and easy today.
People will be healthy because they eat fruits.
All the people will not work.
In the morning Mr Smith comes into the garden at the back of his house. He sees much snow in the garden. Mr Smith wants to take his car out, so he asks a man to clean the road from his garage(车库), to the gate. He says to the man, “Don’t throw any snow on that side. It’ll damage(损害, 毁坏) the flowers in the street, or policeman will come.” Then he goes out. When he comes back, his road is clean. There is no snow on the flowers, on the wall or in the street. But when he opens the garage he sees the garage is full of snow, the snow from the road, and his car is under the snow!In the morning Mr Smith finds there is a lot of snow in _______________.
| A．his garden | B．his garage |
| C．his house | D．his car |
He tells a man to clean the road, because he ______________.
| A．doesn’t like snow |
| B．wants to take his car out of the garage |
| C．wants to keep the road clean |
| D．often tells the man to do something |
—Where does Mr Smith ask the man to throw the snow? —__________.
| A．On the flowers | B．Into the street |
| C．On the wall | D．We don’t know |
He opens the garage and ___________.
| A．takes his car out | B．finds it is full of snow |
| C．finds the car isn’t in it | D．takes the snow out |
—Where’s Mr Smith’s car? —__________.
| A．Under the snow | B．In the street |
| C．Near the road | D．In front of his house |
Mr and Mrs Green come from Australia .They are in Beijing now .Mr Green is a teacher in a high school .He teaches English ,He likes reading and running .His son, Jim, is a student.He likes playing football very much .He likes school, too. He does his homework every day . Mrs Green is a teacher ,too. She can speak a little Chinese. She likes Chinese food .She doesn’t like doing housework at all, but she likes cooking .They all like China a lot.Mr and Mrs Green come from _______
| A．Canada | B．America | C．Australia | D．English |
______likes running.
| A．They | B． Tom | C．Mrs Green | D．Mr Green |
________ can speak a little Chinese.
| A．They | B． Tom | C．Mrs Green | D．Mr Green |
Mrs Green doesn’t like _______at all.
| A．Chinese food | B．teaching |
| C．doing housework | D．cooking |
They all like ______very much.
| A． China | B．Chinese people | C．playing | D． school |
Big Ben is not the name of a man. It is the name of a big clock in London. London is the capital of England. This clock has four faces. So, no matter （无论）where you stand, you can read the time on the face of Big Ben. Each face is the size of a bus. The hands are about four meters long. It is about the size of two people standing on top each other. If you go to London, you may want to visit the Houses of Parliament. （国会大厦）In that place you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower in the Houses of Parliament. You will probably hear it and see it. The big clock makes such a loud noise. “Ding dong, ding dong.” It goes, every quarter of an hour. The name of Big Ben comes from a big builder.Big Ben is _____.
| A．a bus | B．a clock | C．the name of Ben | D．a house |
Big Ben is in _______.
| A．China | B．the USA | C．Japan | D．the UK |
The clock strikes (敲；打) every _______ minutes of an hour.
| A．ten | B．fifteen | C．thirty | D．forty-five |
You can read the time of Big Ben _______.
| A．at the top of the clock tower |
| B．in the Houses of Parliament |
| C．on the hands of the huge clock |
| D．on the four faces of the clock |
The underlined (划线部分) word “ hands” means ___ in Chinese.
| A．手 | B．标志 | C．指针 | D．发条 |