One terribly cold day, a snowstorm hit our area. Needing firewood, I quickly set out with my best friend, Bruce, to look for a tree to cut down. Cutting down a tree in a snowstorm can be dangerous. (1) So to have a friend who could warn me of dangerso was important.
When I chose a big 23-meter-tall tree and prepared to cut it down, Bruce suddenly warned me, “Don’t cut down that tree! It’s too close to the power line!” I wasn’t sure about it. So I decided to disregard his warning. I couldn’t wait to finish the job and go back home. I began cutting down the tree. (2) When the tree fell, there was no longer any doubt whether my friend was right.
The tree caught the power line, bringing it to the ground. I considered cutting the tree off the line. After all, electricity can’t travel through wood. As I reached out my finger to touch the tree, pain ran up my arm and through my head. I had been shocked!
After I returned home and told my mother what happened, she quickly called the power company. Workers from the power company soon arrived. One of them asked if I had touched the tree, and when I told him I had, his face turned pale. “You should have been killed,” he said. It was my boots that saved my life.
(3)Within two hours, the workers removed the tree. Soon the snowstorm calmed down——but not my mother. Even though she was glad that I wasn’t hurt, my mother was still serious with me. After all（毕竟）, I shouldn’t have brushed off my friend’s warning.将①处改成同义句。
_______________________________________________________________________________将②处翻译成汉语。
将③处用It takes sb. some time to do sth. 句型改为同义句。
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The Malaysian government announced that Malaysian flight MH370 lost the contact with the Air Traffic Control the morning of March 8th. The flight at 00:41 a.m. that morning and planned to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. It carried 239 passengers, 154 Chinese. The passengers come from 14 countries and areas. Nobody knows what happened to the plane. Over twenty countries took part in it. On March 24, Prime Minister of Malaysia said that MH370 crashed in southern Indian Ocean and none of the passengers survived. When we heard the bad news, we were very sad. So far the plane wreckage(飞机残骸) yet. We hope they will find it soon.
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Why do we like drinking water from plastic bottles? Some people think it is healthy and clean. Others drink bottled water because it’s easy — you can carry it around with you. In hot countries, like Greece, we often buy bottles of cold water in the summer.
However, making lots of plastic is not a good idea for many reasons. First of all, we need a lot of oil for plastic products. We usually use oil as a source(资源) of energy. If we reduced the number of bottles we made, we wouldn’t need so much oil. Plastic bottles also pollute the environment. If we recycled all our plastic bottles, we wouldn’t need so much space for rubbish dumps. But in Greece, we don’t recycle much of the plastic we use. In 2006, Greeks recycled only about 10% of plastic waste. The rest became rubbish on land and in rivers and sees. So next time you want to throw away a plastic bottle in the litter bin, stop and think. If you recycled it, you would help the environment. But what can you do when there isn’t a recycling bin near you? Well, there are loes of useful ways that you can use your bottles again. For example, an empty bottle makes a great piggy bank for your pocket money, and if you cut a bottle in half, you will have a plant pot. Go green! You can make a difference.
What is not mentioned about bottled water in this passage?
| A．It’s healthy. | B．It’s clean. |
| C．It’s easy. | D．It’s expensive. |
Plastic products are made from .
| A．energy | B．oil |
| C．rubbish | D．plants |
of plastic waste became rubbish in Greece in 2006.
| A．10% | B．50% | C．80% | D．90% |
Which is the best way to deal with used plastic bottles?
| A．To recycle them. | B．To make a piggy bank. |
| C．To make a plant pot. | D．To drop them into the river. |
The underlined part in this passage tells us “”.
| A．To make a different life, you’d better go outside. |
| B．To look different, you’d better wear green clothes. |
| C．To protect the environment, you can do something. |
| D．To go green, you should use plastic products. |
Emily and Alex were happy when their family moved to a house with a very big garden. They could climb up trees, grow flowers and even play badminton. They liked to watch the birds flying among the trees in the garden. They even started to put food out to attract more birds.
Everything was fine for a few days until one afternoon there was a strange bumping noise on a window. Emily went outside and found a small bird dead on the grass. Its neck seemed to be broken.
“It must have flown into the window,” Alex said when his sister Emily called him to have a look. “Ah, yes, look here. You can see the mark where it hit the window. There are a couple of tiny feathers stuck(粘贴) on the window.”
“Poor thing!” Emily said.
During the next month, five more birds died in the same way. “Why would they fly to the windows?” they wondered. Finally they found out the truth. When the birds were flying, they couldn’t see into the rooms. All they saw was the reflection(反射) of the garden. They thought that they were flying into trees because they saw trees reflected by the window.
“Something has to be done to save the birds.” the parents decided.
At first, he family tried keeping curtains（窗帘）across the windows, but this made the room dark. Then they bought some strong black paper and cut out the shape of a hawk. They made six hawks – one for each window. They stuck the hawks to the windows. They looked pretty and did not keep out much light. When the birds saw the hawks, they would fly away.
After that, there were no more dead birds. The family were much happier. They put food out to attract birds because they .
| A．had a special garden for birds |
| B．wanted to see more birds flying in the garden |
| C．had too much bird food to feed the birds |
| D．wanted to catch some birds in the garden |
birds died in the garden.
| A．4 | B．5 | C．6 | D．7 |
The birds flew to the windows because they .
| A．found the windows very clean |
| B．fought for more food |
| C．thought there were more trees ahead |
| D．wanted to go into the room |
The underlined word “hawk” means .
| A．鹰 | B．丛林 | C．山脉 | D．燕子 |
The story is mainly about .
| A．why the birds died in the garden |
| B．the family were good at paper-cutting |
| C．the family had a very big new house |
| D．how the family saved the birds in the garden |
[1] We all have our own ways of sharing our life experiences with others.
[2] Photographers use cameras, artists use brushes, musicians use songs and writers use stories.
[3] Spencer Johnson’s story Who Moved My Cheese? shows changes exist in(存在于) our life. Life changes and so we do. We must change ourselves to face the changing environment, or we will fail.
[4] Just look at the cycle(循环) of . Trees bud(发芽) in spring and in summer their leaves turn green. In autumn, their leaves start to fall onto the ground. When winter arrives, there are no leaves on trees. Next spring the cycle begins again. Since we know there are cycles in nature, we can prepare for them. We know it is colder in winter and hotter in summer, so we can dress properly.
[5] Since we accept the cycles of nature, we should also accept the changes in our life.
[6] We can prepare ourselves for changes by becoming more flexible(灵活的). We can regard the changes in our life as chances. As we keep changing ourselves, we can keep up with the changes in our life. What’s the main idea of this passage? (no more than 10 words)
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_________________________________________________________________________Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
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