Have you ever stayed in a hotel? Most Chinese hotels often provide *guests with things like * disposable toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and slippers. Many guests like the idea because they don't have to bring their own. It’s convenient for them to travel during their traveling .But, if you travel to Beijing, remember to bring your own things. Starting from June, some hotels in Beijing will no longer provide guests with these disposables. They want to ask people to use fewer disposable things.
Many disposable things are made of *plastic. People throw them away after only using them once. It is a waste of natural *resources and is very bad for the *environment. Do you know, one Chinese person makes as much as 400kg of waste a year! Most of that waste comes from dispos -able things. In Beijing, people throw away about 19,000 *tons of plastic bags and 1,320 tons of plastic lunch bowls every year! Plastic can take between 100 and 400 years to break down. So the less plastic we throw out, the better. So, wherever you travel, bring your own things and use them again and again.
Back at home and school, you can also do something to make our world a better place. Try to do these things in your daily life. Use cloth shopping bags, not plastic ones. After using a plastic bag, wash it out and let it dry. Then you can use it over and over again. Do not use paper cups. At your school dining hall, use your own bowl and chopsticks instead of disposable ones.
| A．toothbrushes | B．tea cups |
| C．shampoo | D．paper slippers |
| A．To let their guests take fewer things while travelling |
| B．To hope their guests use fewer disposable things |
| C．To wish their guests to save money |
| D．To want their guests to use more disposable things |
| A．Many disposable things are made of plastic |
| B．Throwing disposable things away is a waste of natural resources |
| C．Plastic is very bad for the environment |
| D．Plastic breaks down easily |
| A．Using shopping bags made of plastic |
| B．Using paper cups instead of plastic ones |
| C．Using disposable plates, bowls and chopsticks |
| D．Using everything over and over again |
| A．People don’t like disposable things at all |
| B．We can’t use paper or plastic bowls at school |
| C．We should use fewer plastic things and protect our environment |
| D．Hotels won’t provide disposable things to save money |
No Car Day was first started by 34 cities in France on September 22, 1998. It was started to protect the environment. By now, more than 1,000 cities around the world have had a No Car Day.
The first No Car Day in China was in Chengdu in 2001. Other cities, including Beijing, Taibei, Shanghai,Wuhan and Shenzhen also support the day.
In Beijing, more and more people are joining in the activity. It asks drivers to leave their cars for one day each week and walk, take a bus or subway or ride a bike to work. The slogan（口号）for the activity is,“If we drive for one less day, we can have one more nice day.” Beijing is trying to have 238 blue sky days this year. In the first three months of this year Beijing only have 52 blue sky days. This was 11 days less than the number for the same period last year. Car exhaust(汽车尾气) is one of the most important reasons of the pollution. We must do more for No Car 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 Zonghua, a car club chairman.There are_______ cities in China that support No Car Day according to the passage.
| A．four | B．five | C．six | D．seven |
The activity of No Car Day encourages drivers in Beijing to work.
| A．to take a bus, or subway. | B．ride a bike |
| C．to walk | D．A,B and C |
According to the passage there were blue sky days in the first three months of last year in Beijing.
| A．238 | B．63 | C．52 | D．41 |
The air pollution in Beijing is mainly caused by according to the passage.
| A．noise | B．cars | C．rubbish | D．weather |
The main idea of the passage is .
| A．So far, more than 200,000 drivers have shown their support |
| B．more and more people in Beijing are joining a No Car Day activity. |
| C．more than 1,000 cities around the world have had a No Car Day. |
| D．a No Car Day helps to protect our environment. |
As we all know, people couldn’t live without water. Some parts of our bodies are made of water. We depend on clean water to live every day.
However, we human beings are polluting water seriously. In some areas of China, people are still in great need of clean water. Dirty water is one of the world’s biggest health problems. It’s harmful to our health. When water from the rain and melting(融化) snow runs through roads, it picks up some dangerous chemicals and other things along the way. Many of the rivers are short of protections, so they are easy to be polluted by factories or animals’ waste.
World Water Day has grown to become one of the important dates since 1993. In 2013, World Water Day shares the topic of Water Cooperation(合作). If everyone tries their best to save and protect the clean water, our living conditions will be much better.we know that people couldn’t live without _________ according to the first paragraph.
| A．fire | B．water | C．books | D．language |
Many of the rivers are easy to be polluted by __________.
| A．animals | B．human beings’ waste |
| C．fish | D．factories or animals’ waste |
he underlined phrases “pikes up ”in paragraph 2 means“______”.
| A．毁坏 | B．接送 | C．带走 | D．拾起 |
When has World Water Day become one of the most important dates?
| A．since 1993. | B．in 1993 | C．in 2013. | D．since 2013 |
Which of the following is NOT right?
| A．Dirty water does harm to humans’health. |
| B．Human beings aren’t short of clean water. |
| C．The topic of 2013 World Water Day is Water Cooperation. |
| D．We should try our best to protect the clean water. |
As we know, Chongqing has changed a lot in the past few years. More and more trees are being planted in the city. And every day you can see many old people play sports everywhere. The changes make people in the city live a happy life. A small survey below is from people in Chongqing. One hundred persons answered the questions last week.
| What they want |
Health |
Safety |
Food |
| 52% |
33% |
15% |
|
| Where they like to live |
In a quieter place |
In a busier place |
In a greener place |
| 15% |
5% |
80% |
|
| What they think of working in the city |
Bad |
Good |
No idea |
| 8% |
80% |
12% |
|
| Whether they plan to change their living places |
Yes |
No |
Difficult to say |
| 39% |
41% |
20% |
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。Every day people in Chongqing can see________ play sports everywhere.
| A．the women | B．the men | C．the old | D．the young |
From the survey, ________ of the people in Chongqing care about health.
| A．80% | B．41% | C．52% | D．39% |
From the survey, we know one twentieth people want to live________.
| A．in a busier place | B．in a quieter place |
| C．in a greener place | D．on a mountain |
Most people think working in Chongqing is_________.
| A．bad | B．sad | C．hard | D．good |
According to the passage and the survey, we know that________ .
| A．33% people in Chongqing care about the food |
| B．12% people in Chongqing think working in the city is bad |
| C．most people plan to change their living places |
| D．the changes in Chongqing makes people enjoy living there |
Li Ruyan, 13 years old, did something special last summer with his classmates in Shanghai. They worked in groups with traffic police at different crossroads in the city. Holding small red flags, the students helped keep order and stopped people from jaywalking (乱穿马路). As part of the school project, Li’s school has encouraged its students to do more community work. After the half day of exhausting work, Li told himself not to jaywalk anymore.
“I think through community work we get to help others and, more importantly, we grow a sense of responsibility (责任感),” he said.
Community service is an important part of education for teenagers around the world. In the US and Canada, high school students need to finish 40 hours of community service before graduation. In America, those who have finished 1,400 hours of community work can be awarded nearly $5,000 (33,000 yuan).
Chinese students today do more community work, too. For example, starting from 2010, Sichuan high school students have been asked to do 10 days of community work. It will become part of their school grades.
Qian Lijun, 16, and her classmates in Suzhou, Jiangsu went to a local elder care home this winter. They put Spring Festival couplets (对联) on the walls and cheered up the people living there.
Li Xiaotian, 15, in Anshan said he used to clear flyers (小广告) from telephone poles (电线杆) with his classmates. They brought tools, towels and buckets and worked for three hours under the summer sun. “It was tiring, but seeing the clean poles without ugly ads, we really felt proud,” he said.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。What was the special thing Li Ruyan did last summer?
| A．He joined a special group of class13. |
| B．He became a policeman. |
| C．He helped the traffic police at a crossroad. |
| D．He stopped people from talking. |
From this passage we know that _______.
| A．Li Ruyan’s school is in the middle of a big city. |
| B．Li Ruyan and his classmates do some community work every day. |
| C．Ruyan and his classmates often hold small flags when they cross the roads. |
| D．Ruyan and his classmates think it is good for them to do some community work. |
Community service _______.
| A．has become a very important part of education only in China. |
| B．is very important in school education in some foreign countries. |
| C．is the only part of the school project for teenagers around the world. |
| D．needs students to finish at least 1,000 hours of community work. |
Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
| A．The students in Shanghai helped people to keep the traffic rules. |
| B．The students in Suzhou visited the old people’s home. |
| C．The students in Anshan cleaned the walls under the summer sun. |
| D．The students in Sichuan sent spring festival couplets to the old people. |
Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
| A．Community service helps students grow a sense of responsibility. |
| B．Through community work students get to help others and learn something. |
| C．Students are now encouraged to do more community work in many schools in china. |
| D．Students will be awarded much money for doing more community work in Canada and the US. |
When Mencius(孟子) was a little boy, his father died. Mencius and his mother were quite poor. One day Mencius returned home from school and found his mother making some cloth. It was very beautiful and expensive.
“How much of the book have you read today?” Mencius’ mother asked him. “I haven’t read any of it yet.” Mencius replied, “I played with some friends of mine in the fields.”
When his mother heard this, she picked up a pair of scissors and cut the cloth.
“Why did you cut your cloth?” Mencius asked, “It was beautiful but now you’ve wasted (浪费) it.” “You have wasted your time,” his mother said, “now I have wasted mine. Look what terrible things we have done.”
Mencius learnt a lot from this lesson. After that, he always studied hard.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。When did this story happen?
| A．Not long before liberation(解放). |
| B．More than 2000 years ago. |
| C．About 400 years ago. |
| D．In the 18th century. |
What was Mencius doing while his mother was cutting the cloth?
| A．He was reading his book. |
| B．He was playing in the fields. |
| C．He was trying to help her. |
| D．He was watching strangely. |
The mother cut the cloth because _____.
| A．she thought making cloth was wasting time |
| B．she wanted to give her son a lesson |
| C．she wanted to use more beautiful and expensive cloth |
| D．she wanted her son to do his lessons at once |
Why Mencius and his mother were quite poor?
| A．Because his father died when Mencius was a child. |
| B．Because his father was ill in bed. |
| C．Because his mother cut the cloth. |
| D．Because the cloth his mother made was very cheap. |
How did Mencius’ mother feel when she knew Mencius haven’t read any book?
| A．She felt very happy. |
| B．She felt very sad. |
| C．She felt very excited. |
| D．She felt very pleased. |