4. I have s        to Nexvsxveek,which is one of my favourite magazines,for many years.

3. People who come to attend court hearings are always chosen at r        in order to be fair.

2. Women t        to live longer than men.

1. This company is more concerned with quality than with q       .

Every week in China,millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero,which is a Chinesestyle spelling bee (拼寫大賽) .In this challenge,young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition,the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.

Perhaps the show's popularity should not be a surprise. Along with gunpowder and paper,many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy (書法) to be one of their primary contributions to civilization. Unfortunately,all over the country,Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help. Software on smartphones and computers allows users to type in the basic sound of the word using the Latin alphabet. The correct character is cho?sen from a list. The result? It's possible to recognize characters without remembe?ring how to write them.

But there's still hope for the paint brush. China's Ministry of Education wants children to spend more time learning how to write.

In one Beijing primary school we visited,students practise calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of six-year-olds dip brush pens into black ink. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher's examples before carefully attempting to reproduce those characters on thin rice paper. "If adults can survive without using handwriting,why bother to teach it now?" we ask the calli?graphy teacher,Shen Bin. "The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradi?tion and culture," she reasons. "Students must learn now so they don't forget when they grow up”， says the teacher.

5. What can we learn about the Character Hero?

   A. It's open to people of all ages and all walks.

   B. It's the mostviewed TV programme in China.

   C. It aims to spread Chinese culture to the world.

   D. It draws great public attention across the country.

6. Why are Chinese people forgetting how to write the characters?

   A. Chinese people don't refer to dictionaries very often.

   B. Chinese people no longer use brush pens or practise calligraphy.

   C. Chinese people are using the Latin alphabet instead of the characters.

   D. Chinese people needn't write by hand as often with the help of technology.

7. According to Shen Bin,being able to write characters by hand is      .

   A. necessary for adults to survive in China

   B. a requirement made by the Ministry of Education

   C. helpful to keep Chinese tradition and culture alive

   D. an ability to be developed only when you are students

8. Where does this text probably come from?.

   A. A news report. B. A science report.

   C. An advertisement. D. Children's literature.

A The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traf- BijyWI^S fic and modern communication means (通信工具) .Life today is much rasirr lhan H was luiiulrods of yt'ars a^o.  but it has brought new  problems. One of the biggest is pollution.To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it,smell it,drink it and even hear it.

Man has been polluting the earth. The more people,the more pollution. Many years ago,the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place,man moved to an?other place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.

Air pollution is still the most serious kind of pollution. It's bad for all living things in the world,but it is not the only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us angry more easily.

Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. They stop people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city,and from putting dirty smoke into the air.

Pollution by carbon dioxide is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution. It is caused by heavy traffic. It is true that if there are fewer people driving,there will be less air pollution.

The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land,water and air clean. And we must take care of the rise in population at the same time.

1. Hundreds of years ago,the pollution was        it is today.

   A. much easier than

   B. as easy as

   C. as hard as

   D. much less than

2. Our world is becoming much smaller       .

   A. because the earth is being polluted day and night

   B. because science is developing

   C. because of the rise in population

   D. because the earth is blown away by the wind every year

3. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because       .

   A. it does harm to all living things in the world

   B. it makes much noise

   C. it makes our rivers and lakes dirty

   D. it makes us angry more easily

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

   A. The problem of pollution is not so serious because there are not so manypeople living on the earth.

   B. The pollution of the earth grows as fast as the world's population does.

   C. If people could go to work by bike,it would be helpful against the problem of carbon dioxide.

   D. Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution.

Our government is trying hard to build an energysaving society.   It is somebody's duty to work hard and reach this goal. Besides,not everybody has real?ized the important of it. Take our school for example. Sometime we can see that lights and computers are still on after class. Some students even forget to turn on the tap after using it and have water run all the time. Our papers are printed on only one side,which causing much waste. It's time we did something to avoid this kind of waste. Firstly,make sure that all the light and other electric facilities turned off when we leave the rooms. Try to form the habit of turning off the tap immediate af?ter using it. What's more,papers should be printed on both sides and reused if pos?sible.

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1. His careless driving        the serious traffic accident.

2. Most people        the view,while some people were opposed to it.

3. We intend to go to India,even if airfares        again between now and next summer.

4. Computers are helpful because they offer        functions and services that are not available anywhere else.

5. Children tend to laugh       200 times a day. For adults,however,it is a totally different story.

5.       is a time in the 1960s when young people liked wearing army uniforms.

4. Mike's mother kept telling him that he        work hard,but it didn't help.