Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don‘t agree with them.

Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources， we are short of others， for example， fresh water. It is reported that we will have no coal or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources， what can we use in the future and where can we move？ Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.

In our everyday life， we can do many things to prevent waste from happening， for example， turn off the water taps when we finish washing， turn off the lights when we leave the classroom， try not to order more food than we need， and so on. Little by little， everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day， if we do our best.

1. From the passage we know that some students often _______ in the school.

A. eat too much B. don‘t work hard

C. waste things D. throw rubbish everywhere

2.What may happen in 100 years？

A. We may still have enough oil.

B. We may still have enough coal.

C. We may have a little oil

D. We may have no coal or oil to use.

3.Which of the following is right？

A. Waste brings problems.

B. Waste can bring no problem.

C. China is rich in fresh water.

D. Students never waste things.

4.Which is the best title of this passage？

A. Stop Wasting

B. School life

C. Waste in the School

D. Rich Resources in China

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Once a gentleman was traveling on a train. He felt ________ and got off at a station in search of water. When he reached the water tap (水龍頭), the________started. He ran back but________it.

It was getting________and he decided to spend the night at the station. The next morning he asked the ticket office about the next train and was told it would be on the next________. So he decided to find a place for a day’s________. He went to the nearby hotel to ask for a room but found ________.

At last h________a small house. He asked the________ whether he could stay in his house for a day. The owner immediately________, then served him food and gave him a room to stay. ________ he did not ask anything in return.

At seven, the gentleman heard a ________at the door. The owner opened the door. The gentleman saw a man dressed in ________ clothes enter the house and________the owner to pay his debts (債務(wù)).

The gentleman came to know that the owner was in need of________. The next morning he left a pack in the drawer of the room and ________. When the owner found the pack, he saw that there was a ________written to him, which read: “You ________ me but did not expect anything from me. Yesterday evening I heard the________ between you and the stranger and________that you were in need of money. This is what you need.”

1.A．sleepy B．thirsty C. hungry D．tired

2.A．passenger B．officer C．tap D．train

3.A．caught B．lost C．missed D．passed

4.A．dark B．cold C．hot D．bright

5.A．we B．month C.hour D．day

6.A．work B．stay C．fun D．travel

7.A．one B．nobody C．none D．lots

8.A．built B．repaired C．enjoyed D．reached

9.A．owner B．manager C．driver D．guest

10.A．a(chǎn)ccepted B．changed C．a(chǎn)greed D．refused

11.A．So B．But C．Because D．Unless

12.A．knock B．sound C．noise D．call

13.A．cheap B．strange C．expensive D．dirty

14.A．invited B．hated C．a(chǎn)sked D．promised

15.A．a(chǎn)dvice B．money C．time D．water

16.A．stayed up B．came up C．gave in D．went away

17.A．note B．story C．diary D．joke

18.A．cheated B．supported C．helped D．understood

19.A．quarrel B．conversation C．bargain D．discussion

20.A．planed B．explained C．hoped D．learned

Two travelling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family were rude and refused to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied: “Things aren’t always what they seem.”

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable(好客的)farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had，the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night’s rest. When the sun came up the next morning，the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay dead in the field.

The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel, “How could this happen?” “Why did you not watch out for the cow? The first man had everything, yet you watched over his house,” she accused. “The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you did not help.”

“Things aren’t always what they seem.” the older angel replied. “When we stayed in the basement，I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune, I asked God if I could seal(封口) the wall so he wouldn’t find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer’s bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I asked God if the angel could take the cow instead. Things aren’t always what they seem.”

1.The younger angel was very angry because .

A. the older angel treated the two families unfairly.

B. the older angel killed the farmer’s cow.

C. the wealthy man gave them a bad place to live.

D. the angel of death took the cow away.

2. Why did the older angel let the farmer’s cow die?

A. Because she wanted to save the farmer’s wife.

B. Because she wanted to teach the younger angel a lesson.

C. Because she was sympathetic to the rich.

D. Because God wanted the older angel to take the cow.

3.The story tries to tell the reader that .

A. the young should always learn from the old

B. angels are always ready to help the poor.

C. angels are always ready to help the rich.

D. sometimes things are not what they seem.

As we grow old, we realize that we have so little time to read and there are so many great books that we’ve yet to get around to. Yet re-readers are everywhere around us. For certain fans, re-reading The Lord of the Rings is a conventional practice annually. One friend told me that Jane Austen’s Emma can still surprise him, despite his having read it over 50 times.

New sudden clear understandings can be gained from the process of re-reading. Journalist Rebacca Mead, a long-time Englishwoman in New York, first came across George Eliot’s Middlemarch at 17. Since then, she has read it again every five years. With each re-reading, it has opened up further; in each chapter of her life, it has resonated (引起共鳴) differently. Mead evidenced the large number of ways in which really good books not only stand the test of repeat reads, but also offer fresh gifts each time we crack their spines. These kinds of books grow with us.

Scientists have also recognized the mental health benefits of re-reading. Research conducted with readers in the US found that on our first reading, we are concerned with the “what” and the “why”. Second time round, we’re able to better appreciate the emotions that the plot continues to express. As researcher Cristel Russell of the American University explained, returning to a book “brings new or renewed appreciation of both the great book and its readers.”

It’s true that we often find former selves on the pages of old books (if we’re fond of making notes on the pages). These texts can carry us back to a time and place, and remind us of the kind of person that we were then. We’re changed not only by lived experience but also by read experience – by the books that we’ve discovered since last reading the one in our hand.

More so than the movie director or the musician, the writer calls upon our imaginations, using words to lead us to picture this declaration of love or that unfaithfulness in life. A book is a joint project between writers and readers, and we must pour so much of ourselves into reading that our own life story can become connected with the story in the book.

Perhaps what’s really strange is that we don’t re-read more often. After all, we watch our favorite films again and we wouldn’t think of listening to an album only once. We treasure messy old paintings as objects, yet of all art forms, literature alone is a largely one-time delight. A book, of course, takes up more time, but as Mead confirms, the rewards make it adequately worthwhile.

1.The two books are mentioned in Paragraph 1 mainly to __________.

A. attract the attention of readers

B. introduce the topic of the passage

C. provide some background information

D. show the similarity between re-readers

2. The underlined expression “crack their spines” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.

A. recite them B. re-read them

C. recall them D. retell them

3. The purpose of the passage is to __________.

A. call on different understandings of old books

B. focus on the mental health benefits of reading

C. bring awareness to the significance of re-reading

D. introduce the effective ways of re-reading old books

4.It can be learned from the passage that __________.

A. reading benefits people both mentally and physically

B. readers mainly focus on feelings on their first reading

C. we know ourselves better through re-reading experience

D. writers inspire the same imaginations as film directors do

_____ for a long time, most of the crops in this area died from lacking water.

A. Being no rain B. There was no rain

C. To be no rain D. There being no rain

I’ve tried very hard to improve my English. But by no means ___ with my progress.

A. the teacher is not satisfied

B. is the teacher not satisfied

C. the teacher is satisfied

D. is the teacher satisfied

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Today is Sunday. The sky is full of sunshine, so does my life. At about 9:00 a.m., I go to the bookstore with my friends. There was a lot of new books. I didn’t know which one to buy, because these books were both useful to me. At last, I chose two. At 10:00, we went to the cinema; the film calling Titanic was very popular. It took us about 3 hours to see. Having seen the film, and everyone was deeply moved. Some friends even burst out tears. From the story, I understand that love is noble and valuable. That’s a really wonderful film. It is very worth seeing again. What a happy day! I hope tomorrow I will be even happy!

Eating too much fatty food，exercising too little and smoking can raise your future risk of heart disease. But there is another factor that can cause your heart problems more immediately：the air you breathe.

Previous studies have linked high exposure（暴露）to environmental pollution to an increased risk of heart problems, but two analyses now show that poor air quality can cause heart attack or stroke（中風(fēng)） within as little as a few hours after exposure. In one report of the research, scientists found that people exposed to high levels of pollutants（污染物）were up to 5% more likely to suffer a heart attack within days of exposure than those with lower exposure. Another study of stroke patients showed that even air that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency（EPA）considers to be of “moderate”(良好) quality and relatively safe for our health can raise the risk of stroke as much as 34% within 12 to 14 hours of exposure.

The authors of both studies stress that these risks are relatively small for healthy people and certainly modest compared with other risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. However, it is important to be aware of these dangers because everyone is exposed to air pollution regardless of lifestyle choices. So stricter regulation by the EPA of pollutants may not only improve environmental air quality but could also become necessary to protect public health.

1.The text mainly discusses the relationship between _________ .

A. heart problems and air quality

B. heart problems and exercising

C. heart problems and smoking

D. heart problems and fatty food

2.The underlined word “modest” in Paragraph 3 most probably means _________ .

A. relatively high B. extremely low

C. relatively low D. extremely high

3.We can learn from the text that __________？

A. eating fatty food has immediate effects on your heart.

B. the EPA conducted many studies on air quality.

C. moderate air quality is more harmful than smoking.

D. stricter regulations on pollutants should be made.

4.The author’s purpose of writing the text is most likely to _________ .

A. inform B. persuade C. describe D. entertain

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Snake dishes have become popular in__1.___ (recently) years. Snake meat in __2.____(vary ) flavors (風(fēng)味) can _____3.___ (see) in restaurant ads very often. Eating snake seems to be now in vogue(盛行), and if you haven’t eaten a snake yet, you are considered “out of date”. But I wonder ______4.____ all the trends are worth ___5.___ (follow).

Some people may defend themselves by saying that snake meat is nutritious . But these people don’t realize that many parasites(寄生蟲)，____6.___ do harm to our health, are found inside snakes.

According ___7.___ a survey, about 1000 tons of snakes are eaten every year in China and sometimes as many as 10 tons of snakes are served on dinner tables in Shenzhen in a single day!

These figures warns us that if no action is taken, ___8.__ number of snakes will drop and make an increase in ___9._(mouse) and worms population, which will result in a decrease(減產(chǎn)) of crop output. Who will see such tragedy happen?

So let’s start not to eat snakes any more because “to protect the snake is to protect ______10.___.”

A California man who was feeling sick almost died recently from a shocking cause.

26-year-old Luis Ortiz went to a hospital because of a headache and nausea(惡心，作嘔). When doctors examined him, they were shocked to find a tapeworm larva(絳蟲幼蟲) in his brain. The story gets stranger. The larva was still alive.

The creature had caused a cyst(囊腫) to form inside his head. The cyst was restricting the flow of liquids to different areas of his brain. The situation was so serious that doctors said they had to perform an emergency operation to remove the larva.

A doctor who operated on Ortiz told him he had only 30 minutes to live. When the doctor pulled the worm out of his head, it was still moving.

Luis Ortiz was a student at California State University in Sacramento. He began experiencing headaches in late August. But Ortiz said he did not think the headaches were serious.

In September, he visited a friend and his parents in another city. That is when the pain got worse. His mother saw Ortiz throwing up and took him to a hospital emergency room.

The doctors saved Ortiz's life. However, the surgery also affected him. Ortiz had to drop out of school and move back home. For now, he is not permitted to work or drive a vehicle.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the U.S. has about 1,000 reported cases of tapeworms each year. The CDC adds that tapeworms are more common in developing countries with poor public health systems.

The best way to avoid a tapeworm infection (感染)is to wash fruits and vegetables. Also, make sure meat is cooked thoroughly. The CDC suggests cooking all meats to an internal temperature of at least 63 degrees Celsius.

1. What caused Luis Ortiz to feel sick and headaches?

A. Dirty food eaten in August.

B. Travelling for a long way,

C. A living creature in his brain.

D. Uncooked meat eaten by him.

2.If the doctors didn’t have an emergency operation on him , Luis Ortiz was likely to ________ _ .

A. die of cancer B. live for only half an hour

C. finish studying in school D. pass the driving tests

3. How should people avoid infecting tapeworms?

A. By washing fruits and vegetable.

B. By boiling plates and bowls before meals.

C. By cooking meats to at least 63 °C outside,

D. By improving the development of economy.

4. What did the writer think of the cause of Luis Ortiz’s disease?

A. Quite frightening. B. Very dangerous.

C. Rather puzzling. D. Extremely surprising.