Fashion isn't very environmentally-friendly because it makes people buy things they don't need, just because they're new. We want to take care of the environment, we don't want to pollute the air and we don't want to waste energy and resources. But we also want to be fashionable. How can we buy fashionable clothes and protect the environment?
Old styles are fashionable again, so one way is to buy second-hand clothes — recycled clothes. Another way is to buy' fair trade clothes. These clothes are either recycled or made in a ' way that protects the environment. They also protect the people who make the clothes.
Surprisingly, white cotton is one of the least environmentally-friendly crops of all. To protect the cotton, the growers use chemicals that pollute water, make farm workers ill and kill wildlife. New materials, such as hemp and bamboo, grow quickly and are more environmentally-friendly. These materials are very soft, and look fantastic. The best materials are coloured using natural dyes, made from plants.
Environmentally-friendly clothes are practical but until now they were often dull. Now fashion-designers are working with these materials and the clothes are beautiful as well. So now we can buy fashionable clothes that are also environmentally-friendly.
1.Why do people often buy things they don't need? Because_.
A. new things can be more comfortable
B. everyone wants to be fashionable
C. people are richer than before now
D. people care about the environment
2.What's the topic for paragraph 2?
A. Recycled fashion. B. The problem with fashion.
C. Fashion doesn't have to pollute. D. New materials.
3.Which of the following is more environmentally-friendly?
A. Materials soft and looking fantastic.
B. Any materials coloured using natural dyes.
C. Hemp and bamboo.
D. White cotton.
4.Why are environmentally -friendly clothes more fashionable now? Because______.
A. people pay more attention to our environment
B. environmentally-friendly clothes are practical
C. all old styles become fashionable again
D. fashion-designers are working to make them beautiful
5.What is the best title for the passage?
A. Cotton or Hemp and Bamboo?
B. Environmentally-friendly Clothes
C. Old Style, New Fashion Again
D. Fashion and the Environment
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Judge the following sentences True (T) or False (F).
1.A 9-year-old American boy is ready to take a balloon flight on his own after training for about five years.
2.Gadhafi agreed to end the Libyan civil war but the opposite wouldn't accept it if he leaves office.
3."Tiger Mother" parenting raises media storm in the US, but all people agree other traditional, strict "Chinese" way of bringing up children.
4.Japan tries to fix radiation leaks in 9 months.
5. Natalie won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in "The King's Speech" while Colin won the Best Actor for his role in "Black Swan. "
Choose the best answer from A to F in the box according to the sentence given.
1.How long have you felt like this?
2.What are you up to?
3.How was your holiday?
4.Can I help you?
5. Let's make it 4:30.
A little old man and his wife walked slowly into McDonald's 16 a cold-winter evening. They took a table near the back wall, and then the little old man walked to the cash register (收银处)to order. After a while he got the food back and they began to 17 it.
There was one hamburger, some French fries and one drink. The little old man carefully cut the hamburger into halves and 18 the French fries in two piles. Then he neatly put the 19 of the food in front of his wife. He took a sip of the drink and his wife took a sip. "How20 the old people are!" The people around them thought.
21 the man began to eat his hamburger and his French fries, his wife sat there 22 him and took turns to drink. 23 young man came over and offered to buy another meal for them. But they refused 24 and said that they got used to 25 everything.
Then a young lady asked the little old lady a question. "Madam, why aren't you eating? You said that you shared everything. Then what are you waiting for?" She answered, "The teeth.”
1. A. for B. at C. in D. on
2. A. eat B. taste C open D. try
3.A. divided B. placed
C. changed D. cut
4. A. half B. bit C. piece D. pair
5.A. clever B. foolish C. old D. poor
6.A. Because B. As C. So D. Before
7.A. keeping B. watching
C. seeing D. holding
8.A. Another B. The other
C. Other D. A
9.A. delightedly B. carefully
C. politely D. angrily
10.A. share B. sharing
C. enjoy D. enjoying
To prepare Chinese students for the world, and
international students for China
US Boy, 9, Plans to Take Balloon Flight Alone
BENGHAZI, Libya — Muammar
Gadhafi accepted an African Union(AU) plan to end the Libyan civil war but
the opposite said on Monday there could be no deal unless he leaves office.
NEW YORK — A new book written by
Amy Chua on her super-. strict parenting—Battle Hymn of
the Tiger Mother has raised media (媒体) storm and strong arguments
in the US. 
TOKYO — The operator of Japan's
quake-hit nuclear plant( 受地震袭击的核电站) said on Sunday it aims to reduce
radiation leaks(辐射泄漏) in three months and achieve a
"cold shutdown" in six to nine months.
LOS ANGELES — Sunday night,
the 83 annual (每年一度的) Academy Awards took place in Los
Angeles. Colin Firth won the Best Actor for his role in "The King's
Speech”, and Natalie Port man won the
Best Actress Oscar for her role in " Black Swan".