March 20th is World Water Day every year. According to a report from the United Nations, more than half of the world's major rivers have serious water loss and are polluted.The Yellow River, the world's fifth longest river, watered some of the oldest farms on earth. But now it has a serious problem. _1._In most of the past 35 years, it didn't reach the sea.The Nile in Egypt, running 6, 650 km, is the longest river in the world. __2.__ Now it is down to 2 billion m' or so. Australia's Murray River reaches the sea only every other year. One fifth of America's Rio Grande has no water, either._ 3.__Mostly it's damming (筑坝) and global warming that make rivers dry.
_4._ Now about 45, 000 of them lie across the world's rivers. They hold back around 15% of the world's fresh water from running to the sea.Global warming is making things worse. Warmer weather takes water away. The glacier (冰川) are becoming smaller. _5.Global warming has had certain effects on water sources (源头). Droughts (干旱) happening around the world make people pay more attention to this fact.
Reading is an activity people enjoy a lot in their free time.
Some like reading newspapers and1. o__________ enjoy novels or comic(喜剧的) books. My 2.f__________books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always gives me a lot of ideas on how to make my3. o____________ life better.
Great people are remembered not because they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up 4.w__________their lives were difficult. They tried to use 5. e________ chance to change their lives and make the world better.
One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers6. w_______ invented the airplane. The plane has 7. m________ the world into a small village. Hard work, not good luck, is the 8.r________ why the Wright Brothers could invent this convenient(方便的) machine and become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes 9.i________ the sky.
Whenever I read 10.s_________ about great people, I always learn a lot from them and they encourage me to march on.
This is why I enjoy reading about great people’s lives.
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Raising pets is a popular online game among teenagers. "More than 20 of my classmates have adopted(领养) pets online." Said Wang Hui from Beijing.
If you go to some websites, you can adopt virtual(虚拟的) pets like penguins(企鹅), chickens, dogs and elephants. You can feed, wash, talk to and play with your pet.
Dai Yingshuang of Shanghai said, "It's great fun and I have also learned how to take care of others." She usually asks her uncle to take care of her pet while she is at school.
If you don’t feed and care for the pet, it will become unhappy and unhealthy. So raising an online pet means spending a lot of time online. This makes many parents worried. They fear it will have a bad influence on the children’s studies.
Wang Zhaotong from Anhui has raised a penguin since last year. She said, "My parents know about the penguin and think it's okay."
If the students can keep the balance between studying and playing, it's not bad for them to "raise" pets online.
1.Over ______ students in Wang Hui’s class have adopted pets online.
A. 10 B. 20 C. half D. 21
2.What does Dai Yingshuang think of raising pets online?
A. It isn’t great fun. B. It wastes time.
C. It's not interesting. D.It's interesting.
3.Which of the following is Not Right according to the passage?
A. Raising an online pet doesn't mean spending lots of time online.
B. If you don’t feed the pet, it will become unhappy and unhealthy.
C. Raising pets online makes many parents worried.
D. It’s good for students to raise pets online.
4.What does the underline “balance” mean?
A. 余额 B. 平衡 C. 结算 D. 关系
5. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. It's bad to raise pets online.
B. How to raise pets online.
C. Raising pets online is popular among teenagers.
D．Students should adopt pets online.
Almost every Chinese person can recite the two lines of the famous poem, “Every grain on the plate comes from hard work(谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦).” But sadly, many of us don’t actually get the real meaning of these lines: Don’t waste food.
A CCTV program, News One Plus One, reported that the food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.
Do we have too much food? Of course not. According to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2010, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.
Chinese people are well known for being hospitable(好客的) and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table.
Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. Last November, Li Hong, a waitress in a restaurant in Nanjing, got fired because she took some leftover food home for her son. Many people stood by her side and criticized(批评) the waste of food.
What should we do in our daily lives to waste less food? Here are some tips:
◆Do not order too much in a restaurant. Only order as much as you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.
◆Don’t be too picky(挑剔的) about food. Some food may not taste great, but your body needs it.
◆Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don’t buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.
1. How many people were hungry in the world in 2010 according to the UN World Food Program?
A. 200 million. B. Six million.
C. 925 million. D. 625 million.
2.The underlined word “leftover” means in Chinese.
A. 过期的 B. 剩余的 C. 腐烂的 D. 难吃的
3.According to the passage, we shouldn’t waste food because .
A. food comes from very hard work
B. six million children die of hunger every day
C. there is enough food to feed all the people
D. Chinese are hospitable and generous
4.Which of the following is a good way to save food?
A. Ordering more than you need at a restaurant.
B. Taking home restaurant leftovers.
C. Not knowing what you already have at home when shopping.
D. Not eating the food you don’t like even if it’s healthy.
5.What does News One Plus One report?
A.There is enough food to throw away in China.
B.Chinese people throw away too much food.
C.We have too much food.
D.Wasting food is pleased to Chinese people.
A teacher stood in front of his history class of twenty students just before handing out the final exam. His students sat quietly and waited for him to speak.
“It’s been a pleasure teaching you this term,” he said. “You’ve all worked very hard, so I have a pleasant surprise for you. Everyone who chooses not to take the final exam will get a ‘B’ for the course.”
Most of the students jumped out of their seats. They thanked the teacher happily, and walked out of the classroom. Only a few students stayed. The teacher looked at them. “This is your last chance,” he said. “Does anyone else want to leave?” All the students there stayed in their seats and took out their pencils.
The teacher smiled. “Congratulations (祝贺),” he said. “I’m glad to see you believe in yourselves. You all get ‘A’s.”
1.This story most probably took place_______ .
A. at the beginning of the term
B. in the middle of the term
C. at the end of the term
D. at the beginning of the school year
2.Most of the students got Grade ______.
A. ‘A’ B. ‘B’ C. ‘C’ D. ‘F’
3.Why did some students stay in their seats?
A. Because they wanted to take the exam.
B. Because the teacher told them to stay in their class.
C. Because they were afraid to leave.
D. Because they didn’t have anything to do.
4.The teacher gave the students who stayed in the classroom“ A”s because ______.
A. the teacher liked them
B. they were cleverer than the other students
C. they believed in themselves
D. they studied hard
5.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 3 refers to “______”.
A. students staying in their seats
B. students leaving the classroom
C. their seats
D. all the students
