Luca Gramberini has been scuba-diving(戴水肺潜水) since he was a kid. His family owns a scuba company. For the past three summers, Luca has added gardening to his underwater activities. He helps run Nemo's Garden, a project to grow plants in the sea.
From May through September, Luca and other divers are working on Nemo's Garden in the Mediterranean Sea, 150 feet from the coast of Noli, Italy. Five large balloon-like objects, called biosphere(生物圈), hold plants such as beans and strawberries. The biosphere is filled with air and placed 20 feet below the surface. “My father came up with the idea because he loves gardening very much,” Luca said.
According to Luca, the sea is a good place to grow plants because underwater temperatures remain stable, changing little from day to night. The biosphere acts like greenhouses. Inside the air-filled biosphere, fresh water keeps evaporating(蒸发), providing the plants with a good environment to grow in. “We have already seen the plants, grow faster and better,” Luca says. “And there are fewer storms that can knock down the biosphere during the summer.”
Luca hopes Nemo's Garden will provide a new way of growing crops. “There is not enough land on the Earth,” he says. “And in many developing countries, bad conditions make it difficult for crops to grow.”
Though the project has just started, Nemo's Garden has achieved success and is moving to different areas. “We're going to try growing other plants,” Luca says. “We hope to set up biosphere in other countries. There are many possibilities.”
1.Nemo's Garden is a project to ________.
A. do scuba-diving in the sea
B. stop storms in the sea
C. make fresh water from the sea
D. grow plants under the water
2.How long do Luca and other divers work on Nemo's Garden?
A. One month. B. Five months. C. Four months. D. Three months.
3.The underlined word “stable” in Paragraph 3 means “_______” in Chinese.
A. 平衡的 B. 正常的 C. 稳定的 D. 合适的
4.The passage is probably taken from the _______ part of a newspaper.
A. travel B. science C. health D. sports
5.The best title for this passage is _______.
A. Gardens in the Sea B. Projects for Summer Activities
C. Plants in Greenhouses D. Conditions for Crop Growing
My mother told me a good friend is like a mirror. I'm 1.1.(quiet) and more serious than most kids. That's why I like reading books and I study harder 2.2. class. My best friend Yuan Li is quiet too, 3.3. we enjoy studying together. I'm shy so it's not easy for me 4.4.(make) friends. But I think friends are like books—you don't need a lot of 5.5.(they) as long as they're good.
I don't 6.6.(real) care if my friends are the same as me or different. My favorite 7.7.(say) is, “A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.” My best friend Carol is kind and very funny. We 8.8.(know) each other since we were very little. In fact, she's funnier than anyone I know. I 9.9.(break) my arm last year and she made me laugh and feel better. We can talk about and share everything. I know she 10.10.(care) about me because she's always there to listen.
The only person on a ship was washed up on a small, lonely island. He hoped that God would s1. him and looked for someone that would come to help him, but there was n2.. Tired, he at last tried to build a little house to protect him from d3., and to store his few things. But then one day, after f4. food, he arrived home to find his little house on fire, the heavy smoke from the house.
The worst happened; everything was lost. He was disappointed and a5.. “God, how could you do this to me!” he cried. Early the next day, however, he was woken up by the s6. of a ship that was coming towards the island.
It had come to save him. “H7. did you know I was here?” asked the man. “We saw your smoke signal(信号),” they said.
It is e8. to get discouraged(灰心的) when things are going bad. But we shouldn't l9. heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in your worst situation.
Remember, next time your little house is burning to the ground, it just m10. be a smoke signal that symbols the grace(惠赠) of God. For all the negative things we have to say to ourselves, God has a positive answer for it.
Elvis Presley was America's 1. popular singer. He was 2. in Tupelo, Mississippi. His family was very poor. During his childhood, he liked to listen 3. music and he sang in church with his parents. After high school, he had to work to make a 4..
In 1953, he made his first 5., My Happiness. The story of this song was that he paid four dollars to make it for his mother.
The owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips, had been looking for a white singer who 6. sing black rhythm and blues(黑人节奏蓝调). He asked Elvis to work in a group with other people. A few months 7., Mr. Phillips made a record for the group. The record 8. very well. Elvis became 9. not only in America, but also around the world. He died in 1977, 10., nowadays, thousands of people still visit his hometown in Memphis every year.
Until last year, the saddest thing of my life was that my wife Alice and I couldn't have any children. So we always invited all the children in our street to our ___ for Christmas breakfast.
Last year, Alice died. I was very ___ and decided not to invite the children for Christmas breakfast. But Kathy and Peter, my next door neighbors, asked me to ___ them for dinner on Christmas Eve.
As soon as I arrived and took off my ___, Kathy asked me, “Do you have any milk at your house?”
“Yes,” I replied. “If you need some, I'll go and ___ it right away.”
“Oh, that's all right. Come and sit down. The kids have been waiting for you. Just ___ Peter your keys and let him do it.”
After a happy dinner with them, I went home. When I opened my ___, I found my house had been decorated(装饰) by Peter! It was just as ___ as each Christmas before. At that moment, I wished that I could still serve the Christmas breakfast, but I had made no preparations.
Early the next morning, a little boy ___ a bag of candies rang my bell. Before I could ask him what was happening, another two children came. Within fifteen minutes, my house was full of children, ____ I had all the food I needed for the usual Christmas breakfast. I had a happy breakfast with the children again.
1.A. clock B. house C. dream D. horse
2.A. sad B. glad C. rich D. lucky
3.A. use B. pay C. help D. join
4.A. map B. coat C. skirt D. plane
5.A. get B. buy C. read D. drink
6.A. ask B. tell C. give D. love
7.A. box B. book C. shop D. door
8.A. important B. difficult C. beautiful D. expensive
9.A. in B. on C. from D. with
10.A. and B. but C. unless D. although
1.He has to stay up late for the coming exam.(改为否定句)
He _________ _______ to stay up late for the coming exam.
2.I want to be a computer programmer when I grow up. (就句子画线部分提问)
________ do you want to _________ when you grow up?
3.The teacher asked me, “Are you interested in English?”(改写句子,句意不变)
The teacher asked me ________ I ________ interested in English.
4.The sound of the music was becoming lower and lower and finally we couldn't hear any.(改写句子，句意不变)
The sound of the music was _________ ________ and finally we couldn't hear any.
5.The government should set up some safeguards to prevent harmful vaccine accident from happening again.(改写句子，句意不变)
Some safeguards should _________ ________ up to prevent harmful vaccine accident from happening again.
