【推荐1】配对阅读。左栏是五个人对将要扔掉的废品的描述，右栏是七个废品处理的做法。请根据每个人的情况，为他们选择合适的做法，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。

1     John’s mobile phone didn’t work this morning because it was short of electricity. After checking it, he found something wrong with the battery. He had to buy a new one and throw the old one away.     2    Tim will graduate from university. He has some useful books which helped his pass the exams. But now they are not valuable to him. He wants to give them away to others.     3    Betty was born in a rich family. She can buy any clothes she likes from shops. But she never wears them more than three times. She thinks it is a kind of waste. So she wants to give them away to the people who need them.     4    Jacky is fond of drinking a bottle of beer each meal. Now he has collected many beer bottles. He hopes to make some money by selling them.     5     Lucy’s sofa was broken last week. Today she bought a new set of sofa. She has no room for the old sofa and she would like to find a place to put it.

A. Don’t throw your old bottles here and there. You should put them into the dustbins around you. Remember not to break the bottles, or they may hurt you or the cleaners who go to collect them. B. This is the school library. You are allowed to do some reading here. If you have some books which you don’t need, you can give them away to us. We’ll be thankful for your kindness. C. If you have old furniture you don’t need, you can give it away to the charity. Maybe someone else needs it. Don’t throw it into the rubbish station. D. In our waste collecting shop, you can sell all the things you don’t need, such as old newspapers, paper bags and bottles. We will offer you a very high price for your old things. E. The batteries can do great harm to the earth where you throw them. They will pollute the earth for a long time. So don’t throw your old batteries everywhere. Just put them into a certain dustbin so that cleaners can deal with them easily. F. This dustbin is set here for the visitors to throw their rubbish, especially something that can be recycled. Batteries and something like them are not allowed to throw here. G. We are a public service organization. Now it is cold winter. We don’t have enough clothes to keep warm. If you have any clothes you don’t need, please send them to us. We will be very thankful for your help.

【推荐2】Recently, the term “carbon neutral(碳中和)” has been used frequently at some important meetings in many countries. Many countries have put forward the goal of striving( 奋斗目标 )to be carbon neutral. China is expected to be carbon neutral by 2060. So, as middle school students, what can we do to protect the environment and live a low carbon life? Here are some suggestions for you.

Travel in a green way. Now more Chinese people have cars of their own. It has brought us a lot of benefits but has created some serious problems as well. So we had better do more walking, cycling, taking a bus and less driving. By doing so, we can save energy and reduce pollution.

Cut down white pollution. We should reduce the pollution of plastic bags. When you go to the supermarket, bring your own shopping bags.

Save water. Lack(缺乏)of water resources will affect the ecological environment(生态环境). So please turn off the tap after using it.

Sort(分类)the rubbish. Doing garbage classification(垃圾分类)in a right way can turn waste into wealth.

Plant more trees. Planting more trees means cutting down and reducing the carbon footprint(足迹)and spreading of greenhouse gases.

Use both sides of the paper. The paper production process uses a lot of trees.

Now is the time that we should take up our responsibility to protect our environment from being polluted. Let’s join our hands and take actions immediately.

1. According to the passage, which way is bad for the environment?

A．Walking.	B．Driving.
C．Riding a bike.	D．Taking a bus.

2. White pollution means ________.

A．air pollution	B．water pollution
C．noise pollution	D．plastic pollution

3. In order to protect the environment and live a low carbon life, we can ________.
①use plastic bags while shopping       ②use only one side of the paper
③do garbage classification in a right way       ④turn off the water after using it

A．①②	B．③④
C．①③④	D．①②③④

4. How many suggestions does the writer give in the passage to be carbon neutral?

A．Six.

B．Five.

C．Four.

D．Three.

5. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Save the world.	B．Sort the rubbish.
C．Live a low carbon life.	D．Travel in a green way.

【推荐3】Hundreds of years ago, life was harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either.

Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution to all living things in the world.

Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt (被状物) over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.

Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. Factories must clean their water now before it is thrown away and they mustn’t let dirty smoke go into the air.

We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and not throw them on the ground. We can go to work by bus or with our friends in the same car. If there are fewer people driving, there will be less pollution.

Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.

1. The most serious kind of pollution is ________.

A．noise pollution	B．air pollution
C．water pollution	D．A, B and C

2. Factories must clean their water ________.

A．before they are thrown away

B．when they are thrown away

C．after it is thrown away

D．before it is thrown away

3. From the passage, we know that ________.

A．a few years ago, there was no smog at all

B．today people don’t have to talk to each other loudly

C．we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes

D．people are making rules in order to (为了) fight pollution

【推荐1】The following is a QUIZ(自测) from a magazine.

Questions	1 Point	2 Points	3 Points
Where do you live?	in a village	in a town	in a city
How do you go to work/ school?	by walking/ bicycle	by train/ bus/ subway	by driving a small car
How many times a year do you fly on airplanes?	1	2	3
How many hours of electricity do you use each day(e.g. watching TV, keeping lights on)?	0-6 hours	6-12 hours	12-18 hours
How often do you recycle?	almost always	often	sometimes

Total Points	Result
7	Less pollution than the average(平均) person
8-10	As much pollution as the average person
11-13	A little more pollution than the average person
14-14	A lot more pollution than the average person

1. Which of the following makes the least pollution?

A．Living pretty well in a big city.	B．Flying on planes only twice a year.
C．Almost always recycling used things.	D．Using 15 hours of electricity each day.

2. How many points does the average person get?

A．7 points.

B．8-10 points.

C．11-13 points.

D．14-15 points.

3. Tom lives in a city, goes to work by subway, flies on airplanes once a year, uses 15 hours of electricity a day, an sometimes recycles used things. How many points does he get?

A．11 points.

B．12 points.

C．13 points.

D．14 points.

4. Which of following would be the best title for the quiz?

A．Where Do You Live?	B．What Do You Recycle?
C．Why Do We Travel?	D．How Green Are You?

【推荐2】Napoga is a 12-year-old girl in Ghana (加纳), Africa. It is hard for her family to get clean water. Every morning, she leaves home at half past five to get clean water for her family in a village far away.     1     She has no time to go to school or to play with her friends. Millions of people in the world are facing the problem of water shortage like Napoga. They can’t get enough clean water to keep healthy.

Earth Day is April 22.     2     The water we use is the most important natural resource (自然资源) on the earth. Water covers 70% of the earth’s surface. Unfortunately, most of that is sea water. We can’t use it for very many things. Fresh water covers only 1% of the earth’s surface.   

    3     But that doesn’t mean you don’t have to worry about water. We all face serious water problems. One of them is water pollution. All kinds of things from cars, factories, farms and homes make our rivers, lakes, and oceans dirty. Polluted water is very bad for people to drink. And dirty water is bad for fish, too. Now, 34% of all kinds of fish are dying out.     4       First, they pollute the air. Then, when it rains, the rain water comes down and makes our drinking water dirty. Dirty rain, called acid rain, is also bad for plants, animals and buildings.

Scientists say that in 30 years, more than half of the people in the world won’t have enough clean water. We have to learn how to save more water for ourselves and our children.

根据短文内容，从下面选项中选出四个句子填入文中空缺处，使短文内容通顺完整。

A．How do cars and factories make our water dirty?

B．But on all other days, we must also remember it.

C．You probably feel lucky that your life isn’t as hard as Napoga’s.

D．Pollution has led to serious problems of water shortage (短缺).

E．It takes her six hours to get enough clean water for daily cooking and drinking.

【推荐3】The Earth is about 4,600 million years old. People live on the Earth for only 35,000 years. But we change the Earth in many ways. Many things we do are good, but some are not good for the Earth.

Water pollution

A lot of people, birds and fish die each day because of water pollution. Factories pollute the water. As a result, the water in many rivers and lakes is very dirty now.

Air pollution

In big cities, factories, cars and buses are the main causes (原因) of air pollution. Many people in cities now have health problems. For example, Mexico used to be a beautiful city and was a good place for people to live, but today there is lots of PM2.5 in the air. And many people get ill because of the polluted air.

Soil (土壤) pollution

In order to have a better harvest (收获), some farmers use chemicals (化学物质) in their fields. That’s bad for the soil.

Hope for the future

These problems are very bad for our future, so all of us should do something to protect the environment. If we can stop pollution, the Earth will become more and more beautiful.

1. How old is the Earth?

A．About 3,500 million years old.	B．About 3,700 million years old.
C．About 4,600 million years old.	D．About 4,800 million years old.

2. What makes the Earth change a lot?

A．Plants.

B．Cloud.

C．Animals.

D．People.

3. How many kinds of pollution are talked about in this passage?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The water in many rivers is very clean now.

B．Mexico was a good place to live in the past.

C．Factories, cars and buses can cause air pollution.

D．Now more and more farmers use chemicals in the fields.

5. What is the purpose (目的) of the passage?

A．To ask us to learn about the Earth.	B．To ask us to thank the Earth.
C．To ask us to enjoy the Earth.	D．To ask us to protect the Earth.