Our world is in danger. We must do something to protect the environment. But (A) ________ are the main problems we face?
The greenhouse effect
The atmosphere around the Earth is necessary for all living things. It is like the glass of a greenhouse, letting sunlight in and (B)keeping heat from getting out. Without it, the Earth would be the same (C) ________ the Moon-cold and lifeless.
When we burn fuels such as petrol and coal, we produce a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2). (D)Too much of this gas pollutes the atmosphere, and causes it to keep in too much heat. As a result of the greenhouse effect, the Earth’s temperature is increasing. This causes sea level to rise, and in the future may cause cities to disappear.
Cutting down forests
Every year, we destroy nature by cutting down huge areas of forests. This makes the greenhouse effect worse (E)因为树吸收二氧化碳 and produce oxygen. Cutting down trees also destroys the homes of the animals that live in our forests, and causes the surface of the soil to be easily destroyed by rain. This can (F)result in floods and even more damage to the environment.
1. 在文中画线部分(A)和(C)的空白处填入适当的单词：2. 写出文中画线部分(B)和(F)的同义词或近义词：
3. 将文中画线部分(D)改写为：The atmosphere
4. 将文中画线部分(E)译成英语：
5. 在文中找出两种燃料的名字：
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One fresh sunny day, while I was swimming in the water, I felt something special going through my gills(鳃). It was a different kind of water. I also found many of my friends became sick. Some of them were dying. I was starting to worry because I didn’t want to get sick or die. I was also thinking about what I should do to save my friends, so I decided to do some research for my underwater life.
Then it started. At first, I noticed there were many bottles, cans and other kinds of rubbish in the water. I got closer and soon I tasted many different kinds of liquid(液体). Then I saw a man standing by the water. He was pouring(倾倒) some liquid into the water. I hated it! I wish I could have told him that it was killing us!
I think it is so stupid for people to do this to the earth that they are living on! I can’t understand why they are doing this. Humans should stop throwing waste into the lakes or rivers. I want to have a normal life with my friends. People should care about the environment. If they do that, everyone will be fine and will have nothing to worry about. In this way, we can live happily. Do you agree with me?
1. Why were the writer’s friends sick even dying?(根据短文内容回答问题)2. How did the writer feel when seeing the man pouring some liquid into the water?(根据短文内容回答问题)
3. What did the writer want us to do?(根据短文内容回答问题)
4. The underlined word “it” refers to
5. Do you agree with the writer? Please write down your reason.
【推荐2】Trees are important in our life. However, the Philippines, China’s neighbor, is facing a serious problem—the loss of forest cover. In fact, the Philippines is one of the world’s most deforested (滥伐的) countries with total forest cover dropping from 70% to just 20% during the 20th century. Luckily, a new law may help the country to solve the problem because it requires students to plant at least 10 trees each before they graduate.
Congressman (国会议员) Gary Alejano introduced the bill (议案) first and later the Philippine Congress passed it. The bill states that this requirement applies to (适用于) all students in order to graduate from primary school, high school and college. If the students want to graduate, each of them must plant no fewer than 10 trees. Every year, there are over 12 million students graduating from primary school, nearly 5 million students graduating from high school and almost 500, 000 students graduating from college in this country. If the law is carried out properly and completely, at least 175 million new trees will be planted each year. “Even if only 10% of all the planted trees are able to stay alive, it will still result in 525 million trees in the course of one generation (一代人).”
Mr. Alejano points out this law will do more than help make our earth a greener place. His main goal is to help bring environmental understanding to future generations.
阅读短文，回答下列问题。
1. What problem is the Philippines facing now?
2. Why can the new law solve the problem?
3. Who introduced the bill first?
4. How many trees will be planted in the Philippines every year thanks to the law?
5. If we are facing the similar problem, what should we do in our daily lives?
If you are in Shanghai and want to throw a cup of milk tea, be careful. You need to follow these steps: first, pour out any leftover( 残留物) into a wet waste bin; second, put the paper wrapper into a recyclable waste bin; finally, throw the single-use cup and straw(吸管) into a dry waste bin.
Sound complex( 复 杂 的 ) ？ You’ll have to get used to it. From July 1st,2019 on, people in Shanghai are required to sort(将…..分类) their garbage（垃圾） according to strict rules. Garbage is divided into wet garbage, toxic( 有 毒 的 )garbage and recyclable garbage. Many other cities in China are planning to create similar sorting rules.
Why should we sort our garbage? The answer lies in the increasing amount of waste we are producing. Chinese cities produce over 200 million tons of waste each year, according to China Economic Net. Most of this waste is buried in landfills, which may pollute water and soil. Moreover, we are running out of space for new landfills.
In fact, more than half of our waste can be recycled. Recyclable garbage can be made into new materials, while wet garbage can be used to make gas, heat and fertilizer(肥料). But in order to recycle efficiently(有效地), we need to sort our garbage.
Can't garbage-processing companies do the sorting job for us? They can. But that requires a lot of work and costs lots of money. Things will become much easier if each of us can sort our own garbage. Besides, the troublesome task of sorting might encourage people to produce less waste. Do you still want to buy that milk tea?
1. How many steps should we follow to throw away a cup of milk tea in Shanghai?2. When are people in Shanghai required to sort their garbage?
3. Why should we sort garbage?
4. Where is most of waste buried?
5. Which kind of garbage can be used to make heat?
【推荐1】Does your family buy the week’s groceries (杂货) including many bottled drinks into your home? Because after having sports or hanging out under the sun, it’s so cool to get a cold one right out of the fridge, right?
But all those plastic (塑料) bottles use a lot of oil and pollute the environment. Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world with 29 billion water bottles a year. To make all these bottles, 17 million barrels (桶) of oil will be used up. That’s enough oil to keep million cars going for twelve months.
Most people choose to throw the bottles away after having the bottled drinks. In fact, instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into carpeting or clothing. Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt (瓦特) light bulb (灯泡) for six hours.
Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one is made recycling. The rest are sent as garbage. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land or in rivers, lakes, and oceans. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate (分解).
So why don’t more people drink water from the kitchen? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them, but that’s not true. The chemicals in the bottles themselves may get into the water which can do harm to people.
So next time when you have drinks or water, please try to use a glass at home or carry water in a steel bottle. And if you want to do something more, try to collect plastic bottles and send them for recycling.
Answer the questions according to the passage.
1. What are plastic bottles made from?
2. How many bottles of water do Americans buy every year?
3. What can recycling a plastic bottle do?
4. How long does it take to disintegrate plastic bottles?
5. Is bottled water better for us?
Oceans of Plastic: Time for Action
Plastic is useful. It’s in a lot of things we use every day, from clothes to pens, and bottles to toys. But there’s a problem. Most plastic is not biodegradable (可生物降解的), and a lot of it ends up in our oceans.
How big is the problem?
There are billions of bits of plastic in the world’s oceans! Every ocean and every beach has plastic, from large objects to tiny pieces called microplastics. Tons of plastic enter the ocean every year. Increasing like this, by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans!
How does plastic harm animals?
Fish, sea turtles, and birds think plastic is food, and they eat it. The plastic stays in their stomachs. Dead seabirds are found with stomachs full of plastic. Whales, dolphins, and seals are caught by plastic bags or fishing nets. It’s said that millions of ocean animals die each year because of plastic rubbish in oceans around the world.
Is there any good news?
Yes! Scientists, schools, businesses, and people are taking action. In some countries, plastic bags aren’t allowed to use. Scientists are developing new biodegradable plastics. Many communities are trying to use less plastic and recycle more. Kids are playing their part, such as working to make their schools “zero plastic”.
What can you do?
Don’t use plastic bags.
Don’t buy plastic bottles.
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One person can’t solve the problem alone, but together we will make a difference.
补全1—4小题信息。每空限填一词。请再写出一条保护海洋的建议，完成第5题。不超过15个词。
World Oceans Day |
| The big There are billions of bits of plastic in the oceans. Sea animals like seals are caught by plastic waste. Seabirds are found People’s quick actions People Scientists are developing new plastics. Communities are trying to use Kids are playing their parts. Helpful advice No plastic bags or bottles. |
【推荐3】The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means（通讯手段）. Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious（严重的）because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place, man moved to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.
Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad for all the living things in the world, but it is not the only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us angry more easily.
Many countries are making rules to fight pollution.They stop people from burning coal（煤）in houses and factories in the city, and from putting dirty smoke into the air. Pollution by SO2 is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution. It is caused by heavy traffic.
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must take care of the rise in population at the same time.
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1. To pollute means
2. The problem of pollution was not so serious many years ago because
3. How many kinds of pollution are mentioned（提到）in the passage?
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As more and more people move to small flats in cities, having a small piece of land to grow flowers or plant trees seems impossible. However, some Japanese landscape gardeners (园林设计师) have showed that, with a little creativity and imagination, you can even create a garden on a truck!
The Kei Truck Garden Competition is held every year in Japan. It is a competition that asks its players to turn trucks into moveable gardens. Landscape gardeners all over the country attend the competition. Everyone tries his best to create the most beautiful little gardens on trucks.
Most players stick to traditional Japanese designs (设计). Others prefer more modern designs. They even add lights and coffee tables into the garden. People are always surprised to see these unbelievable small gardens which are created in the most unexpected place.
If you like gardening but couldn't find a piece of land, you can try to create a small garden of your own.
1. Where do some Japanese landscape gardeners create a garden? (不超过 5 个词)2. What do the players who prefer more modern designs add into the garden? (不超过 10 个词)
3. Who may try to create a small garden of their own according to the text? (不超过 15 个词)
【推荐2】Most people like having a picnic. But what does the word mean? Where does it come from? What is a picnic?
For most people a picnic is a meal they eat outside the home, usually in a park, by a river, or even sitting in a car if the weather is cold and wet. At one time, however, people had picnics at home at their own dinner tables.
The word picnic comes from the French words piquer which means" to pick" or" take” and pique-nipue which means “a small coin". Everyone who came to a picnic brought something to eat. They took or picked small pieces of food from each plate. They had a pique-nique. This kind of meal was popular in Britain. The British used the French words for it but changed the letters to make “picnic”. This is the way we write it today.
In some countries there are big picnics on special days. Lots of people go to parks on these picnics. For most people, however, a picnic is a family party. The family put some food and drinks in a basket, get in the car and go off to a nice place in the country or by the sea.
1. What is a picnic?For most people a picnic is a meal
2. Where does the word picnic come from? It comes from
3. Who used the French words and changed the letters to make “picnic"?
4. Where do people usually go for a picnic on special days? People usually
5. What does the passage mainly talk about? It mainly talks about
There are many things you can do to improve your memory, such as using different memorizing methods as well as taking special care of your health.
It is important that you regularly stimulate(刺激) your brain to make your memory more efficient. For example, you can do activities that you do not usually do and change your daily habits. Learning a new skill helps your brain develop. When trying memorize something, you should pay attention to the most important things about it. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind because this will lower your chances of remembering things well.
An excellent way to help memory is to connect information with pictures. Try to see the pictures in your mind. Taking notes, being organized and keeping a diary will also be useful.
Healthy food and plenty of vitamins (维生素) necessary for your memory to work properly. Drinking a lot of water also helps keep your memory. You must allow your brain to have enough sleep and rest, too. When you are asleep, you brain stores memory. Not enough sleep can, therefore, cause problems with information. In addition, being tired will stop you from being able to concentrate (聚精会神) well. Caffeine in tea and coffee is very good at stopping sleepiness and helping concentrate, but some people believe they may cause problems with memory.
How to improve your memory | |
| Use different memorizing methods | *stimulate your brain *change your 1 *learn a new skill *connect information with pictures * 2 , be organized and keep a diary |
| Develop 3 lifestyles | ·have healthy food and enough vitamins ·drink lots of water ·avoid drinking tea or coffee ·have 4 and rest |
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