In the past five years, about 2.8 billion of school textbooks were sold per year, with total spending of 20 billion yuan, news magazine Outlook Weekly reported.
Zhao Dehua is in charge of(掌管) a recycling resources company. He said many college graduates sell the textbooks they have used for four years at an average(平均) price of 1 yuan per kilogram. As these textbooks are mostly used to produce recycled paper, the cost is even higher than that of raw(未加工的) paper. It is because the processing steps of recycled paper are complex.
At present, free textbooks related to music, art and P. E. for the nine-year compulsory education(义务教育) have been reused. But because of the lack of a good platform and service supporting system for the second-hand textbook trade, most of the textbooks used for compulsory education and higher education end up as waste.
“Every year, second-hand booksellers collect textbooks at a price of about 4,000 yuan a ton. It is more than twice the price of ordinary waste paper. But the number of people who come to collect second-hand books is still small,” Zhao Dehua said.
“Setting up the system of textbook recycling can not only save resources, but also help cultivate student’ saving habits and sense of responsibility,” said Zhu Pin, a head of a school of nine-year compulsory education in Jiangxi Province. The school has set up a system for reusing the textbooks and the books are disinfected(消毒) every week.
Data(数据) from Xianyu, Alibaba’s online platform for used goods, showed that 1.56 million textbooks were sold last month. It now has more than 30 million online sellers.
1. Why is the cost of textbooks recycling higher than that of raw paper?| A．Few college graduates sell the textbooks. |
| B．The number of second-hand booksellers is still small. |
| C．The processing steps of recycled paper are no easy. |
| D．The lack of a good platform for the second-hand textbook trade. |
| A．Textbooks related to music. | B．Textbooks related to art. |
| C．Textbooks related to P. E. | D．Textbooks related to Chinese. |
| A．setting up the system of textbook recycling is necessary |
| B．almost all second-hand textbooks end up as waste |
| C．more and more people should help to produce second-hand books |
| D．recycling textbooks has nothing to do with environment protection |
| A．discover | B．develop | C．hide | D．reduce |
| A．Setting up the System of Textbook Recycling |
| B．Electronic Textbooks Will Replace Paper Textbooks |
| C．The Importance of the Nine-year Compulsory Education |
| D．Reusing Textbooks is Good for Environment and Wallet |
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| B．Lisa has a sore back. |
| C．Bob doesn’t want to eat anything these days. |
| D．Rose always feels hot these days. |
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| C．make it into powder | D．make it as dry as possible |
| A．Panax notoginseng | B．Niuhuang |
| C．Huoxiang | D．Paeoniae Radix Alba |
| A．Both of them taste terrible. |
| B．It’s okay to turn both of them into powder. |
| C．People can use them to stop the stomachache. |
| D．They are not useful for clearing heat-toxin. |
| A．Sports. | B．People. | C．Travel. | D．Health. |
【推荐2】People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk, shout and sing. They smile and they kiss. In the English language, there are many expressions about the word “mouth”. But some of them are not so nice.
For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest and say “Do not bad mouth me.”
Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret because it hurts that people’s feelings. Or they tell the person something they were not supposed to. The speaker might say: “I really put my foot in my mouth this time”. If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth, In other words, he might feel afraid for saying the wrong thing.
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend was going to say. When this happens, the friend might say: “You took the words right out of my mouth!” Sometimes a person has a bad or unpleasant experience with another person. He might say that experience “left a bad taste in my mouth”. Or the person has possibly had a very scary experience, like being chased by an angry dog. He might say, “ I had my heart in my mouth.”
Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. There is an expression for this, too. You might say such a person “was born with a silver spoon in his mouth”. This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from “hand to mouth”. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.
1. When a man says “I had my heart in my mouth”, usually he means he is ________.| A．scared | B．excited | C．surprised | D．satisfied |
| A．You were born with a silver spoon in your mouth |
| B．You took the words right out of my mouth |
| C．You really left a bad taste in my mouth |
| D．You really put my foot in my mouth. |
| A．happy | B．healthy | C．rich | D．poor |
| A．some bad people’s mouths | B．some people using the word “mouth” |
| C．some expressions about mouth | D．some things people use their mouths to do |
【推荐3】As little children, most of us were taught the virtue (美德) of honesty from stories. The well-known story of Pinocchio (匹诺曹) teaches the importance of telling the truth. Every time Pinocchio lies, his nose grows longer and longer. Another story is about the boy who “cried wolf”. In the end, he loses all his sheep and the trust of the people of his village because he tells lies many times. These types of stories show children that “honesty is the best policy”. Still, if this is the case, then why do so many people lie? The fact is that people lie for many reasons.
One reason people lie is to minimize (减少) a mistake. While it is true that everyone does something wrong from time to time, some people do not have the courage to admit their mistakes because they are afraid they will be blamed. For example, students might lie to their teachers about unfinished homework. They might say that they left the work at home when, in fact, they did not do the work at all. These students do not want to get in trouble or seem irresponsible, so they make up an excuse—a lie—to save face.
Another reason for lying has to do with self-protection. Parents, especially those with young children, may teach their children to use this type of “protective” lie in certain situation. What should children do if a stranger calls while the parents are out? Many parents teach their children to explain that their mother and father are too busy to come to the phone at that time. In this situation, protective lying can mean greater safety.
People lie for many reasons, both good and bad. Lying to keep the peace or to stay safe can have positive results. However, lying to stay out of trouble can lead to more trouble in the end. Understanding the motives behind the impulse (冲动) to lie might minimize this habit of lying.
1. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 1 refer to?| A．Honesty is the best policy. | B．The well-known story of Pinocchio. |
| C．Honesty is the most important. | D．The story of the boy who “cried wolf”. |
| A．By asking questions. | B．By giving examples. | C．By showing the results. | D．By listing advantages. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．The Types of Lies. | B．The Habit of Lying. | C．The Reasons Behind Lying. | D．The Ways to Lie. |
【推荐1】There are many interesting places to visit around the world. Here are some of them.
The Piano House
This house in Anhui Province looks like a large piano, with a glass violin in the middle. Some students from Hefei University of Technology built it and hoped to bring the city more tourists. If you are a music lover, don’t miss it.
Singing Roads
In Japan, some roads can play music as cars travel over them. Grooves(凹槽) are carefully cut into the road. The spaces between the grooves make different music as cars touch them. Drivers can hear the beautiful songs best when driving at 50 kilometers an hour.
And all say they can make them keep awake(清醒的) when they feel tired.
Mr. Toilet House
Mr. Toilet built this large building in South Korea to tell people how important toilets are. There is a Children Museum inside. And now it is a popular place for school learning trips and students love it.
Opening time: It is open from Tuesday to Sunday, and closed on Mondays. (March—October: 10:00-18:00; November—February: 10:00-17:00.)
1. The Piano House is in _______.| A．South Korea | B．Japan | C．Hefei | D．Anhui |
| A．those roads in Japan are very wide |
| B．cars touch the spaces between the grooves |
| C．there are some pianos on these roads |
| D．Japanese cars are running very fast |
| A．spaces | B．songs | C．drivers | D．traders |
| A．9:00 a.m. on Monday | B．19:00 p.m. on Tuesday |
| C．15:30 p.m. on Friday | D．17:30 p.m. on Sunday |
| A．Mr. Toilet House. | B．Singing Roads. |
| C．The Piano House. | D．Huainan City. |
【推荐2】A scientist goes to a forest to study monkeys. He or she wants to study their habits. But the first problem is: how to know who’s who?
In the past, scientists had to make marks on each of the animals to tell them apart(分辨). But in the future, they may have a much easier way, thanks to facial recognition technology(面部识别技术).
A research team from China’s Northwest University is using facial recognition technology to recognize thousands of monkeys that live on Qinling Mountain in Shanxi province. It’s quite like human facial recognition and it uses the facial features(特点) of the monkeys to create a database(数据库) that includes every monkey. “When the system is fully developed in the future, we can connect it with cameras set up in the mountains. The system will recognize the monkeys, name them and try to understand their behavior,” said Zhang He, a member of the research team. “The recognition success rate is 94 percent.”
Compared with facial recognition technology for humans, facial recognition technology for monkeys is more complicated (复杂的) because monkeys have faces with hairs. The color of their hair causes them to blend (融入) into their environment. These factors make it harder for computers to do the job. Besides, monkeys do not work with researchers in the same way humans do. It is difficult to take high-quality pictures and videos of them, which are needed to improve the system.
1. To study monkeys in a forest, what is the first problem for the scientist?| A．How to tell them apart. |
| B．How to make marks on them. |
| C．How to understand their behavior. |
| D．How to use facial recognition technology. |
| A．It has already been fully developed. |
| B．It works like human facial recognition. |
| C．It has a much higher success rate. |
| D．It takes high-quality pictures of monkeys. |
| A．What facial recognition technology is like. |
| B．How the facial recognition system works. |
| C．What difficulties the researchers face. |
| D．How researchers will solve the problems. |
【推荐3】A hobby (爱好) is something that you do for fun. You do it when you have time, but you don’t get money from doing it. Hobbies are fun, and they are also good for you.
Do you know that people who do puzzles (智力游戏) live longer than people who don’t? People who do puzzles can also remember more than people who don’t do puzzles. Even when they are old, people who do puzzles usually have good brains.
Watching funny movies is great for your body. When you laugh (笑) for 15 minutes or more, it is just as good for your body as exercising. Laughing exercises the heart (心脏) and keeps it healthy.
Going to concerts is also good for the heart. Listening to music can make your heart strong. Going to concerts can even help sick people get better faster.
Children who play with Legos are better at thinking than other children. They even talk and read better. Children who play with Legos learn to use their hands to do small things better than children who do not.
Even driving bumper cars can be healthy. Some children sometimes bump other children when they are angry. It can be a lot of fun to try to stop others from bumping into your car. Bumping others in a fun way can turn anger into laughter.
And speaking of fun, a school in South Africa teaches play. That school found that children who study how to have fun have better grades.
1. Which hobbies are good for children’s study?①Doing puzzles. ②Listening to music.
③Playing with Legos. ④Driving bumper cars.
⑤Playing.
| A．①③⑤ | B．①②⑤ | C．②③⑤ | D．①③④ |
| A．Having hobbies keeps people busy. | B．Driving bumper cars makes children angry. |
| C．Most people get money from doing hobbies. | D．Watching funny movies keeps the heart healthy. |
| A．Who needs hobbies. | B．When people do hobbies. |
| C．How people start hobbies. | D．What hobbies bring to people. |
We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting so much paper,
| A．So how can we save paper? |
| B．Do you like trees? |
| C．there will not be any trees left on the Earth. |
| D．If we don’t, |
| E．there will be no paper. |
【推荐2】According to a research, more than 130 billion pounds of uneaten food go to waste in Laura’s country each year. That is about 30% of the yearly food supply (供应). It is a sad fact.
When Laura saw her school dining hall throw away food that was not eaten at all every day, she came up with an idea. She started a project to help her school dining hall to give away uneaten food to homeless shelters (庇护所) in her community. In the past three years, it has already fed thousands of people in her city.
How does it work? Through an app, Feed & Find matches local homeless shelters with school dining halls and restaurants that have uneaten food to provide. When dining halls or restaurants have uneaten food left, they can use the app to share the information about the food. A truck driver working for the project is then sent to pick it up and take it to a shelter.
Pretty cool, right? It’s not surprising that people in other cities have got in touch with Laura, hoping that she could help develop similar projects for their communities.
Some people, however, have concerns about the safety of the uneaten food. They think such food may not be clean enough. Still, this project is a clever way to help solve the problem of food waste and it helps those in need.
1. The numbers in Paragraph One tell us ________.| A．some people are poor | B．food waste is serious |
| C．the population is large | D．the research is interesting |
| A．find a truck driver | B．visit their communities |
| C．give away food to them | D．help develop projects like hers |
| A．ways | B．secrets | C．worries | D．decisions |
【推荐3】Almost every Chinese person can recite the two lines of the famous poem, “Every grain on the plate comes from hard work.” 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:
1) 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.
2) Don’t be too picky (挑剔的) about food. Some food may not taste great, but your body needs it.
3) Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don’t buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.
1. What’s the real meaning of the underlined sentence?
| A．春种一粒粟，秋收万颗籽。 | B．谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。 |
| C．吏禄三百石，岁晏有余粮。 | D．足蒸暑土气，背灼炎天光。 |
| A．200 million. | B．6 million. | C．925 million. | D．625 million. |
| A．Many Chinese restaurants waste a large amount of food. |
| B．Many Chinese people are kind-hearted and ready to help the weak. |
| C．Chinese people feel that they lose face if their guests eat all the food. |
| D．Many Chinese people don’t agree with the behavior of wasting food. |
