1 . 根据短文内容，完成下列句子，每空一词。

One day, Mr White told the class to get ready for a hobby show. All the students had the whole morning to get what they were going to show.

All the students came back on time except Bob, the laziest boy in his classmates’ eyes. It was very difficult to believe that such a boy could have a hobby. But to their surprise, Bob came back with many beautiful stamps in his hand. Mr White was very happy after watching them. However, Bob was going to take them back.

“Bob, you can’t take them back until the others watch them this afternoon,” said Mr White.

“But I’m sorry they are my brother’s,” he answered. “He doesn’t want them to be out of our home for long. He’s afraid that they will be lost.”

“Bob, you should show your own hobby here, not someone else’s!” Mr White became a bit angry.

But Bob’s following words made him even angrier. “Mr White, it’s true that I have a hobby. My hobby is watching my brother collecting stamps.”

1. All the students ________ the whole morning in ________ ready for the hobby show.
2. Bob was so ________ that his classmates didn’t ________ he could have a hobby.
3. When Bob ________ to his classroom, he brought many beautiful ________.
4. The things in ________ hand were ________ his but his brother’s.
5. Bob thought he ________ a “hobby”. He liked ________ his brother collecting stamps.

2 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. double          B. intense          C. pressures       D. stock          E. agriculture       F. trapped G. withdrawal     H. availability   I. drive             J. expanding     K. rising

Throughout history, people have fought bitter wars over political ideology, national sovereignty and religious expression. How much more     1     will these conflicts be when people fight over the Earth’s most indispensable resource water? We may find out in the not-too-distant future if projections about the     2     of water in the Middle East and other regions prove correct.

Less than three percent of the planet’s     3     is fresh water, and almost two-thirds of this amount is     4     in ice caps, glaciers, and underground aquifers too deep or too remote to access. In her book, Pillars of Sand-Can the Irrigation Miracle Last, Sandra Postel outlines three forces that     5     tension and conflict over freshwater. Using up the water “resource pie”. In India, the world’s second-most populous nation, with over 1 billion inhabitants, the rate of groundwater     6     is twice that of recharge, a deficit higher than in any other country. Although water is a renewable resource, it is not a(n)     7     one. The freshwater available today for more than 6 billion people is no greater than it was 2,000 years ago, when global population was approximately 200 million. (The current U.S. population is 287 million.)

Global     8     accounts for about 70% of all freshwater use. In five of the world’s most water-stressed, controversial areas the Aral Sea region, the Ganges, the Jordan, the Nileland and Tigris-Euphrates population increases of up to 75% are projected by 2025. With the fastest rate of growth in the world, the population of Palestinian territory will more than     9     over the next generation. Most experts agree that, because of geography, population     10     and politics, water wars are most likely to break out in the Middle East, a region where the amount of available freshwater per capita will decrease by about 50% over the next generation.

3 . 本次“城市公共交通周”的活动旨在提高公众节能环保的意识。(aim) (汉译英）

4 . Your own backyard may be a fun place to play. You may have trees to climb, and insects to study.     1    . But did you know these things are related to each other through the food chain? Every part of nature belongs to a community where each member uses the lower members to stay alive.

Every part of the world has food chains, including the oceans and the deserts (沙漠).     2    , the whole chain could fall apart. The food chain is most disturbed (扰乱) by people because we build neighborhoods on the land where animals live and we pollute the environment. Both these actions make it difficult for other living things to survive. Still there is a lot we can do to protect the parts of food chains. Here are some ideas that can help:

    3    . Make your backyard a place that other living things can enjoy. Plant more flowers and trees. And, most of all, try not to disturb the places where other animals live.

Do not pollute the environment. Recycle (回收) any material you can.     4    . Having fewer cars on the road means having better air for all of us to breathe.

Keep learning about and respecting (尊重) plants, animals, and the environment.     5    . You may even pass it on to your own children someday. It's important that as many people as possible protect nature and keep the food chain whole.

A．Share your space

B．If you ever want to see it

C．But if one part is taken away

D．We depend on each other for food and survival

E．Ride your bike or walk to places that you need to go

F．You can then pass this information on to your parents and friends

G．Maybe you hear birds singing or see your pet cat sleeping in the sun