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Now, more and more cities are facing problems, such as high housing costs, pollution and crime. Let’s see what people in Hyderabad, India and in Sao Paulo, Brazil do to solve (解决) the problems.
Hyderabad, India
To improve people’s lives, Hyderabad is planting more and more trees. The city is even creating greener buildings that use less water and less electricity for power. Adding green to a city has a number of advantages. For example, trees make the air cleaner. In Hyderabad, streets were grey and dirty in the past. However, today they are filled with trees and flowers, making the city cleaner and more colourful. Green areas also give people places to relax or exercise. A study in the USA shows an interesting thing: the greener a neighborhood is, the less crime there is.
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Many people work in the centre of Sao Paulo, but they don’t live there. They’ve spread out to neighborhoods outside the city because housing is cheaper. Every day, these people travel into the city, and traffic is very heavy. City planners are using different ways to deal with (处理) the problem. First, they are building better subways. Another goal is to make it cheaper for people to live in the downtown area (中心区). Doing this will reduce traffic and pollution in the city.
小题1:What does the underlined word “greener” mean?| A．Taller. | | B．Easier. | | C．Better for the environment. | | D．More brightly coloured. |
小题2:Which advantage of making Hyderabad greener is NOT talked about in the passage?| A．It helps people work better. | | B．It makes the city cleaner. | | C．It reduces crime. | | D．It makes it easier to exercise. |
小题3:According to the passage, what problem does Sao Paulo have?| A．A lot of people don’t have jobs. | | B．Too many people live in the city centre. | | C．A lot of people are moving out of the city. | | D．Too many people travel into the city every day. |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D |
解析
本短文以两个城市为例，对如何优化城市环境，作了介绍。Hyderabad, India发展绿化，创造了更绿、更美、更和谐的城市。Sao Paulo, Brazil用建地铁、降低房价等办法来削减交通的拥挤。
小题1:green此处是“环保”之意。
小题2:从短文第二段里Adding green to a city has a number of advantages. 这句后面，可知：B、C、D三项都曾出现，均排除。
小题3:第三段City planners are using different ways to deal with the problem. 这句中的难题，就是前面提到的heavy traffic。 |
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Every day in China, about 200 million children go to school. Many of them take school buses. What should we do to keep these students safe on the road?
On April 5, the State Council (国务院) published new rules about school bus safety. These new rules are much stricter than the old ones.
Under the new rules, local governments must make sure that students attend nearby schools or boarding (寄宿的) schools to reduce traffic risks. Also, local governments must help kids in the countryside reach their school buses.
From now on, school buses have a speed limit of 80km per hour on highways and 60km per hour on normal roads. While on the road, other cars must let school buses go first.The new rules also say that school buses must never be overloaded (超载的).
There are many other rules as well. A school bus must have more than seven seats. On each bus, there must be at least one adult to keep an eye on the kids. Each school bus must have a fire extinguisher (灭火器), a first aid kit (急救箱) and a GPS.
Last year, a series of school bus accidents happened in China. To stop such accidents, the Central Government decided to strengthen the rules for school buses.
The most serious accident happened in November in Gansu, when a nine-seat minibus crashed. There were 62 children inside, and 21 of them died.
小题1:Under the new rules, which of the following is NOT true?| A．School buses must not be overloaded. | | B．School buses must drive 80 km/h or less on normal roads. | | C．School buses can go first when there are other cars. | | D．local governments must help kids in the countryside reach their school buses. |
小题2:The phrase “keep an eye on” in Paragraph 6 has a similar meaning to “_______”.| A．look after | B．play with | C．look for | D．chat with |
小题3:According to the new rule, a school bus must have the following EXCEPT ______.| A．a GPS | | B．more than seven seats | | C．a parent of one of the students | | D．a fire extinguisher and a first aid kit |
小题4:The government made new rules for school buses because _______.| A．21 students died in school bus accidents last year | | B．the government encourages all students to take school buses | | C．200 million children in China go to school by bus every day | | D．school buses in China were not safe enough before |
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As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize, or they can be small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.
Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrew Matthews tells us that making our dreams real is life’s biggest challenge.
You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from getting your dream, the book says.
In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is.
Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster because a big dream is, in fact, many small dreams.
You must also never give up your dream.
There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will lead to better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book. As you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn more skills and find new interests.
小题1: Follow Your Heart is .| A．the first thing you must do to make your dream real | | B．the most important dream to have for teenagers | | C．the name of a famous Australian writer | | D．the name of a book by Andrew Matthews |
小题2:If you want to make your dream real, you should .| A．remember what your dream is | | B．keep telling yourself what you want | | C．never be afraid of difficulties | | D．try to start with all the things above |
小题3: From the text, we know the word“challenge”means“ ”.小题4: What shouldn’t be done to make your dream come true?| A．Always remember what your dream is. | | B．Watch TV instead of studying. | | C．Do what you should do step by step. | | D．Save money to buy new books. |
小题5:What is the best title for the text?| A．Make a Big Dream | | B．How to Find Your Real Dream | | C．Never Stop Dreaming of Success | | D．Teenagers Have Many Dreams |
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America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today,10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society (社会) in many ways —education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the growing of America has made us a very different society —one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.
A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position (职位、地位), marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.
Many people say, ‘I am much younger than my mother—or my father—was at my age.’ No one says ‘ Act your age’ any more. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.
小题1:It can be learnt from the text that the aging of the population in America ______. | A．has made people feel younger | | B．has changed people’s social position | | C．has changed people’s understanding of age | | D．has slowed down the country’s social development |
小题2:The underlined word ‘one’ in the first paragraph refers to____. | A．a society | B．America | C．a place | D．population |
小题3:."Act your age " in the last paragraph means people should ______. | A．be active when they are old | | B．do the right thing at the right age | | C．show respect for their parents young or the old | | D．take more physical exercise suitable to their age |
小题4:If a 20-year-old man becomes general manager of a big company, the writer of the text would most probably consider it ______. | A．normal | B．wonderful | | C．unbelievable | D．unreasonable |
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Much meaning can be carried clearly, with our eyes, so it is often __35____that eyes can speak.
Do you have such kind of__36____? In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too long. And if he___37___that he is being looked at, he may feel uncomfortable. The same in daily life. If you are looked at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is__38____wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel__39____toward the person who is looking at you that way. Eyes do speak, right?
Looking too long at someone may seem to be impolite. But sometimes things are different. If a man looks at a woman for more than 10 seconds, it may mean that he wishes to attract her attention, to make her understand that he___40___ her. When two people are in a conversation, the speaker will only look at the listener from time to time, ___41___ make sure that the listener does pay attention___42___what he or she is saying. Lovers will enjoy looking at each other or being looked at for a long time, to show something that ___43___cannot express.
Clearly, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and the place___44___you stay.
| 小题1: | | A．spoken | B．said | C．told | D．talked |
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| 小题2: | | A．experience | B．eyes | C．mind | D．news |
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小题3: | A．found | B．knew | C．finds | D．saw |
小题4: | A．anything | B．something | C．everything | D．nothing |
| 小题5: | | A．happy | B．angry | C．sad | D．thankful |
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| 小题6: | | A．loves | B．hates | C．thanks | D．looks at |
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小题7: | A．in order that | B．so that | C．in order to | D．for |
小题8: 小题9: | A．eyes | B．words | C．minds | D．body |
| 小题10: | | A．which | B．that | C．where | D．there |
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For Sparky, school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He didn’t do much better in sports. Although he played for the school’s golf team, he lost the only important match of the season.
Sparky was a loser. He, his classmates…everyone knew it. Sparky never asked a classmate to go out in high school. He was too afraid of being refused.
However, one thing was important to Sparky – drawing. He was proud of his artwork. Of course, no one else appreciated it. In his senior year of high school, he sent some cartoons to the editors of the Yearbook. Although the cartoons were turned down, Sparky was so confident about his ability that he decided to become an artist.
After completing high school, he wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios. He was told to send some samples of his artwork, and the subject for a cartoon was suggested. Sparky spent a great deal of time on it. Finally, the reply came from Disney Studios. He had been rejected（拒绝）once again. Another loss for the loser.
So Sparky decided to write his own autobiography（自传）in cartoons. He described his childhood – a little boy loser and underachiever. The cartoon character would soon become famous worldwide. For Sparky, the boy who had little success in school and whose work was rejected again and again was Charles Schulz. He created the Peanuts comic strip（连环漫画）and little cartoon character – Charlie Brown.
小题1:We can know that Sparky was ________ from the first paragraph. | A．a top student | B．an artist | C．a good player | D．a failure |
小题2:Sparky never asked a classmate to go out because he ______.| A．had never been invited | | B．didn’t like making friends | | C．didn’t want to be refused | | D．was afraid of making mistakes |
小题3:What’s Sparky’s success according to the passage? | A．He was good at golf playing. | | B．He wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios. | | C．He drew some cartoons for the Yearbook. | | D．His Peanuts comic strip became world famous. |
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