Pollution
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Hundreds of years ago, life was much 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 (污染). Water pollution has
made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and polluted our drinking water. Noise pollution makes
us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It"s
bad 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 over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog(烟雾).
Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it
is thrown away, they mustn"t blow dirty smoke into the air.
We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and not throw it 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.
B. there was no modern medicine
C. both A and B
D. there were not many people
B. Air pollution
C. Noise
D. Pollution
B. air pollution
C. water pollution
D. A, B and C
B. when they are thrown away
C. after it is thrown away
D. before it is thrown away
B. today people don"t have to talk to each other in a loud voice
C. we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes"
D. people are making rules in order to fight pollution
答案
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a______2 the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers as soon as they are free during the day so
that they can learn what is h______3 in the world.
Sometimes, however, we do not have e______4 time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look
at the front page, at other times, we may be in such a h______5 that we only have a few minutes to look at the
names of the passages.
Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in the big
cities, of course, but in some of the mountain v______6 we can see few newspapers.
Some newspapers are published o______7 a week, but most of the newspapers are published once a day with
many pages, some even published twice a day! As you know different people e______8 reading different
newspapers, some like sports news, some like economic news and others prefer short stories. They just choose
what they are i______ 9 in.
Today newspapers in English have the l______ 10 number of readers in the world.
couldn"t __1__. If that happened, man would soon __2__.
Luckily, man doesn"t __3__ that problem. But another animal may. The animal is the giant (巨大的)
panda, one of the world"s most-loved animals.
Dr Thomas Soderstrom, a scientist, has __4__for the first time that the bamboo (竹子) the giant pandas
eat is dying. As a result, many of the pandas are also dying of being __5__. Scientists estimate (估计)
that so far more than 140 giant pandas have died. This number may be __6__ one-quarter of the world"s
giant panda population. Between 400 and 1000 giant pandas are __7__ to live in mountains.
Giant pandas were once more __8__ all over many parts of Asia (亚洲). Now they are only in small
parts of China.
Can the wild pandas be __9__?
The scientists want to find out more about the animals" food. They want to see whether the pandas are
able to __10__ their food while the bamboo is dying.
Chinese scientists are trying to raise (饲养) more pandas in zoos. The first baby panda was born in the Beijing Zoo in the fall of 1978.
( ) 2. A. break
( ) 3. A. want
( ) 4. A. found
( ) 5. A. cold
( ) 6. A. almost
( ) 7. A. thought
( ) 8. A. big
( ) 9. A. kept
( ) 10. A. have
B. live
B. work
B. invented
B. tired
B. already
B. believed
B. liked
B. saved
B. catch
C. die
C. answer
C. known
C. hungry
C. hardly
C. seen
C. interesting
C. made
C. change
D. lose
D. face
D. studied
D. ill
D. really
D. said
D. common
D. taken
D. get
when they felt the shaking. Instead, they held on to the shelves and tried to stop the goods from falling
down.
Reporters from NHK, the country"s largest TV station, stayed calm in front of cameras during the earth
quake, even though some were facing real danger.
The earthquake was the most powerful one to hit Japan in the country"s history. But Japan"s reaction to
the earthquake has shown that it is the most earthquake-prepared (有准备的) country in the world. The
calm that Japanese showed during and after the quake has impressed the world.
This is because Japan has an earthquake culture. Japanese people are taught how to prepare for and
react to an earthquake from a young age.
One way kids learn about earthquake safety is from the cartoon character Maruko, a 9-year-old
student. In Chibi Maruko-Chan (《樱桃小丸子》), Maruko has to wear a protective (防护的) hat in
an earthquake practice. Schools in Japan organize earthquake practices every month. They make students
become familiar (熟悉的) with being in an earthquake.
Japan also has a good earthquake warning (警报) system. Warnings were broadcast on TV, the radio
and cell phones eight seconds after experts first knew about the quake on March 11. The warning system
is unable to predict an earthquake, but it can usually alert (提醒) people about 15 seconds before they
feel the effects. Even 15 or 20 seconds can be enough to save people"s lives.
B. people were too scared to move
C. people ran outdoors in a hurry
D. people escaped from the country at once
B. TV station
C. famous movie
D. five-star restaurant
B. 动作
C. 反应
D. 保护
B. Japan has a warning system that can predict earthquakes.
C. Few people were hurt during the Japan earthquake on March 11, 2011.
D. Japanese kids learn about earthquake safety only from school earthquake practices.
B. Japan"s earthquake culture
C. Japanese people are very brave
D. The earthquakes can be predicted
More than 60,000 American students now study Chinese.
"Because
of China"s fast development, Chinese has become more useful, and more and more Americans begin to learn it," said Scott McGinnis, a Washington language expert (专家).
For example, in 1999, only three schools in Chicago had Chinese lessons. This year more than 30
schools there have Chinese during school days. Last year China gave them 3,000 textbooks because they
had done a good job.
Although Chinese is becoming more and more popular, it is one of the most difficult languages to learn.
Usually, an English speaker takes about 1,320 hours to become good at Chinese. He needs only 480
hours for French, Spanish or Italian.
B. because o
f China"s interesting culture C. because they have more free time
D. because Chinese is easy to learn
B. thirteen
C. over thirty
D. less than thirty
B. at weekends
C. on school nights
D. on school days
B. three hundred
C. three thousand
D. thirty thousand
B. Chinese is more difficult to learn than French, Spanish or Italian
C. English speakers like to learn French, Spanish or Italian more than Chinese
D. English speakers like to learn Chinese more than French, Spanish or Italian