Five teenagers from Sarasota, Florida, are making music from garbage. The Garbag
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The band started about two years ago. Jack, who was in eighth grade at the time, decided to make a homemade guitar. After some hard work, he ended up building it from a cereal box, a big ruler and some little sticks. After Jack showed his guitar to his friend Ollie, Ollie had the idea to make a band using other homemade instruments as a way to suggest people recycle old things. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the rubbish box,” Jack, 16, told TFK. “You can actually recycle old things.”
Ollie, 15, plays the drums made from rubbish cans. Evan, 14, plays the guitar; Harrison, 15, plays the horns and the violin; and Austin, 16, plays the keyboard. They make up the band The Garbage-Men and play at local parties around. They wand to help people get interested in recycling old things. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really easy for people to understand,” Jack says. Their instruments may be garbage, but their message isn’t.
小题1:What are the Garbage-Men band’s instruments made from?
A. Big boxes.
B. Little sticks.
C. Old things.
小题2:Which of the followings is NOT true?
A. Evan is the youngest in his band.
B. Jack came out of the idea to make a band first.
C. There are five members in the Garbage-Men band.
小题3:Ollie’s drums are made of .
A. B. C.
小题4:What do the five teenagers suggest people do?
A. Making instruments.
B. Listen to music.
C. Reuse garbage.
小题5:The best title of the passage is .
A. Five music Fans
B. Reduce, Reuse, Replay
C. A Strange Band
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:B
解析
试题分析：这篇短文讲述的是5个少年组成了一个垃圾人乐队，是Ollie先想起的这个主意。他们的乐器都是用旧东西制造的。他们的目的是建议人们回收利用垃圾。
小题1:细节理解题。垃圾人乐队的乐器是用什么制成的？根据文中The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from old things.可知乐器是用旧东西制成的，故选C。
小题2:细节理解题。下面哪一个是错的？根据文中Ollie had the idea to make a band using other homemade instruments as a way to suggest people recycle old things.可知是Ollie先想出的主意而不是Jack，故选B。
小题3:细节理解题。Ollie的鼓是用什么制成的？根据文中Ollie, 15, plays the drums made from rubbish cans.可知，他的“鼓”的材料是垃圾罐，故选择A。
小题4:细节理解题。这五位少年建议人们干什么？据Ollie had the idea to make a band using other homemade instruments as a way to suggest people recycle old things.可知，他们建议人们回收再利用旧东西。故选C。
小题5:主旨大意题。这个题目问的是，本文的题目是什么？本文讲述的是垃圾人乐队，他们的主题主要是倡导人们去回收再利用垃圾，故本文的题目B。
举一反三
All the photos and ads in La Derniere Heure’s (DH) special edition(版) were given a three-dimensional effect(3D效果), but the text remained the same.
DH’s editor said there were no further 3D plans because of the costs.
Reviewers in France spoke highly of the paper, but they said the overall result was “far from perfect”.
Editor Hubert Leclercq said it took two months to get ready for the special edition, which had a higher than normal print run of 115,000 copies for the stores selling newspapers.
“We hear about 3D cinema, television and video games, so we took up the challenge,” Mr. Leclercq told the AFP news agency.
According to PC World’s French edition, readers could get the best results by holding the paper 50cm from the eyes in a well-lit area.
“It takes a few minutes to get used to pictures in 3D,” it said, noting the limited quality of the viewing lenses(镜片).
It’s said some of the images - especially the ads - had a good 3D effect, but that other pictures were not clear or difficult to look at.
小题1:The Europe’s first 3D newspaper was from .
A. Belgium B. France C. Germany
小题2: in La Derniere Heure’s (DH) special edition had a three-dimensional effect.
A. All the pictures and the text
B. All the ads and the text
C. All the pictures and ads
小题3:From the forth paragraph, we know that .
A. the 3D newspaper is very good
B. they should improve the 3D newspaper
C. they should stop issuing the 3D newspaper
小题4:The underlined word “well-lit” in Paragraph 7 means in Chinese.
A. 照明条件好的
B. 火燃烧得好的
C.光线良好的
小题5:Which of the following is right?
| A．It took two months to get ready for the 3D newspaper. | |
| B．It will take you a few minutes to read the pictures in 3 | C． |
| D．All the images had a good 3D effect. |
However, as things stand today, the fresh water is still enough for us. But our need for water is becoming larger and larger quickly—almost day by day. We should take steps to do with this problem now and in this way we can get away from a serious world-wide water shortage later on.
We all have to learn how to stop wasting our valuable water, one of the first step is to develop ways of reusing it. Today in most large cities, water is used only once and then sent out into a sewer system(下水道), from there it returns to sea or runs into underground (地下)places.
But even if every large city reused its water, we still would not have enough. All we’d have to do to make use of sea water in the world is to remove the salt.
小题1: The earth is thirsty for water because_______ .
| A．man has not enough food to eat. |
| B．we haven’t had enough fresh water |
| C．only 70% of the earth’s surface is covered with water. |
| D．more water is sent into the sewer system |
| A．much and salt | B．fresh and enough |
| C．dear and useful | D．clean and helpful |
(a) make good use of the sea water.
(b) carry salt water into lakes and rivers.
(c) try to save the fresh water as much as possible
(d) do our best to use the water again.
(e) drink and use all the water on the earth’s surface
| A．(c)and(e) | B．(a) and (b) |
| C．(a), (c)and(d) | D．(b) , (d) and(e) |
| A．remove the salt from the sea water |
| B．make the water in the cities clean. |
| C．take the water from underground |
| D．make the need for the water smaller. |
| A．The Importance of Water | B．The World’s Water Problem |
| C．The Thirsty World | D．Fresh Water and Sea Water |
How many animals are killed for food? According to Farm Animal Rights Movement, about 10 billion land animals are killed every year for food in the United States, and about 58 billion are killed around the world. What’s more, this does not even include wild animals.
How many animals are killed for experiments? From 17 million to 100 million! The numbers are difficult to tell because most animals used in experiments are not reported.
How many animals are killed for fur? Every year, over 40 million animals are killed for fur around the world. About 30 million animals are raised on fur farms and killed, about 10 million wild animals are killed for fur, and this does not include sea animals and those that are injured and die later.
How many animals are killed by hunters? According to In Defense of Animals, hunters kill the most animals every year. Over 200 million animals are killed by hunters in the United States every year. This does not include animals that are injured and die later and those who die after their mothers are killed.
If these numbers are shocking enough for you and you want to do something to help, act out at this very moment. Refuse wild animals on dinner tables, say no to fur coats and try your best to protect the environment. Also, don’t forget to tell the numbers above to the people around you.
小题1:How many animals are killed every year for food around the world?
| A．About 30 million. | B．About 10 billion. |
| C．About 40 million. | D．About 58 billion. |
| A．Farmers. | B．Scientists. |
| C．Hunters. | D．Mother animals. |
| A．For fur. | B．For food. |
| C．For experiments. | D．For environment. |
| A．To tell us animals are human’s best friends. |
| B．To show which country kills the most animals. |
| C．To hope us to do something to protect the animals. |
| D．To tell us there are many animals around the world. |
It seems that not everyone is afraid of the same thing. What makes one person scared can be of no big deal for someone else. Plenty of kids said their biggest fear wasn’t on our list.
What is fear?
Fear is a feeling that everyone has — it’s programmed into all of us — and that’s a good thing because fear is there to protect us. We’re born with a sense of fear so we can react to something that could be dangerous. The baby cries, and their mom comes over to comfort him or her, helping the baby feel safe and OK again.
Real vs. Pretend
The best way to get over a fear is to get more information about it. As kids get older, they understand more and start seeing the difference between what is real and unreal. So when William’s imagination leads him to think of witches, he can tell himself, “Wait a minute. They’re only pretend things. I don’t need to worry about them.”
The same goes for the dark. A kid’s imagination can start playing tricks when the lights go out. What’s under my bed? Is that a thief I hear? With the help of a parent, kids can get more comfortable in the dark. Using a nightlight or shining a flashlight under the bed to see that there’s nothing there can help kids fight that fear.
小题1:Which of the following can’t help a kid fight the fear of dark?
| A．Using imaginations to think of witches. |
| B．Their parents coming over to comfort them. |
| C．Using a nightlight to see there’s nothing under the bed. |
| D．Shining a flashlight to see there’s nothing under the bed. |
| A．Ugly. | B．Usual. |
| C．Unreal. | D．Lovely |
| A．Fourteen scary things kids list. |
| B．People are afraid of different things. |
| C．The biggest fear for kids are always the same. |
| D．The things frighten people are the same as the survey. |
| A．Having a sense of fear is not a bad thing. |
| B．Nothing can help kids to get over a fear. |
| C．Fear is something we get when we are older. |
| D．Not all people can react to dangerous things. |
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing. It also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be helpful.
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to make the effect of pain on the body less. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group which could bear the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can make pain less seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins (内啡肽) in the brain. These are natural chemicals which make both stress and pain less.
There is also some evidence to suggest that laughter helps the body’s immune system that is the system which fights infection (感染). In an experiment, one group of students watched a funny video while another group served as the control group — in other words, a group with which to compare the first group. Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their white blood cells that is the cells which fight infection.
As a result of these discoveries, some doctors and psychiatrists (精神病学) in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they try to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce good effects similar to those caused by laughter.
小题1: We learn from the first paragraph that laughter .
| A．is good for one’s health |
| B．has strong effects to do with some illness |
| C．has been studied long since |
| D．has no effect on the body |
| A．keeps down blood pressure |
| B．has similar effects to physical exercise |
| C．decreases the heart rate |
| D．increases stress and pain |
| A．It makes pain less. |
| B．It exercises the body. |
| C．It improves the body’s immune system. |
| D．It can cure cancer. |
| A．about the same effects as laughter |
| B．more effects than laughter |
| C．fewer effects on the human body |
| D．no effects on the human body |
| A．the doctors should learn how to make people laugh |
| B．there are several ways of studying the advantages of laughter |
| C．tests show that laughter can produce positive effects on human body |
| D．laughter and physical exercise have the same effects on human body |
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