Most of the things around you will be replaced or thrown away someday. Where wil
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Most of the things around you will be replaced or thrown away someday. Where will they go when they are thrown out? What kinds of waste will they create, and how will it affect the environment
Most of our crash goes to places called landfills. A LANDFILL is a low area of land that is filled with garbage（垃圾）.Most modern landfills are lined with a cover of plastic to keep dangerous liquids（液体）from polluting earth and ground water supply. The problem is that more than half of the states in this country are running out of places to landfill their garbage. Because of the unhealthy materials, landfills do not make good neighbors，and people don’t want to live near them. Many landfills are set in poor neighborhoods.
The Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, New York, was the largest garbage landfill in the world. For years, people who live nearby complained about air and water pollution caused by the enormous pile of trash. They say that the smoke have made people sick. The landfill closed in
April 2001.Now can a harmful waste—material that can pollute air, land, and water –be disposed of in a safe way.
Another way to get rid of trash is to burn it. Trash is burned in an incinerator._ Because incinerators in operation can get rid of almost all of the trash, some communities would rather use incinerators than landfills. There is a problem, though. Leftover ash and smoke from burning trash may have dangerous chemicals, and even make it hard for some people to breathe. They can harm plants, animals, and people.
You can help reduce（减少）waste by reusing bottles, batteries, and paper. You can also recycle newspaper, glass, and plastics t to provide materials for making other products.
From recycled materials, many things are made. For example, from recycled paper we can get newspapers, boxes and so on. From recycled plastic we can get soda bottles, tables, and backpacks.
小题1:Why don’t landfills make good neighbors?| A．Because there are unhealthy materials in them. | | B．Because people prefer to live in the city center. | | C．Because landfills are not big enough for trash. | | D．Because most states are running out of places. |
小题2:What does the underlined word “incinerator”_probably mean?| A．An area to collect trash. | B．A machine to burn trash | | C．A method that is used to burn trash. | D．A station that is run by selling trash. |
小题3:What is probably the best title for the passage?| A．How Is Trash Burned? | B．What Can Be Reused. | | C．Why Is Waste Dangerous? | D．Where Does Garbage Go? |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D |
解析
试题分析：这篇短文主要讲述我们周围的垃圾都去哪了，都是怎样被清理掉的？人们通常是在自家周围建立一个垃圾场，或是焚烧这些垃圾等。可是，这些办法同样也给环境造成了污染。
小题1:细节理解题。根据第二段第五行Because of the unhealthy materials, landfills do not make good neighbors，and people don’t want to live near them.可知，故选A。
小题2:词义猜测题。根据第五段第一行Another way to get rid of trash is to burn it. Trash is burned in an incinerator._“另一种清除垃圾的方式就是焚烧它。垃圾被焚烧在一个机器里。”结合语境，可知选B，一个焚烧垃圾的机器。
小题3:标题归纳题。本文主要讲述我们周围的垃圾都是如何被清理掉的，故选D，垃圾都去哪了？ |
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阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
Ants may be very tinny, but they’re serious eaters! Ants love a picnic and they have their “ant-picnics”.
Favorite Foods
Want to find out what the ants like to eat? Place different foods on the edge of an upside-down plate. You can use butter, honey or seeds. Put this feeding station in the places where there are lots of ants. Wait three minutes and count the number of ants feeding on each food. Count them every three minutes. Watch and find out!
Do ants prefer sweet foods or less sweet ones? Here’s test: Give ants a choice between full-strength honey and a honey-water mixture. Offer a few drops of each choice side-by-side. Then count the number of ants you see near each site every three minutes.
How Far Will They Go?
Want to see how far ants travel to collect food? First find an ant nest(巢) by following some ants when they carry food home. Now you know how far the ants traveled to your food station. Next, move the food station about one foot (30cm) farther. Keep moving it until the ants no longer show up.
Spreading the News
Once ants find food they like, usually they try to get their nestmates to help. To find out how long it takes an ant to tell others there’s food nearby, offer their favorite food and watch. After the first ant finds it, begin counting the ants at the food station every minute. Also, watch their behavior, when the first ant heads home, what does it do when it gets near other nestmates?
小题1:Do ants love a picnic?
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小题2:Where can we put the feeding station to find out ants’ favorite food?
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小题3:How can we find an ant nest?
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小题4:What do ants usually do once they find food they like?
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小题5:What is the passage mainly about?
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Homesick is a compound (复合的) word that is made up of HOME and SICK. You know what each means on its own, of course. But do you know the meaning they are used together? The definition (定义) of homesick is SICK FOR HOME. It means you miss your home.
Now think for a minute SEASICK. If you change the word HOME in the word “homesick” to the word SEA, does the way above of giving the definition SEASICK? Does seasick mean SICK FOR SEA? No, it doesn’t. It means something quite . Seasick means SICK BY THE MOVEMENT(航行) ON THE SEA. When you are , the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick, you want to be is at sea.
Have you ever heard of a person being heartsick? Heartsick doesn’t mean that something is wrong with a person’s . People are heartsick when they are deep inside as if (好像) their hearts are broken.
And we also have other compound words, such as handshake and . Perhaps you may write definitions for them. It must be helpful to know something like this in your English study.
| 小题1: | | A．word | B．phrase | C．sentence | D．passage |
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| 小题5: | | A．right | B．wrong | C．same | D．different |
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| 小题6: | | A．homesick | B．heartsick | C．seasick | D．carsick |
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| 小题7: | | A．the first place | B．the last place | C．the only place | D．the safe place |
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| 小题8: | | A．hand | B．heart | C．head | D．foot |
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| 小题9: | | A．hurt | B．invited | C．loved | D．asked |
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| 小题10: | | A．hobby | B．height | C．heat | D．handbag |
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A PLANE crashed (坠机) in Libya on May 12, killing 103 people on board. The only survivor is a 10-year-old Dutch boy.
This is not the only example of a crash in which everyone but a child died. A 12-year-old girl was the only person to survive a 2009 air crash in the Indian Ocean. When a plane crashed over Sudan in 2003, only a 3-year-old boy survived.
It"s a question that leaves safety experts puzzled. So farthere is not enoughhard evidence forthem to answer withany certainty.
Although unclear, there arereasons to suggestthat children maycope (应对) better than others.
Professor Ed Galea at the University of Greenwich, suggested children would be cocooned(被紧紧抱住) within their seat and therefore might be less probably to receive injuries.
"With an adult with their head above the seat and legs on the floor, they will receive some kind of injury landing on your head and legs," he told the BBC.
"It would be miraculous (奇迹的) to survive that, but there have been cases(情况) of people falling into trees. A smaller body would mean it"s more possible the tree would break your fall," he explained.
Studies found other factors (因素), besides luck, influence the chances of surviving a crash.
One is seating. A study of plane crashed conducted by Poplar Mechanics found that people sitting toward the back of the plane were more probably to survive than those sitting toward the front. A survey conducted by researchers at the University of Greenwich in the UK found that what matters most is how close you are to an exit(出口). Sit in five rows(排) of an exit, and you"ve got better-than-even chances of surviving. Sit in six rows or more away, and your chances are less than 50-50.
Other factors for surviving a plane crash include wearing a seat belt, paying attention to flight instructions and staying alert(警觉) during taking off and landing. And of course, don"t fly with airlines that are the most pobably to crash.
小题1:根据短文内容完成句子 (每空限填一个单词)
From Paragraph 1 we know only a 10-year-old Dutch boy _________ __________.
小题2:根据短文内容完成句子 (每空限填一个单词)
From Paragraphs 1-2 we may ask if _________ are more possible to survive plane crashes than __________.
小题3:根据短文内容完成句子 (每空限填一个单词)
According to paragraph 9, Sit six rows or more away, and you’ve got __________ _________of surviving.
小题4:把短文中画底线的句子译成汉语。
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小题5:根据短文内容用一个完整的英语句子（限10个词以内）回答问题。
What’s the main idea of the passage?
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Does your school have any problems with discipline(纪律)? What happens when students step out of line?
Here are some examples of bad behaviour:
• Playing truant(逃学) (missing school without permission from parents).
• Stealing, smoking, hitting, swearing, running, kissing.
• Cheating on exams.
• Calling a teacher or another pupil a bad name.
• Not doing homework.
• Not listening or not paying attention in lessons.
• Wearing unsuitable clothes.
Here are some of the ways that UK school children can be punished:
• Exclusion（开除）: a pupil is asked to leave the school and not come back. The pupil has to find a new school or a different method of education.
• Suspension（停课）: a pupil cannot enter the building or attend lessons until the school has a meeting about their situation. Suspension can last from one to 45 days. The pupil is usually given work to do at home with a special teacher.
• Detention（拘留）: a pupil is asked to stay after school and work for 30-60 minutes before they can leave.
• Lines: a pupil has to write a sentence many times (e.g. 100 or more) on a sheet of paper, e.g. “I must not shout in class.”
Freya MacDonald, a 15-year-old pupil from Scotland, _________when she refused to accept her school’s punishment. Her family says that she was given 11 detentions for trivial things such as having fizzy drinks in class and coming into school through a fire door.
Freya says that repeated detentions ruined her right to an education under Scottish law and made it difficult for her to learn. So she refused to return until the school respected her civil rights. She wants the headmaster and her teachers to sign a letter to promise this. Hundreds of schools in Scotland were told not to use detention as a punishment because of her legal action.
Many UK schools now give parents a home&school contract（契约，合同）, explaining their discipline and rules. Parents must sign this document to agree that they accept the school’s rules and discipline and that they are responsible for their child’s behaviour.
小题1:The expression “step out of line” in Paragraph 1 probably means________| A．jump the queue | B．break the discipline | | C．be later for school | D．fight with others. |
小题2:What is the main purpose of the text?| A．To list common bad behavior in UK schools. | | B．To show how UK schools deal with students’ parents. | | C．To find out why more and more pupils break rules in UK schools. | | D．To introduce how UK schools punish students with their discipline. |
小题3:Which expression can be filled in the blank in the passage________.| A．covered the story | | B．corrected her behavior | | C．showed an interest | | D．made the news |
小题4:What is the best title for the passage?| A．Punishments in UK School | | B．What is Bad Behavior? | | C．UK School Discipline. | | D．Too Many School Rules in the UK |
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Which part of the world has the most nearsighted students? Just look around you–it’s East Asia. Nine in ten school leavers in major East Asian cities are nearsighted, according to the BBC. Experts say books and video games are not to blame. East Asian students, they say, aren’t getting enough sunlight.
People become nearsighted because their eyeballs grow out of shape and light entering their eyes cannot focus correctly. The body can produce a chemical called dopamine (多巴胺) to stop eyeballs from changing shape. And guess what scientists have just discovered? Sunlight can help our bodies produce more dopamine, reported AFP.
According to the study, primary school students in Singapore spend only 30 minutes outdoors every day; in Australia, by contrast, kids spend about three hours a day outside. As a result, fewer children in Australia are nearsighted–only 10 percent, compared with 90 percent in Singapore.
“Children in East Asia basically go to school... go home and stay inside. They study and they watch television,” Ian Morgan of the Australian National University told AFP.
But being a bookworm or a couch potato does not directly harm the eyes, added Morgan. “As long as they get outside, it doesn’t seem to matter how much study they do,” he explained. “There are some kids who study hard and get outside and play hard and they are generally fine. The ones who are at major risk are the ones who study hard and don’t get outside. As a result of massive (巨大的) educational pressures and the construction (构成) of a child’s day, the amount of time they spend outside in bright light is minimized.”
Experts suggest children should stay outside for two to three hours every day. This can include time spent in the playground and walking to and from school.
小题1:Which of the word has the similar meaning as the underlined phrase “nine in ten”?小题2:What is the main reason for the large number of nearsighted students in East Asia, according to scientists?| A．Too much reading or gaming. | B．Lack（缺少）of sunlight. | | C．Genetic reasons. | D．Lack of exercise. |
小题3:What can we conclude from Paragraph 2?| A．Dopamine is a chemical that causes eyeballs to grow out of shape. | | B．Dopamine can stop light entering the eyes from focusing correctly. | | C．Spending time in the sun can make the loss of dopamine in the body. | | D．The more dopamine a person has in their body, the better eyesight he or she has. |
小题4:According to Morgan, what kind of people are most likely to suffer from nearsightedness?| A．Those who like watching TV. | | B．Those who take exercise regularly. | | C．Those who study hard and play hard outdoors. | | D．Those who stay indoors studying all day |
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