Going Zero Waste means more than dealing with the rubbish we create. It means re

Going Zero Waste means more than dealing with the rubbish we create. It means re

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Going Zero Waste means more than dealing with the rubbish we create. It means reducing it, too. People who go Zero Waste are careful about what they do. They never take more than they need, they reuse plastic bags, and they make good plans not to buy more than necessary before going shopping.
Kamikatsu, a Japanese village, has already gone Zero Waste. The 2,000 villagers recycle everything possible. There are 34 different boxes at the recycling center! The villagers sometimes just feel unhappy about what they have to do, but they also see the good side.
Let’s think about how to enjoy a Zero Waste Christmas. By sending recyclable cards, we can help our friends and family reduce(减少) waste. And wouldn’t it be better to enjoy the spirit of Christmas with a real tree that can be re-planted in spring?
Going Zero Waste requires us to think more about what happens before and after we act. It is not always easy. But just think how good it would be, both for ourselves and for the earth we live on, if we never had to waste anything.
小题1:The underlined word “it” in paragraph 1 refer to __________.
A.a plastic bagB.the rubbishC.a difficult thingD.going Zero Waste
小题2:Which of the following is a way of going Zero Waste?
A.Plant trees at Christmas.
B.Using plastic bags when shopping.
C.Sending recyclable cards for Christmas.
D.Buying things when you are very hungry.
小题3:What is the purpose of this passage?
A.To persuade people to reduce waste.
B.To teach people how to enjoy Christmas.
C.To introduce the life of Japanese villagers.
D.To tell people how to deal with difficulties.
小题4:How is the passage developed?
A.Topic--Examples--DiscussionB.Examples--Argument--Topic
C.Topic--explanation--ArgumentD.Examples--Explanation--Discussion

答案

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:A
解析

试题分析:本文是一篇说明文,说明了建立零垃圾意味着我们处理垃圾的创新,这样可以减少垃圾,去零垃圾的人们很小心他们做什么,通过发送回收卡,过一个零垃圾的圣诞节
小题1:推理题。由第一段第一行Going Zero Waste means more than dealing with the rubbish we create可以推出答案,故选B。
小题2:细节题。由第三段第一行Let’s think about how to enjoy a Zero Waste Christmas. By sending recyclable cards可以知道答案,故选C。
小题3:推理题。由第一段第一行Going Zero Waste means more than dealing with the rubbish we create. It means reducing it, too可以推出答案,故选A。
小题4:推理题。由第一段建立零垃圾是本文的主旨;第二段举例日本的一个村庄;第三段讨论,故选A。
点评:本文重点对零垃圾的建立的介绍,举日本的一个村庄例子进行说明,阅读中应注意文中举得例子,一定要多读几遍,然后带着问题通读全文,找出答题依据,完成阅读考生首先要仔细阅读短文,完整了解信息,准确把握作者观点
举一反三
When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very __50__. Some stories are told as if they were true. Real people who live in a __51__ world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not __52__. They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be impossible for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only __53__. How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter, we do seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than __54__. Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of thinking. When we read or write something, we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our __55__, which is real, and our imagination, which is real in a different way, to make the words come to life in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy (幻想) use the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read something realistic, we have to __56__ that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we __57__ that we are real and they are not. It sounds __58__, but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and __59__ the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by __60__ that what we read is like real life. __61__, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our __62__ when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose ourselves in a good story, eager to find out what will __63__ next. Knowing how we feel when we read can help us become better __64__, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
小题1:
A.differentB.possibleC.importantD.necessary
小题2:
A.commonB.usualC.normalD.certain
小题3:
A.instructiveB.realisticC.reasonableD.moral
小题4:
A.plannedB.thinkableC.designedD.imagined
小题5:
A.magicB.lessonsC.dreamsD.experience
小题6:
A.grammarB.knowledgeC.skillD.words
小题7:
A.recallB.ensureC.imagineD.understand
小题8:
A.hopeB.findC.learnD.know
小题9:
A.terribleB.dangerousC.seriousD.strange
小题10:
A.think aboutB.talk ofC.learn fromD.forget about
小题11:
A.guessingB.tellingC.pretendingD.promising
小题12:
A.In a wayB.As usualC.On the contraryD.By the way
小题13:
A.societyB.mindsC.lifeD.world
小题14:
A.appearB.argueC.happenD.develop
小题15:
A.writersB.fans C.professionalsD.readers

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It helps to choose the colors you plan to live with in your home with awareness of how different colors affect your emotional and physical states. Every color has a unique meaning, and this can significantly affect how you feel in a room.
Simple Solution:
Using this simple chart, you can choose a room’s color to be in balance and harmony with the role you want a room to have in your and your family’s life.
Red: A room that is painted red will energize, inspire activity and movement, help passion, and be powerful and stimulating. it is a great choice for such gathering places. Orange enhances parties,
Orange: Orange rooms encourage happy, joyful, social gatherings. While an orange dining room or family room can stimulate the appetite, it is a great choice for such gathering places. Orange enhances parties, communication, positive feelings, and general good cheer.
 
Yellow: Yellow rooms inspire intellectual clarity, organization, clear-headed thinking, and happy energy. Yellow is considered a color for the logical left side of the brain. Yellow is also very bright and somewhat energizing.
Blue: Blue rooms are often chosen for bedrooms and meditation (冥想) rooms because its cool energy is very calming, restful, peaceful, and spiritual. Blue helps inspire a quiet meditative quality, and color therapy with blue has been found to reduce blood pressure. Blue is also useful to make one to sleep.
Green: Green rooms are very restful but combine with an energizing quality. Green is the color of outdoors, calm and active at the same time. Green brings balance and harmony to a room, and can be used as a calming place for people who are troubled or in need of refreshment.
小题1:What impression can green rooms give to you?
A.Passionate and powerful.B.Refreshing and harmonious.
C.Cool and calming.D.Inspiring and bright.
小题2:If you are going to hold a family gathering, which color of the room can best enhance your atmosphere?
A.Red.B.Orange.C.Blue.D.Green.
小题3:Which of the following statements about color is NOT true?
A.Yellow rooms inspire logical and clear thinking.
B.Blue creates a quiet meditative quality.
C.Different colors affect you emotionally and physically.
D.Red rooms are acceptable when you are in a bad mood.

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To learn an instrument(乐器) such as the violin or accordion(手风琴)takes years. The job opportunities for musicians are scarce and competition is fierce. Then why are more people than ever before paying a lot of good cash to get their children the best music teaching they can afford?
The secret lies in the influence of music on the whole person. It has been found that learning a musical instrument actually increases a person’s IQ over time. Different instruments and different trypes of music have varying effect, with classical music and the string(弦乐) family coming out on top, potentially increasing you IQ by up to 12 points!
When is a good time to start learning music? Experts have found that even the fetus(胎儿)can benefit from listening to classical music. Surround yourself and your family with good music from the first. The Suzuki Piano Method teaches children from the age of 3 years piano, with two lessons per week. From preschool, children can learn to read music and play from sheet music. Progress in learning your instrument is directly proportional(成比例的)to the amount of practicing.
Is there such a thing as an unmusical child? Shinichi Suzuki proposes that music is the native home language of all human beings and therefore nobody can be “unmusical”. Of course there are exceptional talents, compared to which others may seem to be slower learners.
Is there any benefit for adults in starting an instrument? Apart from the purely relaxing aspect, yes. Learning an instrument can earn even adults additional IQ points, and as an added benefit in improves your health by reducing your stress levels. Your social life may benefit too, if you are prepared to come out of your box and join occasions such as Ceilidhs (musical get-togethers) or arrange house concerts. It has been established that people who play instruments tend to be more emotionally balanced and more patient with themselves, others and life in general.
So go ahead, sign up for that amateur orchestra, dust off your old trombone(长号)or take your first real six-string down from the attic(阁楼); get out there and play!
小题1:Playing which of the following musical instruments can help increase a person’s IQ most?
A.The pianoB.The violinC.The tromboneD.The accordion
小题2:According to Shinichi Suzuki,             .
A.The progress in learning an instrument depends on natural gifts
B.It is too late for an adult to start an instrument
C.Every child has a natural talent for music.
D.All people can understand and read music.
小题3:What can be inferred from the text?
A.Music can balance our life.
B.Music can improve our living conditions.
C.Playing instruments can make adults keep their IQ points.
D.Playing instruments can help us get along well with others.
小题4:By writing the text, the author mainly wants to        .
A.persuade us to send our children to music schools
B.express his great interest in musical instruments
C.tell us the importance of Music in Development
D.invite us to attend Ceilidhs
小题5:There are many benefits for the adult to learn instruments, which of the following is NOT RIGHT?
A.Feeling relaxed.B.Earn additional IQ points.
C.Improve your health.D.Show your talents

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From the health point of view we are living in a marvelous age. We are immunized (免疫) from birth against many of the most dangerous diseases. A large number of once deadly illnesses can now be cured by modern drugs and medical treatment. It is almost certain that one day cures will be found for the most stubborn remaining diseases. The expectation of life has increased enormously. But though the possibility of living a long and happy life is greater than ever before, every day we witness the unbelievable slaughter (屠***) of men, women and children on the roads. Man vs the motor-car! It is a never-ending battle which man is losing. Thousands of people the world over are killed or horribly killed each year and we are quietly sitting back and letting it happen.
It has been rightly said that when a man is sitting behind a steering wheel (方向盘), his car becomes the extension of his personality. There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man’s very worst qualities. People who are normally quiet and pleasant may become unrecognizable when they are behind a steering-wheel. They are ill-mannered and aggressive, willful as two-year-olds and absolutely selfish. All their hidden disappointments and regrets seem to be brought by the act of driving.
The surprising thing is that society smiles so kindly on the motorist and seems to forgive his behavior. Everything is done for his convenience. Cities are allowed to become almost impossible to live in because of heavy tragic; towns are made ugly by huge car parks; the countryside is ruined by road networks; and the mass annual slaughter becomes nothing more than a statistic, to be conveniently forgotten.
It is high time a world system of laws were created to reduce this senseless waste of human life. As for driving, the laws of some countries are not strict and even the strictest are not strict enough. Here are a few examples of some the things that might be done. The driving test should be standardized and made far more difficult than it is; all the drivers should be made to take a test every three years or so; the age at which young people are allowed to drive any vehicle should be raised to at least 21; all vehicles should be put through strict annual tests for safety. Even the smallest amount of alcohol in the blood can affect a person’s driving ability. Present drinking and driving laws (where they exist) should be made much stricter. Maximum and minimum speed limits should be introduced on all roads. Governments should lay down safety specifications (规范) for manufacturers, as has been done in the USA. All advertising stressing power and performance should be banned. These measures may sound inordinately severe. But surely nothing should be considered as too severe if it results in reducing the annual toll of human life. After all, the world is for human beings, not motor-cars.
小题1:The main idea of this passage is _________.
A.Traffic accidents are mainly caused by motorists.
B.Thousands of people the world over are killed each year.
C.The laws of some countries about driving are not too strict.
D.Only stricter traffic laws can prevent accidents.
小题2:What does the author think of society toward motorists?
A.Society laughs at the motorists.
B.Huge car parks are built in the cities and towns.
C.Victims of accidents are nothing.
D.Society forgives their rude driving.
小题3:Why does the author say: “his car becomes the extension of his personality?”
A.Driving can show his real self.
B.Driving can show the other part of his personality.
C.Driving can bring out his character.
D.His car can express his temper.
小题4:Which of the followings is NOT mentioned as a way against traffic accidents?
A.Build more highways.B.Make stricter driving tests
C.Test drivers every three years.D.Raise age limit and lay down safety specifications.
小题5:The attitude of the author is  _________.
A.ironical B.criticalC.appealingD.favorable

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Franz Kafka wrote that “A book must be the ax(斧子)for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation.
We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am,” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times.”
But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate (命运).
For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature(文学) with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school—one that often attracts the literary-minded (有文学头脑的) children of Manhattan’s upper classes—into a less competitive school. The daughter of immigrants (移民), with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph.D.’s.
Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “it"s about being a man, it’s about manliness (男子气概).” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies (独白) read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck’s writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white.” His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.
Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.
小题1:The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to________.
A.realize our dreams
B.give support to our life
C.smooth away difficulties
D.awake our emotions
小题2:Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?
A.Because they spent much time reading it.
B.Because they had read the novel before.
C.Because they came from a public school.
D.Because they had similar life experiences.
小题3:The girl left the selective high school possibly because ________.
A.she was a literary-minded girl
B.her parents were immigrants
C.she couldn’t fit in with her class
D.her father was then in prison
小题4:To the author’s surprise, the students read the novels ________.
A.creativelyB.passively C.repeatedlyD.carelessly
小题5:The author writes the passage mainly to ________.
A.introduce classic works of literature
B.advocate teaching literature to touch the heart
C.argue for equality among high school students
D.defend the current testing system

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