In China, water is used in many different ways. Farming takes 60 percent of China’s water use. Personal use, like drinking water, takes only 12 pencent. Fifty- three countries and regions (地方) in the world have water shortages. About one fifth of the world’s population was suffer(遭受) from water shortage.
Tips for saving water
Saving water is as easy as turning off a tap! Here are some simple things you can do at home.
² Turn off the water while you’re brushing your teeth.
² Take shorter showers. Can you get your showers down to three minutes?
² Fill a liter (升) plastic bottle with water and put it in your toilet tank. It will take up the same space as the water usually does, but in a year, it will keep 20,000 liters of water.
² When you wash dishes and clothes, don’t let the water run.
² Use the washing machine only when it’s full of clothes.
² 根据短文内容，填写下面表格。

In front of my daughter, Sherry, was a bowl filled with cabbage. She      cabbage. She sat there with tears (眼泪) in her eyes.
“Sherry, my dear, why don’t you      a little? Your mom will shout at me. ”
“OK, Dad. I will eat, but just a little.” Then Sherry asked, “Dad,      I eat it all, will you give me what I want?”
“Yes.”
Sherry began to eat     . It took her almost half an hour to finish the food. Then she came up to me and said, “Dad, I want      my head shaved (刮，剃).”
“Sherry, could you      something else? If we see you with a clean-shaven head, we will feel sad, ” I said.
“But Dad, you     ! You should keep your word.” I had no choice, then Sherry had all her hair cut off.
One morning, I took Sherry to school. Just when we arrived, a      got out of a car and shouted, “Sherry, please wait for    !”
“Sir, your daughter is great!” A man got out of the car and said, “That is my son, Harvey. He had cancer. He lost his hair when he got ill. Sherry cut hers off    Harvey felt less    different. She is a special girl. ”
I stood there for a while. “My little daughter, you teach me how selfless(无私的) real love is!”
【小题1】A. enjoyed                B. hated               C. grew
【小题2】A. taste                  B. make                C. cook
【小题3】A. before                 B. because             C. if
【小题4】A. quickly                 B. slowly               C. easily
【小题5】A. have                    B. having               C. to have
【小题6】A. look for               B. ask for             C. care for
【小题7】A. refused                B. believed            C. promised
【小题8】A. boy                    B. girl                C. woman
【小题9】A. her                    B. him                 C. me
【小题10】A. so that                B. even though          C. ever since

In China, people usually set off firecrackers to celebrate Spring Festival. But this year seemed very quiet. It was really different. A man called Zhang Wei was asked by a reporter in an interview. He said that his friends and he hadn’t set off a single firecracker.
“We all suffered from last month’s smog(雾霾). If we don’t call an end to the firecracker, the environment will get worse and worse during the holiday.” said Zhang Wei. He put up a notice in his community in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. In the notice, he called on more people to set off fewer firecrackers during this year’s Spring Festival holiday.
Lots of parents agreed with Zhang Wei’s idea. They said that they hated the noise of firecrackers. The noise used to wake up their babies too early. The babies really needed quiet mornings,
More Chinese looked forward to celebrating the holiday in a greener way. They decided not to set off firecrackers. They also decided not to waste food. They said that the new celebrations sounded fashionable.
“My family didn’t buy any fireworks this year. Instead, we donated the money to charity. It’s good for the environment and charity as well.” Internet user “Fighter” wrote on Sina Weibo.
根据短文内容，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳答案。(10分)
【小题1】．How do people usually celebrate Spring Festival in China?

In Britain, the first day of the month of May is known as May Day. May day marks the end of the harsh(严酷的) winter months, welcomes the beginning of Summer, and optimistically looks forward to the bright and productive months.


For their ancestors, largely in rural areas, it was a major annual festival and was celebrated(庆祝) through out the country, especially on the first day of May with music, dancing and games.
How was May Day Celebrated in the past?


May Day began early in the morning. People went out before sunrise in order to gather flowers and plants to make their houses and villages beautiful in the belief that the vegetation spirits(神灵) would bring good luck.
A traditional May Day dance is Maypole Dancing，On May Day, people used to cut down young trees and stick them in the ground in the village to mark the arrival of summer.People danced around the tree poles in celebration of the end of winter and the start of the fine weather that would allow planting to begin. Maypoles are still a part of some
village life and on May Day the villagers dance around it.


May Day celebrations have their origins(起源) in the Roman festival of Flora, goddess(女神) of fruit and flowers, which marked the beginning of summer. So the highlight of the day was the crowning(为…加冕) of the May Queen(女皇), the human replica (模型) of Flora. By tradition she took no part in the games or dancing, but sat like a queen in a flower-decked chair to watch her 'subjects'.
Ever since 1978, for the convenience of the general public, many May Day activities have now been moved to the new May Day holiday on the first Monday of the month. This Monday is a bank holiday, a day off school and work. There are more intereting celebrations on this day.
【小题1】In the old days, most people in Britain made their living by             .
A. fishing                B. farming                 C. working in factories
【小题2】People in Britain celebrate May Day is to express their         
A. pleasure and hope       B. thanks and harvest       C. freedom and new life
【小题3】Britain’s May Day holiday is on          in 2010.
A. May 1^st               B. May 3^rd                 C. May 5^th
【小题4】What is not mentioned in this passage?
A. Special food.          B. Special custom.           C. Special activity.
【小题5】Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Only children can take part in the Maypole Dancing.
B. The queen of the UK came to watch her “subjects”.
C. Children needn’t go to school on May Day holiday now.