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One day a great general(将军) asks his soldiers(士兵), “What is the strongest power in the world?” Four of his soldiers put up their hands. They want to answer the question.

 The general asks the first man to speak. The first man is youngerst, and he is not strong. He says, “My gun is the strongest . It can kill anyone.” “Thank you. Next, please.” The second man is very strong. He says, “I don’t think so. Soldiers use guns. So the soldier is the strongest.”

The third man says, “Soldiers use guns, but our general gives orders(下命令). So I think our general is the strongest.”

The fourth man is the oldest. He says, “Love is the strongest. For love, people don’t use guns.” The general says noting. He takes out a medal and gives it to him.

1.________ soldiers answer the general’s question.

A.  All        B.  Many of the    C.  One of the    D.  Four of the

2.The youngest man thinks _________ is the strongest power in the world.

A.  the general   B. a solider        C.  a gun        D.  love

3.The fourth man ________.

A.   doesn’t want to use his gun

B.   wants to be a general

C.   wants that all people love each other

D. wants the general to give him a medal

4.The general thinks _________ answer is the best.

A. the first man’s                 B. the second man’s

C. the third man’s                D. the fourth man’s

My father often brings me____, so I’m always happy when he comes back.

A. good news  B. many good news C. a good news   D. a lot good news

Almost every Chinese person can recite the two lines of the famous poem, “Every grain on the plate comes from hard work(谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦).” But sadly, many of us don’t actually get the real meaning of these lines: Don’t waste food.

   A CCTV program, News One Plus One, reported that the food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.

   Do we have too much food? Of course not. According to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2010, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.

   Chinese people are well known for being hospitable(好客的) and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table.

   Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. Last November, Li Hong, a waitress in a restaurant in Nanjing, got fired because she took some leftover food home for her son. Many people stood by her side and criticized(批评) the waste of food.

   What should we do in our daily lives to waste less food? Here are some tips: 

   1. Do not order too much in a restaurant. Only order as much as you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.

   2. Don’t be too picky(挑剔的) about food. Some food may not taste great, but your body needs it.

   3. Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don’t buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.

1.How many people were hungry in the world in 2010 according to the UN World Food Program?

A. 200 million.        B. Six million.            C. 925 million.               D. 625 million.

2.What does the writer want to show us through Li Hong’s story?

A. Many Chinese restaurants waste a large amount of food.      

B. Many Chinese people are kind-hearted and ready to help the weak.

C. Chinese people feel that they lose face if their guests eat all the food.

D. Many Chinese people don’t agree with the behavior of wasting food.

3.The underlined word “leftover” means          in Chinese.

A. 过期的                B. 剩余的         C. 腐烂的           D.难吃的

4.According to the passage, we shouldn’t waste food because         .

A. food comes from very hard work

B. six million children die of hunger every day

C. there is enough food to feed all the people

D. Chinese are hospitable and generous

5.Which of the following is a good way to save food?

A. Ordering more than you need at a restaurant.

B. Taking home restaurant leftovers.

C. Not knowing what you already have at home when shopping.       

D. Not eating the food you don’t like even if it’s healthy.

Oil is so important that it is sometimes called “black gold”. Almost half of our energy comes from oil. We use it to run our cars and factories and to heat our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday things are made from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the material. The soap you wash your hands with might also be made from oil. Your favorite plastic toy is made from oil.     

Oil is hard to find, because it is trapped deep under the earth. Once the only way people knew there was oil someplace if it leaked（渗漏）out of the ground. Today, however, we have many ways of finding oil. One tool measures（测量）the pull of gravity. Places where gravity is weaker are more likely to have oil. Another tool is sound waves（声波）. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. We can use them to find the rocks that have oil in them.     

We need a lot of oil, and we are using up the oil wells we know about. Soon we must find new ways of looking for this “black gold”.

1.Which of the following isn’t the way to help find oil?

A. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds.

B. People measure the pull of gravity to know if there is oil.

C. Sound waves tell us where the oil has leaked out of the ground.

D. People know there is oil if it leaks out of the ground.

2.Which of the following does the passage lead you to believe?

A. Oil was firstly found by measuring gravity.

B. Many things are made from oil.

C. We will never run out of oil.

D. Our lives would not be different if we didn’t have oil.

3.The main idea of the whole story is that ________________.

A. many things are made from oil               

B. we must find new ways of looking for oil

C. people spend a lot of time looking for oil

D. oil is important for us but hard to find

Life in 30 years will be   31  because many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be    32   people in the world and most of them will live longer than before. Computers will be   33  smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important  34  in school.
People will work fewer hours than they are doing now, and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and traveling. Traveling will be much cheaper and  35 . And more people will go to other countries  36  holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for  37   new towns and houses. Then there will be less  38  for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe people won’t eat it every day, they will eat more vegetables and fruit instead. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work will  39  by robots. Because of this, many people will not have  40  to do. This will be a problem. 
【小题1】A. same                    B. difference                C. different      
【小题2】A. little and little     B. less and less              C. more and more
【小题3】A. much                   B. many                   C. more          
【小题4】A. subject                  B. subjects                 C. way                   
【小题5】A. easily                   B. more easily              C. easier           
【小题6】A. for                     B. with                    C. at           
【小题7】A. build                   B. building                 C. to build        
【小题8】A. rooms                  B. room                    C. spaces        
【小题9】A. done                   B. do                      C. be done       
【小题10】A. works enough             B. enough works             C. enough work