Here is an e-mail from Simon's e-friend Mike. Read it and try to find what Mike's problem is and then complete the exercises after it. Choose the correct answers.

　　Dear Simon

　　How are you recently? I've not received your letter for nearly a month. I hope everything goes well with you.

　　I have moved into a new house. But I don't feel happy about it. Because my parents have suddenly become very serious about cleaning. They want me to be very diligent about cleaning my room. I have to make the bed every day. I have to put all of my things away before l go to bed every evening.

　　When we lived in the old house, life was more relaxed and my parents weren't so strict about cleaning. I could leave all my books and toys all over the house. I was free at that time. I prefer my life in the old house.

　　My parents say that a clean house is a comfortable house. Do you agree with them?

　　Regards

　　Mike

1 Which word is the synonym of‘diligent’?

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A．hard-working　　　B．lazy

C．happy　　　　　　D．helpful

2 Mike prefers ________

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A．living in the new house.

B．living in the old house.

C．living with his grandparents.

D．cleaning his new house.

3 What can't Mike do in his new home?

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A．He can't play with the cat.

B．He can't watch TV.

C．He can't leave his things everywhere.

D．He can't chat with friends on the Internet.

4 Why do you think Mike's parents are strict about cleaning?

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A．Because they want to train Mike.

B．Because they often have guests come over their home.

C．Because they're doctors.

D．Because they think a clean home is more comfortable.

5 What does Mike think about the old house?

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A．It was very clean.

B．It was very small.

C．Life there was more relaxed.

D．Parents never cleaned the old house

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　　More than 50, 000, 000 people live in the rainforests of the world and most of them do not hurt the forest they live in. They eat the fruits that grow on the forest trees, but they do not cut them down. They kill some animals to eat, but they do not destroy them.

　　When we cut down the rainforests, we destroy these forest people, too. In 1900, there were 1,000,000 forest people in the Amazon forest. In 1980, there were only 200,000.

　　The Yanomami live along the rivers of the rainforest in the north of Brazil(巴西). They have lived in the rainforest for about 10,000 years and they use more than 2,000 different plants for food and for medicine. But in 1988, someone found gold in their forest, and suddenly 45,000 people came to the forest and began looking for gold. They cut down the forest to make roads. They made more than a hundred airports. The Yanomami people lost land and food. Many died because new diseases came to the forest with the strangers.

　　The Yanomami people tried to save their forest, because it was their home. But the people who wanted gold were stronger.

　　Many forest people try to save their forests. Chico Mendes was famous in Brazil because he wanted to keep the forest for his people. “I want the Amazon forest to help all of us－forest people, Brazil, and all the earth,” he said. A few months later, in December 1988, people who wanted to cut down the forest killed Chico Mendes.

　　In Borneo people were cutting down the forest of the Penan people to sell the wood. The Penan people tried to save their rainforest. They made blockades(障碍) across the roads into the forest. In 1987, they closed fifteen roads for eight months. No one cut down any trees during that time. In Panama, the Kuna people saved their forest. They made a forest park which tourists pay to visit.

　　The Gavioes people of Brazil use the forest, but they protect it as well. They find and sell the Brazil nuts(坚果) which grow on the forest trees.

1．The people who ________ have destroyed the rainforest of the Yanomami.

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A．pick fruits and kill animals to eat

B．use plants for food and medicine

C．have lived there for about ten thousand years

D．made the roads and the airports

2．Those people built roads and airports in order to ________.

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A．carry away the gold conveniently

B．make people there live a better life

C．stop spreading the new diseases

D．develop the tourism(旅游业) there

3．Which of the following is wrong?

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A．The Penan people closed 15 roads with blockades to save their forests.

B．The Penan people were cutting down the trees to sell the wood.

C．The Penan people didn't want other people to destroy their forest.

D．Those who wanted to cut down the trees were stopped at the road blockades.

4．In Panama, visitors have to ________ before they enter the forest park of the Kuna people.

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5．From the passage, we learn that ________.

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A．we need wood to build houses, so we have to cut down trees

B．the rainforest people have done something to protect their home

C．to humans, gold is more important than trees

D．we mustn't cut down any trees or kill any animals