Since January 2013, many cities in China have seen a lot of foggy days. In Beijing, only five days in January were free of smog (雾霾). What’s the difference between fog and smog?
According to scientists, fog is made up of tiny (微小的) drops of water and also ice particles (颗粒) during very cold conditions. Smog is dirty air that looks like a mixture of smoke and fog, caused mainly by smoke from cars and factories in cities.
An official for the Ministry of Environmental Protection told Beijing News that PM2.5 pollution is the main problem with air pollution. PM 2.5 refers to pollution with small particles 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter (直径).
According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, two main factors that cause PM 2.5 are motor vehicles and the burning of coal.
Poor air has done harm to people’s health. Children and the elderly are more at risk. A report from Beijing Children’s Hospital shows that from January 5 to January 11, 2013, half of the patients in the hospital came for respiratory (呼吸道的) problems.
To respond to the air problem, the Chinese government and many Chinese people have started to take action.
Beijing announced a plan to use clean fuel in government vehicles and plant trees. It asked citizens to set off fewer fireworks for the Spring Festival celebration. They suggested that cars with large emissions (排放) should be banned and factories should be closely watched.
Three students from No. 4 High School in Beijing wrote a report to advise to fight the air pollution. “We hope more people will join us to protect our environment. With all our efforts, the blue skies will certainly return soon,” said Shi Yucong, 15, one of the three students.
小题1:The underlined phrase “were free of” means ____________.

A．had some

B．had many

C．had no

D．had more and more

小题2:According to the second paragraph, we can know ____________.

A．smog is a mixture of fog and smoke

B．smog is formed (形成) during cold hours

C．fog is made up of drops of water with smoke

D．smoke from cars and factories cause fog

小题3:Paragraphs 3 and 4 are mainly about ____________.

A．what PM 2.5 is and what causes PM 2.5

B．how to prevent PM 2.5 pollution and how PM 2.5 looks

C．what PM 2.5 is and how to protect ourselves against PM 2.5

D．how seriously PM 2.5 affects us and how to deal with PM 2.5

小题4:What is the best title for the passage?

A．A report about air pollution	B．Let’s fight the air pollution
C．Dirty air is bad for us	D．The air in Beijing

It’s duty of every man to work. The life of a lazy man is of no use to himself and to others. If the man is too lazy to work, he will usually become a not useful man. Everyone, when he is young, should learn some useful work.
But it’s not enough for a man to learn some kind of work. He should put his heart and soul (精力) into his work, and not waste his free time. “Work while you work and play while you play” is as good rule for young people as old.
There is no better to help to diligence than the habit of early rising, and this, just like all other good habits, is most easily formed in youth (青年). There is an English say “Lost time never returns.” This means that everybody must be diligent, and make good use of time. One must study hard when one is young so that one can make great progress, succeed in life and become useful to one’s country. So we can say that diligence is the mother of success.
小题1:The underlined word “diligence” in the third paragraph means “ ________” in Chinese.

A．惜时

B．勤奋

C．失败

D．智慧

小题2:If a man wants to be of useful himself and to the people, he should __________.

A．learn some useful work

B．do something in his free time

C．put his heart and soul in everything

D．try his best to work without rest

小题3:In order to learn to be diligent, it’s very important for young people to learn to ________.

A．work while you work and play while you play

B．work all the time without playing

C．form the habit of getting up early

D．learn some good subjects

小题4:One will be successful in life if he _____________ when he is young.

A．spend more time learning

B．is diligent in his study

C．loves his school

D．gets up early

小题5:Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?

A．Lazy boy can learn to be diligent

B．Young people should rise early

C．Diligence, the mother of success

D．Lost time never returns

信息归纳(本部分为5小题，每小题1分，共5分)
Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There were no modern machines, either. Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills fish and affects(影响) our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and louder. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It affects every living thing in the world.
The world is not only hungry, but it is also thirsty for water. Only if we take steps to deal with this problem now can we avoid(避免) a serious worldwide water shortage later on. We all have to learn how to stop wasting our valuable water. One of the first steps is to develop ways of reusing it. But even if we purified(净化) and reused the water, we still would not have enough. All we’d have to do is to make use of the vast reserves(储备) of sea water in the world is to remove the salt.
Paper comes from trees. We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth. So how can we save paper? We can use both sides of every piece of paper, especially when we are making notes. We can choose drinks in bottles instead of those in paper packets. We can also use cotton handkerchiefs(手帕) and not paper ones. When we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the shop assistant does give us a paper bag, we can save it and reuse it later.
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Three kinds of main pollutions today	小题1:.
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A serious worldwide problem we’re going to face	小题4:
How many ways are mentioned(提到) to save paper?	小题5:

In the future, scientists would put very small computers in our heads. This can help people a lot. ____ these small computers, the people with ear diseases will be able to hear. And the people with eye diseases can ____. These small computers will not be just for ____ people. Most of us will have these computers to make our life ____. For example, if we have it, we can think ____ and we can remember more things.
For students, computers can do ____ things. Maybe in the near future students ____ schoolbags. They just need to carry a small computer to ____, because the textbooks, exercise books, and notebooks are all in the computer. The teachers will check students’ homework with computers, ____. But this can give another problem, because ____ will be easier for students to copy each other’s homework.
Everything will be possible. We never know what will happen.

小题1:	A．Because B．Since C．Because of D．Thank to

小题2:	A．to hear B．hear C．to see D．see

小题3:	A．ill B．sick C．old D．young

小题4:	A．good B．well C．better D．best

小题5:	A．more clearly B．clearly C．clear D．clearer

小题6:	A．much B．a lot C．lots of D．lot of

小题7:	A．needn’t B．will need C．will not need D．don’t need

小题8:	A．home B．school C．factory D．office

小题9:	A．too B．either C．as well as D．also

小题10:

A．that B．it C．they D．this

You want to run across the street to catch the bus which is leaving soon? But wait! You’d better not. If a policeman sees you, you’ll have to pay a fine (罚款).
New traffic laws (交通法) say that if people cross the street when the light is red, they can be fined as much as 50 yuan.
Traffic accidents killed more than 104,000 people in China last year. Chinese cities have more cars than ever. Drivers and pedestrians (行人) must work together to make the streets safer.
The law has new rules for drivers and pedestrians. Drivers have to slow down when they are close to crosswalks. If people are in a crosswalk, cars must stop to let them pass.
There are rules for bus drivers, too. If bus drivers smoke, drink or make phone calls while driving, they can be fined. Buses that carry too many people are also against the law.
Pedestrians will have to walk more safely under the new law. They must cross streets at crosswalks. Also, they shouldn’t climb over the fences (栅栏) along streets.
Do you bike to school? It’s not a good idea to carry classmates on the back. You could be fined 50 yuan.
And stay in the bike lane (慢车道) when you’re riding. The big roads are for cars and buses.
Do you like to ride your uncle’s motorbike? When you put on your helmet (头盔), ask him to put one on, too. People on motorbikes must wear helmets, the new law says. If they don’t, they’ll have to pay 200 yuan.
Do you ride in cars often? Don’t forget to put on your seat belt (安全带), even if you’re going for a short taxi ride. It could save your life.
If you see a hit-and –run (肇事逃逸), tell the police. They may give you a reward (奖赏). And don’t be afraid to help people to the hospital if they are hurt in an accident. Don’t worry about money. The new law says that doctors must take care of them even if they can’t pay right away.
小题1:Don’t go across the road when _______.

A．the light is green

B．the light is red

C．the bus is leaving

D．traffic is busy

小题2:What does the word “crosswalk” mean is Chinese?

A．过马路

B．人行横道

C．立交桥

D．车行道

小题3:If you are a bus driver, _______while you are driving, according to the new traffic laws.

A．you can make a phone call

B．you can’t talk to others

C．you can’t smoke

D．you can drink

小题4:When you ride in a car, the first thing you must do is __________.

A．to put on the helmet

B．to tip the driver

C．to put on the seat belt

D．to see if it carries too many people

小题5:You should do all the following EXCEPT _________.

A．carrying your classmate on the back when you’re riding a bike

B．phoning the police when you see a hit-and-run

C．helping people to the hospital if they are hurt in an accident

D．wearing your helmet while riding a motorbike

The Internet is becoming more and more important in our life. How much do you know about it? What is the Internet? The Internet is a large, worldwide collection of computer networks. A network is a small group of computers put together. The Internet is many different networks from (A) _________ the world. These networks are called the Internet. Once you have learned to use the Internet, you can have a lot of interest in the World Wide Web.
What is the World Wide Web? The World Wide Web has been the most popular development of the Internet. The Web is like a big electronic book with millions of pages. These pages are called homepages. You can find information about almost anything in the world on these pages. For example,(B)you can use the Internet instead of a library to find information for your homework. You can also find information about your favourite sports or film stars, talk to your friends or even do some shopping on the Internet. Most pages have words, pictures and even sound or music.
What is e-mail?(C) 电子邮件是给别人发送信息的一种方法。 It's much quicker and cheaper than sending a letter. If you want to send e-mails, you must have an e-mail address. This address must have letters and dots(点 ) and an ‘@’( meaning ‘at'). This is what an address looks like: Emily @ star. net. Write a message, type in the person's e-mail address, and then send the message on the Internet. People don't need to use stamps, envelopes or go to the post office since the invention of the Internet. Quick. easy and interesting--that's the Internet!
小题1:在A的空白处填入适当的词，使句意完整，上下文通顺：               
小题2:将(B)句译成汉语：_____________________________________________________
小题3:将(C)句译成英语：_____________________________________________________
小题4:从文中找出所给句子的同义句：Sending a letter is much slower and dearer than it.
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小题5:从文中找出最能表达英特网特点的句子：

阅读下面的短文，根据所给语境，按要求完成下列各题。
①After Pluto (冥王星) was found in 1930, people took it as the ninth planet in our solar system(太阳系). But it isn’t like other planets. It is smaller and has an strange orbit(轨道). On August 24,2006， scientists said,“Pluto is not a planet.”
About 2,500 scientists met in Prague（布拉格，捷克首都）. At first, some of them said that there would be 12 planets in our solar system. In the end, the scientists said that only Mercury（水）, Venus（金）, Earth, Mars（火）, Jupiter（木）, Saturn（土）, Uranus（天王）and Neptune（海王）are the planets in the solar system. ②Each of these planets has its own orbit, and of the planets is big enough to be a planet. Pluto’s orbit overlaps (重叠) Neptune’s and it is smaller than the other planets. ③So Pluto is classified(划归/分类) as a dwarf planet (矮行星), but no longer a planet in the solar system.
Students at school will have new schoolbooks to learn the new solar system!
小题1:根据①处完成下面的句子（每空一词）
Before people _______ Pluto in 1930, there were _______ planets in our solar system.
小题2:根据②出完成下面的句子（每空一词）。
Every planet not only has its own _______ , but also is ______ enough.
小题3:将③处译成汉语。
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Yang Nan, 17, was happy to move to her new home in a northern area of Beijing. She was told that her neighborhood used to be rich farmland planted with vegetables, corn and wheat. But looking at the new road, beautiful parks and supermarkets, to her surprise, Yang couldn't see any sign that food was once grown there.
Yang is not alone. In recent years, many Chinese people have moved into new houses in country areas. Tall buildings have been built everywhere in the suburbs. The crops and fruit trees are no more grown there. But these changes have caused big problems too, warns Gan Zangchun, an official（官员）at the Ministry of Land and Resources(国土资源部）．
"Chinese cities are growing very fast. This has made the area for farmland much smaller than before. This is really bad for the country's ability to grow food, not to mention the lives of farmers," said Gan last Monday.
As the population of China is growing all the time, the country needs more farmland to grow food for the increasing people of China. But the recent rise in house prices has made selling land a good business. A lot of land has been used to build new houses for sale. So you can see, the shortage of the farmland is now a very serious problem.
Pollution, such as, oil pollution, industrial(工业) pollution and water pollution, which makes land useless, is another reason for the big drop in China's farmland. About 2.67 million square kilometers of land in China have been polluted and turned into desert.
Today, can we use less farmland to grow enough food for more people? Of course not! The government wants China to have at least 120 million hectares（公顷） of farmland. Only in this way can we raise such a big population. But there are only about 121.8 million hectares left. "It will be really difficult to reach the goal", Gan said. He said that the government would fight illegal(非法的) land use and something useful must be done to stop farmland from becoming desert.
小题1:The article seems to tell us that_____________.

A．farmland is in danger

B．countryside is turned into towns

C．farmland has been sold

D．Chinese cities are growing fast

小题2:From what Gan Zangchun said, we know he is worrying about ____________.

A．China's development is too slow

B．the population of China is growing fast

C．Chinese people have worse life than before

D．the reduction(减少) and pollution of the farmland

小题3:What size of the land have been polluted and turned into desert?

A．120 million hectares.

B．121.8 million hectares.

C．2.67 million square kilometers.

D．Millions of square kilometers.

小题4:Which statement of the following is NOT true?

A．Yang Nan's new home is in a northern area of Beijing.

B．The country needs enough farmland so that the farmers can grow enough food for the people of China.

C．Chinese cities are growing too slowly so the government encourages people to change the farmland into towns.

D．Pollution is also an important reason for the big drop in China's farmland.

小题5:What will the government do with the problem of the drop in China's farmland?

A．Government needs farmland to grow food for the people of China.

B．Government will order not to build new towns any more.

C．Government will stop the growth of the cities in order to stop selling farmland for business.

D．Government will fight illegal land use and stop farmland from becoming dessert.

任务型阅读 阅读短文，按要求完成各题。（5分）
At the moment, it may be difficult to imagine, but many people believe that, by the year 2100, we will live on the planet Mars. Our own planet, Earth, is becoming more and more crowded and polluted. Luckily, we can start again and build a better world on Mars.
First of all, transport should be much better. At present, our spaceships are too slow to carry large numbers of people to Mars—it takes months. However, by 2100, spaceship can travel at half the speed of light. It might take us two or three days to get to Mars!
Secondly, humans need food, water and air to live. Scientists should be able to develop plants that can be grown on Mars. These plants will produce the food and air that we need. However, can these plants produce water for us? There is no answer now.
There is a problem for us to live on Mars. Mars suck us much less than the Earth does. This will be dangerous because we could easily jump too high and fly slowly away into space. To prevent this, humans on Mars have to wear special shoes to make themselves heavier.
Life on Mars will be better than that on Earth in many ways. People will have more space. Living in a large building with only 10 bedrooms is highly possible. Many people believe that robots will do most of our work, so we have more time for our hobbies.
There will probably be no school on Mars. Every student will have a computer at home which is connected to the internet. They can study, do their homework and take exams in online schools. Each student will also have their own online teacher called “e-teacher”.
However, in some ways, life on Mars may not be better than that on the earth today. Food will not be the same—meals will probably be in the form of pills and will not be as delicious as they are today. Also, space travel will make many people feel ill. The spaceship will travel fast, so the journey to Mars will probably be very uncomfortable.
小题1:根据短文内容完成句子填空（每空限填一个单词）。
In the first paragraph, we can know, Earth is becoming more and more_____ and___ to make  people  want  to live on the planet of Mars.
小题2:根据短文内容完成句子填空（每空限填一个单词）。
In order to live on Mars, people need faster _______________, ______________ that can produce food or air for people, and special shoes.
小题3:根据短文内容回答问题。
What examples are given in the passage about the disadvantages living on Mars? 
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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文句子（限10个词以内）回答问题。
What’s the passage mainly  about ?
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