Food waste has become a big problem in China.
Zhou Jinsong, a canteen(食堂) manager at Central South University, said that students produce over 12 barrels(桶) of leftovers every day — each barrel stands at one meter in height. Zhou’s canteen is just one of several on the campus.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the food wasted by Chinese people equates to about 50 million tons of grain every year, or 10 percent of the country’s total annual grain production. This food could feed another 200 million people. What students waste every year could feed over 10 million people. Students nowadays are well protected by their families and hardly know how hard farmers work to provide them with the food they eat.
“Since the 1980s, when Chinese gradually became richer, food waste has been a subject of debate. But things have hardly changed over the years,” said Yu Changjiang, a sociologist at Peking University. “It’s the Chinese way of showing respect to friends, often referred as Mianzi.”
But rather than tradition, huge public spending on government banquets(宴会) is also causing food waste, said Zhou Xiaozheng from the sociology department at Renmin University of China. “It’s the result of widespread reception meals at government levels. It is also important that everyone thinks about how they can do their best to reduce food waste.”
【小题1】Which of the following statements is not the reasons for food waste?

There lived a young man in a village. He was born in a      family. His parents had a lot of farms and got much money . He was in school for only four years, but he thought he knew all.        the villagers called him Mr. Know-All. And he told his servants not to tell him the results（结果） directly (直接地). The servants . were afraid of  him and had to listen to him.

    One day Mr. Know-All went to     his friend who lived in a town. He stayed there for nearly a week. Suddenly one of his servants came and called out, “     , sir!”

“What happened?”

“Your cat has died!”

“What’s there to be surprised at （吃惊）?” said the young man. “Throw it to the river. By the way, of what illness did it die?”

“It     much meat of the horse and died.”

“What? Has my horse died, too? And what illness did it die of, then?”

 “It pulled(拉) the carried (马车) to the hospital,” said the servant. “ We made it     as fast as possible. When we reached the hospital, it was so tired that it couldn’t     up any longer and died.”

“Wait a minute,” said Mr Know-All. “What did you go to the hospital for?”

“To     your mother there.”

“What’s the matter with my mother?”

“She     down stairs and hurt her head. We sent her to the hospital, but it was too late. The doctors operated on（动手术）her at once, they tried their best to save her, but she died!”

Mr Know-All became angry and shouted, “Why didn’t you tell me about it      ?”

“You never let us tell you the results directly, sir.”

1.A. worker’s        B. teacher’s         C. farmer’s         D. soldier’s

2.A. But            B. Then            C. Or              D. So

3.A. look after       B. hurt             C. look for         D. visit

4.A. Good news      B. Bad news        C. Good morning    D. Good afternoon

5.A. ate             B. saw             C. touched         D. cut

6.A. run            B. walk             C. jump            D. fly

7.A. sit             B. lie               C. sleep           D. stand

8.A. post            B. bring             C. take           D. put

9.A. went           B. lived             C. stayed          D. fell

10.A. early          B. earlier            C. earliest         D. the earliest

As we all know, people couldn’t live without water. Some parts of our bodies are made of water. We depend on clean water to live every day.

However, we human beings are polluting water seriously. In some areas of China, people are still in great need of clean water. Dirty water is one of the world’s biggest healthy problems. It’s harmful to our health. When water from the rain and melting(融化) snow runs through roads, it picks up some dangerous chemicals and other things along the way. Many of the rivers are short of protections, so they are easy to be polluted by factories or animals’ waste.

World Water Day has grown to become one of the important dates since 1993. In 2013, World Water Day shares the topic of Water Cooperation. If everyone tries their best to save and protect the clean water, our living conditions will be much better.

根据短文内容，选择正确答案。

1.From the first paragraph, we know that people couldn’t live without _________.

A. fire????????????? B. water????????????? C. books????????????? D. language

2.Dirty water is ________ to our heath.

A. useful????????????? B. kind????????????? C. harmful????????????? D. cruel

3.Many of the rivers are easy to be polluted by __________.

A. schools????????????? B. factories or animals’ waste

C. fish????????????? D. human beings’ waste

4.What’s the topic of 2013 World Water Day?

A. Water and Food.????????????? B. City Water Protection.

C. Water Quality.????????????? D. Water Cooperation.

5.Which of the following is TRUE(对的)?

A. The clean water is enough in China.??????

B. We needn’t any clean water.

C. World Water Day started in 2013.????????

D. We should try our best to protect the clean water.

用所给单词的适当形式填空。

1.There was an _________ (argue) happened between Tom and Jack last night.

2.Lucy never _________ (have) a walk after supper every day.

3.The people in Iraq keep fighting for their own ________ (free).

4.The teenagers have to work hard because of the _________ (press) from their parents.

5.They tried their best to find the ______ (solve) because they want to solve the problems.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people. Many well-known people come to help those who are in trouble. And this was the case for basketball player Yao Ming. He hosted a television show in Shanghai and raised US $ 300,000 to help researchers (研究员) find a medical cure. Fund-raising, or charity, is an act of goodwill(好意) towards others.
Charities in the West have more ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a rich woman in the UK, for example. Ruth wakes up in the morning and collects her post. There’s a letter addressed to her with a picture of a half-dead, beaten(筋疲力尽的) horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. She turns on the television, and sees a picture of a wide–eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with a request (请求) for money to help the child. The tickets for the charity shows often cost her a lot of money, but she doesn’t mind because most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS. She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.
Edna, a little old lady, looks after a second-hand shop—a charity shop. Any profit (收益) it has made goes to a cancer(癌症) charity. Now that she doesn’t have to work, she has lots of time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue (美德) that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope. “As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,” said Scottish writer Henry Drummond.
【小题1】Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.