If you go to Finland, you’ll be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.
Take the taxi drivers for example. Taxis in Finland are mostly high class Benz with a fare (票价) of two US dollars a kilometer. You can go anywhere in one, tell the driver to drop you at any place, say that you have some business to attend to, and then get off without paying your fare. And the driver would not show the least sign of worry.
The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their guests, but also outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends and dine free of charge.
With so many loopholes (漏洞) in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take “pretty advantages”. But the strange things is, all the taxi-passengers would always come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business; not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. As the Finns always act on good faith and always show an attitude of “which is which” and “what is what” in everything they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”. In a society of such high moral practice, what need is there for people to take precautions (预防措施) against others?
【小题1】The word “foolish” probably means _____________.

A．friendly

B．careful

C．strange

D．funny

【小题2】Why wouldn’t the driver show the least sign of worry? Because _________.

A．he is sure that the passengers always act on good faith

B．he is afraid to make the passengers angry and unhappy

C．he thinks the passengers may be too poor to pay him

D．he is sure that the passengers are really in trouble

【小题3】The dining rooms in all big hotels ___________.

A．check the guests’ registration card carefully

B．give people meals without paying

C．serve their guests free of charge

D．only serve their guests free breakfast

【小题4】What’s FALSE according to the passage?

A．No one takes advantages although there are many loopholes.

B．All the taxi-passengers come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business.

C．Not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms.

D．Finland is heaven for immoral people because they can always take advantages freely.

【小题5】The sentences “which is which” and “what is what” show that __________.

A．the Finns are foolish

B．the Finns take things seriously

C．the Finns are busy making money for the family

D．the Finns never take precaution against others

We all need a healthy environment, but we produce waste every day and it does harm to our environment. Though we are young, we can still do something to help. In fact, even the simplest everyday activities can make a real difference to the environment. Here are some ideas for you to live a green life.
Remember these three words: reduce, reuse and recycle.
Reduce means “use less”. Don't waste things. This saves money and reduces pollution and waste going into the environment. Before we buy something new, think if it is really necessary or maybe the old one will be just as good! When we do buy things, choose local products if possible, and try not to buy too many things from abroad.
Reuse means “use again”. Use things for as long as possible. When we buy things, make sure that they last a long time. We should take care of them so that they will last, and we should repair them if we can instead of throwing them away and buying new ones. Don't use a paper cup or a paper bag. It’s better to use a china cup and a lunch box because you can use them again.
Recycle means “change things into something else”. Although it takes energy to change something into something else, it’s better than throwing things away or burning them. Find out what can be recycled in your neighbourhood and take part in recycling programmes. We should also buy products made from recycled materials, such as recycled paper, to help save trees.
Title:  46  to Live a Green Life

We produce waste every day and it is   47  to us. We can do something to help.
Ideas	Dos	Don’ts
To   48	Use less * Try to save something.	* Don’t buy too many things from foreign   49 .
To reuse	Use   50  * Use things for as long as possible. * Buy things that last long. * Take care of things or   51  the old things.	* Don’t use   52  cups or bags.
To recycle	Change things into something   53   *Join in recycling programmes. *Buy   54  made from recycled materials.	* Don’t   55  things away or burn them.

 

We know that trees are useful in our everyday life. They give us   1   things, such as wood, oxygen, rubber（橡胶）, medicines   2   many other things. They can also tell us a lot about our climate. The following are the reasons. If you cut   348   a tree, you can see that it has many rings. Most trees grow one new ring   4   year. Because of this, we know how old a tree is. A tree over a hundred   5   means that it has more than a hundred   6  . When the climate is dry or very cold, the trees do not grow very much and their rings   7   usually thin. When it is wet and warm, the rings

8  thicker. If the rings are suddenly very thin or suddenly very thick, it means that the 9  changed suddenly. If we look at the rings on the tree, we can learn about the climate in the past years. We can see

  10   changing today.

1.A．much               B．lot                  C．many        

2.A．so                 B．and                  C．while       

3.A．down               B．cross                    C．into        

4.A．every              B．many             C．some        

5.A．year old           B．old                  C．years old       

6.A．plants             B．rings                    C．leaves      

7.．A．is                   B．are                  C．were        

8.A．are much               B．are more             C．is much     

9.A．day                    B．year                 C．climate     

10.A．how our climate is    B．how is our climate   C．how to our climate

 

阅读下面的短文，并完成短文后的任务。

Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don’t agree with them.

Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources (资源), we are short of others, for example, fresh water. It is reported that we will have no coal（煤） or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, what can we use in the future and where can we move? Think about it. (83) I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.

In our everyday life, we can do many things to prevent (阻止) waste from happening, for example, turn off the water taps when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. (84) Waste can be stopped one day, if we do our best.

任务1：根据要求答题。(请注意问题后的词数要求) 提示： within 在…以内  waste浪费

1.List the wastes mentioned in the first passage: (within 15 words 15个词以内)

_________________________________________________________________

2.What problems can waste bring? (within 20 words)

(1) ______________________________________________________________

(2) ______________________________________________________________

任务2：将短文中划线的句子翻译成汉语。

3.______________________________________________________________

4.______________________________________________________________

任务3：请给短文拟一个适当的标题：(within 5 words)

5.______________________________________________________________

 

—Do you like sports?
—Yes, I do some running in the park everyday _______ the weather is terrible.

A．if

B．after

C．unless

D．while