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【小题1】G              changes of climate may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
【小题2】Too much salt can be h              to a young baby.
【小题3】With the d              of science, more and more new technologies are playing important roles in people’s life.
【小题4】She grew up in a w              family, which resulted in the fact that she cared little about money.
【小题5】The postman has to get up before d              every day in order to deliver the letters in time.
【小题6】The skirt is too f              for me. I prefer a plain one.
【小题7】We have found further scientific e              for his experiment.
【小题8】We left the forest hungry, so we went to Calistoga in s              of a place to eat. Unfortunately, it took us almost two hours to find one.
【小题9】The main e              to the park is on Gongyuan Road, near the City Railway Station. Admission is free for children under 12.
【小题10】After the v              quarrel, the young couple realized that their marriage had come to an end.

Not too long ago, our teacher, being a “tree-hugger” (as the kids call her), had us write an essay on an environmental issue . I was eager to start, but something made me stop.

“What is an environmental issue ?” one kid asked . “What if we don’t care about the environment ?” another complained. “ It’s not like it affects me .”

These comments astounded me .I have always cared about the environment and assumed that others did too. From the surprised look on my teacher’s face, I could tell she felt the same way.

In no time, I finished my essay . In my essay I wrote about logging(伐木), which is an important industry, but if we continue to cut down trees without replacing them, it will damage the environment.www.zxxk.com

There are so many things that we can do to save our world. Recycling, of course, is always a good thing, but not everyone has a recycling plant nearby ( I don’t ) . There are other ways to help the environment . Plant a tree. Don’t waste water.

I can’t stand it when a person’s excuse for not caring is “Nothing’s going to happen in my lifetime, so why should I care ?” Sure, the chances of something terrible happening are slim, but I want people to realize that if we don’t deal with it, someone will have to eventually. Do you want that to be your children ?

When my teacher told me to read my essay to my class, I was a little embarrassment because I didn’t want everyone to call me “tree- hugger”. I realize now that if being a tree-hugger means you cares about the environment, I’m a tree-hugger 100 percent. I just wish more people were too.

1.Why do the students call her teacher “tree-hugger” ?

A. She likes hugging trees.             

B. She knows a lot about trees.

C. She grew up in the country.         

D. She cares a lot about the environment.

2.The underlined word in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by ____.

A. helped      B. changed           C. shocked     D. interested

3.Paragraph 5 is mainly about ____.

A. what we can recycle                    

B. how we can save the earth

C. why we should protect the earth         

D. what damage we are doing to the earth

4.We can infer from the text that _____

A. the students don’t like the teacher

B. the teacher liked the author’s essay

C. the author is ashamed of being a tree-hugger

D. the author should have written a better essay  

Ruth Mckenney was born in 1911 in Mishawak, Indiana. She grew up in Cleveand, Ohio, and at the age of fourteen she got her first job working nights in a printer’s shop. She also worked as a waitress, but after dropping two fruits salads on the floor, she was fired.

While Miss Mckenney was studying in a Ohio State University, she found an outside job as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch. In fact, she left college before she got her degree in order to devote all her time to newspaper work. She later worked on papers in Akron, Ohio, and New York City.

In New York, Miss Mckenney began to write stories about the amusing experiences she shared with her sisiter. These were published in the New York magazine, and later in a book called “My Sister Eileen”. This book was an immediate bestseller, and soon became a hit play. Miss Mckenney has also written a guide to England and a number of serious books on American labor.

Miss Mckenney married Richard Bransten in 1937. They had one daughter, and it came as no surprise when the author named her Eileen.

Ruch Mckenney died in 1972.

69. Ruth Mckenney started her newspaper work      .

  A. after she left college

  B. when she was a university student

  C. before she got her degree

  D. when she worked in New York City

70. The book My Sister Eileen consists of stories about      .

  A. Miss Mckenney only

  B. Miss Mckenney’s sister only

  C. both Miss Mckenney and her sister

  D. Miss Mckenney’s family and her fellow reporters

71. Why do you suppose it came as no surprise when the author name her daughter “Eileen”?

  A. Because the best-selling book made her famous and its heroine’s（女主人公的）name was “Eileen”.

  B. Because this name could help her to remember her sister forever.

  C. Because she had only one daughter and she loved her so much.

  D. Because she wished her daughter would be as successful as she had been.

Betty Skelton was often called “The First Lady of Firsts’’ because of the many records she set. She grew up in Pensacola, Florida, watching airplanes flying to and from a nearby navy base. As a child, she persuaded her parents to let her take flying lessons. By 12, Betty made her first flight alone, though not legally permitted to do so until she turned 16.
During the 1940s, female pilots were mostly prevented from commercial and military flying. So Betty Skelton decided to use her flight skills in aerobatics(特技飞行)，performing difficult turns, drops, and other exercises. She began performing and competing around the country.
She won the International Feminine Aerobatic Championship(IFAC)for three years in a row, starting in 1948. She and her little Pitts Special plane the “Little Stinker’’ became famous.
Dorothy Cochrane is an aviation expert who once studied and worked with Betty Skelton. “Betty was such a wonderful aerobatic pilot that she really set the bar high for other women to follow and she was a great role model for them. She really was as good as some of the men.”
Once Ms. Skelton had made her mark on flying, she moved on to racecars, becoming the first female test driver in the racecar industry. She set several land speed records. She also set a cross-country record, driving from New York to California in under 57 hours. And she became one of the top women advertising experts working with General Motors in support of the company’s Corvette car.
Ms. Skelton died in August, 2011, at the age of 85. Visitors to the Washington area can see her “little Stinker” plane at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The small red and white plane hangs high in the air above the entrance to the museum.
【小题1】What can we learn from the first paragraph?

单词拼写（10分）

1.G              changes of climate may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

2.Too much salt can be h              to a young baby.

3.With the d              of science, more and more new technologies are playing important roles in people’s life.

4.She grew up in a w              family, which resulted in the fact that she cared little about money.

5.The postman has to get up before d              every day in order to deliver the letters in time.

6.The skirt is too f              for me. I prefer a plain one.

7.We have found further scientific e              for his experiment.

8.We left the forest hungry, so we went to Calistoga in s              of a place to eat. Unfortunately, it took us almost two hours to find one.

9.The main e              to the park is on Gongyuan Road, near the City Railway Station. Admission is free for children under 12.

10.After the v              quarrel, the young couple realized that their marriage had come to an end.