Chilean rescued miner Edison Pena ran the New York City Marathon on November 7th , less than a month after he was rescued from a collapsed (坍塌的) mine that trapped him and the other 32 miners for 69 days. Pena ran 10 km daily through the mine’s tunnels (巷道) to beat the anxiety, wearing cut-down boots until rescuers sent him a pair of sports shoes through a narrow hole that served as the miners’ “lifeline” to the surface.

“When I ran in the darkness, I was running for life,” Pena told a news conference in New York. “I was running to show that I wasn’t just waiting around. I also wanted God to see that I really wanted to live.” The miners were discovered alive on August 22---17 days after the mine collapsed, but it took many more days for rescuers to dig a hole big enough to bring them out.

    The New York Road Runners, which organizes the marathon, had invited Edison Pena to the event after hearing his story. They thought he could ride in the lead vehicle or hold the finish line tape, but Pena said last week he did not want to watch, he wanted to run. “I was very eager to take on this big challenge,” he said. “I wanted to show the world I could run.” He hoped to run the 26.2-mile race in about six hours. “I have a knee injury, but I am eager to cross the finish line,” he said.

An Elvis Presley fan who asked rescuers to send the singer’s music down into the mine, Pena broke into song at the news conference with the Presley hit Return to Sender.

On the morning of November 7^th, Pena, known as “the runner” by fellow miners trapped with him, set out to cover the course along with thousands of other runners and completed the race in five hours and 40 minutes.

1.When trapped underground, Pena ran a long way every day to _______.

   A. find a way to get out             B. dig a lifeline to the ground

   C. keep himself from coldness        D. get rid of his uneasy feelings

2. According to the passage, Pena _______.

   A. was not expected to run the marathon at first        

B. failed to achieve the goal he had set for the marathon

   C. wore sports shoes while working underground      

D. was asked to sing a Presley’s song at a news conference

3. During the rescue of the Chilean trapped miners, the digging of the escape hole lasted about _________.

   A. 17 days           B. 22 days           C. 52 days         D. 69 days

4.Pena can be best described as _________.[来源:学&科&网Z&X&X&K]

   A. smart-minded      B. strong-willed       C. hard-working    D. warm-hearted

 

Chilean rescued miner Edison Pena ran the New York City Marathon on November 7th , less than a month after he was rescued from a collapsed (坍塌的) mine that trapped him and the other 32 miners for 69 days. Pena ran 10 km daily through the mine’s tunnels (巷道) to beat the anxiety, wearing cut-down boots until rescuers sent him a pair of sports shoes through a narrow hole that served as the miners’ “lifeline” to the surface.
“When I ran in the darkness, I was running for life,” Pena told a news conference in New York. “I was running to show that I wasn’t just waiting around. I also wanted God to see that I really wanted to live.” The miners were discovered alive on August 22---17 days after the mine collapsed, but it took many more days for rescuers to dig a hole big enough to bring them out.
The New York Road Runners, which organizes the marathon, had invited Edison Pena to the event after hearing his story. They thought he could ride in the lead vehicle or hold the finish line tape, but Pena said last week he did not want to watch, he wanted to run. “I was very eager to take on this big challenge,” he said. “I wanted to show the world I could run.” He hoped to run the 26.2-mile race in about six hours. “I have a knee injury, but I am eager to cross the finish line,” he said.    
An Elvis Presley fan who asked rescuers to send the singer’s music down into the mine, Pena broke into song at the news conference with the Presley hit Return to Sender.
On the morning of November 7^th, Pena, known as “the runner” by fellow miners trapped with him, set out to cover the course along with thousands of other runners and completed the race in five hours and 40 minutes.
【小题1】When trapped underground, Pena ran a long way every day to _______.

A．find a way to get out	B．dig a lifeline to the ground
C．keep himself from coldness	D．get rid of his uneasy feelings

【小题2】 According to the passage, Pena _______.

A．was not expected to run the marathon at first

B．failed to achieve the goal he had set for the marathon

C．wore sports shoes while working underground

D．was asked to sing a Presley’s song at a news conference

【小题3】 During the rescue of the Chilean trapped miners, the digging of the escape hole lasted about _________.

A．17 days

B．22 days

C．52 days

D．69 days

【小题4】Pena can be best described as _________.[来源:学&科&网Z&X&X&K]

A．smart-minded

B．strong-willed

C．hard-working

D．warm-hearted

　　In 1993, New York State ordered stores to pay money for those who returned beverage（饮料）containers. Within a year, consumers (people who buy goods) had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw materials for new products, but because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it wound up buried in landfills（垃圾填埋场）. The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for secondhand plastic.

　　Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying throwaway plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts, paint brushes, etc.

　　As, the New York experience shows, recycling includes more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A thrown-away thing remains a thrown-away thing until somebody figures out how to give it a second life--and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life value. Without enough markets to take in materials collected for recycling, throw always actually reduce prices for used materials.

　　Making landfill space become smaller and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management choice. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal(action of getting rid of sth. ), which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also forces the local economy to develop quickly by providing jobs and reduces the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined（纯净的）material.

(1) The returned plastic bottles in New York used to ________.

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A．be turned into raw materials

B．be separated from other rubbish

C．have a second-life value

D．end up somewhere underground

(2) The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is ________.

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A．how to reduce their recycling costs

B．to sell them at a high price

C．how to turn them into useful things

D．to lower the prices for used materials

(3) Recycling has become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because ________.

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A．recycling causes little pollution

B．other methods are more expensive

C．recycling has great interest for the jobless

D．local governments find it easy to manage

(4) It can be concluded from the passage that ________.

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A．recycling is to be attractive both economically and environmentally（环境）

B．local governments in the U. S. can expect to earn a lot from recycling

C．rubbish is a hidden cure for the shortage of raw materials

D．landfills will still be widely used for waste disposal