For many years scientists have said that the earth is getting warmer. Now they have found something new-hot cities! In the southern US, they have found that cities become very hot in summer. For example, the city of Atlanta in Georgia has roof(屋顶) temperature of up to 50oC while it is 27℃ in the streets! At night, the outside of buildings stays so hot that the heat of the city causes storms over the city!
China also has the same kind of problems. Every year more farmland is used for factories or offices. More housing is needed, too. As people become richer, they buy more cars. New roads are needed and new car parks are built in the city centers. This all makes cities hotter.
It isn’t easy to change the situation. City planners say that we should plant more trees in the middle of cities. Every new street should have trees on both sides, they say. Trees make the temperature lower, so we should have more trees in our parks and squares. We should also paint our roofs white. If we do this, they do not become so hot. Every roof in a hot and sunny country should have solar(太阳的) roof panels. The electricity from these can be used to run the air conditioners (空调)in the buildings.
People continue to cut down forests around the cities. This makes the problem worse. Cities are growing faster and faster. By the year 2025, four fifths(五分之四) of the population will be living in cities. If we go on like this, there will not be enough farmland to feed everyone in the worldThe scientists have found .
| A．cities become very hot in summer |
| B．Atlanta is the hottest city in America |
| C．there are not as many storms as before |
| D．it is not as hot on the roof as in the street |
The way to make the city cooler is to .
| A．plant more trees |
| B．try to use air conditioners more |
| C．build more parks and squares |
| D．paint the roofs of all the white buildings |
What will probably happen in the future according to the fourth paragraph(段落)?
| A．Cities won’t grow very fast |
| B．We will not have enough food |
| C．Most people will move to the countryside |
| D．People will plant more trees outside the cities |
What is the best title(题目)for the passage?
| A．More Farmland Is Needed |
| B．Trees Make Cities Cooler |
| C．Cities Are Getting Hotter |
| D．Scientists Are Worried About Storms |
Healthy eating starts with learning new ways to eat,such as adding more fresh fruit and vegetables,and cutting back on foods that have lots of fat, salt and sugar. Healthy eating will help you feel your best and give you plenty of energy.It can help you deal with stress better.
However,healthy eating isn’t a diet . If you eat too little when you diet, you may eat more after you stop dieting. Eating a healthy, balanced diet is very satisfying. And if you match that with more exercise, you may be able to have a healthier weight.
What can you do to make healthy eating habit?
First, think about your reasons for heathier eating. Do you want to improve your health?Do you want to feel better?
Next, think about small changes that you can make. Then set some goals and go for them.
Set an easy goal you can reach.,like having a piece of fruit each day.
Set a long-term(长远的）goal too, such as having one meal not including meat or fish every week.What’s more, having help from others is important . After you get more help, it’ll be easier for you to make changes. Have family and friends help you make meals and give you useful advice on healthy cooking .
If you need more help, talk to your doctor or look online for groups that care about healthy eating and tell success stories .
The underline part “cutting back on” means “ _____” in Chinese.
| A．制造 | B．销毁 | C．减少 | D．增加 |
The second paragagh is mainly about _______.
| A．how to eat healthily |
| B．how to lose weight |
| C．the advantages of eating and dieting |
| D．the difference between healthy eating and dieting |
The writer advises people to __________.
① go on a diet ② do more exercise
③ set some goals ④ make big changes first
| A．① ④ | B．① ② | C．③④ | D．② ③ |
The writer mentions people can get help from the following EXCEPT
| A．friends | B．TV programs |
| C．doctors | D．the Internet |
What’s the passage mainly about?
| A．Healthy cooking | B．Healthy eating |
| C．Ways to set goals | D．Ways to lose weight |
Share and Read
Do you have any books on your bookshelf for many years? Instead of throwing them away，here is another way for you to consider. If you have books that you do not read anymore，you can share them with others.
You can take the books to Share and Read. Share and Read offers used books in different categories(类别)，such as storybooks, children books，language books，cook books and computer books，etc. All the books are sold at low prices. Share and Read also aims to help poor children in
China. The money raised will be given to help build schools in the rural area.
We welcome all quality books. We do not want textbooks，magazines and dictionaries. Just make sure that your books are in good condition before giving them to us.
Address:201 Riverside Main Street
Working hours:Saturdays to Sundays from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Hotline: 7654-4321
We look forward to seeing you at Share and Read！What is this piece of writing?
| A．A postcard. | B．A poem. |
| C．A diary. | D．An advertisement. |
What do we know about Share and Read from this piece of writing?
| A．It buys and sells books like other bookstores. |
| B．It collects old books and uses them to help others. |
| C．It buys books and gives them to schools in the countryside. |
| D．It invites parents to read books together with their children. |
What does Share and Read want us to do?
| A．To buy new books for them. |
| B．To give our used books to them. |
| C．To sell our old books to them. |
| D．choose good books for them. |
Which of the following will be accepted by Share and Read?
| A．Textbooks. | B．Magazines. |
| C．Dictionaries. | D．Storybooks. |
If you don't have used books but still want to help，you can ____.
| A．buy books from them |
| B．get in touch with them online |
| C．visit them on weekdays |
| D．collect broken books for them |
任务型阅读 阅读短文，根据短文内容完成文后表格，每空一词。（本大题共5空，每空1分，共5分）
Writing a good story is no easy task. What’s the secret? Mo Yan, the Nobel Prize winner in literature（文学）in 2012, believes his success comes from a large amount of reading.
Mo was born into a farming family in a village in Shandong Province. He grew up listening to folk stories about gods, spirits and foxes. Those stories later became the inspiration (灵感) for Mo’s writing.
Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields. Although he was tired after his daily hard work, Mo was always hungry for books. However, there were very few in the village. He read his older brother’s textbooks and even dictionaries. He helped others with farm work in exchange for books.
“When I finished reading all the books around, I thought I was the most knowledgeable man in the world,” he told Xinhua.
After Mo left his hometown and joined the army in 1976, he began to read widely, including works by Lu Xun and many other famous writers.
He studied from these writers but did not copy them. Instead, he developed his own style. “I grew up in an environment filled with folk culture. It enters my novels whenever I pick up a pen. This has influenced, even decided, my style,” Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown shortly after he won the award in 2012.
As the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in literature(文学), the organization spoke highly of his works. They described his writing as a mixture (混合体) of fantasy and reality, combining historical and social perspectives (看法).
| Mo Yan, the First |
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| The process of MoYan’s growth |
·He was born in a village and his parents are both ·After leaving school at the age of 12, although he could ·In the army, he read such works as Lu Xun’s and other famous writers’ to develop his own style. ·In 2012, he won the Nobel Prize for literature. |
| The features of Mo Yan’s works |
·Folk stories ·His writing is a mixture of fantasy and reality. |
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·The environment full of folk culture matters a lot to his success. ·Reading is Mo Yan’s secret to be a great success. |
Blogging has become something of a big thing in the last few years. Just like the Internet was 10 years ago, blogging is popular with an underground culture, that is doing it for love and passion(激情).
Blogging is a way of collecting links(链接) to webpages and sharing thoughts and ideas with people online. Blogs are basically online diaries which are created for sharing information and ideas.
Dominic, a fifth-grade student, writes: “The blogs give us a chance to communicate between ourselves and encourage us to write more. When we publish on our blog, people across the whole world can reply by using the ‘comments’ link. In this way, they can ask questions or simply tell us what they like. We can then know if people like what we write and this will tell us where we can improve. By reading these comments, we can discover our weaknesses and our strengths. Blogging is a chance to exchange our opinions with the rest of the world rather than just people in our immediate environment.”
Blogging is sweeping the Internet. A recent report states that at least three million Americans have created blogs, with similar numbers being seen worldwide.
Two years ago, Andrew Sullivan decided to set up a Web page himself and used “Blogger. com” to publish some daily thoughts to a few hundred readers. He worked hard at the blog for months for no reward. But the result is that he is now reaching almost a quarter of a million readers a month and making a lot of money.
This, at least, is the idea: a publishing revolution(革命) is coming. “Blogger.com” could be to words what Napster was to music—except this time, it'll really work.
Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
| A．Blogs are mainly online chatting with others. |
| B．Blogging is important in the past few years. |
| C．Dominic wants to get a chance to be a writer. |
| D．Blogging makes us exchange our view only with friends. |
According to the passage, about ___________ people worldwide have created blogs except
Americans.
| A．3 million | B．750,000 |
| C． 250,000 | D．6 million |
From the passage we can see that “Napster” in the last paragraph is probably related (有关系的) to___________.
| A．newspapers | B．readers | C．words | D．music |
In the next part of this passage, the writer would most probably tell us ___________.
| A．how to make further use of blogging |
| B．the disadvantages of using blogging |
| C．how many people will get tired of blogs in the future |
| D．different opinions about blogging |
Do you know why different animals or pests have their special colours? Colours in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.
Some birds like eating locusts(蚱蜢)，but birds cannot easily catch them. Why? It is because locusts change their colours together with the change of the colours of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But as the harvest time comes, locusts change to the same brown colour as crops have. Some other pests with different colours from plants are easily found and eaten by others. So they have to hide themselves for lives and appear only at night.
If you study the animal life, you’ll find the main use of colours is protecting themselves. bears, lions and other animals move quietly through forests. They cannot be seen by hunters. This is because they have the colours much like the tree.
Have you ever noticed an even more strange act? A kind of fish in the sea can send out a kind of very black liquid(液体) when it faces danger. While the liquid spread over, the enemies cannot find it. And it immediately swims away. So it has lived up to now though it isn’t strong at all.
How can pests with different colours from plants keep out of danger?
| A．They run away quickly. |
| B．Their colours are much like their enemies. |
| C．They hide themselves in the day and appear at night. |
| D．They have to move quietly. |
The kind of fish can live up to now because .
| A．it is very big and strong |
| B．the liquid it sends out can help it escape (逃脱) from its enemies |
| C．the liquid it sends out can kill its enemies |
| D．it swims faster than any other fish |
Which is the best title for this passage?
| A．The Change of Colours for Animals and Pests. |
| B．Colours of Different Animals and Pests. |
| C．The Main Use of Colours for Animals and Pests. |
| D．Some Animals and Pests. |
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