Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? Things have changed.
China has banned（禁止）free plastic bags in shops and supermarkets，and people have to pay for using plastic bags. The rule started on June 1st. It came because our country tried to make less litter. Making super-thin plastic bags has also been banned.
The Chinese once used about 3,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags a day，and they have caused pollution of the environment. The bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution because they are easy to break and people throw them away here and there. So the Chinese people are encouraged to bring their own bags for shop ping.
What kind of shopping bag is the best to bring? Some students in Chongqing have a good idea. They make their own shopping bags. They use old clothes to make cloth bags，and send them to their parents as presents. They also ask their parents and friends to use cloth bags instead of plastic ones. They think it is their duty to protect the environment.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。 People in China have to now.
| A．throw plastic bags here and there |
| B．collect plastic bags in the street |
| C．pay for using plastic bags at shops and supermarkets |
| D．use free plastic bags at shops and supermarkets |
China made this rule because plastic bags were bad for the .
| A．environment | B．families | C．shops | D．supermarkets |
The Chinese people are encouraged to bring for shopping.
| A．no bags | B．free plastic bags |
| C．their own bags | D．super-thin plastic bags |
Some students in Chongqing .
| A．ask their parents to make cloth bags |
| B．make cloth bags themselves |
| C．pick up plastic bags everywhere |
| D．buy cloth bags for their parents |
What’s the main idea of this article?
| A．Making super-thin plastic bags has been banned in China. |
| B．The bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution. |
| C．Some students in Chongqing begin to make their own shopping bags. |
| D．To protect the environment，free plastic bags have been banned in China. |
A group of old classmates, who have succeeded in their work, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned to complaining about the stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and many cups-china(瓷), plastic and glass, some plain(朴素的) looking, some expensive and some lovely. The professor told them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “Can you notice all the nice looking expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones? While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source(根源) of your problems and stress.”
“What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups.”
“Now think about this: life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and do not change the quality of life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cups, we fail to enjoy the coffee. So don’t let the cups drive you, enjoy the coffee instead.” What did the group of old classmates get together for?
| A．Visiting their old university professor. |
| B．Seeing each other. |
| C．Complaining about their stress in work and life |
| D．Showing each other’s success. |
What cups did the old professor give to his students?
| A．All china cups. |
| B．Plastic and glass ups. |
| C．Beautiful cups. |
| D．Cups which are different in price, material and appearance. |
According to the old professor, why did they have so much stress?
| A．Because they paid too much attention on things that were not important. |
| B．Because they caught the main point of the meaning of life. |
| C．Because they concentrated on life and enjoyed it. |
| D．Because they drank too much coffee which was bad for them. |
What is the best title of this passage?
| A．Life Is the Coffee |
| B．An Old University Professor |
| C．Stress in Your Life |
| D．Coffee and Coffee Cups |
What can we learn from the old professor’s words?
| A．We should use the plain and cheap cups to drink coffee. |
| B．We should concentrate on the appearance of cups. |
| C．We should concentrate on life itself but not other unimportant things |
| D．We should learn how to work out problems in our work and life. |
Can you make a telephone call? Of course you can make it in Chinese. But a call in English is quite different from one from one in Chinese. If you want to ask somebody to answer the telephone, you can not say,“Please ask Mr. XX to answer the telephone.” Instead（代替），you must say,“May I speak to Mr. XX?” If you want to ask who is answering the phone, you should say,“Who is that?”“Is that Mr. XX ( speaking)?”Instead of “Who are you?” If you want to tell the other one who you are, you should say,“This is XX (speaking)”instead of(而不是)“I am XX”.An English telephone is ____________ a Chinese one.
| A．as good as | B．better than |
| C．the same as | D．not the same as (与) |
If you want to tell the people who you are, you should say, " _____
| A．This is XX | B．I am XX |
| C．That is XX | D．He is XX |
If you want to ask who is answering the phone , you should say, " _______ .
| A．Who am I? | B．Who is he? |
| C．Who are you? | D．Who is that? |
If you want to ask someone to answer the call, you can say, " _______ ".
| A．May I speak to Mr. XX |
| B．Please tell Mr. XX to answer the call. |
| C．I want to talk to Mr. XX? |
| D．Are you Mr. XX? |
Which is right about the passage?
| A．It tells the difference between making a call in Chinese and one in English. |
| B．We know how we call in English. |
| C．We don't understand how we call in English. |
| D．It's easy to call in English. |
（Happy Children's Day!）
Come and see the Indian elephants and the tigers from America. The bears (熊)are waiting to meet you, and the monkeys from Thailand are waiting to throw things at you. The lovely dogs from Australia are waiting to laugh at you, and the giraffes from Zambia are waiting to look down on you.
Tickets: Adults: ￥60, Children: free
Time: June1-June2 9:00 a.m.-----7:00 p. m
Keep the park clean! Do not touch, give food or go near the animals. How many kinds of animals are talked about in the poster(海报)？
| A．4 | B．5 | C．6 | D．7 |
Mr. and Mrs. Brown will take their twins aged 6 to the park. How much will the tickets be together?
| A．￥60 | B．￥120 | C．￥180 | D．￥24 |
Visitors can’t _____.
| A．give some food to the tigers |
| B．watch the bears playing games |
| C．laugh at the dogs from Australia |
| D．take some pictures |
From the passage we can guess the animal "giraffe" must be _____.
| A．short | B．fat | C．tall | D．strong |
The poster may be made just _____.
| A．on New Year's Day | B．on Christmas Day |
| C．after Children's Day | D．before Children's Day |
Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is “happier”, then you are right, based on a study published five years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.
The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies.
The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.
So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Title: Relationship Between Age and
| The elements of the survey |
Time: 2008 Place: in the United States Researcher: Arthur Stone and his Targets: 340,000 adults |
| The |
Generally people become happier and feel The kids and those in their early Men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women feel sadder, more |
| Conclusion |
Happiness |
Some of the greatest problems we face today are the destruction (破坏) of our environ
-ment. Brown clouds, polluted water, endangered wild animals…, these problems seem so huge.
So my family does what we can. We take cloth bags to stores instead of using plastic bags. We walk where we don’t have to drive.
But does it do any good? When I am the only one in line at the market with cloth bags, am I doing any good? Does my walking to stores make any real difference to the world?
I recently learned something about flamingos (火烈鸟) which like to get together in groups of a thousand or more. Every year, when the time comes for migration (迁徙), a few of them first take off from the lake. But none of the others seem to notice, so the small group returns. However, the next day they try again. This time few more fly along with them, but most of them still pay no attention, so they return again. They try for several times. Every time a few more birds join in but, since the thousands of others still take no notice, the great migration plan once more stopped.
Then one day something changes. The same small group of birds once again starts flying and a small number more join in just as before, then more. Finally, they all take flight and the migration really begins. What a spectacular sight it must be—thousands of flamingos taking off into the sky at once!
A few can make a difference. Even if you’re the one to take the first step, and continue trying, others will someday take notice and together we will solve even our greatest problems.
Where would you most probably read this passage?
| A．A guidebook. | B．A movie poster. |
| C．A personal blog(博客). | D．A geology(地质) magazine. |
Why does the writer use cloth bags in stores?
| A．Because he wants to do some good to the environment. |
| B．Because he thinks plastic bags are more expensive. |
| C．Because there are only cloth bags in stores. |
| D．Because all the people use cloth bags in stores. |
What does the underlined word “spectacular” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
| A．Curious. | B．Surprising. |
| C．Terrible. | D．Fantastic. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Even if we can walk there, we still drive over. |
| B．Flamingos like to get together in groups of a thousand or more. |
| C．Brown clouds and polluted water are the only problems we face today. |
| D．When a few of the flamingos first take off from the lake, all the others follow at once. |
What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this article?
| A．To show that the writer loves to see the migration of flamingos. |
| B．To tell readers to continue trying and it can make a difference. |
| C．To introduce a special kind of flamingo to readers. |
| D．To show that there’re many problems in the world. |
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