Today some people call Amsterdam the “City of Bicycles” because it is a city which is flat and convenient (方便的) for bicycles.
In the 1960s, a group of cycling fans      an idea. They believed that it would be better for everybody if the city only allows (允许) bicycles to go in the streets in the city centre. They were    that this would help to save energy, reduce pollution and provide free public transport. The group painted hundreds of bicycles       and placed them in public places around Amsterdam for people to use.      could take them and use them for short journeys, whether he was a local or a foreigner. Whenever someone finished a journey, they would    the bike there for someone else to use. The problem was that it didn't work because     took all the bicycles within weeks!
    more than thirty years later, the “white bike” is back in town---this time with a computer chip (芯片) to  its      very move! To take a bicycle, you have to put a special card inside. The new “white bike” is not white any more but is an unusual       with bright colors. The bikes are parked at special parking places and people who want to use them have to take them to another place that has enough room.
There is already less traffic in central Amsterdam, because both locals and tourists are      the white bikes every day. Thanks to the good ideas of lots of people, like the cycling fans in the 1960s, many people around the world have been enjoying city centre streets without cars for many years.

Qi Haoran, a Junior One student at High School was quite busy over the last winter vacation, not just with homework. Qi, together with ten other classmates made a       group to call on people to join the Clean Your Plate Campaign(光盘行动).
The       students went to many restaurants and told the people the importance of       food. “ Excuse me, do you know that 950 million people around the world still haven’t got enough to       ? Could you please not       food? ” They would say this kind of thing hundreds of times every day.
    ，the activity has got the support of many people. In a restaurant in Xinjing, the owner gives the guests who have eaten all the food they ordered a ticket. People can enjoy a       meal
when they have ten tickets. More than 750 restaurants in Beijng have begun to offer       dishes and encourage their guests to take leftovers(剩菜) home.
Wasting food is a serious problem around the      , not only in China. It’s said that 1.3 billion tons of food ends up as waste last year. This is as       as one third of all the food in the world. The UN Environment Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization held a “ Think, Eat, Save” program in January, 2013 to help reduce food waste.

There're different kinds of animals in the zoo. We see the zoo keepers give them        to eat. They don't have to       food by themselves. They just eat, walk and       all day. So many of       may think that the animals there       happy and lucky. But most       them are sad. Why? They're       free.
Animals like elephants, monkeys and tigers       live freely and happily in       or mountains. Tigers,        example, run, jump, play with their children       catch small animals for food. But now they have to stay in       rooms in the zoo. Their life in the zoo is      different from their life in the forests.
Now many of us think       animals should go back to forests and mountains so that       earth will become better.

Today’s young people are taking a more active part in online activities. Although the Internet can be    for students to collect information and communicate（交流）with their friends, teachers and parents are becoming more and more     about the unhealthy web content（网上内容）in the bar. They think that the birth of “Harm-free Internet Bars”（健康网吧）is    step to    teenagers.
It was Sunday afternoon and there were not many      seats left in the Feiyu Internet Bar. A few       were found playing    . A person of the bar was walking around       Internet users’ online activities.
“My job is to find anyone who is looking at       websites and then     them from doing so,” he said. “This is a       of the ‘Harm-free Internet Bar’ project”. Feiyu, a famous Internet bar in Beijing is among the first 19 to      the harm-free Internet bar club.
In order to help start a better     for teenagers’ online activities, China’s Communist Youth League has brought out the program named “Harm-free Internet Bar for Teens”.
But while teachers and parents     the “harm-free Internet bars”,   do many school students think of them? 

The United States is full of automobiles (机动车). There are still many families without cars. But some families have two or     more cars. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a     part of life.
Cars are used for     . They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to      their jobs. When salesmen are sent to      parts of the city, they have to drive in order to       their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to shop for necessities.
Sometimes, small children must be driven to      . In some cities, school buses are used only when children       more than a mile from the school. When the children are too     to walk that far, their parents take      driving them to school. One       drives on Mondays, taking her children and the neighbors' children as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays and so on. This is       forming a car pool (拼车). Working people also form car pools, with three or four people taking turns driving to the place     they work.
More car pools should be formed in order to put       cars on the road and to use less oil.      is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something should be done about the use of cars.

What do you think of stress? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
Most of the students think stress can do harm       them in some ways. There’s a story about a teenager in a middle school. He even       his study because of the stress from school and family. We also usually        that someone turns to psychological (心理的)doctors because of heavy working stress. There is no doubt that some people think stress is a dangerous wolf.
On the other hand, other people argue that stress is not a bad thing. They       stress can produce momentum(动力）in the end. For them, right attitude and action can reduce stress and make it        . When I was a child, my mom always pushed me to study hard. She wished I could go to an ideal        for further education. I experienced stress for the first time. Born to a poor family, I deeply knew        was not easy for us, and everything my mom did to me was just to hope I could live a better life in the future.        the saying goes, “no pains, no gains.” So I did what my mom expected because I didn’t want to let her down. At last, I did measure up(达到标准） to my mom’s expectation and go to college       . Thanks to my mom’s push! Thanks to the stress! In this way, I don’t think stress is a bad thing.
Overall, stress is not a bad thing in       . The key is how we deal with it.

Now the idea of “car sharing” is_____around the world. That’s to say，more people are sharing the___of a car. Not everyone can ____a car. Think about it. __ many families today have one car, a lot of them don’t use it every day. Some cars spend most of their time _____in garages(车库).When we don’t use them ,we have to pay for ____ and other things. That needs a lot of money. To _____ money, some people _____with the idea of “car sharing”. If we share a car, we only pay when we use it.
Now more and more people are _____to do car sharing. In Switzerland(瑞士)，40000 people are doing it. Japan is also _____ to make “car sharing” popular around the country. Car sharing is a new____ in vehicle. It’s very easy____us to go ___we want ____buying a car. It also reduces(减少)air____.Let’s do it at once.

Is global warming killing the Maldives?
The Maldives(马尔代夫) is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Every year, millions of         go there to enjoy the wonderful scenery. And in recent years, more and more people would like to visit it,       ? Because the little island country is         . If global warming           , say scientists, the country will go down into the ocean within 100 years. That means the Maldives          have disappeared by 2100.
The Maldives          in the Indian Ocean. It is the           country on earth—its highest point is only 2.4m above sea level.          Greenhouse gas emissions（排放）, global temperature and sea levels will rise         9cm and 88cm by 2100. If scientists are       , most of the Maldives will be covered with water in years.
Last October, Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed and his cabinet（内阁）held the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting to make the world         the terrible results from global warming to their own country. In December, he         at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference（大会） in Copenhagen, trying to ask for help from the world for        country. The president even has a         to buy a new homeland and move his country and people to a new place.
The Moldavian government has been doing all it can to fight the         . But the fate（命运）of the islands is in the world’s hands. No one wants to see this little island country disappear from the world.

I was so excited after I had found the holiday in the guidebook. It said, “Enjoy a week of sightseeing in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities     staying at one of its best hotels. ” Now I wasn’t so sure. I had waited fifteen minutes at reception  (前台) when I     and now the shower in my room wasn’t working. I       hotel reception.
“Hello. This is Room 308. There isn’t any     in my bathroom. ”
“Are you sure?”
“Of course I’m sure!”
“I’ll    our hotel engineer at once. ”
An hour later, the engineer came to look at the     . He hit the pipes (水管) a few times and looked     . “Sorry, but I cannot fix it today. Maybe, tomorrow.” Then he      his hand. I couldn’t believe it! He wanted a tip (小费) for doing     ! I was very angry. But suddenly, I had a better idea.    , I gave the engineer a few coins. He hadn’t fixed my shower but he had taught me something      staying in his country. Two minutes later I was at the reception desk. I explained the       to the receptionist (接待员) and he replied, “Sorry. This is a    situation, but what can we do?” I knew exactly      to do. I gave the hotel manager a very large tip. Fifteen minutes later I    into Room 405. It was twice the size of Room 308, it had a wonderful view (景色) of the city, a comfortable bed and, most importantly, there was water in the bathroom.

阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Paul got    the bus to go to the town. It was very crowded and he had to stand for about five    . Then some of the people got    . Paul sat down next      a fat woman. She     several shopping bags and Paul didn’t have much place     the seat. He was uncomfortable.    last the bus got to the town. All the people started to get off. Paul was very polite, so he stood    to let the fat woman get off before him.  She said,”   .” Then she tried to get     the seat with all her bags. But she couldn’t move. She was too fat and her bags were too heavy.