在世界环保日到来前夕，联合国教科文组织就如何处理垃圾问题向全世界中学生征文。请你以Saving Our City为题，写一篇100词左右的短文。文章的第一句已给出，但不计入总词数。

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1. 城市垃圾的危害：①污染环境；②有害健康。

2. 处理垃圾的措施有：①垃圾分类；②报纸、玻璃的再利用；③有害垃圾的处理；④废水处理；⑤制定法律。

Saving Our City

It is very important to deal with the rubbish in cities...

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   It is not surprising to hear that more and more people are trying to lose weight by using weight-loss pills. It is becoming a very popular way to deal with weight because then all that people need to do is simply take the pill and carry on with their normal eating habits all the while losing weight.

   As with the seemingly endless supply of weight-loss programs, there is a wide range of weight-loss pills that you can choose from and they go from prescription drugs(处方药) to natural products that are supposed to have same effect but offer a safer choice.

   Weight-loss pills can be highly effective when the appropriate drug is chosen for the patient and many people have quiet obvious results over a relatively short period of time once they have found a solution that has worked for them.

Still, you need to be aware that these natural weight-loss pills can have side effects and some serious reactions can be extremely dangerous to your health.

No matter what type of pills or products you are taking to lose weight, you really should discuss everything with your doctor first to ensure that your health won’t be in danger and in particular if you have any other health problems that need to be discussed.

With prescription drugs you are going to have to consult your doctor, so it would be a wise decision to talk about all the alternatives before deciding what the best for you is.

On the other hand there have been many people who have had obvious problems with weight-loss pills they have been using, whether it is prescription drugs or natural products. In some cases, these substances have no effect on the user.

It certainly isn’t worth endangering your life to lose weight as weight loss should actually be about improving you life.

Title: Be Careful When Using 71._________

When many people are worried that there are no more heroes in the modem society, two university students who lost their lives to rescue drowning children have shown that heroes still exist.

According to the Inner Mongolia Morning Post, the tragedy occurred on the afternoon of December 14, 2002 when three school students skating on a frozen lake in Qingcheng Park in Hohhot fell through the ice into the freezing water.

More than 20 university students who happened to be near the spot immediately went to the rescue of the children. They were astonished about what had happened in front of them.

Two children were quickly rescued, but the third died. The child’s body was not found for three hours. Two of the rescuers, Liu Ye and Hao Longbiao, also died of cold and exhaustion(筋疲力尽).

The body of Hao who took the lead in jumping into the lake was not found until the next day.

A student who was unwilling to tell his name said he and his classmates from the local college were taking photos at the lake. When they heard the children’s cries for help, they went to the ice hole hand in hand to rescue the children. But the ice kept breaking, causing most of them to fall into the icy water.

Local residents held mourning ceremonies (祭奠仪式) at the lake.

Eight of the students were seriously affected by the freezing water and were being kept in hospital for further observation, but their lives were no longer in danger.

68. Which word in the passage has the same meaning as the underlined word “occurred”?

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69. What were the university students doing when the three students fell into water?(不超过6个单词)

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70.When they tried to rescue the kids, why did most of students fall into the lake? (不超过6个单词)

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Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something that has not been said before. He hopes that the public will listen and understand ----he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.

What visional artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experience into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain choice of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is very interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have notice these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artists.

Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in movement and at rest; their choices show that these aspects(方面)of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Modern artists might say that they only choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose totally without thinking about the character of their subjects.

If one painter chooses to paint a decaying(溃烂的) leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world . Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphasizing(强调) something - all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.

61. It is hard to explain what a painter is saying because _______.

A. most painters do not express themselves well  

B. a painter uses unusual words and phrases

C. a painter use shapes and colors instead of words

D. many painters do not say anything

62. Modern artists might say their choice of subjects ______.

A. carries a message to the public   B. only provides interesting patterns

C. has no pattern or form              D. teaches the public important truths

63. The writer says that modern art contains______

A. nothing but meaningless patterns              B .uninteresting aspects of the world

C. subjects chosen partly for their meaning    D. completely meaningless subjects

64. Which of the following is implied(暗示) but NOT directly stated in the passage?

A. A painting is more easily understood than a song

B. Art is only the arranging of shapes and colors

C. Every artist tries to say something to the public

D. One must look beyond shapes and colors to find out what an artist is saying

Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and she chose to live alone far away from people. She lives in Belize ― a county the size of Wales with a population only that of Swansea. Her home is at Gales Point, a tiny village which can be reached only by sea or air; after a 10-mile walk into the hills one finally reaches a piece of land and two small houses so hidden in the thick over-grown forest that only a handful of people know Dorothea is there.

She lives happily and totally alone growing her vegetables, looking after her trees and dogs, cats and chickens. Once a month or so an old friend passes by with her food supplies and letters-usually including a letter from her sister in Scunthorpe and some bits of clothing from friends in Canada. Sometimes a local man will come and cut wood for her and a group of British soldiers will come across her and be greeted with the offer of a cup of coffee.

At night she lies in her tiny sleeping room with the dogs on the floor, the cats on the table near the typewriter and one of the hens settled down in a corner of the bookshelf, and listens for hours to any Spanish, English, German or French broadcasts she can find on her radio. Sometimes she gets lonely but most of the time the animals and the radio are company enough.

But recently the very things that she had tried to get free from so well have begun to catch up with her. The peace of the forest has been destroyed by the noise of earth-moving machines not many miles away. What she once only heard of distantly on the radio is now on her doorstep. Things began to change three years ago. The new main north-south road in Belize was cut through the forest only four or five miles away. “Now more people know I’m here.” She says. “I feel more and more uneasy each day.”

56. Dorothea’s small houses ________.               

A. are entirely surrounded by trees   

B. have always been her home

C. were built for just a few people   

D. are in a county with the same population as Wales

57. Dorothea lives in the tiny village because ________.

A. she doesn’t like living near people    B. she is too old to move

C. machines destroyed her home           D. there’s nowhere else for her to live

58. Dorothea doesn’t get lonely since she has _______ with her.

A. her sister   B. some animals     C. friends from Canada    D. a postman

59. Dorothea spends a lot of time __________.

A. growing all the food she needs         B. cutting down trees

C. listening to the radio                        D. studying languages

60. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Dorothea doesn’t hear from her sister once a month or so.

B. The cats and hens are settled down in a corner of the bookshelf.

C. More and more people come to visit her now.

D. Dorothea’s quiet life has been affected because of the making of a new road.

Tom used to work at a little railway station. He was very 36 about “rules”. For 37, he never smoked in a nonsmoker (不准吸烟的车厢), nor 38 a passenger to do so.

He was there for 50 years and then he had to 39. He asked for a part of an old railway carriage（车厢）which, he thought, would remind him of the 40 days he had spent at the station.

About a week later, a carriage was 41 and was taken into Tom’s back 42. Tom worked at it, just as he had worked at the station. It was 43 and painted, and in a week 44 so it looked very nice.

One day, I went to visit old Tom. It was a 45 day for a visit. It was raining hard. I walked to the front door and 46, but there was no answer. However, the door wasn’t 47, so I opened it and went in. He was 48 to be seen. I thought he 49 be in that old railway carriage. So I went to the back. Sure enough, he 50 there, but he wasn’t sitting in the carriage; he was outside, on the step of the carriage, 51 his pipe. His head was 52 with a sack and the rain was running down his 53. “Hello, why on earth are you sitting here? Why don’t you go inside the 54 out of the rain?”

“Can’t you see?” said Tom. “The carriage they sent me was 55.”

______ is mentioned above, an increasing number of high school students are playing online games.

   A. Which         B. What         C. As        D. It

 ________, you always get something to eat on this airline.

A. However short the journey is

B. However the journey is short

C. No matter how the journey is short

D.No matter how short is the journey

Not only _____ polluted but ____ crowded.

A. was the city, were the streets

B. the city was, were the streets

C. was the city; the streets were

D.the city was, the streets were

 ______, most teenagers now listen to rock music. However, Jeffery prefers classical music.

A. In a word                   B. In general

C. In particular                D. In total