When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck.

    Of course, he delivered (分发) more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would write a note — “Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery”. Then she put the note and the empty bottles into the milk box. The next day, the buttermilk would magically appear.

    There was also a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box in the house, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.

I am sad that there is no home milk delivery today. Big companies produce cheaper milk, and milk is for sale everywhere. People may not need the milkman anymore.

Recently, I saw an old milk box in the countryside and it brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and put it outside the door. My son’s friends always ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship with his milk.

1.The milkman delivered milk to family _____ in the old days.

A. by car               B. by bike          C. on foot          D. by truck

2.The writer’s mother put the note _____.

A. into the bottles                         B. into the milk box

C. in the kitchen                               D. in front of the door

3.The writer brought back home an old milk box because he _____.

A. missed the good old days

B. wanted to tell funny stories

C. needed it for his milk bottle   

D. wanted to give it to the milkman

 

Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can’t eat or use. If we kept these things we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.

In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of city to a dump (堆存处). Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places.

To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.

In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles (堆) where they slowly change into something called humus (腐殖质), which looks like black earth. It is rich with kinds of things that feed plants and help them grow.

（ ）46.You can most probably read the passage on 　　　 .

A.an advertisement(广告)　 B.a poster　 C.a science book　 D.a story book

（ ）47.The main idea of the passage is 　　　　 .

A. to let us know taking away rubbish is a big job

B. to explain the need for rubbish collection

C. to introduce different ways to treat rubbish

D. to tell us rubbish does great harm to human beings.

（ ）48.The underlined word “sewage” in the passage means 　　　 .

A.排污　 B.洗涤　 C.吸尘　　 D.过滤

（ ）49.According to the passage, the food parts of rubbish can be used again 　　 .

A.To feed animals　 B. to feed plants　 C. to build a house　 D. to make electricity

（ ）50.How should we deal with a used metal box according to the passage?

A. By burning it off. B. By throwing it off.

C. By reusing and recycling it. D. You can do with it at any way.

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【小题1】Who lost a white cat with two big blue eyes?

A．Sam.

B．David.

C．Mary.

D．Charles.

【小题2】You need to pay _________ if you buy the book A Christmas Carol now .

A．$59.60

B．$49.60

C．$39.60

D．$29.60

【小题3】On what day can we see Titanic 3D in the Showtime Cinema?

A．Every day.	B．Friday and Saturday.
C．Saturday and Sunday.	D．Thursday and Sunday.

【小题4】If you want to rent a house, you can call ___________.

A．385-0926

B．591-3127

C．332-5147

D．592-5147

【小题5】Those ads above are most probably from a ___________.

A．map

B．dictionary

C．newspaper

D．guidebook