The world is not only hungry, it will also be thirsty for water. About 97% of water on the earth is sea water, or salty(咸的) water. Man can only drink or use the other 3% of the fresh water(淡水) which comes from rivers, lakes and underground.

The sea is very big. Look at the map of the world, there is more sea than land. It covers(覆盖) quarters of the earth, it looks very beautiful when the sun is shinning on it. But it can be terrible when there is a strong wind.

Some parts of the sea are very deep. There is one place near Japan. It's nearly 11 kilometers high. If we put that mountain into the sea at that place, there would be 2 kilometers of water above it!

The sea is salty. There is one "sea" called the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is not a sea. It's a big lake in the Jordan Valley. It's the saltiest. It's near the city of Jericho. It's about 80.kilometres long, between 4.8 and 17.7 kilometers wide. The river Jordan runs into the Dead Sea. The sun is not there and the water is salty. Fish can't live in the Dead Sea and plants can't grow near it. People can't swim well in the Dead Sea, but they can't float(漂浮) on the water. The water is very blue and the air is clean. In winter, people come to the Dead Sea to enjoy the sunshine.

(   )26. Does the fresh water come from rivers, lakes and underground?

A. Yes, it does.        B. No, it doesn't.    C. Yes, it doesn't.    D. No, it does.

(   )27. The deepest place in the sea is near        .

A. Japan        B. India        C. America      D. China

(   )28. The passage tells us the sea covers          of the earth.

A.3%            B.25%          C.75%           D.97%

(   )29. The Dead Sea is        .

A.80 kilometers long            B.2 kilometers wide

C.11 kilometers deep            D.17.7 kilometers high

(   )30. According to the passage, which of the following isn't true?

A. The river Jordan runs into the Dead Sea.

B. The world will be thirsty for water.

C. The sea looks beautiful when the sun-is shining on it.

D. The Dead Sea is the saltiest sea in the world.

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What are your clothes made of? Are they made of cotton or wool? Some students in Shandong wear different things. Their clothes are made of discs(光盘) or old clothes!

On October 7th, 36 students in Linyi, Shandong Province, wore beautiful clothes in a show. Their clothes were made of all kinds of things.

The show gave the students a chance to make things with their own hands. It also helped them learn to make good use of waste and not to throw everything away.

Students had lots of good ideas. Some found used things, like old clothes, to make new dresses.

“We hope to save energy. Our world is short of energy. So I don’t want to just throw old things away,” said Xie Jing at Linyi Art School.

Xie had more than 20 discs on her nice blue dress. She got them from her family and friends.

“Though the discs are old, I look very cool in them!” she said.

Song Dandan, a student from the school, looked like a farmer in her straw(稻草) coat and hat. She picked the straw from the fields and put them all together.

“I want to show what people wore in the past.” she said.

Du Yue made clothes for astronauts(宇航员)! She had white cloth all over her. When she walked, she tried to be slow. It looked like she was walking on the moon.

“I hope to wear it in space(太空) some day. I wish that I could walk on the moon!” she said.

1.The passage mainly talks about ____.

2. The students’ clothes were made of ____.

3. The underlined(画线) word “short” in the sentence “Our world is short of energy. ” has the same meaning as “short” in the sentence “____”

4.The three students used all these things except ____ to made clothes.

5. The show tells people ____.

In the modern world, computers and the Internet are getting more and more p  1  Most people think they are very u   2   in their studies and lives.

   The first computer was m   3   in 1946. It was very big and it worked s   4  .Today computers are getting s   5   and smaller but working faster and faster. What can computers do? Computers can do all k  6    of things.

   At the s  7   time, our world is getting smaller and smaller w    8  the Internet. The Internet came into the world about twenty--five years later t   9  computers, but it is so important too. If you are far away in America, you can talk to your family freely o  10   the Internet. If you want to r   11   a good book, but you don't have time to b    12    it in the bookshop, you can read it on the I   13   You can also read newspapers, write letters, do some shopping, play g   14  or make friends on it.

   Many students like the Internet s   15  much that they would not like to do anything else. They make f   16    on the Internet, but maybe they have never seen these friends. Some of the students are cheated by the "unreal friends". Because of the Internet, some students can't work hard at their 1  17 . Many of them can't c   18   up with others on many subjects. A few of them have to leave school.

   We can use computers and the Internet to learn more about the w    19  But please remember, "Not all good things are good f  20   you."