( A )

Cut the Carbon Footprint

Everything you do leaves a “ carbon footprint”(碳足迹). For example, When you travel in a taxi, the car gives off (排放) CO₂ into the air. CO₂ is a greenhouse gas. Greenhouse gases make the earth become warm. To protect our environment, we need to leave less of a “carbon footprint”. How big is your carbon footprint? To get an idea, take a look at the following numbers.

Living areas

l  TV sets and DVD players produce 723kg of CO₂ a year.

l  If you turn them off when you’re not using them, you can cut that number by 108kg.

Laundry room (洗衣房)

   Drying clothes in a dryer produces a lot of CO₂

l  If you use your dryer five times per week, you produce 185kg of CO₂ per year.

l  Dry your clothes in the sun instead.

Bathroom

l  If you take an eight-minute shower every day, you produce 616kg of CO₂ a year.

l  If you only use six minutes to take a shower, you can cut that number by 154kg a year.

根据短文内容，判断下列句子的正误，正确的用“T”，错误的用“F”。 1 CO₂ is a greenhouse gas that can make the earth warm.

2 Watching TV and traveling in a taxi can produce little CO₂.

3 If we use a dryer five times per week, we produce 154kg of CO₂ per year.

4  If we spend less time taking a shower, we can cut the number of CO₂.

5 The less of a “ carbon footprint” we leave, the better our environment will become.

( B )

The students of Grade 9 at the Clean City School collect empty bottles. In June, they are going to take them to a recycling centre. They’re going to sell the bottles and buy some books for the school library.

Jimmy has started a graph (图表) to show the number of the bottles they have collected. This is the graph.

 

请根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。

6 How many bottles did the students collect in October?

A. 40         B. 60         C. 75          D. 85

7 The students collected       more bottles in December than in February.

A. 60         B. 30         C. 20          D. 70

8 The students collected the same number of bottles in March and        .

    A. January and November       B. January and June

    C. May and June               D. April and May

9 In which month did the students collect the fewest bottles?

    A. September       B. October      C. February       D. December

10 Why do the students collect the empty bottles?

     A. Because they are in the Clean City School.    

B. Because they are in Grade 9.

     C. Because they wanted to start a graph.

D. Because they want to do something good for the school library.

( C )

The world is becoming smaller by using modern traffic, TV, telephone and so on. Life today is easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has also brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.

The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.

Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad to all living things in the world. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water, noise pollution makes us become angry more easily. The pollution of SO₂ is now the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It is caused by heavy traffic. It is true that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.

Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. They stop people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city. So the less pollution there is, the better life people will have.

请根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

11Our world is becoming much smaller__________.

    A. because of science development   B. because there are fewer people

    C. because there are more people    D. Because the earth is being polluted day and night

12 Hundreds of years ago, life was _________ it is today.

A. easier than     B. as easy as       C. harder than       D. as hard as

13 Pollution comes in many ways . We can even hear it. Here “it” means_______.

A. air pollution    B. noise pollution   C. water pollution    D. soil pollution

14 Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because________.

A. it makes much noise                B. it’s bad to all living things in the world

C. it has made our rivers and lakes dirty   D. it causes unhealthy food

15 Which of the following is NOT true?

    A. Many countries are making rules to fight pollution.

B. The pollution of the earth grows as fast as the world’s population does.

C. There will be less air pollution if fewer people drive cars.

D. The problem of pollution is not so serious because there are so many people.

根据短文内容选择最恰当的答案。

Benjamin Banneker was born a few months before another great American- George Washington. Benjamin was black, but he was not a slave. He and his mother and his grandmother were free. Benjamin's grandmother came from England. In America she got a job and worked for many years to pay for her boat trip across the ocean . After working many more years, she saved enough money to buy a farm. Benjamin lived with her for a while. She taught him to read and write and do arithmetic (算术).          Benjamin's neighbour knew that he was clever. They were not surprised when he built a large wooden clock. He made each piece after studying a small

pocket watch. The clock made him famous, for it was one of the first clocks built in America. People from other places began to send hard problems of all kinds for Benjamin to settle.          Thomas Jefferson learned of Benjamin Banneker's ability to settle hard problems. He asked Banneker to help build the city that was to be the capital of the United States-Washington, D.C. Banneker worked hard on the plans for the city. He marked where the streets and buildings-the Capitol (美国国会大厦) the White House, and many others-should be built.         Later, L' Enfant, the Frenchman who had designed the new city, had a quarrel, and went back to France in anger. He took all of the plans with him. The workmen couldn't build without any plans to follow.         For a while it seemed that the plans for the capital might have to be changed, but Benjamin Banneker remembered the plans he had helped draw. He drew each again as he had built each piece of his clock.         If it weren't for Benjamin Banneker, Washington, D.C might look very different from the way it does today.

1. Benjamin's grandmother taught him how ____________ when he was young.

[     ]

A) to read and write and do arithmetic B) to make a clock C) to do farm work D) to solve some difficult problems

2. When Banneker built a large wooden clock, ___________________.

[     ]

A) people in America showed no surprise B) his name spread all over America C) he became the first man in America to build a clock D) people came from other places to congratulate him

3. Thomas Jefferson asked Banneker to help build the city Washington because he was told that Banneker     was _____________.

[     ]

A) warm- hearted B) clever C) hard-working D) serious

4. The French designer L' Enfant had a quarrel with the Americans and returned to France________________ .

[     ]

A) worriedly B) angrily C) excitedly D) calmly

5. When L' Enfant left with his plans, Banneker was in _____ of building the capital Washington.

[     ]

A) charge B) helping C) design D) completing

6. In building the city Washington, Banneker showed that _____________.

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A) he had a good memory B) he was never tired of working C) he feared no difficulties D) he was good at drawing

7. Benjamin Banneker is remembered to this day mainly because _____.

[     ]

A) he made one of the first clocks in America B) he used to be an assistant to L' Enfant, who had designed the city Washington C) he designed the city Washington when L' Enfant left D) he was able to continue the plans for the new city Washington as L' Enfant left with his plans

I remember a time l went shopping on my first visit to Hung Kong．Coming from cold and cloudy England，I was prepared for the sun and dressed in a T-shirt and a short skirt．Not having much chance to enjoy the sun in the UK and having naturally fair skin(白皙皮肤)，my legs were very white．In the UK this is not a fashionable look at all．Most women spend every sunny day out in the suit trying to get darker skin．The darker the shin，the better the look．I have tried to get darker but nothing works for me!

    As I walked around one shop，two shop girls didn’t take their eyes off me the whole time，talking quietly to each other in Chinese．I began to feel uncomfortable and asked my friend if we could leave．After we left the shop, she asked me what was wrong．I complained(抱怨)about the shop girls being very rude and always looking at my legs．I was embarrassed(尴尬) that they were talking about my white skin．My friend laughed，“They weren’t laughing at you．They were saying how nice your legs are．Many Chinese women want to have white skin like yours．In fact，there are many beauty products in the shops to make skin whiter and a lot of money is spent on them．”

    It just goes to show that we are never happy with what we have．The grass is always greener on the other side．If the women of the West and East thought the same way，western women wouldn’t spend so much money on cream that makes skin darker and women from the East wouldn’t need to use cream that makes skin whiter．

    根据短文内容，选择最佳答案

1．The writer is telling about her first shopping ___________．

    A．in the East    B．in England    C．in Hong Kong D．in the West

2．What did the writer prepare to do during her visit?

  A．She prepared to buy a T-shirt．

  B．She prepared to enjoy the sun and get darker skin．

  C．She prepared to show some beauty products．

  D．She prepared to make her skin whiter．

3．The writer had white legs because __________．

  A．she lived in a cold and cloudy country

  B．she wanted them to be that way

  C．she didn’t like dark skin

  D．she spent so much money on her legs

4．Why did the writer think the shop girls were laughing at her?

  A．Because the writer was talking with her friend loudly．

  B．Because the writer had no money with her．

  C．Because they talked and laughed at her friend．

  D．Because they didn’t take their eyes off her the whole time．

5．In Chinese．the sentence“The grass is always greener on the other side．”implies(深层含义为)“__________”．

  A．另一边的草地要比这边的绿．

  B．那座山上的草总是绿的。

  C．这山望着那山高。

  D．这山比那山高。

 

It’s not easy to be an astronaut’s son．Everybody expects you to be special or perfect．I

often wonder how my father ever had a son like me．I mean he’s so special and so good at

everything he does．Even in middle school he was class president and captain of the football

team．

    Well，to be honest，I often dream about being some kind of hero or doing something

special—like saving a child from a burning building or discovering a new star．I was daydreaming at school one morning when my teacher said there would be a Father’s Day writing competition for the whole sch001．“I hope we have a winner right here in my class．”

    When I got home，I started to think about what to write．My father is an astronaut．N0，I

wouldn’t start like that．That was the way others saw him．How did I see my father? Hmm．

    I saw him sitting with me in the dark when I had a terrible dream．I remembered how he

hugged me for hours when my dog Spotty was killed by a car．Yes，these were the things I

 was going to write．To me，he wasn’t just a world—famous astronaut．He was my dad．

    My parents and l went to school Thursday night．There were so many people in the big[来源:Z,xx,k.Com]

hall! My dad looked at me，and I shrugged(耸肩)．

    The third prize was announced and it was not me．1 was relieved(释然)and disappointed at the same time．The second prize was announced．It was me．

    1 went up to the stage and read what I had written，“My father’s son”．When I finished，the people stood up and cheered．I saw my father blowing his nose．Tears were running down my mother's face．Dad cleared his throat and put his hand on my shoulder．“Son，this

is the proudest moment of my life．’’

    It was the proudest moment of my life，too．Maybe I’ll never be a great hero or win a

Nobel Prize，but it was enough just to be my father’s son．

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1.The writer felt it        to be the son of a famous person．

    A．1ucky    B．natural    C．hard         D．pleasant

2.In order to_        the writer would like to save a child from a burning building．

    A．become astronaut            B．become a great hero

    C．be made school team captain   D．be made class president

3.What did the boy probably write in his composition?

    A．A lot of special things he had done．

    B．The story of his father as an astronaut．

    C．The unforgettable time he spent with his father．

    D．The experiences his father had in middle school．

4.The writer felt proud when he           ．

    A．got a prize in a writing competition           B．won a Nobel Prize

    C．saved a child from a burning building         D．discovered a new star

5.What is the best title for the passage?

    A．My daydream                        B．My father’s son

    C．My famous father                     D．My happy family