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 the city to a dump(垃圾站). 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(澡盆) 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 where they slowly change into something called humus(腐殖土), which looks like black earth. It is rich with kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.
1.You can most probably read the passage in _______.
A. a history book B. a TV guide
C. a science book D. a telephone book
2.The underlined word “sewage” in the passage means_______.
A. 排污 B. 染色 C. 洗涤 D. 吸尘
3.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 machines
4.How should we take care of a used metal box according to the passage?
A. By burning it off.
B. By putting it in water.
C. By throwing it away.
D. By reusing and recycling it.
Once a small boy lived on a farm which seemed so far away from everywhere.
He needed to get up before sunrise every morning to help his father on the farm. During sunrise he would .a break and climb up on the fence(篱笆)along the side of the farm. He could see a house with golden windows. “If they could afford golden windows, then there must be other nice things inside the house.” He imagined how great it would be to live there. Then he promised himself, “Some day 1 will go there and see this wonderful place.”
One morning, his father would go to the town and told him to stay at home for a rest. Knowing that this was his chance, he took a sandwich and headed across the field towards the house with the golden windows.
As the afternoon went on, he began to know how wrong he was. The house was much farther than he had expected. As he went near the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place in bad need of a painting. A small girl very close to his age came out of the poor house and stood by the broken fence. He asked her if she had seen the house with the golden windows. The girl said, “Sure, I know.” and invited him to sit on the porch (门廊).As he sat there, he looked back from where he just came. There he saw the sunset turned the windows of his house to gold! Now he understood that everyone had his own house with golden windows.
1.During his break every morning, the small boy would _________.
A. fix the fence
B. eat sandwiches
C. climb up on the fence
D. walk around the farm
2.One morning, when knowing he would stay alone, the boy thought it was a chance for him to_________.
A. go to the town
B. play on the field
C. go to see the house
D. make the golden windows
3.What did the boy find when he got there?
A. Nobody lived in the poor house.
B. No golden windows were in the house.
C. The house was so old as he expected.
D. The house was nearer than he thought.
4.The story tells us that people sometimes may have the thought________ .
A. Like father, like son
B. Love me, love my dog
C. Every dog has its day
D. The grass is greener somewhere else
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1.Shawnee Mountain is a wonderful place for___________.
A. staying B. skiing C. climbing D. visiting
2.Two parents and a child of 45cm tall will pay ___________for the lifts on weekend,
A. $100 B. $86 C. $50 D. $43
3.If a soldier goes to the mountain, ___________should be shown for a lift ticket.
A. the proof of age B. the college ID
C. the phone number D. the active duty ID
Last fall I put a bird feeder outside my window. I thought as soon as I hung up, a great ___16____ beautiful birds would come. Days, weeks and months went by; ____17____, no birds.
I asked many people, why? What was I doing ___18____? “Nothing,” most of them replied. “Just ____19____.” So I waited, waited and waited.
I ____20____ off the deck （露台）, I changed the feed, I ___21____ the feeders, and I ____22____ made the cat go out the other door! But ____23___ seemed to work. So --- I waited, “with patience and hope. ”
Two months later, early in the morning, I was ____24____. A beautiful bird had been on the bird feeder. All of a sudden, I saw hundreds upon hundreds of birds____25____ from everywhere.
____26____ a beautiful lesson this living thing taught me! “Patience and hope” will ____27____ the most beautiful things in life.
So I keep hoping and waiting, waiting and ___28____. I will try to use this “little lesson” in ____29____ many other things in my life. I guess, “____30____ is a virtue （美德）” after all.
1.A. little B. many C. much D. lot
2.A. so B. because C. however D. and
3.A. bad B. wrong C. well D. good
4.A. go B. sit C. watch D. wait
5.A. went B. put C. cleaned D. took
6.A. bought B. sold C. washed D. took
7.A. always B. hardly C. even D. sometimes
8.A. nothing B. everything C. something D. anything
9.A. sad B. surprised C. worried D. frightened
10.A. coming B. going C. leaving D. singing
11.A. That B. Which C. How D. What
12.A. spend B. take C. bring D. come
13.A. hoping B. dreaming C. watching D. asking
14.A. so B. such C. much D. very
15.A. dream B. patience C. volunteering D. lesson
--- Hi, Sunny, your new flat is so nice!
--- Thanks, _____.
A. my pleasure B. don’t mention it
C. help yourself D. make yourself at home
--Good news! They will __________ on May Day holiday.
--- Sounds exciting!
A. get married B. marry
C. be married with D. get married to
