I can’t remember when I started collecting litter（垃圾）. But it was when I got tired of seeing litter near my home and realized that no one else was going to pick it up.
I live close to a forest in Ohio, America. I can walk there in three minutes! I used to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was so much litter there that I became very unhappy. I decided to clean up the forest. I wanted to feel happy going there again.
I made my first trip to clean the forest that afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes after starting to pick up litter, my bag was full! It had cans, bottles, broken glass and newspapers in it.
Since that first trip three years ago, I’ve gone to the forest four times a year to pick up litter. I’m often there for three hours. It makes me feel great to do something for the environment.
After each trip, I look at all the litter I’ve found. If any of it is recyclable（可回收的）, I keep it. I can’t understand why people drop litter. But I will keep picking it up until they stop dropping it.
I know I can only do a small bit to help the earth, but I still think it is important.
1.．When did the writer begin to collect litter?
A．When he was very young.
B．After his home moved to a new place.
C．When he realized no one else was going to pick it up.
2.．Where does the writer live?
A．He lives in a forest.
B．He lives near a forest.
C．He lives in a place with much litter.
3.．The writer collects litter .
A．in order to make money
B．in order to get a prize
C．in order to make the place clean
4.Where does the writer collect litter?
A．In the forest. B．In the street. C．In the park.
5.From the passage we infer（推断） .
A．the writer will go on with collecting litter
B．the writer always collects a lot of litter
C．the writer thinks he does a great thing
My grandfather is eighty years old. He sometimes complains（抱怨）about how fast things have changed.
He often says that families aren’t the families they used to be. A lot of families have broken up（破裂）. If husband and wife have problems with their marriage, they will no longer stay together. And mothers used to stay at home to take care of their children, but now they’re busy working. They have no time to look after children at home. What’s more, more and more people drive. We used to walk five miles to school every day, even in winter. But now children don’t. And in school, children don’t have to think more as we used to. In math class, for example, we used to add, subtract, multiply and divide（加、减、乘、除）using our heads. But now most students use calculators. Most families have computers now. In the past, we didn’t have computers. We even had no lights. My mother to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now few people eat home-cooked food. And people seldom talk to each other. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, too busy to think… Life used to be simple, but it isn’t any more.
根据短文内容，判断句子是否正确，正写（A），错写（B）。（10分）
1.The writer’s grandfather thinks people now are much busier than they used to be.
2.Students have to think more at school now than past.
3.．People like to eat home—cooked food now.
4.．Lots of couples（夫妇）don’t live together because of unhappy problems.
【小题】5．People have too much time to talk with each other now.
（A man and a woman are talking at the Shanghai Hongqiao Airport.）
M：The airplanes are late, aren’t they?
W： 1 I never expect planes to be on time.
M：Are you working here or just a visitor?
W：A visitor.
M：How long have you been here?
W： 2
M：What places of interest have you been to?
W：Quite a lot, like the Great Wall in Beijing, West Lake in Hangzhou. They’re really wonderful.
M：3
W：You know, China is a country with a long history and it’s quite beautiful.
M： 4
W：Yes, of course. It’s delicious.
M：Oh, here’s my airplane at last. I must go now. Bye.
W：Bye! 5
M：Me, too. Take care.
We know that trees are useful in our everyday life. They give us 1 things, such as wood, oxygen, rubber（橡胶）, medicines 2 many other things. They can also tell us a lot about our climate. The following are the reasons. If you cut 348 a tree, you can see that it has many rings. Most trees grow one new ring 4 year. Because of this, we know how old a tree is. A tree over a hundred 5 means that it has more than a hundred 6 . When the climate is dry or very cold, the trees do not grow very much and their rings 7 usually thin. When it is wet and warm, the rings
8 thicker. If the rings are suddenly very thin or suddenly very thick, it means that the 9 changed suddenly. If we look at the rings on the tree, we can learn about the climate in the past years. We can see
10 changing today.
1.A．much B．lot C．many
2.A．so B．and C．while
3.A．down B．cross C．into
4.A．every B．many C．some
5.A．year old B．old C．years old
6.A．plants B．rings C．leaves
7.．A．is B．are C．were
8.A．are much B．are more C．is much
9.A．day B．year C．climate
10.A．how our climate is B．how is our climate C．how to our climate
—How long have you been like this?
— .
A．Last month B．Two months ago C．Since last month
Mr. Smith didn’t tell us .
A．where does he live B．where he lived C．where did he live
