Qi Haoran, a Junior 1 student at High School Attached to Harbin Institute of Technology, was quite busy over the past winter vacation—and not just with homework. Qi, together with 10 other classmates made a volunteer group to call on people to join the Clean Your Plate Campaign (光盘行动).
The 11 students went to many restaurants and told people the importance of saving food.“Excuse me, do you know that 950 million people around the world still haven’t got enough to eat? Could you please not waste food?”They would say this kind of thing hundreds of times every day.
China in recent years has experienced serious problems with wasted food. CCTV reported in January that the food Chinese people waste every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year. It’s a tradition that Chinese people offer lots of food when they invite others to dinner. Many even feel that they will lose face if their guests have eaten all their food.
Luckily the campaign has got the support of many. In a restaurant in Xinjiang, the owner gives the guests who have eaten up all that they ordered a sticker. People can enjoy a free meal when they have 10 stickers. More than 750 restaurants in Beijing have begun to offer smaller dishes and encourage their guests to take leftovers(剩饭剩菜) home.
Wasting food is a serious problem around the world, not only in China. It’s said that 2 billion tons(吨) of food ends up as waste every year in our country. This is as much as half of all the food in the world. The UN Environment Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization held a“Think, Eat, Save” program on January 24 to help reduce food waste.
To reduce food waste is a big task, and it needs time. It’s important that everyone does their bit, just like Qi. Did you finish your meals today?
1.The Clean Your Plate Campaign calls on people to __________.
A.do volunteer work B.work part time in restaurants
C.stop wasting food D.wash their plates after dinner
2.What did the restaurant in Xinjiang do to support the campaign?
A.The owner would have dinner with those who had eaten up their food.
B.It offered a free meal to the guests who had finished all their food ten times.
C.It gave stickers to the guests who ordered small dishes.
D.It encouraged customers to take leftovers home.
3.From the passage , we can know that __________.
A.wasting food is a serious problem in China
B.Chinese people waste the most food in January
C.200 million Chinese people invite others to dinner every day
D.Chinese people usually don’t offer enough food to their guests
4.You can probably read this passage _________.
A.in a science book B.in a newspaper
C.in a tourist guide D.in an advertisement
I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I used to look for an old man who often played his saxophone (萨克斯管) near the river. I couldn’t hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I imagined it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.
One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a statue. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap (皮带) and in his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he was just about to play. I stayed there for a long time by the statue dreaming of playing a saxophone on TV.
Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn’t make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the instruction book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to play. I raised it slowly to my lips as my family watched. But still there was no sound. I blew and blew but I couldn’t get the saxophone to play. I was almost crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound—loud and clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again, I moved my fingers on the saxophone and I made more sounds. I was happy because I was playing very interesting sounds. But I wasn’t playing music yet.
Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day when I started to play music. Now I’m in the TV studio with my saxophone strapped to my neck and my cap on my head. I’m always thinking of the man by the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeiji. I’m a happy man.
1.On the bus, the writer couldn’t ________.
A.find an old man with a saxophone B.see a river
C.hear the old man’s music D.imagine the sound
2.The statue along the river made the writer think of ________.
A.having a saxophone
B.the old man near the river
C.having a cap and a saxophone as the boy
D.playing the saxophone on TV
3.The writer could get the saxophone to play ________.
A.as soon as he got it
B.after he read the instruction
C.after he tried many times
D.after his father taught him
4.What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.The magic day. B.My birthday present.
C.The old man and the statue. D.My dream of playing saxophone.
ICE AGE
Directed by Carlos Saldanha
Ice Age is coming back!
Are you a fan of the Ice Age movies? If you are, be sure
not to miss the movie, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
It is really very funny. It has the same old characters and
a completely new adventure(冒险) that everyone can enjoy.
This time, the main characters’ lives have changed. Manny
and Ellie are expecting the birth of their first baby. Diego
feels sad because he has no excitement in his life any more.
Sid thinks no one cares about him. When he finds three
dinosaur eggs and takes them with him, the adventure begins. And he gets into danger…
Are you interested in the movie? Buy some tickets as soon as possible!
Length of the movie: 1 hour and 35 minutes
Place: Hongxing Cinema
Dates: September 29—October 5
Time: 09:45, 11:35, 13:25, 15:15, 17:05, 19:00, 20:55, 22:45
Price: Adult — ¥55.00 Child — ¥35.00
1.Who finds dinosaur eggs and takes them with him?
A.Ellie. B.Sid. C.Diego. D.Manny.
2.If a 6-year-old boy and his parents want to see the movie, how much should they pay for the tickets?
A.¥90. B.¥125. C.¥145. D.¥165.
3.Which of the following is TRUE about the poster?
A.Carlos is a fan of the movie. B.The movie is 135 minutes long.
C.The movie is about adventure. D.Ellie directed the movie.
In Britain, people have different attitudes(态度)to the police. Most people generally 1 them and the job they do, but some people said that the police shouldn’t have special 2 .
What does a policeman actually do? It is not a(n) 3 job to describe. After all,a policeman has a number of jobs to do. A policeman often has to 4 traffic, either on foot in the centre of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed,in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend a lot of time 5 up and down main roads. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving,stop speeding cars and help when there is a(n) 6 .
A policeman has to help keep the 7 ,too. If there is a fight, we 8 the police to come immediately. And they often have to deal with situation at great risk of their own 9 .
We want the police to solve crimes,of course,so an ordinary(普通) policeman, 10 he is not a detective,he will often have to help 11 criminals. And 12 do we call when there is an emergency—an air crash,a fire or an earthquake?Of course the police. So a policeman has to 13 to face any terrible emergency that may happen in the modern world.
The police do a 14 job,they do it so well that I support them. But I do not envy policemen. I do not think that I could 15 do the job of a policeman.
1. A.dislike B.protect C.admire D.suspect
2. A.power B.thoughts C.knowledge D.abilities
3. A.funny B.difficult C.attractive D.easy
4. A.control B.stop C.remove D.break
5. A.walking B.driving C.marching D.searching
6. A.murder B.robbery C.accident D.theft
7. A.peace B.balance C.situation D.rule
8. A.order B.encourage C.allow D.expect
9. A.family B.safety C.future D.work
10. A.only if B.as C.since D.even if
11. A.interview B.notice C.arrest D.warn
12. A.how B.where C.what D.who
13. A.hope B.promise C.prepare D.decide
14. A.comfortable B.hopeless C.necessary D.meaningless
15. A.hardly B.ever C.forever D.never
—Shall we watch the popular TV programme “I’m a singer” now?
—____. The news report is on.
A.Sounds great B.I’m afraid not
C.I hope so D.I have no idea
—I'm a teenager's mother. Sometimes I don't know ____.
—Maybe he suffers from stress.
A.what does my son want to get B.what my son needs most
C.why is my son often angry D.why my son gets angry very oft en