Sarasota, Florida teen band The Garbage-Men is performing on the stage. The band has five members. They are Jack Berry, Ollie Gray, Harrison Paparatto, Austin Siegel and Evan Tucker. The five teens are making music from waste. The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from recycled things. The guitars are boxes. A horn(号) is made from pipes. The keyboard is formed from old bottles.
The band started about two years ago. Jack Berry who was in eighth grade at the time decided to make a playable, home-made guitar, after some trial-and-error(反复试验), he ended up building it from a cereal box, a yardstick and toothpicks. After Jack showed his creation to his friend Ollie Gray, Ollie had the idea to form a band using other home-made instruments as a way to improve recycling. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the bin.” Jack, 16, told TFK. “You can actually reuse materials.”
The Garbage-Men plays at local events around Sarasota, including festivals, farmer’s markets and community fundraisers. Typically, the teens will set up on the street and perform popular songs from the 1960s, including classic Beatles tunes and crowd favorite “Wipe Out,” by The Surfaris. In between sets, they talk about recycling and offer tips for how to help the environment. While they perform, Jack’s little brother Trent, 11, gives out flyers(宣传单) about recycling and helps sell the band’s CDs and other musical products.
The band donates(捐赠) the money from sales to charity. They have raised more than $2,500 for Heifer International. The organization gives farm animals, seeds and agricultural(农业的) training to people in poor countries to help end poverty and hunger. “It’s a good, sustainable-development (持续发展的)charity,” Jack says, “By donating one animal, you help the whole community.”
The band, all tenth graders, tries to play a show every week. They’ve also played on a Tampa, Florida radio station and auditioned(试演) for America’s Got Talent. The teens hope to eventually take their shows on the road by touring in other states. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really accessible(可接近的),” Jack says. Their instruments may be rubbish, but their message isn’t.
1.Who is NOT a member of the Garbage-Men band?
A．Ollie Gray.
B．Trent Berry.
C．Austin Siegel.
D．Jack Berry.
2.The five teens formed the band in order to ________.
A．show how to make musical instruments from rubbish
B．earn more money to help support their own families
C．make their musical products known all around the world
D．ask more people to recycle daily rubbish around them
3.What did the Garbage Men Band mainly do according to the passage?
A．They told people how to protect the environment and do some charities.
B．They collected the rubbish in communities and cleaned up the markets．
C．They raised money for the old people by selling their own instruments．
D．They joined the Heifer International and made their own musical CDs．
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A．Music and Environment
B．The Garbage-Men Band
C．Home-made Musical Instruments
D．A Pioneer of American Country Music
Do you want to spend a holiday in space? Dennis Tito, a businessman, has become the world’s first “space tourist”. He went on a 10-day visit to the International Space Station. He paid 14 million pounds for his journey. A year later, Martin, a musician from an American band, wanted to do the same. He was only 22 years old and probably very rich too. He had to go for a lot of training to see whether he was fit enough to travel. He is still waiting for his holiday of a lifetime.
Many people believe that this is only the start of something new. We made interviews among teenagers from around the world and the following is what they said about space travel.
“It’s a great idea. I hope space travel will be common in about 50 years’ time. I’d really love to do it and I think Mr. Tito was very lucky.” (Kate from Australia)
“I would like to see our beautiful Earth from space. There are lots of secrets to explore in space and I would go into space if I could.” (Ben from China)
“I think space travel is really bad for the environment. Maybe in the future they will make a cleaner way of travelling but until they do, I don’t want to go. We should look after our own planet first.”(Richard from Canada)
“It must be very boring and dangerous to sit in that small space shuttle(舱). I’d rather take a plane and go to another place on earth.” (Lisa from the UK)
So, as you can see, many of our teenagers had different opinions. Whether you like it or not, space travel is going to become an important thing in the future. We are looking forward to hearing your opinions.
1.What can we know about Dennis and Martin?
A．Dennis spent a lot of money travelling on the earth.
B．Martin was a musician from an American band.
C．Martin couldn’t afford to go on training in the center.
D．Dennis is developing a space journey to do business.
2.Ben supports the position that________.
A．we will explore in space and discover its secrets
B．we would rather travel on the earth than in space
C．all of us can make a space travel in about 50 years
D．we will take actions and look after the earth first
3.What does the writer ask us to do?
A．To show respect for Dennis and Martin.
B．To collect information about astronauts.
C．To share our opinions about space travel.
D．To get along well with space scientists.
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．It’s an honor for Dennis and his teammates to create a new spaceship.
B．The teenagers are having a prediction about the school life in the future.
C．Dennis entered the International Space Station and stayed for ten days.
D．Martin is busy training hard and getting ready for his space travel now.
1.The play Teahouse will be put on in ___________.
A．New York
B．Beijing
C．Toronto
D．Moscow
2.How long does the play last?
A．An hour.
B．One and a half hours.
C．Two hours.
D．Two and a half hours.
3.What can be known from the play?
A．The types of ancient houses.
B．Chinese traditional festivals.
C．Chinese history and culture.
D．The art of Chinese painting
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阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
Maddy Cullen became a heroine last month. Thanks to her quick thinking, she and Dave Lewis were saved from danger in the .
Maddy and Dave went to the Scottish Highlands with a group from the Music Now Festival. In the afternoon, the group went on the lake, but Maddy and Dave went hang-glider(滑翔) instead. Unfortunately, above the famous lake Loch Ness, the hang-glider flew into a sudden storm and knocked on a mountain out of . Both Maddy and Dave jumped off the hang-glider before it crashed down(坠毁). They dropped safely in the mountains. But Dave couldn’t walk because his right leg was badly injured. He and Maddy had to stay in the mountains and waited for rescuers. They had no food or water, so they were hungry, thirsty and . They felt very worried before the sun set. Then Maddy had a very good idea. She collected many stones and formed a large sign “SOS” on the ground so that pilots in the helicopter could find them .
Meanwhile, group leader Rob Townsend was also worried when he found Maddy and Dave didn’t sail with them. There were no public anywhere nearby. He had to walk a long way to call the police to look for the missing teenagers. A few minutes later, a police helicopter flew over Loch Ness, and the pilot saw Maddy’s message from above easily. Dave and Maddy were up and flown to hospital in Inverness quickly.
A week ago, Maddy spoke to a reporter from the newspaper. “We were very when the helicopter arrived,” she said. “The police told Dave not to move and they carried him into the helicopter. They asked us to put on dry clothes and some hot soup to us. They were great.”
“It was all because of me,” Dave said. “Rob told us to wear walking boots, and he told us not to leave the group. But I did not listen. I was very silly.”
The police . On its radio news, they asked walkers in the Highlands to follow instructions carefully and not to take any adventures.
1.A．forest B．sea C．mountains D．lake
2.A．sailing B．fishing C．skating D．swimming
3.A．sight B．trouble C．control D．date
4.A．alone B．sad C．calm D．cold
5.A．silently B．easily C．simply D．carefully
6.A．telephones B．libraries C．websites D．bicycles
7.A．given B．put C．woken D．picked
8.A．excited B．confused C．frustrated D．scared
9.A．shared B．offered C．cooked D．provided
10.A．insisted B．agreed C．considered D．suggested
—Do you know ______________ at that time last night?
—Yes, a report for a newspaper.
A．what was Linda writingB．what will Linda write
C．what Linda was writingD．what Linda will write
The lights in my room _______off when I left yesterday morning.
A．turnB．turned
C．are turnedD．were turned
