Sixty years ago, human beings first reached the top of Mount Qomolangma, known as Mount Everest in the West. But the increase in climbers is turning the world’s highest mountain into the “world’s highest junkyard(垃圾场)”.
Every year, more than 700 climbers spend nearly two months on Mount Qomolangma. They have left human waste and all kinds of rubbish, including oxygen bottles, broken tents, and plastic bags, according to Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
“The waste has become a health danger to people in the area since they depend on water from rivers fed by the melting glaciers(融化的冰川),” Sherpa said.
More and more people have realized the danger that Mount Qomolangma is facing and they are now taking active actions. To deal with the problem, Nepal has supported a special team of explorers and volunteers to clean the mountain since 2008. So far they have brought down 15,000kg of rubbish. Nepal also started to ask each climber to bring down 8 kg of rubbish in 2014.
On the Chinese side of the mountain, Tibet(西藏) will collect a cleaning fee of $100-200 (620-1240 yuan) per climber starting from this year. A program named “Mount Qomolangma Action at the Third Pole of the Earth” also started in 2004 to clear up the mountain.
Hopefully, human beings will finally solve the problem, just as they found the way up the mountain successfully.
1.Which of the following was not used to call the world’s highest mountain long ago?
A. Mount Everest.
B. Mount Qomolangma.
C. The Third Pole of the Earth.
D. The world’s highest junkyard.
2.Why is the world’s highest mountain turning into the “world’s highest junkyard?
A. Tibet has not collected enough money to clear up the mountain.
B. Climbers have left too much human waste and all kinds of rubbish.
C. People in the area have no idea of how to recycle their daily rubbish.
D. 700 climbers spend nearly two months on Mount Qomolangma every year.
3.What have been done to protect the environment of Mount Qomolangma?
A. Each climber has been asked to pay for the cleaning fee of $100-200.
B. Nepal has asked each climber to bring down all the rubbish they carried there.
C. A special team of explorers and volunteers have brought down 15,000kg of rubbish.
D. “Mount Qomolangma Action at the Third Pole of the Earth” has started in China and Nepal.
4.Which is the correct order of the following events?
a. “Mount Qomolangma Action at the Third Pole of the Earth” started.
b. Human beings first reached the top of Mount Qomolangma sixty years ago.
c. Nepal started a cleaning program and asked each climber to bring down rubbish.
d. The waste left by climbers has become a health danger to people in the area.
A. c -d- b -a B. b-a-d-c C. a-b-c-d D. b-d-a-c
As a young woman, my mother worked in the kitchen of a large farm owned by Fanny Cratty. She was hardworking and had a special skill in making delicious strawberry jam.
Aunt Fanny was single and had no children. She didn’t like to share love with others. I thought she was very lonely, although she didn’t mind it. She had a workshop where my mother helped her make the best strawberry jam, and everyone in our town bought it. But aunt Fanny asked my mother not to tell the recipe(秘方) of making the strawberry jam to others.
When the strawberries were ripe, my family would pick them together. We talked and laughed, experiencing the fun of picking strawberries. But aunt Fanny never joined us. She just asked us to pick strawberries quickly and make more strawberry jam to make more money for her. Each person in our town said that she just paid attention to money rather than anything else. What a poor woman! It’s no use having too much money because she had no family and friends to share her happiness during her lifetime.
Maybe it was the recipe that brought success to aunt Fanny. But to me, it was just a common recipe. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the beautiful days spent with family and friends that truly make you rich.
1.Who owns the recipe of making the best strawberry jam?
A. The writer’s mother. B. The writer.
C. Aunt Fanny. D. Fanny’s mother.
2.Why do people in the town think aunt Fanny is poor?
A. Because she needed to work hard in her workshop.
B. Because she paid attention to nothing except money.
C. Because she had no close friends to shared her success.
D. Because she always thought of helping others rather than herself.
3. —What does the last word “rich” mean in this passage?
—It means ________.
A. the success of making strawberry jam
B. having the recipe and much money
C. the happiness, one’s family and friends
D. owning a big house and the large farm
Welcome to the Electronic Village to find new ways of language teaching and learning.
Electronic Village Program (Saturday, June 18, 2016) | |
Nearpod ❖ 9:00 am to 10:00 am ❖ Room 501 Nearpod is a software program that creates a rich context for students to learn vocabulary. The worker will show how to use it. | TEO ❖ 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm ❖ Room 502 Our students come from different backgrounds but they all want to learn on-line. The presenter will use examples from his first on-line class to explain how any teacher can begin teaching on-line with TEO. |
Kahoot ❖ 10:30 am to 11:30 am ❖ Room 601 Kahoot software can be used to create grammar tests which can be graded on a network. It can provide students with feedback. | Prezi ❖ 3:30 pm to 4:20 pm ❖ Room 602 Uses of Prezi in listening and speaking courses attract students’ attention to speaking more fluently. The worker will show how students speak fluently on many topics, including introducing family, friends, and hobbies. |
1.Nearpod can be used to ________.
A. offer grammar tests
B. teach listening on-line
C. help vocabulary learning
D. gain fluency in speaking
2. If you want to improve your speaking skills, you can go to ________.
A. Room 602 B. Room 502
C. Room 601 D. Room 501
3.Which of the following can help students learn how to study on-line?
A. Prezi. B. Kahoot. C. Nearpod. D. TEO.
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When I was about twelve, I headed to a restaurant for dinner with my family. It was winter, and on that particular night, the was really blowing hard.
As my mom and I headed towards the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age
____ her mother came up to us. They asked if we had any spare change. My mom immediately
asked where they kept their things. They pointed to an old car in a parking lot across the street. The girl said there were of them living in that car，which was the same size as my own family．
My mom said she had something to do handing the people a few dollars. She sent me inside the restaurant with my dad and my three siblings. But she didn’t come with us.
Later, I that she had gone home and emptied our cupboards into a few bags. Then, she brought the bags of food to the family. I wasn’t there when happened, but I can imagine the joy it brought to their faces.
A few days later, when I learned about what she had done, I her why she helped those people. She told me that they were not lucky. I remember the face of that girl who had asked us for change — she was the same as me, yet we looked so different.
Here I stood, dressed in almost new clothes, headed to dine in a restaurant and then went back home to the bedroom I with my younger sister. I remember thinking that the girl didn’t have any food to eat, and she was heading back to a cold car shared with five other people.
After painting this picture in my mind, I why my mom had done what she did. I will never forget what she did that night, and how she taught me one of the best lessons I ever learned.
1.A. wind B. rain C. snow D. cloud
2.A. of B. or C. by D. with
3.A. four B. five C. six D. seven
4.A. if B. before C. unless D. after
5.A. handed out B. looked out C. found out D. gave out
6.A. what B. that C. this D. one
7.A. asked B. told C. knew D. talked
8.A. year B. size C. age D. grade
9.A. worked B. decorated C. studied D. shared
10.A. forgot B. understood C. remembered D. wondered
—I’m leaving for Canada on a study trip next week.
—________.
A. Enjoy your time B. That’s all right
C. You’re welcome D. It’s a pleasure
—Oh, dear! I forgot my best friend’s birthday.
—________ Better keep it in mind next year.
A. No problem. B. You did?
C. It’s OK. D. Why not?
