Every time you go shopping, the vegetables and fruit look so tempting that you wish you could buy all of them. Some people are lucky and can grow the fruit and vegetables in the gardens that they have. While getting fresh vegetables, they can also achieve great cost cutting.
Mushrooms are expensive and can also go bad very quickly. Mushrooms can also be grown easily in a dark environment. In fact it’s better than growing other vegetables since you really don’t need an outdoor space. A special type of soil that is good for growing mushrooms is easily available.
Actually mushrooms aren’t even vegetables; they are fungi(菌类) and for this reason, you don’t even require sunlight to grow them. Well how does one go about growing mushrooms? You could always Google “growing mushrooms” and you will find a number of mushroom growing kits(工具) available online that area effective and not very expensive either.
Mushrooms can be added to any dish that you cook. Simply use them in pizzas, salads and anything that you pretty much fancy. Grow mushrooms in your own house and use them whenever you want. Fresh mushrooms are tastier than the ones that are stored in your refrigerator.
If you have had a really good crop of mushrooms, then you can even store them. Ideally you should use the white variety of the mushrooms. Simply pick them, slice them and put them on a cookie sheet in a freezer. When they area frozen, just put them in a zip lock and you can use them when you want to. They give a really great taste to the dish that you are making. Thaw them before you use them.
You should try growing mushrooms, since it’s cost-effective. Furthermore, you can eat the fresh mushrooms any time that you want.
1.What is an advantage of growing vegetables according to the passage?
A．You can eat all kinds of vegetables
B．You are lucky to eat what you like
C．You can save lots of money
D．You can satisfy your desire
2.Mushrooms are different from other vegetables in that .
A．they can be grown where there is no light
B．they can grow well in an outdoor space
C．it is easy for them to go bad in a few days
D．they can grow without soil
3.The third paragraph is mainly to tell us that .
A．mushrooms are not vegetables
B．Internet helps us a lot
C．mushrooms are available online
D．it is easy to grow mushrooms
4.Which of the following is the right order of storing mushrooms?
a. put them on a cookie sheet in the refrigerator
b. place frozen mushrooms in a zip lock
c. cut them into slices
d. choose the white mushrooms
A．a-b-c-d B．d-c-a-b C．a-d-c-b D．d-a-c-b
5.What would be the best title for this passage?
A．It is easy and fun to grow mushrooms
B．We should eat more fruit and vegetables
C．Mushrooms online are very expensive
D．Mushrooms—tasty and healthy vegetables
As people slowly learn to cure diseases, control floods, prevent hunger, and stop wars, fewer people die every year. As a result, the population of the world is becoming larger. In 1925 there were about 2 billion people in the world; today there are over 6 billion.
When the number rises, extra mouths must be fed. New lands must be brought under development, or land already farmed must be made to produce more crops. In some areas the land is so over-developed that it will be difficult to make it provide more crops. In some areas the population is so large that the land is divided into too tiny units to make improvement possible with farming methods. If a large part of this farming population went into industrial work, the land might be farmed much more productively (多产地) with modern methods.
There is now a race for science, technology, and industry to keep the output of food rising faster than the number of people to be fed. New types of crops, which will grow well in bad weather, are being developed, so there are now farms beyond the Arctic Circle in Siberia and North America. Irrigation (灌溉) and dry-farming methods bring poor lands under the plough. Dams hold back the waters of great rivers, which can provide water for the fields in all seasons and provide electric power for new industries. Industrial chemistry provides fertilizer to suit different soils. Every year, some new methods are made to increase or to protect the food of the world.
1.The author says that the world population is increasing because _____.
A．there are many rich valleys and large fields
B．farmers are producing more crops than before
C．people are living longer due to better living conditions
D．new lands are being made into farmlands
2.The author says that in areas with large populations, land might be more productively farmed if _____.
A．the land was divided into smaller pieces
B．people moved into the countryside
C．industrial methods were used in farming
D．the units of land were much larger
3.We are told that there are now farms beyond the Arctic Circle. This has been made possible by _____.
A．growing new types of crops B．irrigation and dry-farming means
C．providing fertilizers D．destroying pests and diseases
4. Why do some people use dams to hold back waters from great rivers?
A．To develop a new kind of dry-farming methods.
B．To prevent crops from floods.
C．To provide water and electricity in all seasons.
D．To water poor lands in bad weather.
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
1.The purpose of this passage is to ________.
A．explain how to use the Internet
B．describe the writer’ s joy of keeping up with the latest technology
C．tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet
D．introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet
2.The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.
A．spend less time working
B．have more free time with his child
C．work at home on weekends
D．work at a speed comfortable to him
3.According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the former helps one ________.
A．reach a group of people at one time conveniently
B．keep one’s communication as personal as possible
C．pass on much more information than the later
D．get in touch with one’s friends faster than the later
4. The best title for this passage is ________.
A．Computer: New Technological Advances
B．Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship
C．Computers Have Made Life Easier
D．Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication
Today many people say that women have the same chance as men in society. But this was not always so. In the past, women all over the world had to fight to get the same chance as men in education and jobs. Many people said that women should not receive much education because they would not do as well as men when they went to work.
One woman who showed that women should have the same chance was Marie, a scientist. In the 1800s scientists knew that a metal, uranium, gave off radiation. They also knew how much radiation came from his element. But they didn’t know what this radiation was like; they wondered why and how uranium gave off radiation. Marie Curie set out to answer these questions. In one of her experiments she was studying a certain material which, she knew, contained uranium, But it gave off 4 times as much radiation as usually does. What could explain this fact? Marie Curie thought that there must be another source of radiation in this material.
In 1898 Marie Curie set out to find out this new source of radiation, which she named “radium”. Her husband, who was also a scientist, helped her. They set up a laboratory in an old building behind a school. For four years Curies searched, doing many experiments, And one morning in 1902 Marie found the source of the radiation.
Marie Curie proved to the world that there was element that gave off radiation. And she also proved to the world that, if women are given truly equal chance, they can really help society.
1.The scientists of Marie Curie’s day knew .
A．that uranium gave off radiation
B．that radium gave off radiation
C．that there was some radium in uranium
D．that uranium and radium both gave off radiation
2.The Curies found the element radium .
A．with other scientists’ help B．by asking some famous scientists
C．by doing many experiments D．with their teachers’ help
3.In the past many people thought .
A．that women must get the same chance as men in education and jobs
B．that women should receive much education
C．that women should get good jobs
D．that women could not do the work well
4.Marie Curie proved to people .
A．that there was a new element uranium
B．that there was a new element radium
C．that women could do their work as well as men if they were really given the same conditions
D．both B and C
Alone in the light at the dining room table, surrounded by a nearly dark house, I sat in tears.
Finally, I 36 in getting both kids to bed. As a new single 37 , I had to be both Mommy and Daddy to my two little children.
With full rights of my children, I 38 to give them a normal and comfortable home life. I 39 a happy face for them.
I rose slowly, trying not to 40 even the least sound which might start them up 41 . I tiptoed(蹑手蹑脚地走) out of their room, 42 the door part way, and went downstairs.
And loneliness(孤独). I 43 as thought I were at the bottom(底部) of a great sea of loneliness. It all 44 together and I was at once lost. I sat there, 45 crying.
Just then, a pair of little 46 went around my middle and a little face looked up at me. I looked down into my five-year-old son’s 47 face.
I was shy to be 48 crying by my son. “I’m sorry. Ethan, I didn’t know you were still awake.” I don’t know why, but so many people 49 when they cry and I was no exception. “I didn’t 50 to cry. I’m just a little 51 tonight.”
“It’s ok, Daddy. It’s okay to cry; you’re just 52 .”
I couldn’t express(表达) how happy he made me, this little boy, who was simple, gave me 53 to cry. He seemed to be saying that I didn’t have to always be 54 , and that sometimes it was possible to allow myself to feel weak and let out my 55 .
1. A．succeeded B．escaped C．failed D．helped
2. A．mother B．worker C．parent D．stepfather
3. A．followed B．grew C．joined D．tried
4. A．put on B．took on C．put down D．took in
5. A．fill B．stop C．make D．end
6. A．over B．again C．once D．already
7. A．locked B．fixed C．opened D．closed
8. A．felt B．thought C．fell D．woke
9. A．went B．afforded C．came D．agreed
10. A．loudly B．hardly C．widely D．silently
11. A．arms B．legs C．hands D．eyes
12. A．pleased B．helpful C．excited D．angry
13. A．moved B．seen C．heard D．touched
14. A．explain B．complain C．apologize D．wonder
15. A．want B．mean C．appear D．prefer
16. A．worried B．special C．tired D．sad
17. A．a person B．a male C．terrific D．nervous
18. A．decision B．interest C．right D．truth
19. A．experienced B．strong C．single D．able
20. A．ideas B．secrets C．words D．feelings
I my homework yesterday, but unfortunately I forgot about it totally.
A．need have handed in B．should have handed in
C．must have handed in D．may have handed in
