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根据短文内容，回答下列问题，每空一词。
The ladies club always had a meeting every Friday afternoon and someone came to talk to them about some important things. After that, they had tea and asked questions.
One Friday, a man came and talked in the club about the food problem. “There is not enough food in the world for everybody,” he said, “more than half of the people in the world are hungry, and when these people get more food, they have more babies, as a result they never stop being hungry. Somewhere in the world, a woman is having a baby every minute, day and night. What are we going to do about it?” He waited for a few seconds. Then one of the ladies said, “Why don’t we find that woman and stop her?”
1.What did people often do in the ladies club?
They often _____ a meeting, talked, had tea and _____ questions.
2.What did the man come to talk about one Friday?
He came to talk about the _____ _____.
3.What did the man think about the food problem?
Some people never stop _____ _____.
4.What is the woman’s answer to the man’s question?
She said they should find that woman and _____ her _____ having babies.
5.Do you think the woman’s answer is helpful?
_____, it _____.
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The London Eye
The London Eye was opened on New Year’s Eve in 1999 to celebrate the Millennium (千禧年). It is 135 meters high, and from the top you can see the whote London. On a clear day you can even see Windsor Castle, which is 40 kilometers away. The London Eye has 32 capsules (密封舱), each with room for 25 people. Each “trip” lasts 30 minutes. It moves quite slowly, at a speed of about 15 meters a minute, but it never stops. Passengers have to get on when it’s moving.
OPENING TIME: Daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. in summer and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in winter.
TICKETS: Online or by phone. A limited number of tickets are available (可获得的) in the day.From the Ticket Office in County Hall (the building next to the Eye), but go early because you often have to wait in a queue.
HOW TO GET THERE: 5 minutes’ walk from Waterloo underground station.
Choose the best answers:
1.The London Eye was built for celebrating __
A. New Year’s Eve B. 1999
C. foreign visitors D. the Millennium
2.On sunny day from the top of the London Eye you can see __--
A. all of England
B. Windsor Castle
C. all the buildings which are 40 kilometers away
D. the building that is 135 meters high
3.There are_____ passengers in the London Eye when it’s full.
A. 32 B. 800 C. 25 D. 72
4.The opening time of the London Eye in summer is _that in the winter.
A. shorter than B. the same as
C. as many as D. longer than
5.People_____ get tickets from the Ticket Office because tickets there are limited.
A. can usually
B. can never
C. can’t always
D. walk from Waterloo underground station to
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根据短文内容，选择正确的选项。
The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means(交流方式). Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in a place, men moved to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.
Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad to all living things in the world, but it is not only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills fish and pollutes drinking water. Noise pollution makes us become angry more easily.
Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution. They stop the people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from blowing dirty smoke into the air.
The pollution of SO2 is now the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It is mostly caused by heavy traffic. It is certain that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must try to control the growth of population at the same time.
1.Our world is becoming much smaller .
A. because the earth is being polluted day and night
B. because science is developing
C. because of the rise in population
D. because the earth is blown away by the wind every year
2.Thousands of years ago, life was it is today.
A. much easier than B. as easy as
C. as hard as D. much harder than
3.Pollution comes in many ways. We can even hear it. Here “it” means .
A. water pollution B. air pollution
C. noise pollution D. rubbish
4.What is the most dangerous problem of air pollution?
A. CO2 B. H2O C. SO2 D. CO
5.Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because .
A. it’s bad to all living things in the world
B. it makes much noise
C. it has made our rivers and lakes dirty
D. it makes us become angry more easily
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根据短文内容，判断句子正（T）、误（F）。
Most animals are helped by people. They can’t live without us. But sometimes people have made the environment worse. For example, in some parts of the world the forests are being cut down.
The animals in the forests have become fewer and fewer. People hope to grow more food on the land, but the wind blows the earth away. Now forests become smaller and smaller, the soil becomes poorer and poorer. Now there are fewer animals and plants in the world. Insects (昆虫) are usually killed, but some plants need insects. Their seeds (种子) can’t spread without them. Birds eat insects, and without insects many kinds of birds will die.
There are hundreds and hundreds of plants and animals, and each plant is helped by another, so does each animal. If you hurt one, you will hurt another, then another. Scientists know this well. They don’t want people to break their environment.
1.It isn’t good for our environment to cut down forests.
2.Animals in the world are becoming fewer and fewer.
3.Animals and plants helped by each other.
4.After the wind blows, the earth becomes richer and richer.
5.This article tells us it is important to make our environment worse and worse.
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根据短文内容，简要回答下列问题。
China has the world’s largest population and there are also a lot of poor people. So the government uses a different way from the UN to tell how many of her people live in poverty(贫困). Chinese living on less than 637 yuan a year are in terrible poverty. Those who live on less than 882 yuan are in the low income (低收入) group.
In 1978, 250 million Chinese lived in extreme(极端) poverty. Today, 29 million, or 3 percent of the population, are still very poor. Most are farmers from Central (中部的) and Western China.
Since 1980, the government has spent more than 102 billion yuan building roads and giving clean water to poor people.
To make life better for them, the government also plans to put 12 billion yuan into helping the poor this year.
The government also plans to help farmers find jobs in cities by teaching them new skills (技能).
They hope that one day no one will have to worry about where to work or where the next meal will come from.
1.Which country has the largest population in the world?
2.How many Chinese lived in extreme poverty in 1978?
3.How much has the government spent in building roads and giving clean water to poor people?
4.How does the government plan to help farmers find jobs in cities?
5.What’s the main idea of this passage?
