Do you often use plastic straws (吸管)? You pro...

Do you often use plastic straws (吸管)? You probably use them to drink lots of things, such as cola or milk tea 1. They are made in 10 minutes, used in 20 minutes and remain on the earth for over 100 years since they can't be broken down (分解) easily.

But how do plastic straws get into the ocean? Through human mistakes, they are often thrown everywhere. The waste management in some areas is so poor. All gutters (排水沟) lead to our ocean　 2. Once a turtle was found bleeding because a 12-centimeter-long plastic straw was pushed into its nose. How terrible!

3. That is enough to circle nearly two-and-a-half times around our planet! If we didn't act now, there would be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050.

Luckily, more and more people around the world have realized this problem. They begin to consider if they really need to use plastic straws when drinking drinks.

So what can we do to reduce (减少) plastic pollution? 4. For example, next time you go to a restaurant, make sure you order your drink without a straw. What if people need to use a straw? There are reusable straws that can be cleaned and reused instead.

Starbucks (星巴克) has started to offer straw less lids (盖子) and paper straws instead of plastic straws in almost 1,000 stores in Shanghai and Shenzhen. Starbucks is not alone. 5. It is hoped that more businesses and customers will play a part in protecting our environment.

Choose five sentences out of the six in the box to complete the passage. Each choice should be used only once.

A.Even worse, plastic straws kill ocean life.

B.So plastic straws mustn't be thrown into the ocean.

C.Plastic straws are small but they are a big problem.

D.The simplest way is to say "No" to single-use plastic, like straws.

E.McDonald's has also taken action to reduce the use of plastic straws.

F.In fact, around 500 million plastic straws are used every day in the US alone.

九年级英语补全短文6选5中等难度题查看答案及解析

If you ask your restaurant waiter to skip the plastic straw（吸管）at dinner, you keep one item out of the rubbish. But if a restaurant can stop handing out plastic straws to every diner, it is a much bigger different! Here’s how to ask your favorite restaurant to reduce single-use plastic.

Write A Letter Introduction

Tell the business owner how much you enjoy going there. Do you have a favorite dish or dessert they serve? Let them know! Then mention the plastic item you have seen on a recent visit，such as a straw or a bag.

Explain the problem with plastic

You could ask a restaurant to hand out plastic straws only if a customer wants them, or ask an ice-cream shop to change plastic spoon to a recyclable one. End your letter by thanking the business owner for reading. Mail your letter or drop it off in person next time you visit.

Speak Up

Speak face-to-face with a manager about plastic, whether you are dropping off your letter or just visiting the restaurant. Remember, you need to pay attention to your manners while talking.

Politely ask your waiter if you can speak to the restaurant manager.

Shake the manager’s hand and look him in the eye when you talk to him. Tell him why you enjoy coming to the restaurant. Give one fact about the plastic pollution problem and then provide your suggestion. If you bring your letter, hand it over to the manager. Thank them for their time.

1.This guide provides some tips for restaurant to improve their service, doesn’t it?

__________________

2.According to the guide, what do you need to do first before you take action?

__________________

3.Where does most of plastic waste finally go?

__________________

4.What can a restaurant do to reduce some plastic waste?

__________________

5.According to the guide, how can you communicate with the restaurant manager politely?

__________________

6.Which way do you prefer, writing a letter or speaking face-to-face? Give your reason(s).

__________________

九年级英语回答问题中等难度题查看答案及解析

Plastic straws(塑料吸管), which are widely used in our daily life, are made from oil. Because they're too small, they are thrown everywhere and almost never recycled. So every year we have a large number of plastic straws _______.

Milo Cress, a boy of _______, started a campaign(运动) called Be Straw Free in America. “Every day, Americans throw away 500 million plastic straws.” He said, “This seemed like a huge _______.” Cress started asking restaurants to stop providing straws. Many agreed and soon more restaurants _______.

_______there are some people who still need to use straws：some don’t want soft drinks to damage(破坏) their teeth, others may have special illness. “We do not ask people to stop using straws.” said Cress, “We encourage people to choose other reusable materials that are _______ harmful to the environment, wildlife and humans. A disabled man wrote to tell me he carried reusable straws with _______—they are made of steel.”

The campaigns of plastic straws soon came to the UK. Last year, large pub chain(连锁酒吧) Wetherspoons decided to use paper straws instead of plastic _______. _______ a survey, this will save 70 million plastic straws a year. After that, many smaller pub chains ________ the country followed. “I think it's much more important to encourage people to make the choice not to use them.” said Cress, “Forcing people to do things is not always the best way to make a change.”

1.A.cleaned B.cleaning C.to clean D.clean

2.A.9-years-old B.9-year-old C.9 years old D.9 year old

3.A.change B.hope C.waste D.surprise

4.A.took part B.joined in C.took part in D.attended

5.A.So B.Because C.But D.Although

6.A.too B.much C.more D.less

7.A.he B.him C.himself D.his

8.A.one B.ones C.the one D.the ones

9.A.As for B.According to C.Such as D.Instead of

10.A.across B.between C.near D.behind

九年级英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

How many plastic bags do you use every day? 46there any chance for us to live without them? What can we do to have 47plastic pollution? A performance in Hangzhou makes people 48more about the overuse of plastic bags in our lives.

In front of a supermarket in Hangzhou , five volunteers 49white plastic bags and walked around and through the crowd. The performance 50people to use more cloth bags51 plastic ones.

Some of the plastic bags worn by the performers were collected from customers in two food markets and 52were collected by 700 students from a middle school.

On that day, when leaving the food markets, customers were told to hand over 53plastic shopping bags. 54plastic bags were collected in two hours.

“ If we do 55about it, the earth will be eaten up by white pollution. And 56will become ‘plastic men’,”said one of the performers.

“How can you breathe in 57plastic bags?” A 58woman asked one performer.“How can the earth breathe 59there are too many plastic bags?”the performer answered.

Starting in June 2008,plastic bags were 60given for free in supermarkets,shopping malls or food markets all over the country.

People are called on﹙号召﹚to use cloth bags when they go shopping.

九年级英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Do you drink water that’s been left sitting out overnight or even for another day? Have you noticed it tastes different?

Tap water(自来水) that has been left to sit out slowly begins to get an off taste. Many people think that this is because of microorganisms(微生物). But that’s not what makes old water taste not fresh. For that we can think of carbon dioxide(二氧化碳). After about 12 hours, tap water starts to go flat as carbon dioxide in the air starts to mix with the water in the glass, lowering its PH and giving it an off taste. But it's most likely not harmful to drink.

However, back to those microorganisms. If you use a dirty glass day after day, there will be more chances to get bacteria(细菌). The risk will increase if you share the glass with another mouth as well. But supposing you use a fresh glass every few days, you probably won't have a problem unless the glass has been touched by dirty fingers, and especially if those dirty fingers went unwashed after using the bathroom.

As for plastic water bottles that have been left out in the sun or in the car, step away from the bottles, warns Dr. Kellogg Schwab, director of the Johns Hopkins University Water Institute. “A chemical named biphenyl-A, or BPA, along with other things used to make plastic can leach(过滤) into your water if the bottle heats up or sits in the sun,” he explains. BPA, as you probably know, has been linked to everything from serious heart problems to cancer. Schwab also adds that plastic used for commercial bottled water isn’t supposed to be washed or refilled, so use only one time and recycle. Or don't buy them at all; use refillable water bottles instead.

1.Tap water begin to have an off taste because of______.

A.carbon dioxide B.BPA C.the glass D.the microorganism

2.According to Paragraph 2, tap water that's been left sitting out for 12 hours__________.

A.has few microorganisms B.is still safe to drink

C.tastes better than before D.is likely undrinkable

3.According to Paragraph 3, what is the right way to drink with a glass?

A.To share the glass with another person. B.To hold the clean glass with dirty hands.

C.To keep your hands and glass clean. D.To drink after using the bathroom.

4.What should we do with plastic water bottles that are left out in the sun or in the car?

A.Use them after they cool down. B.Clean them and use them again.

C.Throw the bottles away. D.Refill them with fresh water.

5.Which of the following is true about BPA?

A.It is safe for people to use.　　  B.It is a kind of new material.

C.It is the main material to make plastic. D.It can cause great harm to people.

九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world. 29 billion bottles of water are drunk each year. It takes 17 million barrels of oil to make these bottles. That's enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.

So why don't more people drink water from the tap in the kitchen? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap, but that's not true. In the United States, the government makes sure water from the tap is safe.

People love bottled water because it is convenient to take with them. But maybe if they understand the problems it makes, they will try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a reusable bottle instead of a plastic one. Although plastic water bottles can be turned into some other useful things, only a small number of them are reused. The rest are taken away in rubbish trucks, or even worse, they end up as rubbish on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take hundreds of years to break down.

Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use plastic water bottles, and see if you can make a change. If you take one to school, don't throw it away — bring it home and put tap water in it for the next day.

1.Americans buy the most bottled water in the world.

2.The United Nations makes sure water out of the tap is safe.

3.Plastic water bottles we use cause serious pollution.

4.It takes a hundred years to make plastic water bottles break down.

5.We should use a plastic water bottle as many as possible before throwing it away.

九年级英语阅读判断简单题查看答案及解析

We recycle rubbish, so why not language? Recycling language means using vocabulary that you have learnt before again and again. However, unlike rubbish that piles up in our environment, if we do not recycle language, we simply forget it. So how do you recycle language? There are basically three ways to do it.

The first is through reading. Go back to your favorite articles and read them once more. Just reread them and do not worry about each vocabulary item. If there are some that you are not sure about, make a guess and you will probably guess right.

The second way to recycle is through writing. Look at some of your favorite articles and write either a short paragraph or a few sentences in your own words. After you have done this a few times, go back and read through what you have written, checking vocabulary functions. Don't worry if you have made mistakes. That's how you learn.

The third way to recycle language is by having an imaginary chat with yourself about your favorite articles at home. You can pretend there is someone with whom you speak English and tell him what you are thinking about or how you feel.

1.According to the passage recycling language means _________________.

A.repeating vocabulary at times B.learning new vocabulary as much as possible

C.revise you vocabulary at a proper time D.using vocabulary that we have learnt very often

2.Which is not right according to the passage?

A.If we make mistakes when writing, we should learn from them.

B.If there are some new words when reading, we can guess their meanings.

C.If we recycle language, we cannot remember it easily.

D.If we practice reading, writing and speaking language, we will remember it easily.

3.What is the best title for the passage?

A.How to learn vocabulary. B.How to recycle language.

C.Why do we learn vocabulary. D.Why do we recycle language.

九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析

In the United States, people throw away 500 million plastic straws(吸管) every day! They are enough to circle the Earth twice. Unluckily, they are almost never recycled, because they are too small.

Now, plastic straws are the aim of environmental movements. Among them is Be Straw Free. A 23-year-old young man, Milo Cress, started the movement at the age of 16. “I noticed that whenever I ordered a drink at a restaurant, it would come with a straw,” he said. “This seems like a huge waste.”

Cress started by asking restaurants in his home city to stop providing straws if customers do not ask for one. Many of them agreed. Over the years, restaurants in the United States joined the movement. On average, they use 50-80 percent fewer plastic straws than they used to.

In other countries, there are similar movements. In the United Kingdom, many restaurants now use paper straws instead of plastic ones. The British government is planning to ban all plastic waste by 2042.

However, in China, it is very common that many restaurants still use plastic straws. Will you do something to change the situation? Everybody can make a difference to it!

1.Why do people almost never recycle plastic straws?

A.Because the plastic straws are very cheap.

B.Because the plastic straws are very small.

C.Because people can make the plastic straws quite easily.

2.How old was Milo Cress when he started Be Straw Free?

A.7 years old. B.16 years old. C.23 years old.

3.What was Milo Cress done according to the passage?

A.He has asked people to stop asking for plastic straws at the restaurant.

B.He has asked restaurants not to offer straws without customers’ requirements.

C.He has asked restaurant to replace plastic straws with paper ones.

4.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “ban”?

A.禁止 B.收购 C.回收

5.What does the writer expect readers to do at the end of the passage?

A.The writer expects readers to make friends with Milo Cress.

B.The writer expects readers to invite people to read the passage.

C.The writer expects readers to do something meaningful like Milo Cress

九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

How do you deal with plastic bags from the supermarket? Throw them away or recycle them? How about eating them?

The bags are no harmful to the environment. Humans and animals can safely eat them. Indian company EnviGreen has made a bag with natural material. It looks and feels just like plastic,　 but can break down （分解）easily.　

Ashwath Hedge who set up the EnviGreen company spent four years doing experiments with 12 natural material. They include potato, corn, vegetable oil and banana. He made the material into liquid and used the liquid to make the bag.

Although the EnviGreen bag is more expensive than a common plastic bag, but it has many advantages. According to the Wall Street Journal, it takes 1, 000 years for common plastic bags to break down. But an EnviGreen bag can naturally break down in less than 180 days. It also breaks down in less than a day in water, and in less than a minute in boiling water. Hedge was happy to show it in his interview with The Better India. In the interview, he put an EnviGreen bag in water and ate it with a smile.

There are more than 15, 000 tons of plastic waste every day. But only 9, 000 tons are processed. In China, 3 billion plastic bags are used every day. Maybe the EnviGreen hag could be a solution to the world problem of plastic pollution.

1.According to paragraph 2, we can know the following EXCEPT ________.

A.the EnviGreen bag can break down easily

B.the EnviGreen bag is made from natural material

C.the EnviGreen bag can be eaten by humans and animals

D.the EnviGreen bag is a little harmful to the environment.

2.Then main idea of the third paragraph is “_________”.

A.What Hedge think of the new bag B.How Hedge makes the EnviGreen bag

C.Who sets up the EnviGreen company D.How long it takes Hedge to make the bag

3.The underlined sentence in paragraph 4 shows that the EnviGreen bag _______.

A.is safe and can break down quickly B.is useful although it is more expensive

C.looks and feels like a common plastic bag D.will be used more widely than a common bag

4.The Envi Green bag breaks down fastest in _________.

A.hot air B.cold water C.boiling water D.natural air

5.From the last paragraph,　 we can infer（推断）_______.

A.all of India`s public waste is processed

B.India has the most plastic waste in the world

C.China produces more plastic waste than India

D.the Envi Green bag may help solve the problem of plastic pollution

九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

完型填空。从每小题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择能填入相应空白处的最佳答案。

How many plastic bags do you use every day? ________ there any chance for us to live without them? What can we do to have ________plastic pollution? A performance in Hangzhou makes people ________　 more about the overuse of plastic bags in our lives．

In front of a supermarket in Hang Zhou，five volunteers(自愿者) wore white plastic bags and walked around and through the crowd．The performance________　 people to use more cloth bags ________ plastic ones．

Some of the plastic bags were from customers in two food markets and ________ were from shopping malls．

On that day，when leaving the food markets，volunteers asked customers to hand

over unnecessary plastic shopping bags．There were_________unnecessary plastic bags in two hours．

“If we do________ about it，the earth will be eaten up by white pollution．And human beings will become plastic men.” said one of the performers．

“How can you breathe in ________ plastic bags?”A 40一year—old woman asked one performer．“How can the earth breathe　 ________ there are too many plastic bags?”the performer answered．

Starting from June in 2008，supermarkets．shopping malls or food markets can’t provide plastic bags for free all over the country．

1.A．Are　　　 　　 B．Were　　　　　 　　 　　 C．Is　　　　　　　　 D．Was

2.A．few　　　 　　 B．much　　　　　 　　 　　 C．fewer　　　　　　 D．1ess

3.A．think　　 　 B．thinks　　　　 　　 　 C．to think　　　 　 D．thinking

4.A．called back B．called　　　　 　　 　 C．called on　　　　 D．cheered on

5.A．instead　　 B．take the place of　 C．instead of　 　 D．take place

6.A. other　　　　 B．the other　　　　 　 C. another　　　　 D．the others

7.A．hundred　 　 B．hundreds of　　 　 　 C．hundred of　　 D．hundreds

8.A. nothing　　 B. anything　　　 　 　 C. something　　　　 D．everything

9.A．so much　 B．too much　　 　　 　　 C．such many　　 D．so many

10.A．until　　　　 B．because　　　 　　 　　 C．if　　　　　　　　 D．unless

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