You can walk one mile or two to the crossroad...

You can walk one mile or two to the crossroads where the school bus will ______ you ______.

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You can be proud of yourselves, even if you can only make one or two of these green changes. The goal here is to limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are closely associated to the big problem of global-warming.

1.What is the best title for the passage?

2.According to the writer, what will happen if our PC is switched off when not in use?

3.Which strategies suggest recycling or reuse of things?

4.What benefits do these strategies have in common?

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As one comes to some crossroads, he or she sees a sign which says that drivers have to stop when they come to the main road ahead. At other crossroads, drivers have to go slow, but they do not actually have to stop unless, of course, there is something coming along the main road; and at still others, they do not have either to stop or to go slow, because they are themselves on the main road.

Mr. Williams, who was always a very careful driver, was driving home from work one evening when he came to a crossroad. It had a “SLOW” sign. He slowed down when he came to the main road, looked both ways to see that nothing was coming, and then drove across without stopping completely.

At once he heard a police whistle, so he pulled into the side of the road and stopped. A policeman walked over to him with a notebook and a pen in his hand and said, “You didn’t stop at that crossing.”

“But the sign there doesn't say ‘STOP’.” answered Mr. Williams, “It just says ‘SLOW’, and I did go slow.”

The policeman looked around him, and a look of surprise came over his face. Then he put his notebook and pen away, scratched his head and said, “Well, I’m in the wrong street!”

1.When he was stopped by a policeman, he ____.

A. was driving at a high speed               B. was driving onto the main road

C. was going to stop his car                 D. was pulled into the crossroad

2.Though slowly, Mr. Williams continued driving at the crossing because________ .

A. he saw a “STOP” sign in the opposite street

B. he paid no attention to the traffic rules

C. he didn't have to stop

D. he was eager to get home

3.Looking round Mr. Williams, the policeman was surprised because__________ .

A. he met a mad man

B. he realized that he himself was mistaken

C. Mr. Williams dared to speak to him like that

D. Mr. Williams would not apologize to him

4.What does “scratch” in the last paragraph mean?

A. to rub the skin of (the head) for uncertainty

B. to strike (the head ) for regret

C. to nodded for sure

D. to look back to search for something

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As one comes to some crossroads, he or she sees a sign which says that drivers have to stop when they come to the main road ahead. At other crossroads, drivers have to go slow, but they do not actually have to stop unless, of course, there is something coming along the main road; and at still others, they do not have either to stop or to go slow, because they are themselves on the main road.

Mr. Williams, who was always a very careful driver, was driving home from work one evening when he came to a crossroad. It had a “SLOW” sign. He slowed down when he came to the main road, looked both ways to see that nothing was coming, and then drove across without stopping completely.

At once he heard a police whistle, so he pulled into the side of the road and stopped. A policeman walked over to him with a notebook and a pen in his hand and said, “You didn’t stop at that crossing.”

“But the sign there doesn't say ‘STOP’.” answered Mr. Williams, “It just says ‘SLOW’, and I did go slow.”

The policeman looked around him, and a look of surprise came over his face. Then he put his notebook and pen away, scratched his head and said, “Well, I’m in the wrong street!”

1.When he was stopped by a policeman, he ____.

A. was driving at a high speed               B. was driving onto the main road

C. was going to stop his car                 D. was pulled into the crossroad

2.Though slowly, Mr. Williams continued driving at the crossing because________ .

A. he saw a “STOP” sign in the opposite street

B. he paid no attention to the traffic rules

C. he didn't have to stop

D. he was eager to get home

3.Looking round Mr. Williams, the policeman was surprised because__________ .

A. he met a mad man

B. he realized that he himself was mistaken

C. Mr. Williams dared to speak to him like that

D. Mr. Williams would not apologize to him

4.What does “scratch” in the last paragraph mean?

A. to rub the skin of (the head) for uncertainty

B. to strike (the head ) for regret

C. to nodded for sure

D. to look back to search for something

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It is the ability to do the job _____ matters, not where you came from or what you are.

A.one           B.it            C. what         D. that

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It is not where you come from or what you are, but the ability to do the job________matters.

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How many coins have you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two? or One?

With a phonecard you can make up to 200 calls without any change at all.

1. What do you do with it?

Go to a telephone box marked “Phonecard”. Put in your card to start, make your call and when you have finished, a screen tells you how much is left on your card.

It costs no extra for the cards, and the calls cost 10p per unit, the same as any other pay-phone call.

You can buy them in units of 10, 20, 40, 100 or 200.

2. Now appearing in a shop near you

Near each phonecard place you will find a shop where you can buy one. They’re at bus, train and city tube stations.

At many universities, hospitals and clubs, restaurants and gas stations on the highway and shopping centers.

At airports and seaports.

3. No more broken payphones

Most broken payphones are like that because they’ve been damaged. There are no coins in a cardphone to excite thieves’ interest in it. So you’re not probably to find a broken one.

Get a phonecard yourself and try it out. Or get a bigger wallet.

1.The passage is most probably ________.

A．a warning                    B．a notice

C．an advertisement             D．an announcement

2.There are three sections in the passage. Which one do you think is about why phonecards are good?

A．Section 1  B．Section 2.   C．Section 3.    D．none.

3.Which statement of the following is right by inference（推断）?

A．Using a phonecard will cost you less money than payphone call.

B．Phonecards are easier to carry.

C．If a thief steals your phonecard, he can’t use it any more.

D．When you finish your call, take out your card first and then you will see how many calls you can still make.

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How many coins do you have in your pocket right now? Three? Two? Or one? With a phone card, you can make up to 200 calls without any charges at all．

★What do you do with it?

Go to a telephone box marked "Phone-card"．Put in your card to start, make your phone call and when you have finished, the screen will tell you how much is left on your card．It costs no extra for the cards, and the calls cost 10 p（便士） per unit, the same as any other pay-phone call．You can buy it in units of 10, 20, 40, 50, or 100．

★Appear in a shop nearby．

Near each card-phone place, you will find a shop where you can buy one．They are at bus, train or metro stations．At universities, hospitals, clubs, restaurants and shopping centers, you can also buy it．

★No more broken pay-phones．

It is possible that many pay-phones don't work because they have been damaged． There are no coins in a card-phone to excite the thieves' interest in it．So you are not probably to find a broken one．

Get a phone-card yourself and try it out．Or get a bigger wallet．

1.The passage is most probably ____．

A．a warning                             B．a notice

C．an advertisement                      D．an announcement

2.The underlined word "one" means ____．

A．a shop            B．a coin            C．a pay-phone      D．a phone-card

3.It is suggested in the passage that you buy a phone-card because ____．

A．you have got a bigger wallet than others

B．it's convenient to make calls with a phone card

C．the phone box might have been damaged

D．there are many different kinds of phone-cards

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If you want to get health or stay healthy, there is one easy activity to add to your life-walking. “Walking is the closest thing we have to a wonder drug,” says Thomas Frieden, who is the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. The American Heart Association explains the findings on its website — Walking quickly, or briskly, can lower your risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. 1.. Here are the benefits of regular brisk walking.

Improve your mood. Walking helps release natural painkilling chemicals in the body. A study at California State University, Long Beach showed that the more steps people walked during the day,2..

Sharpen your mind. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco studied 6,000 women aged 65 and over.3..

Keep your joints healthy. The Arthritis Foundation(U.S.) explains on its website that most of the material that makes up our joints has no direct blood supply. Our joints get nutrition from joint fluid that circulates as we move. When you are walking, your joints get this “life-giving fluid”, which means your joints become stronger.

4.. A 2014 study by Stanford University found that walking, indoors or outdoors, improved the ability to think creatively and solve problems.

Best of all, you can easily change where, when and how you walk. 5.. Or you can walk alone. The faster, farther and more often you walk, the greater the benefits will be.

A. Improve your creativity

B. the better their moods were

C. And he is not alone in considering walking great exercise

D. And many studies have found that walking benefits the body and mind in other ways

E. You can walk with your friends, co-workers, family or your dog

F. You may think that simply taking a walk is not enough to make a big difference

G. They found that age-related memory loss was lower for those who walked more

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August was one of the nastiest months I can remember: torrential rain; a hailstorm or two; cold, bitter winds; and mists. But we are accustomed to such weather in England. Lord Byron used to say that an English summer begins on July 31 and ends on Aug. 1. He called 1816 "the year without a summer." He spent it gazing across Lake Geneva, watching the storms, with 18-year-old Mary Shelley. The lightening flickering across the lake inspired her Frankenstein, the tale of the man-made monster galvanized into life by electricity.

This summer's atrocious weather tempted me to tease a Green whom I know. "Well, what about your weather theory now?" (One of the characteristics of Greens is that they know no history.) He replied: "Yes, this weather is unprecedented. England has never had such an August before. It's global warming, of course." That's the Greens' stock response to anything weather-related. Too much sun? "Global warming." Too little sun? "Global warming." Drought? "Global warming." Floods? "Global warming." Freezing cold? "Global warming."

I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming. He was a student when Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was first published and then successfully tested. Einstein said that for his theory to be valid it would have to pass three tests. "If," Einstein wrote to British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, "it were proved that this effect does not exist in nature, then the whole theory would have to be abandoned."

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels--the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming--has not much basis in science. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor. If the theory's conclusions are accepted and agreed upon, the destructive results will be felt most severely in those states that adhere to the rule of law and will observe restrictions most faithfully. The global warming activists' target is the U.S. If America is driven to accept crippling restraints on its economy it will rapidly become unable to shoulder its burdens as the world's sole superpower and ultimate defender of human freedoms. We shall all suffer, however, as progress falters and then ceases and living standards decline.

1. The writer of the passage is probably _______.

A．one of the “Greens”

B．an American

C．not quite a believer in Global Warming

D．an environmentalist

2.Which person(s), in the writer’s eyes, is the one he agrees with?

A．Karl Marx         B．Sir Karl Popper     C．The Greens        D．Mary Shelley

3.Sir Arthur Eddington could be inferred as a ______.

A．politician          B．poet             C．Greenpeacer       D．physicist

4.“denounce”  in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.

A．announce                             B．pronounce

C．speak out for                           D．speak out against

5. Which of the following is probably a good title for this article?

A．Why Einstein’s Theory Stands the Tests.

B．Which Country the “Greens” Are Attacking?

C．Global Warming? I See Little Point.

D．The Climate in England and beyond.

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