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Not only does the use of plastic water bottles hurt your wallet, it also increases pollution and wastes energy and water. Only 23% of all plastic in America ends up in a recycling bin, meaning over $ 1 billion worth of plastic is treated as rubbish a year. Recently, Skipping Rocks Lab has invented a kind of water bottle called Ooho.
It is a convenient, clear water bottle that can either be drunken or eaten. To drink it, you can either peel off the membrane(薄膜) or tear a hole in the membrane with your teeth to pour the water into your mouth. To eat it, you simply put the whole bottle in your mouth. One problem the scientists have run into is how to ship large amounts of Ooho bubbles(水泡) without arriving with a very wet truck. However, they have attempted to package units of individual bubbles together inside a larger and thicker membrane. It is targeting large outdoor events, such as marathons, music festivals, and sporting events, where tons of plastic bottles are used, and frequently left behind as litter. And too much plastic is sure to do harm to the environment, which could account for their purpose of such a new invention.
The team has been working for the past two years to develop the technology and materials needed to produce Ooho; they have recently applied a patent for their new advancements. The price for an individual bubble or a unit of bubbles has not been set yet, but they cost about two cents to create a unit, which is cheaper than plastic bottles. It has appeared at events in London, San Francisco, Boston, at conferences, festivals, and so on.
Ooho is catching many people’s attention and has raised over $ 1 million and gained 1,000 investors in only three days. It is mostly being sold at events at the moment to keep the consumer’s interest while the production machine is getting up and running. It is quickly making a rise,so keep an eye out this year for these bottles of the future.
1.How is most plastic dealt with in America?
A.It’s sold. B.It’s recycled.
C.It’s buried. D.It’s wasted.
2.Why did the team invent Ooho?
A.To make a profit for a company. B.To protect the environtnent.
C.To make people eat as they drink. D.To reduce the cost of plastic bottle.
3.What can we infer about Ooho from the text?
A.It is easy and safe to ship it in large amounts.
B.It has become popular since it began to be sold.
C.It might be sold at a lower price than plastic bottles.
D.It cost the team a lot of money to develop the technology.
4.What does the author really want to say in the last paragraph?
A.Ooho is to be a success in the future.
B.Ooho is being supported by smart people.
C.Ooho is taking the place of plastic bottles now.
D.Ooho is being produced to attract more investors.
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You can use a large plastic bottle, _____ cut off, as a pot to grow your plant in.
A. the top is B. with its top
C. whose top D. the top of which be
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The plastic bottle, ________ top cut off, is used to grow a flower in.
A. whose B. of which C. its D. which
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The plastic bottle, __________top cut off, is used to grow a flower in.
| A．whose | B．of which | C．its | D．which |
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Cheating by using the work of others is the same as ruining your life 1. drugs. It is not only 2.（necessary）and foolish, it can also start to be addicted in many ways. If a student constantly cheats, then it may become a habit in the future. Besides, no one needs to cheat. We all have brains that we can use and also teachers, parents, and friendrs to help 3. (we). Anyway, it’s not like we will succeed in life if we continuously cheat. There is no need 4. (ruin) both your education and your life by cheating.
5. (cheat) usually suffer many consequences. In the beginning when the student is in grade school, cheating may only lead to 6. (lose) credit and going to the principal’s office. In middle school, there will be Saturday punishments, suspensions, and even parent-teacher conferences. But in high school, college, and the rest of a person’s life, it is absolutely unlikely that cheating 7. (tolerate).
Of all things, taking credit for others’ work is not only unnecessary but quite unreasonable as well. If we all just do our work, then there is no point in cheating. We should make 8. effort for our education instead of taking the easy way out. But most importantly, 9. we all work hard instead of cheating, then everyone will live a 10. (success) life.
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You can use a large plastic bottle, ______ cut off, as a pot to grow flowers in.
A．the top is B．the top of which C．whose top D．with its top
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Tests and exams assess not only your subject knowledge, but also your ability to use the appointed time wisely. 1.
Do...
2. Try to answer the questions that arc worth a lot of points before those only worth a few points. This will allow you to spend more time on the higher point questions than the lower ones, which can provide a big increase for your final grade.
Move on when you’ve used up the time for a question. Sometimes it is hard to do it, especially if you are a perfectionist (完美主义者) or someone that likes to provide as many details as possible in your test responses,3. Otherwise, you may find at the end that a large number of questions are still unanswered.
Don’t...
Don’t allow yourself to get stuck on a question. You come across a question that you have no idea how to answer. Instead of moving on, you decide to sit there for 20 or 30 minutes annoyed over it.4. However, setting a time limit for questions and sticking to that time limit can help you avoid this problem.
5. When you’re taking a test, focus on the big picture. Your main goal is to answer all of the questions in the best way. Don’t spend amounts of time proofreading (校对) your work. It is the task that is best completed at the end if you have lime left.
A. Focus on higher point questions.
B. Get answers to the questions you know.
C. However, you must force yourself to move on.
D. Don’t spend too much time on the little things.
E. The following can help you make the most of your time.
F. Many students feel stressed when taking an examination.
G. If you’ve done this before, you’ve actually made a mistake.
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When building houses, people used to think about not only the climate of the areas but also the building materials and the fashions for their houses. However, since electricity became more and more expensive, people began to pay much more attention to the energy they could get for their houses and the new ways they could find to protect their houses from both cold and heat.
Now, houses of an old yet new type have been widely built. In some parts of the world, people share their houses with their livestock. During cold weather, they gather their cows, goats, or other animals and keep them on the first floor of their houses. The reasons are that the animals can be protected from the cold and that they can help to heat the houses as well. The body heat given off by the animals rises to the second floor of the houses, where people live. By sharing their houses with their livestock, people gain a source of heat.
People who live in or near cities do not usually keep livestock. However, home builders use the fact that heat rises. This natural law can be used in building houses in these areas. Instead of keeping livestock on the first floor, builders fill it with large rocks. As they are open to the sun’s rays during cold weather, these rocks take in heat. They also give off the heat, and, of course, the warm air rises into the living areas of the houses. So these houses are energy-saving.
House building becomes a great challenge to building designers and energy engineers. They try to meet this challenge by learning from old traditions and by using modern technology. And someday in the future, people will be able to live in more energy-saving houses.
1.What did people begin to consider as electricity was no longer cheap?
A．The climate of their areas
B．The building materials for their houses
C．The fashions for their houses
D．The energy for their houses
2.People in some areas gain a source of heat by _________.
A．keeping their livestock downstairs
B．protecting their livestock from the cold
C．sharing their houses only with their cows
D．living on the second floor with their livestock
3.The underlined words “natural law” in the third paragraph refer to the fact that ________.
A．heat raises the temperature in the houses
B．heat goes in the upward direction
C．heat goes up if temperature is raised
D．heat increases the temperature of rocks
4.From the passage, we can conclude that _______ .
A．people will no longer consider building materials in the future
B．almost all people will move into the houses heated by large rocks
C．energy-saving buildings will become more popular in the future
D．energy engineers will devote themselves only to modern technology
5.What is the main idea of the passage?
A．Energy-saving house building
B．House building is a great challenge
C．How to live in energy-saving houses
D．Energy-saving houses’ bright future
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Why do we like drinking water from plastic bottles（塑料瓶）? Some people think it is healthy and clean. Others drink bottled water because it’s easy — you can carry it around with you. In hot countries, like Greece, we often buy bottles of cold water in the summer.
However, making lots of plastic is not a good idea for many reasons. First of all, we need a lot of oil for plastic products. We usually use oil as a source of energy. If we reduced the number of bottles we made, we wouldn’t need so much oil. Plastic bottles also pollute the environment. If we reused all our plastic bottles, we wouldn’t need so much space for rubbish dumps. But in Greece, we don’t reuse much of the plastic we use. In 2006, Greeks reused only about 10% of plastic waste. The rest became rubbish on land and in rivers and seas.
So next time you want to throw away a plastic bottle in the litter bin, stop and think. If you reuse it, you would help the environment. But what can you do when there isn’t a bin near you? Well, there are lots of useful ways that you can use your bottles again. For example, an empty bottle makes a great piggy bank for your pocket money, and if you cut a bottle in half, you will have a plant pot. Go green! You can make a difference.
1.What is not mentioned about bottled water in this passage?
A. It’s healthy. B. It’s clean.
C. It’s easy. D. It’s expensive.
2.Plastic products are made from ________.
A. energy B. oil
C. rubbish D. plants
3.Which is the best way to deal with used plastic bottles?
A. To reuse them. B. To make a piggy bank.
C. To make a plant pot. D. To drop them into the river.
4.The underlined part in this passage tells us “________”.
A. To make a different life, you’d better go outside.
B. To look different, you’d better wear green clothes.
C. To protect the environment, you can do something.
D. To go green, you should use plastic products.
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---It was dangerous to throw that bottle out of the window. You could have hurt someone.
---I’m so sorry! I _______ .
A．am not thinking B．wasn’t thinking C．haven’t thought D．don’t think