In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution. They join "environment clubs(俱乐部)". In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean. Here are some things students often do.
No-garbage (垃圾) lunches. How much do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school.
No-car day. On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car. Not the students and not the teachers! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember: walk jump, bike and run. Use your legs! It's lots of fun.
Turn off the water! Did you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty cubic (立方) meters of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small river! In environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets. We love our environment. Let's work together to make it clean.
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I have a degree in business. But it was my father's1for me to seek to attain a business2. He thought that having a business major would3me more available choices and make me more4in entering a global labor market. I5his advice. However, even though my college experiences were6, I had no interest in any7. Of commerce, let alone having a long-term career as a businesswoman.
After I8, I worked as a marketing planner at a computer company. My9and working environment were great; yet I10didn't feel happy doing something that held little11for me. After two months of working there, I made up my mind to12and decided to do what I love, namely13history. I have now been doing this job for over twenty years. I am 14of being with my students.
If you are in a15. Where you don't love what you are learning or doing, please ask yourself what you are really16about, and what you truly want for your life. Don't17to get yourself a quick answer. Take some time to think about what career could bring18to you.
I like this motto "Success is not the key to happiness.19happiness is the key to success."
Happiness20the inside of you, not from the outside. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
A new study published this week in the journal Nature Communications has concluded that a 100 percent change to organic food production in England and Wales would actually lead to a great increase in greenhouse gas emissions (排放). In turn, this would contribute to further climate change.
Although organic farming directly pours out fewer emissions than conventional farming—around 20 percent lower for crops and 4 percent for farm animals—it produces notably less food. As to this study's findings, total organic agriculture in England and Wales would produce 40 percent less food. With less food in the market, the countries would need to increase food imports, which would produce more global greenhouse gas emissions.
Organic farming also increases the amount of absorbing carbon, a process where carbon dioxide (CO2) is "absorbed" out of the atmosphere and captured by plants and stored in the soil. However, even a total change to organic farming would only be equal to a tiny part of the higher emissions from overseas land use.
"We predict a drop in total food production of 40 percent under a fully organic farming process, compared to conventional farming, if we keep to the same national diet," Dr Adrian Williams, lead author and reader in Agri-Environmental Systems at Cranfield University, said in a statement. "This results from lower crop quantity, because output is limited by a lower supply of nitrogen, which is mainly from other crops or solid waste from cattle on the grassland."
Nevertheless, it is important to note that organic farming still holds some useful benefits for the environment, such as reducing exposure to chemicals and improving the varieties of creatures. In conclusion, the study suggests that organic farming will continue to play a key role in resolving the world's environmental problems. However, it's just one part of a much wider solution.
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economic development and environmental protection are equally important.
1）多跟同学交流沟通：2）积极参加学校活动：3）向老师寻求帮助。
注意：1）词数80左右;
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
写作要点：1．学英语的重要性。2．提高英语成绩的措施(至少3点)。
要求：1．短文词数不少于100。2．内容充实，结构完整，语意连贯。 3．书写须清晰、工整。
Do you like chocolate? Maybe most people do. A box of it can be a great gift. Buy one for a friend and give it as a surprise. See how happy that person gets.
Say you just got a box of chocolate. Which piece do you pick first? A man has studied people’s choices. He says they tell something about the person. Did you choose a round piece? You are a person who likes to party. Did you choose an oval shape? You are a person who likes to make things. Picking a square shape shows something else. The person is honest and truthful. You can depend on him or her.
What kind of chocolate do you pick? Maybe you like milk chocolate. This shows you have warm feelings about the past. Dark chocolate means something else. A person who chooses it looks toward the future. What about white chocolate? Would you choose it? If so, you may find it hard to make up your mind. Some people like chocolate with nuts. These are people who like to help others.
Do you believe these ideas? Can candy tell all these things? It doesn’t really matter. There is one sure thing about eaters of chocolate. They eat it because they like it.
8．This passage mainly tells us ______.
A.why people like chocolate
B.almost everyone likes chocolate
C.about different kinds of chocolate
D.different choices may show different characters
9．Picking a round shape of chocolate shows that a person ______.
| A.likes singing, dancing and drinking | B.likes to do something for others |
| C.is good at making things | D.can be depended on |
10．From this passage we can see that a helpful man may choose chocolate ______.
| A.in oval shape | B.in square shape | C.with nuts | D.with coffee |
11．The last paragraph suggests that the writer ______.
A.believes all the information about chocolate
B.does not believe the information about candy
C.is trying to get you to believe false information
D.doesn’t think it important whether you believe the ideas
36. I am __________seeing my brother at the airport next Sunday. (look forward to)
37. The little girl is shy and quite ______ before strangers. (embarrass)
38. The student avoided ______ my questions. (answer)
39.Learning to walk again after his accident required great _____. (patient)
40. He got on the plane, and the plane ______ five minutes later. (take off)
41. It was so dark outside that we couldn’t see anything in the ________. (distant)
根据句意及所给的首字母或中文提示，在空格处填入一个适当的单词。
1．Here is my a , you can easily find my house with it．
2．Now we can get i from a lot of ways, such as newspapers, TVs and the internet．
3．Rice is grown in China, Japan and other A_______ countries．
4．We aim at q_________ rather than quantity．
5．Li Min made up his m to go to study abroad when he was 18 years old．
6．We finally ______（说服） the peasant to send his daughter to school．
7．The _______（政府） will build more houses for the people．
8．I am pleased that he gladly ________ （接受） our invitation．
9．Parents should help their children to form good ______（习惯）．
10．All countries, big or small, should be _________（平等） ．
During the war ,my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California. I went to live there in order to be 41 him. I hated the place. I had never 42 been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack(棚屋) alone. The heat was 43 —almost 125 °F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌). 44 a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were 45 with sand, sand, sand!
I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was 46 and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I 47 be in prison! My father answered my 48 with just two lines—two lines that will always sing in my 49 — two lines that completely changed my life:
Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.
I read those two lines 50 . I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present 51 I would look for the stars.
I made friends with the natives, and their 52 amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had 53 to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful forms of the cactus. I watched for the desert sunsets, and 54 for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the desert had been an ocean 55 .
What brought about this 56 change in me? The desert hadn’t changed, 57 I had. I had changed my 58 . And by doing so, I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing 59 of my life. I was excited by this new world that I had discovered. I had looked out of my self-created prison and 60 the stars.
41. A. off B. behind C. near D. beyond
42. A. before B. already C. then D. still
43. A. inflexible B. incomprehensible C. uncontrollable D. unbearable
44. A. Only B. Not C. Many D. Such
45. A. covered B. filled C. buried D. charged
46. A. catching up B. keeping up C. giving up D. getting up
47. A. ought to B. might well C. would rather D. had better
48. A. request B. call C. question D. letter
49. A. comparison B. imagination C. consideration D. memory
50. A. over and over B. by and by C. up and down D. now and then
51. A. company B. occupation C. situation D. relationship
52. A. movement B. reaction C. guidance D. purpose
53. A. refused B. failed C. managed D. happened
54. A. asked B. hunted C. waited D. headed
55. A. floor B. surface C. rock D. level
56. A. shocking B. challenging C. puzzling D. astonishing
57. A. as B. but C. for D. or
58. A. attitude B. principle C. identity D. standard
59. A. vacation B. operation C. affair D. adventure
60. A. sought B. counted C. found D. reached
The Enigma (谜）of Beauty
The search for beauty spans centuries and continents. Paintings of Egyptians dating back over 4, 000 years show both men and women painting their nails and wearing makeup. In 18th-century France, wealthy noblemen wore large wigs (假发）of long, white hair to make themselves attractive. Today, people continue to devote a lot of time and money to their appearance.
There is at least one good reason for the desire to be attractive: beauty is power. Studies suggest that good-looking people make more money, get called on more often in class, and are regarded as friendlier.
But what exactly is beauty? It's difficult to describe it clearly, and yet we know it when we see it. And our awareness of it may start at a very early age. In one set of studies, six-month-old babies were shown a series of photographs. The faces on the pictures had been rated for attractiveness by a group of college students. In the studies, the babies spent more time looking at the attractive faces than the unattractive ones.
The idea that even babies can judge appearance makes perfect sense to many researchers. In studies by psychologists, men consistently showed a preference for women with larger eyes, fuller lips, and a smaller nose and chin while women prefer men with large shoulders and a narrow waist. According to scientists, the mind unconsciously tells men and women that these traits—the full lips, clear skin, strong shoulders —equal health and genetic well-being.
Not everyone thinks the same way, however. “Our hardwiredness can be changed by all sorts of expectations —mostly cultural,” says C. Loring Brace, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan. What is considered attractive in one culture might not be in another. Look at most Western fashion magazines: the women on the pages are thin. But is this “perfect” body type for women worldwide Scientists' answer is no; what is considered beautiful is subjective and varies around the world. They found native peoples in southeast Peru preferred shapes regarded overweight in Western cultures.
For better or worse, beauty plays a role in our lives. But it is extremely difficult to describe exactly what makes one person attractive to another. Although there do seem to be certain physical traits considered universally appealing, it is also true that beauty does not always keep to a single, uniform standard. Beauty really is, as the saying goes, in the eye of the beholder.
21. People's ideas about beauty ________.
A. have existed since ancient times B. can be easily described
C. have little influence on a person's success D. are based upon strict standard
22. In Paragraph 3, the babies in the study ________.
A. were rated for their appearance B. were entered in a beauty contest
C. were shown photos of a group of college students
D. were able to tell attractive faces from unattractive ones
23. The underlined word “traits” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.
A. qualities B. measurements C. judgments D. standards
24. We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. the ideas of beauty vary as people grow up
B. the search for beauty is rooted in lack of confidence
C. the standards for beauty are based on scientific researches
D. the understanding of beauty depends on cultural backgrounds
