牛津版（深圳·广州）初中英语七年级上学期期中考试模拟试卷（1）

    You may know several kinds of police, traffic police and street police. But have you ever heard of energy-saving (节能) police?

    A group of 22 new policemen went to work in Beijing. They went around the city to see the use of energy in hotels, office buildings, shopping centres and other public places. One of their aims is to make sure that these places have set their air conditioners (空调) no cooler than 26℃.

    They also set up a special phone hotline so that people can tell them which building doesn't follow the rule.

    "If everyone sets the air conditioner at 26℃, Beijing will save 400 million kilowatt-hours of electricity in one summer. That's one third of all the usage of the city in the season, said an advertisement."

    A show was held in Beijing last week on energy-saving technology (技术) and productions to introduce a green life to the public. Environmentally—friendly machines, like a machine that helps collect used bottles, have attracted lots of attention.

    "We want to tell people that there are some ways to protect the environment. Each of us can find effective (有效的) ways to do it in our daily life," said Liu Qianguang, an environmental engineer.

    A forest is an area of land with many trees. Many animals need forests to live in, Forests are very important and they are common all over the world. People cut down many forests to build houses because the number of people becomes larger and larger. People cut down the forests, which is harmful to the animals. People even build roads to pass through the forests so that they can get to the place they want to get to in a fast way. People damage the forests to build towns, cities, farms, factories and other things.

    Forests usually have an average temperature (平均温度) of 4℃ to 10℃. The low temperature is from-10℃ to-6℃. The high temperature is from 20℃ to 27℃. There is lots of rain in the forests, so many animals live in the pools on the ground. People use trees in the forests to make furniture (家具), toys, pencils, etc.

提示：①重要性：只有一个地球；②主要问题：污染、疾病、灾难；③措施：停止污染、保护大自然。

参考词汇：disaster n.灾难

注意：可适当发挥，以使行文连贯。开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Save our Earth

    We all live on Earth. It's our home.

    Let's take action.

    There are ways of knowing about the weather. One important way is to study the clouds.

    We can see different kinds of clouds and watch them for signs of changing weather. To forecast the weather, we should look for three things about clouds: movement, colour and change.

    As a rule, the higher the clouds, the better the weather. And the lower the clouds, the worse the weather is going to be. When the thick clouds get bigger early in the day, it will rain. When a dark cloud appears, a storm is coming.

    Colours in the sky tell us about the weather too. For example, a golden ring around the Moon also tells us that a storm is on the way.

    The rainbow also has a message (信息). When the Sun is in the east and a rainbow is in the west, the rain may be coming its way. When the Sun is in the west and the rainbow is in the east, the rain will be moving away from us.