Snake meat is popular in restaurants. Some people think eating snakes is good for their health. But
these people don't know that snakes feed on mice and worms, so there are many parasites (寄生蟲) in
snakes' bodies. They may be bad for our health. And we're sorry to see a butcher's (屠夫的) knife is
killing more snakes.
     An English newspaper says, "People eat about 1,000 tons of snakes every year in China. In
Shenzhen, sometimes people serve 10 tons of snakes on dinner tables in a day."
     If we continue to eat snakes, there will be a vicious circle (惡性循環(huán)). If people eat more snakes,
snakes are becoming fewer and fewer. But mice are becoming more and more, there will be few crops.
     This will make more people hungry. Who wants to see such a bad thing happen? So people must
stop eating snakes. To protect snakes is to protect ourselves.
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案。
1. The writer thinks _____.
A. eating snake meat is helpful to our health
B. eating snake meat isn't bad for our health
C. eating snake meat is expensive
D. eating snake meat may be bad for our health
2. People sometimes serve about _____ tons of snakes in a day in Shenzhen.
A. 10
B. 365              
C. 3              
D. 100
3. Why does the writer say "To protect snakes is to protect ourselves"?
A. Because snake meat is good for our health.
B. Because we can use snake skin to make many beautiful shoes, bags and clothes.
C. Because eating snake meat is very popular now.
D. Because if snakes are becoming fewer and fewer, there will be few crops.
4. A butcher kills snakes to _____.
A. get snake meat and make more money
B. have pleasure 
C. eat meat and build him up
D. protect people
5. This will make more people hungry. This means _____.
A. Eating snakes                      
B. vicious circle  
C. Mice becoming more and more .        
D. There will be few crops

     The earth is our home; we must take care of it. This means keeping the land, air and water clean.
Pollution is a dirty word. To pollute means to make things unfit or unclean to use. Pollution comes in
many ways. We see it, smell it, taste it and drink it. Pollution is beginning to threaten (威脅) our health,
our happiness and our life.
     Man has been polluting the earth from the time he first made fire, washed his clothes in the river and
threw his waste on the ground. When land was used up or water became dirty, men moved on to another
place. At first, the problem was not so serious because there was plenty of clean air, land and water.
There weren't so many people then and their wants were fewer. All the dirty things could be absorbed
(吸收) by nature and soon covered over. But this is no longer true. The increase of population and the
development of industry(工業(yè))have changed that. Man is slowly poisoning (毒害) his environment.
     Through the use of poison, man has polluted the land, killing the animals. By putting dirty water and
chemicals into rivers and lakes we have polluted our drinking water, killing the fish.
     Our increasing population is part of the problem. More people, more waste.
     Where is this all to end? Are we turning the world into a big rubbish dump (堆存處), or is there any
hope that we can get rid of (擺脫, 除去) the pollution? Luckily, millions of people have been warned of
the danger of pollution. Large numbers of people are now working hard to bring pollution under control.
1. Which of the following sentences is NOT true according to the passage?
A. We live on the earth, so we should look after it.
B. To pollute means to make air, water and land unfit for use.
C. All the waste produced by modern industry can be absorbed.
D. Man is now fighting against different kinds of pollution.
2. In this passage the word "chemicals" means ______.
A. 化學(xué)
B. 化學(xué)物質(zhì)
C. 化學(xué)的
D. 醫(yī)學(xué)的
3. Through the uncontrolled use of poison man has ______.
A. made the drinking water dirty
B. polluted the land
C. killed the animals
D. all of the above
4. From the sentences "More people, more waste", we know that ______.
A. because of the increase of population and the development of industry, more and more waste is
     produced
B. we need more people, not more waste
C. there isn't any hope that we can get rid of the pollution
D. more people have been warned of the danger of more waste
5. From the passage we can know that now man ______.
A. doesn't know how to control pollution
B. still doesn't realize how serious pollution is
C. is doing something to control pollution
D. begins to understand the pollution

       It’s very important that we all recycle (再利用). In nature, everything ___26___ again. For example, when an animal dies, it becomes ___27____ animal’s food. Nothing is wasted. But humans have created things like plastic bags ___28___ can’t be broken down by nature. Our rubbish kills animals and __29___ water and soil. ___30___ we continue making too much rubbish, the problem will only get worse. If naturecan’t reuse the rubbish, we must recycle __31__.
       We should clean up the rubbish we’ve made because nature can’t.
       Recycling is also the right thing to do for another reason. The earth is rich in natural materials like water and trees, __32 __ these materials are not endless. We use up our natural materials much _ _33 __ than the earth is able to reproduce them. For example, each year we cut __34 __ more that 6,000 square miles of forest. But it takes an average of 25 years for a new tree __35__.
        Recycling can help us save the earth, so let’s take action right now.
26. A. use                B. using               C. is used            D. used
27. A. another          B. other              C. others             D. the other
28. A. who               B. which             C. how                D. where
29. A. pollutes          B. polluted          C. polluting          D. is polluted
30. A. When            B. Whether         C. Why               D. If
31. A. them              B. their                C. it                    D. itself
32. A. but                 B. so                   C. and               D. or
33. A. fastly              B. fast                 C. taster             D. fastest
34. A. out                 B. down              C. in                   D. up
35. A. grows            B. for growing      C. growing         D. to grow

         What do you do to get pocket money from your parents? In Western countries, many children do
housework to get pocket money. They usually start to do this at 10 years old.
         School students have to do homework and study for tests. They don't have a lot of free time in the week.
They often do housework at the weekend.
         Young kids only do easy housework. So they don't get much money. But that's all right. Many of them
only want to buy candy. And candy is cheap! They help wash up after dinner and feed the family cat or dog.
         When they get older, kids want to buy more and more thing. They want things that are more expensive
than candy. Then they have to work harder! They often wash the family car, cut the grass, walk the dog or
cook dinner. It is really a good way for kids to learn to do some new things. Of course, their parents will help
them learn something at first. For example, parents often teach them how to cook before they can.

1. What does "pocket money" means in this passage?

A. 口袋里的錢
B. 零花錢
C. 錢包
D. 儲(chǔ)錢罐