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组合训练
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一、完形填空
A
zero-waste
life
is
a
lifestyle
that
hardly
creates
any
rubbish.
So,
a
zero-waste
theme
store
is
about
1
people
with
a
number
of
everyday,
practical
and
pleasant
zero-waste
products
to
help
them
start
on
a
one-stop,
zero-waste life
journey.
waste
or
was
first
2
by
a
French
woman
Bea
Johnson.
a
life
and
try
not
to
create any
rubbish; use different methods to protect the
earth.
Y
u Yuan, 27, is
3
attracted by this idea.
She and her boyfriend have lived in
Beijing for many years. And earlier she used to
be. a customer without
thinking a lot.
4
she saw a video about
The
5
is
about a family of four, and the rubbish they
produce every year is placed in a jar.
After watching the video, Yu wanted to
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this zero-waste lifestyle
with her boyfriend.
Y
u
says that a zero-waste life
7
the 6R principle --Refuse, Reduce,
Reuse, Repair, Recycle and Rot.
Over August-October when Yu followed
the principle of zero waste 6R, she and her
boyfriend Joe Harvey
both
8
only two cans of rubbish.
Now, the couple have opened a small
9
called The Bulk House in Nanluoguxiang,
Beijing, to support a
zero-waste life.
At the store they use environmentally
friendly products. For example, they use wood
products to replace
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ones and prepare cloth bags printed
with zero-waste logos for customers. Most of the
products sold in the store can
be
reused, and a small number of
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which are not recyclable can
degrade
（分解）
. The store
12
has
secondhand
books and audio-visual CD/DVDs.
For
used
toiletries
(things
like
soap
and
toothpaste
that
are
used
for
cleaning
yourself)
there
is
a
company
which accepts them, and the couple
regularly mails their waste to it.
Y
u says that those who were
once not
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in the zero-
waste lifestyle have gradually changed because of
curiosity. The zero-waste lifestyle,
she adds, is for everyone.
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us at our fingertips.
15
her on the
road to zero waste. As
the saying goes,
many hands make light work.
（
）
1. A. offering
（
）
2. A. invented
（
）
3.
A. hardly
（
）
4.
A. unless
B. providing
B. found
C. giving
D.
affording
C. discovered
D.
suggested
B. luckily
C. clearly
D.
deeply
B. until
C.
after
D. when
（
）
5. A. video
B. film
C. article
（
）
6. A.
experience
（
）
7.
A. accepts
D. newspaper
B. change
C.
represent
D. spend
B.
receives
C. follows
D. believes
（
）
8. A. saved
B. produced
C. kept
D.
wasted
（
）
9.
A. shop
B.
factory
C.
hotel
D. company
（
）
10. A. paper
B. cloth
C.
silk
D. plastic
（
）
11. A. it
B. them
C. their
D. its
（
）
12. A. too
B. either
C.
also
D. only
（
）
13. A. proud
B. worried
C. amazed
D. interested
（
）
14. A. behind
B. around
C.
ahead
D. above
（
）
15. A. organize
B. record
C.
join
D. encourage
二、阅读理解
A
“Can I borrow the car, Dad?”
“Not until you finish
mowing(
除
) the
lawn.”
“But I have to
go to work!”
Sounds
familiar?
It
would
to
an
American
teenager-----
a
job,
a
car,
spending money,
walking
the
dog
and
mowing
the
lawn.
This
isn’t
just
the
boring
life
of
middle
age
but,
in
fact,
this
is
the
life
of
many
American
teenagers.
In the US, it is common for
kids as young as 14 to hold part-time jobs. They
might save up their money to
buy a car
and, at 16, actually drive it. But this kind of
independence(
独立
) isn’t
always fun. US kids need to take
care
of themselves and their younger brothers and
sisters so that they are ready to live alone.
The average age of a high
school graduate in the US is 17. Traditionally, a
US student graduates in June and
moves
out of his or her parents’ house by September. Of
course, one must be ready for this. With a
rel
atively small
amount of
homework, US high school students have more time
for working and learning adult responsibilities(
责
任
).
Is
it better to live this way? It’s good to cook for
oneself and do laundry, but US students don’t
study enough.
While American kids are
working, Chinese and Indian students are studying.
The truth is, whatever you do now, you
will never feel ready to be an adult.
（
）
does the
conversation at the beginning of the passage
suggest?
A. American teenagers need to
do housework at home.
B. American
teenagers won’t drive cars unless they finish
their housework.
C. American
teenagers must make money to support their
families.
an teenagers wouldn’t do
housework if they have part
-time jobs.
（
）
age do US kids
usually start to have part-time jobs?
A. At the age of 13
C. At the age of 16
B. At the age
of 14
D. At the age of 17
（
）
do US high
school students traditionally do after graduating
in June?
A. Try to buy their own cars
C. Go to find a full-time job
B. Mov
e out of their
parents’ house
D. Find a
part-time job
（
）
does the writer want to tell through the story?
A. It’s better for kids to be
independent from an early age.
B. American kids love having part-time
jobs.
C. American kids have enough time
to study.
D. It’s not all good for
American kids to be independent early.
（
）
can be the
best title for the article?
A. American
kids’ lives.
C. The independence of
American kids
B. Part-time
jobs and full-time jobs
D. American
kids’ part
-time jobs
B
British people have always been good at
saying “I’m sorry”. They used to be so good at it
that they would
apologize(
道歉
)for
things that weren’t even their fault.
However, the British seem to be losing
touch with their art. According to a new book by
British writer Max
Davidson,
instead
of
saying
“I’m
sorry”
when
they
do
something
wrong,
British
people
prefer
to
choose
their
words carefully.
In this
book,
Sorry... The Hardest Word and How
to use it
, Davidson writes about a
number of recent apologies.
One example
is of British television host Jeremy Clarkson. He
described Gordon Brown, the UK prime
minister(
首
相
), as
“a one
-eyed Scottish
idiot(
笨蛋
)”. (Brown is blind
in his left eye)
Clarkson
was forced to
apologize. He said: “In
the heat of the moment, I made a
remark(
评论
)about the prime
minister. Now I apologize of
reflection.” Davidson says the apology was just
“going through the motions(
做表面文
< br>章
)”.
Clarkson
is
not
the
only
one.
The
best
example
may
come
from
the
UK
MP(
议员
)Tessa
Jowell.
She
said
publicly: “If you feel our government
falls short of what you expect, then I say sorry
for that.”
Jowell said
“sorry”. But she is actually saying it’s not the
government’s fault but the voters’ fault for
expecting
too much from the government.
Perhaps those people with influence
feel they may lose too much by apologizing. But as
a teenager, would you
really want to
lose a close friend, just because you couldn’t say
something as simple as, “I’m sorry”? That would be
hard to forgive.
（
）
6.
Who was the
improper description “a
one
-
eyed Scottish idiot”
used to describe?
A. Max
Davidson
B. Jeremy Clarkson
C.
Gordon Brown
D. Tessa Jowell
（
）
does the underlined
sentence in the second paragraph mean?
A. The British are still good at
apologizing.
B. The British like to say
sorry for everything they have done.
C.
The British say “I’m sorry” in a different way
now.
D. The British lose too
much by saying “sorry”.
（
）
wrote the book
called
Sorry...The Hardest Word and How
to Use it
?
A.
Max Davidson
Clarkson
C. Gordon Brown
D. Tessa Jowell
（
）
9.
How was Clarkson’s apology according to
the story?
A. Sincere
B. Friendly
C.
Rude
D. Untrue
（
）
10. What does
the story mainly tell us?
A. British
people used to be polite and kind.
B.
British people like to go through the motions.
C. British people choose their words
carefully to apologize now.
D. British
people are expecting too much from the government.
C
If you grow up in
America
，
you must
know this little foodie
（美食家）
rhyme
．
all scream for ice
cream!
，
the
phrase
．
Ice
cream is the oldest fashioned
treat
，
and it has
an ancient history
．
The emperors of the Tang Dynasty
（
618
﹣
907
AD
）
are believed
to have been the first to eat
﹣
like dessert
，
which was made
with milk heated with flour
．
Later
，
camphor
（樟脑）
was
added to improve
the
taste
．