Fashion isn&#039;t very environmentally-friendly because it makes people buy things they don&#039;t need, just because they...

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Fashion isn't very environmentally-friendly because it makes people buy things they don't need, just because they're new. We want to take care of the environment, we don't want to pollute the air and we don't want to waste energy and resources. But we also want to be fashionable. How can we buy fashionable clothes and protect the environment?
Old styles are fashionable again, so one way is to buy second-hand clothes — recycled clothes. Another way is to buy fair trade clothes. These clothes are either recycled or made in a way that protects the environment. They also protect the people who make the clothes. Surprisingly, white cotton is one of the least environmentally-friendly crops of all. To protect the cotton, the growers use chemicals that pollute water, make farm workers ill and kill wildlife. New materials, such as hemp and bamboo, grow quickly and are more environmentally-friendly. These materials are very soft, and look fantastic. The best materials are coloured using natural dyes, made from plants.
Environmentally-friendly clothes are practical but until now they were often dull. Now fashion-designers are working with these materials and the clothes are beautiful as well. So now we can buy fashionable clothes that are also environmentally-friendly.

（1）、Why do people often buy things they don't need? Because ____________.

A、new things can be more comfortable B、everyone wants to be fashionable C、people are richer than before now D、people care about the environment

（2）、What's the topic for paragraph 2?

A、Recycled fashion. B、The problem with fashion. C、Fashion doesn't have to pollute. D、New materials.

（3）、Which of the following is more environmentally-friendly?

A、Materials soft and looking fantastic. B、Any materials coloured using natural dyes. C、Hemp and bamboo. D、White cotton.

（4）、Why are environmentally -friendly clothes more fashionable now? Because ___________.

A、people pay more attention to our environment B、environmentally-friendly clothes are practical C、all old styles become fashionable again D、fashion-designers are working to make them beautiful

（5）、What is the best title for the passage?

A、Cotton or Hemp and Bamboo? B、Environmentally-friendly Clothes C、Old Style, New Fashion Again D、Fashion and the Environment

举一反三

In the sea there are many islands. In its warm waters there are some little ones. We call them coral(珊瑚) islands.
A coral island is very nice to look at. It looks like a ring of land with trees, grass, and flowers on it. One part of the ring is open to the water. There is a little round lake inside the island.
If you look into this lake, you will see beautiful coral. You may think they are flowers.
If you look at a piece of coral, you will see many little holes in it. In each of these holes a very small sea animal has lived. These sea animals make the coral.
They began to build under the water. Year after year, the coral grew higher and higher. At last it grew out of the water.
Then the sea brought to it small trees and something else. After some years, these things changed into earth. Sometimes the wind brought seeds to this earth. Sometimes birds flew over it and brought seeds to the island. The little seeds grew. In a few years there were plants all over the island. In a few more years there were trees growing there.
So you see, these islands were built little by little. The workers were very small. Don't they teach us a lesson? Can you think what the lesson is?

   Today there are 6 billion people on the earth. By the year 2050 there may be 12.5 billion. There will be a lot of people to feed. We need more food.
   One way to produce more food is by growing stronger plants. For thousands of years, farmers have made plants better. Every season, they pick the best plants for the next season. It works very slowly. Since 1983, scientists have been able to change plants more quickly by changing their genetic material(遗传物质). Foods from plants grown in this way are called genetically modified foods(转基因食品), or GM foods.
   By changing the genetic material of a plant, it is possible to make new plants. They make plants which are strong against plant diseases. They can also help in our diseases: a kind of rice is being prepared, for example, which stops people from becoming blind.
   Rich countries produce GM foods because they are easy to grow and bring in more money. Poor countries are interested in them because they help produce more food.
   GM plants are not natural. No one knows how good or bad they are. Making GM foods is only one way of feeding people in 2050. There are strong feelings against them, because they are unnatural. They may feed people, then hurt them or their children later. But, both rich and poor countries are very interested in their use, and they are not going to go away. In 2050 we may think differently about them.

选词填空

chances / changes / remind / running away from / belonging to / records / while

Music will take you away from all the stress for a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Country is simple music from the southern states of America. It was the traditional music of the American countryside. Many country music songs are about {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a group, the lives of farmers. They {#blank#}3{#/blank#} us that the best things in life are free —laughter, friends, family, and the beauty of nature and the countryside. In the 1920s, country songs were played on the radio and were made into {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. In recent years, many musicians have made country music a little different from the one in the past. These {#blank#}5{#/blank#} make the songs sound even better.

A.用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。每词限用一次。

die enter exhibition among twelve

Many people are interested in Egypt as it has a long history but it is quite far away. This year, one of the most popular {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is on in Shanghai Museum. It takes you to travel through time and space into the world of Ancient Egypt. The {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to the museum is free, but the show about the Egypt charges about 150yuan. Still it gets so popular that it's hard to book a ticket.

"{#blank#}3{#/blank#} all of the Pharaohs(法老们), Pharaoh Amenemhat III impresses me most. He is the king of the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} dynasty(王朝) and he is successful and hard- working. While he was {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, he still thought about his country and people. Anyway, I get to know the magical land better after seeing the show. It is worth visiting." Said Emma, a college student.

请阅读下面的短文，并从下列方框里的六个句子中选择五个还原到原文中，使原文意思完整、连贯。

A.Here's one man's story about test stress.

B.Then he rode on a horse through Chang'an City,writing a poem

C.Meng Jiao loves writing poems but he is poor

D.You worry that you won't know the right answer.

E.Meng Jiao's poem tells about his feelings.

F.During his ride, Meng Jiao wrote a poem.

Tests can be stressful.You worry that you haven't studied enough. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}You worry that you do know the answer but will still get it wrong on the test.Tests have been stressing people out for thousands of years.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}

During the Tang Dynasty there lived a talented poet named Meng Jiao.who was born to a poor family. Writing poetry was not a good paying job at that time. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} He realized this had to change and decided to take the Ke Ju exams,which were open for anyone.Meng Jiao studied hard for the tests and took them several times.Each time,he failed,but he never gave up.Finally,when he was 46 years old, Meng Jiao passed the test! He was so happy that he put on new clothes and tied on red flowers to celebrate. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}In English,it is"Horseback riding fast through the spring breeze( 微风 ) ,while seeing all the flowers of Chang'an in one day."

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} It tells of the excited feelings of seeing all of Chang'an City in a day.On that day,he was able to let go of the disappointments of the past.The poem became famous and was passed down through the years.

德国友好学校的同学们来你校(No.1 Middle School) 访学。假设你是本校初一年级学生李明，请你根据图中所提供的信息，写一篇英语短文来介绍自己。

注意：（1）文中不得出现真实姓名、学校等信息；（2）词数60左右；邮件的首尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear girls and boys,

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