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浙江省绍兴市柯桥区孙端镇中学2015-2016学年八年级上学期英语期中考试试卷

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    Almost every Chinese person can recite(背诵) the two lines of the famous poem, "Every grain on the plate comes from hard work". But sadly, many of us don't actually get the real meaning of these lines: Don't waste food.

    A CCTV program reported that the food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year. Do we have too much food? Absolutely not. According to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2013, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.

    Chinese people are well-known for being friendly and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table. Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. What should we do in our daily lives to waste less food?

    ⒈ Don't order too much in a restaurant. Only order as much as you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.

    ⒉ Don't leave any food in your bowls while having meals.

    ⒊ Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don't buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.

(1)、What's the real meaning of the underlined sentence?
A、春种一粒粟,秋收万颗籽。 B、谁知盘中餐,粒粒皆辛苦。 C、吏禄三百石,岁晏有余粮。 D、足蒸暑土气,背灼炎天光。
(2)、What should we do to waste less food?
A、Order more food in a restaurant.    B、Every time you eat, leave some food in your bowls. C、Take all the food you ordered home. D、Don't store too much food like vegetables and fruit.
(3)、Which of the following is NOT true?
A、A number of people have realized the importance of saving food. B、The food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year. C、200 million children die of hunger every year. D、Many Chinese feel that they lose face if guests have eaten all the food on the table.     
(4)、What's the main idea of this passage?
A、Don't waste food. B、Chinese people are friendly and generous. C、We can't die of hunger. D、Every grain is grown by farmers.
举一反三
Rivers are one of our most important natural resources(资源). Many of the world's great cities are located on rivers, and almost every country has at least one river running through it that plays an important part in the lives of its people.
Since the beginning of history, people have used rivers for transportation. The longest one in the United States is the Mississippi. The lifeline of Egypt is the Nile. To the people of India, the Ganges is great, but it is also important for transportation; ships can travel along it for a thousand miles. Other great rivers are the Congo in Africa and the Mekong in southeastern Asia. The greatest of all for navigation(航海), however, is the Amazon in Brazil(巴西). It is so wide and so deep that large ships can go about two thousand miles up it.
Besides transportation, rivers give food to eat, water to drink, water for crops, and chances for fun. In order to increase the supply(供给) of water for crops, engineers sometimes build a dam (大坝)across a river and let a lake form behind the dam. Then people can use the water not only to irrigate(灌溉) their fields but also to make electricity for their homes and industries.
However, large cities and industries that are located on rivers often cause problems. As the cities grow in size and industries increase in number, the water in the rivers becomes polluted with chemicals and other materials. People are learning the importance, however, of doing more to keep their rivers clean if they want to enjoy the benefits of these natural resources.

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    ChaiJing, who worked for China Central Television (CCTV) from 2001 to 2013 as a TV reporter made a documentary(纪录片) named under the Dome (穹顶之下)to educate the public about smog. It is released(发行)online on March 1st, 2015.

    In the opening of the documentary, Chai tells the story of her daughter with a begin tumor (良性肿瘤)before her birth. “ I couldn't help worrying while seeing the polluted sky in Beijing,” she says. She only took her daughter outside when the air in Beijing was good. The rest of the time she had to keep her at home like a “prisoner(囚犯)”. And there were175 polluted days in 2014 in Beijing.

    In the  documentary, Chai had an interview with a six-year-old girl, WangHuiqin, who live in Shanxi Province, a heavily polluted area in China. The girl told Chai that she had never seen stars, blue skies or white clouds in her village.

    Chai also went to London and Los Angeles, which had both suffered air pollution in the past, to learn how they had improved their environment.

    Chai spent one year making this 103-minute film, which cost her over 1 million yuan. In the documentary, Chai tries to answer three questions. They are “ What is smog”, “ Where does it come from?” and “What should people do?” And she calls on everyone to get into the fight against smog.

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What is smog? Where does it come from? What should people do?

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    Trees are one of the oldest " citizens (公民) " of our Earth. They keep our air clean, reduce noise pollution, improve water quality and provide food and building materials.

    Just like us, trees change a lot as they grow. At 1 to 3 years old, young trees learn how to protect themselves. For example, many trees grow thorns( 刺) to warn animals not to go near. Most young trees have large, deep green leaves so that they can catch enough sunlight and change it into their food and energy.

    When trees are 4 years old, they begin to grow very rapidly and become strong enough to face challenges later in life. At the age of 15, trees become young adults. They grow more slowly and begin to produce flowers and fruit.

    It is not until the tree is 20 to 25 years old that it becomes a real adult. The tree reaches its largest size. The adult tree gives us shade, oxygen and natural beauty; it is also a great place for a tree house, or a place for us to read a book, listen to music and so on. If we give the adult tree proper care, it will go on to live healthily for many years.

    Gradually, trees begin to grow older and older and even die. At this time, they still have their important place in nature. When a tree becomes hollow (空心的) or part of it becomes dead, it provides a home to small animals and is a source of food for many other animals.

    In many ways, the life of a tree is similar to our own life experience. When we are looking at the life of a tree, we learn about that each period of life brings its own form of joy and challenge.

    Enjoy every minute of the life of the trees and take care of the trees!

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    Caterpillars (毛虫) are often used as fish bait (鱼饵). However, the creatures may get a better life — they are now setto join the war on plastic wastes.

    Federica Bertocchini isa Spanish scientist. When she's not working in her lab, Bertocchini keeps bees.One day, when she looked at her hives(蜂箱), she found dozens of caterpillars called waxworms(蜡虫). These insects are often used to feed fish. In the wild, however,they live in beehives, feeding on the wax that bees use to build theirhoneycombs(蜂巢). Bertocchini picked out the caterpillarsand put them in a plastic bag. Surprisingly, when she returned to the bag aftercleaning out the hives, she found it full of holes. The worms had eaten theirway out.

    Bertocchini came up withan interesting question: Were the waxworms digesting(消化) the plastic? Then she got in touch with peersat the University of Cambridge, Paolo Bombelli and Christopher Howe. Accordingto their paper in Current Biology, some chemical or combination of chemicalswithin the insects can really break down plastics.

    Bertocchini and hercolleagues discovered that it took a waxworm about 12 hours to eat up amilligram of plastic shopping bag. However, the scientists warned that it wouldbe at least several years before they release(释放) waxworms into the environment. They want to know if the insectsare using the plastic as a food, or just because they want to escape. If theyjust want to escape, they are going to get fed up very soon. But if they'reusing it as an energy source, it's a completely different game. Anotherquestion lies in the insects' feces(粪便). If the fecesturn out to be poisonous, then there will be little point in pursuing(追究) the matter.

    "It's certainly notgoing to be the case that within six months we've solved the world's plasticproblem," said Howe. "l wouldn't want people to think that within afew months, they can start throwing away plastic bags without worrying aboutit."

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