完形填空 The earth is our home. We must take care of it. Life today is easier than it was _1 years ago, but it has brought some new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. We can see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it. Man has polluted the 2 . The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so 3 people. When the land was used up (月光) or the river was not clean in a place, man went to 4 place. Now man is slowly polluting the whole world. 5 pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad for 6 things in the world. Many countries don’t let people burn 7 _ for air in houses and factories in the city. Pollution by SO2 is now the most dangerous kind or air pollution. It’s caused by (由……引起) heavy traffic. People say it’s 8 to ride bikes. When you are riding, there is no pollution. But even in developed countries, most people don’t go to work by bike. It’s not because bikes are expensive or people are tired if they ride to work. It’s because the number of cars on the roads becomes larger. So more people 9 their bikes and go to work by car, then things are getting worse and worse. We should have special roads only for bikes and make it 10 difficult and expensive to take their cars into the city that they will go back to using their bikes. ( ) 1. A. hundred B. hundreds of C. hundred of D. hundreds ( ) 2. A. moon B. star C. earth D. sun ( ) 3. A. lot B. little C. many D. much ( ) 4. A. others B. the others C. the other D. another ( ) 5. A. Air B. Food C. Water D. Noise ( ) 6. A. life B. live C. living D. lives ( ) 7. A. something bad B. bad something C. something good D. Good something ( ) 8. A. least B. best C. most D. worst ( ) 9. A. put on B. look at C. put away D. look up ( ) 10. A. quite B. such C. very D. so Key: 1—5 B C C D A 6—10 B A B C D 阅读理解 (A) It’s so beautiful outside that spending the day in the office would be very boring. So why not take the vacations off? A new survey (调查) found that 31﹪of U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days. Americans have 12 vacation days on average (平均) each year, but they give back an average of 3 vacation days each year. So why don’t they use up their vacation days? Some say they would rather get money back for their unused days; some busy workers say they just can’t leave their work. Americans have fewer vacation days than workers in any other country surveyed. The French take their vacations seriously. French workers get an average of 39 vacation days, and 40﹪ plan to take at least one there-to-four-week vacation. Workers in Sweden receive an average of 25 vacation days a year, but they can’t find time to use them all. More workers there return vacation days than any other country surveyed. British workers have the longest working week in Europe (欧洲), with 23 vacation days --the shortest vacation. So they feel overworked.75﹪ say their weekends or vacations are too short and 40﹪ would sa ... ...
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