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49. According to the passage, the way we eat shows A. our eating habits are changing B. habits can trouble our daily life C. we must eat healthy food every day D. different cultures have different habits 50. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. A survey about pet peeves. B. Ways to change pet peeves. C. Punishment for pet peeves. D. Examples about pet peeves.
. 51. According to the passage, when we visit a new place,
A. we need to buy some gifts for the best friends B. we should follow the habits of the people there
.
C. the local people can help you to find out good ideas D. the local people can serve us our favorite food and drinks
D
Your Hamburger Is Killing the Planet
A life decided to eat fruits and greens or one in which you enjoy juicy steak (牛排) and hamburgers, which do you prefer?
It is not a question of culture, it is not even a question of killing animals. Even a carrot dies when pulled out of the ground. It is a matter of the protection of the planet
because our meat eating habits might be stressing (给……压力) our ecological (生态 的) system.
It’s no longer ―might‖, we are destroying our planet.
Most of the meat that we eat comes from livestock, which is about 23 billion in population and causes the waste of our natural resources. Every second of every day one football field size rainforest is destroyed, and much of it is used to farm and raise livestock.
Raising the animals also requires huge quantities (量) of water, mostly to grow
the grains (谷物) fed to them. It takes over 2,000 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef, which can be used for a seven-minute shower every day for a minimums (最小量) of four months. Take your pick: four months without a shower or a hamburger.
Meat has to be cut, cleaned and processed. One doesn’t just buy a cow and start eating it. According to David Pimentel from Cornell University, it takes 20 times more energy to produce beef than tofu, and both have the same good sources of protein (蛋 白质).
The waste from the animals is one of the main causes of water and air pollution. The animal waste cannot be used in the fields because it can spread diseases to humans. In 1995, 25 million gallons of animal waste flowed into the New River in North Carolina, killing 10 million fish and destroying 364,000 acres of coastal (沿海 的) wetlands.
Animal farming also produces larger quantities of greenhouse (温室) gases, such as methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O). If your next Christmas is unusually hot or especially cold, blame the steak you ate the night before.
I am not saying that everybody needs to stop eating meat right this minute. I don’t think we can
produce enough corns, fruits, and vegetables. I am just saying we need to
cut our meat consumption (消费), 70 grams per day is okay if we want normal weather, clean air and drinking water.
52. According to the passage, our meat eating habits are a question of .
A. showing the culture
C. harming the plants
B. killing the animals D. protecting the planet
. 53. What does the word ―livestock‖ in Paragraph 4 probably mean A. the animals we feed
C. the supermarket near us
B. the farm growing the grains D. the factory producing meat . 54. From the passage, we can learn that A. animal waste should be used for planting B. we’re destroying the farm to raise animals C. animal farming produces greenhouse gases D. we use the same energy to produce beef and tofu 55. According to the passage, the writer thinks we should A. try our best to eat less meat every day B. only eat steak for our health next Christmas C. eat less vegetables for the clean air and water D. feed animals instead of planting enough plants
七、阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳 选项。每个选项只能用一次。（共 10 分，
每小题 2 分）
Chinese Calligraphy
What is calligraphy? It’s handwriting. Any language can be written in calligraphy, but Chinese calligraphy is especially beautiful. It takes a lot of patience and practice to
write Chinese calligraphy. 56 . During the lessons, they learn how to hold a brush. They also learn how to make different strokes (一笔) to make Chinese characters.
There are many different kinds of brushes people can buy to do calligraphy.
57 . But there is one kind of calligraphy brush that is extra special. This brush is made from baby hair! Hundreds of years ago in China, people started to believe a baby-hair brush was good luck. It is a tradition. 58 .
59 .To make a brush, a family will cut off a baby’s hair when he or she is about one month old. Then they will take some of the baby’s hair to a shop to be made into a brush. 60 . It takes more than 80 steps to make one brush. That’s why these brushes are such a treasure.
.
A. Making a brush is not easy
B. People take lessons to learn how to do it
C. Different brushes are made from different animals’ hair D. But no one is really sure where the tradition comes from E. Today people in Asia still have brushes made from baby hair
八、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共 10 分，每小题 2 分）
Television is one of the greatest technological inventions of the 20
th
century. A Scottish man called John Logie Baird invented it. Inventors in the USA and Europe were working on electronic television systems but Baird used a mechanical (机械的)
system. In 1925, he was able to send the first black and white picture – of the head of a doll – from one end of his flat to the other. He then used a local office boy, not the doll, and this teenager was the first person ever to appear on TV.
In January 1926, Baird invited scientists to his flat and showed them his invention. He called it a ―televisor‖. Later that year Baird started the world’s first TV station and gave it the name 2TV. In 1927, he sent images 730 kilometres from London to
Glasgow using telephone cables (电缆). A year later, his company sent the first
transatlantic (大西洋彼岸的) TV images from London to New York. Baird made the first television programmes for the BBC in 1929. These programmes had sound, not just pictures.
However, Baird’s system was very limited and basic (基本的). A totally electronic system was more popular and practical. The inventor of this electronic system was an American, Philo Farnsworth. In 1936, the BBC started using Farnsworth’s system because the picture was better than Baird’s.
More and more people had televisions after the Second World War. Colour TV began in the USA in the 1940s but only a small number of people had colour
televisions in their houses. They were very expensive. In Britain and the USA, the first regular (有规律的) colour TV programmes only began in 1967.
Now in the 21
st
century, we have digital television. TV has changed a lot since the face of a boy
appeared on TV in John Logie Baird’s flat!
61. Is television a great technological invention of the 20th century? 62. How far were the images sent from London to Glasgow in 1927? 63. Who invented the totally electronic system?
64. When did colour televisions go into their houses in America? 65. What is the passage mainly about?
九、文段表达（15 分） 书面表达（共 15 分）
66．根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50 词的文段写作。文中已给出内容不 计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选
用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。 假如你是李华，你们学校将要组织丰富多彩的课外活动。你打算邀请来你校
进行友好访问的英国朋友 Tom 参加。请用英语写一封电子邮件，告诉他活动的时 间和地点，要做什么，以及需要准备什么。
提示词语：Chinese cooking, basketball team, English corner, knife, practice, speak 提示问题：●When and where are you going to have the activity?
●What are you going to do?
●What do you advise Tom to prepare?