Passage A
Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarket? Things will change soon.
To protect(保护) the environment, supermarkets in China will stop providing (提供) free plastic bags after June 1st. If you don't want to pay money to buy them, you'll have to bring your own shopping bag.
What kind of bags will be the best to bring? Students in Kunming Xinying Middle School have some good ideas.
Recently 54 students of the school held an activity in which they made their own environmentally-friendly shopping bags.
Most students used old clothes to make their bags. They painted pictures like the Olympic rings on them.
But Wang Shuncheng, a Junior 2 boy, chose a different material (材料). He made his bag with old newspaper. Is a newspaper bag strong enough to hold shopping? Wang says it is, "No problem. I put six bottles of water in the bag," he said. "It's strong enough!"
Chen Lisi, a girl, had a more traditional way to make her bag – she weaved (编织) a bamboo basket. It was not an easy job. With her grandfather's help, Chen spent a whole afternoon making it. She also weaved wool (毛线) flowers on the basket.
Making bags was not all the students did. They had another job: to persuade their parents and relatives to use environmentally-friendly shopping bags instead of plastic ones. The school will show the bags so that shops and stores can get inspiration (灵感) from the students' work.
1. On June 2nd, if you don’t bring a shopping bag, ________ in the market.
A. you can get free plastic bags
B. you’ll have to pay for the plastic bags
C. you can’t buy anything
D. you can’t use plastic bags
2.From the passage, we can infer(推测) that ___________.
A. Plastic bags will not come into our life any more.
B. When you go shopping after June 2nd, you have to bring a shopping bag.
C. Plastic bags are bad for the environment.
D. No one will use plastic bags after June 2nd.
3. What does “persuade” in the last paragraph mean?
A. 劝说 B. 阻止 C. 保证 D. 反对
4. Supermarkets in China stop providing plastic bags because _________.
A. they want to save money
B. markets want to make more money
C. plastic bags are very expensive
D. they want to protect the environment
5. Which of the following is not right from the passage?
A. People may use other material to make shopping bags.
B. The students’ work may bring inspiration to the supermarkets.
C. You can’t use plastic bags in supermarkets any more after June 1st.
D. The newspaper bag made by Wang Shuncheng seems strong.
Passage B
I Want to Be a Dustman.
Tom was ten years old, and he was a very lazy boy, He didn't like doing any work. He had to go to school of course, but he didn't study hard there and tried to do as little work as possible. His father and mother were both doctors and they hoped that their son would become one, too, when he grew up. But one day Tom said to his mother, "When I finish school, I want to be a dustman."
"A dustman?" his mother asked, she was very surprised. "That's not a very pleasant job, why do you want to become a dustman?"
"Because then I would only have to work one day a week." Tom answered at once.
"Only one day a week?" his mother said, "What do you mean? And how do you
know?"
"Well", Tom replied, "I know that the dustmen who come to our house on work on Thursday, because I only see them on that day."
6. What kind of boy was Tom?
A. Tom was a clever boy.
B. Tom was a boy who didn't like to work.
C. Tom was a boy who worked very hard.
7. What were his father and mother?
A. His father was a doctor and his mother was a nurse.
B. His father was a worker, his mother was a doctor.
C. His father was a doctor, so his mother.
8. What did his parents want him to be when he grew up?
A. They wanted him to be a dustman.
B. They wanted him to be an officer.
C. They wanted him to be a doctor.
9. What did Tom say he wanted to be?
A .Tom said that he wanted to be a person who collected rubbish and emptied the dustbins.
B. Tom said that he wanted to be a person who taught the children at school.
C. Tom said that he wanted to be a person who worked in a hospital.
10. Why did Tom think that dustmen only worked one day a week?
A. Because Tom heard of this.
B. Because one of the dustmen had told him before.
C. Because Tom had seen the dustmen only on Thursday at his house.