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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中。
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It was at least two months before Christmas when nine year old Almie Ro told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle. As Christmas drew nearer, her desire for a bicycle emed to fade, or so we thought. We bought the latest rage, Baby Sitter's Club dolls, and a doll hou. Then, much to our surpri, on December 23rd, she said that she “really wanted a bike more than anything el.” It was just too late , what with all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last minute gifts, to take the time to lect the “right bike” for our little girl. So, here we were Christmas Eve around 9:, with Almie and her six-year-old brother, Dylan, nestled snug in their beds. Now we could only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child.” What if I make a little bicycle out of clay (泥)
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and write a note that she could trade the clay model in for a real bike?” her dad asked. “This is an expensive item and she is ‘such a big girl,' it would be much better for her to pick it out.” So he spent the next four hours painstakingly working with clay to make a tiny bike. On Christmas morning, we were excited for Almie to open the little hear shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Finally, she opened it and read the note aloud. “Does this mean that I trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?” Beaming, I said, “Yes.” Almie had tears in her eyes when she replied, “I could never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made me. I'd rather keep this than get a real bike.” At that moment, we would have moved heaven and earth to buy her every bicycle on the planet!
56 Choo the right time order of the following events.
a The girl asked for a new bike.
b The girl opened the little heart shaped package.
c The parents bought the girl a modern and popular doll.
d The father made the girl a bike with clay.
e The girl would rather keep the clay bike than get a real one .
A a, b, c, e, d
B a, c, d, b, e
C a, c, b, d, e
D a, b, d, c, e
57 Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A The parents wanted the girl to have the clay bike for ever.迷迷糊糊的意思
B Tears were in the girl's eyes becau she didn't like the prent at all.
C The girl never lost her desire for a bike.
D The parents paid little attention to the daughter's desire for a bike.
58 Why did Dad make the clay bicycle?
A He wanted his daughter to buy a real one .
B He didn't want to disappoint his daughter.
C He thought his daughter would like it .
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D He wanted to give his daughter a surpri.
59rdl What can be inferred from the last ntence?
A The parents were happy and encouraged.
B The parents felt comfortable and relaxed.
C The parents were moved and felt proud of the girl.
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D The parents felt disappointed and sorry for the girl.
B
Disposing (处理bluecoat)of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choo to live clo together in cities, the waste disposal problem becomes in-creasingly difficult. During the eighteenth century, it was usual for veral neighboring towns to get together to lect a faraway spot as a dump site. Residents or trash haulers(垃圾拖运者) would transport houhold rubbish, rotted wood, and old posssions to the site. Periodically some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried. The unpleasant sights and smells caud no problem becau nobody lived clo by. Factories, mills, and other industrial sites also had waste to be dispod of. Tho located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted remains into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem. Several facts make the choices unacceptable to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps, which are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpo. Property is either too expensive or too clo to residential neighborhoods. Long distance trash hauling has been a common practice, but once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elwhere, cheap land within trucking distance
of major city areas is almost nonexistent. Awareness (意识) of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers, ground water, land and air is a price people cannot longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste, however, continues to grow.
Recycling efforts have become commonplace, and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs, however, can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a city's reusable waste.
60 The most suitable title for this passage would be .
A Places for Disposing Waste
B Waste Pollution Dangers
C a perfect indianWays of Getting Rid of Waste
D Waste Disposal Problem
61 During the 18th century, people dispod their waste in many ways EXCEPT for .
A burying it
B recycling it
C burning it
D throwing it into rivers
62 What can be inferred from the fourth paragraph?
A Farm areas accept waste from the city in modern society.
B匈牙利语 There is cheap land to bury waste in modern society.
C It is difficult to find space to bury waste in modern society.
D Ways to deal with waste in modern society stay the same.
63 The main purpo of writing this article is to .
A draw people's attention to waste management
B warn people of the pollution dangers we are facing
C call on people to take part in recycling programs
D tell people a better way to get rid of the waste
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You are standing under the most famous neon lights in the centre of London, waiting to cross the road. Suddenly the traffic stops. You hear the distant sounds of cheering, clapping and shouting. Then, like a multi-colored train, 2, 000 people with wheels on their feet zoom past you .You have just witnesd the London Skate, a twice weekly roller-skate event that attracts people in their hundreds and thousands London Skate is a completely free tour of the streets of London—the only condition is that you go along on roller-skates. It lasts between two and three hours and by the end of it you have skated between 10 and 12 miles.
