Drinking Water: Bottled or From the Tap?
In America, people will include a case or two of bottled water when buying the week's groceries. When they are going to a soccer game or activity, it's common for them to grab a cold bottle of water out of the fridge with them.In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, about 29 billion bottles a year.
But all these plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment.In order to make all the 29 billion bottles, producers use 17 million barrels of crude oil, which is enough to keep a million cars going for 12 months.
So why don't people drink water straight from the tap? Some people have a strong belief that bottled water is better than water out of the tap, but that's not necessarily true.In the US, the local governments make sure water from the tap is safe.There is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may go into the water.
People love the convenience of bottled water.But maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a reusable steel container instead of plastic.
Some argue that plastic bottle recycling can help.Recycled bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or clothing.Unfortunately, only one in six bottles is recycled.The rest make it to landfills(垃圾填埋場(chǎng))or end as trash in other places.Plastic bottles take hundreds of years for them to disintegrate
Water is important for you, so keep drinking it.But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change.
And yes, you can make a difference.Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.

  1. 1.

    Why do Americans prefer bottled water?

    1. A.
      Bottled water is better than water from the tap.
    2. B.
      Bottled water is cheaper than water from the tap.
    3. C.
      Bottled water contains beneficial chemicals in it.
    4. D.
      Bottled water is more convenient than water from the tap.
  2. 2.

    What does the underlined word "disintegrate" in the fifth paragraph probably mean______.

    1. A.
      Be well recycled.
    2. B.
      Become less poisonous.
    3. C.
      Break into small pieces.
    4. D.
      Go down below a surface.
  3. 3.

    The author's intention of writing this passage is to recommend Americans______.

    1. A.
      drink more water from the tap
    2. B.
      send plastic bottles to landfills
    3. C.
      use water bottles to power light bulls
    4. D.
      buy bottles filled with water from the tap
DCA
試題分析:本文主要講述了在美國(guó)太多的人使用瓶裝水,導(dǎo)致裝水的塑料瓶被大量使用,帶來了很大的環(huán)境污染。而直接飲用從水龍頭里出來的水就沒有這樣的問題,故本文是為了建議人們多使用自來水。
1.D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第四段People love the convenience of bottled water.說明人們喜歡瓶裝水,是因?yàn)樗芊奖銛y帶,故D項(xiàng)正確。
2.C 推理題。根據(jù)本句Plastic bottles take hundreds of years for them to disintegrate.可知講述的是塑料瓶需要很長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間才能分解成無毒的物質(zhì),故C正確。
3.A 主旨大意題。本文主要講述了在美國(guó)太多的人使用瓶裝水,導(dǎo)致裝水的塑料瓶被大量使用,帶來了很大的環(huán)境污染。而直接飲用從水龍頭里出來的水就沒有這樣的問題,故本文是為了建議人們多使用自來水。故A正確。
考點(diǎn):考查環(huán)保類短文閱讀
點(diǎn)評(píng):本文主要講述了在美國(guó)太多的人使用瓶裝水,導(dǎo)致裝水的塑料瓶被大量使用,帶來了很大的環(huán)境污染。而直接飲用從水龍頭里出來的水就沒有這樣的問題,故本文是為了建議人們多使用自來水。測(cè)試考生在閱讀基礎(chǔ)上的邏輯推理能力,要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系,對(duì)未說明的趨勢(shì)或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷;或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點(diǎn)理論,對(duì)文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋?忌紫纫屑(xì)閱讀短文,完整了解信息,準(zhǔn)確把握作者觀點(diǎn)。
練習(xí)冊(cè)系列答案
相關(guān)習(xí)題

科目:高中英語 來源:江蘇省宿遷市2010屆高三下學(xué)期第二次模擬考試試題(英語) 題型:閱讀理解


The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
From its opening lines – “ ‘You my lucky piece,’ Grandma says.... Her hand is wrapped around mine” – Heidi W. Durrow pulls us into her first novel, a moving story encircling us as firmly as that protective grandmotherly grip.
When we meet Rachel Morse, the daughter of an African-American GI and a Danish woman, she is just moving into the Portland, Oregon., home of her strong-minded paternal grandmother and her warm, classy Aunt Loretta. We soon learn that Rachel has survived a fall from a nine-story apartment building in which her mother, brother, and baby sister all died. Three months earlier, Rachel’s mother had left her alcoholic husband in Germany, following her “orange-haired” lover to Chicago. But Nella hadn’t been prepared for boyfriend’s drinking and racism, or for the looks and questions she gets as the mother of three brown children.
Rachel’s “new-girl feeling” in her grandmother’s home goes beyond her recent tragedy. Having grown up with a Scandinavian mother in the more colorblind society of an overseas Army base, this is her first time in a mostly black community. Her light-brown skin, “fuzzy” hair, and blue eyes raise questions about her racial identity that are entirely new and puzzling to her.
Starting sixth grade in her new school, Rachel notes, “There are fifteen black people in the class and seven white people. And there’s me. There’s another girl who sits in the back. Her name is Carmen LaGuardia, and she has hair like mine, my same color skin, and she counts as black. I don’t understand how, but she seems to know.” Several years later, in high school, her status remains uncertain. “They call me an Oreo. I don’t want to be white. Sometimes I want to go back to being what I was. I want to be nothing.”
Winner of the Bellwether Prize, created by Barbara Kingsolver to celebrate fiction that addresses issues of social injustice, “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” comes at a time when bi-racial and multicultural identity – so markedly represented by President Obama – is especially topical.
But set in the 1980s and focusing on one unusually sympathetic girl overcoming family tragedy and feeling her way through racial tensions, Durrow’s novel surpasses topicality.
Like Rachel, Durrow is the light-brown-skinned, blue-eyed daughter of a Danish mother and an African-American father enlisted in the Air Force. With degrees from Stanford, Columbia Journalism School, and Yale Law School, it’s no wonder she gives her heroine discipline and brains.
Rachel’s life, however, is clearly not Durrow’s. No, there’s alcohol and drug addiction; deaths by fire, trauma, and infection. There are mothers who lose their children, and a saintly drug counselor who loses his beloved girl-friend. Through it all, what makes Durrow’s novel soar is her masterful sense of voice, her assured, delicate handling of complex racial issues – and her heart.
After hearing the blues music for the first time, Rachel feels what her mother called hyggeligt – “something like comfort and home and love all rolled into one.” She wonders what might have happened if her mother had known about such soulful music, “that sometimes there’s a way to take the sadness and turn it into a beautiful song.”
This, of course, is precisely what Durrow has done in this powerful book: taken sadness and turned it into a beautiful song.
60. What should be the direct cause of Rachel coming to Portland, Oregon?
A. Her mother left her alcoholic father.
B. A deadly tragedy happened to her family.
C. Her grandmother wants her to come and stay with her.
D. There was too much racism where she used to live with her mother.
61. Durrow’s life is different from Rachel’s in that _____________.
A. Durrow has to struggle through her life, depending on herself.
B. Durrow is troubled in her life by racism, living in a poor neighborhood.
C. Durrow has come through life much easier, with a better family background.
D. There’s alcohol and drug addiction in Durrow’s suffering-laden neighborhood.
62. Why does the writer of the book review mention President Obama in this writing?
A. To show the progress in America’s black community.
B. To highlight the racial harmony in the United States.
C. To indicate Obama’s influence in helping Durrow win the Bellwether Prize.
D. To remind readers of the background when the novel was written and won the Bellwether Prize.
63. The blues music Rachel hears is, deep at the bottom of her heart, most suggestive of ______.
A. bravery          B. hope           C. sadness         D. beauty

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英語 來源:2010年高考英語試題分類匯編——人物傳記類閱讀理解 題型:閱讀理解

閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中,選出最佳選項(xiàng),并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。
 
F . Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24,1896, an American novelist, w  as once a student of St.Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary :“ My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925,which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection lf short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. while his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
56. How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage ?
A. 5            B. 6            C. 7               D. 8
57. Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St.Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
A.f-c-e-a-b-d       B. b-e-a-f-c-d        C. f-d-e-c-b-a      D. b-f-c-d-e-a
58. We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald            .
A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.
B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down
D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
59. The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about          .
A. Zelda’s personal life
B. Zelda’s illness and treatment
C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham
D. Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英語 來源:2011屆重慶八中上學(xué)期高三第一次月考英語試題 題型:閱讀理解

Nobody Benefits
NEW YORK—America has been experiencing the longest economic increase in its history.Incomes have risen, unemployment has fallen, and cities such as New York are bursting with new office buildings.
But just a short walk from Manhattan's skyscrapers, George Brown sits on the side-walk, cooking a lunch of rice and bits of fish over a can of cooking fuel.
Brown is homeless — one of the 2.3 million people in the US who end up on the street.
During the day, Brown collects aluminium cans and sells them for five cents a piece.At night, he sleeps on the street.w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m
"I have been on the street about eight or nine years, something like that," said the 62-year-old former construction worker.
Brown admits he's had problems with alcohol and has smoked cocaine.But he said he still wants a more stable housing arrangement.He could afford it just with the money he earns by collecting cans and small pieces of metal, if only truly low-income housing were available.
However, he sees no hope of finding affordable housing in New York.
With the strong economy and unemployment down, beautiful housing is being built to meet demand.
A US report shows rents in New York city rose more than 27 percent between 1984 and 1999, from US $549 to US $700 a month.
One of the side effects of the strong economy is that rents have been going up.
The majority of people who experience homelessness really just need some affordable housing help.
But few housing companies have been built for the poor.Many small apartments in the city now rent for US $1,500 a month or more.
Brown, the homeless New Yorker, said he has a daughter who lives in the city but he rarely sees her.She is angry about his drinking and won't allow it in her house.
Smiling, he said he also has seven grandchildren whom he'd like to see more often.
"All I've got to do is clean up my act," he said.
【小題1】What kind of life does George Brown lead?

A.Homeless and dangerous.
B.Homeless and childish.
C.Homeless and miserable (痛苦的).
D.Homeless and sleepless.
【小題2】From George Brown's life we can find that ______.
A.old Americans lead a hard life
B.old Americans want to live alone
C.American cities are crowded with poor people w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m
D.bad habits play a role in some poor people's Life
【小題3】It can be inferred from this passage that ______.
A.America is short of housing companies
B.the poor can't benefit from the increasing economy
C.poor people in America will become rich
D.housing companies will build more houses for the poor
【小題4】If this passage comes from a paper, on which page would it be?
A.Society.B.Science.C.Economy.D.Business.

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英語 來源:2010-2011學(xué)年吉林省長(zhǎng)春十一中高一下學(xué)期期末考試英語卷 題型:填空題

閱讀下列每個(gè)句子,根據(jù)空白處的漢語提示,填入適當(dāng)詞匯。每空僅限一詞。
【小題1】Now the government is paying more attention to _____ (農(nóng)業(yè)).          
【小題2】W     out! There is a car coming!     
【小題3】 felt so sleepy that I couldn’t stop _____ (打哈欠).
【小題4】 From her      (面部)expression we can read her dissatisfaction.                                     
【小題5】Customs officers examined all       (行李) at the airport.
【小題6】 It’s an old t     for Chinese to get together and eat dumplings on the eve of the Spring Festival.    
【小題7】They didn’t fight, but stood there _____ (怒視) at each other.  
【小題8】You should receive a reply w     seven days.      
【小題9】They are having a heated a     over whether drinking is bad for health.
【小題10】 The lake      (包圍) by trees is a nice place to visit.
【小題11】After his wife died, the man often d     his sadness in wine.

查看答案和解析>>

科目:高中英語 來源:2014屆新疆兵團(tuán)農(nóng)三師第一中學(xué)高二下學(xué)期第一次月考英語卷(解析版) 題型:單詞拼寫

語境填詞, 注意動(dòng)詞形式。(每空1分,滿分25分)

1.Everyone think it is  _(荒謬的)to predict that the sun will not rise tomorrow.

2.They marked the ________(分界線)of the football fields several days before the game. 

3.We all __________ (渴望)peace and happiness.

4.Flower arrangement ()is an__________ (高雅的)art.

5.The new law__________ (宣告)that this was illegal.

6.She__________ (陪伴)her friend to the concert last night.

7.The theatre has very good access for the _________________ (殘疾人).

8.They have made an_________(緊急)request for international aid.

9.The foundation would like to launch programs for providing _____________ (援助) for poor areas in Africa.

10.The novel is an important form of _ ______.(文學(xué))

11.One of her  a ___________ is to become a doctor.

12.Remember not to e______ them by asking personal questions.

13.The girl gave a  v_________description of the event.

14.Hotel  a_________was scarce during the Olympic Games.

15.Did anyone  w________the traffic accident?

16.Don’t  a______yourself  to drinking.

17.When  you _____   ______  trouble and need help, please turn to me .

18.This machine is invented to ______   _____ the quality of the products.

19.I quickly_____   _____ the change  in temperature.

20.She was  _____   _____    _____    when hearing the sound of explosion(爆炸).

 

查看答案和解析>>

同步練習(xí)冊(cè)答案