“Low *carbon” becomes the most popular words these days because more and more people pay attention to our environment. Not only China but all other    1   concentrate on the topic of “l(fā)ow carbon”. Low carbon life    2    a kind of lifestyle in which people do their best to use less energy. The purpose of the lifestyle is to push us to    3    the environment.

Because of the fast increase of population and human *desire, the human living environment, health and safety are    4    worse and worse. So we can say, the lifestyle is becoming the killer of the earth and human beings. Therefore, low carbon life is needed by man’s own health. So we should develop good    5    in our daily life. For example, when we go shopping, we’d better use    6    plastic bags. We should eat more    7    and less meat. As for clothing, we’d better buy the necessary clothes and not buy clothes with animal *leather. As for housing, when building a    8   , we must use green material; buy the lights that need less energy and remember to    9    the lights when not needed; put rubbish into different kinds and recycle the useful things, like bottles and paper. As for transportation, we can    10    if you go to the places near your house. For short trips, we can ride a bike instead of driving a car. Try to use public transportations. As for working, companies should    11    clerks to use e-mail, MSN and other ways instead of using paper. We use paper only when necessary. For using    12    : If you don’t use computer in a short time, you can change the computer into its “sleep”.

Besides, we should try    13    best to tell the people around us the importance of the low carbon lifestyle. And we can also ask them to    14    us to take the low carbon life, in this way, not only can we make our city better,    15    also it’s good for ourselves.

In all, it weighs greatly for all of us to put the low carbon lifestyle into practice.

1.                A．countries       B．cities           C．towns    D．villages

2.                A．helps          B．means          C．lives D．thinks

3.                A．keep           B．pollute         C．protect   D．make

4.                A．doing          B．trying          C．discovering    D．becoming

5.                A．lists            B．shops          C．decisions D．habits

6.                A．more          B．less            C．fewer    D．many

7.                A．tea            B．vegetables      C．meat     D．food

8.                A．house          B．bridge          C．store D．market

9.                A．turn off         B．turn on         C．put off   D．put on

10.               A．walk           B．rush           C．run   D．drive

11.               A．make          B．let            C．see   D．encourage

12.               A．machine        B．light           C．bed  D．computer

13.               A．ours           B．we            C．our   D．us

14.               A．stop           B．tell            C．join  D．hear

15.               A．so             B．but            C．a(chǎn)nd  D．though

Have you ever had problems in your life and don’t know how to be happy? If__1__，you will find“ Being a Happy Teenager” written by and Austrian writer Andrew Matthews useful．

In this book，Matthews tells us how to have a happy life and__2__ the questions of teenagers．

    There are many subjects，so stop being__3__and forgive．The book tells us some useful skills，such as how to put what you have learned into pictures of your mind to__4__ your memory better．

Many teenagers think that happiness comes from a good exam result or praise from other people．But you call __5__ be happy when there are no such “good” things．Success comes __6__a good attitude（態(tài)度）．If you__7__problems，you will have success in the future．

Some school students have problems，such as being too tall or short．But Matthews tells us that happiness comes from thinking about things __8__positive（積極的）way．If you are tall，people notice you and you can get a__9__view at the movie；if you are short，your clothes and shoes take less__10__ in your bedroom! This is Matthews’ most important lesson：you choose to be happy!

（  ）1．A．so           B．not            C．this           D．that

（  ）2．A．a(chǎn)sks               B．a(chǎn)nswers        C．tells            D．says

（  ）3．A．happy        B．excited        C．a(chǎn)ngry          D．relaxed

（  ）4．A．make       B．let            C．change         D．use

（  ）5．A．yet          B．a(chǎn)lready        C．still            D．too

（  ）6．A．from       B．to           C．before         D．a(chǎn)fter

（  ）7．A．hear from   B．learn from    C．come from   D．get in to

（  ）8．A．a(chǎn)t          B．in             C．on           D．with

（  ）9．A．lower              B．worse         C．better         D．higher

（  ）10．A．room      B．time           C．place        D．a(chǎn)rea

The time in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a   1_  bookshop, no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I help you?” You   2  buy anything you don’t want. You may try to find out  3   the book you want is. But if you can’t find it, the assistant will lead（帶領(lǐng)） you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is   4_  selling books at all. A story tells us about a good bookshop. A young student  _5   a very useful book in the bookshop.  _6   it was too expensive for him. He couldn’t get it from the library, either. So every afternoon, he went there to _ 7  a little at a time. One day, however, he couldn’t find  _8  from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing(示意) to him. To his surprise, the assistant pointed to the book in the desk , “I put it there  _9  I don’t want other people to buy it,” said the assistant. Then he  10   the student go on with his reading.

Paris has a beautiful name, it is called the City of   1 . Do you know   2  it means? Many beautiful buildings in Paris are lighted (點(diǎn)亮) at   3 . The streets are very   4 . When you   5  in Paris, you needn’t turn on your headlights (車燈) even after dark.
Paris is full of life(充滿活力) all day and all night.   6  this is not the only reason for its beautiful name. For   7  of years, Paris has been the centre of science and art in the world.   8   scientists and artists (藝術(shù)家) have come to  9  here. For this reason, people  10  it the City of Lights.

In the 13th century，Marco Polo travelled a long way to China．He was a famous Italian __1  ．During his stay in China，lie saw many wonderful things．One of the things he  2   was that the Chinese used paper money．People in   3    countries didn't use paper money until the 17th century．However，people in China began to use paper money in the 10th century．

__4   was invented by a Chinese about 2,000 years ago．His name was Cai Lun．He then __5   these pieces of paper together and made them into a   6   ．

Now paper mainly comes from trees．We use it every day．  7   we waste a lot of it．If we keep on doing so，people   8   cut down many more trees．Then there will not be any trees left．If there are no   9  ，there will be no paper．

So how can we   10   paper? When we are making notes，we can use   11   sides of every piece of paper．We can buy drinks in bottles instead of   12   in paper packets．We can also use cotton handkerchiefs（棉手帕）and not the paper ones．  13   we go shopping，we can use fewer paper bags．If the salesman gives us a paper bag，we can keep it and   14   it later．

We can help to protect trees if we think   15  ．We should do it now, before it is too late．

1．A．traveller                 B．a(chǎn)ctor                   C．doctor                   D．driver

2．A．disliked                  B．disagreed             C．invented                 D．discovered

3．A．Eastern                  B．Western               C．Southern                D．Northern

4．A．Iron                      B．Paper                   C．Television              D．Silk

5．A．collected                B．divided                 C．moved                   D．put

6．A．magazine               B．newspaper                  C．book                      D．dictionary

7．A．Sometime              B．Some time            C．Sometimes             D．Some times

8．A．have to                  B．mustn't                C．used to                  D．shouldn't

9．A．books                    B．trees                    C．leaves                    D．factories

10．A．make                   B．use                      C．save                             D．buy

11．A．a(chǎn)ll                       B．each                    C．every                     D．both

12．A．them                   B．those                   C．these                     D．ones

13．A．Before                 B．After                   C．As soon as           D．When

14．A．repair                  B．record                 C．reuse                     D．return

15．A．carefully              B．badly                   C．quickly                  D．freely