People often say that the earth is like our mother. She gives life to all the living things on the earth and provides us with air, food, water and other essential things we need for living.

Once she was beautiful and rich, but now she becomes dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. It is due to what we have done to her. Please have a good look at her: polluted rivers and lakes, growing deserts, the destruction of the forests and wild life, and the depletion (消耗，用尽) of the ozone layer (臭氧层)...

Can she bear to see her children putting the waste here and there? Can she bear to see her children cutting down the trees and destroying the grassland, to see the acid rain destroying everything? Can we bear to see our mother suffering (受苦) so much? Isn’t it time for us to ask ourselves whether this is the way to treat our mother?

Floods, droughts, acid rain..., these are the punishments (惩罚) from nature. Everyone should know that there is only one earth. If we go on treating her like this, it won’t be fit for us to live in any longer. It’s time for us to love her, take good care of her and cure her. We should save the earth so as to save ourselves.

1. What does the earth look like now?

A. It has clean rivers, lakes and green forests.

B. It is like a beautiful girl.

C. It is more beautiful and richer.

D. It is dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer.

2. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

A. Know     B. Stand     C. Imagine     D. Hear

3. What is the best title of the passage?

A. The earth—our mother.

B. Defenders of the Earth (地球卫士).

C. The earth is very beautiful and healthy.

D. The water on the earth is very clean.

The story tell us about the British writer, Richard Savage. He was once living in London with   1  money in his pockets. In order to get some food and clothes, he wrote the story of his life and managed to have it published. But not many copies of his books were   2  in the shops, and he was still living a hard life. Because of anxiety(忧虑)and malnutrition(营养不良)， he became very weak and before long he fell  3 , and a doctor was sent for. The doctor was not rich enough, but was  4  literature. He tried his best to cure Savage of his illness and a week later Savage was out of danger. When he finally recovered(重新获得) his  5 , the doctor sent a bill to Savage for his  6  , but poor Savage had no money to pay it. The doctor waited for a month and sent another bill. Receiving no money again, the doctor went to Savage himself.
"You know you owe(欠) your life to me," said the doctor, "and I should  7 some thankfulness from you."
"I agree," said the writer, " you've done a great favour(恩惠) for me and if I'm not ungrateful for your kindness, I'll damage(损坏) my life to you."
With these words he handed the doctor two copies of The Life of Richard Savage.
The doctor took the books home and began to _ 8  them carefully.
"I see I've  9 the life of a great writer," the doctor said to himself with a sense of pride,  Maybe this is the only thing I could be really   10 of in my life."
Five years later Savage called on the doctor to pay his bill, only to find that the doctor had already passed away .

用关系代词或关系副词将下列每对句子连成一个复合句（5%）

1.The boy is my younger brother. He was here a minute ago.

2.The old man is a professor. He teaches chemistry in a college.

3.Beijing Hotel is near Tian An Men Square. The foreign visitors live there.

4.The woman is here now. You were talking about her.

5.This is the hall. We listened to the report in it the other day.

1按要求进行句型转换，每空一词。

1.We didn’t go out for a walk because it was rainin9．(变为简单句)

We didn’t go out for a walk_______    _______ the rain．

2.He was so excited that he couldn’t go to sleep．(变为简单句)

He was________      _________    ____ go to sleep．

3.He got up early in order that he could catch the early bus．(变为简单句)

He got up early——————．—————————catch the early bus．

4.The football match was put off because it rained．(改为同义句)

The football match was put off_______ _______   _______   _______  

5.The sun looks small．It’s too far from here．(连成一句话)

The sun looks small_______  _______  _______    _______ from here．

6.The woman is too old to look after herself．．(改为同义句)

The woman is_______ old_______ she can’t look after herself．

7.The room is not big enough to hold all the people．(改为同义句)

The room is______  _small_______it can’t hold all the people．

8.He didn’t have breakfast SO that he could come to school on time．(改为同义句)

He didn’t have breakfast_______  _______     _______      come to school on time．

9.This is the hall．We listened to the report in it the other day．(连成一句话)

This is the hall _______   we listened to the report the other day．

10.The boy is my younger brother．He Was here a minute ago．(连成一句话)

The boy _______ was here a minute ago is my younger brother．