*Question*
Mooncake Box Recycling Activity People in Beijing throw away about two million mooncake boxes every year. These boxes weigh up to 750 tons and can fill up about a hundred 50-meter-long swimming pools. They are going to become garbage . Let's have a green Mid-Autumn Festival this year! Bring your mooncake boxes. Show that you care! Date: September 28, 2014 ~ October 14, 2014 Time: 9:00 am ~ 9:00 pm Collection point: Sunshine Shopping Center Please keep the mooncake boxes clean. We will sell all mooncake boxes to recycling companies. We will hold a tree-planting activity with the money collected. Save Our Earth (Beijing) An organization for environmental protection Telephone: 2123 1234 Website: www.saveourearth.org E-mail: info@saveourearth.org Which organization holds this activity? A) Green Mid-Autumn Festival. B) Save Our Earth (Beijing). C) Save Ourselves (Beijing). D) Save Our Earth (Chengdu).
**Answer**
B

*Question*
In 1620,about half the USA was covered by forests .Today the forests have almost gone .A lot of good land has gone with them ,leaving only sand .China doesn't want to copy the USA's example.We're planting more and more tress .We've built the "Great Green Wall "of tress across northern pat of our country .The "Great Green Wall"is 7,000 kilometers long ,and between 400 and 1,700 kilometers wide .It will stop the wind from blowing the earth away .It will stop the sand from moving towards the rich farmland in the south .More "Great Green Wall "are needed .Trees must be grown all over the world. "Great Green Wall "will make the world better . ,. Trees must be grown in _ . A) China B) the USA C) some countries D) every part of the world
**Answer**
D

*Question*
There was once a young man called Paul in a village in the USA. Paul was very lazy because his father was a rich farmer and he didn't have to work. Mr Smith, a neighbour of his, was a blacksmith . He used to work in his shop all day. Paul spent hours and hours watching how the blacksmith worked every day. "Young man, why don't you try your hand to make a shoe tack , even it is only to pass the time?" said the blacksmith one day, " Maybe it will be useful to you some day." Finally, the lazy boy began to have a try. After practicing some times, he becameskilledand could make very nice tacks. Years later, Paul's father died and he lost all the things because of a war . He had to move to another country and live by himself. It happened that there were many shoemakers paying high prices to buy tacks for the shoes, because in that part of the country there was a great need of tacks for soldiers' shoes. Paul went to talk with them. He told them that he would make the tacks if they could help him find a workshop in the village. The shoemakers agreed. Then Paul made a lot of money by making tacks. "How funny it is!" he said to himself, "Even by making shoe tacks, one can become rich." What can we learn form the story? A) Making tacks is important. B) Wars can make people hard-working. C) Nothing is difficult to learn. D) Everything you learned may be useful.
**Answer**
D

*Question*
Mother's Day is a holiday for mothers. People celebrate it in the United States, England,India and some other countries. Little by little, people in many other countries also celebrate it. Mother's Day is on the 2nd Sunday in May. On that day, many people give presents of love to their mothers. If their mothers are alive ,they often wear a pink or red rose or carnation .If their mothers are dead ,they wear a white one. The celebration of the first American Mother's Day was held in Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. Soon the holiday became popular all over the country and around the world. In China, people do the same on the day for mothers. And in some cities, people sometimes ask a song to be broadcast for his or her mother only. Mother's Day is on _ in May. A) the 1st Saturday B) the 2nd Sunday C) the 2nd Saturday D) the 4th Sunday
**Answer**
B