C. uninterested Passage Three
D. unclear
I recently had the opportunity to go to my first ever music festival. We Love Green was held over a weekend in Parc de Bagatelle, Paris. While like most music festivals, it boasted an impressive and diverse music, there was something extra special about this one. You see, this was a green festival!
From the food to the stalls(货摊), everything was as environmentally friendly as possible. Not only was the majority of the furniture/stalls/toilet rooms hand-made from wood, the festival was powered by solar energy. Guests were invited to dispose of rubbish in specially labeled dustbins which, after the festival, were sorted so all of the waste could be recycled appropriately. Fresh water was made available freely to everyone so that attendants were not encouraged to buy drinks in plastic bottles which would have created a lot of waste.
I found the experience incredibly fun but also really interesting. Having never been to a music festival before, I was unsure of what to expect. However, I was happy to find myself sitting in a field eating a healthy, home-made fruit cake while drinking organic fruit juice. There were many stalls, art installations, and different areas, meaning there was something
there for everyone, from small children to the elderly!
This seems like such a great idea, making something very fun and interesting, that does not cause great damage to the environment. I have since discovered that there are more events similar to this across the globe, which is great! I can’t imagine how much waste has been produced from such public events as festivals across the years before we realised just how bad they were for the environment!
26. Which of the following can be the title of the passage A. We Love Green C. Music Festivals
B. We Love Environment D. A Unique Public Event
27. What is special about the music festival
A. It has a special band. B. It has a unique program list. C. It is held every weekend. friendly.
28. At the music festival, guests were encouraged to ________. A. make furniture from wood B. bring plastic-bottled drinks C. recycle rubbish by themselves D. drink free fresh water
29. According to Paragraph 3, the author ________.
D.
It
is
environmentally
A. fully enjoyed the festival B. expected muh from the festival
C. found the event very funny D. liked listening to music at home
30. The purpose of this passage is to ________. A. raise funds for environment protection B. highlight that being green can be fun C. encourage people to go to music festivals D. introduce the author's favourite musicians Passage Four
Chokwe Selassie is on a mission to help drivers avoid potholes(路面坑洞). The eighth-grader got his inspiration on a recent morning, when his mother was driving him to school. Their car was damaged as it went over a huge pothole in the middle of the street in their hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. “I decided I was going to do something about the pothole problem in my city,” said Chokwe. His solution: an app that warns drivers when there is a pothole ahead.
Chokwe developed the app with his friends, “When the app detects a pothole, it is highlighted in red,” Chokwe says. “And if you get close to the pothole, your phone will warn you with a
beep.” Drivers can also use the app to report any potholes they encounter, and to look for other routes they can take to avoid roads that have them.
The app relies on current available information about the streets of Jackson. “It works by using the city’s 311 call system, so it uses information already stored in a database,” Chokwe says. Through the call system, citizens dial 311 to report non-emergency problems—which include potholes. As Chokwe and his friends worked on the app, they also went street by street throughout the city. They determined that focusing on the 10 busiest streets in Jackson would give them a large enough sample size to test it.
Although the app isn’t yet available for sale, Chokwe is already looking for ways to improve it. The app remains limited to 10 streets in Jackson, but he hopes to add more, so that it includes every street in the city. And then he wants to go even farther. “I want to keep working on the app until it’s nationwide,” Chokwe says.
31. Chokwe Selassie got the idea to develop the app from ________. A. his own experience C. his friends
B. a recent news report D. his mother
32. When you are close to a pothole, your phone will warn you with ________. A. a voice report C. a beeping sound
B. a red light D. a map image
33. Drivers can also use Chokwe’s app to ________. A. report emergency traffic problems
B. look for information other than potholes C. choose safer routes without potholes D. avoid traffic jam caused by potholes
34. To develop the app, Chokwe and his friends ________. A. reported potholes to 311 call system B. conducted field trips on the streets C. built their own information database D. collected samples in their neighborhood
35. We can learn from the last paragraph that Chokwe ________. A. is quite successful C. has regained hope
B. is facing difficulties D. has a great ambition
Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentence in this part. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose
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