they can be turned into anything from fleece jackets to a very durable set of luggage. One reason so few water bottles are recycled is that except in a very few states, they cannot be redeemed at the local grocery store.
But recycling rates are significantly higher in the 11 states that pay customers a nickel (and in some cases a dime) if they return their bottle. But only three of these states—California, Hawaii and Maine—include water bottles. Passing new bottle laws or expanding old laws to include plastic bottles should be an easy call for most Legislatures. But the grocery and drink industry have been able to use their power and campaign funds, to keep that from happening. That needs to change.
There are other ways to encourage recycling. At many public places—ballgames or city parks, for example—it is often much easier to buy a bottle of water than to find a recycling bin to throw it away. And in some areas, like parts of Philadelphia, officials are experimenting with ways to pay homeowners by the pound for recycled garbage, a trend definitely worth watching.
Of course, for most people, the simplest recycling solution of all might be to wash a plastic bottle out and refill it with fresh water from the tap.
51. What is the writer’s attitude towards bottled water? A. It is completely unnecessary.
B. It will cause obesity because it contains warming. C. Producing bottled water will worsen global warming D. It is less tasty than tapping water. .
52. What is a possible cause of low recycling rates of plastic water bottles? A. Plastic water bottles have little recycling value.
B. In some public places not enough dustbins are set up to collect bottles. C. The recycling industry will cost much to recycle bottles.
D. Consumers of bottled water are not willing to have their bottles recycled. 53. The underlined word “redeemed ”in the third Paragraph probably means______.
A. returned B. changed into an amount of money. C. collected D. recycled
54.We can infer from the passage that_______.
A. Americans will consume more than seven billion gallons of water each year. B. government should buy recycled garbage from people
C. new laws have been set up to encourage plastic bottle recycling.
D. consumers of bottled water in California will get some money back if they
return their bottles to grocery store..
55. We can conclude from the passage that the writer______.
A. encourages people to wash plastic bottles to better recycle them. B. wants people to drink more tap water than bottled water.
C. advocates all social class’s contribution to collecting and recycling garbage.
D. criticizes grocery and drink industry for their irresponsibility to recycle plastic bottles.
第二节：信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
以下是儿童读物的信息：
A. You and Me, Baby ★★★★★ Reading level: Baby-Grade 1 Hardcover: 40 pages Language: English List Price: $ 15.95 You and Me, Baby Price: $ 12.44 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $ 25. You Save: $ 3.51 (22%) Availability: In Stock. Ship from and sold by Amazon. com. Gift-wrap available. Only 4 left in stock---order soon (more on the way). Want it delivered Thursday, September 27. B. Ruff! Ruff! Where’s Scruff? ★★★★★ Reading level: Baby-Preschool Hardcover: 16 pages Language: English Price: $11.16 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Availability: In Stock. Sold by Amazon. com. Gift-wrap available. Want it delivered Thursday, September 2. Book Description: It’s bath time for Scruff. But does anyone know where he’s hiding? Have the cows seen him? Moo-no! How about the pigs? Oink-no! Looking for that dog is just too tough! But not for toddlers. If they look carefully, they’ll find Scruff hiding on every pop-up page! C. The Giving Tree ★★★★★ Reading Level: Ages 4~8 Hardcover: 64 pages Language: English Price: $11.55 Availability: Sold all year round and choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Book Description: Once there was a tree?and she loved a little boy. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk?and the tree was happy. D. Where the Wild Things Are ★★★★★ Reading Level: Ages 6~10 Hardcover Comic: 62 pages Language: English List Price: $16.95 Price: $11.53 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. You Save: $5.42 (32%) Availability: In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon. com. Gift-wrap available. Want it delivered Thursday, September 12. Order it at once, and choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. E. Goodnight Moon (Board book) ★★★★★ Reading level: Baby-Preschool Board book: 30 pages Language: English List Price: $8.99 Price: $8.99 Availability: In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon. com. Book Description: Perhaps the perfect children’s bedtime book, Goodnight Moon is a short poem of goodnight wishes from a young rabbit preparing for---or attempting to postpone---his own slumber. He says goodnight to every object in sight and within earshot, including the “quiet old lady whispering hush.”
F. Guess How Much I Love You (board book) ★★★★★ Reading Level: Ages 9~12 List Price: $6.99 Price: $6.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Availability: In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon. com. Gift-wrap available. Want it delivered Thursday, September 27. Order it in the next 19 hours and 55 minutes, and choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Book Description: All children want reassurance that their parents’ love runs wide and deep. In Guess How Much I Love You, a young rabbit named Little Nutbrown Hare thinks he’s found a way to measure the boundaries of love. 以下是购书者或小读者的信息。请匹配购书者或小读者与它们所对应的读物。
56．Mrs. Green is a nurse in a hospital in London. She has a lovely daughter. She often says to her “Hey, Baby! Look at you, looking at me, looking at you looking at me”. She is going to send her daughter to Grade 1 this September and buy a book with 40 pages for her.
57. Joe is eleven years old. He enjoys reading picture books about animals. He often buys some new ones. Last Saturday he bought a new book. There is such a sentence on the first page: “In a heartwarming twist on the ‘I-can-do anything-you can-do-better’ theme, Little Nutbrown Hare goes through a series of declarations regarding the breadth of his love for Big Nutbrown Hare”.
58．Tong Tong is five years and two months old now. His father bought him a story book for his birthday on July 2. Now he is reading “but as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and tree gave and gave and gave?
59．Mr. Smith lives in New York City. He has a two-year-old grandson, who likes to listen to some stories about animals and read picture books with a hide-and-seek adventure and lots of pop-up surprises on every page!
60．Susan is a four-year-old girl. Her mother bought her a new book today. In this book, there are many good bedtime activities---a reappearing little mouse is particularly pesky. By the end of the little rabbit’s goodnight poem, the story has quieted to a whisper, and the drawings have darkened with nightfall. As you turn the last page, you can expect a sleepy smile and at least a yawn or two.
.写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）
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