A green life sometimes just needs a good idea like sharing cars. It’s a new way of thinking. You can use a car but you don’t need to own it. Now the idea of “ car sharing” has become    51   in many countries.
As we know, most cars   52   in garages for much time. In fact, we drive our own cars    53   one or two hours a day on average(平均). When we don’t use them, we have to pay for parking and   54   things. That costs too much money. To   55  money, some people come up with the idea of “ car sharing”. If we share a car, we’ll only  56    when we use it.
Now many people are starting to do car sharing. In Switzerland, almost 40,000 people have    57   it. Japan is also trying to make    58    popular around the country.
Car sharing is the beginning of a new idea in    59    . It is also very for us to travel everywhere   60   buying a car. Do you love to share a car with others?
【小題1】A. popular             B. interesting            C. funny
【小題2】 A. are washed          B. are driven              C. are parked
【小題3】 A. as far as           B. as long as              C. as much as
【小題4】 A. other               B. others                  C. another
【小題5】 A. make                B. save                    C. find
【小題6】 A. spend               B. cost                    C. pay
【小題7】 A. joined              B. covered                 C. dropped
【小題8】 A. time saving         B. money saving            C. car sharing
【小題9】A. fashion             B. transportation          C. family
【小題10】 A. without             B. with                    C. by

---I think you can ________ money by yourself to buy a birthday present for your mother.

   ---OK. I’ll try. I’ll not let a penny waste.

A. spend        B. save     C. cost     D. leave

 

Jim’s class is organizing a talent show to            money for charity.

         A. make       B. save             C. store            D. raise

 

Growing up is not always easy. When we face difficulties, a spirit of depending on _ 41   is more useful than crying for help. That’s what Hong Zhanhui’s story of growing from boy to man    42   family hardship tells us.

Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua County(縣), Henan Province. When he was only 11, his father became badly ill and one day he came back with an unwanted baby   43   . A year later, Hong’s mother   44    home. She no longer wanted to live such a poor life and face her sick husband. So everything hard fell onto the young boy’s    45   : to take care of his father and the younger sister Chenchen, and to go on to study.

Although his life was hard, Hong didn’t go away from his father and sister. He took several part-time jobs to    46    his family. He climbed tall trees to get birds’ eggs for his sister. He walked 2 hours at weekends to the market to   47    different things to sell around his school. A few years later, he studied at a college. To take care of Chenchen, he worked hard to    48    a room near his college for her, and sent her to school.

After Hong’s story went    49   , he became a hero in people’s eyes. But Hong ___50___ offers from others. He said he felt encouraged by kind offers, but he could depend on his own work.

Through his hard life, he has grown up from boy to man.

1.A. parents                         B. friends                      C. yourself                 D. God

2.A. out of                           B. into                            C. without                  D. with

3.A. dog                       B. cat                              C. girl                          D. boy

4.A. left                                 B. arrived                      C. went              D. came

5.A. back                     B. shoulders                 C. head              D. body

6.A. help                     B. save                           C. protect                   D. feed

7.A. make                    B. buy                            C. produce                 D. collect

8.A. build                    B. borrow            C. rent                        D. share

9.A. public                            B. clear                          C. by                            D. far

10.A. accepted          B. asked                         C. received                D. refused

 

---I think you can ________ money by yourself to buy a birthday present for your mother.

   ---OK. I’ll try. I’ll not let a penny waste.

A. spend        B. save     C. cost     D. leave