上海市2020年中考英语二轮专题练习：阅读理解之世界与环境 (11篇 含答案)

Passage 1

The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means. Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place, man moved to another place. But this is no longer true.
Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.
Air pollution is still the most serious. It's bad for all living things in the world, but it is not the
only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise
pollution makes us angry more easily.
Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. They stop people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from putting dirty smoke into the air. Pollution by SO2 is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution. It is caused by heavy traffic. We are sure that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must take care of the rise in pollution at the same time.
1. _______, our world is becoming much smaller.
A. Because of the rise in pollution
B. Thanks to science development
C. Because the earth is being polluted day and night
D. Because the earth is blown away by the wind every year
2. Hundreds of years ago, life was __________ it is today.
A. much easier than B. as easy as
C. much harder than D. as hard as
3. Pollution comes in many ways. We can even hear it. Here “it” means _______.
A. rubbish(垃圾)B. noise pollution
C. air pollution D. water pollution
4. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because _______.
A. it makes much noise
B. it makes us angry more easily
C. it makes our rivers and lakes dirty
D. it’s bad for all living things in the world
5. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Many countries are making rules to fight pollution.
B. The pollution of the earth grows as fast as the world population does.
C. The problem of pollution is not so serious because there are not so many people living on the earth.
D. If people could go to work by bus or bike instead of car or motorbike, it would be helpful in fighting against the problem of SO2.
参考答案：BCBDC
【答案与解析】本文谈到全球环境污染这个问题,同时号召人们来为我们的家园——地球出一份力,减少污染。
1. B。由文章的首句我们得知：世界变小是由于modern traffic and modern communication means(现在的交通运输工具和沟通工具的使用),而这一切都要靠科学技术的发展,据此我们可以推出答案是B。
2. C。原文的第2句告诉我们Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago(今天的生活比以前容易得多),反过来说,以前的生活一定比今天的艰难,所以答案是C。
3. B。在众多选项中,只有选项B(noise pollution噪音污染)是听得见的。
4. D。我们根据第4段的第1, 2句Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad for all living things in the world…,可以得知空气污染之所以最为严重,正如选项D(它是危害全世界生物的)所说的那样。
5. C。选项C可以在原文第2段的第2句找到,但它缺少了前提条件many years ago(以前不严重而现在严重),所以选项C是错误的。




Passage 2
The office has always been a place to get ahead. Unfortunately, It is also a place where a lot of natural resources start to fall behind. Take a look around next time you’re at work. See how many lights are left on when people leave. See how much paper is being wasted. How much electricity is being used to run computers that are left on. Look at how much water is being wasted in the rest-rooms. And how much solid waste is being thrown out in the rubbish cans. We bet it’s a lot.
Now, here are some simple ways you can produce less waste at work. When you are at the copier, only make the copies you need. Use both sides of the paper when writing something less important. Turn off your lights when you leave. Use a lower watt bulb in your lamp. Drink your coffee or tea out of your mugs instead of single-use cups. Set up a recycling box for cans and one for bottles. And when you’re in the bathroom brushing your teeth or washing your face, don’t let the tap run. Remember, if we use fewer resources today, we’ll save more for tomorrow.
1. The main purpose of the passage is to tell people _______.
A. the disadvantages of working in an office
B. the waste produced in an office
C. to save resources when working in an office
D. how to save water in a restroom
2. How many kinds of waste are mentioned in the passage？
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.
3. From the passage we can infer that in the office ________.
A. using computers is a waste of resource
B. many people don’t turn off the computers after using them
C. computers are run by electricity
D. a computer is not a must for working
4. It is suggested that we use both sides of the paper at the copier because _______.
A. we are short of paperB. the printing is not important
C. we should save paperD. we have to pay for the paper
5. The underlined word mugs is most likely to be _______.
A. a machine that makes coffee
B. a container that can be used again and again
C. a paper product for tea
D. something that can only be found in an office
【答案解析】本文介绍了办公室资源浪费情况及节约办公资源的办法。
1. C。推断题。根据第2段的内容可知,文章是告诉人们怎样在办公的时候节约资源。
2. C。细节题。文章提到的资源浪费现象有：lights are left on; paper is being wasted; electricity is being used to run computers that are left on; water is being wasted in the rest-rooms; solid waste is being thrown out in the rubbish cans等。其中 lights are left on 和 electricity is being used to run computers that are left on 同属于浪费电,因此文章中一共提到4种资源浪费,即选 C。
3. B。细节题。根据 How much electricity is being used to run computers that are left on 可知答案为 B。
4. C。推断题。根据 Use both sides of the paper when writing something less important 可以判断,两面打印可以节约纸张,避免不必要的浪费。
5. B。词义猜测题。根据 Drink your coffee or tea out of your mugs instead of single-use cups.我们可以看出 mugs 和“single-use cups(一次性杯子)”相对,故可推测出 mugs 是“可反复使用的容器”。

Passage 3
The World Trade Organization (WTO), founded on January 1, 1995, aims to encourage international trade to flow as freely as possible, making sure that trade agreements are respected and that any disputes(争端) can be settled.
In the five years since its founding, the WTO has become well-known as one of the world’s most powerful economic organizations, taking its place alongside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
The system of global rules for international trade, however, dates back half a century to 1948 when the General Agreement on Tariffs(关税) and Trade(GATT) was formed after World War Ⅱ.
As time went by, it became clear that the GATT had two major drawbacks — the limited areas of trade it covered, and the lack of an effective system to settle disputes.
After seven years of trade talks ending in 1994, the so-called Uruguay Round finally gave birth to the WTO, complete with an effective system to settle disputes, and new roles covering trade in services and intellectual property(知识产权).
Even after seven years of talks and 22, 500 pages of agreements there were still problems, especially the difficult-to-deal with areas of agriculture and services, which the member nations agreed to revise in 2000.
The WTO, with its head office in Geneva, has 135 members with 30 more waiting to join.
1. From the passage we know that the GATT stopped working _______.
A. soon after World WarⅡended
B. a little more than 50 years after world WarⅡ
C. Just in the year 1994
D. seven years before the Uruguay Round talk
2. Compared with the GATT, the WTO _______.
A. doesn’t pay enough attention to services and intellectual property
B. gets its members to sign the agreements more easily
C. has got too many areas of international trade to deal with to work effectively
D. can do better to settle disputes in more areas of international trade
3. In the new century, the WTO will_______.
A. take the place of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
B. have more members and do much more to settle more problems
C. make complete new roles in every area of international trade
D. have new roles coveting trade in services and intellectual property
4. The underlined word “drawbacks” means _______.
A. changesB. weak pointsC. strong pointsD. improvements

【答案解析】本文阐述了世贸组织代替关贸总协定是时代的需要,同时说明了它任重而道远。
1. C。推断题。根据 After seven years of trade talks ending in 1994, the so-called Uruguay Round finally gave birth to the WTO, …可知在 WTO 诞生的同时,GATT 也就即刻停止了运行,故选答案 C。
2. D。细节题。根据 After seven years of trade talks ending in 1994, the so-called Uruguay Round finally gave birth to the WTO, complete with an effective system to settle dispute, and new roles covering trade in services and intellectual property 得知WTO在解决争端方面具有更有效的体系,并且覆盖了贸易服务及知识产权等更多的领域,由此可知 D 为正确答案。
3. B。细节题。根据 The WTO, …has 135 members with 30 more waiting to join 及 Even after seven years of talks and 22,500 pages of agreements there were still problems 可知成员国数量在增加,而且通过谈话和争取达成的协议来解决更多的问题,据此选B。
4. B。词义猜测题。…the GATT had tow major drawbacks—the limited areas of trade it covered, and the lack of an effective system to settle disputes 这句话的意思是：一是它所覆盖的领域有限；二是缺乏解决争端的有效体系。由此可知drawbacks意为不足之处,故选答案B。


Passage 4
In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge money on beverage (饮料) containers. Within a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw material for new products, but because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it wound end up buried in landfills (垃圾填埋场). The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for second-hand plastic.
Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded (被丢弃的) plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence post, paint brushes, etc.
As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard until somebody figures out how to give it a second life — and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life value. Without enough markets to take in materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually reduce prices for used materials.
Fewer landfill space and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management choice. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal (清除,处理), which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and reduces the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a better raw material.
1. What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers?
A. A fee should be charged on used containers for recycling.
B. Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling.
C. Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on returning them.
D. Beverage companies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda bottles.
2. The returned plastic bottles in New York used to .
A. be turned into raw materials
B. be separated from other rubbish
C. have a second-life value
D. end up somewhere underground
3. The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is_________________
A. how to reduce their recycling costs
B. to sell them at a profitable price
C. how to turn them into useful things
D. to lower the prices for used materials
4. Recycling has become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because_________________
A. recycling causes little pollution
B. other methods are more expensive
C. recycling has great appeal for the jobless
D. local governments find it easy to manage
5. It can be concluded from the passage that .
A. recycling is to be suggested both economically and environmentally
B. local governments in the U. S. can expect big profits from recycling
C. rubbish is a potential remedy for the shortage of raw materials
D. landfills will still be widely used for waste disposal

参考答案：CDCBA








Passage 5
Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time.
Why is more and more land becoming desert？ Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.
Some places on the earth don't get much rain. But they still don't become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants don't let the sun make the earth even drier. Plants do not let the wind blow the dirt away. When a bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become desert more easily.
1. Deserts ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ .
A. never have any plants or animals in them
B. can all be turned into good land before long
C. are becoming smaller and smaller ?
D. get very little rain
2. Small green plants are very important to dry places because ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿.
A. they don't let the sun make the earth even drier
B. they don't let the wind blow the soil away
C. they hold water
D. All of the above.
3. Land is becoming desert little by little because ＿＿＿＿＿＿.
A. plants can't grow there
B. there is not enough rain
C. people haven't done what scientists wish them to do
D. scientists know little about the deserts
4. Which is the main idea of the first paragraph？
A. Scientists know how to change desert into good land.
B. Land is becoming desert faster than scientists can change it back into good land.
C. If scientists can bring water to desert, people can live and grow food there.
D. More and more places are becoming deserts all the time.
5. After reading this passage, we learn that ＿＿＿＿＿＿ .
A. plants can keep dry land from becoming desert
B. it is good to get rid of the grass in the deserts
C. all places without much rain will become deserts
D. it is better to grow crops on dry land than to cut them
参考答案： DDCBA


Passage 6
What would you think if someone suggested knocking down?St Paul’s Cathedral to widen the road? Or pulling down Big Ben to make way for a car park? It would be ridiculous, right? But when it comes to devastation (毁灭) of the natural world, we aren’t so easily shocked. But we should be…or we’ll be in a lot of trouble.
Nature is shrinking by the day. Ancient forests are destroyed. Wetlands are becoming dry. Woodland is disappearing, and all in the name of progress. This is bad in itself, but it’s devastating for biodiversity(生物多样化).
Biodiversity refers to the variety of plants, animals and other living things that are all interconnected. The ecological services provided by biodiversity are vital to everyday life. The air we breathe is a product of photosynthesis (光合作用) by green plants. Insects, worms and bacteria break down waste and make soils rich. And tiny organisms clean the water in rivers and sea. In fact, all life on the earth exists thanks to the benefits of biodiversity. More than 90 percent of the calories consumed by people worldwide are produced from 80 plant species. And 30 percent of medicines are developed from plants and animals. Maintaining a wide diversity of species in each ecosystem is necessary to preserve all living things.
The loss of biodiversity could be devastating. “It is wrong to think that biodiversity can be reduced indefinitely without threatening humans,” said?Harvard?University?biologist Edward O. Wilson, known as the “father of biodiversity”. He warned, “We are about to reach a critical point beyond which biodiversity loss will become irreversible (不可挽回的).”
But what can we do? The present problem is that the concept of biodiversity is so vague (含糊的). People might care about giant pandas, but it is much harder to excite them about the fate of tiny sea creatures which are being boiled to death in the cooling systems of power stations along coastlines. The?Guardian?newspaper is trying to help. It has launched the Biodiversity 100 campaign to try to convince governments around the world to take action to deal with the widespread concerns about biodiversity. This includes persuading the?UKgovernment to create a series of marine reserves to reserve the decrease in the sea-life caused by industrial fishing, stopping fishing sharks by the Japanese fishermen and banning the killing of dingoes (wild dogs) in?Australia, among many other things.
There is a lot to do. And we’d better act quickly if we don’t want to end up with a planet that can’t sustain life!
1. The writer thinks it ________ to pull down Big Ben to make way for a car park.
A. Reasonable B. Necessary C. difficult ?D. unreasonable
2. The underlined sentence “Nature is shrinking by the day.” means that ________.
A. nature is badly polluted by humans
B. species are becoming fewer and fewer day by day
C. rain-forests are being cut down every day
D. nature is full of mysteries
3. Edward O. Wilson thinks that ________.
A. it doesn’t matter to reduce biodiversity
B. people have done enough to preserve biodiversity
C. the situation of biodiversity is very serious
D. biodiversity loss has become irreversible
4. When it comes to biodiversity, the present problem is that ________.
A. people don’t realize that biodiversity is vital to everyday?life
B. people are not aware that giant pandas are endangered
C. people might not clearly know what is biodiversity and what should be protected
D. people hunt sea creatures for food
参考答案：DBCC

Passage 7

Long ago, the Earth was clean.There were not as many people on the earth as there are now.There were a lot of trees.There was not a lot of garbage(垃圾).There were no cars.The towns grew bigger and bigger and later they were called cities.And there was a lot of garbage there soon.
We are hurting the Earth when we put our garbage anywhere.The land is not very clean now.We are hurting the Earth when we put our garbage into the water.The river is not very clean now.We are hurting the Earth when we put dirty things into the air.We are hurting the Earth when we drive our cars.The air is not very clean now.We are hurting the Earth when we cut down the trees.The trees help keep our land and air clean.They give us the oxygen and the clean air that we need to breathe(呼吸).Now we do not have as much as we did before.
Now the animals do not have as many homes as they did before.
There are many things we can do to stop hurting the Earth.We can use some of our garbage over and over again.We can keep some of it and make new things from it.We can grow more trees to keep the air clean.We can put up signs that tell people to keep the Earth clean.It may take long time to clean up our Earth and needs everyone’s help.
1.Long ago,there were many ______on the Earth.
A.garbage B.cars??C.people ?D.trees
2.According to the passage,now we have more ________ than before.
A.land??B.animals C.garbage ?D.clean water
3.We are hurting the Earth when we________.
A.move into the cities??B.drive our cars
C.grow more trees?D.live on the Earth
4.In order to stop hurting the Earth,we can ________.
A.put up signs that tell people where to plant trees
B.put some dirty things into the air and water
C.teach people to reuse(再利用)some of their garbage
D.cut down trees
5.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.The trees help keep our air clean.
B.Cities are smaller than towns.
C.It is impossible to clean up our Earth.
D.Now the animals have as many homes as they did before.
参考答案：DCBCA


Passage 8
Cooking Kills Four Million People a Year. Polluted airborne particles （大气悬浮颗粒）kill 7 million people a year, reports the World Health Organization.
That news may not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen images of chimneys in Beijing, Delhi or Mexico.But those factories—or?even the jammed roadways of modern cities—are not the biggest killer.Each year, some 4.3 million people die earlier than they should because of polluted air inside their homes, says the WHO.
What's causing the air inside people's homes to be so poisonous that it kills around 11, 000 people a day? Stoves." Having an open fire in your kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour." says Kirk Smith, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, whose research suggests that household air pollution from cooking killed between 3.5 million and 4 million people in 2013.
Not all stoves cause this kind of harm.The ones Smith's talking about are those that the 3 billion people in the developing world use for heat and cooking, which burn?solid fuels such as wood, coal, or crop waste instead of gas.The smoke from those fires produces harmful fine particles and carbon monoxide into homes.Poor ventilation then prevents that smoke from escaping, raising fine particle levels 100 times higher than the limits that the WHO considers acceptable.
Breathing this air day in day out eventually causes a lot of diseases: more than a third of the 4.3 million die of a stroke, while a quarter die of heart disease.And around one-third of annual lung disease deaths worldwide are due to waste from coal stoves.
Exposure tends to be extremely harmful for the people who spend the most time around the fire—usually women and young children.In fact, the WHO reports that household air pollution almost doubles the risk for childhood lung disease.
1. According to Kirk Smith's research, ______.
A. factories are the biggest killer worldwide nowadays
B. burning 400 cigarettes an hour is extremely dangerous
C. household air pollution from cooking is surprisingly harmful
D. some 4.3 million people die earlier each year than they should
2. What should be the deadly killer in a household kitchen?
A. Solid fuels.B. Coal stoves.
C. Poor gas. D. Cooking smoke.
3. The underlined word "ventilation" in Paragraph 4 probably means ______.
A. airing B. cooking C. burning D. cooling
4. The author intends to tell people ______.
A. how to avoid polluted air in their homes
B. to stop cooking in the household kitchen
C. to guard against household pollution from cooking
D. how to prevent childhood lung diseases in household
参考答案： CDAC





Passage 9

If you want to see climate change, head north and keep going until you run out of globe. That is easier said than done. The Arctic (北极) is home to few people and covered in ice much of the year. But those who make their way to the icy seas of the Arctic Ocean will see a part of the planet that is warming and changing faster than anywhere else.
In September, scientists announced at the National Snow and Ice Data (数据) Center that Arctic summer sea ice had fallen to its second lowest level since 1979, and probably long before that. The Arctic has lost an area of ice greater than the area of all U.S. states east of the Mississippi River. And what ice remains appears to be getting thinner and weaker.
Nick Toberg and Till Wagner are polar ice scientists who are doing sea ice fieldwork. “There is plenty of data to suggest that the ice is becoming thinner as well as smaller in area,” they say.
The changes happening in the Arctic are a warning for the entire world . As polar expert Walt
Meier puts it, “What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.”
Some scientists worry that Arctic sea ice may be going from a downward spiral (螺旋线) to a “death spiral”, one from which there is no escape. As more ice melts (融化), more dark open water appears. The darkness absorbs (吸收) more heat, which speeds up the pace of melting.
Until recently, many scientists thought it might take until the end of the century for the North Pole to become completely ice free during the summer. Now some believe it could happen by 2030 or even earlier. “The melting is happening faster in the real world than it has in the models,” says Nick Toberg.
1. The purpose of the first paragraph is to tell readers __________.
A. it’s difficult to arrive at the Arctic
B. it is too cold for people to live in the Arctic
C. what caused the climate change in the Arctic
D. we can see the most obvious climate change in the Arctic
2. From the second paragraph we can learn Arctic summer sea ice __________.
A. is still decreasing
B. began reducing in 1979
C. fell to its lowest level in September
D. is equal to the Mississippi River
3. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. The changes don’t affect the Arctic at all.
B. The changes will only happen in the Arctic.
C. The changes happening in the Arctic will stop.
D. The changes will also affect other parts of the world.
4. Nick Toberg may agree that __________.
A. the ice in the North Pole will stop melting
B. the ice in the North Pole is melting faster than expected
C. the ice in the North Pole will melt before 2030 or even earlier
D. the ice in the North Pole will not disappear until the end of the century
参考答案：DADB



Passage 10

It was once thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and/or heavy automobile traffic. Today, we know that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the entire eastern half of the United States and led to health warnings even in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be affected by air pollution. Some scientists feel that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil) is creating a “greenhouse effect"-holding in heat reflected from the earth and raising the world's average temperature. If this view is correct and the world's temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be under water.
Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particulate matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth's temperature-a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to new ice age and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. At present we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report prepared by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very likely). Perhaps, if we are very lucky, the two tendencies will offset each other and the world's temperature will stay about the same as it is now.

1. As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution _____.
A. caused widespread damage in the countryside
B. affected the entire eastern half of the United States
C. had damaging effects on health
D. existed merely in urban and industrial areas
2. As far as the greenhouse effect is concerned, the author _____.
A. shares the same view with the scientists
B. is uncertain of its occurrence
C. rejects it as being ungrounded
D. thinks that it will destroy the world soon
3. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.
A. raising the world's temperature only a few degrees wouldn’t do much harm to life on earth
B. lowering the world's temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major farming areas to disaster
C. almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade
D. the world's temperature will remain constant in the years to come
4. This passage is primarily concerned with _____.
A. the greenhouse effect B. the burning of fossil fuels
C. the potential effect of air pollution D. the likelihood of a new ice age
参考答案：DBBC



Passage 11
These days a green building means more than just the color of the paint. Green building can also refer to environmentally friendly houses, factories, and offices. Green building means “reducing the effect of the building on the land,” Taryn Holowka of the US Green Building Council in Washington, DC, said.
According to Holowka, buildings account for 65 percent of total US electricity use. But green buildings can reduce energy and water use. Also, the buildings are often located near public transportation such as buses and subways, so that people can drive their cars less. That could be good for the environment, because cars use lots of natural resources, such as gasoline, and give off pollution.
Green buildings are often built on developed land, so that the buildings don’t destroy forests or other wild habitats. Marty Dettling is project manager for a building that put these ideas into action. The Solaire has been called the country’s first green residential high-rise（高层的）building.
According to Dettling, “We’ve reduced our energy consumption（消费量）by one-third and our water by 50 percent.
The Solaire cuts energy in part by using solar power. The Solaire also has lights that automatically（自动地）turn off when people leave the room. Plus, the building has lots of windows. This allows people to use the sun for light instead of lamps during the day.
1. Green buildings are _______.
A. far away from public transportation B. built in the forests
C. earth-friendly D. often built on developing land
2. Green buildings are built near public transportation mainly for the purpose of ______.
A. taking buses or subways easily B. saving natural resources
C. driving private cars less D. protecting the environment
3 The Solaire is thought to be “green” because it ________.
A. locates near a forest B. lies close to stores
C. reduces energy and water use D. was built with green materials
4. Which of the following is used to cut energy consumption in the Solaire?
A. Closing windows as long as possible. B. Reducing the time of using lights.
C. Recycling solar power. D. Using natural resources.
参考答案： CDCB
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