第三部分  阅读理解（共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分）
  阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A

In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution. They join “environment clubs(俱乐部)”. In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean.
Here are some things students often do.
No-garbage (垃圾) lunches. How much do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school.
No-car day. On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car. Not the students and not the teachers! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember: walk, jump, bike and run. Use your legs! It’s lots of fun..
Turn off the water! Did you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty cubic(立方)meters of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small river! In environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets. We love our environment. Let’s work together to make it clean.
56. The writer wrote the passage to ask the students to ____________.     
   A. clean school     B. make less pollution   C. join clubs   D. help teachers
57. Environment clubs ask students __________.      
   A. to run to school every day         B. to take exercise every day
   C. not to forget to take cars          D. to use lunch bags
58. After students mend toilets, they save ___________.       
   A. a small river      B. a club     C.  water in cubic meters     D. a toilet
59. From the passage we know the students usually have lunch ____________.        
   A. at school        B. in shops     C. in clubs     D. at home
60. Which of the following statements is true?
A.On No-car day, only the teachers can go to school in their cars.
B.In the clubs, students usually work together to make the earth less polluted.
C.The water in the toilet can fill a river.
D. Students can take their lunch in paper, so they can throw it after lunch.

 B
  Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning. Others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world.
  Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines of the passage.
  Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.
  Some newspapers are published once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.
  Today newspapers in English have the largest numbers of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21st Century. Also they bring us more and more information with the Internet.
61. From the passage we can see that ________ when people get newspapers.
   A. they read them very carefully  
   B. they just read the headlines
   C. not everyone reads all the pages  
   D. they have no time to read them
62. People read newspapers in order to                 .
   A. learn the latest news     
   B. meet their own different needs
   C. read the short stories    
   D. find the morning news
63. The underlined word “publish” means “________” in the passage.
    A. 出售    B. 印刷      C. 出版     D. 排版
64. Newspapers have so many pages because                .
   A. more and more people like to read them   
   B. people enjoy reading something different
   C. newspapers become cheaper            
   D. more pages mean more money
65.According to the passage, besides newspapers, people also get information from                   .
   A. magazines      B. advertisements  
   C. e-mails       D. the Internet
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