It’s our hope that the calculator will promote action, awareness and empowerment by showing you that one person can make a difference and help stop global warming.
There are many simple things you can do in your daily life—what you eat, what you drive, how you build your home—that can have an effect on your immediate surroundings, and on places as far away as Antarctica. Here is a list of things that you can do to make a difference.
Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Replace 3 frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. Save 300lbs (pounds) of carbon dioxide and $60 per year.
Use Recycled Paper
Make sure your printer paper is 100% post consumer recycled paper. Save 5lbs of carbon dioxide per ream of paper.
Take Shorter Showers
Showers account for 2/3 of all water heating costs. Save 350 lbs of carbon dioxide and $99 per year.
Buy Products Locally
Buy locally and reduce the amount of energy required to drive your products to your home.
Carpool When You Can
Own a big vehicle？Carpooling with friends and co-workers saves fuel. Save 790 lbs of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.
Don’t Idle in Your Car
Idling wastes money and gas, and generates pollution and global warming causing emissions. Except when in traffic, turn your engine off in you must wait for more than 30 seconds.
Buy Organic food
The chemicals used in modern agriculture pollute the water supply, and require energy to produce.
Turn Off Your Computer
Shut off your computer when not in use, and save 200 lbs of carbon dioxide. Conserve energy by using your computer’s “sleep mode” instead of a screensaver.
With a Stop Global Warming calculator which costs you only $50 in hand, you will find what you do does count.
小題1: The Stop Global Warming calculator can serve the following purposes EXCEPT __________.
A．introducing the ways of saving carbon dioxide
B．Telling how to save money in your daily life
C．promoting action, awareness and empowerment and helping stop global warming
D．introducing how global warming is formed
小題2: How many tips are related to cars?__________.
A．1B．2C．3D．4
小題3: Which of the following is NOT true according to the list of tips? ___________.
A．Using a screensaver instead of the computer’s “sleep mode”
B．Buying products in the neighborhood
C．Using recycled printer paper
D．Replacing frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs
小題4:What does the underlined word “carpooling” mean according to the passage?____.
A．Changing your big vehicle into a small one with your friends and co-workers
to save fuel
B．Going to the pool with your friends and co-workers by car
C．Trying to share a big vehicle with your friends to save fuel
D．Washing the car in a pool by yourself instead of having it washed by your
friends and co-workers
小題5:  What is the purpose of the author writing this passage?___________.
A．Giving people tips on how to save money in life
B．Telling people how to be environment-friendly
C．Promoting the product “Stop Global Warming calculator”
D．Telling people how to prevent carbon dioxide from being released

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C
小題5:C

小題1:排除題，從文章第一段可以排除A、B、C，只有D正確。
小題2:從這兩段Carpool When You Can ，Don’t Idle in Your Car看出和騎車(chē)有關(guān)的措施有兩個(gè)。所以選B。
小題3:排除題：B項(xiàng)是在Buy Products Locally出現(xiàn)的。C項(xiàng)是在Use Recycled Paper找到的。D項(xiàng)Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs出現(xiàn)的。所以選:A
小題4:猜詞題：從Carpooling with friends and co-workers saves fuel. Save 790 lbs of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.看出是和朋友，同事拼車(chē)。C正確。
小題5:主旨題：根據(jù)第一段內(nèi)容：The Stop Global Warming calculator shows you how much carbon dioxide you can prevent from being released into the atmosphere and how much money you can save by making some small changes in your daily life.和全篇文章，可知選C。
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B．He wanted to practice his skill
C．He was so much attracted by it.
D．He was eager to do an experiment.
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B．In a computer company.
C．In a scientific research center.
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D．a(chǎn)s high as any other honor
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B．Two-year-old baby girls sometimes play with cars and balls.
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The Japanese company Combiwith created a system—“talking picture”. It makes people in pictures speak!
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“The pictures would be useful for those who hope to hear the voice of someone living far away,” said Mayumi Fuji, a spokeswoman for the company. “Grandparents, for example, longing to know about their grandchildren, would be happy to hear their voice when they see the picture,” Fuji said.
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Now, just raise a finger, lonely people can have their loved ones speak out of pictures. But, whether the “talking picture” is practical or not, let’s wait and see.
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C．The picture can tell you wonderful stories to ease your pain.
D．The picture can tell what’s on your mind when you are looking at it.
小題2:If you want to make a talking picture, you need to ________.
A．take a picture and record what you want to say with the company
B．make special barcodes onto your picture
C．a(chǎn) pen—shaped scanner to go with the picture
D．All of the above
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A．The talking picture system can play messages for 12 minutes at most.
B．It will cost you more to take a larger talking picture.
C．It might take a lot of trouble to make a talking picture.
D．You can make a talking picture by just raising a finger.
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A．use the computer and the Internet regularly
B．a(chǎn)sk their parents to buy them cell-phones
C．buy iPods to listen to music
D．go to libraries to read more books
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A．They want their children to be cool.
B．They think cell-phones be helpful to their study.
C．They want to keep in touch with their children.
D．They want their children to keep up to date.
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A．cell-phones can be used to cheat on exams
B．schoolchildren will send messages during class
C．cell-phones can be used to record lessons
D．schoolchildren might talk on them during class
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B．iPods can be helpful for children’s education.
C．iPods can be used to play games.
D．iPods are necessary for children’s lives.
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A．to introduce how hard to be a special education teacher.
B．to think highly of the children with disabilities.
C．to show the disabled have much trouble in understanding.
D．to call on the society to care for the disabled.
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A．won’t work as hard as a normal.
B．will work double as hard as a normal.
C．will be as patient as the normal.
D．will think of his disability first.
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A．have a hard time using the language.
B．be too foolish to learn maths .
C．not understand what others are saying.
D．have a lot of trouble in remembering words.
小題4:Before you intend to blame a kid receiving special education, __________.
A．you should try to understand what he is saying.
B．you should imagine the world he lives in.
C．you should imagine yourself in his shoes.
D．you should think of the education he has received.

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