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Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don’t agree with them.

Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources(资源), we are short of(缺乏) others, for example, fresh water(淡水). It is reported that we will have no coal(煤) or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, what can we use in the future and where can we move? Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.

In our everyday life, we can do many things to prevent waste from happening, for example, turn off the water taps(水龙头) when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day, if we do our best.

根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。

1. From the passage we know that some students often _______ in the school.

A. eat too much B. don’t work hard

C. waste things D. throw rubbish everywhere

2. Which is not mentioned in this passage?

A. Fresh water. B. Forest. C. Oil. D. Coal.

3. What may happen in 100 years?

A. We may still have enough oil. B. We may still have enough coal.

C. We may have a little oil. D. We may have no coal or oil to use.

4. Which of the following is right?

A. Waste brings problems. B. Waste can bring no problem.

C. China is rich in fresh water. D. Students never waste things.

5. Which is the best title of this passage?

A. Stop Wasting B. School life

C. Waste in the School D. Rich Resources in China

B

I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the more wonderful thing in the world.

Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. ―But the desk,‖ she’d said again, ―it’s for Elizabeth. ‖

I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.

They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was ―too emotional(易动感情的)‖. But she lived ―on the surface(表面)‖.

As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive(原谅) me.

I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

My hope turned to disappointment(失望), then little interest and, finally, peace— it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

Now the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was