考试吧：2011广西南宁中考《英语》试题及答案

　　七、阅读理解。(76～85小题，每题1分;86～90小题，每题2分，共20分)

　　1970 was World Conservation (保护) Year. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in dan?ger. They hoped that govemment(政府) would act quickly to conserve nature (保护自然) . Here is one example of the problem. At one time there were 1, 300 different plants, trees and flowers in Holland but now only 866 remain. The others have been destroyed(毁坏 )by modern man and his technolo?gy (技术). We are changing the earth, the air, water and eve?rything that grows and lives. We can’t live without these things. If things go like this, we shall destroy ourselves.

　　What will happen in the future? Perhaps it is more im?portant to ask： "What, must we do now?"The people who will be living in the world of tomorrow are the young of to?day. A lot of them know conservation is necessary. Many are helping to save our world. They plant trees, build bridges across rivers in forests, and so on. In a small town in the Li?nited States, a large number of girls cleaned the banks of 11 kilometres of their river. Young people may hear about con?servation through a record called"No one' s going to change our world "It was made by the Beatles, Cliff Richard and other singers. The money from it will help to conserve ani?mals.

　　根据短文内容，判断下列句子正误。正确的在括号内打“√”，错误的打“×”。

　　( ) 76. The United Nations wanted everybody to know that the world is dangerous.

　　( ) 77. There are fewer plants, trees and flowers in Hol?land because many kinds of plants, trees and flowers can't grow there any more.

　　( ) 78. We shall destroy ourselves if we are changing the earth, the air, water and everything that grows and lives.

　　( ) 79. The most important thing for us to do is to clean the banks of our rivers.

　　( ) 80. From this passage we know that we must con?serve nature.

　　B

　　Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He grew up in Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates was named William Henry after his father and grandfather. He was a very clever boy. His favourite subjects at school were science and maths. When people asked him what he wanted to be in the future, he always said, "A scientist. "

　　When he was 13 years old, Bill started to play with computers. At that time, computers were very large ma?chines. Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent lots of time doing unusual things with it. In the end, they worked out a software program(电脑软件程序 ) with the old machine. Bill sold it for 4, 200 dollars when he was only 17.

　　In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University. At Harvard, he developed the BASIC language for the 'first microcomputer(微型计算机). In his third year, he left Harvard to work for a company called Microsoft(微软公司). Bill began this company in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. They thought that the computer would be a very important tool in every office and in every home, so they began developing software for personal computers. They improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers.

　　In 1999, Bill wrote a book called Business @ the Speed of Thought. In the book he told people how computer tech-nology(技术) could solve business problems in new ways. It was one on the bestsellers of the New York Times list.

　　Bill married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have two children： a daughter and a son. Bill enjoys reading very much. He also enjoys playing golf and bridge.

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