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阅读理解1. Buying is Doing?How important is shopping to you? How much time do you spend buying things? And how much time do you spend organizing these things in your home? In the future, how much time will you spend in movietheaters, atamusement parks, at shopping malls, or at convenience stores? When you add it all up, you willprobably seeyou spend a lot of your life consuming（消费）things. Consuming products is not necessarily bad. However, ifwe spend too much time doing it, we should look at it carefully.Imagine thatyou have a week off from school. You dont have to go to class. However, in this week, you cannot spend any money - no shopping, no movies, no eating out. How would you spend your time?What thingswould bring you happiness? Perhaps you would take a walk with your best friend. Perhaps you would help a child read. Or you might spend time with your family.When we lookback,it is likely that non-consuming experiences like these will be our most important memories. Why? Non-consuming activities are active, not passive. They dont come in a package. You makethe experience yourself. For example, each person who reads to a child will have a different experience. Theexperience changes with the reader, the child, and the book. Similarly, when you have a conversation with afriend, you are actively creating an experience. The conversation that you have with your friend cannot beexperienced or recreated by anyone else. However, if you watch a movie with a friend, you will each have apackage experience. It requires no action and little interaction between the two of you.The environment welive in encourages us to have packaged experiences. We feel that we must consumebecause we believe that buying is doing. However, we can start a personal revolution（变革）againstconsumerism. How? By consuming less. We can ask ourselves what experiences bring us the greatestsatisfaction. Then we can organize our lives so that we have more of those kinds of experiences.1. If consuming products takes too much time, we should _.A. spend less money B. think about it carefullyC. organize our things D. go to convenience stores2. According to the passage, the writer believes that _.A. we can say no to consumerism by consuming lessB. buying things can bring us the greatest satisfactionC. the environment seldom influences our shopping choicesD. consuming experiences will be our most important memories3. What is the writers main purpose in writing this passage?A. To introduce some ways of enjoying our spare time.B. To encourage people to have more active experiences.C. To explain reasons behind peoples shopping behavior.D. To share his personal experience in consuming products.2On my recent trip to Sydney with my parents, we visited the Wildlife Park.The Wildlife Park has lots of different animals and birds. Some are native (当地的) to Australiaand can only be found there. There are over 600 animals there, including kangaroos, koalas and crocodiles (鳄鱼). They are kept in their natural environment. I like the Wildlife Park better than a zoo where most of the animals are in cages (笼子).We first spent some time with the kangaroos. We were allowed to touch and feed them. It was very exciting to be so close to them. There were koalas there too. They looked very cuddly (令人想拥抱的). Although we were not allowed to carry them, I got to take a photo with one. It is a wonderful souvenir (纪念品) of my holiday in Sydney.The Wildlife Park has plenty of freshwater and saltwater crocodiles. Some of them are really big and scary (吓人的) with huge teeth! I did not want to get too close to them.There was also a bird show. The keepers showed us different species (种类) they had. I saw an old parrot which could “talk”. It made a great impression on me.I enjoyed the trip very much. There was so much to see.1. Where is the Wildlife Park?A. In Sydney.B. In Cairo.C. In Athens.D. In Rome.2. What is a wonderful souvenir of the writers holiday?A. A parrot that could talk.B. A chance to feed a koala.C. A photo with a koala.D. Food for the kangaroos.3. Why didnt the writer want to get very close to the crocodiles?A. They lived in water.B. The writer was afraid of them.C. The writer did not want to feed them.D. The writer did not like the smell of saltwater.4. Which of the following is true?A. The kangaroos are kept in cages in the Wildlife Park