五、短文填空(本大题有10题，每小题1.5分，共15分)

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文内容和插图提示，在短文空白处填入适当的单词，每个空只能填写一个形式正确、意义相符的单词。

One day, a person who was famous (71)                growing the wonderful apple trees gave a farmer a young (72)                tree and told him how to plant it. The farmer was pleased with the gift, (73)                he was afraid that if he (74)                the tree near the road, strangers would take the fruit. If he planted the tree in the field, his neighbors would (75)                some of the apples. If he planted the tree near his house, his children would take the fruit. (76)                he planted the tree in his wood. Without sunlight and good soil, the tree soon (77)               .

Later the friend asked the farmer (78)                he had planted the tree in such a poor place. “What’s the difference?” the farmer said loudly and then told what he had thought.

“Yes,” said the friend, “but at (79)                someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you destroyed a good apple (80)               !”

六、读写综合(本大题分为A、B两部分，共20分)

A.信息归纳(共5小题，每小题1分，共5分)

请仔细阅读短文，然后按信息卡的要求填入相关的信息。

During the Spring Festival, people often prefer to try new things and to enjoy themselves a lot after one year’s hard work, but it has increased some unnecessary consumptions (消费) .

The “clear your plate” campaign (活动) started before the New Year, and runs through the two festivals. People began to think about their consumption patterns (模式), “to clear your plate” has become a more and more welcome “New Year Style”.

Reporters have learned from many restaurants in Lhasa city that during the New Year. Customers pay more attention to family get-together, and a lot of families will ask them to pack leftovers (剩菜) home after meals.

According to Mr. Zhou, a canteen manager at Central South University, said that students produce over 12 barrels (桶) of leftovers every day — each barrel stands at one meter in height. According to Xinhua News Agency, the food wasted by Chinese people equates to (相当于) about 50 million tons of grain every year, or 10 percent of the country’s total annual grain production.

Come on, dear friends. Let’s start with ourselves. Let’s stop throwing away food.

Information Card

The more and more welcome  “New Year Style” is  (81)                                        .

The way that people deal with the leftovers after meals in restaurants is to (82)                               after meals.

How many leftovers do the students in Central South University produce every day? (83)                                        .

The food wasted by Chinese people equates to about (84)                               every year.

For the campaign, we can start with ourselves and  (85)                                        .