Ⅰ. 阅读下面的短文,从每题所给的选项中选出最佳选项补全短文
“Low carbon(低碳)” becomes the most popular words these days because more and more people pay attention to our environment. Not only China but all other 1 concentrate on the topic of “low carbon”. Low carbon life 2 a kind of lifestyle in which people do their best to use less energy. The purpose of the lifestyle is to push us to 3 the environment.
Because of the fast increase of population and human desire, the human living environment, health and safety are 4 worse and worse. So we can say, the lifestyle is becoming the killer of the earth and human beings. Therefore, low carbon life is needed by man’s own health. So we should develop good 5 in our daily life. For example, when we go shopping, we’d better use 6 plastic bags. We should eat more 7 and less meat. As for clothing, we’d better buy the necessary clothes and not buy clothes with animal leather. As for housing, when building a 8, we must use green material; buy the lights that need less energy and remember to 9 the lights when not needed; put rubbish into different kinds and recycle the useful things, like bottles and paper. As for transportation, we can 10 if you go to the places near your house. For short trips, we can ride a bike instead of driving a car. Try to use public transportations. As for working, companies should 11 clerks to use e-mail, MSN and other ways instead of using paper. We use paper only when necessary. For using 12 : If you don’t use your computer in a short time, you can change the computer into its “sleep”.
Besides, we should try 13 best to tell the people around us the importance of the low carbon lifestyle. And we can also ask them to 14 us to take the low carbon life, in this way, not only can we make our city better, 15 also it’s good for ourselves.
In all, it weighs greatly for all of us to put the low carbon lifestyle into practice.
()1. A. countries B. cities C. towns D. villages
()2. A. helps B. means C. lives D. thinks
()3. A. keep B. pollute C. protect D. make
()4. A. doing B. trying C. discovering D. becoming
()5. A. lists B. shops C. decisions D. habits
()6. A. more B. less C. fewer D. many
()7. A. tea B. vegetables C. meat D. food
()8. A. house B. bridge C. store D. market
()9. A. turn off B. turn on C. put off D. put on
()10. A. walk B. rush C. run D. drive
()11. A. make B. let C. see D. encourage
()12. A. machines B. lights C. beds D. computers
()13. A. ours B. we C. our D. us
()14. A. stop B. tell C. join D. hear
()15. A. so B. but C. and D. though

【解析】：1. 前文提到“Not only China”，中国是国家，所以此处应选“countries”，表示其他国家。2. “Low carbon life”与“a kind of lifestyle”是解释关系，“means”意为“意味着”符合语境。3. 低碳生活的目的是“保护环境”，“protect”正确。4. “worse and worse”是变化过程，“becoming”表示“变得”。5. 日常生活中应养成“习惯”，“habits”合适。6. “plastic bags”是可数名词复数，“less”修饰不可数名词，“fewer”修饰可数名词，低碳应少用塑料袋，选“fewer”。7. 与“less meat”对应，应多吃“vegetables”。8. “housing”相关，建造“house”符合。9. 不用灯时应“关掉”，“turn off”正确。10. 去附近地方，“walk”（步行）是低碳方式。11. 公司应“鼓励”职员用电子方式，“encourage”恰当。12. 后文提到“computer”，此处指使用“computers”。13. “try one's best”，“our”符合。14. 邀请他人“加入”低碳生活，“join”正确。15. “not only...but also...”是固定搭配。
【答案】：1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D 5.D 6.C 7.B 8.A 9.A 10.A 11.D 12.D 13.C 14.C 15.B