Erhai Lake in Dali city is the second largest freshwater lake of Yunnan province. It’s a famous attraction, as well as Dali’s main source of drinking water.
The lake used to be seriously polluted due to the rapid development of tourism and the local economy. Since 2018, local authorities have been building an environmental protection system for the lake, the Erhai Lake Ecological Corridor (生态廊道), to protect it from being polluted and to improve local ecosystem. The project contains five parts: a 129-km road around the entire lake, a pipe system to stop waste water flowing into the like, the removal of 1,806 families who lived within the protection area, the protection of the lake’s wetlands and ecosystem, and the construction of experimental fields for wetland research.
By the end of 2020, the road around the lake had been basically completed. A 12-km part of the Corridor has been open to the public for free since September 2020 for a test operation. The Corridor is described as a “pearl necklace” surrounding the lake, with the villages located along the shore of Erhai Lake being the “pearls”. These villages benefit from the project financially, as they are linked and gain access to transportation and tourism around the lake.
According to staff members of the project, the lake’s water quality has already improved a lot during the construction of the Corridor. More wild birds fly to the lake and there is less unwanted plants in the water. It is also providing a good sight-seeing place for both the city’s residents and foreign tourists.
1. Why was the Erhai Lake Ecological Corridor built?| A．To protect the wild birds. | B．To treat waste water. |
| C．To attract foreign tourists. | D．To preserve local ecology. |
| A．Encouraging residents to settle around Erhai. |
| B．Helping scientists conduct wetland research. |
| C．Removing the waste water from Erhai Lake. |
| D．Promoting construction in the protection area. |
| A．They provide tourism opportunities. | B．They focus on the pearl industry. |
| C．They bring benefits to the city area. | D．They make a profit from the project. |
| A．It works unexpectedly. | B．It needs improving. |
| C．It turns out to be good. | D．It brings side effects. |
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【推荐1】A Danish company named Too Good To Go has been working to combat food waste in the United States and around the world. In the U. S., more than a third of food produced goes uneaten, contributing to environmental issues. Too Good To Go addresses this problem by partnering with restaurants to sell their end-of-day leftovers at discounts, typically ranging from 60% to 80% off.
The app of the same name, which started in Denmark in 2015, has expanded to 17 countries and multiple U. S. cities, including New York, Phoenix, and Seattle, with Los Angeles proving to be one of its most successful markets. The company is now looking to expand its footprint in the southeast.
While the cost savings for customers and businesses are significant, the primary focus of Too Good To Go is reducing food waste, which is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The app allows users to track their environmental impact by displaying the electricity and carbon emissions prevented through their purchases. To date, the app claims to have saved over 250 million meals, making a substantial impact.
Food waste contributes to climate change in several ways, including the emission of methane gas from rotting food in landfills, the resources used to grow the food, and the energy expended in food transportation and preparation. Too Good To Go estimates that its efforts are equal to taking about 135, 000 cars off the road for a year, and it plays a crucial role in addressing the approximately 6% of total greenhouse gas emissions caused by food loss and waste in the U. S.
Alexandria Coari, the vice president of food waste nonprofit ReFED, recognizes the potential of apps like Too Good To Go. She believes that they have the capacity to reduce the carbon emissions equal to 870, 000 cars in a year, positioning them as one of the top 10 solutions to combating food waste and climate change.
While the app has been successful in the restaurant industry, its expansion into grocery stores and manufacturing is still a work in progress.
1. What do we know about the app Too Good To Go?| A．It primarily operates in Los Angeles. |
| B．It has saved over 250 million dollars so far. |
| C．It focuses on fighting against food waste. |
| D．It helps sell fresh groceries at full price. |
| A．To show the environmental impact of the app. |
| B．To highlight the cost savings for customers. |
| C．To emphasize the company’s expansion plans. |
| D．To illustrate the app’s success in reducing resources. |
| A．Skeptical | B．Negative. | C．Neutral. | D．Supportive. |
| A．The history of food waste reduction efforts. |
| B．Challenges Too Good To Go’s expansion faces. |
| C．The impact of climate change on the food industry. |
| D．Strategies for reducing food waste in grocery stores. |
【推荐2】A rainforest is an area covered by tall trees with the total high rainfall spreading quite equally through the year and the temperature rarely dipping below16℃. Rainforests have a great effect on the world environment because they can take in heat from the sun and adjust the climate. Without the forest cover, these areas would reflect more heat into the atmosphere, warming the rest of the world. Losing the rainforests may also influence wind and rainfall patterns, potentially causing certain natural disasters all over the world.
In the past hundred years, humans have begun destroying rainforests in search of three major resources: land for crops, wood for paper and other products, land for raising farm animals. This action affects the environment as a whole. For example, a lot of carbon dioxide（二氧化碳）in the air comes from burning the rainforests. People obviously have a need for the resources we gain from cutting trees but we will suffer much more than we will benefit.
There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, when people cut down trees generally they can only use the land for a year or two. Secondly, cutting large sections of rainforests may provide a good supply of wood right now, but in the long run it actually reduces the world’s wood supply.
Rainforests are often called the world’s drug store. More than 25% of the medicines we use today come from plants in rainforests. However, fewer than 1% of rainforest plants have been examined for their medical value. It is extremely likely that our best chance to cure diseases lies somewhere in the world’s shrinking rainforests.
1. Why can rainforests help to adjust the climate?| A．They reflect more heat into the atmosphere. |
| B．They bring about high rainfall throughout the world. |
| C．They rarely cause the temperature to drop lower than 16℃. |
| D．They reduce the effect of heat from the sun on the earth. |
| A．We will lose much more than we can gain. |
| B．Humans have begun destroying rainforests. |
| C．People have a strong desire for resources. |
| D．Much carbon dioxide comes from burning rainforests. |
| A．We can get enough resources without rainforests. |
| B．There is great medicine potential in rainforests. |
| C．We will grow fewer kinds of crops in the gained land. |
| D．The level of annual rainfall affects wind patterns. |
| A．How can we save rainforests. | B．How can we protect Nature. |
| C．It is about rainforests and the environment. | D．It is about rainforests and medical development. |
【推荐3】During the 20th century, an estimated 3 million great whales were hunted to provide humans with oil, meat and rose fertiliser. Roger Payne, a biologist and environmentalist, spurred (推动) a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing.
This discovery was made in 1967 during his research trip to Bermuda (百慕大) when a navy engineer provided him with a recording of curious underwater sounds documented. Payne identified the tones as songs whales sing to one another and he was conscious from the start that whale song was to get the public interested in protecting an animal previously considered little more than a resource, curiosity or nuisance.
Payne saw the discovery of whale song as a chance to spur interest in saving the giant animals, who were disappearing from the planet. In 1970, Payne released the album Songs of the Humpback Whale. The record, a surprise hit, fueled a global movement to end the practice of commercial whale hunting and save the whales from extinction. It remains the bestselling environmental album in history.
The impact of the whale song discovery on the early environmental movement was immense. Many antiwar protesters of the day took on saving animals and the environment as a new cause. The humpback whale became the icon of a new environmental awareness. And the whales entered pop culture, no longer the fearsome beasts. In 1977, the whale calls were loaded on to the Voyager probes and sent into outer space.
Payne, graduating from Harvard University and Cornell University with a doctor’s degree, authored or co authored dozens of scientific papers, gave hundreds of lectures, made countless television programmes and films, and led 100 oceanic expeditions. Payne had started an ambitious new project: CETI, a combination of scientists using new technology to interpret what whales might be “saying”.
1. What caused the decline of the whale population in the 20th century?| A．Habitat loss. | B．The climate change. |
| C．Uncontrolled hunting. | D．The ocean pollution. |
| A．To boost interest in protecting whales. | B．To satisfy people’s curiosity about sea. |
| C．To achieve great commercial success. | D．To earn a reputation as a researcher. |
| A．Considerate. | B．Accomplished. |
| C．Courageous. | D．Patient. |
| A．The conservation of ocean environment. |
| B．Efforts to awake public ocean awareness. |
| C．A high-tech way to document whale tones. |
| D．A whale protection campaign by a biologist. |
【推荐1】Have you ever tried to wear a historical object? On 12 September, 2021, in the finale of China Trending Now. a hip Chinese reality show, an inventive participant chose to integrate motifs from Sanxingdui, an ancient Bronze Age culture from Sichuan Province, with today’s fashion technology.
Historic designs are generating interest in China. Over the past year, more people have visited museums online than in real life. And the number of visits to museum design stores on Tmall alone has topped 1.6 billion. Of these visits, 100 million users were born in the 1990s.
In 2013, the Palace Museum in Beijing first demanded product design ideas from the public for a cultural and creative design competition. According to Wang Yamin, executive deputy director of the Palace Museum in 2017 alone it launched some 10,000 types of cultural and creative products, earning an income of more than 1 billion RMB.
After witnessing the huge commercial potential of cultural and creative products, many other Chinese museums have followed the Palace Museum’s example. The Sanxingdui Museum announced its take-on Sanxingdui masks, with toy character designs inspired by Sanxingdui cultural relics. The Dunhuang Academy launched a Tianlong Babu blind box, a gift box with a random (随机的) collection inside,based on its frescoes(壁画). The Henan Museum launched an archaeological blind box complete with mini play drilling tools that consumers must use to access the toys inside.
The trend has been boosted by museum-related reality shows. On the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City, its museum worked with Beijing TV on a reality show titled New Cultural Relics: Forbidden City. Researchers carefully explained the historical origins of each cultural and creative product featured to celebrities. This educational exercise mixed modern elements with traditional culture helping to immerse a new generation in the museum’s cultural stories.
1. The question at the beginning of the passage is to______| A．survey readers’ related knowledge | B．introduce the topic |
| C．compare different museums | D．encourage people to watch the show |
| A．cultural and creative products are gaining popularity among youths |
| B．young people tend to buy items online instead of visiting physical stores |
| C．museums have more opportunities for profit by opening design stores |
| D．museums top the list of must-go places for Generation Z |
| A．A gift box | B．A toy character mask |
| C．An archaeological blind box | D．An ancient bronze tool |
| A．it was based on history | B．it was participated by celebrities |
| C．it was a documentary shot by a famous director | D．people will gain much knowledge after watching it |
【推荐2】As we all know, the war is an ancient custom which has existed for at least six thousand years. It was always evil and usually foolish, but in the past the human race managed to live with it. Modern skill has changed this. Either man will stop war, or war will stop man. For the present, it is nuclear weapons that cause the greatest danger, but bacteriological (细菌学的) or chemical weapons may, before long, offer an even greater threat. Is it possible to persuade mankind to live without war? If we succeeded in stopping war, there would be no danger for us. To do this, we need to persuade mankind to look upon international questions in a new way, not by contests of force, in which the victory goes to the side which is most skillful in massacre (大屠杀), but by arbitration (仲裁) in accordance with agreed principles of law. It is not easy to change old mental habits, but this is what must be attempted.
There are those who say that the adoption of this or that ideology (意识形态) would prevent war. I believe this to be a complete error. All ideologies are based upon beliefs without proof which are, at least, doubtful, and at worst, totally false. Those people who believe them are willing to go to war in support of them.
The movement of world opinion during the past two years has changed dramatically, which we can welcome. It has become a common belief that nuclear war must be avoided. Of course, very difficult problems remain in the international world, but the spirit in which they are being approached is a better one than it was some years ago. It has begun to be thought, even by the powerful men who decide whether we shall live or die, that agreements should be reached even if both sides do not find these agreements wholly satisfactory. It has begun to be understood that the important conflict nowadays is not between East and West, but between Man and the Hi-tech bomb.
1. The author of the passage believe that________.| A．it is impossible to live without war |
| B．differences between East and West will lead to war |
| C．war will be stopped by modern skill |
| D．war must be stopped if man wants to survive |
| A．To stop nuclear weapons. |
| B．To settle international issues through agreements. |
| C．To destroy bacteriological and chemical weapons. |
| D．To let the stronger side take over the world. |
| A．nuclear war will definitely not take place |
| B．real agreements have been reached now |
| C．world opinion is still divided on nuclear war |
| D．man is beginning to realize that nuclear war is the greatest enemy |
| A．Hopeful. | B．Doubtful. |
| C．Worried. | D．Disappointed. |
【推荐3】Football fans can hardly accuse Qatar of being tight-fisted. The Arab state has reportedly spent $ 300bn in the 12 years since it won the rights to host the men’s World Cup. It only expects the tournament to invest $ 17bn back into its economy. Much of that spending has gone into building infrastructure, including an advanced new metro system built to accommodate the 1.5m visitors expected to show up to football’s biggest party. Organisers insist all the construction will serve a purpose even after the final goals are scored.
Between 1964 and 2018, 31 out of 36 big events (such as World Cups or Summer and Winter Olympics) suffered heavy losses, according to researchers at the University of Lausanne. Of the 14 World Cups they analyzed, only one has ever been profitable: Russia’s in 2018 generated a surplus (盈余)of ＄235m, buoyed by a huge deal for broadcasting rights. Still, the tournament only managed a 4.6% return on investment. [The data for Mexico’s World Cup in 1986 is incomplete. It probably ran a deficit (赤字).]
Almost all the main expenses fall on the host country. FIFA, the sport’s governing body, covers only operational costs. Yet it takes home most of the revenue (收入): ticket sales, sponsorships and broadcasting rights go into its coffers (金库). The last World Cup, for instance, scored FIFA a cool $5.4bn, part of which is then transferred to national teams.
The Lausanne data only includes expenses related to venues, such as constructing a stadium, and logistics (后勤), such as staffing costs. It ignores the value of indirect projects, like Qatar’s metro infrastructure and new hotels. Some infrastructure projects make economies more productive in the long term.
Residents of host cities have begun questioning the benefits of their governments spending billions of dollars on large sporting events. As a result, fewer countries are volunteering as hosts. Seven cities bid to host the Summer Olympic Games in 2016; for 2024 there were only two eventual bidders.
These huge costs are new to the sporting world. The World Cup in 1966, featuring 16 teams, cost around $ 200,000 per footballer (in 2018 prices). In 2018, that figure jumped to $ 7m. Costs have been driven by building more new stadiums for every tournament. In Qatar, seven of the eight stadiums have been built from scratch; in 1966 England did not build any.
1. What does Qatar expect the event to do?| A．Show the economic power. | B．Improve future productivity. |
| C．Please global football fans. | D．Make up for the investment. |
| A．Backed. | B．Increased. | C．Controlled. | D．Treated. |
| A．FIFA. | B．Local government. |
| C．The host country. | D．International teams. |
| A．Because of maintaining seven new stadiums. |
| B．Because it makes the least profit from the event. |
| C．Because of the improving cost of each footballer. |
| D．Because of building new infrastructure and courts. |
