Sea turtles (海龟) live in the sea most of the time. The beaches in Florida are home to sea turtles. Female sea turtles come here from the ocean to lay eggs. Then they return to the ocean. However, the number of some of these turtle species is falling. They are in danger. So people in Florida work together as a community to protect them.
Some volunteers take direct action to help the turtles. They look closely at the sand to find out where the sea turtles lay their eggs. Then they help bury (埋藏) the eggs in order to save them from being destroyed. They also help people who are studying sea turtles.
Florida’s government has passed laws to save the turtles. One of these laws is “Florida’s Marine Turtle Protection Act”. This law prevents anyone from destroying sea turtles nests or eggs. It helps protect the turtles from dying out.
People also work together to save the turtles through organizations (组织) like the Sea Turtle Conservancy. For example, the bright light from buildings near the beach can influence sea turtles. The baby turtles may get lost. Many of them do not make it to the ocean and die. The Sea Turtle Conservancy works with house owners to make the lighting in their buildings sea turtle-friendly. They also advise people to turn off their lights at night if they live close to a beach.
In a word, everyone can do their part to protect sea turtles and their living places. People in Florida can work as volunteers to clean up the beaches and pick up their own litter. Everyone in the community has the power to make a difference!
1. What does the underlined word “They” in Paragraph 2 refer to?| A．Some volunteers. | B．Sea turtles. | C．Sea turtle eggs. | D．Communities. |
| A．Pass laws. | B．Bury the eggs. | C．Study turtles. | D．Set up organizations. |
| A．The bright light has a bad influence on sea turtles. |
| B．The baby turtles are in danger of getting lost. |
| C．The Sea Turtle Conservancy offers help to save sea turtles. |
| D．People who live near beaches turn off their lights at night. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
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【推荐1】One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order—borrow at least one book from the library for the summer. This was one more way for her to solve my strange problem—inability to read.
In the library, I found my way into the “Children’s Room.” I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf. The cover of a book caught my eyes. There on the book’s cover was a beagle which looked the same as my dog. I had recently had a beagle. He was my best friend, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the time to care for him. I never forgot my beagle.
My eyes ran across the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan. Unknowingly, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library.
Under a tree, I started to read about Amos, I read very, very slowly with difficulty. Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion(团聚), on and on, until my own lost dog and I were running together.
My mother’s call returned me to the real world. I suddenly realized something had read a book, and I had loved reading that book.
I never told my mother what happened that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable progress in my classroom performance. And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books.
1. Why did the writer’s mother tell him to borrow books?| A．To encourage him to read more books. | B．To help him solve his reading problem. |
| C．To let him spend a meaningful summer. | D．To make him learn more about the world. |
| A．A book with a cover picture of a dog. | B．A place named “Children’s Room”. |
| C．The boy’s best friend called Beagle. | D．The interesting story in the book. |
| A．His eyes opened widely. | B．He didn’t want to read. |
| C．He could read it without difficulty. | D．He tried very hard to understand the title. |
| A．He was forced by his mother to read it. | B．The sad ending of the story attracted him. |
| C．The book was easy enough for him to read. | D．The book told a similar story of his own dog. |
| A．My Mum’s order. | B．My Happy Summer. |
| C．How I loved Beagles. | D．How I loved Reading. |
【推荐2】What do you usually do with your pocket money? Hunter Mitchell, an eleven-year-old boy in South Africa, has used his to save a rhino (犀牛).
On Christmas Day 2015, Mitchell heard about Osita, a baby rhino. Its mother left him in the middle of the night. Without help, the cute baby rhino would soon die (死). Mitchell wanted to save the poor animal.
The boy used his pocket money to send Osita to an animal park in South Africa. Later, he raised (筹集) money from his family and friends. Then he set up a Facebook page. To his surprise, Mitchell got more than $7,000 for the rhino. Mitchell visits Osita every weekend, playing with it and feeding it. The rhino grows up happily and healthily with Mitchell’s help.
Mitchell didn’t stop here. He then kept saving more rhinos. The boy also learned a lot about wild (野生的) animals. Every year, people kill many of them. Mitchell wants to stop this. He spoke to more than 10,000 school children around the world. He hopes more kids will help to save wild animals.
“Keeping wild animals safe needs many warriors (勇士). I will always be one of them, ” Mitchell said. Now Mitchell is working on a storybook about wild animals.
1. When did Mitchell hear about Osita?| A．On December 25. | B．On November 13. | C．On November 25. | D．On October 15. |
| A．How Mitchell got his pocket money. | B．What Mitchell did to save the rhino. |
| C．What Mitchell likes to do in his free time. | D．Why Mitchell wanted to help wild animals. |
①Mitchell spoke to children around the world.
②Osita became a member of an animal park.
③Mitchell heard the news about a baby rhino.
④Mitchell learned about the wild animals.
| A．③①④② | B．③②④① | C．④③①②. | D．②④③① |
| A．Smart. | B．Shy. | C．Kind. | D．Strict. |
| A．Osita, a baby rhino | B．The way to be a warrior | C．Wild animals in Africa | D．Love for wild animals |
【推荐3】It's a common belief that over time, pet owners start to look like their animals. Now comes the terrifying news that cats look up to their owners as role models and copy their behaviour.
Next time you reach for your fridge, think twice. If your cat is watching, she will probably overeat as well.
In a new study from the University of Messina, it turns out that indoor cats who live closely to their owners “mirror” the lives of their caregivers. They sleep at the same time, eat at the same time, and can even become more or less social depending on the behaviour of their owners.
“Cats are clever animals with a long memory,” Jane Brunt, director of the Catalyst Council, told Discovery News. “They watch and learn from us, noting the patterns of our actions, knowing where their food is kept and what time to expect to be fed, how to open the cupboard door that's been improperly closed, and where their feeding and toileting areas are.” Because cats copy our habits, if you spend a lot of time raiding(搜刮)the fridge, your cat will return to its food bowl for that midnight snack, too. According to the study, this explains why “human and cat overweight rates often seem to match”．
There's no word if drinking green tea and making sure you go to yoga will benefit (使受益) your cat, but based on the study, it sounds like sticking to a healthy eating and sleeping habit is best for both of you.
There's a lot we can learn from our cats in return. “When they sit softly breathing , eyes halfclosed, the sense of peace and calm that comes over us is like a private less on in inner meditation(冥想)，”Brunt said. They're probably pretty good at remaining calm.
So, according to science, though we think that cats are not close to us all these years, it turns out they are in fact learning from us and looking up to us. Scary, huh?
1. According to the passage, which of the following is Wrong?| A．Cats can copy humans' behaviours. |
| B．Cats are smart and have a long memory. |
| C．Green tea and yoga can benefit cats. |
| D．Humans can learn from cats in some way. |
| A．Humans' keeping searching the fridge. |
| B．Humans' drinking green tea and going to yoga |
| C．Cats' copying humans' habit of looking for food. |
| D．Cats' going to their owners for food. |
| A．To remain peaceful. | B．To be able to copy. |
| C．To stay hungry. | D．To look up to friends. |
| A．Your cat can bring you pleasure | B．You are copying your cat |
| C．You can make your cat social | D．Your cat is copying your habit |
【推荐1】The Spring Festival is the biggest festival for Chinese people all around the world. The celebration usually lasts for 15 days.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, family members get together and have big meals. Their favorite dish on this day is dumplings. Days before the Spring Festival, families will clean their homes. People think cleaning sweeps away bad luck. It makes the house ready for good luck.
The color red is everywhere during the Spring Festival. People think red is a happy color and will bring them a bright future. People wear red, too. They decorate (装饰) their homes with pieces of red paper. Kids can also get red packets from older people. A red packet is a red paper bag with some lucky money in it.
The Spring Festival is the time to make everybody happy. So don’t say any bad words or do anything that will bring unhappiness to other people. For example, you’d better not say any bad words like “death”. Also, don’t borrow or lend money on these days. If you have borrowed money, return it before the Spring Festival.
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1. What do most people do on the eve of the Spring Festival?
| A．Family members gather for a big meal. | B．Friends eat Beijing duck together. |
| C．They give each other some flowers. | D．Family members go shopping together. |
| A．Because it is believed that cleaning will sweep away bad luck. |
| B．Because they think that cleaning brings in money. |
| C．Because they think it will bring happiness to others. |
| D．Because they think it is a kind of exercise. |
| A．对联 | B．红包 | C．红灯笼 | D．红腰带 |
| A．Returning money before the Spring Festival. |
| B．Having a big meal with family. |
| C．Decorating houses with red paper. |
| D．Saying some bad words like “death”. |
| A．The Spring Festival is celebrated for one whole month. |
| B．The Spring Festival is an important festival for Chinese people. |
| C．The Spring Festival is only celebrated in China. |
| D．The Spring Festival is only popular with the old. |
【推荐2】Imagine a tiny robot crawling (爬) through your body, helping doctors with their work. It’s not from a science novel. Doctors are now using robots to do operations (手术). This is because robots can do some work that doctors can’t. The robots carry small cameras, which allow doctors to look inside patients’ bodies. The robots also have tiny scissors and other tools. “It’s like having little hands inside the patients,” said Dr. Wang from a hospital in Beijing.
Here’s how they work: The doctor makes a small cut in a patient. Then, the doctor puts the robot through the cut. Next, the doctor controls the robot to reach where it needs to go. Finally, with the help of the robot, the doctor looks inside the patient’s body and begins to work.
The robots have many advantages for doctors and patients. They help cut medical costs and make difficult operations quicker and easier. They allow doctors to operate with less damage (伤害) to patients’ bodies, too. This helps them to get over faster.
However, the robots aren’t perfect. They can be expensive. What’s more, they are just tools to help humans, and they must be used by skilled doctors. Even the best robots can’t do everything that humans can do.
Scientists are working to make robots smarter. Someday, robots may do even more than expected for humans.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。1. The robots carry _________ to help doctors look inside patients’ bodies.
| A．small cameras | B．little hands | C．common tools | D．tiny scissors |
a. Look inside the patient’s body and begin to work.
b. Control the robot to reach where it needs to go.
c. Put the robot into the patient’s body through the cut.
d. Make a small cut.
| A．d→b→c→a | B．d→c→a→b | C．d→a→c→b | D．d→c→b→a |
| A．The size of the robots. | B．The future of the robots. |
| C．The costs of the robots. | D．The advantages of the robots. |
| A．Doctors have to be experienced to use the robot helpers. |
| B．Operations with robots as doctors’ helpers can be less expensive. |
| C．Robots can do operations without doctors. |
| D．Robots can only carry cameras for doctors to look inside the patients’ bodies. |
| A．Doctors Cut Medical Costs |
| B．Scientists Make Robots Smarter |
| C．Robots Help Doctors with Operations |
| D．Patients Do More than Expected |
【推荐3】Nowadays the pollution of the sea is becoming an increasingly serious problem. How can we reduce the pollution in the sea and make the underwater environment better? Scientists in Norway have invented an underwater robot, which can help a lot.
The robot is 45 kg in weight and uses special cameras to get 3D pictures. It can discover different kinds of pollution at the bottom of the sea. It will help clean-up teams find the areas, where there is rubbish and then they can spend most of their time and money removing the most harmful materials.
The researchers (研究员) put their work to the test in a bay (海湾) in the city of Bergen. First, the robot swam up and down two meters above the seabed, collecting information. Then a computer turned the information into a map, which showed different rubbish materials in different colors. Thousands of objects were discovered in the bay, including bottles, metals, plastics, etc. “Bergen is a place where different industries come together, and the city is quite old, so there’s a huge amount of rubbish,” said Trygve Olav Fossum, one of the researchers. “We think the rubbish in the bay weighs 150 tons to 300 tons.” It is not always possible to remove everything. Some things are more harmful so it’s more important to clear them from the sea.
“Glass isn’t really polluting the sea,” said Fossum. “So if you know there’s an area with a lot of glass, you don’t need to worry much about that and you can pay more attention to the things that are putting heavy metals into the environment.” The maps will be used to help the clean-up teams locate (定位) the most harmful materials so that they can remove them first.
Thanks to the development of the science and technology, the underwater environment can be improved a lot. As well as helping to deal with pollution, the robot can also show where creatures like starfish are on the seabed.
1. How does the writer start the passage?| A．Listing plans. | B．Showing steps. | C．Raising a question. | D．Giving suggestions. |
①take pictures ②swim underwater ③make a map ④remove rubbish ⑤discover pollution
| A．①②⑤ | B．①②③ | C．②③④ | D．②③⑤ |
| A．Clean-up teams want to recycle the rubbish. |
| B．The underwater pollution catches much attention. |
| C．The robot discovered much different rubbish in the bay. |
| D．People shouldn’t throw harmful materials into the sea. |
| A．To show it is always possible to remove everything. |
| B．To explain how serious the water pollution is in the bay. |
| C．To tell us the most harmful things should be removed first. |
| D．To call on clean-up teams to pay more attention to removing glass. |
【推荐1】On the morning of April 19, 2022, fishermen found a stranded sperm whale (搁浅的抹香鲸) on the beach of Xiangshan Country in Ningbo, Zhejiang. The whale is 20 meters long.
Unlike land mammals, whales can’t sweat (出汗) to cool down. So, they get very hot and cannot live long outside of water.
The rescuers (救援者) kept pouring water onto the whale to keep its skin wet and waited for the rising tide to take it back to deep waters.
21 hours later, at high tide, with the help of some boats, the whale went back into the sea.
“Watching such a big whale going back into the sea made me feel so proud of my work,” a rescuer said.
“This is the first time I have seen such a large sperm whale stranded. A 20-meter-long sperm whale is already in old age,” said Zhao Shenglong, a teacher at Zhejiang Ocean University.
The sperm whale is the first-class protected animal in China. Stranded sperm whales have been recorded rescued along the coast of Fujian, and this is the first rescue in Zhejiang.
1. What does the underlined word “mammals” in Paragraph 2 mean in Chinese?| A．雌性动物 | B．哺乳动物 | C．野生植物 | D．濒危植物 |
| A．Fed it food. | B．Gave it water to drink. |
| C．Poured water on its body. | D．Put it on the boat. |
| A．It is not a young whale. | B．It didn’t need help at all. |
| C．It is saved along the coast of Fujian. | D．It came to the beach to cool down. |
【推荐2】Crested ibises (朱鹮) are one of the oldest birds (鸟) in the world. They live in Asia. The beautiful birds have disappeared (消失) for a long time. But on May 23, 1981, Chinese scientists found and saved them. Here is a story of them.
In the past, there were lots of crested ibises in Asia. But in 1960s, people cut down trees. So crested ibises lost their homes and started to disappear. Chinese scientists were worried about this. So they went to many places to find them. But after three years, they still couldn’t find these beautiful birds. Then, on May 23, 1981, Liu Yinzeng and his team found the crested ibises in Hanzhong. “That night, I saw a crested ibis fly across the sky. We ran after it and found six more crested ibises in the forest,” Liu said.
After that, scientists started studying and saving the birds. They asked people not to kill the birds or cut down trees. They also helped birds to get more babies. Over the past 42 years, people saw the number of the crested ibises grow from 7 to over 9000.
1. When did Chinese scientists find the crested ibises?| A．In 1960s. | B．In 1984. | C．In 1981. | D．In 1987. |
| A．Shanghai | B．Hanzhong | C．Beijing | D．Dali |
| A．Seven. | B．Four. | C．Three. | D．One. |
| A．cut down trees | B．study and kill the birds |
| C．help birds to get more babies | D．ask people to run after the birds |
| A．How to save crested ibises. | B．Crested ibises are beautiful birds. |
| C．Why crested ibises are in great danger. | D．Story of finding and saving crested ibises. |
Josh is an artist from London. Since childhood, he has been in love with wildlife. He has traveled through Asia, South America and Africa. During these trips, he was lucky enough to spend many wonderful moments with wild animals.
These travels gave Josh an idea.
“I have always tried to make my artworks friendly to the environment,” said Josh. He wants to make sure that they will not harm this blue and beautiful planet.
| A．One of his works has won an international prize. |
| B．Some of his works may need several months to finish. |
| C．Hunters there kept killing animals for their meat and fur. |
| D．He will donate some money from the sales of his sculptures. |
| E．However, he also saw lots of different kinds of waste on his way. |
| F．Josh used to make sculptures of animals out of recycled materials. |
| G．Why not create some sculptures about the animals he saw in the wild? |
