a Ms. Li is a forest protector who protects the trees and wildlife in our national parks. She walks through the woods, stopping bad activities like unlawful (非法的) cutting trees, catching and killing animals. She works with local police to stop these acts and keeps the forest healthy.
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b Mr. Wang set up a small business in Shanghai fourteen years ago. He is known for using iron and other materials from old cars to make beautiful art pieces. Some are large pieces that look like animals or humans, and some are smaller pieces you can put at home.
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c Dr. Li has become an environmental scientist since 2014. She studies our planet’s ecosystems. She spends her days protecting nature and educating people about its importance. Her fun lessons have helped many people understand better and start caring for the environment. |
d Ms. Liu is a green architect (建筑师) who creates buildings that are environmentally friendly. She uses renewed and friendly materials to build buildings. They look nice and help our planet by using less energy.
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e Mr. Zhao collects used paper from schools and offices, then makes new paper products. This helps drop the number of trees being cut down and also saves energy. Mr. Zhao educates people on the advantages of recycling and encourages everyone to separate their waste paper. |
| A．She collects used paper. |
| B．She creates artistic pieces. |
| C．She stops unlawful actions for the forest. |
| A．2010. | B．2014. | C．2024. |
| A．Green buildings. | B．Green materials. | C．Green plants. |
| A．b, d | B．b, e | C．c, e |
| A．Better Recycling, Better Business |
| B．Excellent Experts, Amazing Creations |
| C．Protecting Our Planet, Heroes in Action |
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Twenty-five years ago, most British young people wanted to be doctors or lawyers in the future. If they were open-minded, they might even want to be singers. But today, things are quite different.
According to a survey, the “dream job” of young people aged between 16 and 25 in the UK is a video blogger or “vlogger”(视频博主). The survey, carried out among 1,002 people, found that as much as 40 percent of them put vlogger as their number one choice on a list of ideal jobs.
The reasons for this change are the Internet and social media. They have made it so much easier to reach everyone around the world, without having to enter an acting career in the traditional way.
“In years gone by, the biggest stars were trained by the Hollywood studios(工作室). Now, anyone with a computer camera can become a star,” a Tesco Mobile spokesperson said. “These self-made stars record(记录) and show their hobbies to their fans. Vloggers are the big stars of today because they are normal people chatting with their fans about everyday life.”
However, what people see is only the bright side of being a vlogger and they don’t notice the fact that only those who are successful get fame(名望) and money. For every success, there are a hundred others who fail. There are the dreams that come true and the dreams that still stay dreams.
Among those vloggers, some have different opinions. Fame is not what they really want. They just make good use of the Internet to share their hobbies. A Young man called David Leshaw, for example, has his own company called the Finishers Club. It’s an online platform for runners to keep a record of their races. He thinks his job helps him to show his passion(热情), and at the same time, he learns a lot from it. That’s enough for him.
1. How many young people choose “vlogger” to be their dream job in the survey?| A．40. | B．400. | C．1000. |
| A．Their hobbies. | B．The Hollywood studios. | C．The Internet and social media. |
| A．To be a star is easier than before. |
| B．It’s unusual that vloggers are the big stars. |
| C．Hollywood stars are popular all over the world. |
| A．What vloggers really want is to get money. |
| B．Most young people’s dreams are easy to come true. |
| C．Among all the vloggers, only some can be popular and rich. |
【推荐2】One Tuesday morning, Harry saw an ad in a window. It said, “Wanted. The Best Salesman in the world — Top Pay.”
Harry thought he was a great salesman and went to ask for the job. “I am the best salesman in the world.” he said to the manager, “Give me the job!”
“You must prove you’re the best,” the manager said.
“OK, I will!” Harry answered.
“Good!” The manager took a box of sweets out of his desk. “Last week I bought a thousand boxes of sweets. If you can sell them all before the end of the week, you can have the job.” said the manager.
“That’s easy.” Harry said. He took the boxes of sweets and left the office.
Every day and all day, he went from shop to shop, trying to sell the boxes of sweets. He couldn’t sell one. The sweets were too bad for him to sell. At the end of the week he went back to the manager. “I’m sorry, sir.” He said, “I was wrong about myself. I’m not the best salesman in the world, but I know who is.”
“Oh, who?” said the manager. “The person who sold you a thousand boxes of these sweets.” Harry said.
1. Harry went to ask for the job because he was ________ himself at first.| A．afraid of | B．wrong with | C．sure of | D．worried about |
| A．buy all the sweets from the manager | B．sell out all the sweets in a few days |
| C．eat up all the sweets | D．sell the sweets at the weekend |
①Harry went to ask for the job.
②Harry told the manager who really was the best seller.
③Harry saw an ad in a window.
④Harry went to sell the sweets.
| A．①—②—③—④ | B．④—③—②—① | C．③—①—④—② | D．③—④—①—② |
| A．Harry didn’t get the job | B．Harry was a good seller |
| C．the manager was a good seller | D．the ad was a good one |
| A．Harry sold some of the sweets. | B．The sweets were too expensive. |
| C．Harry was not clever at all. | D．The sweets were terrible. |
【推荐3】A young woman from South China’s Guangxi Province has helped local farmers sell their kumquats (金橘) through live streaming (直播) in online shops and also create many job opportunities (机会).
Lai Yuanyuan, 30, comes from a family from a small village in Guangxi.
Like many other people in the village, her parents used to sell their farm produce at a low price because it was difficult for them to get to the market.
After coming back from her studies in Korea in 2018, Lai began to consider what she could do to improve the living standard of local farmers and help them increase their income. Lai decided to make her idea come true when she found that their futures must depend on live trade and the fast growing express delivery (快递) industry.
Therefore, she set up her own online shop and let technicians (技术人员) make a brand of local kumquats in 2019. Then she started to sold farm produce through live streaming which makes a direct way for the customers to trade with the farmers. In this way, they can greatly reduce the selling steps. Besides, live streaming is really easy to lean for the farmers.
With the improvement of kumquats’ quality, the turnover (营业额) of her online shop was up to 20 million yuan in 2020.
Thanks to her efforts, now local people have a good market and become richer than before.
Except for providing local people with job opportunities, she has also encouraged some young people to return to Fule and build their own business in these years.
1. Which sentence is wrong according to the passage?| A．Now local villagers have a good market and their lives are better than before. |
| B．Lai’s parents used to sell their farm products at a high price. |
| C．Live streaming offers many job chances for villagers in Lai’s hometown. |
| D．Live streaming creates a direct way of trading between customers and farmers. |
a. setting up an online shop
b. finishing studies in Korea
c. having a good market
d. selling kumquats through live streaming
| A．a-d-c-b | B．a-b-c-d- | C．b-a-d-c | D．b-a-c-d |
| A．She is humorous and creative. | B．She is selfish and argumentative. |
| C．She is greedy and shy. | D．She is independent and hard-working. |
| A．critical (批判的) | B．approving (赞同的) | C．sad | D．surprised |
What will you do with a huge bag of waste when you see the four waste bins in your community（社区）？ They are "Wet", "Dry", "Recyclable" and "Harmful".
Many people know the importance of waste sorting, but they just don't know what falls into which kind. This makes it seem a little time-taking and difficult.
As a pioneer city, Shenzhen is also taking steps to encourage people to do waste sorting. Not only has the government tried hard to tell the public about the different four kinds of waste through posters and media, but also it is going to give prizes to people across the city. The total prize is 62.5 million yuan. As long as they take part in waste sorting, everyone has a chance to get the money. The purpose is to help people form a green idea of thinking of waste sorting as a good behavior.
Take Meilin No. 1 Village as an example. After several months of efforts, most people there can now sort out kitchen waste before throwing it out between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day at proper places. The amount of sorted kitchen waste has increased from several hundred kilograms to about two tons.
1. Which waste is NOT mentioned in the passage?| A．Wet waste. | B．Harmful waste. |
| C．Dry waste. | D．Plastic waste. |
| A．Many people are against it. | B．People know how to do it. |
| C．It's not important to do so. | D．It's not easy and takes time. |
| A．To make people rich. | B．To make people happy. |
| C．To help form a green idea. | D．To help people live longer. |
| A．All the people there can sort out kitchen waste now. |
| B．It has set a good example for us in waste sorting. |
| C．It did very badly to make more waste than before. |
| D．All the people there throw rubbish between 7 pm and 9 pm. |
Ethiopia (埃塞俄比亚) broke the world record for the most trees planted in one day, making the world a little greener.
This is a sharp decline from 30% at the end of the 19th century. Planting billions of trees is the cheapest and most effective way to take in CO₂.
| A．Less than 4% of Ethiopia’s land is forested. |
| B．It is also the best way to help to deal with global (全球的) warming. |
| C．Ethiopians planted more than 350 million trees in just 12 hours on Monday. |
| D．It proudly showed that people had planted 353,633,660 trees in order to help the environment. |
| E．Ethiopia’s success is part of a plan to plant 4 billion trees by October. |
【推荐3】When it comes to clothes, especially for children, why do we buy new ones? Alison Howes, an Australian mom, recently asked herself this question. She realized that there was a need for pre-owned clothes and then started a community clothes exchange. “The cost of living is getting high and we need choices like this,” she said.
Howes’ clothes exchange works on a very simple basis. People receive credit (信用) for bringing clothes they no longer use and the credit can be used to buy other clothes.
Although clothes exchanges aren’t new, there is increasing popularity because of social media. “I like the fact that you can come in and exchange small baby sizes for larger sizes when your kids grow,” said Cassandra, a mother of two children.
Besides, clothes exchanges are also good for the environment. The coming of fast fashion (时尚) means that people can buy more clothes that don’t last as long as they used to. Over 15 tons of unwanted clothes and textiles (纺织品) end up in landfills (垃圾填埋场) in Australia every year. Only 7% of them get recycled, so reusing clothes can cut down on the waste.
Giving pre-worn clothes a second chance will make the life of the textiles last longer and that is what clothes exchanges are all about. Perhaps it will become a start as more and more things will appear on the exchange list and become part of our lives.
1. Why did Howes start the community clothes exchange?| A．Because many people didn’t like new clothes. |
| B．Because she had lots of pre-owned clothes. |
| C．Because she wanted to help people save money. |
| A．Bring her old clothes. |
| B．Use her credit card. |
| C．Share Howes’ project online. |
| A．To tell us why fast fashion is popular. |
| B．To encourage us to buy more clothes. |
| C．To show us the huge waste of used clothes. |
| A．Clothes exchanges will change the ways of making clothes. |
| B．Clothes exchanges will set an example to other exchanges. |
| C．Clothes exchanges will influence people’s emotions. |
| A．Don’t Follow Fast Fashion Blindly |
| B．Clothes Exchanges Are Becoming More Popular |
| C．Exchanging Things Helps Protect the Environment |
【推荐1】Have you ever looked at the sky and thought about darkness? Is it nothing? Or is there something in the dark? Cosmologists (宇宙学家) try to answer questions about things in space. They even study the darkness in space. They say the universe is about 5 percent “normal” matter—things we can see, like Earth and other planets, and the sun and other stars. But about 70 percent of the universe is something called dark energy.
Cosmologists say the other 25 percent of the universe is dark matter. Dark matter has some weight. It’s heavy so we know it’s there. But we can’t see it, so it is very hard to study something that you can’t see!
One possible kind of dark matter is a brown dwarf (褐矮星). A brown dwarf is too big to be a planet and too small to be a star. Brown dwarfs are colder than stars, and they don’t give off light that people can see. Cosmologists found them by using a telescope that finds heat. They found the first brown dwarf in 1995.
Cosmologists know a lot about one kind of dark matter—black holes. In 1783, an English astronomer, John Michell, guessed that there were black holes. But cosmologists didn’t find any black holes until 188 years later. Since then, they’ve found many black holes in space.
It’s very dark with much gravity (引力) in a black hole. There is so much gravity in a black hole that nothing can get out, not even light. This is why we can’t see them. Cosmologists find black holes by looking at things around them.
For example, stars and gases near a black hole move very fast.
Things in space can fall into a black hole, and when they do, they can never get out. But don’t worry—Earth will never fall into a black hole because there is not one close enough.
1. When did cosmologists first find black holes?| A．In 1783. | B．In 1971. | C．In 1995. | D．In 1595. |
| A．They are as big as planets or stars. | B．They give off light that people can sec. |
| C．The first one was found by using a telescope. | D．They are much hotter than stars and planets. |
| A．Black Holes in Space. | B．Dark Energy in Space. |
| C．Normal Matter in the Universe. | D．Dark Matter in the Universe. |
| A．We have known nothing about dark matter so far. |
| B．Earth could fall into a black hole in several centuries. |
| C．The earth is too far away from a black hole to fall into it. |
| D．The biggest black hole is as big as ten billion of our sun. |
Stand in front of a mirror and look at it. Who’s that there? How much do you really know about the person in it? It’s not an easy job to know ourselves. To help students do this important task, schools across China are providing more classes and activities on self-knowledge.
Liu Yue, a teacher from Chengdu Yucai Middle School, has recently given her students a useful tool. “It’s called the Johari Window, developed by two US psychologists(心理学家),” said Liu. “It has four areas about one’s self, open area(that everyone knows about), hidden areal(that only you know), blind spot(that everyone knows except you) and unknown area(that nobody knows). Using this tool, students did a good job seeing themselves through a new lens(透镜).”
“I’m most interested in my blind spot.” said eighth-grader Yang Manfei. “So I did a survey with my friends.” The results showed that Yang easily gets anxious and impatient because of procrastination(拖延). “That’s a bad habit I’ve never realized!” Yang said.
“I find the unknown area most amazing” said Sun Bovin. “It means everyone has lots of potential!” When Sun entered middle school, he was not good at math. “But I set a goal and did lots of math exercises. Now I’m much better at math. The unknown part of my math ability is getting clearer!” Sun said.
When it came to the hidden area, most students kept silent. “I’m scared to show my secrets deep down.” said Li Yixuan. “Then one classmate stood up and said his favorite cartoon is Tom and Jerry. I thought: Am I brave enough to show my childish hobby? Perhaps not. I want my classmates to see me as a mature(成熟的) person, not a silly kid. But then I realized that I don’t find that classmate silly. I think he has the courage to be himself.”
“Show yourself and make yourself better—that’s the best lesson I learned,” Li said.
1. The writer leads into the topic by _________.| A．telling stories | B．asking questions | C．listing numbers | D．giving examples |
| A．open area | B．unknown area | C．hidden area | D．blind spot |
| A．progress | B．hope | C．possibility | D．success |
| A．Fun Class | B．Magic World | C．School Time | D．Know Yourself |
Here at the mouth of a river there is much important plant and animal life. But pollution destroys this life. We have to clean our rivers. Man has to work with nature, not against it.
1. Water is like________.
| A．clouds | B．blood | C．life |
| A．Blood | B．Water | C．Salt |
| A．the sea | B．a lake | C．a mountain |
| A．head | B．top | C．mouth |
| A．find | B．clean | C．pollute |
