1 . 根据短文内容完成表格，每空一词。

In the past, man did not think about the protection of the environment. Today, the world has become too crowded. We are using up our natural resources (资源) too quickly, and at the same time we are polluting our environment with dangerous chemicals (化学制品). Everyone realizes today that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none left. Yet, with modern fishing methods, more and more fish are caught. We know that if too many trees are cut down, forests will disappear and nothing will grow on the land. Yet, we continue to use bigger and more powerful (强大的) machines to cut down more and more trees. We know that if the population of the world continues to rise at the present rate (速度), in a few years, there will not be enough food. What can we do to solve these problems?

If we eat more vegetables and less meat, we will easily get more food. Land that is used to grow crops (作物) can feed five times more people than land where animals are kept. The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth control. Finally, if we educate (教育) people to think about the problems, we shall have a better and cleaner living place in the future.

The Importance of     1     the Environment
Problems people are making	Catching more     2    , cutting down more trees...
Ways to     3     these problems	Eating more vegetables and less meat, using modern methods of birth control and     4     people to consider (考虑) the problems.
Aim	Having a better and cleaner place to     5     in the future.

2 .

MENU ▼                                               Ego0068 E-waste Electronic waste (e-waste) comes from computers, cameras, phones, fridges, TVs and so on.

How much e-waste has been produced?                                                                    Mt (Million Metric Ton) There is too much e-waste on the earth. In the past ten years, 506. 5 Mt of e-waste has been produced. That is as heavy as about 50,149 Eiffel Towers.

What can we do with e-waste? E-waste is harmful to the environment. Repeat. the three words in our life: reduce, reuse and recycle.Here are some examples. ◆Quadloop created solar lanterns with e-waste. ◆Junichi Kawanishi turned about 79,000 tons of e-waste into medals. ◆Mixed Reality Lab designed educational toys with e-waste for poor kids. ◆Alex Lin recycled about 136 tons of broken computers into ones that can be used again.

1. In 2019, how much e-waste was produced in the world?

A．59.4 Mt.

B．53.6 Mt.

C．48.2 Mt.

2. What did Alex Lin do with e-waste?

A．He recycled computers.

B．He made medals.

C．He designed toys.

3. According to the website, we can know that ________.

A．e-waste comes from computers, cameras, phones, fridges, TVs and so on

B．e-waste isn’t harmful to the environment

C．Quadloop designed educational toys with e-waste for poor kids

4. In which part of a website can we read the page?

A．Food.

B．Health.

C．Environment.

4 . There is lots of garbage (垃圾) in the Pacific Ocean around the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), which is located halfway between Japan and California (加利福尼亚州). However, how can this be cleaned up in such a big ocean?

A man named Boyan Slat took a swimming trip to Greece (希腊) when he was 16. The young man was shocked to see more plastic waste than fish in the ocean and decided to do something about it. That’s how the Ocean Cleanup got its start in 2013.

Slat’s group cleans up the GPGP using a floating (浮动的) plastic tube (管). The tube will go around the garbage and catch it. The plastic tube is 600 meters long. A big screen hangs down from it, about three meters into the water. Wind and waves will push the garbage towards the tube (fish can swim under the screen). Ships will pick up the garbage and take it back to the land to sort (分类) and reuse it.

The GPGP has about 1. 8 trillion (万亿) pieces of garbage. Most of it is plastic, like bottles and bags. Plastic garbage is very bad for birds and fish. They may get trapped or eat the plastic waste and then become sick or even die. Smaller plastic pieces can also enter our body through the seafood.

The Ocean Cleanup says it will be able to clean up half of the garbage in the GPGP within five years. If this first project works well, the Ocean Cleanup hopes to put as many as 60 more plastic tubes in the ocean. About 8 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year. The purpose of the organization is to clean out 90 percent of the ocean plastic by 2040.

根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
1. Where is the GPGP?

A．1

B．2

C．3

2. Who is Boyan Slat according to Paragraph 2?

A．A man who found the plastic first in the ocean.

B．A man who set up the Ocean Cleanup.

C．A man who formed an organization about swimming.

3. What help bring the plastic waste in the ocean back to the land?
①fish   ②wind   ③bags   ④tube   ⑤waves   ⑥ships   ⑦bottles

A．①③④⑥

B．②④⑤⑥

C．①②⑤⑦

4. What is the writer’s purpose in Paragraph 4?

A．To show the types of the plastic waste.

B．To tell why it is necessary to clean up the plastic waste.

C．To make us know how the plastic waste enters our body.

5. What is the best title of the passage?

A．The Hard Life in the Ocean

B．Ways to Collect Garbage in the Ocean

C．A Project Helping Clean the Ocean

6 . E-waste is fast becoming a serious problem around the world. This report will examine this problem and provide some possible ways to solve it.

    1     It is often cheaper to buy new products than to repair old ones. Also, through clever advertising, companies always encourage people to change their old TVs, mobile phones and computers for the latest models. E-waste is created when we throw away old ones. In the EU alone, about 8,700,000 tons of e-waste is produced each year. Sadly, just over 1,000,000 tons is recycled.

Burying (填埋) e-waste or burning it causes serious problems for the environment. Electronics have dangerous things in them. These things can then get into the ground or pollute the air when they are burnt.

    2     However, their plans are not always managed properly. Sometimes electronics are just sent to poor countries such as Ghana. Here they are often burnt in public areas, which is very bad for people’s health. Setting up recycling centers is a good way to solve this problem. E-cycling centers could recycle the parts that can be reused and deal with the rest properly.

    3     This means that producers must take back old products which are no longer wanted. They should then make sure they are properly recycled or reused.

As for us, we should try to cut down on e-waste.     4     And don’t buy a product just to have the latest model.

E-waste is a serious problem in the modern world. Both producers and users must take actions and try to keep it to the smallest amount.

A．Change electronics only when we have to.

B．We live in a society that is producing and using electronics (电子产品) all the time.

C．In recent years, many countries have started recycling e-waste.

D．Electronics are safe things so we don’t need to change them.

E．Another way is to make producers responsible (负责任) for their used products.

7 . When people talk about air pollution, they are usually thinking about outdoor air pollution. But do you know that there is also air pollution inside homes, ________, hotels and other buildings? The air in your home can be 2 to 100 times more polluted than the air outdoors! According to some American ________ , 50% of the illnesses have something to do with the polluted indoor air.

A lot of pollution ________ indoor activities such as smoking and cooking. We know most people ________ about 80%-90% of their time inside buildings. So it is important to take indoor air pollution ________, too.

Air pollution influences our health in many ________ . When the air is polluted, it does harm to not only the young people, but also the ________ people with health problems. Indoor air pollution can ________ people’s eyes, noses and throats. Air pollution, both indoor and outdoor, can also cause ________ lung (肺) and heart disease! In the Great London Fog in 1952, 4, 000 people _______ away in a few days because of the pollution! It is said that half a million young children and women die each year in India because of indoor air pollution!

1.

A．offices

B．playgrounds

C．parks

D．streets

2.

A．teachers

B．farmers

C．doctors

D．workers

3.

A．gets to

B．comes from

C．changes into

D．turns into

4.

A．take

B．cost

C．spend

D．pay

5.

A．luckily

B．happily

C．rapidly

D．seriously

6.

A．ways

B．activities

C．games

D．places

7.

A．rich

B．poor

C．young

D．old

8.

A．beat

B．steal

C．cause

D．hurt

9.

A．nice

B．good

C．terrible

D．happy

10.

A．left

B．passed

C．died

D．went

8 . On August 24, Japan started releasing (排放) wastewater from its Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (福岛第一核电站) into the Pacific Ocean. This has caused anger and fear across the world.

1. What happened?

In March 2011, Japan experienced the strongest earthquake in its recorded history. The earthquake caused a tsunami (海啸). The tsunami greatly damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant. Ever since then, the plant has been producing a large amount of wastewater. So far, it has collected more than 1.3 million tons of it. The first round of release will last 17 days. The whole process will take about 30 years.

2. Two types of water

Nuclear-contaminated water (核污水): The water has more than 60 kinds of radioactive materials (放射性物质). It’s bad for people’s health and the environment.

Nuclear wastewater (核废水): The water doesn’t have radioactive materials. It also cools down reactors (反应堆), but it doesn’t touch them.

3. ______

It goes to the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 57 days;

It gets to China in about 240 days;

It gets to the US and Canada in 3 years;

It reaches everywhere in the world in 10 years.

4. The danger of wastewater

Radioactive materials in wastewater may cause many diseases. It will influence us in many ways: fish and other seafood in water may have radioactive materials; the cloud near the sea may have these materials, too. Since we are on the same planet, no one will be free from the harm. It is just a matter of time.

1. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was greatly damaged by ______.

A．wastewater

B．people

C．a war

D．a tsunami

2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The release of wastewater will last for 17 days.

B．Nuclear-contaminated water is harmful to the environment.

C．Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water goes to the Pacific Ocean in 57 days.

D．All the seafood will have radioactive materials.

3. Which can be the best to fill in the blank ______?

A．The importance of wastewater	B．The use of wastewater
C．The history of wastewater	D．The spread of wastewater

4. How does the writer explain the danger of wastewater in the last paragraph?

A．By giving examples.	B．By listing numbers.
C．By comparing facts.	D．By telling stories.

10 . Four. That’s the number of plants inside my house. Houseplants look good and can help keep in good moods. Many people also believe indoor plants can help clean the air. But are they? People are trying     1     find out the truth about house-plants.

The idea started     2     the 1980s when a NASA scientist started reporting on houseplants. He was testing plants’ ability to get rid of pollutants in the air.

According to     3     scientist, plants seemed to be a “promising, economical solution to indoor air pollution”. But     4     was just one problem: he was in a lab.

Recently, a professor reviewed the results from nearly 200 experiments. He found it would take over 100 plants per square metre to clean the air. Thousands of plants would be needed in a single apartment to do the job. I can’t fit that many plants in my place! So my four houseplants don’t give me clearer air,     5     I still enjoy them.