1 . In the small village of Goss in Austria, a century-old brewery tradition had a novel transformation towards Sustainability (可持续性), Göss in home to the Gösser Brewery, the world’s first large scale zero-carbon brewery.

Owned and operated by the Heineken Group, the world's third-largest beer maker, the Gösser Brewery was relaunched as a zero-carbon facility in June. The brewery produces 1.4 million bottles of beer every day using a mix of entirely renewable energy sources, including hydropower, biogas and waste heat. This has brought its carbon emissions (排放) down from 3, 000 tons a year to zero.

Andreas Werner, brew master at Gösser Brewery said, “Our Cöss brewery may be in a small town but our goal was to make a big influence. I am proud of what we have achieved for the Heineken Group and want to help our other breweries and the wider brewing industry makes renewable energy part of their energy mix, just as we have done.”

The brewery is helping Heineken achieve its commitment to a 40 percent reduction in CO2 emissions from production by 2022, which is kept in the company’s Brewing a Better World stability strategy.

To power its production, the Gösser Brewery uses 100 percent hydropower sources for eletnicity-35 percent from biomass for heating, 10 percent from biogas from waste water, 3-5 percent from a solar plant, and 50 percent from biogas generated from the spent grain fermentation (发酵) tank.

For this creative move towards sustainability, the brewery won the EU Sustainable Energy Award and Citizens Choice Award in June. The awards cognize creative projects in energy efficiency and renewability in Europe. “The Goss brewery is the stand-out example of this work and our commitment to sustainability,” Roland Verstappen, Heineken’s director for public and movement affairs said.

1. What is special about the Gösser Brewery?

A．It’s the world’s third largest zero-carbon brewery.

B．No carbon will be given off during its production.

C．It can produce 1.4 million bottles of beer annually.

D．The Heineken group newly opened it to produce more beer.

2. What are the percentages in paragraph 5 about?

A．The resources of making beer.

B．The production of beer bottles.

C．The examples of sustainable energy.

D．The composition of hydropower sources.

3. Why does Roland Verstappen think highly of the Gösser Brewery?

A．It has won two international awards for its creativity.

B．It has helped more industries turn to renewable energy.

C．It has led to the draft of Heineken’s Brewing a Belter World strategy.

D．It has played an important role in Heineken’s achieving its goal of CO2 reduction.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．A brewery’s creative move to achieve sustainability.

B．Profits gained from the transformation of an old brewery.

C．The brewery industry’s responsibility for protecting the environment.

D．A small business making a big difference by mixing various sources.

2 . On 19 March 2018, you were born. I knew absolutely nothing of you and hadn’t even considered adding another member to our family.

You see, at that time I was becoming increasingly concerned about our teenage daughter. She had been spending more and more time away from the family, bad tempered and unsociable. She seemed unhappy most of the time. She had talked of wanting a dog for a long while, so I thought: if I do this for her, it will boost her mood, get her out more and give her a new focus.

To my surprise, our daughter’s reaction was not what I expected when I introduced the two of you-had 1 made a mistake?

I soon began to understand that you were not going to bring her out of her sadness. Yet you still needed taking care of, so, naturally, most of the duties of your care fell upon me.

Then, in July, our daughter was diagnosed with anorexia (厌食症). Our lives were turned upside down, as she faced the biggest challenges of her life. My husband and I had different ideas about what would be the best course of action to take; the illness sent the whole family into chaos. Without you, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity, to find clarity. On our walks together, you gave me the freedom to think clearly and rationally (理性地). I found a calmness that I never would have, had I been at home with Google.

In September, we kept our daughter off school and I looked after her, putting everything else on hold. During that time I bonded with her and she bonded with you. She rejoined school in the middle of September, and was slowly but surely on the road to recovery.

Thank you for your constant love and playfulness, and for showing me the simple pleasures of life. But most of all, thank you for being my light in the dark.

1. Who does the author write the letter to?

A．Her daughter.

B．Her dog.

C．Her husband.

D．Herself.

2. What was the author's purpose of adopting a dog?

A．She needed a lifelong friend.

B．She would like to know more about dogs.

C．She wanted a dog 1o ease the tension in the family.

D．She hoped u dog could relieve her daughter of bad mood.

3. Why was the author grateful to the dog?

A．It cured her daughter of her disease.

B．It made her husband stay elear-minded.

C．It helped her belter deal with the difficult situation in her life.

D．It strengthened the relationship between her daughter and her.

4. What can you infer about the author from the passage?

A．She had anorexia.	B．She was a devoted mother.
C．She felt guilty to her dog.	D．She recovered from her sadness.

3 . Bird expert Stephen Kress remembers the first time he encountered puffins (角嘴海雀). “I was totally amazed from the moment I saw them,” he says. Two years after his first encounter, while teaching at a nature camp in Maine, Kress learned that the state's puffin colonies were all but destroyed by hunters in the late 1800s. The puffins were killed for their eggs, meat and feathers.

Kress decided to learn more about these “special birds.” His fascination grew into Project Puffin, a decades-long effort to bring the puffins back to Maine. Kress ran the project while working for the National Audubon Society, a major bird conservation nonprofit in the US.

Project Puffin’s origins lie on an uninhabited seven-acre island, six miles off the coast of Maine, called Easter Egg Rock. The tiny island, accessible only by rowboat, is free from predators (捕食者) and edged with rocks under which the puffins nest.

Starting in 1973, Kress’s team collected chicks from Greet Island, off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, which had a healthy puffin population. The team hand -raised puffins in artificial holes, feeding them vitamin-enriched fish twice a day. “They would come out when they were six weeks old and they would work their way to the edge of the island and swim off,” says Kress.

For four years, however, none of the birds returned to the island to breed (繁殖). The project’s supporters began to question whether they would ever succeed. “That's when I began trying to think like a puffin,” Kress says.“Puffins nest in colonies because they like being with others of their kind and large groups provide protection from predators.” He thought that the young puffins did remember the island but were not brave to come ashore. Kress’s new idea was to place wooden puffins around the island, to help the birds feel safe. It worked.

Thanks to his pioneering method, Project Puffin says there are now around 1,300 pairs of puffins nesting on islands in the Gulf of Maine. What's more, the techniques Kress developed to save puffins are now used by seabird conservationists around the world.

1. What happened to Maine’s puffins in the late 19^th century?

A．They were well protected.	B．They were a tourist attraction.
C．They were nearly going extinct.	D．They were raised for their meat.

2. Why do Project Puffin’s origins lie on Eastern Egg Rock?

A．It is inaccessible to hunters.

B．It seems an ideal Puffin habitat.

C．It is near the National Audubon Society.

D．It seems a perfect place for bird-watching.

3. What inspired Kress to think like a puffin?

A．Finding proper food for puffins.

B．Digging artificial holes for puffins.

C．Moving puffin chicks from Great Island.

D．Getting adult puffins to breed at Eastern Egg Rock.

4. What may be the best title for the passage?

A．A New Way to Save Seabirds	B．A Bird Conservation Nonprofit
C．A Bird Species to Be Hand-raised	D．A Great Seabird Migration Project

4 . It's no secret that social media can make the lines on what's reality and what's fantasy unclear. But new research at York's Faculty of Health now shows how young women interact with images online can affect how they feel about their own bodies.

The research appears in the journal Body Image. The study was conducted by Jennifer Mills, associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Jacqueline Hogue. It focused on young women, aged 18 to 27 years old, who liked or commented on photos of people whom they considered to be more attractive than themselves.

The research included 118 female college students from countries all over the world. Participants reported their ages, diverse ethnic groups, whether English was their first language, and years of education in an online questionnaire six weeks before the experiment. Each participant was given a questionnaire where they had to indicate how satisfied or dissatisfied they were with their appearance or body image by using a specific standard.

Participants were then randomly assigned into one of two experimental conditions. One group of participants were asked to log into Facebook and Instagram for a period of five or more minutes and find one peer (同龄人) who they felt was more attractive than themselves. After looking at the photos, each participant was asked to leave a comment of their choice. In the other group, participants were asked to do the same task but this time they commented on a post of a family member whom they did not think was more attractive than themselves.

The results showed that these young adult women felt worse about their own appearance after looking at social media pages of someone that they considered to be more attractive than themselves. Even if they felt bad about themselves before they came into the study, on average, they still felt worse after completing the task. However, the data showed that participants’ views on their own appearance were not affected when interacting with the posts of their family members.

1. Why did the researchers most probably do the study?

A．To know social media's influence on young women's health.

B．To know online body images’ influence on young women.

C．To know how young women interact with images online.

D．To know why young women comment on online images.

2. What do we know about the participants of the study?

A．They were asked about their backgrounds before the experiment.

B．They considered themselves more attractive than others.

C．They all used English as their mother tongue.

D．They were divided into two groups randomly by age.

3. What do the finds of the study suggest?

A．Young women like posting attractive images on social media.

B．Family members help young women build up their confidence.

C．Young women can easily realize their shortcomings the Internet.

D．Comparing to peers online can affect how young women regard themselves.

4. What can be inferred from the text?

A．Social media may negatively affect the way young women view themselves.

B．Young women enjoy expressing their opinions on social media.

C．Young women’s views on their bodies can be easily influenced.

D．Social media makes young women’s images more attractive.

5 . Gone with the Wind was removed from the HBO Max streaming platform Tuesday, as mass protests against racism and police violence cause television networks to re-assess their offerings.

The multiple Oscar-winning US Civil War movie released in 1939 remains one of the highest-rated movies of all time, but its description of satisfied slaves and heroic slaveholders has led to criticism.

“Gone With The Wind is a product of its time and shows some of the racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been very common in American society.” an HBO Max spokesperson said in a statement.

“These racist descriptions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and criticism of those descriptions would be irresponsible."

Protests have spread like wildfire across the US since the killing of African American George Floyd while in police custody(拘留), with calls growing for police reform and the broader removal of symbols of a racist legacy, including monuments to the slave-holding Confederacy.

Floyd died last month as a white Minneapolis officer pressed a knee into his neck for almost nine minutes. The officer has been charged with second- degree murder.

12 Years A Slave writer John Ridley said in a Los Angeles Times said Monday that Gone with the Wind must be removed as it “doesn't just fall short with regard to representation" but ignores the horrors of slavery and keeps “some of the most painful stereotypes(刻板印象) of people of color.”

The film will return to the recently launched streaming platform at a later date, along with a discussion of its historical background, the company said.

No edits will be made,“because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed."

“If we are to create a more just, equal and inclusive future, we must first acknowledge and understand our history.”

1. Which of the following about Gone with the Wind is TRUE?

A．It was released during the US Civil War

B．It deals with the cruelty of slavery

C．Its content about racism was criticized

D．It is the best award-winning movie of all time

2. Why does the author mention the death of George Floyd in paragraph 5?

A．To show the seriousness of police violence

B．To compare his suffering with that of slaves

C．To call for the removal of racist monuments

D．To prove racism has been common in America

3. What is John Ridley's attitude to Gone with the Wind?

A．Positive	B．critical
C．objective	D．unconcerned

4. What can be the best title for the passage?

A．Gone with the Wind removed from HBO Max after Racism Protests

B．Protests over Gone with the Wind Spread Like Wildfire

C．Growing Calls for Police Reform in American Society

D．Classic Movie Gone with the Wind Mirrors Racial Prejudices

6 . Jamie Wardley is a special kind of artist—an ice sculptor. He first trained as a sand sculptor. Later,he learnt about ice sculpture. Now he does sand sculpture in the summer. And in the winter, he sculpts ice.

When sculpting ice,Wardley has to work in cold temperatures. If the weather is cold enough, he can work outside. But winter in the United Kingdom is not always very cold. So often he works in a large freezer where the temperature is about -12℃.

Wardley enjoys sculpting ice outside in the winter. When he sculpts in the open air, people can watch. They can be part of the creative process.

Wardley makes ice sculpting sound simple. But the tools Wardley uses are sharp and dangerous. And the ice is very heavy. Each block of ice weighs 120 kilos. And some larger sculptures are made from several combined blocks of ice. Sometimes ice sculptures can be as big as buildings. In Kemi, Finland there is an ice hotel called the Snow Castle. Each year, Wardley helps build the Snow Castle.

Inside the Snow Castle, the temperature is -50℃. Even the dining tables are made of ice. So you have to wear winter clothes when eating and wear a hat when sleeping. “The ice hotel is built every year in January. Then it melts in April. Each year we rebuild it and create a new design,” Wardley said.

The Snow Castle is a large and amazing work of ice, but Wardley's smaller ice sculptures are special too. One winter, in the city of Bradford, the UK,Wardley created several small sculptures. He used the sculptures to tell a story which contained an important message about goodwill and understanding.

Ice sculptures are temporary works of art. When the temperature rises, they will melt. But that does not mean that their beauty is lost. The sculptures from that day in Bradford have now melted away, but their message of goodwill, understanding, and acceptance remains.

1. According to the text, Wardley________.

A．loves sand sculpture more than ice sculpture	B．sculpts ice in a large freezer in the summer
C．worked as an ice sculptor in the beginning	D．enjoys carving ice outdoors in the winter

2. What words can best describe Wardley's sculpting?

A．Easy and amazing.	B．Special but difficult.
C．Boring and dangerous.	D．Simple but temporary.

3. What do we know about the Snow Castle?

A．It lies in the city of Bradford, the UK.	B．It is too cold for people to live in.
C．It requires to be built every year.	D．It is built between January and April.

4. What does the author think of ice sculptures?

A．They never melt in people's hearts.	B．It takes time to understand them.
C．Their beauty doesn't last forever.	D．They add more beauty to Bradford.

8 . The prized love for an ice cream goes back thousands of years, and ice creams were enjoyed by people living all over the ancient world—from China to Mesopotamia.

As early as 4,000 years ago, Chinese people enjoyed a kind of frozen syrup—a thick sweet sticky liquid. Centuries later around 400 B.C., sherbet was a popular treat in the Persian Empire. This cold drink featured syrups made from chemise, quinces, and pomegranates that were then cooled with snow. The modern words “sherbet,” “Barbet,” and “syrup” can find their linguistic origins back Lo Shabbat.

Historic accounts tell of Alexander the Great, who took over the Persian Empire in 330 B. C., enjoying tasty ices sweetened with honey. The Greeks, and later the Romans, adopted the custom of cooling their drinks. In the early yean of the Roman Empire, Emperor Nero was known to apply fruit juices mixed with boney and snow at his banquets. Centuries later in the 1290s, Marco Polo returned from China with recipes for delicious ices, some of which included milk.

Modern ice creams were only made possible by obtaining and preserving snow and ice from cold, mountainous areas or frozen lakes and rivers. Different civilizations created icehouses with variations on the same theme: chambers free of heat and light. Deep pits were often used, and the ice would be packed separately, often with straw or branches, to keep out the heat.

Getting ice was complex and labor-consuming, which made ice highly valuable in the middle Ages, when snow was still brought from the mountains to icehouses throughout Europe. The 17th century witnessed private icehouses, and by the end of the 18th century, large icehouses were built in towns and cities. Traveling sales people sold large blocks of ice door to door.

In some cities the ice trade was regulated by the authorities, who set prices and fines for illegal sale. In Naples there were 43 “ice sellers” in 1807. Rule restricted sellers to supplying ice only during the summer.

Sorbet, sherbet, syrup, or just plain ice cream, these cold, greet treats have been cooling people of for centuries.

1. Which of the following is the fact about the development of ice cream?

A．Straws or branches were used to produce modern ice creams.

B．Alexander the Great had cool drinks with honey end snow at his banquets.

C．Marco Polo brought back from China recipes for milk -taste ices in the late 13th century.

D．People in the Persian Empire enjoyed frozen syrup 3, 600 years earlier than the Chinese.

2. Which has the closest meaning with the underlined word “chambers” in Paragraph 4?

A．Plants.

B．Rooms.

C．Packages.

D．Ice creams.

3. Why was the price of ice creams high during the Middle Age?

A．It was a tough jab to obtain ice.	B．The production took a lot of time.
C．Much labor was needed for marketing.	D．The producing techniques were advanced.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Historic Accounts of Preserving Ice Creams	B．Contrast of Ancient and Modern lee Creams
C．Chinese Contributions to Making Ice Creams	D．The History and Worldwide Love of Ice Creams

9 . Wouldn’t it be great if you could correct your eyesight, especially nearsightedness, and reduce your dependence on glasses and needn’t have eye surgery? The solution is called orthokeratology, or ortho-k (角膜塑形镜).

What is ortho-k?

Orthokeratology( ortho- k)is the fitting of specially designed contact lenses (隐形眼镜) that you wear overnight while you are asleep, the lenses gently reshape the front surface of your cornea (角膜) so you can see clearly the following day after you remove the lenses when you wake up.

How long does the ortho-k effect last?

You should be able to see acceptably well without glasses or contact lenses for a day or two, sometimes longer. For best results, one should wear the ortho- k lenses every might.

Who are good candidates for ortho-k?

Most people with mild to average nearsightedness are good candidates for ortho-k. Because the cornmeal reshaping effect is temporary, little risk is involved, and you can discontinue wearing the lenses at any time. Children and young adults who want to be gases-free but are too young for eye surgery or are afraid of taking the surgery often are good candidates for ortho-k. People who participate in contact sports or work in dusty environments that can have problems for contact lens wear also can be good candidates.

How much does ortho-k cost?

Costs also can vary based on the region of the country and the type of practice where you have the procedure performed. Ortho-k prices in the US generally range from $1, 000 to $2, 000 But particularly difficult cases of ortho-k can cost as much as $4.000.

There are additional costs for lens care solutions and following up exams, which can total about $300 to $ 500 per year.

Finally, keep in mind that, as with all contact lenses, there are some possible side effects of wearing ortho-k lenses. Ask your eye doctor for details.

1. According to the passage, which way is introduced to correct eyesight?

A．Performing an operation of the cornea.

B．Applying contact lenses in the daytime.

C．Fitting proper glasses during the night.

D．Wearing especially designed contact lenses.

2. Which of the following statements is right?

A．You have to wear ortho-k day and night to ensure good results.

B．Ortho-k is a good choice for a man with average nearsightedness.

C．The cast of ortho-k in the city is higher than that in the countryside.

D．There is no need for people to worry about the side effects of ortho-k.

3. How much will a person pay for using otho-k for the first year at least?

A．1, 000.

B．$1, 300.

C．$1, 500.

D．$2, 000.

10 . What is PayQwiq?

PayQwiq is a fast and secure payment service that helps you go quickly through the Tesco checkout. It lets you add your credit or debit card details to the app so you can use your smart phone to pay for your shopping with just one scan. Not only that but it collects your Clubcard points automatically. This means you can now go wallet-free in all UK Tesco stores. So why not give it a go? It only takes a moment to download and you will receive these benefits.

●Collect your Clubcard points automatically

●Pay for your weekly shop up to £250

●Use PayQwiq offline, even with no signal

●Track your spending in Tesco

Sign up to PayQwiq and collect 100 extra Clubcard points for each week you pay with the app, for up to 5 weeks—that’s up to 500 extra points.

Available to new customers who sign up by 3 September 2020 and make all payment by 31 October 2020.One offer per customer. Only one qualifying deal per week will collect the extra points. Additional payments in the same week will not receive extra points. Clubcard points will be added to a future Clubcard statement.

How does it work?

Head to the App Store or Google Play to download the PayQwiq app.

As soon as you’ve added your card details, you’ll be ready to shop using just your phone.

And there’s no need to worry about your bank details being stored on your phone—they’re all securely protected in our data centers. So not only is it quicker and easier, it’s safer too.

1. If customers use PayQwiq in UK Tesco stores, they can________.

A．get Clubcard points automatically.	B．pay for their weekly shop without limit.
C．budget their everyday spending.	D．win 500 extra points at a time.

2. From the passage we can learn that________.

A．users cannot pay without signal.

B．users must sign up by 3 September 2020.

C．PayQwiq can guarantee convenience and safety.

D．PayQwiq can be downloaded only from Google Play.

3. What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To stress the importance of PayQwiq.	B．To describe the function of PayQwiq.
C．To introduce the benefits of PayQwiq.	D．To popularize the use of PayQwiq.