1 . The UN Environment Programme says that raising temperatures could mean the end of some migrating (迁徙) animals.

Migrating animals move through several environments as they travel away from the cold area into winter to warmer ones. Birds may fly from one part of the world to another, perhaps stopping at feeding grounds on the way. Whales and turtles travel through huge areas of ocean. A report says that changes in any one of the places where these animals stay can cause serious problems. “Obviously these animals have developed their traveling ways over thousands of years. But weather changes much greater over the next 25 to 50 years. And it is impossible for these animals to change their habits fast enough,” said the report writer Dr. Robert Hepworth.

Turtles are hit hardest by rising temperatures. Scientists have found that at higher temperatures, Turtles have far more female eggs than male ones. In parts of Malaysia, Turtles are only giving birth to female babies. And some turtles are more probable to develop cancer as the waters get warmer.

With birds, the main problem is the harm to important areas at the end of their travels or at resting places along the way. About one-fifth of immigration birds are now in danger because of these changes, including rising sea levels, land loss and more strong storms.

Some other animals are now in great danger. For example , the North Atlantic Right Whale is losing their food because of the changing ocean flows; The White-Nose Dolphin is out-competed (淘汰)   by other kinds in warmer waters.

The report is not all bad news. Even with the temperature changing, protecting the environment can still help migrating animals return. "We need governments to start taking action all over the world. The clock is ticking. We should make full use of every minute. " said Dr. Hepworth. And now some projects are already working! Whales are changing their feeding habits , finding new feeding grounds and new foods to eat.

1. Why does this raising temperature mean the end of some migrating animals?

A．They stop moving through several environments.

B．They can't suit the changes during their travelling.

C．Their travelling habits will be changed fast enough.

D．They keep flying from one part of the world to another.

2. What is the result of the warming according to the passage?

A．The North Atlantic Right Whale may find new food.

B．Some turtles may develop cancer with the warm waters.

C．1/5 of migrating birds change their feeding habits.

D．The White-Nosed Dolphin may have only female babies.

3. What does the underlined sentence “The clock is ticking”mean?

A．It takes time to achieve the project.

B．It may be too late to save the world.

C．It's time to solve the problems at once.

D．It's important to stop animals from returning.

4. What's the main topic of the passage?

A．Ways to prevent world warming.

B．Steps to save the animals in danger.

C．Animals' competition with others for food.

D．Effect of rising temperatures on migrating animals.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式， 并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。

At a very young age, Oindrila Basu had no idea of     1     to live with nature. She would climb trees or destroy the nests of birds just for fun, like other kids. Once her mother caught her and got angry, and then the girl realized she had done something     2    (terrible) wrong.

This is just a way that Basu's parents shaped her understanding and appreciation of nature. Living in     3     countryside, she spent her youth studying ants before the rain, watching sunbirds drink honey, counting fireflies and    4    (watch) young plants grow. Then her parents decided to move to a nearby city for better educational chances, and then she stopped having first-hand experiences with nature.

Later, as she struggled     5     (choose) a college major, her mother suggested a career in forestry (林业).That's when her journey began, and she fell in love with forestry. Away from the crowded cities,, she graduated in forestry from Kumaun University, India. When she went on to study a master’s degree in forestry from the Forest Research Institute, India, she finally got introduced to a like-minded group of people,     6    (devote) to the International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA).

IFSA is a     7     globe) organization connecting students to exchange knowledge and participate in forestry activities. The youth joining IFSA are     8    (encourage) to undertake its task ― to enrich forest education and spread a love of nature through events and exchanges.

After 6 months of exciting international conferences and workshops, Basu, then 25, found her home ― a family     9     loved forests as much as she did. She felt more active, so her passion had a direction. Now she wanted to do more.

    10     a key member of IFSA, Basu recalled the experience of joining, “ deliberately or by accident, we chose forestry, or rather, forestry chose us.”

3 . Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs who met every day to play together. Like pairs of dogs you can find in any neighborhood, these two loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their houses.

One evening, Brownie’s family noticed that Brownie hadn’t returned home. They went looking for him with no success. Brownie didn’t show up the next day, and, although they made their efforts to find him, by the next week he was still missing, Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownie’s house alone, barking and jumping. Busy with their own lives, they paid no attention to the nervous little neighbor dog.

Finally, one morning Spotty refused to take “no” for an answer. Ted, Brownie’s owner, was continuously disturbed by the angry, determined little dog. Spotty followed Ted about, barking all the time, then darting toward a nearby empty lot and back, as if to say, “Follow me! It’s urgent!”

Eventually, Ted followed Spotty across the empty lot as Spotty stopped to race back and barked encouragingly. The little dog led the man to a deserted spot a half mile from the house. There Ted found his beloved Brownie alive, one of his legs crushed in a steel trap (圈套). Frightened, Ted now wished he had taken Spotty’s earlier appeals seriously.

Then Ted noticed something. Spotty had done something else besides leading Brownie’s human owner to his trapped friend. In a circle around the injured dog, Ted found some food remains of every meal. Brownie had been fed that week! Spotty had been visiting Brownie regularly, in the hope of keeping his friend alive. Spotty had actually stayed with Brownie to protect him from hunger and other dangers, and keep his spirits up.

Brownie’s leg was carefully treated and he soon got well again. For many years thereafter the two families watched the faithful friends chasing each other down that well-worn path between their houses.

1. At the very beginning, Ted paid little attention to Spotty because __________.

A．he was not free at the moment	B．he was sure Brownie would be OK
C．he didn’t like Spotty at all	D．his missing dog made him sad

2. The underlined word “darting” in the fourth paragraph can be replaced by ___________.

A．rushing

B．shouting

C．walking

D．looking

3. After Ted was brought where Brownie was trapped, he ___________.

A．managed to free his dog at once	B．was very thankful to Spotty
C．regretted not following Spotty earlier	D．was angry with the trap-maker

4. We can infer from the passage that ___________.

A．humans and animals depend on each other for comfort

B．it’s not right to hunt for animals in any neighborhood

C．Ted has to take better care of his beloved dog later on

D．Brownie would have died without Spotty’s timely help

4 . With fifteen years Britain and other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the recycling of waste. The word “rubbish” could lose its meaning because everything which goes into the dumps would be made into something useful. Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else.

The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out. The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city. This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but also paper and rubber as well.

Another new project is being set up to discover the best ways of sorting and separating the rubbish. When this project is complete, the rubbish will be processed like this: First, it will pass through sharp metal bars (金属条) which will tear open the plastic bags in which rubbish is usually packed; then it will pass through a powerful fan to separate the lightest elements from the heavy solids; after that founders and rollers will break up everything that can be broken. Finally, the rubbish will pass under magnets (磁铁), which will remove the bits of iron and steel; the rubber and plastic will then be sorted out in the final stage.

The first full-scale giant recycling plants are perhaps fifteen years away. Indeed, with the growing cost of transporting rubbish to more distant dumps (垃圾场), some big cities will be forced to build their own recycling plants before long.

1. What is NOT mentioned as a part of the recycling process described in Paragraph 3?

A．Sharpening metal bars.

B．Sorting out small pieces of metal.

C．Breaking up whatever is breakable.

D．Separating light elements from the heavy ones.

2. Why will big cities have to build their own recycling plants?

A．To protect the environment.	B．To reduce transportation expense.
C．To get raw materials locally.	D．To get big profits from those plants.

3. What can we know from the passage?

A．Dangerous wastes can’t be recycled.

B．Recycling plant only recycle metal and paper.

C．Rubbish will be dealt with in a better way later.

D．The first full-scale giant recycling plants will begin operation in less than 15 years.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Scientific Ways to Get Energy	B．The Location of Recycling Plants
C．Some Methods to Protect the Environment	D．New Ways of Recycling Wastes

5 . Along the coast of Cornwall, the UK, by the white beaches near St. Austell, a superhero stands tall. What is this superhero’s weapon of choice? She has two, actually: in one hand, a large recycling bag, and in the other, a heavy-duty litter picker.

Meet Pat Smith, the 71-year-old eco-warrior also known as “Action Granny”. Pat set herself a task to clear the plastic from 52 beaches in Cornwall and Devon. The former teacher jumped into action after watching a film called A Plastic Ocean, which described the range of plastic pollution damaging the world’s oceans and killing sea life.

“It was really life-changing for me,” says Pat. “Until that point, I hadn’t realized there was a problem with plastic in the ocean. I went home from the theater and was really bothered. We have been consuming so much plastic that we are causing an ocean crisis. I said to myself, ‘I’ve got to do something about it.’”

From January 1 until December 31, 2018, Pat cleaned one beach every week. Yet even with the year over and her task completed, she hasn’t stopped. Pat is also picking up litter – and so are her children in the playground. “My daughter-in-law said last week that she had organized a litter-picking activity in the playground with other children. That just shows you that when people are exposed to what you do, they are very likely to follow in your footsteps.”

Joining Pat today is Marta, a research fellow at the Basque Center for Climate Change, who has travelled from Spain to Cornwall to show support for Pat’s action. She also explained her intention of cooperation to Pat. As an environmentalist herself, Marta knows how important it is to work hand in hand, and she would like to show her sincerity.

1. What made Pat decide to clean beach plastic?

A．Her title as a superhero.	B．Her using too much plastic.
C．Her previous job as a teacher.	D．Her watching A Plastic Ocean.

2. What do we know about Pat’s litter-picking action?

A．It needs urgent support.	B．It has its own limitations.
C．It’s a time-consuming thing.	D．It is influential among her kids.

3. Why did Marta go to Cornwall?

A．To ask for support from Pat.

B．To advocate Pat and work together with her.

C．To raise people’s awareness of climate change.

D．To show the importance of protecting the environment.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．A retired teacher’s war on plastic waste	B．The cooperation between Pat and Marta
C．A considerate granny and national superhero	D．A granny’s study on climate change

6 . How is the weather this weekend according to the weatherman?

A．Warm.

B．Cool.

C．Cold.

7 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker usually do?

A．She cares for wildlife.

B．She trains animals for fun.

C．She does research on wildlife.

2. What is Buddy?

A．A lion.

B．A giraffe.

C．An elephant.

3. What is the speaker pleased with?

A．She gets help from wildlife researchers.

B．The animals get along well with people.

C．More and more visitors come to the farm.

8 . Indonesia’s air force has seeded clouds with salt in an effort to stop rain from falling on the flooded capital, Jakarta. The seeding operation follows deadly flash floods and landslides that hit the capital after some of the heaviest rain ever recorded. Indonesian officials said that as of Friday, at least 43 people had been killed in the disaster. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced.

Cloud seeding is a process that involves shooting salt into clouds in an attempt to create artificial rain. It is often used in Indonesia to help put out forest fires. The current operation aims to get the clouds to drop water and break up before they reach Jakarta.

Indonesia’s air force teamed up with the country’s technology agency to carry out three rounds of cloud seeding on Friday. Officials said more cloud seeding would take place as needed.

The latest flooding followed heavy rainfall on December 31 and into the early hours of New Year’s Day. The water covered large areas of Jakarta and nearby towns. The start of 2020 weather was one of the most extreme rainfall events since record keeping began in 1866, Indonesia’s weather agency said on Friday. The officials said climate change had increased the risk of extreme weather. They warned that heavy rainfall could reach a high point in mid-January and should be expected to last until mid-February.

News videos showed floodwaters spreading across Jakarta. Images showed groups of people walking through water and mud-covered cars, some of them sitting on top of each other. President Joko Widodo blamed delays in flood control projects for the disaster. Among the projects is the building of a canal that has been delayed since 2017 because of property right issues.

Jakarta has been slowly sinking. A main cause is the amount of ground water being drawn out from under the city. Rising sea levels have made the threat of flooding even worse. Last year, Widodo announced he would move Indonesia’s capital to East Kalimantan province on Borneo island to reduce the burden on overpopulated Jakarta.

1. What did the extremely heavy rainfall result in?

A．The seeding operation failed.	B．Forty-three people were missing.
C．An airplane carrying salt crashed.	D．A great many people lost their homes.

2. Why was the cloud seeding operated on Friday?

A．To put out forest fires.	B．To reduce natural rain.
C．To test the country’s technology.	D．To stop rain from flooding the capital.

3. What does the underlined word “them” refer to in paragraph 5?

A．Videos.

B．People.

C．Cars.

D．Projects.

4. What can be learned from the passage?

A．Jakarta is facing great challenges.	B．The artificial rain resulted in floods.
C．The flood control projects worked well.	D．The continuous rain would become weak.

9 . What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Health.

B．Education.

C．Environment.

10 . At the beginning of the century there was a big farm called Hollywood Ranch. It was near Los Angeles in California. A few years later Hollywood was one of the famous places of the world. From 1910s to the 1950s Hollywood was the film center of the world. Every family knew the names of its film stars Charlie Chaplin, Grete Garbo, Bergman and hundreds more.

The reason why people went to Hollywood to make films was the sun. At first people made films in New York on the east coast of the United States. But then they heard about Los Angeles where there are 350 days of sun every year. As they made all the films by sunlight, the west coast was a much better place to work.

Also near Hollywood you can find mountains and sea and desert. They did not have to travel far to make any kind o film

When TV became popular in the 1960s, Hollywood started making films for television. Then in 1970s they discovered people still went to cinema to see big expensive films. After twenty years they are still making films in Hollywood and people watch them all over the world.

1. Hollywood used to be a       .

A．cinema	B．big farm
C．park	D．market

2. Who was not mentioned as a film star in the passage?

A．Charlie Chaplin.	B．Marilyn Monroe
C．Ingrid Bergman	D．Greta Garbo.

3. People went to Hollywood to make films because       .

A．it was a beautiful place	B．you could find many film stars
C．there was a lot of sunlight there	D．it was a famous place

4. Which statement is true?

A．The west coast was a better place to make films.

B．There are no mountains near Hollywood.

C．People no longer went to the cinema after television became popular.

D．Hollywood began to make films for television before the First World War.