1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Nowadays，locally­grown food is on the rise，and     1     is important to know why this trend (趋势) in farming matters.

Hawaii is a pretty faraway place.Hawaiians bring in about 85 percent of     2     (they) food.

Steven Chiang，the director of the Agribusiness Incubator Program at the University of Hawaii，pointed out that in Hawaii，the cost of labor (劳动力) is high for people who might want     3     (farm) the land.Since many different groups and individuals (个人) own small pieces of land，getting access to farmland     4     (be) also difficult.

However，Chiang added，“There are many     5     (benefit) to growing food locally on our islands and elsewhere.For one，we can hold onto the types of food we like.Food in our soil will have the chance to become     6     (full) grown.Also plants can reduce the carbon dioxide in the air,     7     will benefit our environment.Having local food helps make people value their farmland.So areas of land that might     8     (use) for other things，like new apartment or office buildings，can be protected.”

So what can you do？You can do your part by supporting and     9     (buy) locally­grown food.You can even grow your own food­either in a container in your kitchen     10     in your backyard!

2 . You go to the coffee shop and take your coffee to go. You enjoy your drink, and then throw the paper cup in the garbage. Or do you put it in the recycling? I's confusing. A lot of us—people everywhere—are using to-go cups these days. A recent report said that there are 600 billion cups-billion with a ‘b’- that are produced and sold globally on an annual basis So that`s a lot, " say Christy Slay with The Sustainability Consortium. Starbucks alone says it contributes 1 percent of those disposable cups: That's an estimated 6 billion cups a year.

To help reduce those numbers. Starbucks and McDonald's are launching a three-year project to build a better cup: one that's both fully recyclable and compostable. Here's the big problem with the paper one you get there and in other coffee shops. “They look like paper, but they actually have a thin layer of plastic on the inside,” Slay says. That plastic coating keeps the cups from leaking. The problem is that it also makes the cups really hard to recycle, and only a few facilities in the world can do it.

A few companies have already rolled out compostable coffee cups. But Dylan de Thomas with The Recycling Partnership says there is a problem with those cups, too. "Typically they're compostable in industrial settings, so not your backyard compost that you and I might have, but at fairly technically advanced composting facilities." There aren't a lot of those facilities around, either.

So why exactly, in the 21st century, is it so hard to produce a better paper cup? "It's not necessarily very technically hard, though there are technical problems to overcome to make something recyclable and compostable, says Bridget Croke with Closed Loop Partners, a firm working to build what they call a circular economy. It's a fancy way of talking about turning waste into value. Almost anything is technically recyclable, Croke says. "But recycling is a business, and if materials can't move through the recycling system and be turned into a product that has value, they're not functionally recyclable.”

1. What are people puzzled at about the paper cup?

A．How to deal with the used one.	B．Why people reject it carelessly.
C．What makes it hard to compost.	D．Why Starbucks uses so many cups.

2. How does the plastic layer of the paper cup function?

A．It helps make the cup more portable	B．It makes the cup easily recyclable.
C．It prevents the water from escaping	D．It promotes the extended use of the cup.

3. What does Bridget Croke think of recycling the cup?

A．Its future is promising	B．It is not a profitable business.
C．technical problems are unsolvable	D．A more recyclable cup will be put into the market.

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

A．How can we design a better paper cup?

B．Why is it so hard to recycle paper cups?

C．What can we do to lessen the need of paper cups?

D．What damage do paper cups cause to our environment!

3 . Cats in ancient Egypt

Many of us love cats. They are beautiful, soft, clever and loving. The ancient Egyptians (埃及人) considered cats, also known as Mau, to be very important. They honored them with great respect.     1    

For one thing, cats helped people by keeping their homes free of mice, rats, and snakes. Without cats Egypt could not have been the important grain­growing (谷物种植) center that it was.     2     For another, cats were also trained to help hunters.     3    

The Egyptians loved cats so much that Bast, an Egyptian goddess, was pictured in the form of a cat. Bast appeared in artwork. She was the protector of the house. This idea made a special connection between cats and children.     4    

The safety of all cats was of great concern to ancient Egyptians.     5     Foreigners sometimes took cats out of Egypt secretly and took them to other lands. Egyptian soldiers were sent to pick up cats found in other countries and bring them back home to Egypt.

A．There were good reasons for that.

B．Two types of cats appeared in ancient Egypt.

C．In grain fields, cats helped catch rats and mice.

D．They were able to help pick up the wounded birds.

E．There were even laws against getting a cat out of Egypt.

F．Anyone who killed a cat on purpose would be put to death.

G．That's why most Egyptian families had cats for good luck.

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Foster (寄养) homes provide    1    safe and good environment for pets that are waiting to    2    (adopt). According to Pet Rescue, many shelters and rescue    3    (organization) will not take in homeless pets unless they have a place for homeless pets    4    (live). While the Humane Society of the US asked states to offer animal shelters necessary services, many have had to close because    5    fewer and fewer volunteers. At the same time there has been an increase in pets coming into shelters as the pet owners are too sick and they have to give up    6    (take) care of them or can no longer afford to keep their pets.

The Arizona Humane Society in Phoenix has a new drive-up service. People who volunteer to foster animals can send a text when they arrive and the shelter staff will quickly bring the paperwork to the car to complete the procedure of getting the new foster fur baby. There    7    (be) 345 pets from the shelter being fostered. There is still a need for pet fosters across the US, so if you are    8    (interest), you should contact an animal shelter or rescue near you without    9    (hesitate). Pets add so much to people's lives    10    you will not be disappointed to have a fur baby in your home.

5 . 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。

Pollution takes away all the beauty of the beaches of Hawaii. I hate to go to the beaches on       1     (sun) weekends and see rubbish bags lying on the sand, cigarette butts(烟头)     2     (bury) in the sand, and soda cans floating in the ocean.

One thing that really annoys me is that I see     3     (tour)who visit Hawaii leave their rubbish on the beaches. I was always taught after drinking soda to throw the can into the place     4     it should stay—the trash can. Another thing that annoys me is that some people walk right by rubbish     5     pretend that it’s not there.

The dogs or the fish are not to blame     6     it. It’s our fault and we must blame     7     (we). Everyone has to do his or her part     8     (solve) this problem. It can’t be difficult to do the job. There are a lot of things that we can do. First of all, we can help pick up rubbish along the beaches. We could also form organizations that help clean up our beaches. More     9     (important), we need to start now before the beaches     10     (damage) beyond repair.

6 . Melbourne Girls' College is getting rid of all dustbins and asking students to take their rubbish home to encourage them to move towards zero waste.

Starting next Monday, the college will gradually_______all the rubbish bins in five weeks in classrooms and the yard, _________1400 students and 140 staff to find their own home for chip packets and juice boxes. Volunteer students will _______ daily non- compulsory food inspections in which children bringing “zero waste" lunch boxes will be _______. Students using only _______ packaging will receive a token (礼券）to win prizes such as keepcups.

The rubbish that students take home may still go to landfill(废物填埋场）via their home bins, _______the new policy will help persuade_______to buy fewer packaged items and reuse containers. Most issues around carrying rubbish home, such as smell and mess, can be solved._______tuna （金枪鱼）in a tin, for example, can_______ the school's compost（堆肥）bin and the tin can be __________ before it's taken home.

The college principal Karen Money acknowledges that some parents may not have the time or means to avoid   ________ in single-use packaging, “but it's________to get as many people as we can to avoid it. We talk a lot, ________ educators, about the bad problems the world ________, and if we don't start putting some actions ________ that beautiful idea, then it's just empty."

1.

A．replace

B．wash

C．clean

D．remove

2.

A．proving

B．leaving

C．promising

D．allowing

3.

A．receive

B．forbid

C．admit

D．conduct

4.

A．rewarded

B．advised

C．changed

D．protected

5.

A．creative

B．usual

C．reusable

D．plastic

6.

A．so

B．but

C．then

D．though

7.

A．teachers

B．staff

C．families

D．classmates

8.

A．Uneaten

B．Uncooked

C．Uncovered

D．Unbroken

9.

A．break down

B．break through

C．get through

D．go into

10.

A．returned

B．washed

C．reused

D．spared

11.

A．foods

B．clothes

C．drinks

D．tools

12.

A．keeping

B．dreaming

C．stopping

D．trying

13.

A．for

B．to

C．as

D．with

14.

A．solves

B．shows

C．faces

D．follows

15.

A．ahead of

B．behind

C．upon

D．beyond

7 . Along the river banks of the Amazon and the Orinoco there lives a bird that swims before it can fly, flies like a fat chicken, eats green leaves, has the stomach of a cow and has claws (爪) on its wings when young. They build their homes about 4.6m above the river, an important feature (特征) for the safety of the young. It is called the hoatzin.

In appearance, the birds of both sexes look very much alike with brown on the back and cream and red on the underside. The head is small, with a large set of feathers on the top, bright red eyes, and blue skin. Its nearest relatives are the common birds, cuckoos. Its most striking feature, though, is only found in the young.

Baby hoatzins have a claw on the leading edge of each wing and another at the end of each wing tip. Using these four claws, together with the beak (喙), they can climb about in the bushes, looking very much like primitive birds must have done. When the young hoatzins have learned to fly, they lose their claws.

During the drier months between December and March, hoatzins fly about the forest in groups of 20 to 30 birds, but in April, when the rainy season begins, they collect together in smaller living units of two to seven birds for producing purposes.

1. What is the text mainly about?

A．Hoatzins in dry and rainy seasons.

B．The relatives and enemies of hoatzins.

C．Primitive birds and hoatzins of the Amazon.

D．The appearance and living habits of hoatzins.

2. Young hoatzins are different from their parents in that        .

A．they look like young cuckoos

B．they have claws on the wings

C．they eat a lot like a cow

D．they live on river banks

3. Why do hoatzins collect together in smaller groups when the rainy season comes?

A．To find more food.

B．To protect themselves better.

C．To keep themselves warm.

D．To produce their young.

8 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What did Gaylord Nelson wonder?

A．Why the planet was getting dirty.

B．Why the creatures were dying.

C．Why people didn’t try to save the planet.

2. What did the President do?

A．He made new laws.

B．He told people the concerns.

C．He put an article in a magazine.

3. Who did Gaylord Nelson write letters to?

A．Parents.

B．Colleges.

C．Lawmakers.

4. When was the first Earth Day held?

A．In 1963.

B．In 1969.

C．In 1970.

9 . What’s the weather probably like now?

A．Rainy

B．Sunny.

C．Cloudy

10 . 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。

People came to the area that's now New Mexico more than 12,000 years ago. Experts think they migrated from    1    is now Russia across a land bridge    2    (call) the Bering Strait during the last Ice Age. Thousands of years    3     (late), native American tribes including the Apache, Zuni, Navajo and Pueblos lived on the land.

In 1540, a Spanish    4    (explore), Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, came to the area in search of cities made of gold     5    were rumored (谣传) to exist in the America. He didn't discover treasure, but over the next century the Spanish colonized the land. Then in 1821, Mexico declared its independence    6    Spain, and the area became part of Mexico. But after the United States won the Mexican- American War in 1848, New Mexico became an American territory. In 1912, it    7    (declare) the 47th state.

When the Spanish set out to explore the region, they hoped to find land as    8    (value)as what they had found earlier in Mexico. So they    9    (name) the area Nueva Mexico.(“Nueva” means “new” in Spanish.) As for the word" Mexico”, some experts think it's a version of a name that the Aztecs (a cultural group from Mexico) had for one of their gods.

The state has beautiful scenery from    10     ( mountain) to forests and deserts. This earns it the nickname the Land of Enchantment.