1 . Coca-Cola, which reportedly produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, announced Thursday it wants to “help fix the world’s plastic waste problem one community (社区) at a time.”

The soda giant is doing so by providing $ 5.4 million for recycling programs in cities like Atlanta, Boston, Denver and Houston. In these cities, partners, like The Green Blue Institute and The Recycling Partnership, which receive the money, will work together to improve recycling rates.

“We focus on areas where we have the ability to make the biggest influence on communities through the funding and expert skills of Coca-Cola employees,” Carlos Pagoagoa, Coca-Cola’s group director of community partnerships, said in a statement. “In each city, local partners will work together to identify barriers to recycling on a local level and test a range of solutions,” he added. “We hope the learnings from these ‘model markets’ can offer solutions to other cities facing similar challenges.”

As part of the effort, The Recycling Partnership and the city of Atlanta, where the cola company’s headquarters are based, will send street teams out to open recycling carts and leave citizens cards informing them what they can and can’t recycle, and let them know how their efforts work.

“Two of the most urgent problems with recycling in the U. S. today are lack of access, followed by pollution in recycling,” Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, said in a statement. “We know from the success of Atlanta in 2017 that the citizens want to recycle, and that communicating with them in the street works.”

Last year, Coca-Cola announced its task to collect and reuse a bottle or can for each one it sells, and increase the amount of its products out of recycled materials to 50% by 2030. The brand also aims to make all its packaging fully recyclable by 2025.

1. What does Coca-Cola company intend to do in the program?

A．Produce less packaging.

B．Help deal with plastic waste.

C．Pick up waste in communities.

D．Build a plant to recycle plastic waste.

2. What’s Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．How Coca-Cola conducts its program.

B．What organizations participate in the program.

C．How Coca-Cola chooses cities for the program.

D．What the local people do in Coca-Cola’s program.

3. What do street teams do to help?

A．Sort out various waste in the city.

B．Look into the cause of pollution.

C．Instruct local people what to recycle.

D．Hand cards to the locals in person.

4. What does Keefe Harrison think of the program?

A．Promising.

B．Difficult.

C．Pioneering.

D．Costly.

2 . If you are looking for the place that has everything, there is only one place to visit, and that’s New York. It’s a whole world in a city.

The World of Theater: All of New York is a stage. And it begins with Broadway. Where else can you find so many hit shows in one place? Only in New York!

The World of Music: Spend an evening with Beethoven at Lincoln Center. Swing to the great jazz of Greenwich Village. Or rock yourself silly at the hottest dance spots found anywhere.

The World of Art: From Rembrandt to Picasso. From Egyptian tombs to Indian teepees. Whatever kind of art you like, you will find it in New York.

The World of Fine Dining: Whether it’s roast Beijing duck in Chinatown, lasagna in little Italy, or the finest French coq au vin found everywhere, there is world of great taste waiting for you in New York.

The World of Sights: What other city has a Statue (雕塑) of Liberty? A Rockefeller Center? Or a Bronx Zoo? Where else can you take a horse-drawn carriage through Central Park? Only in New York!

1. From the text we know that “Rembrandt” is most likely to be the name of a famous            .

A．actor	B．painter
C．cook	D．musician

2. Which of the following can visitors do only in New York?

A．To enjoy a Beethoven concert.	B．To taste the finest French coq au vin.
C．To see the Statue of Liberty.	D．To eat Roast Beijing Duck.

3. This passage may be taken from .

A．a handbook for English learners	B．a pocketbook for businessmen
C．a guidebook for foreign travellers	D．a storybook for local readers

3 . How do the world’s only flying mammals communicate? Researchers have observed young bats adopting new “dialects” simply by hearing them repeatedly, making them one of the few animals known to have a capacity for vocal (声音的) learning. “These bats may help us clarify the evolution of speech acquisition (习得) skills,” says Yosef Prat, a PhD at Tel Aviv University (TAU).

For one year, researchers raised 14 Egyptian fruit bat pups with their mothers in controlled area, exposing each young bat to two different vocalizations: the natural call of its mother and a separate recording that varied in pitch (音高) or frequency. They found that the pups in each group developed a dialect like the recording. “The general assumption in this field is that most animals develop their born vocalizations regardless of what they hear, and that human vocal learning abilities have developed during evolution,” says Mr Prat. “The finding that bats learn the common dialect in their rest place was unusual.”

Scientists know little about the origin of spoken language, which is believed to have appeared in humans within the past 500,000 years. Dozens of theories attempt to explain the complexity of this skill, but none have done so conclusively.

“Studying vocal communication and vocal learning in animal models is a very useful way to approach the problem,” says Olga Feher, an assistant professor at the University of Warwick in England.

But animal vocalizations and human speech are very different things, says Jamin Pelkey, a professor at Ryerson University. “All species communicate. Unlike other animals, though, human beings are able to use sound patterns for functions that are far stranger—functions that are imaginative, theoretical, and critical. When speech is involved in these stranger functions, that is what we mean by spoken ‘language’.”

1. How do young bats acquire their “language” according to the research?

A．Flying in the air slowly.

B．Hearing it again and again.

C．Communicating with partners.

D．Repeating it with their mothers.

2. What was the general view about animal vocalization?

A．Most animals are born with it

B．Its process was unusual.

C．It is easier than human speech.

D．What animals heard doesn’t affect their learning.

3. What does the underlined word “problem” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A．The difference between animals and humans.

B．The complexity of spoken language.

C．The origin of spoken language.

D．The study of animal models.

4. What does professor Pelkey think of researching young bats?

A．It is far from the fact

B．Its result is beyond doubt.

C．It is of great scientific value.

D．It doesn’t relate to human speech much.

4 . In China, the history of people planting and using bamboo can date back as far as 7000 years. As early as the Shang Dynasty, bamboo was being used in ancient people's daily lives. It was used for food, clothing, housing, transportation,    1     (music) instruments and even weapons.

The     2     (apply) of bamboo in science and technology is thrilling. In 251 BC, Li Bing, in Sichuan,    3     (lead) the local people in building the Dujiang Weirs, the first irrigation network in the world, in which bamboo played     4     important role. The world’s oldest water piper was also     5     (make) of bamboo. During the Han Dynasty, the people in Sichuan     6     (success) sank a 1600-metre-deep well with thick bamboo ropes. This technology did not spread to Europe     7     the 19th century, and it was by using the technology     8     the Americans drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859.

In Chinese culture, bamboo is well-known as     9     of the “four gentlemen” in plants. To many distinguished men，bamboo is a symbol of goodness and honesty. It is always closely related to people of positive spirits. Bamboo culture contributes to encouraging People to hold on when     10     (face) tough situations.