1 . Questions are based on the following passage.
1.

A．The location.

B．The scenery.

C．The seafood.

D．The culture.

2.

A．Attract whales to the closer shore.	B．Tell people where to see whales.
C．Warn people to stay away from shore.	D．Go around to gather enough visitors.

3.

A．It is held every other year in summer.

B．It helps Whale Crier to show his talents.

C．It guarantees everyone to find something to enjoy.

D．It is one of the best eco-arts festivals in South Africa.

2 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Where is the Beef

Most people like to eat meat. As they grow richer they eat more of it. For individuals, that is good. Meat is nutritious. In particular, it packs much more protein per kilogram than plants do. However, animals have to eat plants to put on weight - so much so that feeding them accounts for about a third of harvested grain. Farm animals consume 8 per cent of the world’s water supply, and they produce around 15 per cent of unnatural greenhouse-gas emissions. More farm animals then, could mean more environmental trouble.

    1     That as created a business opportunity. Though unwilling to adopt a vegetarian approach to diet, these people are keen on food that looks and tastes as if it came from farm animals, but didn’t.

The simplest way to satisfy this demand is to concentrate on substitutes for familiar products. “Meat” made directly from plants, rather than indirectly, via an animal’s metabolism, is already on sale for the table and barbecue. Impossible Foods, a Californian firm, has deconstructed hamburgers, to work out what gives them their texture (质感) and flavour, and then either found or grown botanical equivalents to these.     2    

For those who really want to eat steak while saving the planet, a second approach maybe more promising. That is “clean” meat made by taking animal cells and growing them in a factory to form strips of muscle. Steak is not yet on the menu, but burgers and meatballs may soon be. The field leader is Mosa Meat, a Dutch firm staffed by scientists.     3    By 2020, it hopes, the price of making them will have come down to about $US 11 each.

There is one more novel source of meaty protein that does not involve farm animals -at least, farm animals of the conventional sort. This is insects. Locusts (蝗虫), for example, are about 70 per cent protein. Insects do have to be fed, but being cold-blooded, they convert more food into body mass than warm-blooded mammals do and, being boneless, more of that body-mass is edible.     4     About 2 billion people eat insects already, but it seems few of us are willing to try. Changing that could be a hard sell. Grind (碾碎) the bugs up and use them as ingredients, though, and your customers might find them more acceptable. Hargol FoodTech, an Israeli startup, plans to do just that. Locustburgers, anybody?

A．The first burger it made, in 2013, cost around $300,000.

B．It launched its plant-based burger in a number of restaurants in America last year.

C．Per edible gram, insects need only a twelfth of the food that cattle require.

D．The problem is marketing.

E．Plant-based "meat" products have made it onto menus and supermarket shelves.

F．Some consumers, particularly in the rich West, get this.

3 . Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
一家服装店的橱窗外，两只狐狸在对话：
——爸爸快看，妈妈在对我笑呐！
——走吧儿子，有人过来了。
请简要描述这幅图片，并就其传达的信息和意义谈谈你的看法。

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4 . NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS

Human

Animal News

Ancient World

Space/Tech

Culture

Warning from Experts

A growing amount of human- made orbital debris(太空轨道残骸)---from rocket stages and out-of-date satellites---- is circling the Earth. Scientists say the orbital debris, better known as space junk, poses an increasing threat to space activities. “This is a growing environmental problem,” said Nicholas Johnson, the chief scientist and program manager for orbital debris at NASA(美国航空航天局) in Houston, Texas.

Johnson and his team have developed a computer model capable of simulating past and future amounts of space junk. The model predicts that even without future rocket or satellite launches, the amount of debris in low orbit around Earth will steady through 2055, after which it will increase. While current efforts have focused on limiting future space junk, these scientists say removing large pieces of old space junk will soon be necessary.

Since the first launch of satellite in 1957, humans have been generating space junk. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network is currently tracking over 13,000 human-made objects larger than ten centimeters in diameter orbiting the Earth. “Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies,” Johnson said. In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of smaller objects in space. These include everything from pieces of plastic to bits of paint. Much of this smaller junk has come from exploding rocket stages. Stages are sections of a rocket that have their own fuel or engines.

These objects travel at speeds over 35,000 kilometers an hour. At such high speed, even small junk can tear holes in a spacecraft or disable a satellite by causing electrical shorts that result from clouds of superheated gas.

Johnson believes it may be time to think about how to remove junk from space. Previous proposals range from sending up spacecrafts to grab junk and bring it down to using lasers to slow an objects orbit to cause it to fall back to Earth more quickly. Given current technology, those proposals appear neither technically nor economically practical, “Space junk is like any environmental problem,” Johnson admits. “It’s growing. If you don’t deal with it now, it will only become worse, and the solutions in the future are going to be even more costly.”

1. What is this passage mainly talking about?

A．Advanced technology is used to remove space junk.

B．NASA is responsible for the environmental problem.

C．Cleaning up the space junk is greatly needed.

D．Human activities generate much orbital debris.

2. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?

A．Rocket launches produce more debris than satellite launches.

B．Space junk is endangering human beings' space activities.

C．It's necessary to clean up the large pieces of old space junk.

D．Even a tiny piece of space junk can destroy a spacecraft

3. What does John think of the previous proposals to grab space junk and bring it down to the earth?

A．Reasonable.

B．Unbelievable.

C．Reliable.

D．Impractical.