1 . Dad had been a lumberjack (伐木工). As the years passed on, he became angry whenever he couldn’t do something he had done as a(n) _________ man. Four days after his sixty-seventh birthday, Dad had a heart attack and was_________ into an operating room. He survived. But his passion for life was_______.

My husband, Dick, and I invited Dad to live with us on our small farm. We hoped the fresh _________air would help him adjust. Within a week after he moved in, I_________. He complained at everything I did. I called a mental health center that recommended an article describing a group of patients under treatment for_________. Yet their health had improved greatly when given_________ for a dog.

I drove to the animal shelter that afternoon and back home with a dog.

When I reached the house, I helped my_________ out of the car and said “Dad! Look what I got for you!” Dad looked, then pulled a face. “If I had wanted a dog, I would have picked a better one. Keep it to yourself!” Anger rose _________ me. “You’d better get used to him, Dad. He’s staying!”

Dad just ignored me, when suddenly the dog__________ my dad and sat down. Then slowly, he raised his paw...Dad remained silent. The dog waited __________. Then Dad was on his knees __________the animal.

It was the__________of a warm and loving friendship. Dad and the pet were__________throughout the next three years. Dad’s bitterness__________ , and they made many friends.

1.

A．older

B．younger

C．happier

D．luckier

2.

A．rushed

B．forced

C．kept

D．transformed

3.

A．consistent

B．fresh

C．gone

D．troublesome

4.

A．town

B．countryside

C．city

D．state

5.

A．cried

B．smiled

C．regretted

D．opposed

6.

A．depression

B．disappointment

C．fitness

D．confusion

7.

A．devotion

B．commitment

C．treatment

D．responsibility

8.

A．prize

B．company

C．burden

D．reward

9.

A．nearby

B．along

C．on

D．inside

10.

A．closed

B．barked

C．annoyed

D．neared

11.

A．anxiously

B．delightedly

C．patiently

D．bitterly

12.

A．bringing up

B．picking up

C．pulling up

D．catching up

13.

A．beginning

B．resolution

C．addition

D．display

14.

A．undisturbed

B．incredible

C．inseparable

D．unattended

15.

A．arose

B．decreased

C．restored

D．faded

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does Debra Rosenthal teach?

A．Climate Change: Global Impacts.

B．Environmental Literature.

C．Organic Chemistry.

2. Why was Isidora Djukic initially unsure about the idea of the board game?

A．She didn’t enjoy playing board games.

B．She doubted its effectiveness in learning.

C．She preferred traditional classroom discussions.

3. How does the board game “Solutions” differ from “Monopoly”?

A．The players of “Solutions” work towards a common goal.

B．The aim of “Solutions” is to make players compete with each other.

C．“Solutions” includes collecting recyclable materials.

4. What do we know about the board game “Solutions”?

A．It needs to be played with six copies at the same time.

B．It often involves votes to make a decision.

C．It requires the players to measure the temperature.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the aim of the campaign?

A．To remind people of Earth Day.

B．To encourage people to reduce garbage.

C．To warn people of the bad effects of pollution.

2. What will be the task on the second day?

A．Planting trees.

B．Designing posters.

C．Collecting garbage.

3. What does the man expect the teachers to do?

A．Paint paper.

B．Stop driving cars.

C．Decorate classrooms.

4. How does Sara find the man's ideas?

A．Absurd.

B．Hollow.

C．Practical.

4 . Louie, a pet parrot, saved a whole family. He ______ the sleeping Klein family in the middle of the night as flames swept through their home.

“Louie is a true ______,” Barbara Klein recently told news agency South West News Service(SWNS). “If it hadn’t been for him, I probably wouldn’t have been ______ at that time. He started shouting ‘Fire’. He had never said that word before in my ______. When I woke up, the fire was starting to spread across the living room floor.” Unluckily for the family, Louie didn’t ______. Barbara said, “He was like our babies, so it’s ______.”

Barbara took her five-year-old granddaughter ______ and ran out of the house. Her husband Larry also made it out, but was severely wounded when escaping from the burning building. “He ran to the kitchen and tried to ______ the fire out with water,” Barbara told SWNS. “After we left, he ran back into the house and insisted on ______ the pet but with no ______.” The Kleins suffered great ______ in the fire. Their house was in ______ along with its contents and the parrot Louie passed away.

“People have ______ with clothing and someone donated an apartment for three months,” Barbara said. “The man who donated the apartment also ______ us with a baby parrot. We call him Louie Jr to _____   Louie.”

1.

A．annoyed

B．alarmed

C．impressed

D．noticed

2.

A．model

B．genius

C．hero

D．pioneer

3.

A．awake

B．asleep

C．alone

D．afraid

4.

A．opinion

B．way

C．memory

D．sight

5.

A．survive

B．resist

C．arrive

D．respond

6.

A．frightening

B．shocking

C．sorrowful

D．grateful

7.

A．angrily

B．gently

C．secretly

D．immediately

8.

A．turn

B．blow

C．keep

D．put

9.

A．accompanying

B．saving

C．comforting

D．adopting

10.

A．luck

B．doubt

C．evidence

D．barrier

11.

A．injuries

B．losses

C．pressures

D．failures

12.

A．detail

B．place

C．ruins

D．rows

13.

A．rushed out

B．come back

C．run away

D．reached out

14.

A．presented

B．equipped

C．linked

D．compared

15.

A．replace

B．honor

C．forget

D．reward

5 . Cheetahs (猎豹) are usually daytime hunters, but the speedy big cats will shift their activity toward dawn and dusk hours during warmer weather, a new study finds.

Unfortunately for endangered cheetahs, that sets them up for more potential conflicts with mostly competing animals like lions. “Lions normally kill prey (猎物) themselves, but if they come across a cheetah’s kill, they will try to take it,” said Bettina Wachter, a behavioral biologist. “The cheetahs will not fight the larger cats, they will just leave.” Hunting at different times of the day is one way to reduce meetings between large meat-eating animals.

But the new study found that on the hottest days, when daily temperatures got to nearly 45 degrees Celsius, cheetahs became more active at night. Kasim Rafiq, co-writer of the study, said, “There’s a greater chance for more unfriendly encounters and less food for the cheetahs.”

For the current study, researchers placed GPS devices on 53 large meat-eating animals—including cheetahs, lions, and African wild dogs. Researchers then recorded their position s and hours of activity over eight years. They compared this data with the highest daily temperature records. While seasonal differences explain most temperature changes in the time from 2011 to 2018, the scientists say the observed behavior changes offer information about the future of a warming world.

In future research, the scientists plan to use audio-recording devices and accelerometers (加速度计) — “like a Fit bit for big cats,” said Rafiq. The goal is to document the number of meetings between large meat-eating animals.

In addition to competition with lions, cheetahs already face strong pressure from the loss of living space and conflict with humans. The fastest land animal — cheetahs are the rarest big cat in Africa, with fewer than 7,000 left in the wild.

“These climate changes could become really critical if we look into the future — it’s predicted to become much warmer in this part of Africa where cheetahs live, in Botswana, Namibia and Zambia,” said Wachter.

1. What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The lion’s kill.

B．The cheetah’s prey.

C．The lion.

D．The cheetah.

2. Which of the following statements would Kasim Rafiq agree with?

A．Cheetahs would rather sleep in the daytime.

B．Cheetahs will get more food if they hunt later.

C．Cheetahs spend less time hunting than lions.

D．Cheetahs will face strong competition with lions.

3. How is the current study on large meat-eating animals carried out?

A．By placing positioning equipment on them.

B．By documenting their meeting times in summer.

C．By providing them with a Fitbit equipment.

D．By leading them to hunt in different hunt areas.

4. Why will the scientists use audio-recording devices and accelerometers?

A．To show the big influences of climate changes.

B．To protect the environment from being destroyed.

C．To reduce conflicts among large meat-eating animals.

D．To record the frequency of encounters between large meat-eating animals.

6 . A professor at the University of South Florida recently published a paper she knew barely anyone would read. At least, not outside her field. The paper had to do with the impact of algae (海藻) blooms and depletion (退化) of coral reefs on the region’s tourism industry.

The work of completing the paper was glum, says Heather O’Leary. It involved tracking visitors’ reactions to the environment on social media. “Part of the data for months was just reading posts: dead fish, dead fish, dead fish,” she recalled. “We were really thinking every day about the Gulf of Mexico and the waters that surround us, about those risks, and the risks to our coastal economy.”

O’Leary wanted people to pay attention to her paper and raise their environmental awareness. But she couldn’t come up with any solutions. However, attending concerts at USF’s School of Music inspired and gladdened her. She reached out to its director of bands, Matthew McCutchen. “I’m studying climate change and what’s going down at the coral reefs,” he remembered her saying. “And I’ve got all this data from my paper and I’d like to know if there’s any way that we can turn it into music. So people can know about my paper.”

Indeed there was. Composition professor Paul Reller worked with students to map pitch, rhythm and duration to the data. It came alive, O’Leary said, in ways it simply couldn’t be done on a spreadsheet.

“My students were really excited to start thinking about how students from other majors, such as the music students, heard patterns that they did not normally hear in some of the repetitions,” she said. In this case, she said, the patterns revealed the economic impact of pollution on coastal Florida communities.

With music, she added, “you can start to sense with different parts of your mind and your body that there are patterns happening and that they’re important.” “The world is going to see more and more of these ‘wicked problems’, the ones that take multiple people with different types of training and background to solve.”

Now,a group of professors and students are working to bring together music and the environment in related projects, such as an augmented (增强的) reality experience based on this composition. The group wants to spread awareness about the algae blooms, data literacy (数据认知) and environmental protection.

1. What does the underlined word “glum” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Exciting.	B．Emotional.
C．Routine.	D．Miserable.

2. What favor did Heather ask Matthew to offer?

A．Turn her algae data into music.

B．Find some music about coral reefs.

C．Teach her some musical terms.

D．Compose songs regarding climate change.

3. What do patterns in Paul’s music reflect?

A．The different types of training.

B．The repetition of pitch and rhythm.

C．The threat of pollution on the costal economy.

D．The complex challenges of wicked problems.

4. What role did Heather think music plays?

A．Providing solutions to the algae problem.

B．Exposing more wicked problems to the public.

C．Showing the economic growth in coastal cities.

D．Helping people experience the problems better.

7 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The sea was shining across the horizon as my husband, Michael, and I looked out over the rocky cliff（悬崖） of Gleesons Landing in Yorke Peninsula. "Careful Abby doesn't fall down the rocks here," Michael warned as he pulled out his fishing rod（鱼竿）. Abby was our two-year-old rescue dog（搜救犬）we'd adopted one year earlier.

Leaving Michael to his fishing, Abby and I wandered off. We'd been walking for a while when we saw a small path that led down the side of the cliff towards the beach. Abby raced off and as I followed, my leg caught on a rock and I fell down the cliff. Landing three meters down, my left leg cracked violently. Shocked, I tried to keep myself calm. I couldn't feel any pain but when I tried to get up, my body just fell back down. "Go and get Daddy," I signaled to Abby as she paced nervously beside me. At first she refused to leave my side. But somehow she realized I needed her and raced off.

Alone and staring out to sea, my world faded to black. Staying awake some time later, I discovered Abby hadn't returned. Suddenly, I heard movement coming from above. "Sue?" Michael called out. Relief flooded through me as I looked up and saw Michael and Abby. "I think I broke my leg," I shouted back. "I'll go get help," he promised. "If I try to reach you myself, they'll be rescuing two of us."

Faint and tired, I held on to consciousness. Abbey came down to me and kept me company until the rescuers arrived. They carried me on a stretcher（担架） to a helicopter, where I was flown to hospital in Adelaide while Michael and Abby drove.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。

At the hospital, the pain caused by the fall finally hit me.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

“She led me to the exact spot where you were,” Michael explained.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8 . Over the last 40 years, 90% of the King Penguins (企鹅) on a faraway island have been lost. This is especially worrying because it was the largest group of King Penguins in the world.

Penguins living in large groups are called “colonies”. And about half of the world's King Penguins live in the Crozet islands, which lie between Antarctica and the tip of Africa. In 1982, the scientists visited the colony on one of the Crozet islands — the Pig Island. At that time, they figured that there were around 2 million King Penguins there. But now, after carefully studying images taken from space, the scientists believe there are only about 200,000King Penguins left on the island.

The scientists are trying to figure out what might have caused the problem. There are some parts that they understand. For example, it got very warm in 1997. That meant the penguins had to swim much farther to get to the colder water where they could find their food. Many penguins couldn't find enough food to feed their babies. That year was a hard year for the penguins all around Antartica, and many died.

It's possible that there was some kind of sickness just on the Pig Island. It's also possible that the penguins could have problems with the cats or mice which are also on the island. But there are cats and mice on the other islands, and the penguins there seem to be in good condition.

Before this news, people thought the King Penguins were fine. Now, the scientists are worried that they may be in danger. And it will probably get worse because of climate change. The scientists are planning to travel to the Pig Island to count the penguins again and to find out what is going on. But they won't be able to make the trip until this autumn.

1. What can we learn about the Crozet islands from the second paragraph?

A．Two million penguins live there now.	B．They are the largest islands in Africa.
C．They are home to the King Penguins.	D．People discovered the islands in 1982.

2. How did the warm weather in 1997 affect the penguins?

A．They could feed more babies.	B．They swam slowly in the water.
C．They grew up in a faster way.	D．They had difficulty in getting food.

3. What are the scientists going to do about the penguins?

A．Study their images taken from space.	B．Explore what threatens their life.
C．Make them live in different groups.	D．Protect them from cats and mice.

4. Which is the most suitable title for the text?

A．A Sharp Drop in Penguins' Number	B．The Wonderland of the King Penguins
C．A Team's Journey to the South Pole	D．The Major Change in Global Climate

9 . It was in the cold midwinter, and the homeless couple struggled through the night snow, seeking shelter. The father-to-be ________ the roadside for some place where his struggling ________ might rest safely for the night.

That December night, Gus Kiebel, a county wildlife officer, was driving home from work when he ________ the pair in the flash of his headlights. He parked his truck and ________ the animals. Gus ________ out his hands to the beagles (比格犬), which made no effort to escape. Then, he placed the dogs in his truck. Gus ________ his phone, took a picture of the pair and sent it to his wife, Katie Kiebel before calling Katie.

“You cannot put them ________ in the snow,” she said. “Bring them home.”

The Kiebels prepared a bed for the dogs on their warm home, where the ________ animals lay together. However, already having a dog, the Kiebels couldn’t ________ to keep new ones. The next day, Katie took the dogs to the shelter — on one condition. “I’m not ________ the dogs over to you if you’re going to separate them,” she said. The shelter workers promised to keep the couple together. Soon after Christmas, the beagles were ________— as a ________, to a loving family.

It’s a simple story, but it speaks to the ________ of our nature. And when ________ and love triumph over cruelty and neglect, it can feel like the greatest ________ of all.

1.

A．looked

B．headed

C．searched

D．figured

2.

A．companion

B．company

C．friend

D．effort

3.

A．scared

B．attracted

C．appealed

D．spotted

4.

A．scared

B．approached

C．attracted

D．appealed

5.

A．put

B．laid

C．made

D．stretched

6.

A．brought up

B．took out

C．warmed up

D．put down

7.

A．down

B．up

C．back

D．aside

8.

A．disappointed

B．lovely

C．unparalleled

D．exhausted

9.

A．afford

B．offend

C．intend

D．succeed

10.

A．turning

B．driving

C．signing

D．giving

11.

A．welcomed

B．received

C．adopted

D．presented

12.

A．pet

B．pair

C．family

D．reward

13.

A．bottom

B．basis

C．fundamental

D．best

14.

A．kindness

B．curiosity

C．generosity

D．patience

15.

A．achievement

B．miracle

C．career

D．job

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。

Last Sunday was the official birthday of the world’s oldest land animal. Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise(陆龟) living on the island of Saint Helena, turned 190 years old. The event     1    (celebrate) with a big party, which included a special “salad cake”.

Nobody knows for sure how old Jonathan is. But in 1882, he was brought     2     a gift to Sir William Grey-Wilson,     3     lived in Saint Helena. Pictures     4    (take) around that time show that Jonathan was already full-grown.

Since it takes about 50 years for Seychelles giant tortoises     5     (become) adults, animal experts say Jonathan must have been born around 1832. That’s earned him the Guinness World Record for the world’s oldest land animal. Joe Hollins, the veterinarian(兽医) who looks after Jonathan, says Jonathan is probably     6     (old) than 190, but there’s no way to know.

Mr. Hollins says the tortoise is     7    (general) pretty happy as long as he can sleep and eat. He likes to warm     8    (he) by sleeping in the sun.

Though Jonathan is still very active(for a tortoise), he does have some health problems. He’s blind,     9     he can no longer smell things, so he needs to be fed by hand. But he’s got a good appetite. His sense of hearing is also still strong. He     10    (recognize) Mr. Hollins’s voice and responds to it.