1 . 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。

Recently， the New Zealand government announced that it would try to get rid of every single mouse in the country by 2050.   This isn't just to make the streets a cleaner place; these    1    （mouse）are destroying the country's native species.

New Zealand is    2    ancient island that was home to many different species of wildlife long before humans arrived.   It's thought that when people first    3    （travel）to the island on ships to live there many hundreds of years ago， they brought the mouse along with    4    （they）by mistake.

In a country with few predators（捕食者），    5    （introduce）this species was a disaster.   Over 40 types of birds ended up becoming extinct after these pests ate their eggs and disturbed their    6    （nature）habitats.   One of the few species of flightless birds that still remain is the kiwi，    7    is native to New Zealand and is a symbol（象征）of the country.   It's believed that around 20 of them    8    （kill）by these pests every week.

    9    （drive）crazy by the severe situation， the government will set thousands of traps and even spray（喷洒）poison across some areas using helicopters.   Scientists are also working on using a gene-editing tool to find a way to stop the pests    10    reproducing， although some worry this could have unwanted effects.

2 . Crimes happen every day, but people aren’t the only victims of illegal activities. There are also animals. Though animals can’t tell the police officers what they’ve suffered, these are some of the hardest cases to solve.

As we all know, poachers can make a lot of money by selling meat, fur and other parts of protected animals. As the animals become rarer, their parts become more valuable. So poachers earn even greater rewards for their collection of protected species. In the past few years, the price of ivory has risen to about $850 per kg. An ivory can sometimes weigh 11 kg or more.

Now, scientists are fighting back. It is known that DNA plays a big part in solving human crimes. Like fingerprints, DNA is unique to every person. So by examining DNA in blood or hair, the police can recognize criminals and victims.

When the police find poached animal parts, such as their fur or bones, it is difficult to know what species the victims are, which is mostly cared about. DNA can prove helpful in figuring it out and also where the animals came from. That’s because members of one local group of animals share more DNA in common with each other than they do with more distant groups of their species.

If the world’s poaching victims could talk, they would probably thank these scientists for their work.

1. The author uses the example of ivory to show that ________.

A．ivory is the most expensive part of an elephant

B．poaching is a very common activity in the world

C．poachers always treat the protected animals cruelly

D．poachers make a large profit from their illegal activities

2. What is the author’s attitude towards the scientist’ work?

A．Critical.	B．Doubtful.
C．Uninterested.	D．Appreciative.

3. The Third paragraph is mainly about ________?

A．how to examine DNA of an animal

B．why DNA is unique to every person

C．the improvement of DNA technique

D．how DNA technique helps the police

4. When the police find poached animal parts, the first thing they want to know is ________.

A．who killed the animals

B．when the crime happened

C．what species they belong to

D．where the animals come from

3 . 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。

As we all know, the Great Wall of China is one of the greatest     1     (sight) in the world---the longest wall in the world ,which     2     (consider) the symbol of China and the wisdom of Chinese people.

With     3    long history of more than 2300 years, the “Long Wall” was built in different areas by different dynasties     4     (protect) their territorial（领土的）borders. During the construction of the Great Wall, there were many     5     (interest) legends and stories, such as Meng Jiang Nü weeping over the Great Wall, a sad     6     romantic love story .

Today, the Great Wall has become a place     7     interest not only to the Chinese but also to people all over the world. Perhaps the most     8     (wide) famous advertising words in history come from the poetic pen of Chairman Mao: “He     9     has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man,” Actually, since the Great Wall was opened to the public, hundreds of millions of visitors     10     (be) to its various sections.

4 . 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。

Tourism can be both good and bad. Yes, it has brought in money for the local economy and    1    (create) jobs for locals, but it has also brought some problems.

One growing problem is tourists who want to prove    2    they have visited a destination.Tourists have used paint, rocks, or even    3    (key)to write on many places of interest. I have three words for people like this: please stop it. If you   want to leave a mark on the world, do it    4    changing someone’s life with kindness and love.

Another big problem in some places is tourists disturbing the local people and life. Some tourists take pictures of local people without asking for their    5    (permit).Some tourists love to party there late into the night,    6    (make)it difficult for locals to sleep. I have three words for tourists like this: please be    7    (consider).Have fun in a way that does not disturb others. The number of problems from tourists    8    (be)endless.The only way    9    (solve) the problem of the terrible tourist is to make sure that you are not one! Be    10    best, kindest, most polite tourist possible. Remember, whenever you step outside your country’s borders, you are representing your country to the rest of the world.

5 . The Lake on Top of a Mountain

Imagine a lake as blue as the summer sky, surrounded by thousands of pine trees and towering mountains.    1    , but Lake Tahoe is a real place in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, along the border of California and Nevada.

People come during every season to enjoy Lake Tahoe. It is the perfect spot for camping, boating, fishing, biking, and hiking.    2    . Most of the small towns surrounding Lake Tahoe have lodge(集会处)where families can go to ski or snowboard. These holiday destinations are much more fun to stay at than the ones in other parts of the country.

    3    , but the area was popular long before California and Nevada were even states. Native Americans from the Washoe tribe(部落)traveled through the mountains and spent their summers at Lake Tahoe. In fact, the name Tahoe comes from a Washoe and meaning "big water". The Washoe were expert hunters who used the land and water for their food supply.    4    . The best one is about very large birdlike monster(怪物)that lived in the middle of the lake and ate people!

While people now use Lake Tahoe mostly for fun rather than survival, it is still important to keep the water and land clean. California and Nevada work together to make sure these natural resources are used wisely.    5    . There would be no place as beautiful or fun for a vacation as Lake Tahoe.

A．Few people know this place

B．It sounds like something from a storybook

C．They even created many tales about the lake

D．Thousands of people visit Lake Tahoe each year

E．However, Lake Tahoe is best known for its snow sports

F．They have excellent hunting skills and never farm the land

G．It would be terrible if the lake and mountains became severely polluted

6 . Culture: Festival starts to celebrate harvest

Nadun Festival, celebrated by the Tu Nationality, falls between the 12th day of the seventh month and the 15th day of the ninth month on the lunar calendar. The annual festival is often described as the word’s longest carnival. Temple fairs are held during the two months to celebrate the harvest. It was included in the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2006.

Video: Voyage along the Grand Canal

The Grand Canal a UNESCO world Heritage site, is the longest artificial waterway in the world and a famous tourist destination. Starting Beijing, it passes through Tianjin and flows through the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and Hangzhou, linking the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. The oldest parts of the canal date back to the Sui Dynasty(581-618).

Art: Qianlong vase to go under the hammer

A porcelain vase from Emperor Qianlong’s(1735-96) collection will go under the hammer in Hong Kong in the fall, Sotheby’s announced. The 40-cm antique was sold for an astonishing 43 million pounds($55.25 million) at the Bainbridge auction(拍卖）house in the United Kingdom in 2010. It was displayed at an exhibition in New York in 1905 and was purchased by a Japanese collector in 1924. It has remained in the private collection for almost a century.

Travel: Chinese tourists are biggest spenders

China maintained its leading role in the global tourism market with outbound(出境的) tourists spending $258 billion last year, accounting for one-fifth of the world’s total spending on tourism, according to a world tourism report.

1. How long does the Nadun Festival last?

A．Three days.	B．Two months.
C．Seven months	D．Nine months.

2. Which of the following should you visit if you want to travel to a world heritage site?

A．The Nadun Festival.	B．The Tu Nationality.
C．The Bainbridge auction house.	D．The Grand Canal.

3. What can we learn about the Qianlong vase?

A．It is now still in the private collection.

B．It will be destroyed this autumn by Sotheby’s.

C．A Japanese collector sold it at an exhibition in New York.

D．The Bainbridge auction house got it at an amazing price in 2010.

7 . How to fight California’s wildfires? It’s an “all of the above” respond.

There might, indeed, be a need to make it easier to thin dying or dead trees out of thickly forested areas, reducing the fuel for wildfires. But the problem is actually more complicated. Even if dead trees are removed, the dry bushes act like kindling(引火物) when wildfires spread.

Even more to the point, thick forests were not a factor in these recent California’s fires. “They’re using these fires to talk about forest management that has nothing to do with the landscape in which the fires are occurring,” says Chur Miller. W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Climate change is making wildfires worse. The resulting unpredictable weather patterns have created shorter, wetter winters in California, producing a sudden, heavy growth of brushes, grasses and trees. After winter, the state’s ongoing drought and record-high summer temperatures draw water out of the plants, making them near-perfect kindling. With the hot and dry Santa Ana winds of fall, fires explode out of control.

Yet these tragedies can’t be blamed only on global warming. Wildfires are actually a vital of the state’s ecosystem. Lodgepole pines (松树), for example, grow well in fire-prone areas where millions of structures have been built in rural areas of California since the 1940s. When they burn, the cost in lives and treasures skyrockets.

Answering these disasters with a one-dimensional solution helps no one, although it might score short-term political points. The proper response includes placing limits on residential expansion into wildlands; better management and removal of dry brushes and continuously addressing the growing concern of climate changes.

In other words, the solution isn’t either/or. It’s all of the above.

1. What do Char Miller’s words indicated?

A．It is wrong to blame thick woods for the recent fires.

B．It is right to remove dead trees from the forested areas.

C．It is high time to strengthen forest management.

D．It is a pity that the fires destroyed the beautiful landscape.

2. How does a hotter and wetter winter in California affect the plants there?

A．By causing the plants to grow wildly.

B．By expanding the plants into wildlands.

C．By making the plants easy to catch fires.

D．By drawing water out of the plants.

3. What does the paragraph 5 mainly tell us?

A．Global warming caused these tragedies.

B．California’s ecosystem can easily cause wildfires.

C．Lodgepole pines shouldn’t be planted in California.

D．The fires brought huge economic losses and many deaths.

4. What is the solution according to the last paragraph?

A．Dealing with the climate change.

B．The removal of dry trees.

C．Encouraging people to live in wildlands.

D．A combination of different measures.

8 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Environmental pollution does great harm to us. Tens of thousands of people die of disease caused by pollution. The area of desert in the world is growing and the weather is getting worst because the forest damage. The waste gas and liquid from factories have polluted air or rivers. Everyone is eager to get fresh air, pleasant weather and safe drunk water.

Luckily more and more people have realized what serious the problem is and they were trying their best to take measures to protect the environment. Therefore, we still need to encourage more and more people to join us in protecting their environment. Let’s keep in the mind that protecting the environment is saving ourselves!

9 . When I was a baby, I entertained you and made you laugh. Whenever I was “bad”, you'd shake your finger at me and ask, “How could you?”--but then you'd give up, and roll me over for a belly scratch and I believed that life could not be any more perfect.

My housetraining was a long process, because you were terribly busy, but we worked on that together. We went for long walks, runs in the park and car rides. We stopped for ice cream. I took long naps in the sun waiting for you to come home at the end of the day.

Gradually, you began spending more time at work and on your career, and more time searching for a human mate. Eventually, you fell in love. She, now your wife, is not a dog person, but I still welcomed her into our home. I was happy because you were happy. Then the human babies came along and I shared your excitement, I was fascinated by their pinkness, how they smelled, and I wanted to mother them too. Your wife was afraid I would bite them. But nevertheless, as they began to grow, I became their friend.

Now, you have a new job in another city and you and they will be moving to an apartment that does not allow pets. You've made the right decision for your “family”, but there was a time when I was your only family.

I was excited about the car ride until we arrived at the dog pound. It smelled of dogs and cats, of fear, of hopelessness. You filled out the paperwork and said, “I know you will find a good home for her.” They shrugged and gave you a pained look. The children were in tears as they waved me goodbye. And “How could you?” were the only three words that swept over my mind.

Is it better to live with hope or without hope? At first, whenever anyone passed my pen , I rushed to the front, hoping it was you, that you had changed your mind and that this was all a bad dream.

My beloved master, I will think of you and wait for you forever. I hope you receive more faithfulness from your family than you showed to me.

1. Why was the dog excited about the car ride?

A．It thought of moving with its master.

B．It hoped to be adopted（收养）by another family.

C．It was longing for the life at the pound

D．It was happy about its master's decision.

2. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 shows that ________.

A．the dog had done many bad things	B．the dog would be given less care
C．the master's decision upset the dog	D．the master left the dog with regret

3. Which is true about the dog when it lived at the pound?

A．It felt disappointed with its master.	B．It continued to love its former owner.
C．It did not trust humans any more.	D．It was excited about the pound.

4. What is the theme of the story?

A．Be ready for changes.	B．Never expect too much.
C．Never complain about your life.	D．Be faithful to those who love you.

10 . What is the capital of Canada? If you’re well-versed in geographic knowledge, you know the answer is Ottawa. But why is that? After all, Toronto is much larger than any other city in Canada. Montreal is an international city with ties to Europe. Vancouver is a major city with a very strategic port. Quebec City is centrally located.

Why were none of these cities chosen to be the capital of Canada? As it turns out, choosing a capital city is more complicated than pointing to the biggest city on the map.

Ottawa was a good choice because it was centrally located between two other major contenders. Montreal (which was predominantly French) and York (now Toronto, which was predominantly British). These two cities were the largest in Ontario and Quebec, which were at the center of Canada in the middle of 19th century. Picking Ottawa was a good compromise, as the Queen did not want to appear to favor one major city over the other.

Also, unlike Toronto and Montreal, Ottawa was central but also a safe distance away from Canada’s southern neighbor, the United States. It meant the capital would be safer in the event the U.S. decided to attack again. After all, it had only been 40 years since the War of 1812 when American troops had invaded as a result of British interference(干涉) in shipping. Although America was unable to capture Canada, the invasion was costly for the British government, who was not about to let it happen again.

Hence, Ottawa was a great choice for the capital of Canada.

1. Which is the biggest city in Canada?

A．Toronto.	B．Ottawa.
C．Montreal.	D．Vancouver.

2. Why was neither Montreal nor Toronto chosen to be the capital?

A．Ottawa was in the middle of Canada.

B．The Queen did not want to be criticized.

C．The two cities were in the middle of Canada.

D．There were different languages between the two cities.

3. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A．The United States was a good neighbor.

B．The United States often attacked Canada.

C．Toronto and Montreal were in the middle of Canada.

D．The capital was not easy to be attacked.