1 . Canada is a vast and diverse country that offers plenty of incredible tourist destinations. From wonderful natural landscapes to lively cities, Canada has something for every traveler. Here’s a guide to some of Canada’s top tourist destinations.

Banff National Park, Alberta

Located in the Canadian Rockies, Banff National Park is a breathtaking destination known for its turquoise (绿松石) lakes, snow-covered mountains, and plentiful wildlife. Explore the landmark-Lake Louise, hike to amazing viewpoints, and spend time in the natural hot springs.

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Niagara Falls is one of the world’s most famous natural attractions. Witness the steep (陡峭的) power and beauty of the grand falls from various viewpoints. Take a boat tour, visit the Butterfly Conservatory, or enjoy the lively atmosphere of Clifton Hill.

Toronto, Ontario

As Canada’s largest city, Toronto offers an impressive experience. Discover the famous CN Tower, explore the busy neighborhoods of Kensington Market and Distillery District, and visit world-class museums such as the Royal Ontario Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario.

Whistler, British Columbia

Whistler is a well-known winter sports destination, famous for its world-class ski slopes and winter activities. In summer, enjoy hiking, mountain biking, and golfing in the impressive mountain scenery.

1. What can visitors do in Banff National Park?

A．Go boating.	B．Go skiing.
C．Appreciate waterfalls.	D．Enjoy hot springs.

2. Which destination offers all experience of lively cultural life?

A．Banff National Park, Alberta.	B．Niagara Falls, Ontario.
C．Toronto, Ontario.	D．Whistler, British Columbia.

3. In which part of a newspaper can we see the text?

A．Tourism.

B．Culture.

C．Fashion.

D．Sport.

2 . 假定你们要开一个以“Protecting Our Environment”为题的主题班会，请你写一篇介绍环境保护的发言稿，要点如下：
1. 目前环境面临的威胁；
2. 提出可行措施；
3. 保护环境的意义 。
注意：1. 文章应包括以上要点，可适当发挥。
2. 词数 80 词左右。
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3 . How to Survive a Tsunami on the Beach

The word tsunami is from Japanese. It describes a series of waves that can reach over 100 feet tall and travel at speeds up to 600 miles per hour across the sea. A single wave in a tsunami can be quite long, as much as 60 miles, causing great damage.    1    

Your best chance for surviving a tsunami on a beach is to pay attention to the warning signs, stay away from the shore after an earthquake, and get to high land. Then wait for information from disaster response groups.

    2    With your family, discuss how you’ll reach the evacuation area (紧急疏散区) as soon as possible.

The sooner you know a tsunami is coming the better your chance of making it to higher ground.    3    

·Head for high ground, get at least 100 feet above sea level.

·    4    

·Don’t swim against the current.

As you learn how to survive a tsunami, remember the first wave in a series of waves is the smallest and weakest.    5     If you’re in a boat at the beach, head out into the ocean. You’ll stand a better chance away of survival away from the shoreline.

A．That’s why it’s crucial to know how to survive a Tsunami.

B．Grab something like a tree or something that float, like a raft.

C．The waves following an earthquake may continue for hours or up to a day.

D．That’s why it’s essential to learn the early warning signs to survive a tsunami.

E．If it’s too late, and the water’s already rising, here’s what to do in a tsunami.

F．Your best chance for surviving a tsunami on a beach is to pay attention to the warning signs.

G．Whether you’re visiting or living in a tsunami zone, learn where the closest place is out of the tsunami’s reach.

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。

Kaifeng, Tianjin and Weifang     1     (say) to be the top 3 traditional homes of Chinese kites. As an art, Chinese kites have developed for all time along the long history of local     2     (culture) traditions.

Weifang is a city of Shandong Province. It’s known     3     the “world kite capital”   because of its famous, well-made kites that/which are painted beautifully and fly perfectly. Weifang kites fully show general custom. Kite art has used     4     (method), skills and bright color style from this traditional Chinese painting. It     5     (become) one of the important kinds of Chinese kites.

The cool facts of Tianjin kites are the manners of the organization and connection and     6     (especial) the using of bright colors. Built on traditional Spring Festival wood block print in Yangliuqing, Tianjin kites try to be unusual,     7     (hope) to find something new in design and painting.

As one of the most ancient capitals in China, Kaifeng has    8     long history of kite making as well. In Kaifeng, during Qing Ming Festival, local people fly kites. When the kite fly up, they cut the kite line on purpose to let the kite go with the wind,     9     means letting go of all the stress and     10    (sad) from the past year, so as not to get sick in a coming year.

5 . Climate change and increases in drought and rainstorms pose serious challenges to our water management. An international group of scientists have brought together a large body of research on water quality in rivers worldwide. The study shows that river water quality tends to worsen during extreme weather events. As these events become more often and severe due to climate change, ecosystem health and human access to safe water may be increasingly under threat.

The research led by Dr. Michelle van Vliet of Utrecht University analyzed 965 cases of river water quality changes during extreme weather such as drought, heatwaves, rainstorms, and flooding. The analysis shows that in most cases water quality tends to become worse during droughts and heatwaves (68%), rainstorms and floods (51%), and under long-term changes in climate (56%). During droughts, less water is available to dilute contaminants (稀释污染物), while rainstorms and floods generally result in more contaminants that run off from land to rivers and streams. Improvements or mixed responses in water quality are also reported for some cases, for example when increased transport of pollutants is offset (抵消) by more dilution during flood events.

Water quality changes are strongly driven by changes in water temperature. Land use and other human factors such as wastewater treatment also shape how this plays out. “Understanding the complex interplay between climate, land use, and human drivers, which together influence the sources and transport of pollutants is crucial,” says van Vliet. The research also calls for more data collection and studies of water quality in non-Western countries. “We need better monitoring of water quality in Africa and Asia. Most water quality studies now focus on rivers and streams in North America and Europe.”

The results of the study underline the urgent need for a better understanding of water quality changes during extreme weather events. It sounds an alarm to us. Only then will we be able to develop effective water management strategies that can safeguard our access to clean water and ensure ecosystem health under climate change and increasing weather extremes.

1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A．Human beings should be blamed for climate change.

B．Worsened water quality is threatening the climate.

C．Water quality in rivers worldwide is under risk.

D．Water management has been improved recently.

2. What is paragraph 2 of the text mainly about?

A．The threats caused by extreme weather.	B．The factors influencing water safety.
C．The findings of van Vliet’s research.	D．The design of van Vliet’s experiment.

3. According to paragraph 3, which will van Vliet probably agree with?

A．Water quality in non-Western countries is more terrible.

B．Human activities have a big influence on water quality.

C．Related data collection and studies of Europe is adequate.

D．Water quality changes are dominated by water temperature.

4. What is the author’s attitude toward van Vliet’s research?

A．Unclear.

B．Contradictory.

C．Doubtful.

D．Approving.

6 . It was raining like nothing before when Ehdaa Bujeldain, an English teacher living with her family in the mountains of Derna in eastern Libya , heard a loud noise that sounded like an explosion (爆炸). Later they learned that a dam (大坝) in Derna had broken down under the pressure of running water. For the next four days, they had no power or internet, and it was only recently that they started to fully understand of the damage caused by the floods.

“Half of the city has been destroyed. My mom’s relatives, my friends, my coworkers ——they are all gone. Now we, the survivors, are just ghost s in shells,” says Bujeldain, whose sadness can be easily told from her blank expression.

Five days have passed since the terrible flooding in Derna, Libya’s Red Crescent organization estimated that 11,300 people have died, while the city’s mayor believes the number of deaths could be as high as 20,000.

Derna is a coastal city with a seasonal river called the Wadi Derna. Despite the abnormally heavy rain, people living near the river had little warning before the floodwaters came rushing in on that terrible morning. United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths described the scale of the flood as “appalling” (令人惊骇的) and blamed the flood partly on sudden climate change.

Now international aid teams are arriving in Derna, but they face challenges due to damaged roads, lack of access to power, water, and fuel. Tarhoni, doctor of the rescue team, warns that the most difficult weeks lie ahead. “One disaster is done and there is another to come,” he says. “The thousands and thousands of people who lost everything these people now need comfort, they need company, they need psychological support.”

1. What do we know about Bujeldain’s family from paragraph 1?

A．The explosion they heard led to the destruction of the dam.

B．Bujeldain saved her family from the floods with her bravery.

C．Bujeldain immediately recognized the outbreak of the floods.

D．For several days, they didn’t fully realize the seriousness of the floods.

2. What does Bujeldain mean by saying they are “just ghosts in shells”   in paragraph 2?

A．They run out of energy and are very tired.

B．They feel lucky as they are safe and sound.

C．They are completely saddened and shocked.

D．They are sorry for the loss of their homeland.

3. According to the passage, which of the following does NOT contribute to the loss of lives?

A．The absence of warning.	B．The extraordinary rainfall.
C．Unexpected climate change.	D．The damage to environment.

4. What might be the main focus of international aid efforts in Derna?

A．Addressing mental problems.

B．Providing immediate medical care.

C．Conducting climate change research.

D．Rebuilding roads and access to resources.

7 . Perhaps the most challenging thing about earthquakes is the great uncertainty around where and when they are likely to strike, which makes taking action that may save lives challenging.

Earthquakes bring about redistribution of mass and this generates observable changes of the Earth’s gravitational field, measurable using specialized instruments. High accuracy gravity measurements may provide a useful tool to help with managing the risk by identifying which faults (断层) are under stress and most likely to be active. By monitoring the progression of fault movements, it’s possible to get a medium-term outlook on which areas are most likely to be affected when the next earthquake happens.

Current earthquake warning systems are based on networks which detect the early arrival “P” seismic (地震的) waves prior to the arrival of the more destructive waves, but are unable to respond before the ground movements have already started, greatly limiting how advanced the warning can be.

While a warning caused by a gravity signal might only give a few additional seconds, such a warning can provide extra time to allow the public to take preventative action.

However, making measurements of gravity with sufficient accuracy, long-term stability and data sampling rate to achieve these signals is of course challenging. Detection of small signals for early warning systems is greatly limited by the background seismic noise which affects the sensor readings. Obtaining measurements which are stable over long periods of time and consistent between different sensors is difficult too.

The Quantum Technology Hub for Sensors and Timing led by the University of Birmingham is developing sensors which meet these challenges by employing the quantum (量子) behaviour of cold atoms to measure gravity accurately. As well as the cold atom sensors being extremely sensitive to small changes in the gravitational field, the identical (完全相同的) nature of atoms makes them ideal test masses which give consistent results.

Furthermore, by measuring two separated atom clouds at the same time, common background seismic noise can be controlled, which helps to overcome the limitations of seismic noise and allows fast and accurate measurements.

1. What is mainly talked about in paragraph 2?

A．How earthquakes are formed.	B．How people can better predict earthquakes.
C．What is used to monitor earthquakes.	D．What is the way to identify active faults.

2. What affects the accuracy of early warning systems?

A．The number of sensors.	B．The temperature of atoms.
C．The background seismic noise.	D．The strength of seismic waves.

3. What makes atoms perfect test masses?

A．They have the same nature.	B．They are tiny.
C．They are sensitive to temperature.	D．They can remove the seismic noise.

4. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To display the uncertainty of earthquakes.

B．To show the challenges in detecting earthquakes.

C．To discuss the accuracy of earthquake warning systems.

D．To introduce a technology to improve earthquake detection.

8 . It can be hard for one person to protect the environment by himself. If you teenagers want to do something, like stopping pollution or protecting wildlife, you can gather like­minded people in an environmental club.     1     And with a good club, you and your friends can be up to the task.

Choose a cause. Some good ideas might be something like, “Save the whales!” But nothing says you can’t do more than one cause.     2     For example, you could work to save polar bears in November, plant trees in December, and stop global warming in January.

    3     This can be as simple as “The Environmental Club” or as cool as “Team Environment”. You can also use some other words, such as green, environmental, friendly, and of course, something that relates to your cause.

Find a clubhouse. Now that you have your club, you must find a place where all the members can get together to discuss your projects.     4     If your parents allow it, you can choose your yard or even your living room as the place for your club meetings.

Decide on jobs. You can work as an activity organizer, a project manager or the president who decides all the meeting times, new members, meeting places, activities and projects. Each person can have a different job.     5     And how? Often remind them of the same goal they’re working towards.

A．Name your club.

B．Great minds think alike.

C．After all, saving the world is a big job.

D．Choose members to hold all the meetings.

E．Your club could do a different cause every month.

F．It could be in the woods, in the park or in the classroom.

G．But encourage all members to support each other’s work.

9 . 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。

It had been only two weeks since my family moved to the new house near the woods during my senior 2 holiday. Yesterday I heard a new noise in the woods, not drowned out by bird calls. My first thought, a hopeful one, was a deer. What if I had a deer family living in the woods behind my house? A peaceful animal to symbolize the gentleness of our new life? Or could it be something dangerous, even terrifying? A dangerous animal, a wild man? But no. This was our new home. Our new life. There would be no monsters (怪物).

It could be a groundskeeper. Who was I kidding with monsters? We moved to rural. This wasn’t an absolute wilderness. There were trails in these woods, maintained by the Homeowners’ Association. So, what was it in the woods?

I made a plan. I put on long pants and boots and announced that I would walk into the woods and found the trail. I would look for signs of life — animal droppings, fur, satanic (邪恶的) symbols. My sister, Roger, wanted in. My brother, Ben, was busy showing all his toys to our grandfather, who came to visit us.

Roger and I went to the edge of the property line and kept going. Birds got quiet, sensing strangers. We walked on, not paying particularly good attention to landmarks. Without much trouble, we found the trail and a banyan tree with multiple trunks shooting out from the ground. Roger immediately climbed it and declared, “This is the fairy tree!” She threw her arms in the air, and asked me to take a picture with my smartphone. She was in boots and a dress and looked perfect among the trees.

Walking deeper into the woods, we found a clearing with some downed trees and declared it the “play area.” She climbed the fallen tree trunks and jumped off them, sent up a puff of dust. We continued our adventure until it was getting dark, but found nothing. We decided to go back.

注意：
1. 写作词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Soon, I realized we were lost and couldn’t find the fairy tree.

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We promised to take Ben to adventure the next day.

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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。

China will establish a new batch of national parks, including Huanghekou, Qianjiangyuan-Baishanzu and Kalamayli, in a steady and     1     (order) manner, Guan Zhiou, head of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, said on Saturday.

Speaking at the second National Park Forum held in Xining, capital of Qinghai province, Guan said China has adopted the strictest measures     2     (strengthen) the protection of the authenticity and integrity of the ecosystem, and promote the continuous improvement of ecological functions.

China’s national parks are specific land or sea areas     3     main purpose is to preserve the     4     (national) representative natural ecosystems of the country and realize the scientific protection and reasonable use of natural resources.

In 2021, China established the first batch of national parks, with     5     protected land area of 230,000 square km. These parks, including the Sanjiangyuan National Park, the Giant Panda National Park, the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park and so on, are home to nearly 30 percent of the key terrestrial (陆生的) wildlife species     6     (find) in the country.

“The Sanjiangyuan park realized the full protection of the source of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang     7     (river) and the Tibetan antelope population has recovered to over 70,000. In the Giant Panda National Park, more than 70 percent of wild pandas are     8     good protection,” the official added.

“Efforts     9     (make) to promote high-level protection and facilitate the promulgation (颁布) of the National Park Law,” Guan said,     10     (add) that China will also increase the application of new technologies, build a world-class scientific research monitoring platform, and strengthen national park management capabilities.