1 . In 2002, Huang Hui, a researcher of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, went diving near Xisha. In addition to getting an irremovable suntan (晒黑), she was left with memories of a beautiful experience with clear water and abundant colorful corals (珊瑚). However, much of the breathtaking scenery of this reef has disappeared due to climate change and human activities. All of these factors led to the decline of the coral reef in the near shore waters. “We started to cultivate corals near the Xisha Islands in 2010, and restored more than 200,000 square meters of coral reefs,” Huang said.

In 2004, when Huang was attending the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, she found herself the only representative from the Chinese mainland. She said she felt sad but she made up her mind to strengthen communication with other countries to improve China’s level and status in coral research. She visited top coral research institutes in the US and Australia, establishing long-term cooperation with some of the world’s top coral researchers. By far, Huang has worked on coral research and protection for 22 years. Now, China is in a leading position in terms of technology and coral planting scale.

Huang believes that people’s consciousness of coral protection matters most to the sustainable development of the coral reefs. “I want to call on more people to love nature and look at the ocean in awe,” Huang said.

Partly due to her efforts, Hainan Province released a law in 2017 banning reef exploitation (开发), trading and damaging.

Huang works as a consultant for customs and frontier police on coral protection and promotes coral protection in her local schools. Huang also provides online free training for divers to teach them proper behavior in the sea to protect coral reefs.

“A group of ‘folk scientists’ have also been trained with the hope that more people can gain awareness of the significance of coral reef protection and know how to protect them,” said Huang.

“I am 50, and when I become 60, I hope that not only a coral island will be built but a sustainable development pattern will also be created,” said Huang. “The ideal state is that the coral island should be able to support fishermen and preserve the ecosystem,” she added.

1. What impressed Huang most when going diving near Xisha in 2002?

A．A permanent sunburn on her skin.

B．A large quantity of colorful corals.

C．A sweet memory of her childhood.

D．The sudden disappearance of corals.

2. What does Paragraph 2 mainly focus on?

A．China’s advances in coral protection.	B．Huang’s devotion to coral protection.
C．Huang’s concern over coral protection.	D．People’s ignorance of coral protection.

3. What is the key to protecting corals according to Huang Hui?

A．Introduction of advanced technology.

B．Tough laws banning reef exploitation.

C．Public awareness of coral protection.

D．Communication with foreign countries.

4. What is the best title for this passage?

A．Corals in South China Sea are in danger.

B．Scientist plants corals to save ecosystem.

C．China is taking the lead in planting corals.

D．Measures are to be taken to protect corals.

2 . 阅读下面文章，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一个完整短文。

On his way home, Jonathon saw a gray, long-haired cat sitting on the sidewalk. As he stopped to pet her, he noticed that she was not wearing a collar. She rubbed her head against his hand and began to purr (发呼噜声). She reminded Jonathon of Smoky, the cat he had when he was younger. Smoky’s fur had been long and gray too.

Jonathon petted the cat for a while. Then he said, “I have to go,” and continued home. To his surprise, the cat followed him.

When Jonathon was home, he walked up the porch steps and went in the kitchen. The cat followed him up the steps and sat quietly outside the door, watching him closely. Jonathon made a sandwich. The cat continued to stare at him. Jonathon sighed. “I know it’s not a good idea to feed a stray cat,” he said, “but you look so hungry! I can’t sit here and eat without feeding you too!”

Jonathon put some turkey on a plate for the cat. As Jonathon watched, she ate every scrap of turkey and then began to clean her face and paws. “Wow!” Jonathon said, “You must have been starving. I wonder how long it has been since someone fed you.”

Jonathon finished his sandwich and looked at the cat. Her long fur was matted (乱蓬蓬的). Jonathon remembered that Smoky’s brush and toys were stored in the garage. “I’m going to clean you up a little,” Jonathon said to the cat.

Jonathon found Smoky’s brush and got to work. As the dirt came out, the cat’s fur began to get lighter. “Hey!” Jonathon said, realizing the truth. “You’re not gray—you’re white!”

After her brushing, the cat climbed onto Jonathon’s lap and purred. “You’re so friendly, you probably belong to someone,” Jonathon said. “I bet you’re just lost.” When Jonathon’s father came home, Jonathon showed him the cat that had stretched out in a patch of sun on the porch. “Why don’t you make some signs to place in the neighborhood,” his father suggested.

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His father said that if no one called about the cat after a week, Jonathon could keep her.

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“Okay,” Jonathon’s father finally said, “I think you’ve waited long enough.”

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3 . How to Keep Your Pet Healthy

You love your pets, and of course, you want to keep them happy and healthy. It’s important to provide a good environment. Also, make sure your pets stays healthy.     1    .

    2    .

Diet is the beginning of keeping your pet healthy. When you first get a pet, do your research to find out the most suitable diet and do your best to follow it strictly. For example, cats are carnivores, so try to pick the food with the highest levels of protein.

Provide plenty of fresh water every day.

    3    . For most pets, that means providing a bowl or dish of water that you change out at least once a day. Pets need to stay hydrated to be healthy.

Provide baths as needed.

Bathing keeps your pet clean, and for animals that like water, it can make them much happier to provide baths as needed. How often you bathe your pet really depends on the species.     4    . Other animals, like birds, may need baths or showers several times a week or even every day.

See your veterinarian (兽医) for a checkup and vaccinations (接种疫苗).

Just like you need to go to the doctor for regular checkups, your pet does, too. Providing regular checkups allows your vet to catch problems early before they develop into worse conditions.     5    . Talk to your vet about which ones are proper for your pet.

A．Provide a suitable diet

B．Exercise is healthy for your pet

C．Here are some ways to keep your pets healthy

D．For example, dogs often need baths at least once a month

E．Besides, vaccinations can help keep your pet happy and healthy

F．No matter what kind of pet you have, it will need water in some form

G．While your pet will play with toys on its own, it will enjoy playing with you much more

4 . How does climate change make you feel? If it makes you sad or angry, this is normal and it's called climate anxiety.

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Climate change means changes in long-term weather patterns, including rising temperatures. Human activities contribute to climate change and cause extreme events.     2     Scientists say these events will get worse unless people around the world work together.

What is climate anxiety?

These threats to our planet can have huge influences. They can make you feel angry, frightened, hopeless or sad. This is called climate anxiety.     3     A weather expert said, “It's normal to be sad when things you care about are getting hurt.”

How can I feel better about the future?

No one can fix climate change on their own, but there are lots of things we can do.     4     Or you can join a community group that you're interested in. Local organizations like Plastic Free North Devon encourage people to do beach cleans. Positive action can inspire others too. Sisters Amy and Ella Meek from the organization Kids Against Plastic have picked up 90,000 pieces of plastic.     5    

A．What is climate change?

B．And it is a normal and healthy response.

C．It’s good for you to worry about the change.

D．This puts humans, animals and plants at risk.

E．What should we do to deal with climate change?

F．Breaking the problem into small pieces is a good way to start.

G．They ask schools, businesses and communities to follow their lead.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。每空不得超过四个单词

A dog named Peggy was unable to continue the job she was good     1    -herding (放牧) sheep一when at age 8 she lost    2    (she) hearing.

Peggy’s owners gave her to a local animal shelter (庇护所) when they found it hard    3    (communicate) with her. The manager of the shelter ChloeShorten    4    (offer) to help. Shorten and her husband, Jason,    5     had two other working sheepdogs, decided to take Peggy home.

While Peggy became deaf,    6     (obvious), her love for sheep herding hadn’t disappeared.“We knew Peggy wanted to work, so we taught her how to herd and work with us without     7    (depend) on voice commands (指令),Shorten said. With    8    help of a sheepdog trainer, Peggy finally learned to reply to sign language rather than traditional voice commands.

But the most important lesson Peggy learned had nothing to do with sheep. It was about trust. “It took her some time to learn that we love her, and understand our praise,” Shorten said.

These days, with her GPS tracker in place, Peggy heads out with sheep fom time to time, happily knowing that the     9    (mean) of a “thumbs (拇指)up” is that she’s a good girl. The Shortens couldn’t be     10    (pleased) with Peggy.

6 . 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。

Ethiopia has broken the world record for the largest number of trees     1    (plant) in one day, while simultaneously (同时)    2    (make) the world a little greener. Ethiopians planted more than 350 million trees in just 12 hours earlier this week. This broke the previous record, held by India, by 50 million trees. Ethiopia’s Minister of Innovation and Technology     3    (proud) stated that people had planted 353,633,660 trees     4     (help) the environment. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed,     5    took part in the tree planting festivities, congratulated everyone involved in the record       6    what they had achieved.

Ethiopia’s record-breaking     7    (achieve) is part of a wider plan of planting 4 billion trees between May and October. The country is well on its way to achieving this goal. So far,     8    (volunteer), businesses and government workers have planted more than 2.6 billion trees nationwide. Ethiopia is attempting to reverse (彻底转变) the cutting down of its forests. The Farm Africa organization reports that less than 4 per cent of Ethiopia’s land is forested. This is down from 30 per cent at       9    end of the 19th century. A recent study reported that planting billions of trees was the cheapest and most effective way to absorb carbon dioxide as well as other     10    (harm) gases and thus help to fight global warming.

7 . Nicola White recently made an incredible discovery.

Nicola White is often_________by what she finds in the_________. This is because White is a mudlark — someone who hunts for_________items (物品) by the sides of rivers. White often uses these items to_________works of art and, in 2014, she _________her job to focus on this full time, but even she didn’t expect to_________anything that would inspire a(n)_________to the 2.5million pets that were_________during the Second World War.

On one of her regular walks by the River Thames in London, White_________a round edge poking out (露出) from behind a rock. At first she__________it was a coin. “However, when I cleaned it off, I could see the faint (模糊的) outline of some letters. I felt__________as soon as I realized there was a__________and address.” she said.

The name was Bonzo Tabner, a dog that lived in Pelton Road in Greenwich, London, during the Second World War (1939-1945). White’s survey put her in contact with__________Clare Campbell, who has written a book about animals during the __________. Campbell told White that some pets at that time were put down on the Government’s orders.__________were told that if they couldn’t send their __________to the safety of the country, it was kinder to have them put down.

To__________these animals, Campbell and White have__________money for a memorial at the Old Blue Cross Pet Cemetery in Greenwich, which was unveiled (公布) on 11 August. Commenting on the__________, White said, “This, for me, is the most exciting kind of mudlarking find, as it can bring a__________back to life from the past.”

1.

A．declared

B．recommended

C．inspired

D．appointed

2.

A．water

B．pool

C．hole

D．mud

3.

A．ordinary

B．different

C．unnecessary

D．valuable

4.

A．share

B．recycle

C．create

D．record

5.

A．gave away

B．gave up

C．gave out

D．gave back

6.

A．find

B．invent

C．design

D．save

7.

A．solution

B．memorial

C．response

D．access

8.

A．put down

B．put out

C．put away

D．put off

9.

A．realized

B．accessed

C．saw

D．measured

10.

A．reminded

B．researched

C．reflected

D．thought

11.

A．embarrassed

B．disappointed

C．excited

D．puzzled

12.

A．name

B．note

C．figure

D．sign

13.

A．soldier

B．author

C．leader

D．traveller

14.

A．visit

B．festival

C．trip

D．war

15.

A．Applicants

B．Tourists

C．Owners

D．Volunteers

16.

A．pets

B．friends

C．children

D．citizens

17.

A．feed

B．remember

C．protect

D．collect

18.

A．borrowed

B．charged

C．afforded

D．raised

19.

A．report

B．discovery

C．decision

D．incident

20.

A．story

B．task

C．picture

D．brand

8 . The Silk Road is the name of different roads that connected Europe, Africa and Asia long ago. People reached these different places along these roads. Scientists believe people began to travel the Silk Road about 3000 years ago. At that time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world. The Silk Road covered almost 6500 kilometers. It went from Rome to China, which is from the West to the Far East.

Merchants travelled along the Silk Road to carry silk, of course. They also carried and traded other things like spices (香料), cloth, jewels and gold. Along and around these ancient paths have come many fascinating and mysterious stories. It is said that Roman soldiers who lost a war travelled through central Asia. They decided to live somewhere near the ancient Chinese villages. Some of these Romans married local Chinese women and the legend of the blond-haired, blue-eyed tribes of China was started.

Some historians believe that the people of Kashmir were taken away from their country Israel. They were prisoners (俘虏) of war almost 2800 years ago. People say that these people travelled along the Silk Road. They kept their Jewish way of life for a long time.

During its busiest period, the Silk Road allowed people from many different cultures and countries to meet each other and mix. The Silk Road allowed the sharing of valuable things and new ideas. It included people and trading goods from different areas. All these peoples travelled the Silk Road. And they shared goods, stories, languages, and cultures. In modern times, the old Silk Road routes are still used, but now they are crossed by trains instead of camels and horses. There is even a silk route museum in Jiuquan in China. It has over 35,000 objects from all along the Silk Road. In this way, China protects the history of many countries and peoples.

1. The underlined word “Merchants” in the passage probably means ________.

A．foreigners

B．businessmen

C．soldiers

D．prisoners

2. According to the passage, ________.

A．the Silk Road began with the wars.

B．the Silk Road covered almost 6500 kilometers in China.

C．people began to travel the Silk Road about 3000 years ago.

D．people from Israel were not included among people on the Silk Road.

3. The old Silk Road routes are still used because________.

A．there are many old stories about them.

B．the historians and scientists think highly of them.

C．China will make good use of the Silk Road again.

D．people can keep on traveling and trading along them.

4. The best title for the passage can be________.

A．Stories along the Silk Road	B．Silk Route Museum
C．Trade for Silk	D．The West and the Far East

9 . 假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Mike想要来中国青岛旅游，请你根据提示用英文给他回一封电子邮件介绍一下青岛这座城市。
内容包括：（1）基本介绍（位于中国东部；占地11万平方公里；人口1000万）；
（2）城市特色（树木繁多；沿海城市；啤酒之城）
（3）其他情况
沿海城市：coastal city   青岛啤酒：Tsingtao beer
Dear Mike,
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Best wishes,

Li Hua

10 . When a chunk of ice fell from a collapsing glacier(冰川)on the Swiss Alps’ Mount Eiger in 2017, part of the long deep sound it produced was too low for human ears to detect. But these vibrations held a key to calculating the ice avalanche’s(崩塌)critical characteristics.

Low-frequency sound waves called infrasound that travel great distances through the atmosphere are already used to monitor active volcanoes from afar. Now some researchers in this field have switched focus from fire to ice: dangerous blocks snapping off glaciers. Previous work has analyzed infrasound from snow avalanches but never ice, says Boise State University geophysicist Jeffrey Johnson. “This was different,” Johnson says. “A signature of a new material has been detected with infrasound.”

Usually glaciers move far too slowly to generate an infrasound signal, which researchers pick up using detectors that track slight changes in air pressure. But a collapse—a sudden, rapid breaking of ice from the glacier’s main body—is a prolific infrasound producer. Glacial collapses drive ice avalanches, which pose an increasing threat to people in mountainous regions as rising temperatures weaken large fields of ice. A glacier “can become detached from the ground due to melting, causing bigger break— offs,” says University of Florence geologist Emanuele Marchetti, lead author of the new study. As the threat grows, scientists seek new ways to monitor and detect such collapses.

Researchers often use radar to track ice avalanches, which is precise but expensive and can monitor only one specific location and neighboring avalanche paths. Infrasound, Marchetti says, is cheaper and can detect break—off events around a much broader area as well as multiple avalanches across a mountain. It is challenging, however, to separate a signal into its components (such as traffic noises, individual avalanches and nearby earthquakes) without additional measurements, says ETH Zurich glaciologist Malgorzata Chmiel. “The model used by Marchetti is a first approximation for this,” she says. Isolating the relevant signal helps the researchers monitor an ice avalanche’s speed, path and volume from afar using infrasound.

Marchetti and his colleagues are now working to improve their detectors to pick up more signals across at-risk regions in Europe, and they have set up collaborations around the continent to better understand signals that collapsing glaciers produce. They are also refining their mathematical analysis to figure out each ice cascade’s physical details.

1. What can we learn from Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3?

A．Infrasound has a major role to play in discovering new materials.

B．Ice avalanches are a bigger threat to people than volcanic eruptions.

C．Researchers are trying to use infrasound in detecting ice avalanches.

D．Scientists employ infrasound more in mountain areas than in other places.

2. Which is an advantage of infrasound over radar?

A．The combination with other relevant signals.

B．The accuracy in locating a certain avalanche.

C．The ability in picking up signals in wider areas.

D．The sensitivity in tracking air pressure changes.

3. The underlined word “this” in Paragraph 4 refers to________.

A．distinguishing different components of a signal

B．detecting multiple avalanches at the same time

C．calculating the speed and path of ice avalanches

D．monitoring the specific location of ice break—offs

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．From Fire to Ice	B．Glacier Whispers
C．Nature is Warning	D．Secret of Ice Avalanches