1 . In Mombasa on the coast of Kenya is a place called Haller Park. People flood there to see 180 local species of plants and trees, and a variety of animals including hippos and giraffes.
In The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, Jane Goodall discusses the park as an example of how our injured Earth can be restored and healed. At one point the park was “a large and frightening five-hundred-acre scar (伤疤) where almost nothing grew” because a cement (水泥) company dug large amounts of stone out of the ground. The company decided to repair the damage. Year by year, by growing flowers, fruit and vegetables and with introduction of wild animals, the area was changed.
It’s extremely important, Jane Goodall says in the book, that people — especially young people — know how positive action can still turn around the frightening path of climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the ongoing global pandemic (疫情). “It’s mostly because people are so overpowered by our stupidity that they feel helpless,” Goodall states. They need to hear stories of “the people who succeed because they won’t give up.”
Jane Goodall is one of those people herself. She is the world’s leading chimpanzee (黑猩猩) expert; UN Messenger of Peace; winner of the 2021 Templeton Prize; activist through the Jane Goodall Institute and its many projects that help local communities and the environment; and author of numerous books, the first of which, In the Shadow of Man, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Goodall speaks plainly and effectively throughout the book. As troubling as this current pandemic is, “we must not let this take our attention away from the far greater threat to our future — the climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity,” she says. Goodall calls each of us to action: “Let us use the gift of our lives to make this a better world.”
1. Why do a large number of people go to Haller Park?| A．To admire the wildlife there. | B．To write books on parks. |
| C．To study Kenya culture. | D．To work for a company. |
| A．A messenger of peace. | B．A scar to remember. |
| C．A hope for a better world. | D．An example to avoid. |
| A．She published her first book 50 years ago. |
| B．She adopted and brought up many chimpanzees. |
| C．She calls on people to focus more on the pandemic. |
| D．She is full of fear for the future of the world. |
| A．A news report. | B．A tour guide. | C．A biography. | D．A book review. |
1. What has the city of Wenzhou managed to do recently?
| A．Attract investment. |
| B．Become an eco-friendly city. |
| C．Found a hydro-electric power plant. |
| A．Stopping using gas. |
| B．Building wind power plants. |
| C．Raising awareness about resources. |
Milo is a rescue dog, adopted by 20-year-old Makayla Swift. But Milo the beagle is also a rescuer. One morning in November 2021, Swift opened her front door in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Milo took off running. Milo ran to the house across the street. He seemed unsatisfied with this house, so he ran to the one next door, Swift on his tail. He started scratching on the front door and Swift was thinking, “Why is he literally trying to break into her house?” She was embarrassed. Not everyone wants a strange dog on their property. But as she tried to drag Milo away, she could hear a sound coming through an open upstairs window. It was a voice yelling “Help!”
Hours earlier, around 4 a.m., 85-year-old Sherry Starr had risen from her bed. All of a sudden, standing there between the toilet and the tub, she slipped. She went down-hard-on the tile floor, and got stuck. Starr was scared of dying there. Her best bet, she decided, was to listen for the letter carrier in the afternoon and scream like the devils.
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For the next few hours, Starr practiced yelling, “Help! Help! Help!”
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Not long after the call, rescue workers arrived.
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4 . After wildfire store through Australia this year (and many other years), Dr Alexandra Car they from Macquarie University came up with the idea of cardboard homes for wildlife, giving them a fighting chance of survival after wildfires.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) ran an innovation challenge in order to restore species and landscapes, help them adapt to a changing climate and regenerate Australia after burning flames (火焰) spread across much of the habitat. Funding from WWF will enable field trials of this unique idea of cardboard habitats for wildlife.
“Bushfires destroy vegetation where small animals hide,” Car they told WWF. “Raptors (猛禽) arrive within minutes after a fire, while foxes can travel many kilometres towards fires because they know the hunting will be excellent. They come in and kill our native animals who have little place to hide on a burnt landscape.”
The cardboard shelters are six-sided pyramids (金字塔形的物体), 60cm wide on each side and 60cmt all. They can be flat-packed, allowing for easy transportation from the factory to the wilderness. They have been designed as a safe house for wildlife such as possums, bush rats and reptiles, as well as smaller creatures such as insects. These shelters are biodegradable (可生物降解的), with holes that allow light in so that vegetation can regenerate and eventually take over the site.
While environmentalists have always placed makeshift shelters in the form of logs and chicken wire (铁丝网) structures, the solutions involve dragging heavy things around, damaging fire grounds and preventing bush regeneration.
This initiative could also be used in South Africa, where many bird species are badly affected by fires.
1. What is a purpose of WWF’s innovation challenge in Australia?| A．To protect natural habitats from being taken up. |
| B．To prevent wildfires from happening. |
| C．To increase wildlife population. |
| D．To raise the public’s awareness about climate change. |
| A．They expose them to hunting animals. | B．They take their lives with burning flames. |
| C．They force them to travel far to find food. | D．They make their habitats too hot to live in. |
| A．To draw animals’ attention. | B．To assist with plant growth. |
| C．To enable small insects to climb in. | D．To let air in for animals to breathe. |
| A．They have a short life. | B．They are non-biodegradable. |
| C．They look too obvious in the wild. | D．They are inconvenient to carry around. |
5 . In all of the Jurassic Park movies, dinosaurs (恐龙) are the stars of the show. The way the dinosaurs look and move is amazing — they seem so real. But dinosaurs haven’t lived on our planet for the last 65 million years. So how do filmmakers bring them to life? They ask paleontologists (古生物学家) for help.
Paleontologist Tyler Lyson has been interested in dinosaurs since he was a child. He grew up in the countryside in the western United States and found his first dinosaur fossil (化石) when he was only six years old. Lyson says the best way to learn about dinosaurs is to look at fossils. Fossils and footprints help scientists understand how dinosaurs looked, moved, and lived.
Filmmakers use fossils and other research from paleontologists to build dinosaurs for their movies. But they also have to imagine. The dinosaur builders have to decide what color the dinosaurs are, what patterns (图案) the dinosaurs have, how long their tails are...
Another very important thing that helps bring dinosaurs to life is the computer. After dinosaur builders make dinosaur models, they put pictures of them into a computer, and then use CGI — computer-generated imagery (计算机生成影像) to make them move. Filmmakers have used CGI for all the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movies.
Paleontologists still have a lot of questions about dinosaurs. What did they sound like? How did they look for food? What did they eat? The answers to these questions will help filmmakers create even more realistic dinosaurs than ever before.
1. What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 1 refer to?| A．The Jurassic Park movies. | B．Paleontologists. |
| C．The last 65 million years. | D．Dinosaurs. |
| A．Reading books. | B．Looking at fossils. |
| C．Watching movies. | D．Going to the countryside. |
| A．Why CGI is popular. | B．Why filmmakers build dinosaurs. |
| C．How dinosaur models are brought to life. | D．What questions paleontologists still have. |
| A．Lyson’s interesting dinosaurs started young. |
| B．Some paleontologists also make dinosaur movies. |
| C．Dinosaurs appeared on our planet 65 million years ago. |
| D．Paleontologists already know what dinosaurs sounded like. |
情景介绍：角色：你是Ella。
任务：(1)与朋友Andy谈论关于大象的话题;
(2)根据对话内容，回答问题。
生词：continent大陆
下面请用英语提出三个问题。每个问题有20秒的准备时间。当你听见“滴”声时，开始提问。
Now please ask the speaker three questions. You have twenty seconds to prepare the question. When you hear a beep, begin to ask the question.
1. 你之前在哪里研究过大象?2. 你关于大象的书什么时候出版?
3. 关于大象你还能教我什么?
下面听录音提问，用英语回答五个问题。
Now please get ready to answer five questions in English.
4. What are the two types of elephants on Earth?
5. What emotions have scientists seen elephants show?
6. Where do the majority of the world’s elephants live?
7. How long has Andy been studying elephants?
8. How much food do elephant seat per day?
7 . The Amazon rainforest is now alarmingly close to dying by 2030 due to climate change and forest loss, a WWF report warns.
The world’s largest rainforest is now close to a “tipping point” (临界点) that could mean it changes forever, no longer benefiting humanity in dealing with climate change by soaking up greenhouse gases, the report says.
Deforestation (森林砍伐) in the Amazon reached a record high this year, as illegal trees cutting increased to the highest levels in 15 years. Between 13 to 17 percent of the Amazon rainforest area has already been lost in the past 50 years. The WWF report said an area of 1.4 million square miles of the Amazon has experienced a lack of rain, a constant dry season and deforestation, which could lead it to become degraded, turning to a dry land.
What’s worse, the “tipping points” could lead to irreversible (不可逆的) loss, including receiving less than 1500mm annual rainfall, a dry season of more than 7 months and deforestation of the area to reduce to just 20 percent of the original cover. The loss of the Amazon would further reduce the chances of alleviating (减轻) global warming as the areas’ trees take in enormous amounts of carbon dioxide.
“This paper sounds an alarm bell for humanity, revealing the threats of climate change and forest loss are pushing the world’s largest rainforest at risk,” Professor Gagen, lead author of the WWF report, added. “The evidence gives a serious warning that we need to take the tipping point risk seriously and act immediately to cut emissions (排放), saving natural resources, and, most importantly, change the indifferent attitude to forest loss which are sending people and our planet down a path to disaster.”
“Only by listening to the voices of Amazonia’s peoples and by preserving nature can we bring our world back to life,” Gagen said.
1. What does the underlined phrase “soaking up” in paragraph 2 mean?| A．Absorbing. | B．Adapting. | C．Abandoning. | D．Applying. |
| A．To show why deforestation happens. | B．To show how big the Amazon rainforest is. |
| C．To explain how bad the current situation is. | D．To suggest what to do to stop global warming. |
| A．Cutting down emissions right away. | B．Saving the Amazon from deforestation. |
| C．Preventing natural resources going to waste. | D．Change the unconcerned attitude to the problem. |
| A．Environment. | B．Health. | C．Technology. | D．Entertainment. |
8 . Coral creates reefs, structures in the ocean that support entire ecosystems. However, climate change is threatening the existence of such reefs. The Great Barrier Reef has suffered four bleaching events in the last seven years.
Coral bleaching happens when extreme temperatures and sunlight force corals to release algae living in their tissue. This causes them to lose their color and turn white. The experience greatly weakens the coral and can kill them.
Scientists working on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have successfully tested a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae — the very young form of the small ocean animal.
The science project in Australia involves freezing and storing coral larvae to use later for rewilding. A new material called “cryomesh” is helping the scientists in the effort. Coral is frozen using a special method called cryogenics. This permits the young animals to be stored until they can be unfrozen and placed in the wild. The process currently requires high-tech equipment including lasers and is costly. But, the team in Australia says cryomesh can do a better job of saving the coral and for much less money. The mesh technology helps to store coral larvae at-196 degrees Celsius.
The scientists used the cryomesh to freeze Great Barrier Reef coral larvae at the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences, or AIMS. Workers collected the coral during the animal’s brief yearly reproductive period.
Mary Hagedorn, Senior Research Scientist at Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute explained, “If we can secure the biodiversity of coral...then we’ll have tools for the future to really help restore the reefs.” She added, “...this technology for coral reefs in the future is a real game-changer.”
The cryomesh had been tested earlier on smaller and larger kinds of Hawaian corals. A test on the larger failed. Tests are continuing with larger-size Great Barrier Reef coral. The tests involve scientists from four organizations. Together they are part of the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.
1. What’s the passage mainly about?| A．A comparison of two experiments. | B．A new method for restoring coral reefs. |
| C．The Great Barrier Reef under great threat. | D．Scientists’ joint efforts to support the ecosystem. |
| A．It is easier to store. | B．It is less expensive. |
| C．It freezes larvae faster. | D．It is environmentally friendly. |
| A．People can do more about the biodiversity of corals. |
| B．The scientists barely have tools to help the reefs restore. |
| C．The cryomesh technology has changed the corals’ situation. |
| D．The mesh technology will play a vital role in restoring the reefs. |
| A．Tests on larger corals are more important. |
| B．It is going to be applied widely to more corals. |
| C．Only scientists of AIMS are involved in the tests. |
| D．More experiments are needed to prove its efficiency. |
CHINA DAILY Oct. 20, 2022 Two giant pandas arrived in Doha,
According to the CCRC for the Giant Panda in Sichuan province, the two pandas—3-year-old female Si Hai and 4-year-old male Jing Jing—left the research center’s Ya’an base in Chengdu, Sichuan,
Mohamed, Qatar’s ambassador to China, said via video link during the farewell ceremony in Chengdu for the giant pandas that he appreciated the bilateral relations between Qatar and China, adding that the gift shows
The ambassador said that the event was a milestone in cultural diplomacy,
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10 . Over the past three decades, an 81-year-old Chinese man has been operating a small zoo. The zoo in Enshi, Hubei Province, is called the “world’s loneliest zoo” because few people visit it. Most of the animals there are unhealthy.
Luo Yingjiu began keeping animals at home in the 1980s. After seeing wild animals kept in cages for sale at a market, Luo bought them and took them home to give them medical treatment. He released (释放) those able to live on their own into the wild and continued to raise those that could not live independently. There were so many animals in his house that the local government suggested he open a zoo. With the government’s financial aid, the zoo was opened in 1989, the only one in the city at that time. During its peak time, the zoo had some big animals, including a tiger and a lion. The business later became worse because visitors were not interested in the zoo’s “old, weak, sick and disabled” animals.
Using his pension (退休金) to operate the zoo, Mr. Luo refused to listen to other people’s advice to close it. “It is not just a zoo; it provides the habitat for the animals,” he explained. “If the zoo is closed, where can these animals go? They cannot even survive in the wild.”
As he operates the zoo, he keeps on rescuing animals. A black bear with one paw injured was saved 17 years ago. A dog named Dianzi was saved when its former owner planned to abandon (遗弃) it. A monkey that has been at the zoo for nearly 30 years is almost blind because of camera flashes from visitors who took photos. For those animals that died, Luo buried them on the nearby mountain.
Luo said he remembers every animal’s name. “Animals and humans are born equal,”he said. “We should respect their right to survive.”
1. Why is the zoo called the “world’s loneliest zoo”?| A．There are few animals in the zoo. |
| B．Few people know the old man. |
| C．There aren’t many people visiting the zoo. |
| D．The gatekeeper lost family members. |
| A．By buying some animals locked in cages. |
| B．By stealing or hunting some big animals. |
| C．By finding animals released from other zoos. |
| D．By picking up dying animals in the wild. |
| A．Visitors took no interest in the unhealthy animals. |
| B．Local government refused to offer financial support. |
| C．He used up all of his pension so that the zoo was closed. |
| D．Children were frightened by the wild tiger and lion. |
| A．Adventurous and humorous. | B．Warm-hearted and determined. |
| C．Creative and outgoing. | D．Generous and funny. |
