1 . 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。

After being separated for five years, Brenda Travis and Tom Shield were reunited with their dogs. They felt grateful to strangers,    1     transported the pets 1,000 miles.

In 2007, the couple had their two dogs, Bama and Allie     2     (steal) from their house in Tennessee. They were just their babies, so it was like a death in the family. Although they tried their best, they were     3     (able) to find them. One year     4     the couple moved to Kansas, thinking they would never see their dogs again. Four years later, they received a call from an animal shelter in Georgia, and     5     (tell) that the dogs had been found in Dallas, Georgia.

    6     (learn) the couple couldn’t travel to pick up the dogs, friends and strangers volunteered to transport the dogs to St. Louis, Missouri, where the couple could pick     7     up. The     8     (fantasy) mission was called “Operation Sweet Allie-Bama”.

“There is no way that I’m able to say thanks enough,” Travis said. The story teaches us that nothing is     9     (good) than a simple act of kindness in the world, which can     10     (total) transform a person’s life.

2 . Climate forecast for 2050: cold London will be hot and dry like Barcelona, wet Seattle will be like drier San Francisco, and Washington D. C. will be more like today’s Nashville but with even greater changes in temperatures.

“We wanted to know what the climate will be for 520 major cities in 2050,” said Tom Crowther, a researcher at ETH Zürich. To show their findings the Crowther Lab in Switzerland created a map that pairs one city’s future climate conditions with current (当前的) ones. For example, Minneapolis in 2050 will be more like Kansas City, with Minneapolis’s warmest month shooting up from around 80 degrees Fahrenheit on average to more than 90° F in 2050. Generally speaking, cities in the northern half of the earth will have the climates cities more than 620 miles to their south have today, he said.

There are no good pairings for more than 22 percent of the world’s major cities — those with one million or more people now, researchers found. Those 115 cities, including Washington and 16 other U.S. cities, will have unprecedented (前所未有的) climate conditions by 2050 compared to what they saw in 2000, the baseline for the study. That doesn’t mean that Washington will be hotter than Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, today. It means that there is no current match for the wide climate changes in temperatures and rainfall the city will experience, said Crowther. Most of the 115 cities that will experience “novel” climates are in the tropics (热带地区) and include cities like Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Rangoon, and Singapore. Changes in tropical cities will be less in terms of temperature increases, but will have more rain.

The study talked about climate in ways that will be more meaningful to the public and city planners. Knowing that London’s climate will be like Barcelona’s — which has experienced serious droughts requiring $25 million to buy drinking water from other countries in 2008 — can help planners prepare for what’s coming.

1. What will Seattle’s climate be like in 2050?

A．It will be less wet.	B．It will be cold but dry.
C．It will be drier than today’s San Francisco.	D．It will be the same as today’s Washington D.C.

2. What is the Crowther Lab trying to do?

A．To mark 520 major cities on a map.

B．To show a city’s future climate using a current city.

C．To put today’s cities with similar climates in pairs.

D．To compare the northern half of the earth with the southern half.

3. Which city’s temperature will change less from now to 2050?

A．Minneapolis.

B．Riyadh.

C．Jakarta.

D．Kansas City.

4. What’s the importance of the study?

A．Make the public realize the danger.	B．Stop London’s situation from getting worse.
C．Help Barcelona out of difficulty.	D．Get city planners to think ahead.

3 . 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。

I wake up to the sound of the wind buffeting the cloth of my tent. However, it’s     1    (possible) for me to tell whether it is morning or night, because the sun is     2     (bright) shining for 24 hours. Now, I’m above the Arctic Circle,     3     the sun never sets in summer.

Around 9, 000 years ago, the vast sheets of ice melted in Sarek,     4     (leave) behind about 100 glaciers. Soon after, reindeer began to arrive, and then followed the Sami people, who made Sarek their home. Today, all new development     5     (ban) within park boundaries, so only the Sami are allowed to continue their     6     (tradition) way of life in the park.

For hundreds of years,     7     (look) after reindeer was a way of life for the Sami. Since reindeer were always     8     the move, the Sami would accompany them. However, most Sami live     9     modern life in their own houses.

Hiking with all my food and supplies is really tiring, but it is a     10     (bless) to travel in such a beautiful and wild place.

4 . Insects are everywhere. Insects pollinate (给……投粉) crops, remove waste from the environment and eat _________ insects like mosquitoes. But insects can also destroy crops, _________ buildings and spread disease. With that in mind, it's easy to see just how _________ the work done by entomologists (昆虫学家) is.

Dr Christine Miller is an entomologist； whose _________ as an insect researcher at the University of Florida takes her around the world _________ insects both common and rare. She loves her job and wants to know why insects do what they do and how they make the _________ healthy by becoming food for other animals or breaking down waste.

Miller's interest in insects started when she was young, collecting insects and surprised at their unique _________. Miller attended Wesleyan University, where she at first joined a research laboratory studying plants. She soon realized insects were “more interesting and powerful”.

“Insects are an important part of our world,” Miller says. “If we want to _________ our growing population, we need to _________ to deal with insect pests. For example, right now armyworms are spreading through Africa ____________ corn. There is real ____________ that if we don't figure out how to stop them, that important crop will be ruined and people will starve.”

Because much of their work is done outside, entomologists face certain ____________. There is always the risk of being attacked by insects or ____________ an insect-borne illness. Moreover; entomologists are not always ____________ around insects. Miller admits to being scared of maggots (蛆).

“That's something I haven't been able to ____________,” she says with a laugh. “They make me as sick to my stomach as anyone else.”

1.

A．rare

B．huge

C．beautiful

D．harmful

2.

A．design

B．damage

C．clean

D．admire

3.

A．important

B．impossible

C．simple

D．adequate

4.

A．tip

B．figure

C．job

D．vacation

5.

A．in search of

B．in need of

C．in favor of

D．in charge of

6.

A．competition

B．environment

C．relationship

D．die

7.

A．connections

B．backgrounds

C．languages

D．characteristics

8.

A．reduce

B．control

C．feed

D．study

9.

A．learn

B．reply

C．agree

D．regret

10.

A．watching

B．protecting

C．introducing

D．eating

11.

A．cope

B．concern

C．doubt

D．relief

12.

A．dangers

B．truths

C．chances

D．changes

13.

A．helping with

B．looking into

C．referring to

D．suffering from

14.

A．suitable

B．comfortable

C．familiar

D．separate

15.

A．put off

B．show off

C．get over

D．take over

5 . It's hard to believe my husband and I will be celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary this year, but I still remember our honeymoon clearly.

After our ________ , we flew to Mexico for our honeymoon. We stayed at a beautiful hotel on the east coast facing a beautiful sea and we had a(n) ________ time! The weather was perfect locals were friendly, and we had plenty of things to ________ while we were there.

At the top of our list of ________ was to swim with dolphins. There was a place down there called Dolphin Discovery and it was included within our honeymoon ________ . We headed over there one afternoon and were ________ with the place. The dolphins looked well kept and happy.

The employees told us that the dolphins ________ interacting with us humans as it entertained them and gave them exercise. They were social animals and loved to play. They spent about 30 minutes ________ us all about these wonderful animals. Then it was our group's ________ .

We ________ clothes and got into the pool. We were given clear ________ so that we could swim with the dolphins as a couple. Gradually. the dolphins ________ us, so it was a great chance for my husband and me to ________ them closer they were so cute and lovely. It ________ let me appreciate dolphins more and made me realize how ________ it was to save and protect them.

1.

A．adventure

B．appointment

C．graduation

D．wedding

2.

A．anxious

B．good

C．strict

D．ordinary

3.

A．enjoy

B．protect

C．spread

D．avoid

4.

A．experiments

B．performances

C．bargains

D．activities

5.

A．package

B．regret

C．prize

D．invention

6.

A．careful

B．pleased

C．familiar

D．bored

7.

A．stayed away from

B．broke up with

C．put up with

D．looked forward to

8.

A．selling

B．lending

C．telling

D．posting

9.

A．gift

B．recipe

C．turn

D．risk

10.

A．made

B．changed

C．donated

D．designed

11.

A．instructions

B．destinations

C．connections

D．combinations

12.

A．challenged

B．attacked

C．approached

D．controlled

13.

A．feed

B．train

C．observe

D．catch

14.

A．merely

B．casually

C．barely

D．really

15.

A．significant

B．complex

C．hopeful

D．confusing

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。

Kierman was born in Sydney, Australia, and grew up near the sea. For more than 40 year, he raced in international sailing     1     (compete).

While taking part in     2     important race in 1987, Kierman began to notice the huge amount of rubbish in the world’s oceans. He decided to do something about it

He organized a community event called “Clean Up Sydney Harbour”. On Sunday, January 8, 1989, more than 40,000 volunteers came out     3     (clear) away rubbish. The next year, Kierman made the clean-up a national event,     4     turned out to be a huge success. Across Australia, about 300,000 people spent the day     5     (improve) their local environment.

Since then, “Clean Up Australia” has got     6     (big) year by year. In 2002, for example, 800,000 people     7     (clean) up almost 15,00 tons of rubbish from Australia’s beaches, parks and streets.

    8     (inspire) by the success of his project, Kierman started an even bigger program.     9     the help of the United Nations Environment Program, he introduced “Clean Up the World” to other parts of the wold. “Clean Up the World” has been growing     10     (rapid) and his wonderful idea has now spread from one city to the whole world.

7 . I have worked as a keeper at the National Zoo, Paris for 11 years. Spot and Stripe are the first tiger cubs that have ever been born here. Globally, a third of Sumatran cubs in zoos don't make it to adulthood, so I decided to give them round-the-clock care at home.

I've got two children—the younger one, Kynan, was extremely happy about the tigers arriving - but all of us really looked forward to being part of their lives and watching them grow. I wasn't worried about bringing them into my home with my wife and kids. These were cubs. They weighed about 2.5 kg and were so small that there was absolutely no risk.

As they grew more mobile, we let them move freely around the house during the day, but when we were asleep we had to contain them in a large room, otherwise they'd get up to mischief. We'd come down in the morning to find they'd turned the room upside down, and left it looking like a zoo.

Things quickly got very intense due to the huge amount of energy required to look after them. There were some tough times and I just felt extremely tired. I was grateful that my family was there to help. We had to have a bit of a production line going, making up “tiger milk”, washing baby bottles, and cleaning the floors.

When Spot and Stripe were four months old, they were learning how to open doors and jump fences, and we knew it really was time for them to go. It was hard for us to finally part with them. For the first few days, Kynan was always a bit disappointed that the cubs weren't there.

I'm not sad about it. I'm hands-on with them every day at the zoo, and I do look back very fondly on the time that we had them.

1. Why did the author bring the tiger cubs home?

A．To ensure their survival.	B．To observe their differences.
C．To teach them life skills.	D．To let them play with his kids.

2. What do the underlined words “get up to mischief” mean in paragraph 3?

A．Behave badly.

B．Lose their way.

C．Sleep soundly.

D．Miss their mom.

3. What did the author think of raising the tiger cubs at home?

A．Boring.

B．Tiring.

C．Costly.

D．Risky.

4. Why did the author decide to send Spot and Stripe back to the zoo?

A．They frightened the children.	B．They became difficult to contain.
C．They annoyed the neighbours.	D．They started fighting each other.

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How old is Jaysa now?

A．8.

B．12.

C．14.

2. Why did Jaysa give the speech?

A．To raise money for her health problems.

B．To urge the coal plant to shut down.

C．To encourage people to do research.

9 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的适当形式。

China’s now-famous herd of 14 elephants is approaching their     1    (origin) habitat in the southwestern province of Yunnan after traveling southward for days.

The elephants have spent the last five days     2    (wander) and foraging(觅食) in Yuanjiang County of Yuxi City in Yunnan. Drones(无人机) have been used to track the herd’s movements in the region. On Thursday afternoon, the elephants left a field     3     they were foraging and headed into the forest. Both drones and ground search methods were used by a monitoring team to locate the elephants within two hours.

The herd’s return journey is expected     4    (accelerate) by lower temperatures in autumn, according to experts. Since setting     5     last year, the elephants     6    (travel) northward about 500 kilometers and arrived at the suburbs of the provincial capital Kunming on June 2.

The herd couldn’t have crossed the Yuanjiang River without help as the water level rises in the rainy season. Chinese     7    (authority) have sent police to protect the herd, clear roads to facilitate their passage, and used food to distract them from entering     8    (heavy) populated areas during their journey.

Asian elephants are primarily found in Yunnan and are     9     A-level state protection in China. With the protection efforts     10    (strength), the wild elephant population in the province has grown to about 300, up from 193 in the 1980s.

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。

Yang Liwei was 38 years old when he went to space on the Shenzhou V,     1     (make) China the third country to master manned space capabilities.

In his article, Yang recalled several breathtaking     2    (moment). He said, “When the rocket lifted to a height of about 30-40 kilometers, I felt it began to vibrate(振动)     3    (violent), and it was extremely painful.” Vibrations in the spacecraft below 10 Hz can damage internal organs, and even threaten a person’s life. The near-deadly moment lasted for 26 seconds. When it was finally over, Yang felt like he had been reborn.

Yang also described mysterious knocking sounds from outside the craft. He still doesn’t know where they came from. He also described     4     his city looked like from space. “I flew over Beijing and saw the mountains in the daytime and sparkling(闪烁的) lights     5     night. And there live my friends and my     6    (love) ones.”

After his return, Yang reported the     7    (normal) vibrations to scientists, who solved the issue before the Shenzhou VI’s launch. So far, a number of new technologies     8    (apply) to the core cabin(核心舱), Eighteen years after his first trip to space, Yang said with a smile he even “envied”     9    (he) fellow spacemen who now have such comfortable space accommodations,     10     show how China’s space program has grown.