1 . It’s now, more than ever, crucial to adopting a low-impact lifestyle since all kinds of waste, including that of the fashion industry, are piling up in landfills with astonishing speed.     1     Thankfully, the following tips can help you reduce clothing waste.

·Buy fewer clothes overall.     2     It’s a more cautious approach to shopping and consumption (消费) in general. Think twice about what you will buy and say no to over consumption. You can even try out a minimalist (极简主义的) lifestyle. Shop for what you need only when necessary, keep things simple, and go back to basics.

·Shop for high-quality clothing. High-quality clothes can cost more at first but save you money in the long run.     3     Moreover, quality clothes can make you feel more comfortable and confident, improve your fashion style, and help you look your best.

·    4     Upcycling is very beneficial to the planet and your budget (预算). Instead of throwing old clothes away, use parts of or entire old clothes to make something new and more valuable. You can even create stylish and unique pieces of clothing by upcycling.

·Donate your unwanted fashion items. Do a quick online search for your local options to donate clothes that are still in good condition. Be sure to contact organizations first and ask them what type of clothes they accept. You can donate clothing to for-profit companies or to homeless shelters and family service agencies.     5    

A．Repurpose your old clothes.

B．Upcycle everyday household objects.

C．Limit your fashion consumption in the first place.

D．Thrown clothes have had a disastrous impact on the planet.

E．They are more likely to stay in good condition for a long time.

F．Heavy coats and sweaters can go to animal shelters in your local area.

G．Reducing clothing waste is necessary for making fashion more sustainable.

2 . The concentric circles (同心圆状斑点), also known as eyespots on butterfly, not only look like real eyes but may also appear to glare directly at predators (捕食者) from many directions, scientists have found. This visual illusion, called the “Mona Lisa effect”, could scare would-be attackers and buy the insects enough time to escape.

Scientists suspect that eyespots, with dark “pupils (瞳孔)” in the center look like real eyes to predators. Hannah Rowland, an ecologist at the Max Planck Institute wanted to see if the direction of this fake gaze contributed to the effect.

First, Rowland and her co-author trained chicks to attack a worm hidden behind a paper printout of two eyespots at the end of a path. When the eyespots’ pupils were specifically pointed in the chicks’ direction, the birds repeatedly ran toward the paper and then backed away, and they waited a few minutes before attacking. But when the pupils instead appeared to look away from the direction of the chicks’ approach, the birds attacked in seconds. Centrally located pupils, though not as effective as ones that stared directly at the chicks, resulted in longer delays than pupils that looked the other way.

“This suggests that they really are paying attention to the direction of the pupils in the eyespots and are perceiving them as eyelike stimulation. The concentric eyespots found most often in the insect world may seem to the chicks like a pair of eyes that follow them regardless of approach angle,” says Rowland.

National University of Singapore evolutionary biologist Antonia Monteiro, who was not involved in the research, says the study is a “cool” demonstration of an evolutionary theory for eyespots. “These butterflies can be encountered from all angles, so having the pupil centrally located ends up being pretty good,” Monteiro says. Still, she says, the eyespots used in the study were several millimeters larger than even the largest commonly found in nature, raising the possibility that the chicks may have been extra frightened by the size of the paper eyes.

1. What is the function of eyespots on the butterfly?

A．Making them look more beautiful.	B．Spotting potential dangers.
C．Helping them identify the direction.	D．Protecting them from being attacked.

2. How did the chicks react when shown the specifically-pointed eyespots?

A．They attacked immediately.	B．They turned away in seconds.
C．They reacted cautiously.	D．They became very excited.

3. What does Monteiro mean in the last paragraph?

A．The eyespot is a butterfly’s powerful weapon.

B．The experiment needs further proof.

C．The study first proposes an evolutionary theory of eyespots.

D．Butterflies in nature have small eyespots.

4. What’s the purpose of the text?

A．To appeal to readers to preserve butterflies.

B．To uncover the hidden biological secret of butterflies.

C．To analyze the social behaviour of butterflies.

D．To demonstrate the evolutionary theory for eyespots.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How does the woman feel about autumn?

A．Weekdays are filled with promises.

B．The weather is very hot.

C．Time goes by quickly

2. What are the speakers doing?

A．Sharing childhood memories.

B．Talking about their feelings about time.

C．Making plans for car journeys at weekends.

4 . 阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头句续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Not Without My Mama

Thirty-eight. That was how many stray cats (流浪猫) I had been feeding on the street where I lived. I loved them all, but I did have a favorite. A gigantic yellow cat with blue eyes had seized my heart.

I named him Butterball. Often, Butterball would try to jump in my car when I arrived home or come inside my house. I wished that I could bring him inside, but it was not allowed where I lived.

Week after week, I fed the large group of cats. Mostly, none of them wanted to be touched. They would eat in a hurry and leave, but not Butterball. He would stick around for head scratches (抓挠), purring (发出呼噜声) loudly. I noticed that he was always in the company of a small Calico cat.

Though not as friendly, she was touchable.

One day, my dream came true—I bought my own house. The cats, especially Butterball, watched anxiously as I started moving my things to my new home. I began to be away longer as I set up the new place, but I never forgot to go back and feed them every night. Butterball would jump in my car and try to get in extra hugs.

Sometimes, I found him amongst the boxes in the back when I came out with another load. As I packed up the very last load and set out the cats’ nightly dinner, I paused before leaving.

The nights were starting to get cold, and soon winter would be upon us. Upstate New York winters can be bitter. Butterball seemed to know I was leaving for good. I peered into his blue eyes and told him, “I will come back for you.” He turned away as if he didn’t believe me.

The next day, I returned with a group of friends. We set out a bunch of humane traps and caught the strays one by one. We transported them to a no-kill shelter. All, except Butterball.

注意:
1. 续写词数应为150词左右;
2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。

I intended to take Butterball to my new home.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Surprisedly, I followed him to the bush and found Calico.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5 . The morning commute (通勤) is never fun. But if you pass through Stevenage on your way to work, your morning might be a little ________ thanks to the cat Nala.

Dragging yourself out of bed in the morning and off to work is hard, ________ on dark winter mornings. However, you might ________ to come out of the house with a spring in your step if your commute started at Stevenage station, where you’d be ________ by a cat called Nala.

Usually found sitting on a ticket gate, four-year-old Nala lives close to the station with her owner Natasha Ambler, and often ________ the station at rush hour to enjoy attention from commuters. Ambler ________ a Facebook page called The Adventures of Nala where hundreds of people have voluntarily ________ photos of the adventurous cat.

Recent photos posted by commuters include Nala ________ in line for her canned food at a supermarket, napping on newspaper stands and ________ with commuters at the station barriers to get their attention.

Nala wears a GPS tracking device so that her ________ can be kept track of, and is usually found at the railway station or the ________ leisure park. As well as the usual collar with her name and owners’________ information, Nala wears a tag to let people know that she’s not ________.

According to the BBC, Ambler reported that she’s not ________ about Nala in the slightest: “She’s obviously ________ and she’s very happy doing what she does — I just hope one day she doesn’t actually try to get on a train.”

1.

A．quieter

B．longer

C．busier

D．brighter

2.

A．gradually

B．especially

C．basically

D．generally

3.

A．agree

B．fail

C．prefer

D．hesitate

4.

A．troubled

B．greeted

C．stopped

D．rewarded

5.

A．lives in

B．takes up

C．watches over

D．heads to

6.

A．created

B．found

C．bought

D．wrote

7.

A．taken

B．edited

C．shared

D．enjoyed

8.

A．hunting

B．waiting

C．working

D．playing

9.

A．posing

B．joking

C．fighting

D．communicating

10.

A．steps

B．jumps

C．activities

D．travels

11.

A．newly-built

B．family-friendly

C．next-door

D．fun-filled

12.

A．job

B．contact

C．health

D．company

13.

A．hungry

B．lonely

C．lost

D．ill

14.

A．worried

B．confused

C．unhappy

D．curious

15.

A．well-informed

B．well-equipped

C．well-educated

D．well-loved

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。

“We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*,”an international team of astrophysicists(天文物理学家)and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team announced     1    (proud)on Thursday.

For years, the supermassive black hole in the dark center of the Milky Way galaxy     2    (study)——and eventually, it’s been captured(捕捉)in an image. The black hole is often referred to     3     Sgr A*. Its mass is about 4 million times     4     of the sun, and it’s about 27,000 light years from Earth.

What made capturing the image extra     5    (challenge)was the dynamic enyironment of Sgr A*, and the challenges of looking not only through the earth’s atmosphere     6     also through the gas clouds in the disk of the Milky Way galaxy towards the center. It took several years to refine the images.

“Although we cannot see the black hole     7    (it), because it is completely dark, glowing(发光的)gas around it reveals a telltale signature, a dark central region    8    (surround)by a bright ring-like structure,” the Event Horizon Telescope team said in its announcement.

The     9    (discover)comes three years after the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first-ever image of a black hole—but that work focused on     10     center of galaxy Messier 87, tens of millions of light-years away from Earth in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.

7 . 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。

“Whoa, boy,” Sarai said, holding out a hand to her horse. “You heard what Dad said yesterday. If I can’t get this halter (缰绳) on you today, we’ll have to send you back to the rescue farm. I don’t want to send you back. Don’t you want to stay with me?”

She searched around in the bag. Inside were a variety of yummy horse treats. “Let’s try this again, Amadore.” Sarai pulled out an apple-flavored biscuit and held it out, palm flat. The horse reached toward her hand with his nose, sniffing her.

She held her own breath so as not to scare him. Another inch and she could touch his silky, soft nose. In her excitement, she rushed it and took a step forward. Amadore snorted and stumbled back into the far comer of the stall (马厩).

She frowned (皱眉) at his response to her, brokenhearted.

“I know what your problem is,” a voice said from the stall door. Sarai threw a look over her shoulder, “Who are you?”

“I’m Cody,” the boy said, smiling. “And I know what your problem is. It’s your face,”

“Excuse me?” Sarai’s eyebrows hit the roof, and her fists clenched in instant anger. “How dare you!” She turned on her heel to walk out of the stall, but Cody called out to her.

“No, no. I didn’t mean anything bad. You’re not ugly or anything. It’s your frown.”

Sarai frowned at him.

“Yes, like that,” Cody said, recovering some of his cheer. “You’re frowning at Amadore when you’re approaching him.”

Sarai half rolled her eyes. “What does that have to do with anything?”

“How about we do a little experiment?” Cody suggested. “Here’s the camera. Can you take two photos for me? In one, I’ll flash a big, toothy smile, and in the other, I’ll show an angry face with my teeth out.”

A minute later Cody and Sarai ran off to print the pictures.

“Now,” said Cody, once they were back at the stall. “I’ll show him the pictures.”

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

Cody stepped in, holding the “happy” photo in front of his face like a mask.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

“Are you ready to try putting the halter on Amadore now?” Cody asked.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the change of the cat?

A．She becomes inactive.

B．She eats more.

C．She sleeps badly.

2. What is the woman’s suggestion?

A．Observing the cat’s belly.

B．Giving the cat some medicine.

C．Stopping feeding the cat temporarily.

3. Where might the man go first?

A．A hospital.

B．A store.

C．His home.

9 . Scientists in Canada are really worried about a serious problem affecting an important animal: the bat. This problem is called white-nose syndrome (症状), and it comes from a harmful fungus (真菌) that attacks the nose, wings, and skin of bats when they sleep together in caves. It started in a cave in Russia in 2006 and has quickly spread to 19 countries, including Canada.

Researchers found that the fungus usually exists in very cold places like the poles. Even though they’re not totally sure exactly how it hurts the bats, one of the most accepted views is that it makes them uncomfortable. This makes the bats stay awake a little bit more and uses up their stored fat, leading to them not having enough food, which causes them to die. More than 5.5 million bats of nine types in Canada have already died from this sickness. If it reaches more bat groups in the Southeast and Midwest provinces, endangered bat s like the Tiger bat and Figgie big-eared bat might disappear forever.

Losing these animals is a big deal for Canadians, even for the whole world, because, in warm months, bats fly at night and eat a lot of insects. They help control the number of bugs that harm forests and spread diseases which can cause a whole bunch of problems. It’s quite an alarming thing, given that the reduction in the number of bats will almost certainly disrupt (扰乱) the harmony in the ecosystem and lead to disasters. The Canadian government is taking this seriously and is thinking about giving money for detailed research on the disease because the possible results could be really bad, like what one lawmaker called “an ecological and economic disaster.” Experts are hired to watch bat colonies (群) more closely, working with other countries and organizations, and making strict rules to limit the movement of things that might have the fungus.

Additionally, public awareness campaigns are being conducted to gain support for bat conservation efforts and promote responsible cave exploration practices to minimize the risk of disease transmission. The Canadian government remains committed to preserving its bat populations and the crucial ecological balance they bring to the environment.

1. What might be the reason of the bats’ death?

A．Their sleeping together	B．Lack of sleep
C．Starvation	D．Not feeling comfortable

2. What is the main concern about the extinction of the bat in Canada?

A．The spread of the disease.

B．The destruction of the forests.

C．The imbalance of the ecosystem.

D．The increase of the insect population.

3. Which of the following is not a measure taken by Canada regarding to the White-Nose Syndrome?

A．Engaging specialists to monitor bat colonies

B．Carrying out activities to enhance people’s consciousness

C．Collaborating with other nations

D．Prohibiting the movement of bats

4. What is the author’s attitude toward the problem of the harmful fungus to the bats?

A．objective	B．positive
C．indifferent	D．pessimistic

10 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

While there is growing consumer     1     (realize) of the environmental impact of fast fashion, can the same be said about fast furniture? The chairs and tables that fill many of our homes and everyday spaces are manufactured on a mass scale, and the cheaper items often end up     2     landfills.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 2020 over 12 million tons of furniture     3     (throw) out in America and some into the forest illegally. Buying furniture can be     4     (incredible) expensive. Many of us switch over to cheaper, instant brands like IKEA,     5     manufacturers use materials harder to recycle, which is likely to damage the environment.

With growing calls for sustainability, many brands are announcing to change though it remains     6     (see) whether they will keep these promises. In     7     (it) current sustainability strategy, IKEA commits itself to using only recyclable materials in all its products in an effort to practice “circular” design and cut emissions to net-zero. The concept of circular design     8     (win) increasing concern up to now. In     9     circular system, furniture products would be designed to last longer and be fully recyclable, thus forming a     10    (close) loop (环).