1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Tongariro National Park is the oldest national park in New Zealand. In 1993, it     1    (become) the first World Heritage Site to be considered as a cultural landscape (风景). This means it has     2    (nature) environments that should     3    (protect) both because they are special, and     4     they are culturally important to the native people.

The park, sitting near the center of the North Island of New Zealand, covers about 800 square kilometers. It protects different     5    (type) of landscape.     6     are snow-covered ski fields, hot springs, lakes, etc.

At the center of the park     7    (be) three huge active volcanoes(火山)—Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. All three are very much alive, with Tongariro erupting (爆发) as recently as August 2012, but this doesn't prevent people from     8    (visit) them—a monitoring system (监测系统) provides early warning of eruptions. These mountains have important cultural meanings for the native Maori people,     9    have lived in this area for about a thousand years.

Tongariro National Park is home to the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing,     10    (wide) considered as one of the world's best one-day hikes.

2 . 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。

The 15 wild Asian elephants left their habitat in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in Southwest China's Yunnan province and     1    (move) to the north. 41 days later, the herd traveled to Hongta district, Yuxi city neighboring with the south of Kunming. The     2    (locate) was only 20 km away from Kunming's Jingning district and less than 100 km away from the capital s downtown area. The herd,     3    (original) consisting of 17 elephants in total at their departure time,     4    (report) to leave Xishuangbanna last year.     5     May 24th, a young elephant found alcoholic food at a villager's home and got drunk. Luckily, the baby elephant,     6     overslept, rejoined the unit the next day. The 15 elephants continued their journey. The Asian elephant,     7    (include) on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species as endangered, enjoys Class-A protection in China, the same level as that of the giant panda. Yunnan     8    (be) the only habitat of wild Asian elephants in China. Before the 1970s, the species was threatened due to many reasons, such as an increase in the human population, reduced forestry areas     9     illegal(非法的) hunting. The number of elephants dropped significantly. However, due to determined protection efforts in recent     10    (decade), the Asian elephant population in China has risen from 170 in the 1970s to 300.

3 . Why does Haiti so tend to have fatal earthquakes? Earthquakes have been causing huge damage in Haiti since at least the 18th century. The capital city has been destroyed twice in 19 years. The 21st century has been no more kind.

The Earth’s outer shell is made tip of tectonic plates (构造板块) that move. Haiti sits near the crossing of two tectonic plaits that make up the Earth’s outer shell. Earthquakes can occur when those plates move against each other and create friction (摩擦力).

Haiti is also overpopulated. Plus, many of its buildings are designed to resist hurricanes but not earthquakes. Those buildings can survive strong winds bat are easy to fail down when the ground shrikes. Poor building practices can also play a role.

“I think it’s important to recognize that there’s no such thing as a natural disaster,” said Wendy Bohon, a geologist. “What you have is a natural disaster that comes with a weak architecture system. We do know that earthquakes like this can cause huge damage because of the fault,” said Wendy. “And it’s quite a significant risk in places that don’t have the construction practices to resist the shaking.”

Construction of more earthquake-resistant buildings remains a challenge in Haiti, which is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. “While there have been some success stories of Haitians building more earthquake-resistant structures, the country has lacked a centralized effort to do so,” said Mark Schuller, a professor of anthropology and nonprofit and NGO studies at Northern Illinois University. Haiti’s government has become increasingly weak, while non-governmental organizations only focus on their own projects.

“There is technical knowledge in Haiti, There are trained architects. There are city planners. That’s not the problem,” Schuller said. “The problem is a lack of funding for coordination (协调), and lack of political will from donors to organizations providing aid.”

1. Which factor causing the huge damage is highlighted?

A．Its overpopulation.	B．Its weak government.
C．Its geographical location.	D．Its weak architecture system.

2. What does the underlined part “the fault” in paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Lacking political will to provide aid.

B．Lacking hurricane-resistant; buildings.

C．Lacking earthquake-resistant buildings.

D．Sitting on the crossing of two tectonic plates.

3. What’s Schuller’s attitude towards Haiti’s government?

A．Supportive.	B．Critical.
C．Indifferent.	D．Interested.

4. Which of the following can be a problem according to the last paragraph?

A．Fund and will.	B．Skilled architects.
C．Urban designers.	D．Technology and money.

4 . Every year, more than 13 billion plastic bottles are sold in Britain. All of them     1     (use) only once, and only half of them are recycled.

Some think plastic bottles should be banned (明令禁止).     2     think they should be recycled. Others think a returning plan should be brought in to avoid the     3     (pollute) of rivers and seas. That is to say, people will get up to 20 pence back every time they return     4    bottle. A returning plan for bottles is already     5     (success) in Germany, where 98.5% of plastic bottles are returned.     6     (lucky), there are already signs that things are changing for the better. Last year, Selfridges stopped     7     (sell) single-use water bottles. London Zoo announced that it would also ban them. It sold 155,000 plastic bottles,     8    can be filled by visitors from taps. Families visiting beaches this summer are being asked to take part in a plan called “Return To Offender”. The idea is     9     (post) plastic bottles and other litter they find back to the     10     (company) that made them, using their freepost addresses.

5 . At the age of 50, Nina Schoen expects to have a long life ahead of her, but has thought a lot about death—and why people are so reluctant to talk about it: “It’s going to happen to all of us,” she says, “but it should be a more positive experience than the fear we put into it.”

When she first heard about a new end-of-life process that turns the body into compost (堆肥), “I was really moved by the idea,” says Schoen, who became one of the first to reserve a spot with a Seattle-based company called Recompose, the county’s first funeral home to offer human composting.

Last year Recompose began transforming bodies to soil, more formally known as natural organic reduction. Before that, end-of-life options in the U.S. were limited to burial or cremation (火化), both of which come with environmental costs—U.S. cremations alone dump 1.7 billion pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.

Katrina Spade pioneering the composting movement has spent a decade developing the process in hopes of offering people a greener option for death care. “I wondered, ‘What if we had a choice that helps the planet rather than harms it?’” Spade tells PEOPLE. “To know that the last gesture you’ll make will be gentle and beneficial and it just feels like the right thing to do.”

After she had her own two sons, she began to wonder what she might do with her body after death. A friend who knew her interest in the topic reminded her that farmers sometimes compost the body of cows, and that sparked an idea for her theory: “If you can compost a cow, you can probably compost a human,” she thought, and she set about designing a facility to do just that.

“This is about giving people another choice,” Spade says. “At first, people react with shock—‘You really can do that?’ But so many people today are looking at their impact on the Earth. This is a popular thing because when you die, you can give back to the planet.”

1. How do people react when it comes to death according to paragraph 1?

A．They are unwilling to comment.

B．They can face it without fear.

C．They feel it a positive experience.

D．They would like to compost their bodies.

2. What can we know about the company Recompose?

A．Its CEO is Katrina Spade.

B．It is located in Seattle.

C．It was founded to resist cremation.

D．It has spent 10 years composting bodies.

3. What does the underlined word “sparked” probably mean?

A．Changed.	B．Compromised.
C．Quitted.	D．Inspired.

4. What message does the author seem to convey in the text?

A．A little things in our life can bring in big outcomes.

B．We human beings should do all we can to help the earth.

C．Composting is so popular that we should reserve a spot soon.

D．We should reject burial because of its harm to environment.

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 all create too much trash but no one was showing much interest in taking out the trash every day. In my family, we usually argue over things like     1     turn it is to take out the trash. However, this kind of     2     （bore）housework might be filled with fun. According to a piece of online news, a dad in Puertollano, Spain, takes the trash out     3     his daughter in different costumes every day. Videos of the two have got many likes online     4     （recent）. In the video, in order to entertain his daughter Mara, 3 years old, Jaime Coronel     5     （catch）the opportunity to take the trash from his home to the street—dressing up as a     6     （differ） character. "When it came time to celebrate Halloween last year, I thought ‘why not go out in costume to put the garbage out?’", the father said. Since then, they have appeared in costume of     7     （figure）, such as Frozen, Dragon Ball, Spider-Man, Beauty and the Beast, Batman and Wonder Woman, among others. Coronel's wife said, "Every evening after dinner, our daughter would volunteer     8     （take）out the trash and she became especially excited when she dressed up     9     （she）as Wonder Woman. The tours also became     10     interesting walk around the block, not just to take the trash."

7 . Prickles, a bare-faced merino sheep (麦兰奴种绵羊) that ran away from a Tasmanian farm during the 2013 bush-fires, recently returned home.

According to farmer Alice Gray, Prickles was _______ a lamb when she ran away, seven years ago. The bush fires destroyed the area and the young sheep got _______ in a 200-acre bush block,   _______ to return after they rebuilt about 50km of fencing. They had _______ her a few times, and even recorded her _______ with cameras installed to monitor deer around. So they knew she was _______, but they didn't expect her return. They were _______.

Ms. Gray told ABC. net. au that she and the family were _______ her son's sixth birthday when they caught a _______ of the runaway sheep. They had decided to barbecue at the back of their farm, and that's when they __________ this “big, white, furry thing” on the other side of the dam. The birthday party __________ turned into a sheep chase.

At one point Mr. Gray disappeared, only to call her later, saying that he had __________ to catch Prickles and leap on the __________ of her, pressing her down. He needed some help __________ the sheep didn't seem __________ to follow him home. Ms. Gray and the kids found him, and managed to __________ the sheep in the back of a truck.

“She's a great big furry ball of wool,” Alice Gray __________ Prickles, “She looks very healthy and she's very __________ now with some other little friends.”

The Grays are currently holding a __________ to guess the weight of Prickles' wool to __________ money online for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (难民).

1.

A．already

B．only

C．even

D．always

2.

A．stuck

B．broken

C．attracted

D．confused

3.

A．easy

B．impatient

C．unable

D．glad

4.

A．trapped

B．released

C．caught

D．spotted

5.

A．activities

B．manners

C．efforts

D．tricks

6.

A．aware

B．alive

C．alike

D．afraid

7.

A．wrong

B．lucky

C．sure

D．curious

8.

A．reporting

B．appreciating

C．observing

D．scheduling

9.

A．chance

B．hold

C．figure

D．glimpse

10.

A．lost

B．found

C．left

D．shot

11.

A．generally

B．certainly

C．suddenly

D．commonly

12.

A．regretted

B．pretended

C．continued

D．managed

13.

A．chest

B．wool

C．back

D．forehead

14.

A．until

B．though

C．while

D．because

15.

A．painful

B．eager

C．angry

D．nervous

16.

A．load

B．train

C．judge

D．attract

17.

A．chatted with

B．prayed for

C．joked about

D．explained to

18.

A．moved

B．smart

C．tired

D．happy

19.

A．ceremony

B．competition

C．concert

D．collection

20.

A．raise

B．1end

C．print

D．spend

8 . There are plenty of stories about animals seeming to have a sixth sense about disasters. For example, cats run and hide under the bed before an earthquake and dogs don't go outside before a tsunami（海啸）. Although there's little science to prove that, the anecdotal（传闻的）evidence points to an animal's ability to predict natural disasters.

There are records from 373 B. C. showing that lots of rats, snakes ran away from the Greek city of Helice just days before an earthquake destroyed the area. In 2004, many animals escaped the tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed more than 230, 000 people. There are stories about animals that acted strangely in the days leading up to the storm: dogs that repulsed to go outside, elephants that ran for higher ground and birds that abandoned their usual nesting areas.

Even around us, there are lots of stories from pet owners who report their dogs and cats know when bad weather is on the way. A 2010's research found that about two-thirds of pet owners believe their pets have a sixth sense when a storm or other severe weather is approaching.

Some people questioned whether animals were able to sense the storm before humans and take protective measures. Some scientists don't believe the stories. They record these stories up to "the psychological（心理的）focusing effect" where people recall unusual behavior only after a disaster has taken place. They said if the event hadn't happened, then people would never have remembered that their pets had acted in a strange way.

Andy Michael, a professor at the United States Geological Survey, said, "Animals react to so many things, so it's hard to have a controlled study to get that advanced warning signal."

1. What does the underlined word "repulsed" in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Forgot.

B．Agreed.

C．Refused.

D．Wanted.

2. What's some scientists' attitude to animals' behavior before disasters?

A．Cautious.

B．Doubtful.

C．Sensitive.

D．Optimistic.

3. Why does Andy Michael think it difficult to get a conclusion about the reaction?

A．Because of many uncertain causes.

B．Because of not having enough records.

C．Because of the large number of animals.

D．Because of hard-controlled warning signals.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Can Animals Predict Natural Disasters?

B．How Can Animals Survive Big Disasters?

C．What Can Humans Do With a Sixth Sense?

D．Why Do Humans Pay Attention to Animals?

9 . Earthquakes are common natural disaster. No matter where you are, knowing how to protect yourself and your family during an earthquake is necessary.

Some expert propose that when you feel the ground is shaking, drop down, take cover under a desk and hold on. Most earthquake injuries are the result of being hit by something falling on you. You should stay indoors until the shaking stops. If you are outdoors, don’t stay near building, trees or power lines. Many people think that in case of an earthquake, they should “get under something” like a doorway or desk, in order to avoid being hurt by falling objects.

Rescue experts now say this is the wrong thing to do. For example, in the 1985 Mexico City earthquakes, they found hundreds of children in schools, crushed by their desks. However, they could have survived by lying in the aisle (通道，走道) next to their desks.

So find a nice piece of furniture, a chair, a sofa, and lie down, or curl up next to it. A falling roof may compact the furniture, but will still leave a space for you to survive next to it. This also holds true if you are in a hotel room, especially at night. Get of the bed, and lie down next to it.

In San Francisco’s 1989 earthquake, the upper freeway fell on the lower one. People who drove along were crushed in their cars. But they had time to get out and lie down next to their cars. Yes, their cars were cashed bur there was space from top to bottom next to the vehicles for people to survive and await a rescue.

Doorways and stairways are very unsafe Slay away from those.

What can we do to keep ourselves safe? Saying calm is the first and most important rule when facing accidents.

1. What should you do first when accidents happen according to this passage?

A．Get under buildings	B．Stay near trees.
C．Keep calm	D．Drop down

2. What can we learn from the text?

A．“Get under something” can avoid being hurt

B．Right earthquake survival tips can save life.

C．Earthquakes cause great damage.

D．Don’t drive on the upper freeway during an earthquake

3. Which of the following is the closest meaning of the underlined word “crushed” in Paragraph 3?

A．hidden	B．protected
C．killed	D．supported

4. How can we probably get a narrow escape from an earthquake?

A．Lie down next to a strong piece of furniture or a car

B．Lie down under a table or desk

C．Run out of the house and stay under a big tree.

D．Shout out loudly and ask for help

10 . When thinking about intelligence, we often place humans at the top of the ranks. However, there is a species whose intelligence is far more advanced and perhaps more similar to humans than we'd thought - crows （乌鸦）.

In 2002, a crow named Betty wowed Oxford University by picking up a piece of wire in her cage and bending it at one end using another object to shape the wire into a hooked (钩状的)tool. The hooked tool was then used to lift a small container containing a pig's heart from inside a plastic tube for the bird to eat. Many years later, researchers found that bending tools was in fact, not that unusual for New Caledonian crows.

Part of the Corvid family of birds, the brains of New Caledonian crows and others within the family have been studied more closely. Corvids have shown amazing cognitive（认知的）abilities. Unlike humans, corvids do not have a neocortex—a brain structure that allows for advanced cognitive development. Instead, their brains are filled with neurons(神经元)which have enabled the birds to have similar mental capacities.

According to a paper published earlier this year, New Caledonians are fastidious about the type of plant stem （茎）used to make their hooked tools and are able to figure out what the best plant stem is for them. They are capable of looking for that plant stem even when it is disguised(伪装) with leaves from a different plant species. Crows are also able to apply their abilities to advanced problem-solving. Through only learning individual steps of a challenge, a crow successfully solved it by arranging the steps in the correct order. This shows the bird's ability to make judgements through context. Crows also seem to use their cleverness for fun, much like humans do, as young birds love to play.

New Caledonian crows have emotions and memories and are cognitively skilled animals. They just might not be so different from us humans after all!

1. How did Betty surprise the scientists?

A．She made a hooked tool.

B．She escaped from her cage.

C．She managed to lift a heavy container.

D．She showed great interest in a pig's heart.

2. What do we know about New Caledonian crows?

A．They remain unknown to humans.

B．They are quite different from other corvids.

C．Their brain structure is similar to that of humans.

D．Their cognitive abilities are decided by neurons.

3. What does the underlined word “fastidious” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Guilty.	B．Hesitant
C．Picky.	D．Curious.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．The intelligence of crows.

B．The survival skills of crows.

C．The development of the crow family.

D．The emotions and memories of crows.