2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式，将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。

Qian Li Wei: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, As     1    business development consultant, I’m often seen as being against the environment.

    2     I’m here to say is that having worked with many environmental consultants. I know that a     3     (health) environment and development should be possible at the same time.

Ms Lin suggested that we should cut back     4     the quantity of things we produce in order to save the environment. I don’t agree with     5     (she). However, I do agree that we should produce     6     (many) things from materials that have been recycled, and less from raw materials.

What we need are better     7     (law). This includes controls on how many trees are cut down and how many fish     8     (catch).     9     (ask) around, I find many people are willing to pay a little higher price for things     10     are friendly to the environment.

3 . Scientists have searched for many years for a method to tell whether a volcano(火山)explosion will be small or large. Now, four scientists say they have discovered something in lava(熔岩)that will help do this. They did the research on Mount Unzen on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.

Mount Unzen exploded in November, 1990. Since then, more explosions have killed 43 people and destroyed the homes of more than 2,000 others. The volcano is still active today.

The scientists say the lava of the volcano contains high level of an element(成份)，which is a sign of the presence of the lava from deep in the earth, not from the surface. They say it shows that the lava coming directly from inside the earth is connected with huge explosions instead of smaller ones.

The scientists examined the lava from 18 explosions of Mount Unzen that took place during many thousands of years. They also studied the lava from other volcanoes in the area that are older than Mount Unzen. The lava studied came from both large and small explosions. The scientists found that large explosions contained more of the element than small ones. The scientists say if they had known this two years earlier, they could have warned the people living in the area near Mount Unzen and saved many lives.

1. Scientists have searched for a long time in order to ______.

A．tell whether a volcano explosion will be small or large

B．tell whether a volcano explosion will be worthy or not

C．tell the number of active volcanoes in the world

D．find if there is any volcano in Japan

2. From the passage we learn that Mount Unzen is the name of ______.

A．an active volcano	B．a Japanese island
C．a huge volcano explosion	D．a kind of lava

3. Where does lava come from?

A．It comes from the deepest part of the ocean.

B．It comes from the earth surface.

C．Not mentioned in the passage.

D．It is from deep part in the earth.

4. The four scientists discovered that the level of the element contained in the lava could tell______.

A．the place of a possible explosion

B．the degree of a volcano explosion

C．the number of volcano explosions

D．the time of a possible explosion

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

Food from the air

Everyone has seen plants growing, but have you ever thought     1     they get their food? In the seventeenth century, a European scientist     2     (call) Van Helmot asked this question. Like most people, he thought that plants must get their food from soil. However, Van Helmot decided       3     (test) the theory with experiments.

First, he dried some soil, put it into a pot and weighed it. Next, he weighed a small tree, planted it in the pot and added rain water. Then, he watered it     4     (regular) with rain water.

After five years, he removed the tree from the pot and weighed it again. He found that the tree had gained     5     huge amount of weight. When he weighed the soil, however, it was almost exactly the same as it had been five years    6    . So Van Helmot drew the    7    (conclude) that the tree grew by drinking water. Though it turned out to be wrong, he showed the importance of the use of scientific evidence to support ideas.

We now know that plants and trees make their own food. Their leaves, when exposed     8     the air and sun, are like factories    9     can change the energy from the sun into chemical energy. During this process (过程), oxygen and sugar     10     (produce). The oxygen is released back into the air, and the sugar is used by the plant as food.

6 . 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。

Last summer, Hilda worked as a volunteer with dolphin trainers at a sea life park. Her job was to make sure the tanks were free of any items so that the trainers could train the dolphins to fetch specific items. However, one day after cleaning, one of the dolphins, Maya, presented Hilda with a candy wrapper from the tank. When Katherine, the trainer, saw this, she blamed Hilda for her carelessness. Upset but not discouraged by this event, Hilda decided to do some spying on Maya.

The next morning, Hilda arrived at the park early. She put on her scuba gear (水下呼吸器) and jumped into the tank for her usual, underwater sweep. Finding nothing in the tank, she climbed out of the water just in time to see Katherine jumping in on the other side. After what happened yesterday, Hilda knew what she was doing. She watched as Katherine performed her underwater search, but Hilda wasn’t surprised when she surfaced empty-handed.

During the tank sweeps, Maya had been swimming playfully, but now the dolphin stopped suddenly and swam to the back part of the tank where the filter (过滤) box was located. She stuck her nose down behind the box and then swam away. What was Maya doing back there? Hilda wondered. She jumped back into the water and swam over to take a look behind the box, and her question was answered. Hilda then swam across the tank following Maya’s path and emerged from the water to find Katherine removing her scuba gear. As Katherine turned around, her mouth dropped open. There was Maya at the edge of the tank with a comb (梳子) in her mouth waiting for her treat.

“Maya! Where did you get that?” demanded Katherine, taking the comb and throwing her a fish. “I know where she got it,” declared Hilda climbing out of the tank with a handful of items still wet from their watery, resting place. “What’s all this?” Katherine asked, obviously confused.

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

“This is Maya’s secret,” Hilda said with a big smile.

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Now Katherine realized what had been going on.

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9 . Within the environmental movement, the question often arises whether global warming can be mitigated (缓解) by planting more vegetation. The idea is that the plants will consume carbon dioxide (CO2) that is causing the warming, while producing oxygen for us to breathe. This is acceptable on condition that global warming is indeed caused in some way by CO2 in the air.

However, actual scientific debate on the issue has shifted away from CO2 as the probable cause, especially after the findings that the temperatures changed 800 to 1000 years before carbon dioxide changed. In other words, CO2 levels are an indicator of temperature change, not a cause.

While there is nothing we can do to control the global climate, there is still a lot we can do to improve our local climates. Land use is the biggest decisive factor of local temperature and air quality. On clear days, the temperatures in big cities can be 5.6 degrees Centigrade higher than in the countryside around them. This is because the concrete (混凝土) of sidewalks and buildings and the asphalt (沥青) of roads take in sunlight and transform it into heat. Some get so hot, one could cook an egg on them! These vast surfaces of man﹣made stone also store lots of heat, which they radiate (散发) all night long. Just before sunrise, when the earth should be its coolest, roadways are still warm to touch.

If vegetation was blocking the Sun from the sidewalks and roads, the vegetation would absorb the sunlight, fueling the plants’ oxygen-making engines, and the rock would stay at surrounding temperatures. The easiest and most obvious choice is trees, particularly wide-reaching trees like the oak. Another possibility, especially outside the city centre, could be vine-covered trellises (棚架).Covering rooftops with grasses or other short vegetation reduces a building’s cooling cost as sharply as having trees or trellises that provide shade for windows does.

The reason why vegetation does not warm the air like rock does is that plants take water from the ground and evaporate (蒸发) it through their leaves. The Sun’s energy isn’t radiated as heat — it is used to change water into water vapor. The evaporative cooling works so well that the leaves stay 5.6 to 8.33 degrees Centigrade cooler than they would have been without water. While we can’t improve global climate, increased vegetation can help cool local climates.

1. Which of the following is True according to the passage?

A．With some effort, we can still affect global climate.

B．We can do a lot to improve the climate where we live.

C．Temperatures in big cities are usually lower than in the countryside.

D．The asphalt of roads throws back sunlight.

2. How does the author suggest we remedy the “heat islands” created by cities?

A．Planting full and wide-reaching trees.

B．Using vehicles that get better gas mileage.

C．Using energy-saving equipment.

D．Constructing dark-colored roofs on new buildings.

3. Which of the following is not implied by the article?

A．Darker colors absorb more sunlight and transform it into heat.

B．More thick materials store heat and give off it at night.

C．Human activity is changing global climate.

D．Vegetation is neither dark nor thick; thus, it reduces localized heating.

4. How can we use the information in this article?

A．Encourage the next generation to increase vegetation.

B．Promote rooftop gardening.

C．Remove vines and trellises from buildings.

D．A and B above.

5. In what ways do trees cool the surrounding air?
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10 . 请阅读下面短文, 并根据其提示内容, 从方框中所给的7个词语中选出5个, 并用其适当形式填空。

decide,   express oneself,   fortunate,   in addition,   remove,   therefore,   free

The French owner of a rooster called Maurice was taken to court by neighbors who insisted the rooster is too noisy. An elderly couple from Limoges, complained that the rooster cut short their sleep with its dawn crowing (啼叫) next to their home. The couple wanted it     1     from earshot.

The rooster’s owner, a retired waitress who has been on the island for 35 years, argued,   “A rooster needs to     2    . ” Her lawyer added that the complaints were ridiculous because crowing roosters were part of the country life.     3    , many people signed petitions (请愿书) in support of Maurice and his     4     to crow.

Mayor of the main town on the island where they live, said, “Today it’s the rooster, but what will it be tomorrow? The noise of the wind? Our accents? ” He has issued a municipal law showing the need to “preserve the rural feature of the town.”

Finally, the court rejected the neighbors’ complaints of the noise pollution and ordered them to pay E1, 000.     5    , the France’s most famous rooster can carry on with his dawn chorus.