1 . They’re tough breeds and they have complicated names to match. But free-spirited Aussie dogs Tank the Rottweiler-cross and Muck the Staffie-cross instinctively (本能地) knew when a small child was in danger, and their protective _______ prevented a tragedy.

One December afternoon, Georgie Hillier thought her two-year-old son Max was playing in the back garden of their home. But when she went to check, there was no _______ of Max or their dog Tank. When she couldn’t find them, she jumped in her car and started to _______ the neighboring property. She was frightened that her son could have fallen into one of the dams.

Then she found Tank with the neighbor’s dog Muck. They were both running around the dams, barking furiously and _______ in mud.

“I just panicked. I was running around, checking the sides of the dams,“ Georgie told Sara Hicks. _______ she kept searching, a neighbor called the police. Eventually, a woman who had found Max heard Georgie’s calls and brought the _______ kid out to her.

There was no one there to _______ what exactly happened, but Michael Beattie from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took up the story. “When the police arrived on the _______, they saw quite distinct drag marks. It was _______ that young Max had actually been pulled out of the dam by one of the dogs - most likely Tank. Max was making moves to go back into the dam and Muck was virtually heading him off at the pass. It was the police’s opinion that the only way that Max was ____________ from drowning was by the two dogs. ”

For saving the toddler’s life, the daring two dogs received the RSPCA’s Purple Cross award for bravery- plus two very large bones.

1.

A．measures

B．natures

C．skills

D．effects

2.

A．response

B．exhibition

C．shadow

D．sign

3.

A．approach

B．search

C．guard

D．discover

4.

A．stuck

B．covered

C．hidden

D．trapped

5.

A．After

B．Though

C．Unless

D．While

6.

A．untouched

B．unwrapped

C．unknown

D．unharmed

7.

A．prove

B．witness

C．indicate

D．explain

8.

A．edge

B．island

C．scene

D．beach

9.

A．apparent

B．essential

C．pleasant

D．pitiful

10.

A．separated

B．discouraged

C．freed

D．rescued

2 . 课文背诵检测

In the 1400s and 1500s, Peru was the centre of the powerful ancient Inca Empire. The Inca emperor lived in the     1     Machu Picchu. Spain took control of Peru in the 16th century and ruled until 1821. It is for this reason that Spanish is the main     2     of Peru.

Michael Jordan, known as “Air Jordan”, changed basketball with his graceful moves and jumps. His skills were impressive, but the     3     that he showed made him unique.

Tangshan started to revive itself and     4    . With strong support from the government and the     5     of the city’s people, a new Tangshan was built upon the earthquake ruins.

3 . Ocean heat waves — defined as periods of extreme temperatures lasting five days or more — have become increasingly common in recent decades. In fact, as a new study published in Nature Climate Change finds, Earth’s number of annual ocean heat wave days increased by around 54 percent between 1987 and 2016, with abnormally high temperatures not only occurring more frequently, but also lasting for longer periods of time.

Underwater heat waves pose a significant threat to marine ecosystems, which are already at risk due to issues including overfishing and widespread plastic pollution. Sweeping through oceans much like wildfires blaze through forests on land, extreme temperatures exact damage on foundational organisms such as kelp forests, seagrass meadows and coral reefs. Given that these framework species provide shelter and food to many other ocean creatures, the study’s authors warn that such destruction will likely have cascading consequences for marine biodiversity.

To assess the effects of ocean heat waves, researchers led by ecologist Daniel Smale of Great Britain’s Marine Biological Association turned to 116 previously published academic studies. Reflecting on more than 1,000 ecological records and eight specific heat waves, the scientists identified regions and species that were the weakest to temperature increases. As Mary Papenfuss writes for the Huffington Post, areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans topped the list, with the Caribbean’s coral reefs, Australia’s seagrass and California’s kelp forests causing particular concerns.

In terms of species, Pacific Standard’s Kate Wheeling adds, the team notes that immobile plants and animals were the hardest hit, while tropical fish and mobile invertebrates (无脊椎生物) were able to cope with the heat by moving to different habitats. Interestingly, John Timmer reports for Ars Technica, the researchers actually observed heightened levels of fish diversity during periods of above- average temperatures, likely due to the animals’ mass migration (迁徙) toward friendlier waters. The same trend did not prove true for sea-dwelling birds, however, as shifting habitats limited the avian creatures’ access to prey.

Although the researchers’ findings are most consequential for marine ecosystems. Pierre-Louis and Popovich explain that damage to ocean habitats will also affect humans who rely on fishing and fish farming.

“Certainly there’s going to be changes with climate change to marine communities, but it’s not like the oceans are going to become the dead sea. It’s just that, as a consequence of what we’re doing to the oceans, there’s going to be different marine communities in different places than what we’re used to. Obviously, that is a problem because we’re sort of set up for what the climate is now rather than what it is going to be in the future.”

1. “Species” in “these framework species” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.

A．wildfires

B．damages

C．organisms

D．temperatures

2. What can we learn from this passage?

A．The temperatures of wave heats nearly doubled in 2016.

B．Living creatures can avoid heat wave damage by migration.

C．Overfishing and plastic pollution are the main causes to ocean heat.

D．The weakest regions are concluded from previous academic studies.

3. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

A．People should stop fishing because of the climate change.

B．People who take fishing for a living might earn lower profits.

C．The researchers findings cannot help us protect the land ecosystems.

D．Changes to ocean habitats would bring extremely bad results to the sea.

4. Which would be the best title for the passage?

A．Ocean Heat Waves Are Affecting Us

B．Ocean Heat Waves Are Getting Worse

C．Ocean Heat Waves Are Threatening Marine Life

D．Ocean Heat Waves Are keys to Marine Biodiversity

4 . 选择正确的短语填空。

cause global warming, pick up, sharing cars, get stuck in a traffic jam, are addicted to, make excuses, protect the environment, do a lot of harm

Many people often     1     when they go to work. How annoyed and stressful they often feel! But the problem is that the number of cars is still going up. Traffic pollution has been found to       2     and climate change to a large degree.

Too many cars     3     to the environment and our health. Some advice has been given for people to help     4     , for example, using public transport or     5     , doing your shopping in the shop just around the corner instead of driving to the other side of town. However, people       6     using cars. They     7     for using their cars, “I need to     8     my daughter. What can I do?”

5 . 学校将于本周三下午组织国际部部分学生返校参加主题为“校园清洁人人有责”的义务劳动，请你用英语写一份口头通知。内容包括：
1.说明活动意义并简述活动内容（如整理图书馆、打扫公共卫生区等）；
2.提醒携带相关工具及其它注意事项。
注意：1.词数100字左右；
2.开头、结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Hello, everyone.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

That’s all. Thank you.

6 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

The Burmese snub-nosed monkey (仰鼻猴) is a     1     (critical)threatened species of colobine monkey. The young animals’ coloring differs markedly from that of the adults. The species first gained the attention of scientists     2     (research) the hoolock gibbon (白眉长臂猿) in Burma in early 2010. It wasn’t until 2012 that a camera was set up     3     (capture) the first images of the new species. The     4     (know) population of the snub-nosed monkey in Burma is about 260-330 individuals. They are currently threatened by the destruction of their forest habitats from logging (伐木作业) and development in the area.

7 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1 个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

In the past few years, the number of wild animals     1     (decrease). If nothing     2     (do), man will be punished by nature.     3     (lucky), people begin to take actions. Some nature reserves (保护区)     4     (build) now so that animals can live in peace. If everyone has the sense of protecting wildlife, it is certain that an atmosphere of wildlife protection will come into being.

8 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Imprinting is a form of learning in     1     a very young animal fixes its attention on the first object it has visual, auditory, or tactile experience with and then follows that object. Over the last few months, panda caretakers in China     2     (dress) up like the animal to make back-to-nature training more authentic for the cubs. The keepers wear panda costumes when dealing with the animals to try to make the pandas feel at home and to limit their interactions     3     humans. They hope the dress-up will make the animals’ transition to the wild     4     (easy) in the long run.

9 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

A series of water-conserving and recycling designs have been put into place     1     (improve) water usage for snow making, human consumption and other purposes, according to the Beijing 2022 organizing committee.

Around 90% of the snow     2     (use) at the Alpine skiing venue for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics was reported artificial, while artificial snow     3     (be) also a feature of Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014.

10 . Buck’s first day on the beach was a nightmare. Every hour was filled with shock or surprise. He had been suddenly removed from civilization and thrown into the heart of a primitive world. Here there was neither peace nor rest, nor a moment’s safety. It was essential to be constantly alert, for these dogs and men were not town dogs and men. They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of Club and Tooth.

Buck had never seen dogs fight like these, and his first experience taught him an unforgettable lesson. He was fortunate that it was Curly who was the victim, not himself. Curly, in her friendly way, tried to make friends with a husky dog. The dog was the size of a full-grown wolf, but not half as large as Curly was. There was no warning: only a fast jump, a metallic cut of teeth, and a jump back. Curly’s face was ripped open from eye to mouth.

It was wolf fighting, to strike and jump away, but there was more to it than this. Thirty or forty huskies ran to watch. They surrounded the fighters in a silent, watching circle, all licking their lips. Curly rushed at the husky, who struck again and jumped away. He met her next rush with his chest in a strange way that knocked her over. She never got up again. This was what the watching huskies had waited for. They closed in on her, snarling and yelping. Curly was buried, screaming in pain, under the dogs’ bodies.

1. Why did Buck have to be ‘constantly alert’?

A．He couldn’t fall asleep	B．He was worried about Curly
C．He had to make sure he was always safe	D．He was in a lot of pain

2. What does ‘The Law Of Club & Tooth’ mean?

A．You must have a tooth and club in the wild	B．The strongest make the rules
C．The weakest must survive in the wild	D．The tooth must fight the club

3. How do wolves fight?

A．Run at the enemy non-stop	B．First to strike wins
C．Attack and step back	D．Wolves only use their paws to fight

4. Which of the following phrases best explains this passage?

A．Dogs will always fight other dogs for food

B．Buck wanted to help Curly, but he was afraid of the huskies

C．The only way dogs can survive is by eating other dogs

D．Only the strongest shall survive in the wild