| A．From not enough water. |
| B．From not enough sun. |
| C．From not enough plant food. |
| A．Drive home. | B．Go shopping. | C．Eat out. |
| A．Sunny. | B．Wind. | C．Stormy. |
1. What is the weather like in five days?
| A．Cold. | B．Cloudy. | C．Windy. |
| A．Snow tents. | B．Salt. | C．All-seasons tire. |
| A．On Monday morning. |
| B．Late Saturday morning. |
| C．Early Friday evening. |
| A．In the newspaper. | B．Online. | C．On TV. |
1. What is the woman doing?
| A．Joining a protest. | B．Interviewing the man. | C．Giving a speech. |
| A．She is looking for her husband. |
| B．Her salary hasn’t been paid by the boss. |
| C．The factory is polluting the environment. |
| A．The woman’s husband. |
| B．People in the community. |
| C．The workers in the factory. |
| A．To shout with her. |
| B．To go to the government. |
| C．To cover the event. |
1. What is Akria Miyawaki?
| A．An officer. | B．A professor. | C．A scientist. |
| A．Producing more oxygen. |
| B．Attracting different kinds of animals. |
| C．Dealing with climate change. |
| A．It taught people to grow their own mini forests. |
| B．It helped communities build 100 forests. |
| C．It educated kids about tiny forests. |
| A．Mini forests have emerged all over the world. |
| B．The advantages of mini forests. |
| C．The reason why mini forests are popular worldwide. |
1. What's the woman's attitude towards dogs?
| A．She is fond of them. | B．She dislikes them. | C．She doesn't care about them. |
| A．Blue. | B．Black. | C．Gray. |
8 . It was 1:20 a. m. I had just gone to bed, a bit
I was awakened by the
Shaking in darkness, I
I took
In the end, I think the experience made me
| A．relieved | B．drunk | C．excited | D．satisfied |
| A．stones | B．sandbags | C．wood | D．boxes |
| A．in doubt | B．in return | C．in turn | D．in case |
| A．thundering | B．snowing | C．pouring | D．blowing |
| A．roar | B．taste | C．rhythm | D．smell |
| A．appearing | B．spreading | C．freezing | D．rising |
| A．grabbed | B．adjusted | C．dropped | D．studied |
| A．realize | B．guess | C．see | D．check |
| A．extremely | B．violently | C．narrowly | D．certainly |
| A．get out | B．check out | C．calm down | D．help out |
| A．brave | B．immediate | C．determined | D．calculated |
| A．fear | B．annoyance | C．stress | D．responsibility |
| A．active | B．proud | C．grateful | D．amazed |
| A．ask | B．ensure | C．hear | D．follow |
| A．loved | B．forgave | C．survived | D．graduated |
9 . Animal and plant species are disappearing at frightening rates. The problem has led to efforts to “rewild” places where such life existed before human development, pollution and climate change forced it out. The American city of Detroit is an example of how human actions can increase rewilding, which generally means helping natural systems in damaged locations, removing dams or building tunnels to reconnect animal pathways cut by roads.
Detroit’s population reached a high of 1.8 million in the 1950s. Then the population began dropping. By 2000, there were fewer than one million people living in the city. Thousands of houses and other buildings were left empty over the years. Some structures were destroyed, leaving empty areas that plants and animals regained as habitats. Nonprofit groups have also planted trees and community gardens in these areas. Anti-pollution laws and government-supported cleanups made nearby rivers better for fish and native plants.
Now, Detroit is home to 300 bird species and is a busy visiting place for ducks and others during migration. Unlike most big cities, its population is decreasing but its streets and buildings remain in place. And there are many kinds of habitats, including large lakes, rivers and human neighborhoods. Detroit’s parklands are so quiet that people don’t even know they’re in the city.
“It used to be that you had to go to some remote location to get exposure to nature,” said JohnHartig, a professor of University of Windsor. “Now that’s not the case. Like it or not, rewilding will occur. The question is how we can prepare communities and environments to embrace the presence of more and more wildlife. After all, many city people have lost their tolerance to live with wildlife. To really make a difference in dealing with the biodiversity crisis, you’re going to have to have people on board.”
1. What does the author want to tell us by the example of Detroit?| A．It’s government-supported efforts that really matter. |
| B．Humans’ efforts can make a difference in rewilding. |
| C．Humans are to blame for the worsening environment. |
| D．It’s hard for humans and wildlife to live in harmony. |
| A．The city was overpopulated. | B．More community gardens disappeared. |
| C．Many buildings were abandoned. | D．The environment was badly damaged. |
| A．It is a big city crowded with tourists and bird species. |
| B．Tourists don’t show any interest in its quiet surroundings. |
| C．It’s become a center for those who study animals and plants. |
| D．It’s turned into a place where people can get close to nature. |
| A．Accept. | B．Delay. | C．Imagine. | D．Supervise. |
10 . About 12% of the total global energy demand comes from heating and cooling homes and businesses. A new study suggests that using underground water to maintain comfortable temperatures could reduce consumption of natural gas and electricity in this section by 40% in the US. The approach is called ATES, short for aquifer thermal energy storage (含水层热能储存).
“We need storage to absorb energy from the sun and wind. It’s crucial to creating affordable, reliable, and deeply environmental-friendly electricity systems. Most people are interested in batteries and other kinds of electrical storage. But we were wondering whether there was any opportunity to use geothermal (地热的) energy storage,” said first author A.T.D Perera. “With ATES, energy can be stored for a long period of time, without adding an additional burden to the grid (输电网).”
ATES is a pleasantly simple concept that takes advantage of the heat-absorbing property of water and the natural geological features of the planet. You simply pull existing underground water up and heat it at the surface in the summer with environmental heat or energy. Then you send it back down. It stays fairly hot because the Earth is a good insulator (绝热体).
“Unlike above-ground tank-based water or ice storage systems, ATES will not need space. It’s also more efficient and can support larger communities in cooling or heating than traditional geothermal heat pump systems that rely on heat moving with the underground soil,” added co-author Hong Tianzhen.
A major beneft of ATES is that it will become more efficient as weather becomes more extreme in the coming years due to climate change. The hotter summers and severer winters could increase the amount of free thermal energy that can be stored with ATES. “It’s very much a realistic thing to do and this work is really about showing its value,” said Perera. “This technology is ready to go, so to speak. We just need to do it.”
1. What do we know about ATES?| A．It is technologically demanding. |
| B．It is aimed at replacing natural energy. |
| C．It mainly relies on batteries to function. |
| D．It helps achieve an environmentally friendly society |
| A．By giving examples. | B．By discussing results. |
| C．By making comparisons. | D．By analyzing principles. |
| A．Temperature variations. | B．Insulated materials. |
| C．The duration of storage. | D．The category of energy. |
| A．A Turning Point in Energy Usage |
| B．A Solution to Green Cooling and Heating |
| C．A Transformation in the US Electricity System |
| D．A Discovery About Geothermal Energy Storage |
