4 . Going green seems to be a fad(时尚)for a lot of people these days. Whether that is good or bad, we can’t really say, but for the two of us, going green is not a fad but a lifestyle.

On April 22, 2011, we decided to go green every single day for an entire year. This meant doing 365 different green things, and it also meant challenging ourselves to go green beyond the easy things. Rather than recycle and reduce our energy, we had to think of 365 different green things to do and this was no easy task.

With the idea of going green every single day for a year, Our Green Year started. My wife and I decided to educate people about how they could go green in their lives and hoped we could show people all the green things that could be done to help the environment. We wanted to push the message that every little bit helps.

Over the course of Our Green Year, we completely changed our lifestyles. We now shop at organic(有机的)stores. We consume less meat, choosing green food. We have greatly reduced our buying we don’t need. We have given away half of what we owned through websites. Our home is kept clean by vinegar and lemon juice, with no chemical cleaners. We make our own butter, enjoying the smell of home-made fresh bread. In our home anyone caught doing something ungreen might be punished.

Our minds have been changed by Our Green Year. We are grateful for the chance to have been able to go green and educate others. We believe that we do have the power to change things and help our planet.

1. Why do the author and his wife decide to start their Green Year？

A．To challenge themselves.

B．To cater to (迎合) the fad.

C．To help the environment.

D．To educate others.

2. What is their effort to own a green lifestyle?

A．educating people to push the message of going green.

B．choosing green food.

C．saying no to meat.

D．selling what they owned online.

3. What would happen if the author or his wife cleaned their house with chemical cleaners?

A．He or she would be praised.

B．He or she would be given a cup of lemon juice.

C．He or she would be enjoy the home-made fresh bread.

D．He or she would be fined.

4. What do the author and his wife learn from their Green Year?

A．People’s minds can be changed.

B．People can go green.

C．People can educate others.

D．People can help the planet.

5 . 《苏州市生活垃圾分类管理条例》于6月1日正式实施。请你就垃圾分类写一封倡议书。
【写作内容】
1.垃圾分类的原因；2.垃圾分类的方法；3.呼吁市民进行垃圾分类。
【写作要求】
1.词数 80-100；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3.开头已给出，不计入总数；
4.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。 参考词汇：垃圾分类waste sorting；厨余垃圾leftovers；废旧电池used batteries
Dear fellow citizens,

Suzhou Municipal Government has recently established a regulation that all citizens shall sort wastes in a proper way.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

6 . Molai grew up in a tiny village in India. The village lay near some wetlands which became his second___________. He learned the value and beauty of _________ there from a very young age.

When he was 16, Molai began to notice something _________ happening around his home. A flood had hit the area earlier that year and the _________ it caused had driven away a number of birds. _________, the number of snakes had declined as well. He _________ that it was because there weren’t enough trees to protect them from the _________. The solution, of course, was to plant trees so the animals could seek _________ during the daytime. He turned to the _________ department for help but was told that nothing would grow there. However, Molai went looking on his own and __________a nearby island where he began to plant trees.

________ young plants in the dry season was ____________for a lone boy. Molai built at the __________ of each sapling(幼树)a bamboo platform, where he placed earthen pots with small holes to____________ rainwater. The water would then drip(滴落)on the plants below.

Molai __________ to plant trees for the next 37 years. His efforts have resulted in 1,360 acres of naturally-grown land that has become home to many plants and animals.

1.

A．dream

B．job

C．home

D．choice

2.

A．nature

B．youth

C．culture

D．knowledge

3.

A．precious

B．interesting

C．disturbing

D．awkward

4.

A．waste

B．tension

C．pain

D．damage

5.

A．Besides

B．However

C．Therefore

D．Otherwise

6.

A．agreed

B．realized

C．remembered

D．predicted

7.

A．noise

B．heat

C．disease

D．dust

8.

A．directions

B．partners

C．help

D．shelter

9.

A．labor

B．police

C．forest

D．finance

10.

A．rebuilt

B．discovered

C．left

D．managed

11.

A．Decorating

B．Observing

C．Watering

D．Guarding

12.

A．tough

B．illegal

C．fantastic

D．beneficial

13.

A．back

B．top

C．foot

D．side

14.

A．cool down

B．keep off

C．purify

D．collect

15.

A．returned

B．learned

C．failed

D．continued

7 . People think of cats as cute. But research published in a psychology journal calls them neurotic (神经质的) and unstable. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the Bronx Zoo in New York compared the personalities of domestic house cats with those of four different types of wildcats.

To better understand their personalities, the researchers rated a number of animals behaviors on what psychologists call the Big Five human personality traits (特征).

Domestic house cats have similar personality structures to African lions. “It’s what cats do pretty much on a daily basis, things like being anxious, being timid, being excitable, being aggressive toward humans, being aggressive toward each other, ”said Max Wachtel, a Denver psychologist who didn’t participate in the study. “All of those are characteristics you see in those cute little house cats, and you also see them in lions.”

If you ever thought your cat was anxious, insecure, tense, suspicious or aggressive toward you, you aren’t making it up, he said. If they were bigger, they probably would consider killing you.

But the news isn’t all bad: Just like lions, house cats are also playful, excitable and impulsively funny. They just aren’t very predictable. One moment cats will be enjoying bell scratches, and the next they will be biting you to make you stop.

“It is good to understand the personality characteristics of our pets,” Wachtel said “Different cats have different personalities, but as a species, there are a lot of commonalities.”

The researchers also studied personality traits of Scottish wildcats and some other animals “Across the five species we assessed, personality structure was strikingly similar and also seemed to be related to other studies’ findings, such as in tigers,” the researchers wrote in their study in the November 2014 issue of the Journal of Comparative Psychology. But house cats were most like lions, potentially because they live in semi-social surroundings and lions are the most social of cats.

“They’re cute and furry, but we need to remember when we have cats as pets, we are inviting little predators into our house,” Wachtel said. “Cats can be fantastic, sweet companions—until they turn on you.”

1. Cats can be described as _____.

A．funny and safe

B．playful and stable

C．fantastic and devoted

D．neurotic and unpredictable

2. How did the researchers conduct the research?

A．By making comparisons.	B．By analyzing cause and effect.
C．By giving examples.	D．By providing explanations.

3. Which of the following “turn on” shares the same meaning as the underlined phrase?

A．The book really turned me on to science.

B．Upon entering the room, he turned on the light.

C．The hungry suddenly turned on each other for food.

D．The trial turned on the medical evidence presented by the defense.

4. Which of the following can be used as a suitable title?

A．Cats are best pets.

B．Domestic cats and wildcats.

C．Your cat may want to kill you.

D．Different cats, different personalities.

8 . 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 polar bear is found in the Arctic Circle and some big land masses as far south as Newfoundland. While they are rare north of 88°, there is evidence     1     they range all the way across the Arctic, and as far south as James Bay in Canada. It is difficult to figure out a global population of polar bears as much of the range has been     2    (poor) studied; however, biologists calculate that there are about 20,000-25,000 polar bears worldwide.

Modern methods     3     tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive     4    (perform) consistently over a large area. In recent years some Inuit people in Nunavut     5    (report) increases in bear sightings around human settlements, leading to a     6    (believe) that populations are increasing. Scientists have responded by     7    (note) that hungry bears may be congregating(聚集) around human settlements, leading to the illusion(错觉) that populations are     8    (high) than they actually are. Of     9     nineteen recognized polar bear subpopulations, three are declining, six     10    (be) stable, one is increasing, and nine lack enough data.

9 . The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: it’s a personal toilet called the pee-pool, Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, is the inventor of the pee-pool.
He became interested in the idea of sanitation after taking part in a research project on the social and political development of cities. One of the most common problems he found in developing countries was the lack of toilets. He wanted to do something to help, so working with others, he started the project in 2005, and the next year started a company called Peepoolple.
The toilet is a single-use bag made of environmentally friendly plastics. The inside is treated with urea(尿素), a chemical commonly used as fertilizer. The hotter the weather, the more quickly the waste turns into what is needed by plants. The sanitation process can be as soon as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks, you can just bury it in a pot and grow whatever you like.
The company expects to start selling the bags in August in Kenya and Bangladesh, but it is just beginning production and sales in Nairobi now. Full production could reach about half a million bags a day and people may be able to buy the pee-pool in countries Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc.
The United Nations says more than two and a half billion people around the world do not have good sanitation. Many have no choice but to use the outdoors, which is not only bad for the environment, but also harmful to people’s health. Each year, poor sanitation leads to three fifths of those people getting an infectious disease which on average causes one out of 1,000 patients to die.
Jack Smith, the founder of the World Toilet Organization, says “This is quite an unacceptable situation given the fact that we are living in the modern world, and strangely, many of them own televisions, phones but have no toilet.”
1. What was the original purpose of Anders Wilhelmson in starting the company?

A．To protect the local environment.

B．To earn a lot of money from the project.

C．To do research on the social development.

D．To help solve the problem of lack of toilets in developing countries.

2. What can be learned about the pee-pool from the passage?

A．It can be used over again.

B．Its sanitation process doesn’t last long.

C．It works better in summer than in winter.

D．It should be buried in a pot after being used.

3. In which place can people buy the Pee-pool now?

A．Nairobi.

B．Kenya.

C．Sweden.

D．Bangladesh.

4. The fifth paragraph is written mainly to tell us that ________.

A．poor sanitation may cause many problems

B．many people don’t care for the environment

C．many people get ill from using the outdoors

D．quite a number of people die from poor sanitation

5. The underlined word “This” in the last paragraph probably refers to ________.

A．the outdoors being damaged

B．many places being short of toilets

C．many people having TVs and phones

D．many people getting an infectious disease