1 . 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。

I had ordered many gifts online for the upcoming Christmas. One day,when the doorbell rang, I was sure some of the packages arrived. I opened the door,but only to find a beautiful little dog sitting on the floor. It looked up at me with her big,cute eyes. I looked around, but there was no one in sight. It was obvious that someone had found the puppy somewhere and intentionally left her outside the door.

The lovely dog was a timely Christmas gift for me,indeed. The year marked a turning point in my life. In September,my husband was offered a new job in Africa. Feeling that I had hit a career bottleneck as a photographer journalist,I decided to relocate with him. While my husband was busy with his work,I didn’t know what to do anyway. I felt isolated,homesick and lacking purpose. We lived in a house near a river that cut across an expansive grassland. With few people around,I would take my camera and wander around,photographing aimlessly every day.

So we adopted the abandoned dog. My husband called her“our little angel”and I named it accordingly.   Angel seemed to be very happy with us and she turned out to be a perfect companion for me. Always by my side,she enjoyed exploring the shady bushes and mysterious tunnels all over the grassland. Encouraged by her curiosity,I decided to explore,too.

There was a deep cave near our house and I had been eager to explore it. The only way in was narrow and slippery. I had promised my husband that I wouldn’t do it unless he was around. But he was always busy. With Angel as my companion,I figured that it was time to stretch the rule a little bit.

One day, I equipped myself with a good flashlight and carefully walked down the dark cave. Suddenly, Angel,who had been following me closely,rushed ahead and disappeared into the darkness.

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。

A few seconds later, it brought back a little bird.

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During the recovering process, I took many photographs of the little bird.

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2 . 听下面一段独白, 回答以下小题。
1. What animal is Simba?

A．A lion.

B．A tiger.

C．A monkey.

2. How did Simba get his name?

A．By his size.

B．By his character.

C．By his birthday.

3. What does the speaker say about Jojo?

A．She is outgoing.

B．She is caring.

C．She is serious.

4. What does Tom need to do at night?

A．Play with others.

B．Take care of others.

C．Have a good sleep.

4 . When wildfire smoke from huge fires in Canada blanketed the US in the summer of 2023, emergency rooms saw an increase in admissions for lung problems, heart attacks and other health issues.

Burning fossil fuels has driven climate change, and now climate change is costing people their health and increasingly their lives, says a new report from the medical journal The Lancet. The eighth annual Lancet Countdown, an international analysis that tracks nearly 50 different health-focused issues affected by climate change, calls for an immediate wind-down of fossil fuel use.

Those with the least historical responsibility for causing climate change are feeling the worst effects. Pakistan—a country responsible for roughly 0.3% of all climate-change-causing carbon emissions, suffered huge floods in 2022 that displaced more than 30 million people and killed at least 1,700. However, wealthier countries cannot be spared. In the US, wildfire smoke this summer sent people to the emergency room from New York to Georgia. In Europe, a 2022 summer heat wave resulted in over 60,000 deaths.

About one fifth of all US residents work outdoors; the percentages are even higher in many other countries. When it gets too hot, it gets harder and harder to work. Last year, the report says, outdoor workers lost more than 140 hours each — or several weeks of pay — because of the intense heat.

The human and economic costs are forecast to grow with every tenth of a degree hotter the planet gets. Heat-related deaths, for example, could increase by nearly five times by the middle of the century, if without immediate reductions to carbon emissions.

“I have a young patient who presents with uncontrollable asthma. She lives right next to a highway and is breathing in harmful air from cars burning gas,” Renee Salas, a doctor at Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health says. “So the treatment she needs is electric vehicles, home weatherization and air purification. These are prescriptions I can’t write.”

1. What can be learned from paragraph 3?

A．The wildfire has burned large areas of forest.	B．Pakistan is largely responsible for climate change.
C．Climate change has caused a lot of human deaths.	D．People in wealthier countries have good health care.

2. Which statement will the author probably agree with?

A．American residents worked very hard last year.

B．There is nothing people can do about climate change.

C．The economy has also been affected by climate change.

D．Heat-related deaths will double by the middle of the century.

3. What docs Renee Salas imply in the last paragraph?

A．She advocates green lifestyle.	B．She prefers to drive an electric car to work.
C．Young people are more likely to get asthma.	D．Hospitals are short of medicines to treat asthma.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．The advantage of living in the US.	B．The cause of climate change.
C．The stress of working outdoors.	D．The harm of climate change.

5 . My first dependant was a duck called Mr. Kite. As a cream-faced four-year-old, it was my job at the nursery to turn the eggs in the incubator (恒温箱) every day: one side “O”, the other side “X”.

We lived in a small, inner-city house with a long, thin garden in east Oxford at the time. As a gentle-hearted vet's (兽医的) daughter, my mum couldn't resist adopting these ducks. I named them Buttercup, Mr. Kite and Drakey. We made them a pond. The bottom was a mosaic (马赛克) made from all the bits of plate and cup that had been broken during family rows. Within 30 seconds,the pond was so full of duck droppings that we never saw the mosaic again.

One of the most magical moments during my caring for ducks was the night it snowed. Mum, over whelmed by pity and grandmotherly concern, insisted that Mr. Kite and her friends — yes, Mr. Kite was female — be spared another freezing night in the wooden house my dad had built for them at the end of the garden; we caught them, flapping and shouting, and brought them in to sleep in the kitchen.Have you ever seen three ducks go wild in a tiny kitchen? It was one of the best moments of my childhood. It smelled like the underside of hell's socks by the time they had left.

I used to spend my summers lazing in a swimming pool with Mr. Kite and the others. Eventually, though, our neighbour complained that they were being woken at 4:45 a.m.. So, the feathered three went to live with an old couple in the country. Fair enough — you don't move to the city to have the dawn torn apart by quacking   — although it must have made a change from student parties and the sound of 19-year-olds being sick by the bins.

I wonder now if this early experience of duck adoption is the reason that, at least three times a week, what ever the weather, you will find me swimming in the Thames or a nearby lake with the ducks. Although they never say hello.

1. Why were there marks of “O” and “X” on eggs?

A．To have fun.	B．To count the eggs.
C．To tell sides apart.	D．To distinguish males from females.

2. What was the initial reason for duck adoption?

A．Family preference.

B．A nursery assignment.

C．The mother's occupation.

D．Neighbour' support.

3. What does paragraph 3 imply?

A．The ducks' smells drove the author mad.

B．The energetic ducks brought much pleasure.

C．The ducks were hard to feed in cold weather.

D．The ducks were offered luxury accommodation.

4. What was the author's response to the neighbor' complaints?

A．Rejecting firmly.	B．Ignoring deliberately.
C．Explaining patiently.	D．Accepting unwillingly.

6 . 假设你是李华，你所在的城市近年来面临着严重的环境问题，包括空气污染、水污染和生态失衡。你打算写一封信给当地政府，提出你的关切并提供一些建议，希望政府能够采取积极措施来改善环境状况，促进可持续发展。
写作内容包括：
1, 简要介绍环境问题的现状和影响；
2. 表达你的关切和担忧；
3. 提供一些具体的建议，如提高环保意识、鼓励绿色出行、加强废物分类等；
4, 呼吁政府采取积极措施，保护环境，为下一代创造更好的生活环境。
注意：词数要求80-120词。
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7 . Moments ago, a seal was resting on a piece of floating ice deep in an Antarctic channel. Then three hungry killer whales appeared. When the seal noticed them, it was already surrounded.

On this sheet of sea ice, the nearly thousand-pound sea l would be unreachable for most of his enemies in nature. But these killer whales had mastered a hunting technique called wave washing: working together to turn water into a weapon.

Having identified their target, the killer whales formed a battle line and started rushing toward the ice. Just before reaching it, they rolled to their sides in a single, synchronized (同步的) motion. The wave they created was so powerful that it flooded the ice sheet and washed the frightened seal close to the edge of the ice sheet. Slowly and methodically, they repeated the attack. At the third time, the wave sent the helpless seal flying into the sea. It struggled to climb onto a piece of ice, but then disappeared from view...

“The level of intelligence that went into making each wave was staggering. They solved the problem with very complex teamwork. They used water as a tool,” said wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory, who had spent a decade tracking those killer whales, known as Bls. “I rarely saw failed hunts. This behavior was not what they were born with. It was learned and mastered over decades. Every time they made waves, it almost felt like more of a teaching experience than hunting. It was terrifying to watch.”

But as Antarctica warms and sea ice disappears, seals are increasingly staying on land, out of killer whales’ reach.

“I’ve found Bls are losing about 5 percent of their population every year. Whether this subgroup will go extinct or just adapt their behavior, I don’t know,” said Gregory. “But with fewer opportunities for the killer whales to wave wash, I’m seeing an extinction of a culture.”

1. How did the killer whales get the seal on the ice sheet?

A．By making huge waves.	B．By jumping onto the ice sheet.
C．By destroying the ice sheet.	D．By waiting underwater patiently.

2. Which of the following best explains “staggering” underlined in paragraph 4?

A．Puzzling.

B．Shocking.

C．Satisfying.

D．Annoying.

3. What is Bertie Gregory most worried about?

A．The seals and killer whales.	B．The rising sea level.
C．The loss of a hunting skill.	D．The disappeared ice sheet.

4. What can be inferred about the wave washing behavior?

A．It is a natural behavior with whales.	B．Usually, the smartest whales can learn it.
C．It can be carried out by one whale alone.	D．Perhaps, it is only mastered by certain groups.

9 . Where does food waste go? In most countries around the world, it goes into landfills (垃圾填埋场). But not in South Korea. The country banned food waste in landfills nearly 20 years ago and today, it is turned into animal feed, fertilizers and fuel.

Around the globe, 1.4 billion tons of food is thrown away every year. The waste goes into landfills where it can pollute the land and water as well as releasing methane — a greenhouse gas — into the air. In fact, food waste is the third-largest source of methane in the US.

The system that is in place in South Korea keeps almost 100 percent of unused food out of landfills. While other cities and local governments have put similar plans in place, it is not done anywhere else on a country-wide basis.

There are two reasons why South Korea passed laws to carry out mandatory (强制性的) recycling of food waste. First, the country’s cooking tradition of numerous small dishes resulted in large amounts of uneaten food. This food waste went into landfills. But the country’s mountainous geography didn’t allow for enough landfills to be built. That’s why the government forced recycling of paper and plastic in 1995 but food waste continued to be buried in landfills. But it was the neighbors of these landfills that demanded that another solution be found due to the very unpleasant smell from rotting food. The government banned organic waste from landfills in 2005. Another law that was passed in 2013 banned dumping liquid food waste in the ocean.

The system is not free but most of the cost is absorbed by the country. People can buy yellow recycling bags that are picked up on the roadside and some local governments have placed autonomous food waste collectors that require residents to pay a weight-based fee by using cards.

The food waste is collected from the bins every day except Sunday. Some of it is used to make animal feed or fertilizers and some is used to make fuel.

1. What phenomenon does the author describe in paragraph 2?

A．The US is worried about landfills.	B．Landfills are the most common.
C．Greenhouse gas is hard to avoid.	D．Food waste can cause much harm.

2. What does the author want to say in paragraph 3?

A．Other governments don’t plan to recycle food waste.

B．100 percent of food waste goes into landfills worldwide.

C．South Korea is successful in dealing with the unused food.

D．South Korea should follow others’ way of building the system.

3. What probably led to the ban in 2005?

A．Some people’s appeal.	B．Insufficient landfill sites.
C．Unhealthy traditional diets.	D．Large amounts of food waste.

4. How can people respond to the ban on waste from landfills?

A．By avoiding using cards.	B．By purchasing recycling bags.
C．By paying the cost of collectors.	D．By picking up waste on the roadside.

10 . Abdullah was born in Terengganu, a state on the eastern coast of the Malaysian Peninsular, known for its beautiful tropical islands. Growing up on the coast, he felt a close bond with the ocean. After being adopted as a child, he would escape from his strict home to the seaside to free himself.

The local adults would consider him a strange diving instructor, “who spent his days in the water and spoke to corals (珊瑚) as if they were people”. For a long time, he worked unknown to the public and at times in poverty. But it was this closeness to the sea that led him to study the marine (海洋的) environment, and later, earn a scholarship in Oceanography at the Florida Institute of Technology. With the travels across the globe that this research involved, Abdullah learned about the extensive degradation (退化) in the marine ecosystem. He was enthusiastic about the need to take action to restore the damaged and dying coral reefs.

Abdullah set up Ocean Quest Global in Malaysia in 2010, an environmental organization focusing on coral reef protection. It was buoyed by volunteers working throughout Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. Its founder has spent most of his life on the coral reefs of Malaysia, observing their behavior and life cycles, and conducting his own research.

In less than a decade, Abdullah’s organization had expanded to several countries like Thailand, Brunei, and the Philippines. It has over 800 trainers across the world, working on 180 islands, roost of them in Thailand. Most recently, the organization has been actively working on the restoration of Maya Bay on Ko Phi Phi Leh Island, Thailand. It is also building the first subtropical coral nursery in Egypt, reports the diving industry portal, ADEX Ocean Vision.

1. Why would Abdullah go to the seaside in his childhood?

A．To connect with nature.	B．To learn to dive.
C．To admire the scenery.	D．To enjoy freedom.

2. What directly caused Abdullah to travel worldwide?

A．The damaged dying coral reefs.	B．The related research.
C．The worsened marine ecosystem.	D．The locals’ requirement.

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

A．Determined.

B．Ignored.

C．Supported.

D．Started.

4. What can we lean from the last paragraph?

A．The coral nursery in Egypt is much more popular.

B．Abdullah’s organization has a powerful influence.

C．The reefs throughout Southeast Asia are restored.

D．Abdullah is bound to have made a large fortune.