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Living a low carbon life is becoming increasing important in our modern society. It means reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we released into the atmosphere. There are many simple steps we can take them. Firstly, we can choose eco-friendly modes of transportation such as walking, cycling, or using public transport instead driving. Secondly, saving energies in our homes is crucial. Switching off lights when they are not in use but using energy-efficient appliances (电器) make a significance impact. Lastly, consuming less meat and dairy products, that have a high carbon footprint, and opting for organic produce can make a different.
Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia’s biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top
So it was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research. I
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On my recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by
3 . The beauty industry produces many units of one-time use containers every year. More and more consumers are asking how they can keep themselves clean and beautiful without trashing the planet.
It’s a question Women of the Future winner, Natassia Nicolao, considered during her years working in product development for beauty and wellness companies. Raised by a strong and supportive mother, Natassia used her skills and passion to make a difference. In 2021, she created her waterless beauty brand.
She said, “Water is involved in every stage of a product life cycle. Everything we use, buy, sell and make has a huge water footprint. On top of that, the beauty industry adds water as the main ingredients in its products, despite it having no direct benefit to our skin.”
Having lived through water restrictions in drought-ridden Australia, Natassia felt it necessary to stop the overuse of water in the beauty industry. Natassia has always loved beauty. Her company tries to be sustainable in every step of the way, but at its core, it is about removing water from our beauty routines.
“It’s really rooted in water conservation first, and then managing your water footprint, your carbon footprint and your waste footprint,” Natassia said. “We create waterless beauty products to help conserve water.” The glass bottles and jars of her products can be recycled. The oils and wipes are formulated without any water, requiring no water to use. The company also has a piece of game-changing beauty technology: face-wipes and masks that completely dissolve in water.
“The company is still in its beginning,” Natassia said. With the prize money from Women of the Future, she plans to purchase a machine to simplify the creation of the wipes and masks. The publicity, meanwhile, will help her spread the message central to the company’s existence that beauty must do better. Natassia believes that, with a little courage and innovation, it can do.
1. What does the underlined word “trashing” in paragraph 1 mean?| A．Studying. | B．Damaging. | C．Exploding. | D．Supporting. |
| A．Her pursuit of profit. | B．Her best beauty skills. |
| C．Her growth environment. | D．Her love of extreme beauty. |
| A．Environmentally friendly. | B．Relatively cheap. |
| C．Elegant. | D．World-famous. |
| A．It has died out. | B．It’s promising. | C．It develops well. | D．It’s worth analysis. |
4 . Our planet is an amazing place, but it needs our help to survive! By taking part in activities like planting trees and saving energy, we can make our world a happier and healthier place.
Plant a tree
Researchers estimate roughly 15 billion trees in the world are cut down each year. So help make up that loss by planting a tree of your own. Trees absorb CO2 and produce oxygen for us to breathe. They also provide shelter and food for animals. Depending on where trees are planted, their shade can even reduce the need for air-conditioning in hotter months.
Turn off the lights
Electricity doesn’t just happen.
Limit your water usage
It might seem like water is everywhere. But the fact is that less than one percent of the water on Earth can be used by humans.
Start a collection campaign for recyclable items. Talk to your friends and family members about what you’re doing and ask them to help. The more people do, the better off our planet will be!
| A．It is produced at a huge cost |
| B．Offer your time and spread the message |
| C．Can you share your wonderful ideas with us |
| D．How many more reasons do we need to go green |
| E．Get everyone together and reconnect with nature |
| F．The rest is either too salty or too difficult to access |
| G．Try to save energy by turning off the lights when you don’t need |
5 . Residents (居民) of South Asia already regularly experience heat waves at the current level of warming. But a new study in Geophysical Research Letters projecting the amount of heat stress residents of the region (地区) will experience in the future finds with 2℃ of warming, the population’s exposure to heat stress will increase by two times.
“The future looks bad for South Asia, but the worst can be avoided by containing warming to as low as possible,” said Moetasim Ashfaq, the corresponding author of the new study. “The need for adaptation over South Asia is today, not in the future. It’s not a choice anymore.”
Earth has warmed by 1℃ since the start of the Industrial Revolution, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It may reach 1.5℃ of warming in 2040. This deadline leaves little time for South Asian countries to adapt. “Only half a degree increase from today is going to cause a widespread increase in heat events,” Ashfaq said.
People living in South Asia are especially affected by deadly heat waves because the area already experiences particularly hot summers. Almost one quarter of the world’s population lives in South Asia. Much of the population live in populated cities without regular access to air conditioning, and about 60% perform agricultural work and can’t escape the heat by staying indoors.
Controlling warming to 1.5℃ will likely cut that exposure in half, but large numbers of people across South Asia will still experience extreme temperatures. An increase in heat events that create unsafe labor conditions is likely to occur in major crop producing regions in India, such as West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. Coastal regions and urban centers such as Karachi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Peshawar are also likely to be heavily affected, according to the study.
“Even at 1.5℃, South Asia will have serious consequences in terms of heat stress,” Ashfaq said. “That’s why there is a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (排放).”
1. What does Moetasim Ashfaq stress in paragraph 2?| A．The difficulty of controlling warming. |
| B．The way to cut exposure to heat stress. |
| C．The urgency of handling climate change. |
| D．The bright future for South Asian countries. |
| A．They’ve been suffering a lot from heat. | B．They’re actually poor at growing crops. |
| C．They generally live far from each other. | D．They have easy access to air conditioning. |
| A．It will harm crop production. | B．It will cut down labor demand. |
| C．It will cause more air pollution. | D．It will lead to crowding in cities. |
| A．It is not possible at all. | B．It is still far from enough. |
| C．It frees people from heat stress. | D．It helps to improve population. |
6 . A tree-planting initiative in Kenya has seen over 30,000 trees being planted. The Green Generation Initiative is a Kenyan charity that has been planting trees to counter climate change and the reduction in forest in the East African nation since 2016.
Founded by climate activist Elizabeth Wathuti when she was fifteen years old, the initiative’s primary focus is on developing young climate activists through environmental education in schools and addressing food insecurity in the region through planting fruit trees. Since its foundation, over 30,000 trees have been planted in Kenya, while thousands of school children have not just planted trees but adopted them to ensure that young people learn the importance of acting as a guardian over the health of the environment. The trees have recorded a survival rate of over 98 percent, as they remain tended to from young trees to maturity.
Speaking to world leaders at the recent United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow (COP26), Elizabeth issued a serious warning on the threat of climate change. Over two million of Kenyans are facing climate related starvation. In 2025, half of the world’s population will be facing water shortage. The climate crisis will displace 80 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone.
Elizabeth said, “I have been doing what I can. Inspired by the great Wangari Maathai, I founded a tree growing initiative that enhances food security for young Kenyans.” So far, they have grown 30,000 fruit trees to maturity, providing desperately needed nutrition for thousands of children. “Every day we see that when we look after the trees, they look after us. We are the adults on this Earth right now, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the children have food and water,” she added.
1. What is the initiative intended for?| A．Making policies. | B．Raising money. |
| C．Educating adults. | D．Fighting climate change. |
| A．Hunger. | B．Sickness | C．Water shortage. | D．Economic risks. |
| A．3,000 trees have been planted. |
| B．Green awareness has been raised. |
| C．80 million people have been saved. |
| D．School education has been guaranteed. |
| A．Friendly and talented. | B．Caring and responsible. |
| C．Honest and determined. | D．Ambitious and humorous. |
7 . Thirty years ago, Switzerland-based artist Klaus Littmann came across a great drawing, titled The Unending Attraction of Nature. The drawing, by Austrian artist and architect Max Peintner, displays a scene in which nature is so detached (独立的) from the environment that it becomes just a small piece, preserved for amusement. Given that we are now losing 18. 7 million acres of forests each year, Peintner’s drawing was prescient (有预见性的), to say the least.
“When I first saw the pencil drawing, I was fascinated. I knew that one day this work would be the starting point for a major art project in public space,” says Littmann.
Now, decades later, Littmann has achieved the vision with the installation (安装) of FOR FOREST: The Unending of Nature. The installation sets a native central European forest in the middle of Worthersee Football Stadium in Klagenfurt. With nearly 300 trees planted, some weighing up to six tons each, it is Austria’s largest public art installation.
In the face of climate crisis and deforestation, FOR FOREST comes with the more pressing urgency. As explained in a statement about the installation: “In support of today’s most pressing issues of climate change and deforestation, FOR FOREST aims to challenge our understanding of nature and question its future. It seeks to become a memorial, reminding us that nature, which we so often take for granted, may someday only be found in special spaces, as is already the case with animals in zoos.”
The actual creation of the man-made forest was managed by landscape architect Enzo Enea and his company, Enea Landscape Architecture. It includes many kinds of trees. Having opened on September 8, it attracts surprised and happy creatures to the field. Regretfully, the installation will close soon. In a short video about the work, Littmann says his goal was never to make something that would last forever; rather, he says, “My goal is for this picture to remain in people’s heads for a lifetime.”
1. How did Littmann get the inspiration for his later artistic creation?| A．From a video. | B．Through social media. |
| C．From a drawing. | D．Via the Internet. |
| A．It offers new ways to tackle the climate crisis. |
| B．It warns people of environmental issues. |
| C．It shows the uncertainty of the future. |
| D．It will be Austria’s largest artistic work. |
| A．It won’t last for a long time. |
| B．It was made and managed by Littmann. |
| C．It didn’t attract much interest. |
| D．It includes some special animals. |
| A．A large painting is installed in a stadium. |
| B．An artist seeks to create nature-themed works. |
| C．A painting is used for environmental purposes. |
| D．An artist plants a living forest in a stadium. |
8 . In one San Francisco neighborhood, trouble appeared for the newspaper delivery man when his papers started going missing. He started getting calls from upset clients that their paper wasn’t being delivered, but he knew full well he had delivered one to their doorstep. Shortly after the calls began, he discovered something completely unexpected. He watched as the neighborhood coyote (郊狼) played with a newspaper on a grassy hillside. He videoed her throwing the paper in the air, sliding down the hillside on it, and running around with pages. It turns out she was repeatedly stealing papers off certain porches (门廊) shortly after he delivered them, just to play!
It’s common to hear about residents running into conflicts with urban coyotes in America. Usually it’s because of run-ins with pets, or coyotes too close around people in parks or yards. But this time the conflict arises for a more surprising reason.
Rather than getting mad, the delivery man’s solution was to throw out a paper just for her, launching it onto the grassy hillside she frequented (常出入于) before she had a chance to bite one from a front porch. She had her morning toy, and he stayed out of trouble with his clients.
I met the delivery man by chance early one morning while watching the coyote, and I listened to his story. To prove its truth — and maintain the morning ritual (惯例) — the delivery man threw a paper out on the grass. Sure enough, the coyote came running down the hill to play with it.
San Francisco’s coyotes are only just now being studied, and a small population living in the Presidio has been monitored. Many other cities also have new or ongoing studies of urban coyotes. As the clever animals become permanent residents of cities across the continent, learning more about them is a critical step in finding solutions to coexisting with them. For one newspaper man, at least, that coexistence comes at an affordable price: an extra copy of the daily newspaper.
1. What happened to the delivery man?| A．He got fewer newspaper orders. |
| B．He was attacked by an urban coyote. |
| C．He got complaints about missing papers. |
| D．He showed great interest in urban coyotes. |
| A．They are easy to get close to. |
| B．They often live far from people. |
| C．They cause great harm to people. |
| D．They’ve been seen a lot around the city. |
| A．his love for his job |
| B．his care for the coyote |
| C．his trouble brought by the coyote |
| D．his success in solving the problem |
| A．We should learn to live together with animals. |
| B．We should drive the animals out of the city. |
| C．We should train and control animals. |
| D．We should monitor animals closely. |
9 . Island Getaways
Beautiful beaches, rich cultures and untouched pockets of wilderness are just a few attractive characteristics of the best island vacations. Each of the islands listed here has something extra that keeps travelers charmed.
Principe
West of Africa's mainland, small Principe offers blue seas, yellow beaches, jungle peaks, whale-watching with received plantations to visit and locals to meet. Pleasant eco-resorts help, too. Principe is amazingly safe and welcoming to visitors, particularly ecotourists, for whom the advancing jungle is a delight.
Bryher
The handsomest of the Isles of Scilly, 25 miles from Land's End, Bryher accompanies rose gardens with a windy wild coastal path. You can follow the coastal path visiting the charming beaches including Rushy Bay which is a must with fine white sand and clear waler. You can also take a hike up one of the hills to enjoy amazing views across Scilly and out to a Bishop Rock Lighthouse witnessing the past glory.
Astypalea
Butterfly-shaped Astypalea, an unspoilt Greek island, which banned cigarettes in 2019. Pretty yellow beaches as well as churches in the math town. Chora Chora, the island's capital, built on a hill with a breathtaking view of the Aegean Sen. On the top of the hill overlooking the village, sits Querini castle which used to protect the island during the Middle Ages, but now it is the main attraction of Astypalea.
Dominica
Commonly known as The Nature Island, Dominica sticks out up from the shiny waters of the Caribbean to serve as a fairy land for travelers seeking thrills in a place that lime has forgotten. The best-kept secrets of the Caribbean arc lush rainforests, towering mountains, rushing rivers and welcoming waterfalls with volcanic wonders adding unique beauty to Dominica.
1. Which is a perfect destination for those who are interested in ecotourism?| A．Bryher. | B．Principe. | C．Astypalea. | D．Dominica. |
| A．They have historic buildings. | B．They're famous for rose gardens. |
| C．They look like a butterfly. | D．They're surrounded by white beaches. |
| A．Towering mountains. | B．Rushing rivers. |
| C．Welcoming waterfalls. | D．Volcanic wonders. |
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Most birds nest during the spring and early summer of each year. They raise their babies in quite a short time. They lay the eggs, and then keep them warm for three to four weeks. After they hatch, many young birds learn to fly in
