1 . 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。

With about half of the vast country covered in wilderness, China is the world’s third most species-rich country. Therefore, China’s     1    (achieve) in biodiversity conservation and wilderness protection are important to the future of global biodiversity conservation.

The vital biodiversity,     2    (combine) with a large population, has led the government to reconsider its protected area system and transform some wilderness areas such as the rainforest in Hainan     3    formal national parks. The new national park system will make it more practical     4    (preserve) habitats and species. The aim is to preserve biodiversity and ensure a     5    (harmony) relation between humans and nature.

The national parks cross China’s vast ecosystems, from the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in the south     6    the Hainan gibbon—a critically endangered species lives, the Giant Panda National Park, the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, the Wuyi Mountain National Park to the Sanjiangyuan National Park on the Qinghai-Tibet Platau—    7    source of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Lancang River. The diversity of species and habitats under protection     8    (reflect) in these parks’ names.

The national parks are open to all. Visitors can make reservations online in advance     9    book on the spot. They should acquire a little local knowledge to get     10     (they) ready for the amazing trip and maximize their enjoyment.

2 . Pigs may have a decided lack of table manners, but they are otherwise one of the more intelligent animals around.

Further evidence of their intellect has come from a new study that examined how well pigs might do with a simple video game and joystick. Given sufficient motivation, pigs know how to play.

Candace Croney of Purdue University published the results in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Four pigs — Hamlet, Omelet, Ebony, and Ivory were taken in front of a screen that featured a simple game where a cursor (光标) could be directed into a wall with a joystick. If the pig was able to hit the wall with the cursor, they’d be rewarded with food.

All of the pigs had some success, but there was a clear difference in skill. Two of the pigs, Hamlet and Omelet, found the game’s increasing difficulty with two or more walls hard to navigate (指引). Ivory was clearly better than Ebony, hitting the wall 76 percent of the time to Ebony’s 34 percent.

Their success may have been restricted somewhat by their long mouth. Because their long mouths are right in front of their eyes when they look directly at the screen. They may have caught glimpses of the screen only before and after moving the joystick, not during. That could mean the pigs had to rely on some short-term memory to understand the movement of the cursor.

Curiously, the pigs continued playing even after the food reward was taken away. Researchers gave them gentle verbal encouragement to continue.

This isn’t Croney’s first study with pigs. Back in 1997, she focused her doctoral work on pig cognizance (认知), including a task in which pigs used a joystick to move one of several shapes across the screen to fit the single shape that matched it. Such experiments demonstrate that pigs appear to understand the connection between moving the joystick and the cursor, and that doing so successfully results in a reward.

1. What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A．What pigs can learn.	B．Why pigs are intelligent.
C．How the study is conducted.	D．Why researchers do the study.

2. Why do the pigs fail to see the cursor while moving the joystick?

A．Their long mouths block the view.

B．The joystick is far from the screen.

C．The cursor only appears after moving the joystick.

D．They concentrate on the movements of the joystick.

3. What do we know about pigs from this text?

A．They are interested in food.

B．They are intelligent in some ways.

C．They are equally skilled at playing games.

D．They don’t play games without food.

4. What is the best title of this text?

A．Pigs Lack Table Manners

B．Pigs Have Good Memories

C．Pigs Can Be Taught to Play Video Games

D．Pigs Are More Intelligent than Other Animals

3 . Meredith J. Eberhart completed the 2, 190-plus mile Appalachian Trail on Sunday, becoming the oldest person to hold the honor.

Eberhart has probably hiked over 50,000 miles in his life though he doesn’t keep track. The 83-year-old man started walking when he retired more than 25 years ago, and never stopped.

Eberhart started the 261-day, 15-state trip back in February, with the goal of beating previous record holder Dale “Greybeard”Sanders, who finished the entire Appalachian Trail at the age of 82 in 2017. The trail covers over 2,190 miles from Springer Mountain, Georgia, all the way to Mount Katahdin, Maine. However, Eberhart began his journey far from the trail, at his home in Flagg Mountain, Alabama. That added hundreds of extra miles to the route. But Eberhart wasn’t worried about that. He once hiked 4,400 miles from the Florida Keys to Northern Quebec, and another time from Chicago to California on Route 66.

Eberhart admitted that he was feeling his age and the trail got tough at points, even for an experienced hiker like himself. He fell a few times on slippery rocks, and at one point he got his elbow scratched. However, the accidents didn’t stop him.“I’ve got a couple of injuries on me, but I’m okay,”he said.“You’ve got to have incredible determination to do this.”

Eberhart hiked the trail out of order in sections so he could complete each part in fine weather. Mindful of his age, Eberhart walked at a rate of no more than eight hours each day. He finished his journey in Massachusetts, where he celebrated with champagne wine and friends. And while some people think this will be his last hike, Eberhart seems to strongly disagree.

1. What set Eberhart apart from other Appalachian Trail hikers?

A．The maximum age.

B．The longest distance.

C．The minimum time.

D．The steepest trail.

2. Which word best describes Eberhart’s journey on the Appalachian Trail?

A．Relaxing.

B．Challenging.

C．Pleasing.

D．Appealing.

3. Why did Eberhart hike the trails in random sections?

A．To conserve his energy.	B．To catch up with other hikers.
C．To make use of good weather.	D．To avoid getting injured.

4. What can we learn from Eberhart’s success?

A．Life lies in movement.	B．All roads lead to Rome.
C．He who laughs last laughs longest.	D．It’s never too late to go after dreams.

4 . 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。

A new way to restore Earth’s biodiversity—from the air

Every year, humans change 10 million hectares of land, and not for the better. Right now, there is     1     much damaged land around the world that we need to fix this fast. Fortunately, technology can help. Restoration is     2     enormous, complex challenge. It cannot be done by     3     ( simple ) planting trees. We need to bring native ecosystems back     4     life, which requires deep     5     ( ecology ) expertise. Until now, we have been limited to poor copies, like vast plantations of a single kind of tree.

But drones (无人机) change that by allowing us     6     ( gather ) data and plant the right mix of vegetation (植被) quickly. And the machine-learning     7     ( analyze ) enables us to monitor our restoration work. For example, in Australia, we’re using drone - based planting and ecology - trained AI to restore thousands of hectares of land mined for coal. Many native forests here in Australia     8     ( destroy ) by catastrophic bushfires over the last few years. This means reduced food sources and safe habitats for koalas. A new project will accelerate the restoration of thousands of hectares of koala forests.

With these technologies     9     ( combine ), we’re able to expand restoration from a small island to an entire continent. We can return forests to land     10     a mine used to be, or recreate ecosystems like the one we’re hoping to restore on Lord Howe Island.

5 . 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。

My personal relationship with Steve began when I was an 18-year-old college student. As I was a great lover of fruits, I often went to the Davis Farmers Market in California’s Central Valley to buy fresh fruits. At the market I could come face to face with some of the highest quality fruit on the planet and the experts who grew it. Once when I was there, I saw a man shouting, loud and excited, and I realized he was shouting at me, demanding I try his peaches.

That was how I got to know Steve, a fruit farmer who was selling wonderful peaches grown on his own farm. We had a chat about fruits and we felt like friends. Steve invited me to work part-time on his farm and I agreed. I would pick, prune (修剪), and run after birds, and I was paid in cash and fruit. About a year later my roommate observed that I might be addicted to fruit. I’d regularly come home from Steve’s farm with dozens of pounds of peaches, cherries, and apples.

When I was to graduate, Steve offered me a full-time job to drive a truck and sell fruit at Northern California farmers’ markets. But I turned him down. I wanted to be a news reporter.

While working as a reporter, I happened to read in an old book that Fairchild, a late 19th-century food spy, traveled the world to find crops that didn’t exist in the U.S. He was the man who brought America its first avocados, kale, and mangoes, and he helped to get the famous cherry blossom trees in Washington D.C. For three years I combed Fairchild’s diaries and his travel journals. And I sat up all night reading his century-old writings.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
These writings got me thinking about Steve and the fruit trees on the farm.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last summer, I went to spend a couple of days on the farm.
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6 . People depend on insects to pollinate the plants that make many of the fruits, nuts and vegetables we eat. Past studies had shown urban air pollution might veil the smells insects use to find flowers. Computer models predicted this would cause problems for insects, seeking flowers for a meal. But scientists weren’t sure that would happen in real life.

James Ryalls, a biologist, and his team decided to find out if it would. Working in a field, his group crafted a system made up of large rings. Each area was open, so nearby insects could fly into it. The researchers pumped pollutant gases into these rings. Then during each field season, the scientists recorded how many times pollinators visited the flowers in each ring.

“The results were much more severe than we thought,” Ryalls says. Adding pollution “caused up to 90 percent fewer insects to be able to find the flowers that they need for food,” he says. This was in comparison to the pollutant-free rings. In some cases, only some 30 percent of the pollinating insects even entered the circles with polluted gases.

Counting insects proved easier than getting the pollution into the rings, notes Ryalls. He spent much of his time working on parts of the system that needed fixing. Along the way, gas spills occurred. “By the end of each summer experiment I smelt like a petrol station,” he says. One effect: “Insects now avoid me.”

Later, they counted seed pods on the plants. Overall, only around seven in every 10 flowers had been pollinated. That means there were far fewer seeds in polluted circles. If these were fruit or vegetable plants, there would have been far less food produced.

This study focused on insects finding flowers. But insects also use smells for communication and attracting mates. If air pollution covers those smells too, these tiny animals might face more threats to their survival.

1. What does the underlined word “veil” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Add.

B．Mask.

C．Release.

D．Form.

2. What did scientists do in the experiment?

A．They counted insect visits to flowers.	B．They studied different polluted gases.
C．They drove some insects into the rings.	D．They pollinated flowers by themselves.

3. What is the finding of Ryalls’ experiment?

A．Pollution can result in fewer flowers.	B．Insects are afraid of the rings in the field.
C．Insects struggle to find flowers in polluted air.	D．Plant flowers depend on insects to pollinate.

4. What is most probably talked about in the next paragraph?

A．The aim of the study.	B．Ways to help pollinators.
C．Insects’ various survival skills.	D．Insects’ means of communication.

7 . 55-year-old Michael Smith spotted an injured baby bird lying on the roadside as he cycled home one evening in May. He picked up the tiny bird, now named Patch, and took him home, where he made him a little nest and fed him boiled eggs. Now he has recovered and is about 16 weeks old. Patch has spread his wings, but comes back to his rescuer when Michael calls.

Bird and man have such a close relationship that Patch gives his friend little beaky kisses and hitches lifts (搭便车) on his bike rides and walks. Michael loves Patch so much that he even slept in the open air one night when his feathered friend didn’t come out of a tree.

Michael, an ex-builder from Malvern in Worcestershire, said, “I love nature and animals, so I couldn’t leave him injured in the wild. He’s like my best friend now, and I spend as much time with him as possible. He is the talk of the town, and if I am not with him, everyone is asking after him.”

Michael thought Patch, who he thinks is a boy, had been attacked by another animal when he found him with a broken wing. After living in an old pigeon box Michael got from a friend, and being fed boiled eggs, bread and milk, Patch took four weeks to recover the use of his wing. Michael still feeds Patch worms, and fruit like cherries and grapes, but the now-recovered bird catches moths for himself.

Patch lives in a nest that Michael built in the garden, but comes in for playmates and occasional sleepovers (在外过夜) in the house Michael shares with his 78-year-old mother Mary.

Michael said, “People call me the bird whisper, or birdman of Malvern. It came quite naturally to me. And I remember all these tales I’ve heard about people rescuing birds and forming a bond. I was quite well known around here but I am even more so now: it’s a lovely thing to be known for it. Having him is such a lovely thing to happen.”

1. How did Michael Smith treat Patch after finding him lying on the road?

A．He brought him home and fed him.

B．He handed him to a relevant department.

C．He did an operation on his wings by himself.

D．He had its wings treated in a pet hospital.

2. Why did Michael sleep in the open air one night?

A．Patch was left injured in the nest.

B．He wanted to find Patch and take hold of him.

C．Patch sat in a tree and didn’t visit him.

D．He found Patch had spread his wings and flown away.

3. What is the main idea of the fourth paragraph?

A．How Patch was attacked by another animal.

B．How Michael helped Patch get well again.

C．How Patch managed to catch moths for himself.

D．How Michael found a pigeon box for Patch to live in.

4. What can we learn about Michael from the text?

A．He lives with his mother who is old.

B．He hates it when Patch gives him a kiss.

C．He asked somebody to make a nest for Patch.

D．He is a construction worker and will retire soon.

8 . Dogs need regular exercise to stay healthy and to stop them from getting bored. But the amount of time dogs need outdoors varies based on their age, size and breed.

Based on their age

While puppies are often bundles of energy, it is important not to over-exercise young dogs. A good rule of thumb for puppies is that they should enjoy five minutes of a movement twice a day per month of their age; so, for example, if your puppy is 12 weeks old, keep walks or play sessions to around 15 minutes each.

Elderly dogs may struggle to take long walks, but should still be given the opportunity to go outside and move around at their own pace at least twice daily.

Based on their size

All dogs should be let outside for exercise twice a day, but how intense that exercise should be depends, partly, on the size of the dog. Larger breeds need more space to wander around so, in addition to regular play in the house or garden.

Smaller dogs often require less space of a workout, so letting them out for a runaround, in addition to their daily walk, can be an appropriate form of exercise.

Based on their breed

Some breeds, such as border collies, springer spaniels, German shepherds and Siberian huskies, have been bred as “working dogs”, so are suited to covering long distances. Dogs such as labradors and poodles have bundles of energy, so they are also great companions for a long walk.

Brachycephalic breeds, such as pugs or bulldogs, are more likely to struggle with intense exercise. For these breeds, two shorter walks each day may be the best option; make sure to incorporate some rest breaks, and plenty of drinking opportunities, too.

1. How long exercise is suitable for a 4-month-old puppy?

A．10 minutes.

B．15 minutes.

C．20 minutes.

D．25 minutes.

2. What might be the major concern in terms of the dogs of different sizes?

A．Location.

B．Time.

C．Space.

D．Frequency.

3. Which of the following breeds is suited to workouts of low intensity?

A．Labradors.

B．Bulldogs.

C．German shepherds.

D．Siberian huskies.

9 . My love for animals began through watching wildlife documentaries when I was a kid. I went on to ________ Environmental Science at university, and became ________ in marine biology when I did my PhD. at the University of Hong Kong. That’s when I ________ that there was a possibility to do more for Hong Kong.

I was very lucky to ________ Ms. Claire Nouvian when I graduated from my PhD. in 2009. At that time, Claire was ________ another non-profit organization, BLOOM Hong Kong, after founding the Bloom Association in France a few years before, and she hired me to work on ________ marine conservation. We do this mainly by being research focused, arousing public ________, and trying to fill knowledge ________. We then share our information with frontline officer, such as fishery managers and customs officers, to help them ________ how important their role is in implementing (贯彻执行) regulations to the wildlife trade, and ________ suggestions on how to make implementation work more ________.

We are sill a city in love with ________ and Hong Kong has the second highest annual seafood ________ in Asia — but consumers are ________ aware of where their seafood comes from and which species are ________.

With the marine ecosystem already ________, the greatest threat is continued ignorance and inaction. We humans have been a ________ part of the problem, but now it is time for us to show that we can also be a part of the ________. If each person around us ________ their part — even for just one meal a day Hong Kong would already be on its way to making considerable ________ towards sustainable seafood consumption.

1.

A．appreciate

B．choose

C．study

D．observe

2.

A．interested

B．skilled

C．careful

D．experienced

3.

A．swore

B．realized

C．witnessed

D．admitted

4.

A．meet

B．help

C．accompany

D．obey

5.

A．looking into

B．leaving for

C．working for

D．setting up

6.

A．reforming

B．promoting

C．changing

D．assessing

7.

A．response

B．memory

C．concern

D．worry

8.

A．funds

B．forms

C．levels

D．gaps

9.

A．understand

B．consider

C．inform

D．announce

10.

A．ask

B．hear

C．accept

D．offer

11.

A．cautious

B．private

C．efficient

D．admirable

12.

A．wildlife

B．seafood

C．trade

D．health

13.

A．distribution

B．consumption

C．occupation

D．donation

14.

A．hardly

B．simply

C．exactly

D．fully

15.

A．adopted

B．rejected

C．processed

D．threatened

16.

A．reliable

B．hopeless

C．fragile

D．promising

17.

A．unique

B．significant

C．useless

D．conservative

18.

A．solution

B．conclusion

C．procedure

D．development

19.

A．votes

B．sorts

C．plays

D．limits

20.

A．profits

B．connection

C．mistakes

D．progress

10 . As the family of 16 Asian elephants started moving north, no one knew where they were heading, or why. At first, no one thought much about it. Elephants sometimes disappear beyond Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province, but they always return.

    1    . During 16 months the elephants walked 300 miles north to Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan Province. Along the way, they robbed the crops and blocked the traffic, causing about a half million dollars in damage, and there was the risk of an elephant attacking a curious onlooker.     2    . The simple answer would be to calm the giant mammals and transport them back to the reserve.

But that would be risky for this group, especially for the three baby elephants. Instead, officials mobilized (动员) an emergency task force to keep everyone, elephants and humans alike, safe. Drones tracked the elephants’ every move. Electric fences, road barriers, and new pathways helped them move toward safer routes. Tons of corn, pineapples, and bananas were used to trick them away from towns.     3    .

Some might argue that doing so much to keep a family of elephants safe was wasteful. But conserving our natural and human heritage is about encouraging good in the world.     4    , just as we need health and peace. They’re essential parts of the world where our lives take place, and they help us make sense of our own stories. They provide the context for our existence.     5    .

A．They have become global celebrities

B．They’re our past, present, and future

C．We need wildlife and ancient artifacts

D．Things, however, are different this time

E．Thousands of people volunteered to join the force

F．They presented a problem for government officials

G．These measures involved lots of manpower and resources