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文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了2023年11月,作者和家人朋友划皮划艇去看鲸鱼并遇到危险的经历。

1 . My husband and I live near San Luis Obispo, California, close to the beach. In November 2023, during the humpback whale migration, we kayaked (划皮划艇) out to watch the wildlife. We were in awe watching these graceful whales breach and spray through their blowholes.

At the time, my friend Liz was staying with us. Initially, she refused to join us on the water, fearing the kayak would overturn among the whales. After some cajoling (劝说) she finally agreed to join me. The following morning, we set out early and had our first whale sighting just past the pier: two humpbacks swimming toward us. How amazing to be that close to a creature that size, I thought as the whales dipped under the waterline.

When whales go down after breaching, they leave what looks like an oil slick on the water. I figured if we paddled toward that spot, we’d be safe from the whales, since they’d just left. We followed them at a distance — or what I thought was a distance. I later found out that it’s recommended to keep 300 feet away. We were more like 60 feet away.

Suddenly, we were surrounded by jumping silverfish fleeing from the whales. Before we could react, our kayak was lifted out of the water about six feet, bracketed by massive jaws. Liz and I slipped out of the kayak into the whale’s mouth. As the whale’s mouth closed, I felt the creature begin to dive and had no idea how deep we’d be dragged. Still, I didn’t panic. I just kept thinking. I’ve got to fight this. I’ve got to breathe.

Whales have enormous mouths but tiny throats. Anything they can’t swallow they spit right out. That included us. As soon as the whale dipped underwater, it ejected us, and we popped back up onto the surface about a foot apart. The entire ordeal lasted only about 10 seconds.

Other kayakers rushed to our aid, shocked to see us alive. But I am much more aware of the power of nature and the ocean than I was before. Liz was shaken up, comparing the ordeal to a near-death experience, and she says her whale-watching days are over. But even she had to laugh when she got home that afternoon and realized she’d brought back a souvenir. When she pulled off her shirt, six silverfish flopped out.

1. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.At first, Liz was hesitant to go on the kayaking trip because she was not interested in whale watching.
B.If Liz and I had maintained a distance of 300 feet from the whales, we might have avoided the subsequent danger.
C.Liz and I slipped into the whale’s mouth because jumping silverfish overturned our kayak.
D.Liz is likely to go on another whale-watching trip someday because she found a precious souvenir from this kayaking.
2. How did the narrator feel during the whale encounter?
A.Terrified and panicked.B.Disoriented underwater
C.Calm and focused.D.Regretful about going kayaking.
3. The underlined word “ordeal” in Paragraph 5 probably means____.
A.a challenging or difficult experienceB.a thrilling experience
C.a surprising encounterD.a joyful adventure
4. What would be the best title of this passage?
A.How to Survive a Whale AttackB.Respecting the Power of Nature
C.A Day at San Luis Obispo BeachD.I Survived Being Swallowed By a Whale
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文章大意:本文是一篇说明文。文章主要详细介绍了韩文公祠的地理位置、建筑特点、历史背景以及与韩愈相关的故事和传说。

2 . Hanwengong Shrine

Now we come to Hanwengong Shrine, which is beside Hangjiang river and west of Bijia mountain.     1     In the square in front of the hall, an ancient book-shaped stone is carved with two famous sayings of Han Yu on it, meaning hard work is the precondition for success, and deep thought is the guarantee of success.

In the year of A.D. 819, for some political reason, Han Yu was exiled (流放) to Chaozhou, a backland at that time. But he was not depressed by this, and he helped local people to develop education, agriculture, irrigation and release slaves.     2    

The shrine was built against the mountain and divided into two parts, the front part and the back part. Now we play a small game: count the stone steps, and later I’ll tell you a secret. How many steps are there? Yes, 51 steps! Why?     3     The first time Han Yu came to Chaozhou, he was impressed by the beautiful scenery and hospitality of local people. You see that old tree? People say the more flowers in the tree, the more well-educated students are. But in Qing Dynasty, this magic tree, planted by Han Yu himself, died, so people planted this tree instead.

    4     Here is one: when Han Yu was living in Chaozhou, there was a very fierce and cruel crocodile in the Hanjiang river, which was a big social harm. One day, Han Yu drafted a statement against the crocodile and made it public by the river. Incredibly, from the next day on, the crocodile was gone. Later, the statue, made of a portrait of Han Yu, was built and his words were left on the monument to mark his achievements.

A.When Han Yu came to Chaozhou, he was 51 years old.
B.Han Yu was a Confucian figure, and there are many stories about him in Chaozhou.
C.Although Han Yu’s ideas had no obvious practical effect at the time, they had a great impact on society decades later.
D.Built in the Song dynasty, the shrine is the oldest and best preserved monument to Han Yu, one of the greatest literary men in the Tang dynasty.
E.To memorize what he had contributed to the development of Chaozhou, people constructed this shrine and named him Hanwengong respectfully.
F.There are so many tourists that, to relieve the pressure on the monuments, the scenic spot requires that a maximum of 500 people visit at a time.
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文章大意:这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了南极旅游正在变得流行,但也引发了环境问题。

3 . Antarctic Tourism: Should We Just Say No?

More people are visiting Antarctic, the frozen continent than ever before.     1     This has brought a new urgency to the question of how much, if any, tourism should be allowed on the icy continent.

The distance most visitors travel to reach Antarctica makes carbon emissions a serious problem.     2     One study calculated that each tourist between 2016 and 2020 was effectively melting around 83 tonnes of snow, due largely to emissions from vacation ships.

    3     The Antarctic Treaty, established in 1961 to provide governance for the continent, operates on a consultative basis, which means all 56 parties have to agree before a change can be put into action. The last major decision on tourism was a measure passed in 2009 that prohibits vacation ships carrying more than 500 passengers from making landings. That regulation has still not officially been carried out as not every signatory country has accepted it domestically.

There is clear agreement that something needs to change, but no agreement on what those changes should be.     4    

A.The number of visitors hit 100,000 for the first time this tourist season, a 40% jump over the previous record.
B.The Antarctic is at risk not just because of the breakability of its environment, but due to the lack of a single governing body.
C.Should landings be made at a larger number of sites for instance, or should we aim to keep the human footprint as small as possible?
D.If what you really want is to connect with snow and ice and you’re in the northern half, can you catch a train to the nearest snow region instead?
E.The average per-person carbon emissions for an Antarctic tourist are 3.76 tonnes – about the total sum that an individual typically generates in an entire year.
F.There is so little regulation now that almost anything that will protect the areas by an official legal source rather than self-regulated would be really positive.
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文章大意:这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者在儿子去世后开始攀登山峰,攀登的过程让作者了解到生活中可以既悲伤又快乐,重要的是与自己和平相处。

4 . My son, Ben, died when he was 23. The year after his death, I hiked 48 of the state’s tallest mountains in his memory. Every step, path and peak has been a way to restore.

About a month after his death, my husband and I hiked Carter Dome and Mount Hight, sorrow weighing heavy in our hearts and legs. Standing on the peak, I looked out across the mountains my son loved. For a moment, the heavy blow brought about by Ben’s death faded into the timeless expanse, and I could breathe.

The next weekend found us on Mount Moosilauke. Then Mount Cannon, Mount Flume, Mount Liberty and so on. It was a series of firsts, of struggles and overcoming them — climbing at night, climbing slides and rocks, camping alone, finding paths and planning routes.

Six days before the anniversary of Ben’s death, I hiked my 48th and final peak: Mount Carrigain. As I stood on the observation platform at the peak, I found the essential truth I had been grasping to express for months: The only place that feels vast enough to hold sorrow this deep and wide is the top of a mountain, looking out into forever.

These days, I hike not to hide, but to seek. I find Ben, but I also find myself: someone broken, now braver and more capable. The forced isolation of sorrow becomes the welcome loneliness of the path; the peace of nature replaces the pain of loss. Hiking is both exhausting and exciting, and it teaches us that sorrow and joy can coexist.

But there’s another, possibly more important truth: A hike is not the only way to find the peace of the natural world; a simple walk along a park path can have a similar effect. The internal journey of sorrow mixes with our steps, and we find comfort along the way.

1. How did the writer feel after climbing Carter Dome and Mount Hight?
A.Doubtful.B.Relieved.C.Sad.D.Terrified.
2. After hiking the 48 peaks, the writer learned that __________.
A.it was possible to live with both sorrow and joy
B.it was the isolation of sorrow that exhausted her
C.only by overcoming struggles could one survive
D.the peaks were proper places to remember someone
3. What does the writer imply in the last paragraph?
A.Walking works best for those in sorrow.B.We can plan our internal journey as intended.
C.What counts is to make peace with ourselves.D.People tend to hike in parks to seek comfort.
4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.The Heavy Steps That Led Me To PeaksB.The Mountains That Held My Sorrow
C.The Journeys That Frustrated MeD.The First Struggles That Empowered Me
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文章大意:本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了微引力透镜效应的概念、天文学家通过这一技术寻找黑洞的过程,以及不同团队在估计潜在黑洞质量时产生的差异。

5 . The emergence of black holes undoubtedly marks the beginning of a revolution. Black holes have many peculiar properties, such as the alteration of space and time, the radiation of gravitational waves and so on. Scientists are still trying to study the properties and evolution of black holes in order to better understand the origin and evolution of the universe.

Recently, a team of astronomers may have found a solo-wandering black hole using a strange trick of gravity called microlensing (微透镜效应), but the results still have to be confirmed.

Sometimes it’s tough being an astronomer. Nature likes to hide the most interesting things from easy observation. Take, for example, black holes. Except for the strange quantum (量子) phenomenon of Hawking radiation, black holes are completely black. They don’t emit a single bit of radiation – they only absorb, hence their name.

To date, the only way astronomers have been able to spot black holes is through their influence on their environments. For example, if an orbiting star gets a little too close, the black hole can absorb the gas from that star, causing it to heat up as it falls. We can watch as stars dance around the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Even the famed pictures of the black holes in the center of the Milky Way and the M87 galaxy(星系) aren’t photographs of the black holes themselves. Instead, they are radio images of everything around them.

But surely not all black holes have other light-emitting objects around them to help us find them. To find these wanderers, astronomers have tried their luck with microlensing. We know that heavy objects can bend the path of light around them. This is a prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, and the slight bending of starlight around our own sun was one of the first successful tests of the theory.

Microlensing is pretty much what the name suggests. When astronomers get extremely lucky, a wandering black hole and pass between us and a random distant star. The light from that star bends around the black hole because of its gravity, and from our point of view, the star will appear to temporarily flare in brightness.

And when I say “extremely lucky” I mean it. Despite trying this technique for over a decade, it is only now that astronomers have found a candidate black hole through microlensing. Two teams used the same data, a microlensing event recorded from both the OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) telescope in Chile and the MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics) telescope in New Zealand. One team found that the mass was somewhere around seven times the mass of the sun – definitely black hole territory. But the other team estimated a much smaller mass, around 2-4 times the mass of the Sun. If the true mass of the object is at the lower end of that spectrum (光谱), then the wanderer is probably not a black hole.

1. Why does the author say it is hard to be an astronomer?
A.Einstein’s theory is hard to understand.
B.Many things in nature are not easy to observe.
C.Understanding the evolution of the universe is not easy.
D.Whether the black hole has been found remains to be seen.
2. What is the example in Para. 4 trying to prove?
A.Stars’ wandering in black holes.
B.Black holes’ absorbing the star’s gas.
C.The relationship between stars’ heating and black holes.
D.Finding black holes by observing environmental changes.
3. What does the author tell us about the discovery of black holes?
A.People can often find black holes with glowing objects.
B.Research groups can work together to find black holes.
C.Glowing objects around black holes help us find them sometimes.
D.Understanding the properties of black holes helps find them.
4. What conclusion can we draw from the last paragraph?
A.To persevere in the end is to win.
B.Facts speak louder than words.
C.Failure is the mother of success.
D.Things are not always what they seem.
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文章大意:本文为一篇说明文,介绍了在水资源短缺的地区可以通过雨水收集来获得水资源。

6 . Rain Collection

What do you like to do on a rainy day —sit inside and listen to the pitter-patter on the roof or splash outside and feel the cold drops on your face? Whatever you choose, rain is vitally essential in the nature.

    1     It fills rivers and lakes, slowly sinks into the earth, nourishes our plants, and keeps the land alive and beautiful. In the past, people obtained their water from rain, wells, or nearby rivers. Now, many of us live in places where water is piped in, sometimes from far away. Removing so much water from nature and sending it to great distances harm the living things that also need that water.

As climate change heats up the planet and causes extreme weather, more places face water shortages.     2     . One easy place to look for more water is the sky!

Humans have collected rain since ancient times.     3    . They are tapping into this clean and rich source of water provided by nature. By harvesting the rain we can reduce the amount of water we take from rivers and out of the ground.

Even in dry climates, there is a lot of potential rainwater that can be effectively harvested and utilized. This rich yet often overlooked resource has the potential to significantly contribute to water conservation efforts, especially in regions facing water shortages. Just one inch of rain falling on a medium-sized house produces over 600 gallons of water.    4    .

Nowadays, rainwater is still used as a primary supply in many places in the world, like Vietnam and Hawaii. In places with piped-in water, rainwater is not commonly used, but this is changing. Rainwater harvesting is getting more popular since it’s easy to do and helps create water security.

A.Large roofs can, hence, collect greater amount of water.
B.Rainwater can also be used for fountains and ponds.
C.We all deeply depend on the nourishment of rain.
D.To secure future water supply, we need new sources.
E.Now, many people are returning to this practice.
F.Rainwater is clean but it gets dirty from the roof.
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文章大意:这是一篇说明文。托尼·克莱文杰一生中大部分时间都在研究班夫野生动物穿越结构的性能,文章对这个项目进行了说明。
7 .

From a distance, the grey cement bridge looks unremarkable. Two tunnels on either side of the Trans-Canada Highway are in semi-circles that end bluntly on the pavement below. But on top, away from passing motorists’ eyes, lies a grassy oasis. Against the odds, pine trees and wildflowers have taken root here, giving the overpass a fringe of greenery. On the edges, wire fencing provides safe passage for wandering animals.

Tony Clevenger has dedicated much of his life to studying the performance of Banff’s wildlife crossing structures. When the first wildlife bridges went up, Clevenger, a researcher with the Western Transportation Institute, was living in Canmore, and recalls the distinctly negative atmosphere that surrounded what many saw as a hair-brained scheme by Parks Canada. Save for a few small crossings in the eastern United States, no one had ever attempted something like this before — and no one believed it would work. Editorials in the local paper scoffed at the “waste of taxpayers’ money” and confidently stated animals would never use the $2 million to $3 million man-made bridges. Others believed wolves would herd their prey into the fence, violently killing them before shocked tourists. 

“This project started in a bad spot. There was a lot of opposition and criticism,” Clevenger says. “It took several years of good data, publishing in scientific peer-reviewed journals, to change people’s minds.” 

Clevenger now has 17 years-worth of data proving the efficacy of the crossings. Among large carnivores, mortality (死亡) rates are 50 to 100 per cent lower along sections of the highway where overpasses and underpasses exist. In those same sections, mortality rates for elk are almost zero, compared to 100 elk-vehicle collisions per year in the mid-1990s. Clevenger’s research has shown that 11 species of large mammals in Banff have used the structures more than 200,000 times, including unexpected species such as red fox, hoary marmot, boreal toads, wolverines, lynx, garter snakes and beavers. 

In 2014, a Montana State University study found that not only are grizzly bears using the crossing structures, but the structures are also helping to maintain genetically healthy populations among the bears that use them. Grizzlies were crossing with enough frequency to ensure populations on either side of the highway weren’t genetically isolated from each other. 

“This is Canada’s biggest conservation success story — it’s the largest highway mitigation complex in the world,” says Clevenger. “You won’t find anything anywhere else in the world close to what we have. We have the most overpasses in one localized area and almost half of all the overpasses in North America.”

1. Why did Tony Clevenger face opposition and criticism at the beginning of the wildlife crossing project?
A.Because of disbelief regarding the project’s feasibility and effectiveness.
B.Due to the design flaws of the crossing structures.
C.Because of concerns about the environmental impact of the structures.
D.Due to insufficient funding for the project.
2. Which unexpected species have been observed using the wildlife crossing structures in Banff?
A.Grizzly bears and elk.B.Wolves and red foxes.
C.Garter snakes and beavers.D.Hoary marmots and wolverines.
3. How did a Montana State University study contribute to the understanding of wildlife crossings in Banff?
A.It confirmed the disbelief surrounding the effectiveness of the crossings.
B.It identified design flaws in the crossing structures.
C.It criticized the Canadian government’s conservation efforts.
D.It provided evidence of grizzly bears using the crossings and maintaining genetically healthy populations.
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文章大意:这是一篇新闻报道。文章主要讲述了在英国斯塔福郡的森林,研究人员利用高科技手段探究树木如何利用碳,并通过向树木输送额外的二氧化碳模拟未来气候条件。尽管种植树木是简单的,但科学家警告政府和公司不要过度依赖此举应对气候变化,强调需谨慎植树以确保森林的健康并适应未来气候。

8 . A forest in Staffordshire (in the UK) transformed into a hi-tech laboratory. Researchers here are investigating how the trees use carbon, and it’s difficult to find out. In an unusual experiment, extra carbon dioxide is piped to the trees, to create the kind of atmospheric conditions expected in the middle of the century. And instruments measure how the forest reacts.       

The scientist in charge says there’s still a lot to learn. And he worries that governments and companies are rushing to plant trees as an easy answer to climate change. “If you try and use trees to tidy up the mess that we’re making through emissions, you are putting those trees into a very rapidly changing climate and they will struggle to adapt,” said Professor Rob MacKenzie, University of Birmingham.

This device tracks the movement of carbon dioxide. In a healthy forest, the gas is not only absorbed by the trees but some is released as well. What scientists here are finding out is the way carbon flows into a forest and out of it is a lot more complicated than you might think. So, if mass tree planting is meant to be a solution to tackling climate change, the trees are going to have to be monitored and cared for, over not just decades, but may be centuries as well.

Of all the challenges, the task of planting is the simplest. Shelby Barber from Canada can do an amazing 4,000 trees in a day. “People talking about planting millions billions of trees around the world. Is it possible do you think, physically?” asked BBC.

“It’s definitely possible with the right amount of people, the right group of people. I’ve personally, in three years, planted just over half a million trees.” said Professor Rob MacKenzie.

Once planted, the trees need to survive, and experts are mixing different types to minimize the risk of disease. “It’s a bit like making sure you don’t put all your eggs in one basket, you’re spreading out your risk. And then if one part of that woodland fails, for whatever reason, it gets a disease or it can’t tolerate future climatic conditions, there are other parts of the forest that are healthy and able to fill in those gaps.” said Eleanor Tew of Forestry England.

Suddenly there’s momentum to plant trees on a scale never seen before. So what matters is doing it in a way that ensures the forests thrive — so they really do help with climate change.

1. Why is extra carbon dioxide piped to the trees in the experiment?
A.To predict the future atmospheric conditions.
B.To imitate the possible air condition in the future.
C.To create an instrument to measure atmospheric conditions.
D.To investigate the quality of air condition in the future.
2. The underlined word “some” in the second paragraph refers to __________.
A.oxygenB.carbon dioxideC.messD.purified gas
3. What will Eleanor Tew suggest concerning the survival of the forest?
A.Minimizing the area of the woodland.
B.Studying future climatic conditions.
C.Planting different types of trees.
D.Avoiding mixing different species.
4. Which statement concerning mass tree planting will Professor Rob Mackenzie mostly likely agree with?
A.It should be advocated in terms of efficiency and convenience.
B.It is the most effective solution to fighting climate changes.
C.It will do more harm than good to the health of the environment.
D.It needs to be studied further as a measure against climate change.
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9 . The Fight against Fast Furniture

Fast furniture is a term that refers to furniture that is produced cheaply and quickly. These items are often bad for the environment because they are made from materials that break easily and need to be replaced often.     1    

To help protect the environment, a movement to move away from fast furniture has begun. Many companies are joining the fight by finding cleaner ways to manufacture furniture. For example, IKEA has agreed to switch to using renewable or recycled materials for their furniture by the year 2030.     2    

There is also a push to encourage shoppers to buy more used furniture for their homes. Small businesses that help transform old chairs and sofas into completely new products have even popped up recently. At the end of the day, consumers will play the most important role in the fight to end fast furniture. Shoppers should try to think more about the long term when preparing to purchase new furniture. They should stay away from furniture that is made from cheap materials like fiberboard or plastic because they will often fall apart after a few years.     3    

A much better alternative is furniture made from real wood because it won’t break as easily. If wood furniture is damaged, it can often be repaired to last longer. High-quality metals are another good material, as they are durable. If the furniture is no longer fit for use, these metals can still be recycled and used to make new products.

    4     So, the next time you buy furniture, think about whether it’s something that will last a long time or it’s just fast furniture that will break soon and go into the trash.

A.It has also designed a special program that lets people return used furniture pieces to its stores so they can be fixed and used again by consumers.
B.This would help to reduce overall waste, as it would extend the life cycle of old furniture items.
C.Although these items may cost less initially, they are more expensive because they will need to be replaced sooner than traditional pieces of furniture.
D.This creates a lot of pollution, as the furniture ends up buried in landfills where it can harm the soil.
E.Homeowners are looking for furniture that is kinder to the environment.
F.By choosing furniture that’s made to last, we can help reduce waste and protect the environment.
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文章大意:这是一篇说明文。文章通过Shahid Ali捡垃圾为引入,说明了全球垃圾贸易基本上已经崩溃的事实。

10 . THE GLOBAL WASTE TRADE IS ESSENTIALLY BROKEN

Cut into hillside in northern Malaysia stands a large, open-air warehouse. This is a recycling factory, which opened last November. On a very hot afternoon in January, Shahid Ali was working his very first week on the job. He stood knee-deep in soggy, white bits of plastic. Around him, more bits floated of the conveyor belt and fell to the ground like snowflakes.

Hour after hour, Ali sorts through the plastic jumble moving down the belt, picking out pieces that look off-color or soiled-rejects (废品) in the recycling process. Though it looks like backbreaking work, Ali says it is a great improvement over his previous job, folding bed-sheets in a nearby textile factory, for much lower pay. Now, if he eats simply, he can save money from his wages of just over $l an hour and send $250 a month to his parents and six brothers and sisters in Peshawar, Pakistan, 2,700 miles away, “As soon as I heard about this work, I asked for a job,” says Ali, 24, a bearded man with glasses and an easy smile. Still, he’s working 12 hours a day, seven days a week. “If I take a day off, I lose a day’s wages,” he says.

In the warehouse, hundreds of bags are stacked more than 60 feet high-each stuffed with plastic wrappers and bags thrown away weeks earlier by their original users in California. The fact that the waste has traveled to this distant corner of the planet in the first place shows how badly the global recycling economy has failed to keep pace with humanity’s plastics addiction. This is an ecosystem that is deeply dysfunctional, if not on the point of collapse: About 90% of the millions of tons of plastic the world produces every year will eventually end up not recycled, but burned, buried, or dumped.

Plastic recycling enjoys ever-wider support among consumers: Putting yogurt containers and juice bottles in a blue bin is an eco-friendly act of faith in millions of households. But faith goes only so far. The tidal wave of plastic items that enters the recycling stream each year is increasingly likely to fall right back out again, casualties of a broken market. Many products that consumers believe (and industries claim) are “recyclable" are in reality not, because of hard economics. With oil and gas prices near 20-year lows, so-called virgin plastic, a product of petroleum feed-stocks, is now far cheaper and easier to obtain than recycled material. That unforeseen shift has yanked the financial rug out from under what was until recently a practical recycling industry. “The global waste trade is essentially broken,” says the head of the global plastics campaign at Greenpeace. “We are sitting on vast amounts of plastic with nowhere to send it and nothing to do with it.”

1. What is the author’s attitude towards Shahid Ali?
A.Critical.B.Merciless.C.Indifferent.D.Sympathetic.
2. What most probably causes the problem of global waste recycling?
A.The prices of oil and gas have been increasing.
B.Tons of wastes travel so far before being recycled.
C.Recyclable products are not really recycled.
D.Governments don’t support the recycling industry.
3. What does the italicized word “dysfunctional” mean in the passage?
A.Out of stock.B.Far from pleased.C.Full of energy.D.Out of order.
4. What is the author’s purpose of writing this article?
A.To illustrate how plastic waste has been recycled in the world.
B.To warn people that the global waste trade is essentially broken.
C.To analyze the relationship between consumers and factories.
D.To solve the conflict between the recycling industry and governments.
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