1 . How is the weather today?

A．Cloudy and a little windy.

B．Clear and a little windy.

C．Rainy and cool.

2 . A sad mother whale continued to carry her dead baby for a fifth day on Saturday, which is a rare occurrence in nature and is believed to be grieving (痛心的).

The whale, known as J35, is a member of the endangered (濒临灭绝的）family of killer whales, gave birth to her baby on Tuesday only to watch that it die within half an hour. "The baby was so newborn that it didn't have blubber(鲸脂）. It kept sinking, and the mother would raise it to the surface," said Ken Balcomb, a scientist with the Center for Whale Research on San Juan Island, Washington State. Since then, she's been carrying the baby's body around on her nose, diving to pick it up again when it falls off. She was last sighted in the early evening on Saturday in Canadian waters.

Scientists have documented grieving behavior in other animals with close social bonds in small groups observed carrying newborns that did not survive. The baby whale was the first baby born in three years to the endangered species (物种), the Center for Whale Research said.

"More than 24 hours of grieving is a rare occurrence," says Ken Balcomb. "It is horrible. This is an animal that is a sentient being. It understands the social bonds that it has with the rest of its family members. She carried the baby in her womb (子宫）from 17 to 18 months, she is bonded to it and she doesn't want to let it go. It is that simple. She is grieving."

Researchers have been growing more concerned about the fortune of killer whales, who face three major challenges to their survival as a species: toxins(毒素）, traffic and lack of adequate food. The most recent survey has found that they number just 75 in the area. For the last three years there have been no new babies born to the killer whales in the Pacific Northwest.

1. Why has the mother whale dived repeatedly in the past five days?

A．To avoid possible danger.

B．To feed her baby underwater.

C．To prevent her dead baby from sinking.

D．To play with her newborn baby sometimes.

2. What has the whale J35 surprised Ken Balcomb most?

A．She swam a long distance to save her baby.

B．She showed unusual grief over her dead baby.

C．She formed social bonds with her baby.

D．She proved herself highly intelligent.

3. Which of the following best explains "sentient" underlined in paragraph 4?

A．Sensitive.

B．Powerful.

C．Dangerous.

D．Stubborn.

4. What's the best title for the text?

A．What Problems Killer Whales Are Facing	B．The Killer Whales Died From Lack of Food
C．Rare Whales Were Found in Canadian Waters	D．Grieving Whale Carried Dead Baby for Days

3 . The term “bird brain” is frequently used to describe a person’s lack of intelligence and good decision-making ability. However, some scientists believe it should be considered a compliment (恭维), given that many birds can perform tasks that were once considered uniquely within humans. These include manufacturing and using tools, solving problems. and planning for future needs. Now, Griffin, an African Grey parrot, has proved that birds may even have better visual memories than human adults and children.

The study, led by Hrag Pailian, a postdoctoral (博士后)fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, had the parrot compete in the shell game against twenty-one undergraduate students and twenty-one 6-to-8-year-old children. For those not familiar, the popular challenge involves hiding a small object under one of three, or more, upturned cups or nutshells, which are moved around. Participants are required to accurately identify the cup or nutshell under which the object lies.

The Harvard team began by placing different-colored pom-poms (绒球)under four cups and moving them randomly around. To make the task more challenging, the researchers required participants to track two, three, and four pom-poms at the same time. The cup positions were moved between zero to four times far each of the combinations. Griffin and the undergraduate students conducted 120 tests, while the children did 36.

An analysis of the results showed that Griffin outperformed the 6-to-8-year-olds across all levels on average. Even more impressive, the “bird brain” performed as well as, or slightly better than, the 21 Harvard students on 12 of the 14 trials! It was only in the final two tests, which had the most pom-poms and most movement, that the parrot lagged behind the adults. However, Griffin’s performance never dipped below that of the children. “Think about it: Grey parrot outperforms Harvard undergraduates. That’s pretty awesome.” said a delighted Pailian.

1. What is a person with “bird brain” usually like?

A．Clever.	B．Stupid.
C．Unique.	D．Active.

2. What do we know about the test?

A．Easy.	B．Normal.
C．Complex.	D．Accurate.

3. Which of the following words can be used to replace “outperformed”?

A．did better than	B．did as good as
C．did worse than	D．did as bad as

4. Who has better visual memory?

A．The undergraduate.	B．The child.
C．The postdoctoral fellow.	D．The grey parrot.

4 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并 在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: ①每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
②只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I always wanted to raise a pet, but my mother didn’t agree with because I even couldn’t look after herself well. But recently, my mother changes her attitude. She bought me a lovely cat for my birthday gift. I promised keep it well. Since raised this lovely creature, I became patient. The most important thing was to feed food on time and cleaned the place that the cat lived. Sometimes I felt so dirty to do it, although I had made my promise and couldn’t break my words. I learned a lot from raising a pet. I started to consider my mother’s feelings when I became naughtily. I needed to make some changes and be a better girl.

5 . Waste sorting is a complex phenomenon that can be an important step toward a global circular economy. Maybe it even will be something we will look back on as one of the first steps toward an ecological society.

But sorting of waste could also mean participating in an activity that gradually weakens sustainable development by allowing unsustainable companies to use recycling as a way to pretend they are sustainable.

When Royal Dutch Shell, British-Dutch oil and gas company, wanted to dump an oil rig in the ocean in 1995 many people in Europe had just started to separate glass bottles and newspapers. The company’s plan was viewed as a sign of arrogance. The incident led to an important meeting, after which many companies started including environmental factors in their risk assessment.

The situation is different today. It is no longer clear if the kind of waste sorting done in Western nations is part of the problem or the solution. There are areas where the sorting of waste is working reasonably well, for example the glass and metal industries. But at a time when we are looking at a transformative system change and global sustainability, there is a need to fundamentally rethink waste sorting.

In the coming decades, the world needs to eliminate (消除) the use of fossil fuels, become more resource efficient lift billions out of poverty and ensure greater equity. In order to ensure this, we need a resource-efficient circular economy, and waste sorting can play a key role. But that should be a very different kind of waste sorting.

China could initiate the next generation of waste sorting systems. Such a waste sorting system would be a driver for innovation and extreme resource efficiency and a true step toward ecological civilization.

1. Waste sorting is a complex phenomenon because ________.

A．it is an important step toward a global circular economy

B．it means economy and may be an activity that gradually weakens sustainable development

C．it is a first step toward an ecological society

D．it is slowly moving into the center of conversation

2. What did the behavior of Royal Dutch Shell company result in?

A．The dumping of oil rig.

B．Separating glass bottles and newspapers.

C．Including environment when assessing risks.

D．Starting waste sorting in European countries.

3. There is a need to fundamentally rethink waste sorting because ________.

A．the sorting of waste is working well in some areas

B．a transformative system change and global sustainability should be considered

C．the western recycling system does not fit for the whole world

D．people are concerned about greater equity

4. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To introduce Western recycling systems.

B．To compare two recycling systems.

C．To predict the change of ecological system.

D．To advocate a more sustainable waste sorting system.

6 . Atoms and molecules in the air move constantly.     1     In high-pressure systems, the molecules inside the system move faster than those that surround it. The opposite occurs in low-pressure systems, where the air inside the low is moving more slowly than in the surrounding area.

Air flows around a high-or low-pressure system in much the same way as water swirls (旋涡) around a hole. In the Northern Hemisphere, air that moves into a high-pressure system flows outward in a clockwise pattern. Air flowing upward in a region of low pressure moves counterclockwise.     2    

Air is more dense (密集的) in a region of high pressure, so the air pushes out toward less dense regions. The air mass begins to warm as it goes down, which prevents the formation of clouds. The presence of clouds indicates that rain may be present in the air.     3     In a region of low pressure, the air rises. As it does, the air mass cools and clouds form from the humidity (湿气) inside the air mass.

    4    Once the droplets are heavy enough, they fall to the ground. When temperatures are warm, rain is the result. If temperatures are low? the result is snow. When water droplets fall through relatively warmer or colder air masses on the journey to Earth, the low- pressure system may bring snow or ice.

Rain associated with low-pressure systems holds true in much of the Northern Hemisphere.     5     So in tropical areas, rain association with highs or lows is less predictable.

A．This movement creates air pressure.

B．So we can predict rain from the clouds.

C．But the air pressure changes little in tropical climates.

D．The higher the air pressure is, the faster the winds blow in and outwards.

E．Humidity in the rising air of a low-pressure system becomes water droplets.

F．This swirling air results in winds around or near the high-and low-pressure boundaries.

G．High-pressure systems have light or no clouds, indicating fair weather without rain.

7 . 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

The Theobroma Cacao tree, to use its scientific name, provides us with one of the world's most delicious foods—chocolate! Theobroma is a Greek word meaning 4food of the gods. The tree originally comes from the Amazon region of South America. Hand-sized pods that grow on the tree contain cacao seeds—often called ‘cocoa beans’. These seeds，or beans，are used to make chocolate.

The earliest use and consumption of cacao beans dates back to around 1000 B.C. Later, the Mayan and Aztec civilizations consumed cacao as a drink. They often flavored it with ingredients such as chili peppers, and other spices. It is believed that drinking cups of chocolate was important in Mayan rituals such as wedding ceremonies. Consuming cacao was also believed to have positive effects on health. In Peru, eating or drinking a mixture of chocolate and chili was said to be good for the stomach. The Aztecs thought it could even cure sicknesses!

Christopher Columbus, along with Spanish explorers, made his fourth voyage across the Atlantic in the early 1500s, and arrived on the coast of Honduras. It was at this time that he first discovered the value of cocoa beans，which were used as currency in many parts of Central America.

In the sixteenth century, chocolate was taken back to Spain by Hernando Cortez, another explorer. The Spanish people added ingredients such as sugar and vanilla to make it sweet. It later spread to France in the seventeenth century. The popularity of chocolate continued to spread further across Europe and the Americas. The only Asian country to adopt it at that time, though, was the Philippines, which the Spanish invaded in the sixteenth century.

As chocolate became more popular, the demand for people to work on the cocoa plantations increased. Slaves were brought to the Americas from Africa to farm the cocoa. Eventually, the cacao tree was taken to

Africa and cultivation(m) began there. Today, the African plantations provide almost seventy percent of the world's cacao, compared with one and a half percent from Mexico.

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8 . 假如你是李华，你校英语报就”我为环保出份力”这一主题面向全校学生征稿，请按以下要点写一篇短文投稿:
1. 你为环保付出的行动； 2. 校园内不良行为及建议； 3. 呼吁保护环境
注意:1. 词数100左右； 2. 文中不得透露考生的真实信息； 3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What classes can visitors take in Bali according to the speaker?

A．Diving.

B．Swimming.

C．Fishing.

2. Why do some scientists come to Bali?

A．To study volcanoes.

B．To study the sea creatures.

C．To study traditional artworks.

3. What do most people of Bali do?

A．Work in tourism.

B．Do agricultural work.

C．Make special clothes.

4. What does the speaker think is good to do during Chinese New Year?

A．Drink traditional coffee.

B．Do some shopping.

C．Visit Buddhist temples.

10 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Every minute, people around the world purchase 1 million plastic bottles,    1    adds up to roughly 526 billion bottles every year. Much of the plastic    2    (end) up in landfills (填埋场), rivers or oceans, often with destructive effects on wildlife. Many people are now trying to cut down on plastic use, while also turning the single-use plastic into something    3    (use) — like auto parts.

Recycles plastic is ideal for automotive parts due to its light    4    (weigh) that offers additional benefits such as    5    (improve) a vehicle’s aerodynamics (空气动力) and reducing cabin noise.

The use of plastic in vehicle parts has grown a lot since the last decade, especially in underbody shields (车底护板).    6    is assumed that around 1.2 billion recycled plastic bottles are used every year — that’s about 250 bottles per vehicle    7    average.

How exactly does your plastic water bottle turn into an aerodynamic auto part? After you put the bottle into the recycling bin, it’s    8    (eventual) combined with thousands of others and cut into tiny pieces. Then, these pieces    9    (sell) to a supplier, who turns them into a fiber by melting them. This fibers mixed with other elements (元素) in a special process, and then were used     10    (create) a sheet of material that can be formed into vehicle parts.