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。

Venice is an attractive city between the sea and the sky. The city     1    (consist) of over 100 islands and there aren’t any cars or buses. All the islands     2    (link) by canals and bridges, making it     3    (convenience) for people to travel around the city. The best­known of the canals, the Grand Canal, serves     4     the main street in the part of the city.

Venice has a lot of world­famous tourist     5    (attraction), including Saint Mark’s Square, the Doge’s Palace and Saint Mark’s Basilica,     6     is the city’s most famous church. Every year thousands     7     tourists visit this beautiful city. They always find themselves     8    (impress) by the city’s cultural treasures.

Sadly, the Italian city has been regularly flooded by rising sea water over the years. From November to February, sea level rises up to one and a half meters,     9    (cover) many of Venice’s famous areas. But people in Venice still love their city. They are unwilling     10    (leave). Instead, they want to stay there to save Venice from the sea.

4 . 现在全社会都在倡导“低碳生活（low-carbon life）”，即：减少二氧化碳的排放，低能量、低消耗、低开支的生活方式。请你写一篇以“On the Low-carbon Life”为题目的短文，向学校网站的英语专栏投稿。内容包括：
1. 目前人们很崇尚低碳生活；
2. 低碳生活的重要性；
3. 怎样创建低碳生活。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

On the Low-carbon Life

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7 . 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。续写的词数应为150左右。

One day my dad came back home in his truck and there was a cage in the back. Naturally I was curious, so I went towards the truck when I noticed that there was a small little goat that wasn’t even an adult yet.

I asked my dad and he said that he bought the goat from his friend and he was going to kill it twenty minutes after he brought it home so that we would have a big meal.

My sister was there too and she was strongly for my view. We found out we got really mad at my dad and told him not to kill it. After about 10 minutes of complaining we finally convinced my dad not to kill it because we told him that there was no reason for him to kill the goat himself when he could just buy goat meat at a store.

My parents know some friends that we visit sometimes and their family really likes animals so we decided to give it to them. For about a month, they had the goat as a pet and they also had the same problems as we had because the dad wanted to kill it and eat it but the rest of the family didn’t want it to die.They also were able to persuade him not to do so. They ended up sending the goat to a family member’s farm where it would grow up happily.

Another thing that has happened to influence my belief is that I have a neighbor that really likes hunting.   One day he hunted a deer and brought the body home, but he decided to leave it outside his house for everyone to see. He just left it there as if it were some kind of award that he just won. Sadly little kids started to make fun of the body and pretended to ride on it. They laughed at it and felt no problem with there being a dead deer just laying.

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I felt sick by what was happening and left because of what I had just witnessed._

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It amazes me how we have changed from hunting to survive to hunting for sport._

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8 . 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，并写在答题卡指定位置。

More than a fifth of all reptile species (爬行动物) are threatened with extinction, which could have    1     destructive impact on the planet, a new study warns. Fifty-two experts analysed data from the Global Reptile Assessment, which, in the past 17 years,     2     (receive) contributions from more than 900 scientists across six continents.

Although many reptiles live in dry    3     (environment) such as deserts and scrubland, most species occur in forests,     4     they suffer from threats such as logging and conversion of land for agriculture. Hunting is also a major threat to reptiles, especially turtles and crocodiles (鳄鱼), many of which are    5     risk of extinction. Another major factor that     6     (contribute) to forming the threat is the introduction of invasive (入侵的) species.

The study is not all depressing. Scientists noted that conservation efforts to help other animals are likely to be protecting reptile species as collateral (抵押品). “We found, surprisingly, that if you set out    7     (protect) places where birds, mammals (哺乳动物) and amphibians (两栖动物) under threat live together, you’ll protect many more    8     (threaten) reptiles at the same time, ” said Bruce Young, co-leader of the study.

Yet reptiles also require direct,     9     (globe) efforts to protect them, said Cox. Governments will negotiate (议定) new targets to protect biodiversity,     10     (include) reptiles, in Kunming, China, later this year.

10 . 阅读下面的短文和问题，根据短文内容和每小题后的具体要求，完成对该问题的回答。

In the United States alone, there are more than 80 brands of bottled water. That makes the United State one of the top bottled-water-consuming nations. A single-serve water bottle offers great convenience, which isn’t the only reason for bottled water’s rise in popularity. Many people believe that bottled water is cleaner and more healthful than tap water from public water system.

That is a misconception. In the United States, tap water is regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). By federal law, tap water is supposed to be tested every year to make sure it is safe to drink. Tap water also often contains naturally present minerals, such as calcium and magnesium. Those minerals make tap water healthful.

The impact of bottled water on the environment is staggering. Approximately 2.7 million tons of plastic are turned into disposable bottles each year. The manufacturing of all those bottles requires large quantities of crude oil and water. That process produces greenhouse gases. Bottled water is often shipped long distances to reach consumers, sometimes across vast continents. The transportation of the product uses even more fossil fuels and creates more pollution.

“Back to the tap” movements are cropping up around the world. They encourage people to use tap water and reusable “sports” bottles rather than bottled water. Colleges and universities have begun to ban the use and sale of bottled water on their campuses. San Francisco, Concord (Massachusetts), and other cities across the United States have adopted bans on single-serve water bottles. Cities in Canada (Toronto), Australia (New South Wales), and several states in India have taken similar action. Many bottled water companies are trying to do their part. They have reduced the amount of plastic in their bottles and bottle caps. Bottled water has become an international phenomenon, and it can be an important source of safe drinking water. We should not lose sight of a more environmentally friendly source, however: the water that comes out of our taps.

1. Why do so many people prefer to drink bottled water according to the passage?
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2. Find out all the advantages of tap water mentioned in the passage.
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3. How does bottled water negatively affect the environment?
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4. Design a slogan to appeal to your schoolmates “Back to the tap” .
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