1 . The Elephant Project is a purpose-driven company which tries to protect and recover the world’s elephant population.
This all-female organization began when founder Kristian McKean saw the inhumane(不人道的)treatment of elephants in Thailand, and again back in the United States with circus animals. Determined to find a way to support elephant causes, Kristina used her product development background to design adorable, huggable elephant dolls she named Kiki and Tembo.
Children and many adults are drawn to the stuffed animals. These elephants come with fun educational materials to spread the word about the dangerous world elephants live in.
Meanwhile, the company’s mission is clear and supported by its donations to organizations that care for elephants in need. In fact, 100% of the profit from each sail of Kiki and Tembo goes to supplies and aid for abused and injured elephants through The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya and The Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. The Elephant Project also contributes to efforts to end illegal elephant hunting.
Of course, even without the notable mission of the company, these little dolls are gift able to children. Kiki, whose name means “new life”, wears a little pink outfit(套装). Meanwhile, Tembo, meaning “elephant” in Swahili, wears a green outfit.
A new release features Baby Chaba, a baby elephant named after a real baby who was rescued alongside her mother by Lek Chailert, the founder of the The Elephant Nature Park, in August 2021.The purchase comes with Baby Chaba and a book that explains her story.
The Elephant Project website shows a list of elephants that have already benefited from the company, with a bit of history about each elephant’s situation and progress. The mission has now also spread to support g the rescue and rehabilitation (修复) of big cats who like elephants and other wildlife, suffer from n humane treatment, competition for resources and loss of habitat.
1. What drove Kristian to found The Elephant Project?| A．Her deep love and empathy for the abused animals. |
| B．Her witness to the abused elephants in Thailand and America. |
| C．Her intention to protect and recover the world’s wild animals. |
| D．Her company’s making profit from the sail of Kiki and Tembo. |
| A．Only children show some adoration on Kiki and Tembo. |
| B．Kiki and Tembo was not easy to hug in when being designed. |
| C．Kiki and Tembo are designed only to make some money. |
| D．Many adults also show some interest in Kiki and Tembo. |
| A．To protect the environment in the developing countries. |
| B．To supply and aid abused elephants in Kenya and Thailand. |
| C．To protect wild animals from being illegally hunted in Kenya. |
| D．Mainly to support the operation of The Elephant Project. |
| A．An Abused Elephant was Rescued by a Company |
| B．Everyone should Try to Protect the Abused Elephant |
| C．A Company Sets out to Save Abused Elephants |
| D．Kiki and Tembo have Found a Way into the Market. |
2 . A flood can develop slowly, over time or rapidly, as in the case of flash floods which can develop in just a few minutes and without signs of rain.
Create an evacuation plan in case you have to evacuate your home. Pay attention to the safe areas you can go to. Prepare food kits for natural disasters that you can easily take with you if you have to leave your house.
If there is a possibility of a flash flood, leave your home and move to higher ground at once. Do not wait for instructions to move. Evacuation may also cause a shortage in the food supply.
While evacuating, avoid walking through moving water. Even six inches of moving water can make you fall. If you have to walk in water, walk where the water is not moving.
Do not drive into flooded areas. If floodwaters rise around your car, abandon (舍弃) the car and move to higher ground, when water is not moving or not more than a few inches deep.
| A．They don’t know where to look for shelter. |
| B．You and the car can be swept away quickly. |
| C．Use a stick to check the ground in front of you. |
| D．Be aware if the area you’re at is at risk of a flood. |
| E．There is no telling when another flood may happen. |
| F．It would help to store food for emergency situations. |
| G．During these conditions, hunger becomes a very real problem. |
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4 . As we all know, plastic products like bags, bottles, toys and various other products end up in our oceans daily. They then pollute and kill marine animals, which ultimately affects humans because it causes widespread starvation among sea life which we depend on for food sources. With global levels of plastic waste in the ocean at an all-time high, there has never been a better time to consider making your swimwear from alternative sources.
It’s time to end the plastic waste polluting our oceans, but we’re not going to wait for someone else to do it. Creating swimsuits and other clothing items out of plastic collected from our oceans might seem pretty far-fetched, but Seamore (after Seamus Malone, our founder) is doing just that. We aim to make people more aware of how much plastic they use every day by providing stylish swimsuits made entirely from recycled ocean plastics.
The process is simple. Gather plastic waste from oceans and waterways, clean it, and turn it functional. Manufacturers (生产商) receive recycled plastic pellet (团粒) material and they press those pellets into fiber sheets; and then they die-cut, sew, or print those fibers into whatever products they want. It’s manufacturers who can decide whether their final product will be recyclable or not. Swimwear collections made from recycled materials found in our oceans illustrate how much impact we can have on our world when we set out to do so with pure intentions.
Today, as more and more people are taking part in water-centric activities, there is greater demand for water-friendly clothing options, especially among individuals looking for alternatives that meet their needs for comfort and functionality in and out of water. But the sad truth is that most of us have no idea where our clothing comes from — and if a recent report is accurate, one-third of all clothing purchased isn’t even worn before it ends up in a landfill.
1. Why is the first paragraph mainly written?| A．To show what influence plastic waste has. |
| B．To introduce a new environmental effort. |
| C．To illustrate how sea life survive the crisis. |
| D．To predict the possible effects of pollution. |
| A．By producing alternative energy from ocean. |
| B．By promoting programmes to educate people. |
| C．By offering swimwear made from sea plastics. |
| D．By means of organizing theme-related speeches. |
| A．It’s easy to collect ocean-based waster. | B．Fibre is made from ocean plastic pellets. |
| C．A product’s recyclability is up to its maker. | D．Swimwear can test how we impact marine life. |
| A．Positive. | B．Concerned. | C．Doubtful. | D．Cold. |
5 . Back in 2007, Uruguay had a serious problem with no obvious answer: The economy was growing very fast, but there wasn’t enough energy to power the rapid
Then Ramón Méndez Galain, a physicist, started
Méndez Galain’s plan was built around two simple
To solve the problem of how to pay for all those wind farms, Méndez Galain came up with a variation on a(n)
The strategy worked
| A．decline | B．growth | C．consumption | D．program |
| A．building | B．blocking | C．repairing | D．seeking |
| A．rely on | B．find out | C．refer to | D．give up |
| A．risk | B．power | C．pollution | D．benefit |
| A．facts | B．theories | C．answers | D．principles |
| A．water | B．light | C．wind | D．ice |
| A．tended | B．undeveloped | C．protected | D．limited |
| A．break | B．put | C．send | D．turn |
| A．tool | B．software | C．image | D．approach |
| A．responsible | B．weak | C．private | D．profitable |
| A．public | B．opposite | C．rich | D．powerful |
| A．managing | B．selling | C．abandoning | D．starting |
| A．hardly | B．relatively | C．unexpectedly | D．rarely |
| A．forgotten | B．achieved | C．apologized | D．approved |
| A．income | B．food | C．supply | D．electricity |
6 . Researchers have found a chemical from a kind of worm (蠕虫) can break down one of the most common forms of plastic. The finding could open up new ways to deal with pollution.
There have been several studies showing that microorganisms can release enzymes (酶) that cause the plastics to start to break down, but that process may take a long time. The recently-discovered enzymes were found in the saliva (唾液) of the waxworm. They appear to act in only a few hours.
Federica Bertocchini is one of the researchers, who is also a beekeeper and always stores honeycombs, which are built by bees to store honey. One year Bertocchini found her honeycombs full of waxworms. She cleaned the honeycombs and put the worms in a plastic bag. When she returned later, she found that the bag was full of holes. She wondered if the worms were eating the plastic, or if there was a chemical reaction that caused the holes. “We checked and found that the plastics had been broken down,” she said.
In her latest research, Bertocchini and her co-workers found two enzymes in the worm’s saliva. The enzymes appeared to break down plastics in only a few hours.
Bertocchini’s team is still trying to understand how the worms break down the plastics. They know much more research is needed before the findings can be used to process plastic waste. However, Bertocchini said the enzymes could be put into a water mixture and then put “over piles of collected plastics” in a waste center. She said that, in the future, the enzymes could be used in homes, where families could deal with their own plastic waste.
1. What can we learn about the microorganisms in para. 2?| A．They are fond of eating small pieces of plastics. |
| B．They are widely used to deal with plastic pollution. |
| C．It takes long for their enzymes to break down plastics. |
| D．They can easily produce a large amount of useful saliva in a short time. |
| A．By accident. | B．By keeping waxworms. |
| C．By doing experiments. | D．By studying bees. |
| A．The bees flew to and bit it. | B．There was a chemical reaction. |
| C．There were some sharp things in it. | D．The worms chewed and swallowed the plastic. |
| A．It’s a theoretical possibility, but it won’t happen. | B．It may replace the usual ways soon. |
| C．It is getting increasingly popular. | D．There is still a long way to go. |
| A．In the kitchen. | B．In the bathroom. | C．In the living room. |
8 . Every day as the sun rises, Ma Hongyi, a 66-year-old farmer, can be seen patrolling (巡逻) Yuncheng Salt Lake with his dog in Yuncheng city, North China’s Shanxi province.
Ma still remembers the day when he first saw two big pink birds wandering through the water. “I had never seen such pretty birds. They were even taller than me, with long wings,” Ma recalls. He was later informed that those birds were flamingos, a rare sight in China, which were listed on the International Union for Protection of Nature’s red list of endangered species in 2013. From that day on, Ma started his second career as a volunteer to prevent human beings from doing harm to the wildlife. “The birds are attracted by the good environment,” Ma says. “I will do my best to protect the lake so that birds can come here every year.”
Yuncheng Salt Lake covers an area of 132 square kilometers and used to serve as a salt production base. As the country began attaching greater importance to environmental protection, an ecological (生态的) protection and development center was set up in 2012 to carry out regular ecological protection and restoration of the lake. “The greatest value of the Salt Lake lies in its ecology, which should be properly protected,” says Chu Xianghao, head of the city. The lake area hosts 292 types of wild animals, along with 782 plant varieties, some of which are newly recorded species in the country.
After patrolling the lake as a volunteer for over four years, Ma was employed by the local government to help with wildlife protection in 2019. “The lake’s ecology is getting better,” Ma says, adding that he looks forward to the arrival of the flamingos every year. “Some of them are my old friends,” he says.
1. What event makes Mr Ma to start his second career?| A．Seeing a rare scenery in his field. |
| B．Finding a list of endangered species. |
| C．Coming across a certain bird unexpectedly. |
| D．Knowing the way to increase the number of species. |
| A．Repair. | B．Examination. | C．Competition. | D．Defence. |
| A．Salt lake is environmentally friendly. |
| B．The past base still makes lots of salt now. |
| C．Mr Ma used to have a walk around lakes every morning. |
| D．The environment of Salt lake is suitable for flamingos all year round now. |
| A．Mr Ma -- from a Farmer to a Volunteer |
| B．Mr Ma -- a Loyal Guardian of Flamingos |
| C．Mr Ma -- an Expert on Endangered Species |
| D．Mr Ma -- the First Finder of Flamingos in China |
9 . The government of Singapore has created a highly developed system that turns wastewater into drinking water. The system involves a network of tunnels and high technology treatment centers.
The system helps reduce ocean pollution, as only a small amount of the treated water is sent into the sea. The United Nations estimates that 80 percent of the world’s wastewater flows back into the oceans without being treated or reused.
Singapore has few natural water sources. The island nation has long had to depend mostly on supplies from neighboring Malaysia.
Low Pei Chin, an expert, told reporters, “Singapore lacks natural resources, and it is limited in space, which is why we are always looking for ways to explore water sources and stretch our water supply. One major plan is to collect every drop and reuse endlessly.”
Parts of the water treatment center are underground. Wastewater enters the center through a 48- kilometer tunnel that is linked to sewers. The center contains a large system of steel pipes, tubes, tanks, cleaning systems and other machinery. It can treat up to 900 million liters of wastewater a day.
In one building, a network of air flow systems has been put in place to keep the air smelling as fresh as possible. Waste that arrives at the plant goes through a cleaning process before powerful pumps send it flowing to areas above ground for more treatment. There, the treated water receives additional cleaning. Bacteria and viruses are removed through highly developed cleaning processes and then disinfected with ultraviolet radiation (紫外线).
Singapore is also in the process of expanding its recycling system. The country will add another underground tunnel and a major water treatment center to serve the western half of the island. Officials expect work on the center to be completed by 2025. By the time the expansion is finished, Singapore will have spent about $7.4 billion on its water treatment systems.
1. What can we infer from the second paragraph?| A．The world’s oceans are polluted by wastewater. |
| B．Only a small amount of the treated water is suitable to drink. |
| C．Wastewater is usually treated before being sent into the oceans. |
| D．80 percent of the water in the oceans can be used as drinking water. |
| A．Singapore plans to get help from Malaysia. |
| B．The wastewater is cleaned underground in the whole process. |
| C．900 million liters of wastewater can be cleaned in the center a day. |
| D．The recycled water enters the sea through a highly developed system. |
| A．Purifying water by itself. |
| B．Through a special kind of chemical. |
| C．With ultraviolet radiation. |
| D．Through cleaning processes and disinfection. |
| A．Singapore turns wastewater into drinking water. |
| B．Collect and rescue: the future of Singapore. |
| C．The importance of sea water in Singapore. |
| D．Water source protection matters. |
10 . The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the earth’s surface and the deep sea could contain as many as 100 million species. But it’s becoming worse. Overfishing, plastic pollution, rising sea levels, and climate change are to partly blame (责怪) for the ocean’s present state.
People are talking about plastics more than ever after recognizing the heavy effect the material has on our planet. Every year, thousands of seabirds, sea turtles, seals, whales, dolphins, and fish are killed after mistakenly eating plastics.
Keeping our coastlines clean is a simple way to help the planet. After a day at the beach, make sure you’ve taken everything with you, including rubbish.
Being mindful of what cleaning products you use is another effective way to reduce your effect on the earth. Chemicals like household cleaners can move through waterways and eventually end up in the sea, affecting the health of oceans and the animals in them.
| A．Got some spare change? |
| B．Are you a fan of meat pies? |
| C．These problems may be hard to deal with. |
| D．Apart from (除了......) litter, you can wear eco-friendly sun cream. |
| E．Choose eco-friendly products and limit chemical use when possible. |
| F．Once you arrive at your destination (终点)，be respectful of the life in the sea. |
| G．Plastics take years to break down, some taking hundreds or even more. |
