1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式（最多3个单词）。

When it comes to wildlife     1     (protect), all species -the good, the bad, and the ugly -should be treated     2     (equal). Pandas, dolphins, and other cute wildlife     3     (be) important, but we must pay attention     4     less cute animals, too. The world needs all     5     (kind) -without variety, our planet cannot survive. So if you want the future to be     6     (beauty), you have to give ugly a chance.

Billions of trees are being cut down every year     7     (make) paper for humans. Every tree     8     is cut down is a part of the habitat of animals such as     9     (this) koalas. In this way a lot of animal homes are being destroyed! Is     10     right to make animals homeless so that humans can have more paper？

2 . 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。

Strange things happened in the city of Tangshan. The well walls had deep cracks. A     1     (smell) gas came out of them. At 3:42     2     the morning of July 28, 1976, everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. One of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th century had begun. Soon the whole city lay in ruins. Two thirds of the people     3     lived there were dead or injured. The number of people     4     (kill) in the quake was more than 240,000. Everything in the city     5     (destroy). People were shocked at this and wondered how long the disaster would last. The army     6     (organize) teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. Workers built shelters for     7     (survive). Food and water were taken to the city.     8     (slow) the city began to breathe again. Tangshan began to revive     9     (it) and get up on its feet again. With strong support from the government and the tireless efforts of the city's people, a new Tangshan was built. Tangshan city has proved that in times of disaster, people must unify and show the wisdom to stay positive and rebuild for     10     brighter future.

3 . 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。

On 8 November 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan swept through the Philippines. All of a sudden, a whole city lay in     1    （ruin）. 70 to 80 percent of the buildings were     2    （destroy）. The people were so     3    （frighten）that they felt as if the world were coming to     4     end. However, hope was not lost. Many countries and     5    （organise）came to the rescue. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.

4 . After an earthquake most survivors can be expected to recover over time, particularly with the support of family and friends. Some families will be able to return to their normal life quickly, while others will have to contend with the destruction of their homes, medical problems, and injury to family members. Children especially will need time to recover from the loss of a loved one or a pet or from the closing down of their school.

Children often turn to adults for information, comfort and help. Parents should try to remain calm, answer children’s questions honestly and remain understanding when they see changes in their children’s behavior.

Children react differently to an earthquake depending on their ages, developmental levels and former experiences. Some will respond by withdrawing (不与人交往), while others will have angry outbursts (爆发). Parents should remain sensitive to each child’s reactions. Parents should spend time talking to their children，letting them know that it’s OK to ask questions and to share their worries. Although it may be hard to find time to have these talks, parents can use regular family mealtimes or bedtimes for them. They should answer questions briefly and honestly and be sure to ask their children for their opinions and ideas. Issues may come up more than once and parents should remain patient when you answer the questions again. For young children, parents, after talking about the earthquake, might read a favorite story or have a relaxing family activity to help them calm down. Parents should also tell children they are safe and spend extra time with them. They could play games outside or read together indoors. Most importantly, be sure to tell them you love them.

1. The underlined phrase “contend with” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “________”.

A．deal with

B．make up

C．put off

D．turn back

2. When children ask the same question again, parents should ________.

A．read a favorite story to comfort them

B．ask them to help do some housework

C．be patient and answer the question again

D．take them out to play games

3. Which of the following pieces of advice is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Keep a close watch on children’s behavior.

B．Tell the children they are safe.

C．Tell the children you love them.

D．Ask educational experts for help.

4. What can we know from the passage?

A．All people will recover from an earthquake quickly.

B．Children may need a longer time to recover after an earthquake.

C．Children should turn to their classmates for help after an earthquake.

D．Children react in the same way as adults do to an earthquake.

5 . There are many ways to deal with the plastic pollution. Tom Szaky’s way may be one of the bravest. He has gone back to an old way-using reusable containers. The idea was used in the last century. It was introduced to the world by Coca-Cola in the early 1920s, when Coke was sold in expensive glass bottles that needed returning. They asked for two cents, about 40 percent of the full cost of the soft drink，and got about 98 percent of their bottles back, to be reused 40 or 50 times. Bottle deposit programs remain one of the most effective methods.

Ten months ago, Szaky started Loop, an online delivery service that uses strong reusable containers. The biggest part of his risk is that Loop pushes far beyond the common reusable bottles. From food packaging to washing powder packaging, the containers are in different sizes and made from different materials. One of his products is Haagen-Dazs ice cream that is packed inside a special box to keep the ice cream from melting.

17 years ago, Szaky founded TerraCycle, a small waste management company. He thought up a way to deal with plastics, cigarette wastes, and a long list of other wastes. Gradually, he became more interested in thinking of how to recycle different kinds of waste in the best way.

Loop is part of the reappearance of the reusable packaging as a best choice to plastic waste. The food and drink companies are more likely to use reusable bottles. A company said they have started the United States’ first state-wide reusable beer system. More obviously, Szaky’s idea of reusable packaging for products has attracted more and more companies to pay attention to the reusable packaging.

1. What do we know about Tom Szaky from paragraph 1?

A．He invented Coke bottles.	B．He recommended using reusable containers.
C．He invented a new kind of container.	D．He asked people for deposit.

2. Why does Szaky keep the ice cream in a special box?

A．To help keep its temperature.	B．To make it easy to eat.
C．To make it sweeter.	D．To help it melt quickly.

3. What can we infer about the reusable packaging in the future?

A．It will solve plastic waste completely.	B．It will bring about a lot of new waste.
C．It will attract more and more attention.	D．It will make Loop lose a lot of customers.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Different New Ways to Deal with Plastic Pollution	B．The Story of a Creative Inventor
C．The World’s Attitude to Plastic Pollution	D．An Old Idea of Fighting against Plastic Pollution

6 . 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。

Everywhere     1     (survive) looked, there was nothing     2     ruins. Nearly everything in the city was     3     (destroy). About 75 percent of the city’s factories and buildings, 90 percent of its homes, and all of its hospitals were     4     (go). Bricks covered the ground like red autumn     5    (leaf), but no wind could blow them away. Most bridges had     6    (fall) or were not safe to cross. The railway tracks were now     7    (use)   pieces of metal. Tens of thousands of cows, hundreds of thousands of pigs, and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now filled the wells instead of water. People were     8     shock— and then, later that afternoon, another big quake     9    (shake) Tangshan again.

Even more buildings fell down. Water, food, and electricity were hard     10     (get). People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.

7 . Britain has long been known for its love of tea, but people in London also drink a lot of coffee. In fact, the average Londoner reportedly drinks 2.3 cups of coffee every day. And now, waste coffee grounds will be used to help fuel part of the city’s transportation system.

A technology company announced on Monday that some buses will be using a biofuel that contains coffee oil. The company, Bio-bean, and its partner, Argent Energy, say they have made enough coffee oil to power one of London’s famous double-decker buses for a year. The announcement made Bio-bean a trending story on social media.

The government agency Transport for London has been turning to biofuels to cut production of carbon emissions. A carbon emission is a gas produced by the burning of carbon. The gas is released into the atmosphere. London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said last month that his city has a “health crisis….caused directly by poor-quality air.” The government has taken steps to discourage people from driving cars that do not meet European Union emissions requirements.

Bio-bean said Londoners produce over 200,000 tons of coffee ground waste a year. The company said it collects waste grounds from chain coffee shops and factories. The grounds are dried and processed to remove the coffee oil.

“It’s a great example of what can be done when we start to re-imagine waste as an untapped resource,” said Bio-bean founder’s Arthur Kay. The coffee fuel technology has been received support from the oil company Royal Dutch Shell.

1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．Tea is very popular with British people.

B．Londoners love drinking coffee as well as tea at present.

C．Nowadays, Londoners prefer drinking coffee to drinking tea.

D．Waste coffee grounds will be made good use of in London’s transportation system.

2. What made the company Bio-bean much-concerned on social media?

A．Collecting waste coffee grounds

B．Cooperating with its partner, Argent Energy

C．Powering a double-decker bus using coffee oil

D．Making coffee oil out of coffee waste coffee grounds

3. What is Sadiq Khan’s attitude towards the cars using conventional fuels?

A．Neutral.

B．Concerned.

C．Casual.

D．Appreciative.

4. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

A．The coffee fuel technology has earned wide-spread acceptance.

B．The Bio-bean is the first company to turn some wastes into bio-fuels.

C．The supply of coffee grounds waste in London is guaranteed in a way.

D．People have not attached importance to some so-called wastes widely.

8 . Nola (August 21, 1974—November 22, 2015) was a northern white rhino who lived at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park near Escondido, California. At her death, she was one of only four remaining northern white rhinos in the world. The other three lived in Kenya. World Rhino Day,   held on September 2,   is to raise awareness(意识) of the less than 30, 000 other rhinos left on Earth.

''Rhinos need our help today, not tomorrow,'' Nola's lead keeper Jane Kennedy said. ''Last year we lost over 1, 200 rhinos just in South Africa. If we continue to lose more than 1, 000 rhinos a year, in 10 to 20 years all the rhinos on the planet will be gone. ''

''Unfortunately, most animals are in danger of dying out because of humans,'' Kennedy says. ''Humans have either poached animals, or because there are over seven billion of us, we've taken up too much of the world's resources''. Poachers illegally hunt rhinos for their horns. They sell the horns for thousands of dollars per pound, to be used for art, jewelry, and decorations. Experts believe that one rhino is poached every eight hours.

In 1975,   the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research started the Frozen Zoo,   a program through which researchers have collected cell (细胞) samples from more than 8, 000 different types of animals,   including the northern white rhino. Scientists hope that by studying the rhino cells, they will get greater understanding of it, and will find ways to increase its numbers.

Jane Kennedy describes World Rhino Day as a celebration of rhinos along with an awareness campaign for everybody across the world to know that rhinos need our help. ''At the San Diego Zoo, children and adults are welcome to visit and speak with zookeepers to learn about rhinos. But you don't have to live in San Diego to celebrate World Rhino Day. It is observed around the world, with zoos and wildlife parks holding special events and programs to teach people about rhinos, and enable them to see the animals up close. For more information, go to www. worldrhinoday. org.

1. What do we know about Nola?

A．It was a baby white rhino.

B．It was one of the last of its kind.

C．It lived with other northern white rhinos in Kenya.

D．It died on September 22 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

2. What troubled Jane Kennedy according to Paragraph 2?

A．The rhinos' uncertain future.

B．The rhinos' strange activities.

C．The limited natural resources.

D．The rare animals in South Africa.

3. What does the Frozen Zoo aim to do?

A．Invent new kinds of animals.

B．Keep animals from dying out.

C．Prevent rhinos from being hunted.

D．Raise public awareness of rhinos.

4. What is the main purpose of the last paragraph?

A．To help people know more about animals.

B．To encourage people to protect rhinos.

C．To report special events in San Diego.

D．To introduce World Rhino Day.

9 . Perhaps people have never realized that fashion materials should be one of the worst destroyers on our environment in countries across the world.

Everybody enjoys wearing warm fashionable sweaters, but they never realize how much harm they have done to the environment. Studies suggest that 70 percent of the damage to the grasslands is due to overgrazing(过度放牧). Because of that, tile balance of nature is broken, extreme weather occurs frequently, species are under serious threat, and finally grasslands are becoming desert gradually. The major real cause driving this activity is that human beings demand for cheaper wool to make fashionable clothing.

What you might not know is that the natural fibers for making clothes are often taken from trees in ancient forests or other plants such as bamboo and cotton. This means that the clothes we buy and wear are contributing directly to destroying forests and habitats. In fact, cotton is by no means a fully environmentally friendly crops on the planet. For a start, it uses so much water to. produce, which leads to the freshwater shortage across the globe. It can take 2,700 liters of water to make just one cotton T-shirt. Additionally, growing cotton requires high levels of pesticide and other dangerous chemicals that often pollute waterways and soil. As for man-made fibers, the damage done by them is far worse than other materials.

In recent years, retailers (零售商)have increased the number of fashion collection secession even-each month or week. Throwaway culture is known as "fast fashion" due to low prices. Every year, 100 billion new garments made from new fibers are produced, many of which soon end up in landfill(垃圾填埋场). A dress might cost a few pounds for the consumer, but there is a hidden cost to the wider environment including ecosystems and other species.

1. According to the passage, the real destroyer on the grasslands is .

A．overgrazing	B．human beings’ need
C．unbalanced nature	D．change of weather

2. Relatively speaking, which fiber does most harm to environment?

A．The cotton fiber.	B．The tree fiber.
C．The man-made fiber.	D．The bamboo fiber.

3. What is the writer's attitude to the "fast fashion” culture?

A．Opposed.

B．Approved.

C．Neutral.

D．Sympathetic.

4. What is probably the best title for the text?

A．Damage to Our Environment	B．Throw away Culture
C．Destroying Forests and Habitats	D．Fashion Materials, the Hidden Environment Destroyer

10 . The World Water Day has been celebrated annually on 22 March since1992. Each year has a different theme, looking at things like the role of clean water in the world of work, ways to stop wasting water, finding ways to supply water to underprivileged groups and so on.

    1    But it is also vital for sanitation(卫生). It is estimated that more than 700 children under the age of seven die every day from illnesses linked to unsafe water and poor sanitation. The right to water and sanitation was recognized as a human right.     2     These include rural communities, people who have been displaced due to war and local conflicts and areas where climate change is making water more and more scarcer.

Apart from the obvious health issues, a lack of accessible clean water means that people – often women and children – spend hours every day walking to and from distant water supplies. This means they don’t have time to dedicate to work, studies and other domestic duties.     3    And people who are not able to walk to get their own water are particularly vulnerable.

There are many charities working on creating sustainable supplies of clean water for different communities around the world.     4    But the fundamental problem of increasing demand for a limited resource can only be addressed by more efficient use of water, especially in industry and agriculture. Waste-water recycling, capturing rainwater, more efficient irrigation techniques and reforestation are all examples of how water can be used more efficiently.

    5    We should support charities, raise awareness, take part in the World Water Day events that are happening all around the world and, of course, be careful with how we use water in our own lives. Visit the UN World Water Day website to find out about an event near us. Follow world water day on social media and help spread the word about this incredibly important issue.

A．Clean drinking water is fundamental.

B．As individuals, what can we do to help the issue?

C．The search for water becomes their main occupation.

D．This important work needs to continue and to expand.

E．Every living cell in the body needs water to keep functioning.

F．In normal conditions, the human body can only survive three or four days without water.

G．However, there are still at least 2.1 billion people around the world living without safe water.