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 . One of the tallest wooden buildings in Europe, a 98m timber(木材) mixture skyscraper, is to rise in Berlin.

The 29-storey WoHo tower, to be designed by a firm of Norwegian architects, is intended to be a “light-house project” for low-carbon construction, towering over Potsdamer Platz and the Landwehr Canal.

Its core, including lifts and staircase, is to be built around steel-reinforced(加固) concrete structure but the rest of the building, including flats, offices, cafes and a kindergarten, will be fashioned down wooden beams(横梁) and panels.

“As Norwegians, we are used to working a lot with timber.” Nicolai Riise, CEO of the Mad Architects' Practice said.

“The thing about timber is that its carbon footprint is close to zero and that it's fantastic material to build with. If you look at this in a broader way, it's one of the ways we are going to be able to beat the climate crisis.”

Wooden skyscrapers, once regarded as a pipe dream, have become realistic with the coming of cross-laminated-(交叉叠合) building techniques. Because these structures' parts are fit with care, they can be far lighter than their concrete equivalents(同等物) and are thought to be relatively resistant to fire. A cubic meter of wood can also take an estimated ton of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Larger wooden structures are planned elsewhere. London is examining blueprints for a 300-meter Oakwood Tower. A project in Tokyo could rise to 350m.

1. What is special about the WoHo Tower?

A．It will serve as a light house.

B．Its core is to be built with timber.

C．It is designed for a Norwegian firm.

D．It will be a tall timber mixture building.

2. What does Nicolai Riise say about timber?

A．It used to be a good choice.	B．It is easy to collect.
C．It is environmentally-friendly.	D．The broader type works better.

3. What do the underlined words “a pipe dream” in paragraph 6 probably mean?

A．A nightmare.	B．Something practical.
C．A piece of cake.	D．Something impossible.

4. What makes it a reality to build wooden skyscrapers?

A．Flexible ideas.	B．The concrete equivalents.
C．Fire resistant materials.	D．New building techniques.

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。

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.

4 . It should be one of the main goals in today’s society to reduce plastic consumption. Though many of us believe that recycling will solve the problem, and continue using plastic, it’s actually the opposite. In 2013, 254 million tons of trash was produced in the U.S. alone, and only around 30% was recycled. This means that the rest ended up in a landfill and will stay there for up to 1000 years.

Recently, China has stopped importing trash from all over the world. Before this, over 30% of the world’s waste would end up in China, causing a popular belief that Asian countries are those responsible for creating the majority of the waste in the world. Now, Asian countries, including Vietnam and Thailand, are looking for new ways to avoid plastic. One of those ideas was a new, eco-friendly way to pack their goods by avoiding plastic packaging.

One of the Perfect Homes Chiangmai’s team members noticed a creative way to reduce plastic that a supermarket called Rimping Supermarket was using and decided to take photos of   their shelves with his phone. Little did he know that people from all around the world would absolutely love this idea. “I just popped in to get a few items while we were waiting to sign some contracts(合同) with our lawyer, who was delayed. When I noticed the vegetables wrapped in banana leaves and simply liked the idea, I took a few pictures and posted them online” he said.

With more than 3.5 million views and over 17 thousand shares, the idea became something people can encourage more supermarkets to implement(贯彻).

Some have noticed that not everything on the shelves is completely plastic-free, to which the supermarket responded that they are taking one step at a time, but it’s not that easy. Many products come to the supermarkets pre-packaged and many companies are interested in wrapping their produce in plastic since it is the cheapest and the easiest option.

It’s now up to the shoppers to show the supermarket which they prefer. If every one opts for the banana leaf packaging, they will stop stocking the items in plastic.

1. What can we infer about recycling from paragraph 1?

A．The author thinks highly of recycling

B．The US did a great job in recycling in 2013

C．Recycling has failed to solve the plastic problem

D．Recycling helps a lot in reducing plastic consumption

2. Why did the man go to Rimping Supermarket ?

A．To take photos of their shelves

B．To meet with their lawyer there

C．To buy some items

D．To sign some contracts with the supermarket.

3. What does the underline phrase“ opts for ”in the last paragraph probably mean?

A．Doubts

B．Discusses

C．Dislikes

D．Chooses

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Leaf Packaging Goes Viral

B．Reducing Plastic Consumption

C．Recycling Avoids Plastic Packaging

D．A Good Option Makes A Difference

5 . How To Eat Better for the Planet

You're environmentally conscious - and hungry. Here are answers to all your coo-friendly food questions.

Does what I eat have an effect on climate change?

Yes. The world's food system is responsible for about one quarter of the planet-warming greenhouse gases that humans generate each year. That includes raising and harvesting all the plants, animals, and animal products we eat.     1    

How exactly does food contribute to global warming?

When some forests are cleared to make room for farms, cattle, sheep or other livestock, some serious problems may come up.     2     Also, fossil fuels are used to operate farm machinery, make fertilizer, and ship food around the globe, all of which generate emissions.

What about chicken?

A number of studies have found that chickens, ducks, and other birds have a lesser climate impact than cattle or sheep kept on a farm.     3     Especially at converting feeding materials into animal meat, the efficiency is highly improved, though this has prompted major concerns about animal welfare.

Is organic produce better for the climate?

Organic produce is grown without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily better than conventionally grown produce from a climate perspective.     4     In some cases it can be worse.

    5    

It's true that one person alone just makes a little bit in the climate problem. On the other hand, if many people made changes to their diets, that could start to add up. Experts have argued that it would make a big difference if the world's heaviest meat eaters scaled back - even moderately.

A．Does what we eat matter?

B．Can I really make a difference?

C．Organic farms often require more land.

D．Modern-day chickens are bred to be extremely efficient.

E．Processing, packaging, and shipping food are also part of it.

F．Advances in chickens breeding are helping to reduce the cost of it.

G．Large stores of carbon released into the atmosphere heat up the planet.

6 . 假定你是校学生会主席，请以学生会的名义就全球变暖问题写一封英文倡议信，并刊登在你校英文报上。内容包括:
1. 全球变暖的负面影响；
2. 如何从我做起减缓全球变暖。
注意:1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear teachers and fellow students,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Student Union

7 . Microplastics, as the name implies, are tiny plastics that result from both commercial product development and the breakdown of larger plastics. Officially, they are defined as plastics less than five millimeters in diameter(直径). .

The problem with microplastics is that — like plastic items of any size — they do not readily break down into harmless molecules (分子). Plastics can take hundreds or thousands of years to decompose, and in the meantime, cause damage to the environment. On beaches, microplastics are visible as tiny colored plastic bits in sand. In the oceans, microplastics pollution is often consumed by sea animals.

Some of this environmental pollution is from littering, but much is the result of storms and winds that carry plastics into our oceans. Single-use plastics, plastic items meant to be used just once and then thrown away, are the primary source of microplastics in the environment.

Microplastics have been detected in sea animals, in commercial seafood, and even in drinking water. Alarmingly, standard water treatment facilities cannot remove all the traces( 痕迹) of microplastics. To further complicate matters, microplastics in the ocean can combine with other harmful chemicals before being swallowed by animals.

Scientists are still unsure whether consumed microplastics do damage to human or animal health - and if so, what specific dangers they may cause. Even so, many countries are taking action to reduce microplastics. A United Nations resolution has discussed the need for rules to reduce microplastics to oceans, wildlife, and human health.

1. What does the underlined word “decompose” mean in Paragraph 2?

A．Break down.	B．Fade away. .
C．Dry up.	D．Give out.

2. What can we know about microplastics from Paragraph 4?

A．Water treatment facilities fail to remove their traces.

B．People might consume them through drinking water.

C．They can combine with other chemicals inside animals.

D．They have been a blow to commercial seafood industry.

3. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Many governments turn a blind eye to microplastics.

B．It has been confirmed that consumed microplastics are harmful.

C．Measures will be taken to reduce microplastics in the environment.

D．Scientists have known what specific dangers microplastics may cause.

4. The author writes this passage to____________

A．inform the public of an environmental issue

B．arouse the awareness of protecting seawater

C．persuade scientists to look into microplastics

D．introduce the microplastics treatment methods

8 . Scientists think they have answered a mystery: How some ocean creatures got so huge so quickly.

A few million years ago, the largest whales, averaged about 15 feet long. Then seemingly overnight, one type of whale, the toothless baleen whale（须鲸类）became huge. Modern blue whales get as big as 100 feet. Nicholas Pyenson of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum said, “Why is that?” ”It happened in the glance of an evolutionary eye, which makes it harder to figure out what happened,” said Graham Slater, lead author of the study. Their study has suggested an answer: Ice ages in the last 3 to 5 million years started it, changing the oceans and food supply for whales.
The researchers used fossil records of the smaller whales to create a family tree for baleen whales which include blue whales, humpbacks and right whales. Using computer simulations（模拟）and knowledge about how evolution works, they concluded that when the size changes started, the poles got colder, ice expanded and the water circulation in the oceans changed and winds shifted,       Slater and Pyenson said cold water went deep and moved closer to the equator(赤道）and then eventually moved back up with small fish and other small animals that whales eat.

Baleen whale, which have no teeth, feed by eating huge amounts of fish they capture. Toothed whales, like sperm whales (抹香鲸), hunt individual fish, so the ocean chants that made food less evenly spread out didn’t affect them as much. But baleen whales hunt schools of fish.

Olivier Lambert at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences calls it “a really convincing situation”. But he said the lack of fossils in certain time periods is an issue. As oceans warm from man-made climate change, the seas will be more like it was when the whales smaller and they will have a more difficult time surviving.

1. What does the author mean by “It happened in the glance of an evolutionary eye” in the second paragraph?

A．The change of baleen whales happened too quickly.

B．The change of baleen whales was too difficult to explore.

C．Researchers paid little attention to the change of baleen whales.

D．Researchers thought the change of baleen whales was unimportant.

2. What played the key role in baleen whales’ becoming huge?

A．Man-made climate change.

B．Its eating a huge amount of fish.

C．The water circulation in the oceans.

D．The increase of food supply for whales.

3. What do we know about sperm whales and blue whales according to the text?

A．Sperm whales eat more food.

B．Blue whaler live much longer.

C．Sperm whales prefer to hunt schools of fish.

D．Blue whales usually swallow schools of fish.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．There are no whale fossils now.

B．The whales may become even bigger.

C．Global warming has threatened the whales.

D．Olivier Lamber thinks the study is perfect.

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Hawaii possesses the unique scenery of islands, but pollution takes away all the     1    (beautiful) of the beaches here. I hate to go to the beaches on sunny weekends and see rubbish bags lying on the sand, cigarette butts(烟头)     2    (bury) in the sand, and soda cans floating in the ocean.

    3    really annoys me is that I see tourists who visit Hawaii leave their rubbish on the beaches. I was always taught after drinking soda    4    (throw) the can into the place     5    it should stay — the trash can. It’s also     6    (annoy) that some people walk right by rubbish and pretend that it’s not there.

The dogs or the fish are not to blame for it. It’s our fault and we must blame     7    (we). Everyone has to do his or her part to solve this problem. It can     8    (hard) be difficult to do the job. There are a lot of things that we can do. First of all, we can help pick     9    rubbish along the beaches. We could also form organizations that help clean up our beaches. More importantly, we need to start now     10    the beaches are damaged beyond repair.

10 . 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。

A new bill has been     1    (official) passed in the Philippines that requires students to plant 10 trees each before graduation. According to the details outlined in the bill, the rule applies     2     all students who are to graduate from primary school, high school, and college. Trees can be planted in either forests, reserves, urban areas,     3    (abandon) mining sites, or in communities.

Over the past decades, the Philippines     4    (lose) more than 30% of its forest cover due to illegal logging (伐木), but the new bill means that the younger generation can help to address     5     problem. Under the new rule, 175 million new trees could be planted by students each year. If only 10% of them     6    (survival), that means that 525 billion trees can grow up over the course of one generation.

In fact, this isn’t the only positive rule     7    concerns the younger generation. One school in India made its students pay their school fees by collecting, bringing to school, and     8    (recycle) plastic waste that was lying across the town. This helped raise     9    (aware) of plastic waste in Asian     10    (country). It also allowed more students to seek education and even helped the students to earn some money so they wouldn’t have to rely on child labour for a living.