1 . Suppose you find a bright yellow bike on a street corner in the city. You hop on (跨上) it and _______. But wait — isn’t this stealing? No, it isn’t._______ shouts, “Stop! Thief!” That is _______ this free ride is just fine with the city.

You _______ find hundreds of free yellow bikes in some US cities. The idea began in Portland, Oregon, in 1994. People saw a need for _______ transportation, and they wanted to help _______ pollution. So, to get citizens (市民)_______ their cars and onto pollution-free bikes, they _______ the Yellow Bike Project.

The _______ bikes are painted bright yellow and placed throughout the city. People can hop on the yellow bike and ride to run errands (短程差事), to work ________ to school. Then, they leave the bike for the ________ rider. There have been times when bikes have been stolen, but most people ________ the rules, because they think it is not wise to ________ the bike that’s already free.

Portland’s ________ was quickly loved by a lot of people. Within two years of its starts, similar programs were ________ in cities in six other states.

1.

A．drive away

B．ride away

C．ride back

D．run away

2.

A．No one

B．Someone

C．Anyone

D．Everyone

3.

A．whether

B．so

C．because

D．though

4.

A．have to

B．don’t have to

C．can’t

D．can

5.

A．expensive

B．crowded

C．free

D．common

6.

A．protect

B．control

C．make

D．bring

7.

A．out of

B．into

C．up

D．near

8.

A．ended

B．started

C．changed

D．refused

9.

A．public

B．private

C．clean

D．dirty

10.

A．but

B．as

C．until

D．or

11.

A．next

B．last

C．best

D．first

12.

A．break

B．make

C．discuss

D．follow

13.

A．buy

B．repair

C．produce

D．steal

14.

A．citizen

B．street

C．idea

D．school

15.

A．looked up

B．made up

C．put up

D．set up

2 . 每年的5月22日是国际生物多样性日，是鉴于公共教育和增强民众生态意识而设立的。看了右侧的海报，你有什么感想？请以Thoughts Upon the International Biodiversity Day为题，写一篇短文。

注意：
1. 词数100左右。

Thoughts Upon the International Biodiversity Day

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3 . 下面文章中有3处需要添加小标题。请从以下选项(A、B、C和D)中选出符合各段意思的小标题，选项中有一项是多余选项。

Ways to Help Your Community Stay Quiet

Noise pollution isn’t just annoying. It can also cause psychological problems. If you want to cut back on the noise polution in your life, taking some measures together with your community will help you and your family feel happier and healthier.

    1    

Use your car horn(喇叭)only when necessary, as a way to let someone know you are around the corner.

    2    

The terrible sound of a car’s engine is never welcome, so make sure you are not the one causing noise pollution in your community and spring to get your car repaired. Keeping your car in good, quiet working order will be appreciated by everyone who lives near you.

Keep your music down.

It might sound beautiful to you, but respect the fact that others might not feel the same way. Don’t just assume that your neighbours want to hear your favourite opera as much as you do.

    3    

Communities with more trees are quieter than those without them, since large, leafy trees can help absorb noise, so such a project is always worth your effort.

A. Don’t use your car horn unnecessarily.
B. Stay away from the noisy streets.
C.Keep your car in good working order.
D.Take part in a community tree-planting project.

4 . Can you imagine that there are a huge number of tiny waste pieces in the Arctic (北冰洋的) sea ice? Because of the waste pieces,30,000 kinds of animals are in danger. It’s true that one person’s acts alone can’t help the planet. But each one of us can find ways to make our contributions.

In the home, we could try not to waste foods. Use a digital meal planner to get a right amount of food so that everything we buy and cook gets eaten. Learn how to store foods to keep them fresh longer. Be sure to use proper ways to keep our home warm. For example, we can replace old windows with energy-saving ones.

At the store, we could green our habits. Buy reusable plates, but not single-use ones. Buy home tissue (纸巾) not made of materials which may lead to destruction (破坏) of forests. Buy glass cups instead of paper ones.

In the community, we could help keep its plants healthy. Take part in tree-planting projects or grass-cutting activities to help plants grow well.

Our actions alone can’t save the planet, but the above ways and habits can help.

1. What puts so many animals in danger?

A．Cold ice.

B．Waste pieces.

C．Bad weather.

2. Why should we use a digital meal planner?

A．To avoid wasting foods.

B．To cook delicious foods.

C．To keep foods fresh.

3. What does the word “reusable” in the passage mean?

A．That can be kept long.

B．That can be used again.

C．That can be thrown away.

4. Why does the author write this passage?

A．To describe the future of the planet.

B．To encourage an environment friendly life.

C．To introduce shopping places for green products.

5 . Our Earth’s oceans contain some of the most valuable resources. As the use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions began to rise in popularity, the polluting of the Earth’s oceans did as well, leaving lifelong effects on all of its ecosystems.

Commercial whaling has left several whale species in danger of extinction. The blue whales of the Antarctic have less than one percent of their original numbers. Over 90 percent of plastic isn’t recycled, and a large part of that number finds its way into the ocean and surrounding beaches. The huge amount of plastic damages whales’ existence. Plastic is being eaten by sea life as well as entangling(缠住) them, putting them all at major risk. Without change, our Earth’s oceans will not be able to continue on for much longer.

The Delta Corporation was set up in 1972, later known as Ocean Conservancy. In the beginning years of Ocean Conservancy, its main initiative(倡议) was the Whale Protection Fund. This fund focused on saving the species and protesting against commercial whaling. They gained the support of many.

Ten years later, the International Whaling Commission finally banned commercial whaling. It then changed its focus to not only whales but to seals and sea turtles as well. Though they made great progress with these animals, they came to the conclusion that these animals cannot develop well without a healthy, sustainable environment. The workers of Ocean Conservancy then expanded their focus to the marine ecosystems and habitats.

Ocean Conservancy is one of several organizations working toward a common goal: saving the Earth’s oceans. They have started doing this by creating the Whale Protection movement that still exists. Though they have made significant progress throughout the years, there is still much to be done. Only when the common goal is shared by all groups, governments, and individuals, will real change be made. If successful, the electric bicycle meal program will be spread to all Crowne Plaza hotels in the UK, the hotel said in a statement.

1. What can we know about the plastic from Paragraph 2?

A．Plastic reduces the population of whales to the least.

B．Most of plastic ends up in oceans and sandy beaches.

C．Plastic has become part of the sea animals’ diet.

D．Recycling plastic is still a big challenge.

2. What made Ocean Conservancy pay attention to the ocean ecosystem?

A．A ban on whaling.

B．Its improved concept.

C．Its great achievement.

D．The public support.

3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Quite a few organizations have set their own goals.

B．The days of Whale Protection movement are numbered.

C．Ocean Conservancy’s work isn’t worth the praise.

D．Saving the oceans is the shared responsibility of the whole world.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Ocean Conservancy’s Target and Development

B．Ocean Conservancy’s Contribution to Oceans’ Protecting

C．A Solution to the Oceans’ Plastic Problems

D．A Step Away from a Healthy Ecosystem

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。

A serious tornado struck the town where Peggy Lewis and her husband Harris Lewis lived. The two suffered     1     (injury) and were sent to hospital for treatment.

When they returned three days later, they saw that their house was     2     ruins. For Peggy,the first thing    3     she wanted to look for was her family Bible, a present     4     (give) on her wedding day. For years, she had used it to record her family’s history: family photos, letters and a handkerchief from her grandmother so on.

When two volunteers showed up to help the couple dig their way through the mess, she     5     (beg)them to find it if possible. After two hours of searching, one of the volunteers ran up to her with a book     6     (lie) in his hands. The book had flown meters away, but it was not badly damaged except that     7     (it) cover was gone.

A few of the treasures inside the book did go missing. But ever slowly and     8     (gradual) they too began reappearing in Lewis’ life. Days after the Bible was found, volunteers discovered one of the photos outside the home. Two weeks later, a neighbor found     9    handkerchief nearby. “It was such a shock,” says Lewis, who could not control her    10    (admire) for the miracle.

7 . The sighting of a new family of gray wolves in Oregon’s Cascade mountains has given wildlife protectors hope that the recovery of the endangered animal in the state is on the way. The state’s fish and wildlife department (部门) said a group of two adults and two babies was recorded by a track camera in August.

The wolves were found in the area of Warm Springs and officials have named it AKW — a new area of known wolf activity. If the group still has all four members surviving at the end of the year, the animals will be known as the Warm Springs group, the state’s third one in the northern Cascades. “Wolves will move to different places, but when we have resident wolves, like we know they’re sticking in that area, that’s when we create an AKWA to make sure the wolf count rise constantly.” the agency’s worker, Michelle Dennehy, told USA Today.

Many years of hunting of gray wolves almost made them die out across the nearby 48 US states by the middle of the last century. In Oregon at the end of 2009 only 14 wolves were known to exist. With protections from the Endangered Animals Act beginning in 1974, numbers have risen slowly since, to 175 in Oregon by the end of last year, living in more than 35 groups.

“I hope this will be an exciting new chapter in the story of wolf recovery in the state. Having more wolves establish families in western Oregon will be important for the long-term survival of these beautiful animals,” Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf protector at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.

1. How did people find the gray wolves?

A．By sighting their families.	B．By taking their pictures.
C．By recording their voices.	D．By observing their tracks.

2. What do we know about AKWA from the second paragraph?

A．It is created according to wolves’ species.	B．It aims to prohibit wolves’ moving around.
C．It can help the increase of wolf population.	D．It will warn people to watch out for wolves.

3. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 3?

A．Add some background information.	B．Summarize the previous paragraphs.
C．Offer solutions to wildlife protectors.	D．Show reasons of gray wolves’ hunting.

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。

Each year, we take more than 100 billion tons of natural materials from the earth     1    (make) the products we buy. However, about two-thirds of them     2     (eventual) becomes waste, including almost 3 billion plastic bottles     3     end up in the ocean every year.

Since the 1860s, we     4     (follow) a common business model. Industries take natural materials, they make things, we use them, and then we throw them away. Environmentalists and economists warn that this model is not good for the environment, so they suggest     5    new choice: a circular economy (循环经济).

A circular economy     6     (base) on the idea of reducing waste by keeping the natural, materials and products in use for much     7     (long). It works in a circle, very much the way nature does. The circular economy uses a range of     8     (strategy), such as recycling and reusing. In a circular economy, products are designed to be long-lasting and easy to repair from the     9     (begin). In this way, we can keep the balance     10     human and nature.

9 . 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。

Those who haven’t been to the Mu Us may not have an opportunity to do so. The desert is disappearing from    1     map as it has been turned into an oasis(绿洲)!

The Mu Us     2     (stretch) over 42,200 square km between Shaan Xi and inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, lying north of the Great Wall. In Mongolian, “Mu Us” means barren land     3     nothing can grow.

However, the area was no desert in ancient times. It used to be grazing land     4     (sufficient) supplying grass and water for sheep and cattle. Since the Tang Dynasty, it began to degrade because of excessive farming and overgrazing and     5     (year) of war.

In modern times, the Mu Us, the fourth     6     (large) desert in China, began to move southward and passed the Great Wall,     7     (attack) Yulin (Shaan Xi province). Local pastures(牧场) faced serious desertification, salinization and degradation, and the villagers had to move as the desert advanced. By the time People’s Republic of China     8     (found), Yulin had only 0.9 percent of forest cover. It became an urgent task     9     (block) the sands.

Thanks to greening, the desert is poised to disappear. The feat(丰绩) wouldn’t have been achieved     10     national anti-desertification policies and the efforts of generations of eco-warriors.