1. What is the main idea of the conversation?
| A．How to save money. |
| B．How to educate people about the environment. |
| C．How to make the school more environmentally friendly. |
| A．It is expensive. |
| B．It is an excellent idea. |
| C．It could easily be introduced. |
2 . How to bring out your art potential? Traditionally, people may bury themselves in learning
Wiebe plans to eventually buy some land in Detroit to grow these
Wiebe also likes fiber-based art, such as quilting, sewing and weaving. She has
“I’ve been drawing since I was 2. It’s never been a question for me that I would do something art-related, but rather what more specific art-related thing I’ll
| A．teaching | B．gardening | C．painting | D．engineering |
| A．method | B．dream | C．opportunity | D．standard |
| A．environment | B．community | C．neighborhood | D．university |
| A．Guaranteed | B．Respected | C．Employed | D．Inspired |
| A．expose | B．abandon | C．imagine | D．post |
| A．hairs | B．fibers | C．pictures | D．fingernails |
| A．rewarding | B．disturbing | C．demanding | D．frustrating |
| A．colorful | B．sustainable | C．economical | D．valuable |
| A．observe | B．appreciate | C．volunteer | D．wander |
| A．weeds | B．grains | C．crops | D．plants |
| A．applied | B．confirmed | C．removed | D．supported |
| A．mixed | B．crowded | C．filled | D．occupied |
| A．saved | B．wove | C．transported | D．mended |
| A．character | B．appearance | C．life | D．technique |
| A．lead to | B．end up | C．put off | D．carry out |
3 . When a heavy storm hit, residents of the floating community of Schoonschip in Amsterdam had little doubt about whether they could ride it out. They tied up their own stuff, and checked in with neighbors to ensure everyone had enough food and water.
A floating house can be constructed on any shoreline and is able to deal with rising seas by remaining on the top of the water’s surface.
| A．They then boarded their floating houses |
| B．But the benefits may outweigh the costs |
| C．Since floating houses are on the increase |
| D．We feel safer in a storm because we are floating |
| E．Unlike houseboat which can easily be moved and relocated |
| F．Hundreds of millions of people will be displaced by sea level rise |
| G．Severe wind and rain, or even the passing ships, can rock the buildings |
4 . Sustainability for kids can start with a seed. We put together some ways to involve the whole family in protecting the environment.
Go on a hike. Parental involvement in early childhood education looks different in various settings from preschool to home and to the grocery store.
Go green for holidays. Make holidays fun while also supporting a green environment for kids. Use LED lights for decorative lighting.
Recycle together. Recycling activities for kids can be fun and support family involvement in education at the same time.
| A．Plant a “garden”. |
| B．Don’t buy food from the grocery. |
| C．Protecting the environment for kids is important. |
| D．Parents should tell children what they can recycle. |
| E．And the children can watch a little peach tree grow. |
| F．Recycle Christmas trees instead of throwing them away. |
| G．To a child, every setting and every moment can be a teachable one. |
5 . About 400 pounds of food is wasted per day from 5 pm to 8 pm in Douglass Dining Hall. “We scrape(刮掉) the food from the conveyor belt into the buckets by hand. Working for Dining Team Green, I don’t expect to basically become a garbage girl,” Roll said. “We do the work because we care much about it. We all have a responsibility to take care of the environment.”
To have more approachable composting(把……制成堆肥) machines on campus, Roll now has a new sustainable project investing in Lomi, an automated compost machine. “I learned about Lomi through an ad,” Roll said. “Funny enough, I just saw it and thought it perfect. It really interested me how the mechanism worked. ”
Lomi is a new technology that can break down food waste into natural compost. According to Roll, it breaks down waste in the way: grinding(碾碎) the food into plant fertilizer. Unlike most composting machines, Omi can compost animal products, such as small bones. Another huge benefit is that it doesn’t have smell and can convert waste to compost in a shorter time.
Roll plans on using the compost in the Gilbert community garden so that Dining Team Green can give back to the community. “It’s very exciting to see our food waste that would otherwise have gone in the trash and pollute the environment go to our community,” she said.
Roll is excited to introduce a new form of composting to the residents. She hopes that this machine will inspire other composting machines in all residential buildings. “I want Lomi not only to be a way to reduce food waste on the floor, but an educational tool to make people compost in a real way and not just talk about it in a theoretical sense,” Roll said.
1. Which of the following can best describe Lomi?| A．Elegant. | B．Widespread. |
| C．Low-powered. | D．Environmentally friendly. |
| A．The reasons for designing Lomi. | B．The impact of wasting food. |
| C．The solution to food waste. | D．The advantages of Lomi. |
| A．More people will get involved in composting initiatives. |
| B．Dining Team Green will become an educational tool. |
| C．More developed composting machines will be invented. |
| D．Dining Team Green will build community gardens. |
| A．She lives in the Gilbert community. |
| B．She is a member of Dining Team Green. |
| C．She knows a lot about residential buildings. |
| D．She plans to design more composting machines. |
1.你对低碳生活的理解；
2.具体做法；
3.发出倡议。
注意：词数80左右。
参考词汇：emission 排放；carbon dioxide二氧化碳
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7 . Soot (煤) pollution is speeding up climate-driven melting in Antarctica, a new study suggests, raising questions about how to protect the delicate continent from the increasing number of humans who want to visit.
“It really makes us question, is our presence really needed?” says Alia Khan, one of the authors of the new study. “We have quite a large black carbon footprint in Antarctica, which is enhancing snow and ice melt.”
Black carbon is the leftover thing from burning plants or fossil fuels. Soot in Antarctica comes primarily from waste gases of cruise ships (游轮), vehicles and airplanes, although some pollution travels on the wind from other parts of the globe. The dark particles (微粒) coat white snow and absorb heat from the sun the way a black T-shirt does on a warm day. The blanket of dark bits speeds up melting that was already happening more quickly because of global warming.
When snow and ice are uncovered, they reflect an enormous amount of sunlight before it can turn into heat. “These are the mirrors on our planet,” says Sonia Nagorski, a scientist at the University of Alaska Southeast. “When those mirrors are covered in a film of dark bits, they don’t send back that much light and heat. That means more heat is trapped on Earth, speeding up melting and contributing to global warming.”
As a scientist who personally visits Antarctica every year, Khan says she is troubled by her own research results. On the one hand, she goes to Antarctica to collect crucial data about how quickly the snow and ice there are disappearing. “But then when we come to conclusions like this it really does make us think twice about how frequently we need to visit the continent,” she says, “and what kind of regulations should be placed on tourism as well.” That could mean requiring that cruise ships and vehicles be electric, for example, or limiting the number of visitors each year.
1. What is Khan’s attitude towards human actions in Antarctica according to paragraph 2?| A．Angry and abusive. | B．Cold and uninterested. |
| C．Doubtful and anxious. | D．Admiring and delighted. |
| A．The quick melting of ice and snow. | B．The emission from virous transport. |
| C．The remaining parts of burning plants. | D．The floating gases from other continents. |
| A．The covered ice is less reflective. |
| B．The melting speed of ice is slower than before. |
| C．The dark blanket serves as a big mirror. |
| D．The sunlight gets increasingly stronger recently. |
| A．What made our planet so polluted? | B．Who is to blame for air pollution? |
| C．Can electric vehicles save tourism? | D．Are we welcome to the South Pole? |
8 . The process by which rich land becomes desert is called desertification(沙漠化).
Africa’s Great Green Wall is a project to build an 8000-kilometer-long forest across 11 of the continent’s countries. The project is meant to contain the growing Sahara Desert and fight climate change.
Launched in 2007, the project aims to plant a forest from Senegal on the Atlantic Ocean in western Africa to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti in the east.
The U. N. desertification agency says the project will need to plant an average of 8. 2 million hectares yearly to reach its goal of 100 million hectares by 2030.
| A．It has severe impacts on the environment. |
| B．That is only 4 percent of the program’s goal. |
| C．However, it is difficult to carry out the project. |
| D．But the project has been facing many problems. |
| E．The project would create millions of green jobs in rural Africa. |
| F．Despite many problems, those involved in the project remain hopeful. |
| G．Some countries have struggled to keep up with the demands of the project. |
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改： 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处, 多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Zhang Jie, a 45-year-old volunteer, had picked up rubbish on the Great Wall since 2014. It is his eight year protecting the historic wall. For Zhang, born and was raised in a village near the Great Wall, the Wall is not just a treasure left by the ancestors, and a childhood paradise (乐园). However, with more tourists coming, more rubbish needs collected. Sometimes, rubbish bags are piled up to one meter higher. Zhang came up with an idea and formed a group 20 volunteers. Zhang’s story has inspired million of Weibo users, many of who express their appreciation to him. Today, Zhang is still protecting the Great Wall in her own way.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：(1)每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
(2)只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Last Monday, when I was taken a walk with my mother, I noticed some litter on the sidewalk. I knew it was time to take action. So on our way to home, we decided to do some clean-up work. I took a picker and my mother hold a big rubbish bag. Together they did litter pickup on the sidewalk. I was surprising that the bag filled up so quick. Then we threw it into the roadside dustbin but repeated the process two more time. It gave us a sense of satisfaction to know we did which we could for Mother Earth. We thought of doing this on a regular basis, maybe once month.
